... RoME, MARCH 20. Perhaps nowhere on the face of the earth is the modern world linked on to the ancient as at Rolue. Every tura brings one on some ancient site. We find a temple of Vesta changed into a Christian church, a mausoleum into a fortress, a theatre of Marcellus into market stalls, and ancient Thertne into prisons. By the samre gateway through which fifteen centuries ago the gay and ...

... CORRESPO N DEN CE. ?? THE CAT. Sir,-The Telegraph is still painfully exercised on the subject of our criminals. Somehow or other they don't answer-to the lash. We flog and flog, but they remain so unutterably brutal that there is no beating humanity into them. The Telegraph thus describes what noble efforts were made after an outbreak of convicts at Chatham, a dozen years ago, to inspire the ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. Thie municipal elections in Paris last Sunday gave a great Victory to the Radical party. More than forty Radicals have gained seats; the number of Conservative Republicans is about twenty-five ; and there are only ten Royalists. In the last Municipal Council the Royalists had thirty places. In twenty-seven of the wards they did not even attempt to gain seats, leaving the ...

... CO R R ES P OND EN C E. VIVISECTION. Sir,-I regret to find in your columns a repetition of Mr Hutton's stale calumny against Dr Ferrier. 1 F. P. C. says, Mr Hutton had read an extract from that gentleman's own accounts of his method of operation upon various dogs and cats, thoroughly conscious of their tortures, which drew groans and cries of 'shame' from the audience. We all know that ...

... A DISCLAIMER. Sir,-About a week since a friend showed me a copy of the Examiner of the 12th ultimo, in which you criticised severely the alleged attitude of the Clergy of the Church of England towards the Agricultural Labourers' Union, as evincing a want of sympathy with the working classes; and you based your remarks on an alleged injustice done by me to Mr Stainforth, which you described as ...

... PARIS, FPE. 3. On the morrow of the memorable day when the Versailles Assembly prolonged for seven years the power of Marshal MacMahon, I came across a member of the Right, whose Countenance beamed as he addressed me. Victory, he cried. It is ours ! What U It! The adored, the sacred, the immqrtal, the rre- sistible Monarchy! Ahi, bah 1 We have just proclaimed it, spite of the ...

... FANRMERS AND LABOU11ERS. Sir,-Land has increased enormously in value throughout Great Britain since the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Has there, however, 'been an adequate increase in the wages and good condition of the labourers who make that land valuable? Shakspere, describing the agricultural labourer of his time, said, Gets him to rest, cramrezed with distressfu1 bread. Distressful, i.e., ...

... CORR ESPONDEN CE. -0- T:E FARMERS AND THE SESSION. Sir,-The licensed publicans and the public worshippers have monopolised rather more than two-thirds of the time of Parliament during the recent session, and still they are not happy. It may even be that they would have preferred being passed over in silence. It is not now to the columns of the Alorning Advertiser or the Ohurce Herald that we ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. Marshal MacMahon has, during the week, worked his way through another provincial tour, which has on the whole been more satisfactory than the journey through Brittany. The ostensible object of this last Presidential progress was the inspection of the military manceuvres in the North of France, and the consideration of the best plans for strengthening the frontier fortresses ...

... -0- WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE V. SOME WOMEN'S PRIVILEGES. Sir,-Miss Becker tells us that if we were to attempt at one and the same time to extend the Parliamentary vote to women, and to alter the conditions under which they have, from time immemorial, exercised the franchise they already possess, we should complicate a simple issue. We should raise a number of difficult questions which have no direct ...

... 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 ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. I Another annexation-this time peaceful and even con- ducted with timorous caution, and, by the admission of all the world, undertaken in the interests of civilisation-has enlarged the borders of the British Empire. Sir Hercules Robinson has transmitted a despatch to the Colonial Office, Bated Fiji, September 30th, but sent on by telegraph }Ain1 Sydney on the 15th inst., ...