... 5 While we are contemplating the newest project for bettering the education of the poorer classes, might it not be advisable to ask whether we cannot improve the system of tuition which obtains at our highest and most important schools ? Perhaps, indeed, we are wrong in supposing that the Uni- versities are, in any sense of the word, schools. They are rapidly becoming-if one is to judge by ...

... Mr lilU on the Subjection of Wornen. By Sir Henry Taylor, ?? D.C.L. Fraser's Ma- gazivre, February, 1870. The subject of Women's Rights affords a field for interminable discussion. There is absolutely no end to what can be said upon either side; and the whole question is so very abstract and intangible, that either side can with the greatest ease win, or seem to win, a decisive victory ...

... J A M A I C A. Rather more than three and a half years have elapsed since the Liberal Ministry endeavoured to find a man qualified to preside over the admini- stration of a colony then suffering under a finan- cial deficit, and distracted by deplorable events which had inflamed national antipathies and had bereft the colonists of all calim judgment. After some research the choice fell on a ...

... The pledge which first won for Mr Gladstone popular confidence in Ireland was that whereby he undertook to promote legislation for that country in consonance with its distinctive feelings and opinions. The Act disestablishing the Anglican Church was the first fruits of that Liberal pledge for it enacted, in a matter the most vital, that what has always been regarded as a fundamental portion of ...

... We have hitherto refrained from comment on the pending election for SouIthwark. We have done so because we were unwilling to proffer advice liable to be misinterpreted where more than one Liberal candidate was in the field. We took for granted that all would have fair play; and we felt that the constituency of the oldest metropolitan borough were well qualified to choose for themselves who ...

... katabdi~ia, The obstruotions in the Suez Canal have almost dis- appeared, and there is now a uniform depth of nineteen feet of water. The rock near Serapeum, which formed the chief obstacle, has been blasted by a new fulminating powder which has had only to be placed on the surface of the stone to break it up. An outlay of about 800,0001. 'will render the canal navigable throughout for the ...

... 1Xit Lt f 12C c 0 it I11$l5. THE EMIGRATION MOVEMENT. It is reasinable to expect that the movement in favour of national emigration, which is githeriiig force with a rapidity to which there is scarcely any parallel, and which is a move- ment far transcending in importance either the Irish land question or the education question, or any of the other of the political cries of the day, should ...

... g tiea of Kim, stern Home rTotes. The Rev. James Fraser was unanimously elected on Monday by the Dean and Chapter of Manchester as the successor to Dr Prince Lee. The Waterford Election Inquiry was brought to a close on Monday. After Serjeant Armstrong had summed up for the petitioner, Mr Baron Hughes announced that he would report to the Speaker of the House of Commons that the late election ...

... still$ of f4t metht Home Notes. The Right Rev. Ashurst Turner Gilbert, D.D., Lord Bishop of Chichester, died at the Episcopal Palace, Chichester, on Monday morning last. The deceased was the son of the late Captain Thomas Gilbert, R.N. Having received his preliminary education at the Manchester Free Grammar School, he proceeded to Brasenose College, Osford, where, in 1809, he and the late Sir ...

... Energetic travellers or careful students of history who wish to understand the condition of some of the Continental kingdoms of Europe during the middle ages, or that of the Highlands of Scotland at the commencement of the last century, may do worse than cast a glance on a country which, if not incorporated with her Majesty's dominions, is yetl subject to the influence of British officers, and ...

... THE IRISH QUESTION IN INDIA, Sir,-The letter from the correspondent of the Times, dated Calcutta, and published in that journal last week, touches on a subject of immense practical importance to the agricultural classes in India, and is not without interest to all who view the present condition of Ireland with an intelligent desire to remove the causes of discontent. The letter in question ...

... Saturday Evening. The following telegram has been received by Captain Sherard Osborn: Bombay, Jan. 28.-The Great Eastern arrived last night, and anchored safely this morning. The list of applications for shares in the Nevada Free- hold Properties Trust will close on Monday, February 7. PARIS, Feb. 4.-The Temps of this evening says that M. Guizot accepted yesterday the presidency of an extra ...