... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... CURRENT EVENTS, As we anticipated last week, the agricultural dispute has now been settled so far as the county of Lincoln is concerned, and it may be hoped that this circumstance will shorly lead to similar arrangements in the other locked-out districts. On Wednesday last Mr Samuel Morley, M.P., and Mr Dixon, M.P., had an interview with the Committee of the Lincoln- shire Farmers' Association ...

... 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 ...

... CORRESPONDEN CE. -0- I WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE V. SO3E WOMEN'S PRIVILEGE. Sir,-Although Mr Jacob Bright's Bill would probably have given a vote to no married woman, it imposed no special disability, as Mr Forsyth's does, upon wives, as such. Women are in no way responsible for the Common Law disabilities of wives, and for the infamy of the Law of Coverture; and there are many men who abhor that ...

... -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 ...

... -0-- THE CAT. Sir,- In your protest against the principle of torture you seem to ignore the fact that, in some form or another, it has hitherto been considered essential to the existence of society. If, however, your objections apply only to the milder forms of torture introduced for the punishment of robbery with violence, it is not at all obvious on what logical grounds you refuse to go ...

... a OMM E NT S. The week has been comparatively barren of political incident; but we have a highly-important subject of comment-which is in itself one mass of comments-in the Returns just printed from the borough authorities in England and Wales respecting the working of the Licensing Act. More than a hundred and sixty large towns have sent replies to the questions submitted to them, and the ...

... THE CAT. Sir,-As one of those who have not accepted the now fashionable faith in the Virtues of the Cat, which has led to the re-establishment of torture as a punishment, I always rejoice to see its advocates commit themselves to print. A system which requires the sacrifice of fact and logic, as well as of sentiment, in order to set up a defence, can hard]y be very long lived. A. C. regrets ...

... 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 ...

... PARIS, 18TH MAY, 1874. A curious legal point has been occupying our attention for some time past, and is likely to remain before the public for a considerable time to come. M. Guizot, the younger, had applied to the Emperor Napoleon to pay his debts, amount- ing to the respectable figure of 50,000 francs; and the latter had eagerly seized the opportunity of obliging the son of one of his most ...

... C 0 MM M E N T S. On Friday, May 1, the Lords transacted some routine business and exchanged some irregular conversation on the subject of the Endowed Schools Commission. The Commons-after a lament from Mr Newdegate on the impossibility of bringing forward his Monastic and Conventual Institutions Bill-half-emptied itself to listen to Mr Syrian's motion on the Irish Fisheries. Owing to a bad ...