... 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 ...

... PROSPER MERIMEE ON ENGLAND. It is well known that this remarkable writer, whose last letters have recently excited so much interest in France and England, was one of the most accomplished English scholars of his country. ?? always interested himself with all that Telated to England, and testified to his consideration for its inhabitants and customs by frequent sojourns in different parts of ...

... ALLAHABAD, 14TH MARCH, 1874. This is harvest time-although to English ears it may sound unseasonable. But, then, what has India to do with English almanacks? Just now, when not only in woods and by hedge sides, but even in smoky London, the dingiest, most distorted old trees are clothing themselves in fresh green, we, -who through the winter months have triumphed in a glory of leaves and ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. | The commotion excited by Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet is far from having yet subsided, though little that is fresh is now being elicited, and it does not appear that there is much more to be said about it. The Pope has disclaimed the remarkable description of Mr. Gladstone as an intoxicated viper that had attacked the barque of St. Peter; it must have been an audacious ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Paris Figaro has been taught that the National Assembly will permit no one to threaten it with grape-shot except Marshal MacMahon. On seeing the insolent message in which be had warned the Assembly that it had made itself powerless to dethrone him for seven years, and that it would do well to mind its own business, the most licentious, the most trifling, and the most ...

... NOTE S. WE reserve until our next number two articles on the character and influence of Strauss and Michelet. WE understand that Dr Strauss's 'Life of Lessing 'is in the press, and that arrangements have already been made for its translation into English. The preface to a new edition of The Old and the New Faith, in which Dr Strauss replies to Air Gladstone's attack upon him in his speech at ...

... 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 ...

... CORRESPO N DEN CE. ?? THE CAT. Sir,-It seems to me that your correspondent,. A Woman, fails to appreciate the force of the old adage, One sword keeps another in its scabbard. It is, of course, extremely to be regretted that there are crimes of brutality, and that the men who commit them are rarely amenable to anv argu- ments but those of brute force ; but, while this fact remains, it ...

... ?? COMM ENT S. It seems that every one has been under a grand mis- take in supposing that the House of Commons had not much to do, and that the session would end early. Mr Disraeli repudiates on behalf of his party the notion that their policy is to be one of silence and consideration. So far is this from being the case that Parliament is saddled, close upon the middle of June, with no less ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. The shock of the Republican defeat at the elections in the United States seems to have broken in pieces the party that has held power without interruption, and even without a serious threat of displacement since the election of Mr. Lincoln. The defeated party have already begun to indulge in that favourite and most useless amusement of defeated parties, recrimination. ...

... CURRENT EVENTS, As we stated last week, the General Assembly of the Established Church of Scotland has approved the principle of the Duke of Richmond's Bill for abolishing patronage and vesting the election of ministers in the male communi- cants. The Assembly has since framed a petition in favour of the Bill. On the other hand, the Assembly of the Free Church has, by a majority of 433 against ...

... IN spite of rumnours to the effect that an adjustment of the Agricultural dispute was likely to be arrived at, nothing has yet been done. Sir E. Kerrison, Sir Willoughby Jones, the Hon. Mr Brand, and other gentlemen have been at some pains to persuade the farmers to adopt a conciliatory course, but without success. The suggestion made by Mr S. Morley and others that the Amalgamated Labour ...