... NOTES AND COMMENTS. Marshal MacMahon has, during the week, worked his way through another provincial tour, which has on the whole been more satisfactory than the journey through Brittany. The ostensible object of this last Presidential progress was the inspection of the military manceuvres in the North of France, and the consideration of the best plans for strengthening the frontier fortresses ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. Spain has always been noted for the frequency of its Ministerial changes. Under Isabella Cabinets succeeded ! one another with a rapidity that was positively bewil- 4ering; many of these Governments lasting only a few weeks, ordays-oneof them even but a single day. Under Amadeo similar transformation scenes were by no means rare; and now the same characteristic is ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS., To-morrow will be a day of high importance in France, since it will decide whether the Republican candidate shall gain the seat for Maine-et-Loire. The Bonapartists and the Septennalists, or in plainer terms the hidden partisans of a king, have openly joined hands, and are to give their votes to M. Bruas, the OrlqAnist who was defeated .a fort- night ago. Such an alliance ...

... T MEANING OF WORDS. Sir,-I cannot enter into a discussion with Captain Maxse on the topics which he has treated in last week's E xaminer under the above heading. My object in writing to you, there. fore, is simply to correct sundry misstatements into which, doubtless through the impetuosity characteristic of his pro- fession, the gallant Captain has allowed himself to be betrayed. One of ...

... - 0- NOTES AND COMMENTS. The anniversary of the capitulation of Sedan has been celebrated at Berlin with a pompous military display. Bat some care seems to have been taken to prevent the exuberance of national satisfaction from degenerating into an insulting tone towards the vanquished of 1870. There are probably strong political reasons for this moderation, which now, for the first time since ...

... CORRESPONDEN CE. TEl QUARTERLY REVIEW ON PRIMITIVE MAN. Sir,-Just as desperate charges of cavalry are the signs of the defeat of an army, and the heralds of its approaching rout, so one is tempted to presage from the appearance of a heroic article on Primitive Man, in the last Quarterly Review, the speedy surrender of the supporters of the separate creation of man into the hands of those ...

... NORTHAMPTON ELECTION. Sir,-I notice from the press that the Whigs and a certain section of the Liberals of Northampton are still casting about for a candidate at the forthcoming election. So far as the Whigs are concerned, it is hopeless to think that they would for a moment allow any opportunity to pass for defeating the chances of Mr Bradlaugh. But, with respect to certain true Liberals of ...

... -0- MR P. A. TAYLOR AND THE ALLEGED DEBTS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. Sir,-I shall be obliged if you will print the enclosed letter, with my reply to the demand therein contained. The writer may be correct in asserting that I am public property, and bound to answer the questions, however rudely asked, of any one of the constituency of the nation , but he is, I think, incorrect in his ...