... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... RSPENCER AND THE WOMEN. Sir,-Two papers have already appeared in your columns relating to Mr Herbert Spencer's ' Study of Sociology: ?? direct review of the work, January 10, to which Viscount Amberley has given the credit of fairly appending to it his own name, thus placing his comments on the author's view of women on the true class-footing of their being the Judgment of a man and a letter, ...

... 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 ...

... CTURRENT EVENTS. The next question is this. Will Mr Gladstone resign at once, or will he wait until he has met the Parliament elected under his auspices ? There is more in it than would be imagined, from the remarks of some of our contemporaries. A Premier owes much to his immediate supporters and political connections, and cannot escape from the burdens of office until he has wiped off the ...

... THE OPPOSITION MINISTRY. Downing-street has changed hands, and the Tories are in office. Being in that indifferent condition in -which no change of parties can throw us either into or out of Opposition, we feel none. of the fuss attendant upon this new deal of the cards. We are like the fifth man at a whist-party; we can sit by and see our friends trump each other with perfect equanimity. Or, ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... T1HE Radicals of Buckinghamshire are promised a congenial organ in The Spade and Whip, and Bucks Weekly Times, to be conducted by Mr Edward Richard- son, of Aylesbury, who has been long connected with the labour movement in that district. The new journal is called an advanced Liberal newspaper, and will advocate, we understand, Land Reform, the Abolition of the Game Laws, and all measures ...

... THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK. Habet! Air Gladstone has been hit very hard. He appealed to the country, and the country has answered him with a vengeance. it has by this time become tolerably certain that the Liberal majority of 68 will be almost, if not entirely, wiped out by the pending elec- tions; that if Mr Gladstone and his friends be not in an absolute minority, they will possess a numerical ...

... WE are compelled to delay until next week a paper by Professor Cliffe Leslie, challenging the tenets of the Abstract Political Economists ; as also a paper, which we had announced, upon Dr Corfield's Birmingham lectures. A DECIDED change for the better has recently been effected in the traditional mode of election to the French Academy; the fashion having been set of dispensing with the ...