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Something of a majority.

--The famous debating club of Cambridge (Eng.) University, (the Union,) debated the American war subject dousing two evenings. The question was put thus: ‘"That the Cause of the North is the Cause of Human Progress."’ The proposition was negatived by a vote of one hundred and seventeen to thirty-three, Earl Russell's eldest son speaking with the majority against it.

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