... 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 ...

... -0- NOTES AND COMMENTS. Marshal MacMahon has returned to Paris, and it is doubtful how much more of his projected provincial tour he will think it convenient to carry out. The attention of politicians at Paris is now transferred from the President's progress to the election for the depart- ment of the Maine-et-Loire, where a pure Septennalist, M. Bruas; a Bonapartist, M. Berger; and a ...

... -0- NATIONALISATION OF THE CHURCl. Sir,-In order to make my proposition yet clearer to your- self and your readers, allow me to add that -the term Seculari- sation, suggested by you as a substitute for Nationalisation, by no means expresses my meaning. To secularise the Establishment by excluding the teaching of such contro- verted topics as matters of religion, would be simply to change ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. The session of the French National Assembly came to an end on Wednesday. The Liberal section of the Republicans-that is, the section which is led by 1M, Jules Simon and his frie-nds-have issued an important manifesto to guide the country during the recess. The | Assembily, they point osat, is powerless to form a defini- tive Governmaeut, because none of the parties are ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. Marshal MaeMahon set off last Sunday on a progress of a semi-royal sort through the North-'iEastern Depart- ments of France. He reviewed some troops, and inspected some public works at Le Mans and Laval; held receptions and received 'addresses at St Malo, Rennes, and St Brieuc; and reached Brest yesterday. His reception by the people of Brittany has been far from ...

... -0- NOTES AND COMMENTS. This has been a week of considerable importance in France; but the events and the moral may be recorded in a few lines. Two propositions for a dissolution of the Assembly were presented a few days ago, the one by M. Leon de Maleville, of the Left Centre, and the other by M. Raoul Duval, a concealed Bonapartist. Both were referred to Commissions, and the report on each ...

... -0- NOTES AND COMMENTS. The speech delivered by Mr Goschen at Frome, on Tuesday, is distinctly the best party speech that has been delivered outside Parliament for some tirae. Mr Goschen is known to possess a large fund of sarcasm, and to dis- believe in the precept that political criticism should be mild. So he struck at the conduct of the Government last session, with a vigour which must ...

... I. ?? DISESTABLISIKIENT V. NATIONALISATION, Sir,-In your issue of the 1st instant you publish a letter from Mr E. Maitland, in which he expresses a wish that you would state what is to be done with the Establishment, and its materiel, in the event of such a policy being followed as you and the Liberation Society contemplate. To this part of his letter your answer is, that there will be for ...

... MELBOUR3NE, MAY 19tb, 1874. A general election, the most momentous probably in our brief political history, has just taken place in Victoria. For some time past there has been strife more or less openly avowed between our two Houses of Legislature. The Legislative Council, or Upper House, which represents the wealth of the colony, has been in the habit of rejecting almost every liberal and ...

... -0o- REFORM IN TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. Sir,-The Draft Queen's Letter on the above subject is, I think, worth the attention of all those who formerly advo- I cated Mr Fawcett's Bill. Mr Fawcett proposed, with the approbation of tile College authorities, that the University and College should in future be governed by two bodies. The larger of these resembled the proposed new Council in its ...

... -a- CLERICAL CONNECTION WITH IRISH AGITATION. Sir,-It has been asserted by the leading organs, party and other, and is pretty generally believed in this country, that sacerdotal influence is still omnipotent in Ireland, also that the latest eruption of popular discontent has been fanned from its smouldering condition into flame at the bidding of the Ultramontane Party. A greater mistake ...