hout the test of subscribing to
the Thirty-nine Articles. Cambridge was a shade more liberal. At
both universities dissenters were shut out from college fellowships,
unless willing to make a declaration of conformity.

198 Speech on Mr. Dodson's bill, March 16, 1864.

M100 Opening Of Civil Service

199 Vol. i. p. 509.

M101 State Of Europe

200 July 28, 1870.

M102 Efforts For Disarmament

_ 201 Reminiscences of the King of Roumania._ Edited from the original by
Sydney Whitman. 1899. P. 92.

M103 The Spanish Throne

202 King William wrote to Bismarck (Feb. 20, 1870) that the news of the
Hohenzollern candidature had come upon him like a thunderbolt, and
that they must confer about it. _Kaiser Wilhelm I. und Bismarck_, i.
p. 207.

203 The story of a ministerial council at Berlin on March 15, at which
the question was discussed between the king, his ministers, and the
Hohenzollern princes, with the result that all decided for
acceptance, is denied by Bismarck.--_Recollections_, ii. p. 89.

_ 204 Hansard_, July 11, 1870.

205 The despatch is dated July 6 in the blue-book (C. 167, p. 3), but it
was not sent that day, as the date of Mr. Gladstone's letter shows.
No cabinet seems to have been held before July 9. The despatch was
laid before the cabinet, and was sent to Berlin by special messenger
that evening. The only other cabinet meeting during this critical
period was on July 14.

_ 206 Gleanings_, iv. p. 222. Modern French historians do not differ from
Mr. Gladstone.

207 The Rothschild telegram was: The Prince has given up his
candidature. The French are satisfied.

208 No. 39. Correspondence respecting the negotiations preliminary to
the war between France and Prussia, 1870.

M104 British Remonstrances
M105 French Diplomacy

_ 209 The Diplomatic Reminiscences of Lord Augustus Loftus._ Second
series, i. p. 283.

210 Busch, i. p. 312.

M106 Count Bismarck's Telegram

_ 211 Bismarck: His Reflections and Reminiscences_, 1898, ii. pp. 95-101.
As I have it before me, the reader will perhaps care to see the
telegram as Bismarck received it, drawn up by Abeken at the King's
command, handed in at Ems, July 13, in the afternoon, and reaching
Berlin at six in the evening: "His Majesty writes to me: 'Count
Benedetti spoke to me on th