... The reply delivered in both Houses on Monday evening by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon to Lord Granville, and by Sir Stafford Northcote to Lord Hartington, with regard to the Anglo. Russian agreement, is understood to have been telegraphed from Berlin by Lord Beaconsfield. The reply was word for word the same in both Houses, and some of its peculiarities of expression, such as incomplete ...

... Mr. O'Conor, the Irish Peasant Poet, who has shown in his Songs of Life the most unmistakeable gift of song, fresh and spon- taneous as the notes of a bird and almost as untaught, makes an appeal to the charitable. M~r. O'Conor, who finds that he cannot live by poetry alone, and whose health prevents him from earning wages by manual labour, thinks that he has at last discovered a means of ...

... POLITICAL AND SOCIAL, -Uv-- NOTES AND COMMENTS. Once again a Wednesday afternoon has been occupied in discussion of the Women's Disabilities Removal Bill. There was, as The Times remarked next day, nothing new either in the debate or the division that followed it. Mr. Courtney, MIr. Palmer, Mr. Gorst, Sir Henry Jackson, Mr. Blennerhasset, and Mr. flibbert used the old stock arguments, while ...

... A Candid Examination of Theism. By Physicus. (Demy 8vo, pp. 197). Trnbner and Co. - Andrewes. Mary Turner.-Animals and their Social Powers. (Small Bce, PP. 126.) Griffith and Farran. Beal, S.-The Dhammapada from the Buddhist Canon. Translated from the Chinese. (Demy 8vo, pp. 176.) Trabner and Co. Beke, Dr. Charles.-Sinai in Arabia. (Royal 8vo, pp. 606.) Trubuer and Co. Bennett, W. C.-Sea Songs ...

... It is now thought to be almost certain that, after the Congress, if it goes well, the Prime Minister will seek for a new lease of bower by appealing to the country at a general election. Becky Sharp, it is said, might have been taken for a high-born English lady, only that she spoke Frenehtoo well. No suclh dis- qualification, it is said, will interfere with the aristocratic pre- tensions of ...

... NOTES AND COMMENTS. At last the secret of the publication of the Salisbury- Sehouvaloff Projet de Aernorandai g has come out. A certain Mr. Charles Marvin, of Burrage-road, Plumstead, a writer or supernumerary clerk in the Foreign Office at the rate of 10d. the hour, is charged with having had the interesting document in question entrusted to him for the purpose of making a clean copy of ...

... ' NOTES AND COMMENTS. The Globe of last night publishes in extenso the full text of the Anglo-Russian Convention, which, according to our con- temporary, was signed between Lord Salisbury and Count Schouvaloff as the condition of our Government consenting ;to enter the Congress. The substance of this Convention was given in the Globe of the 30th of May last, and on the following Monday the ...

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... NOTES AND COMMENTS. The late Earl Russell was buried on Tuesday. The State Would have awarded him a public funeral and the honour of interinent in Westminster Abbey, but for the express directions in his will that his body should be laid in the family vault at Chenies.- In accordance with his own last wishes the ceremony was as simple and unostenta- tious as possible. Few were present, ...

... -0 NOTES AND COMMENTS. It is not altogether reassuring to find that England stands alone amiongst the Great Powers in her preference of muzzle- loading to breech-loading cannon. It is said that this prefer- ence is entirely due to the ineradicable prejudices of certain artillerists of high rank, and it is quite possible to imagine that this is actually the case when it is remembered that a ...

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... VARIORUAI NOTES. After going bravely through the recent war, and in spite of re- peated attacks of illness and several serious accidents, adding to his already brilliant reputation, Mr. MacGahan died at Constan- tinople on Sunday, at the early age of thirty-two. No soldier in the campaign behaved with greater gallantry, and of few men can it be said with so much truth that his death has ...