... GO S SIP. Thle translation of Prince Florestan of Monaco! is begin- ning to attract notice in the French press. The Fgaro assures us that Prince Florestan is due to the erudite and otherwise fascinating pen of the Prince of Wales ; a notion derived, it is to be supposed, from the sight of the Crown printed in gold on the cover of the book. I The poem on Livingstone in Africa, by the ...

... CTJR~uENT EVENTS. THE EDITOR acknowledges with thanks the receipt of one guinea for the Agricultural Labourers' Fund from the Rev. R. Gibson, and lOs. 6d. (second donation) from T. A. T. Hallowes. A STREET temperance crusade, after the fashion of the American whisky war, has been commenced in Manchester. LITTLE progress has been made during the week to wards the settlement of the dispute ...

... NOTES AND CO11MMENTS. The Times has received frona her special correspondent at Berlin a telegram, founded on an article of the NoX72 Germcos, Gazette, which refers to a new conspiracy against Prince Bismarok's life by an Ultramontane working man, of the name of Poncelet, who formerly lived in Beigiunl. and had for some time stayed at Aachen. We would remark, how- ever, that this is an old ...

... GO SS I P. Messrs Macmillan have in the press au eflitioin (le Inese of White's ' Selborne,' illustrated by Mr P. Delamotte, and a translation of Lessings 'Laodoon,' by Sir Robert Phillimore. The At/IAmis(oum2 mentions a rumour that one of our chief poets has completed an historical tragedy, which may pos- sibly be produced on the stage. :MIessrs Palmuer aud Edmunlds, of Chesterfield, are ...

... 0- NOTES AND COMMENTS. Thle tidal wave of the Democratic re-action in the United States, the gathering of which we have from time to time pointed out, has broken with a violence which few con- ceived to be possible upon the Republican party. The latter have abused the vast power they have enjoyed since the Civil war, have given the direction of public affairs into the hands of discreditable ...

... ?? C OMMENT S. Government has shown itself sufficiently squeezable on the Licensing Bill, having in fact thrown itself into the arms of the House for the sole purpose of being squeezed. Pablic-houses and beer-houses are to be placed on the same footing; and the hours of closing are to be 12.30 for the metropolis, 11 for towns of more than 2,500' inhabitants, and 10 for towns of smaller popula- ...

... -0- VIVISECTION. Sir,-I feel tempted by the recent correspondence in your columns to protest against the rather extravagant way in which some most respected ladies, and one or two men, who ought to be more careful, have attacked Dr Ferrier and other able gentlemen who have used vivisection to clear up some difficult points in physiology or disease. Mrs King and Mrs Kingsford are, doubtless, ...

... SOME OBJECTIONS TO WOMEN'S SUFFnAGE. Sir,-I see that Mr Goldwin Smith has entered the field, armed with all his justly high anthoritv, against Women's Suffrage. I hope I am not disrespectful in saying that his arguments rest mainly on the old commonplaces and ideal generalisations which the progress of facts seem more and more to disprove. But I leave the general argument (which, nevertheless, ...

... -0- NOTES AND COMMENTS. Marshal MacMahon has returned to Paris, and it is doubtful how much more of his projected provincial tour he will think it convenient to carry out. The attention of politicians at Paris is now transferred from the President's progress to the election for the depart- ment of the Maine-et-Loire, where a pure Septennalist, M. Bruas; a Bonapartist, M. Berger; and a ...

... THE PRESENT STATE OF PARTIES. It becomes daily more imperative that sharper defining lines should be drawn between the various political par- ties. The old distinctions between Whigs and Tories, or Liberals and Conservatives, are by this time comparatively obsolete; and though the term Liberal-Conservative has been concocted to describe a certain section of the stagnant party, whilst the ...

... -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 ...

... CORRESPONDEN\CE. MI DISRAELI'S POST-BAG. Sir,-The enclosed letters were discovered by me this morning in an ordinary leather post-bag, which I picked up in the grounds of Hughenden Manor. They may interest your readers. I am, &c., UBIQuE. Mr IDisraeli to Mr Ward Hunt. Dear Ward Hunt,-The trick is done; at last I see the form of Gladstone prostrate before me ! The First Lord and Chancellor ...