... CORRESP O ND EN CE. BRITISH GAME LAWS AS VIEWED FROM ABROAD. Sir,-Some time ago I wrote you an account of the happy and prosperous condition of the Austrian Tyrol, where I have spent several summers, and where game-preserving is most happily unknown. I have now been reading a packet of the Anti-Game Law Circulars sent on to me here. I am glad to find that MIr Peter Taylor is intending to ...

... THE APPEAL TO THE COUNTRY. Whilst we were discussing last week the timidity dis- played by Mr Gladstone in his reply to the deputation on the County Franchise, the dissolution of Parliament had been already agreed upon, and the Premier was dic- tating his address to Greenwich. We considered it remarkable that the leader of the Liberal party should give so uncertain a sound on such an important ...

... ROME, JAN. 10. The name of a Jesuit College conjures up in the minds of most English people an ill-detined but uncomfortable idea of intrigue, and of the propagandism, by fair means or foul, attributed to Jesuits by the genuine Protestant mind of both England and Germany. We can no longer afford to dis- miss this old-fashioned prejudice with a contemptuous smile since it is adopted by some of ...

... N O T E S. * M. THIEBLIN ('Azamat Batuk'), for whom Messrs Hurst and Blackett will shortly publish his notes of a nine months' residence in Spain, contributes to our pages in this number the first of a short series of sketches of the men whom the Madrid crisis has just brought into greater prominence. These sketches will, of course, be drawn from the life. WE are obliged to withhold until ...

... FREE TRADE IN LAND. To the Devon Chamber of Agriculture, on Wednesday evening, the Duke of Somerset addressed some remarks on the foolishness of his political opponents in general, and on the Land Laws in particular. Not long ago, be said, a Cabinet Minister, Air Bright, appeared at Birmingham and spoke about land, and he took up his old cry about 'Free Trade in land.' He had been ...

... C'URRENT EVENTS, We have said elsewhere what we think on the ques- tions raised by Mfr Gladstone in adopting a course which the Conservatives naturally profess to regard as a coup d'etat. The policy enunciated in his address to -the Greenwich electors begins and ends in a promise of money. The reduction of local rates, the repeal of the income-tax, and an unnamed contribution towards a free ...

... -0- SHOULDERS TO THE WHEEL ! Sir,-As we are to have a general election, it would be well for the more advanced Liberals to consider what line of action they should take. It is evident from Mr Gladstone's address that he desires rest. Now it appears to me that it would be no loss, but a considerable gain to the Liberal party, if he would make way for some other and younger Liberal, who has ...

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... THE ROYAL INSTIT UTION. The second lecture of the season was given at the Royal Institution by Professor Sylvester on Friday evening, the 23rd inst. The subject (to which we have previously referred) was a mechanical invention of M. Peaucellier, Lieutenant- Colonel in the French Corps de G6nie, at Tours. This invention, now about seven years old, fell very flat on its first publication in ...

... PARTS, Dec. 31. The year is dying; the year is dead! The common sepul- chre of history, wherein rest indifferently years good and bad, glorious and paltry, will in a moment gape open for 1873. Our funeral address shall verily not be long. Farewell, we regret thee not ! A scurvy year hast thou been to us, doing more ill than well. What has thy mood been? Cholera, floods, fire, a pitiable ...

... Side by side with the Conservative victory at Stroud and the remarkable manifestation of Conservative reaction in Newcastle, the country has been presented with an unparalleled display of moral force by the Trades Union Congress at Sheffield. Never before have the delegates of all but a million working-men assembled together in any country for the peaceful discussion of, and constitutional ...

... CORRESPONDEN CE. MR JOHN STUART MILL AND THE RECOGNITION OF THE SPANISH REPUBLIC. Sir,-I was glad to see the admirable article front the pen of Karl Blind in the Examiner of Dec. 27, in which he drew so strong a contrast between England's culpable repudiations of the Spanish Republic, and her hasty recognition of a blood- thirsty adventurer like Louis Napoleon. It will, I feel sure, interest ...