... -o - It may, or perhaps may not, be remembered that in the November of 1864, now nearly fourteen years ago, a meeting was held at Oxford of the Oxford Diocesan Society for Augmenting the Endowment of Small Benefices, at which Lord Beaconsfield, then 'ir. Disraeli, delivered an address which at the time was considered to embody the future Church policy of the Conservative party. The topic of ...

... Reuter has excelled himself this week, and has made us all laugh over an erratum which is really a work of genius. On the 2nd inst. a telegram was received from Brisbane, contain- ing the somewhat mysterious announcement ' Governor of Queensland, twvins,.first son. An ordinary mortal would have suspected an error; but the decipherer of this telegram, evidently no ordinary mortal, but one ...

... POLITICAL AN] SOCIAL. NOTES AND COMMENTS. On Thursday evening last, the Duke of Argyll fulfilled his terrible threat of calling attention to the Treaties of 1856, which he did in a speech of vast learning, infinite research, portentous length, and a prosiness only atoned for by a burst of rhetoric at the end, very like the bang of a penny squib. The truth is, his Grace solemnly observed, ...

... Tbe Phonograph is now in England; all doubts as to the reality of the invention are at an end. The instrument has spoken in our hearing. Mr. W. H. Preece, of the postal tele- graph service, has shown the machine both at the Royal Insti- tution and at the Society of Telegraph Engineers, on which last occasion there were three instruments used-one, the second ever made by Mr. Eddison, the ...

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... NOTES AND COMMENTS. We do not think that the riotous proceedings in Hyde Park on Sunday were of a nature tojustify the apprehensions expressed by the Times next morning, that they would make the country look ridiculous abroad, and encourage the belief that the strength and the intelligence of England are paralysed by fierce and anarchical divisions. The peace demonstration was ...

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... NOTES AND COMMENTS. The announcement, in Monday's papers, that Mr. Gladstone would bid his Greenwich constituents re- spectfully farewell, on the approaching dissolution of Parliament, was for the moment the prominent topic of interest in the present lull of the Eastern Question. At first it was supposed that Mr. Gladstone had resolved to retire altogether from Parliamentary life, and this ...

... VAIRIORUM NOTES. With reference to an article which appeared in our issue of last week on the Italian organ nuisance, a correspondent writes to point out that the remedy is excessively easy. All itinerant musicians within the metropolitan district ought to be licensed as pedlars are and should be compelled, like cabmen, to con- spicuously display a badge, and to register their names and ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. Lord Stratheden and Campbell attempted, on Thursday evening, to fulfil his terrible threat of at once answering the Duke of Argyll point by point, and also laying before the House his own views as to the Treaty of 1856. Opinions apparently differ as to the merits of the harangue of which the noble Baron delivered himself. The Daily Telegraph holds that he thrust upon ...

... NOTES A-ND COMMENTS. Mr. Gladstone's address, in answer to the Leeds depu- tation, was, in its chief points, almost obsolete before it appeared in print. Within a few hours only after its delivery, Lord Derby had announced his resignation, and the country had other and more immediate matters for its consideration than general views upon the Eastern Question, and general criticisms upon the con ...

... Our dear old friend Jenkins has survived the days of Thackeray, and is still amongst us. On the occasion of the marriage of the Duke of Edinburgh, he was despatched by the Times to the Court of St. Petersburg, and outdid all his previous efforts by a description of the bridal trousseau, in which the most minute and mysterious details of female attire were set out with a circumstantiality which ...