... NOTES AND COMMENTS. | The commotion excited by Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet is far from having yet subsided, though little that is fresh is now being elicited, and it does not appear that there is much more to be said about it. The Pope has disclaimed the remarkable description of Mr. Gladstone as an intoxicated viper that had attacked the barque of St. Peter; it must have been an audacious ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. The shock of the Republican defeat at the elections in the United States seems to have broken in pieces the party that has held power without interruption, and even without a serious threat of displacement since the election of Mr. Lincoln. The defeated party have already begun to indulge in that favourite and most useless amusement of defeated parties, recrimination. ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. Letters on the subject of Mr. Gladstone's pamphlet and the Vatican Decrees are this week longer and more nu- maerous than ever, and, though only one strictly new point has been raised, the controversy must be having its natural effect of first perplexing and then gradually clearing public opinion regarding the subjects in dispute. But perhaps more remarkable than the ...

... 0- NOTES AND COMMENTS. Thle tidal wave of the Democratic re-action in the United States, the gathering of which we have from time to time pointed out, has broken with a violence which few con- ceived to be possible upon the Republican party. The latter have abused the vast power they have enjoyed since the Civil war, have given the direction of public affairs into the hands of discreditable ...

... TAXATION OF CORPORATE PROPERTY. Sir,-A paragraph, referring to probate, legacy, and succes- sion duties, appeared in several newspapers some time aco, in which it is remarked that the succession duty is not so produc- tive as was anticipated when it was first imposed, and that it is not so productive as the legacy duty. I do not see that any suggestion has been made attempting to account for ...