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Show TRIBUTE TO LOWELL'S MEMORY. Oqti. Victoria Telegraph, her Sorrow at th. foat'. U.ath to the PrMlttenl. Washington, Aug. 14. Tho acting secretary of state has received through the British minister at this city the following fol-lowing telegram from the Marquis of Salisbury: "The queen desires to express ex-press her sorrow aud regret at the news which has just reached this country of Lowell's death." Sir Julian Paunce-fota Paunce-fota requested that this telegram be laid before the president. By his direction a copy w:.s immediately transmitted to the family of the deceased. Wharton, in answer to Sir Julian's telegram, wrote as follows: "The president presi-dent directs me to acknowledge the receipt re-ceipt through you of a telegram conveying con-veying the queen's condolences on the death of Lowell, and to convey an expression ex-pression of tho president's appreciation of her majesty's sympathetic message." London, Aug. 14. The papers of this city and the papers published in the provinces have long and loving articles ar-ticles on Lowell, whose death has called f rth expressions of sorrow from ever-y quarter. - |