... CORRESP ONDEN CE. THE WOMAN'S WHISKEY WAR. Sir,-Attention has been lately directed to the wonderful scene enacted in the United States, called by the Times the Woman's Whiskey War. The subject has been very variously treated by the public press, but there is one aspect of the question which I think has not been noticed, and which is of special interest to those who, like myself, are ...

... ROME, FAB. 14, 1874. Italy has made a wonderful progress within the last ten years. The combined genius of Joseph Mazzini, Garibaldi, and Cavour has created a nation. Under their counsels and deeds Italy has performed the almost unique miracle of col- lecting her dissevered members, of combining them by the vital cement of patriotism, and raising herself erect, a new and noble unity. She has ...

... CORRESPONDENCE CHRIST AND OSIRIS. Sir,-As a somewhat curt expression of Professor Hunter's in his review, in your last number, of the first volume of ' In the Morningland,' conveys such an erroneous impression as he himself would, I am sure, regret of my theory of the origin of Christianity ; and as, quite apart from personal considera- tions, I may plead the general interest of the subject, I ...

... THE QUEEN'S SPEECH. It must be confessed that her Majesty, in recurring to the advice of her faithful Lords and Commons, appears to do so with a somewhat light heart. A super- ficial observer might imagine that there was a good deal in the present condition of this country which needed the earnest attention of legislators, and which would not unnaturally cause her Majesty to experience a ...

... PARIS, MARCH 18. Events pass away rapidly. It is, however, not too late to speak of the grotesque occurrence which has troubled, during the last few days, the peaceable sittings of the Academy. As you are aware, Emile Ollivier, holding himself under an obli- gation, as ?? of the ex-Empire, to intercalate some highly spiced sentences on the ?? in his reception address, has been refused the ...

... THE FIRST DEBATE. There was something almost ominous in the puny and formal character of the first debate. If we might in any manner judge of the forthcoming session by the character of Thursday's proceedings, we should be dis- posed to look on the next six months as already belong- ing virtually to the past. It would be a session of foregone conclusions, of mutual compliments and con- ...

... MR HERBERT SPENCER'S VIEWS ON THE WOMAN QUESTION. Sir,-Mr Herbert Spencer's physiological argument in his 'Study of Sociology' on woman's supposed necessary inferiority to man in mental and moral capacity, has not, so far as I am aware, yet met with any detailed answer from a scientific point of view. Though not myself qualified to supply such an answer, I venture to start some suggestions on ...

... HOLMAN HUNT AND GUSTAVE DOR1. Religious painting in England seems at present to be almost exclutisively practised by the two especial public favourites -whose names stand at the head of this notice. In spite of the similarity, in some respects, of the aims of these two artists, it would be difficult to find in the ranks of their con- temporaries two men more utterly opposed in method and ...

... CTJRRENT EVENTS. THE tollowing paragraph has been going the round of the papers, during the past week:- The movement for forming an organisation of advanced politicians, started a couple of weeks since at Birmingham by a number of representative working men and advanced Liberals, has found its way to London, and is being taken up by active politicians in the metropolis. The objects of the new ...

... 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 ...

... CTURRENT EVENTS. @Ni It is desired to make the EXDMTINEr as serviceable as possible to all its readers, throughiout the country, Who take an interest in the progress of movenments having for their aim the greater social audl political welfare of the corn- iunity. Tie Editor, therefore, will feel oblijed if tihe Secretaries of Liberal Associatiouis, and others connected itn any mannie with the ...

... IS THERE A LIBERAL PARTY? A ridiculous and humiliating spectacle has been acted before us during the past few weeks; the spectacle of a leader refusing to lead, and a party incapable of being led. The unwillingness of many adherents of the fallen Ministry to realise the full extent of their misfortune, and their desperate efforts to rouse Mr Gladstone from the lethargy into which he has ...