... NOTES' AND OOMMENTS. The Church Congress has been meeting in Brighton, under the dome of the Pavilion raised to the memory of George IV., Defender of the Faith. The town is crowded with clergymen-High, Low, and Broad-but, of course, mostly High. The Congress is trying to build a break- water of words against Science, Atheism, Dissent, and all other deadly sins. It has been improving sacred ...

... CORRESPONDEN CE. -0- TH IMPRISONuMENT OF SaerI. Sir,-I translate for the benefit of your readers, and without comment, the following letter from the venerable Aurelio Saffi, one of the arrested at Villa Rnfil, which I find in the Gazzetta di Milano:- Prison of Perugia, October 5th. Your dear letter has reached me this time without hin- drance, and the others sent with it have been forwarded ...

... The Editor cannot undertake to return Ma7nuscripts. CORRESP ONDEN CE. THE BIBLE IN THE NATIONAL SCHOOL. Sir,-I regret to trouble you with another letter, but I imagine that those of your readers who have followed the 'controversy between Mr. Maitland and myself will consider that some reply is due on my part to his last letter. . The difficulty I have, in dealing with my opponent, is that he ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. I Another annexation-this time peaceful and even con- ducted with timorous caution, and, by the admission of all the world, undertaken in the interests of civilisation-has enlarged the borders of the British Empire. Sir Hercules Robinson has transmitted a despatch to the Colonial Office, Bated Fiji, September 30th, but sent on by telegraph }Ain1 Sydney on the 15th inst., ...

... ?? NOTES AND COMMENTS. Wild ideas seem to have been raised in Paris by the visit wlhich the Prince of Wales is paying to the Duc de la Rochefoucauld-Bisaccia, at the Chateau of Eglemont. The Duke is one of the most devoted adherents of the Comte de Chambord. So zealous is he for the rights of his Royal master that, when he was the Ambassador of France at our own Court, he calmly proposed that ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. On the subject of the Prince of Wales's expenditure, the Times has made a remarkable statement, which must lead to embarrassing discussions in the House of Commons. It has been publicly said that the Prince is deeply in debt, -and an American journal has set down the amount of his liabilities at the regal sum of 600,0001. The nation was somewhat startled to hear that the ...

... -0-- THE FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. Sir,-I am sure we ought to be grateful to Mr. P. A. Taylor for having directed, though inadvertently, public attention tW> the financial position of the Prince of Wales. The semi-offi- cial article in the Times of the 1st instant throws a good deal of dust round the subject, but the writer has failed to hide the true position, and has fallen, ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. President Grant has made what would be called in Europe a progress through several of the States, and has assisted at the unveiling of a monument to President Lincoln at Springfield, in Illinois. On this last occasion the President made the longest speech that is said to have ever been spoken by him : it might occupy, if printed in large type, a quarter of a column of an ...

... THE LABOURERS' UNION IN NORFOLK. Sir,-The public have been so industriously assured that the movement mongst the farm labourers is dead, or, at all events, rapidly dying, that I hardly expect full credence for my confi- dent belief that the movement, so far as the National Union is concerned, was never so firmly rooted in the minds of its members, or so full of wide-spread energy, as at the ...