... WAR AND LA W. THE debate which took place last night in the House of Commons upon Mr. KINGLAXE'S questions to Mr. GLADSTONE: may or may not have been judicious, but it was exceedingly interesting, and that on wider grounds than those which relate to the specific questions at issue between the different Powers who, it seems, are about to go to war. It, and especially Mr. KINGLAIKE'S speech, was ...

... DEAN RAMSAY'S calculation that four millions of sermons are preached annually in these islands has produced a little controversy which we have watched not without a pleasing though melancholy interest. The Dean did a great service to humanity by his statistics for the attention of philanthropists was directed to the subject by them in a way that nothing else could have done. Benevolent men ...

... THE SICK POOR. To aice EDITOR of die PALL MALL GAZETTE, SIR.--Please allow me a few lines with reference to the Rev. k Llewellyn Davies's interesting letter upon our association and the plan which I propounded at its public meeting in Willis s Rooms. I see with please that in general principle he agrees with us. It is idle and cruel to calles the eastern parishes to provide suitable ...

... THE first thing that must strike every reader of Mr. CARLYLE'S rectorial address is its utter unlikeness to the kind of addresses which are ordinarily delivered on such occasions. There is all the difference between it and the regular harangue of a conventional rhetorician that there is between the flow of a mountain brook and the play of a fountain supplied from a reservoir. Mr. CARLYLE spoke ...

... CLODIUS ACCUSAT MaECHOS. To 1/e EDITOR of She PALL MALL GAZETTE. SIR,-A public man of Mr. Lowe's transcendent ability cannot but have felt mortified at having seen the doors of a Cabinet, which readily opened to admit mediocrity after mediocrity, hermetically closed to himself. His oratorical successes during the recent debate on the Reform Bill may be said to have at last forced them, and ...

... ROME, May IS. ON Monday last the Pope held a secret Consistory at the Palace of the Vatican; but, as I anticipated, the proceedings were confined to his delivery A an allocution, which has not been published, nor will be. It is said to have had a political significance, bearing on the events of the day and the impending war. On the other hand, some of the cardinals affirm that it contained no ...

... -i REFORM DEMONSTRA TIONS. WE do not know that either the parties concerned in the Reform demonstrations in Trafalgar-square and other places or their critics are entitling themselves to the applause of the public, though upon the whole we feel least sympathy for the critics. Mobs will be mobs, and a city like London will always contain a sufficient number of idle and mischievous people to ...

... SUMMARY OF THIS MORNING'S NEWS' The military revolt in Spain is discussed at great length by the Paris correspondent of the Timzcs in a letter dated yesterday morning. What the precise object of the insurrection was, whether merely to unset the O'Donnell Cabinet 0: the Throne itself, and proclaim the downfall of the last of the Bourbons and the union of Portugal and Spain under a Braganza ...

... PARLIAMENTAR Y RE VIE W. HOUSE OF LORDS. AN idea started in the House of Lords last night by Lord Shaftesbury, that some convenient spots should be set apart in London for open-air meetings of the people, was received by Lord Derby in terms which implied that it was only an anticipation of a project of his own. It was not only, said the Premier, reasonable but desirable that there should be ...

... During the last few weeks we have received several letters describing the scrapes into which British tourists have been thrusting themselves at different points of the seat of war. The artists everywhere seem to have had a hard time of it. To be convicted of the possession of pencils and drawing-paper subjected the owner to suspicious surveillance even in places at a considerable distance ...

... THE MILITARY INSURRECTION IN SPAIN. The !Thnes remarks that in Spain a series of most merciless civil wars has had the effect of placing the nation utterly and helplessly at the mercy of the army. No Ministry has a chance of being in power for twenty-four hours in that country unless it has a marshal or general officer at its head. Political patties amnong the people have hardly any ...

... OUR MILITARY ORGANIZATION, The Daily lNews, commenting upon our present inefficient military organization, thinks we may well apply the lesson learned from the success of the Prussian system. While we take the scum of the large towns and the needy field labourers, both for our regulars and militia, the Prussians take the whole mass leavened as it is naturally the good with the bad. They get a ...