... I - THE MIDLAND RAILWAY STRIKE.--Those who travel by railway during winter-especially during such an inclement winter as the present one-have' their ordinary anxieties and discomforts intensified by snow, frost, fog, and brief daylight. Nor is their disquietude, when travelling on the Midland Railway, likely to be lessened by the appearance of placards announcing that that Company is in want ...

... ?? IE R ?? ?? ?? MR. F. HITCHMAN'S Public Life of the Earl of Beaconsfield (2 vols.: Chapman and Hall) will not, we think, be the less popular because it is so little critical. Conservatives will put up willingly with the enthusiasm which regards their lea ler as one who can do no wrong. Liberals will pardon a partisanship whose single-minded fervour robs it of half its sting. Mr. hlitch- ...

... OWA tN. 6 THE NEW GOVERNOR-GENERAL OF CANADA-ON THE VOYAGE AND AFTER ARRIVAL TAILING our engravings in chronological order, the first refer to the voyage which, as our readers will remember, was exceedingly rough. Concerning these pictures our artist, Mr. Sydney Hall, writes thus: ' Would I like to see the sea from the bridge ?? asked the Captain. Of course I would. I got there somehow, and ...

... . ?? .. I 1W1~.. M. GAMBETTA AND THE FRENCH. MINISTRY.-- There can be no doubt that M. Gambetta has done himself harm by the course he has recently seen fit to pursue. Had he been willing to take office, it would have been possible to understand his opposition to the Ministry; but he distinctly proclaimed from the outset that nothing would at present induce himself to accept a portfolio. So ...

... SKEICHES IN THE HUNTING FIELD-- NO. If.: THE RIVALS OuR readers may remember that in the middle of last hunting season we presented them with a coloured engraving entitled The Meet, and that we ventured to assign names to some of the chief characters our artist had introduced, adding a few remarks in reference to the thoroughly English scene depicted and in anticipation of the day's ...

... -- -In ?? ? i owMLAW TRIAL OF THE DIRECTORS OF TIHE CITY OF GLASGOW BANK ON Monday the trial of the directors and manager of the City of Glasgow Bank was commenced in the High Court of Justiciary, Edinburgh, before the Lord Justice Clerk (Lord Aloncrieff), Lord Muir, and Lord Craighill. The proceedings naturally excited much public interest, and although every endeavour had been made to ...

... SCIE NTIFIC NO TES IT is rumoured that Mr. Edison's application for a patent for his method of sub-dividing the electric light has been rejected at Washington on the ground that it infringes the patent of Starr, which was sealed at Cincinnati in 1845. The latter patent is, we believe, identical with that taken out the same year in this country under the name of E. A. King. Referring to the ...

... CO -OPERA TIVE STORES WHILE the merits and demerits of Co-operative Stores are discussed, there is one view of the question which must not be overlooked. In families where the income ranges from one to five hundred a year-and such families make up a very large part o t our population-the housewife has the comfort of the inmates in her hands. There are some women who would be good managers ...

... HOME~~M127. POLITICAl, AFFAIRS.-Mr. Edvard Dease, M.P. for Queen's County, has written to Mr. Adam, the Liberal Whip, explaining that he absented himself from recent Parliamentary Divisions because the Liberals had shown themselves exceedingly careless of Irish Questions, upon which the Irish members had reason to expect support from the hands of the Liberal party. lie considers that Ireland ...

... rHO1vIEi?r?? 8. POLITICAL AFFAIRS.--The Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, writing to the Liverpool Peace Society respecting his vote in the House of Lords on the Afghan War, says: The differences between us are, I fear, too fundamental to make aigument profitable or, perhaps, even possible. War I believe to be an element in the Divine government of this present world, and, under certain ...

... Fo-- -- .I.z 0-- M~IFE III~ AFFAIRS IN THE EAST.-The definitive Treaty between Russia and the Porte still continues unsigned, and consequently little or nothing is heard of the departure of the 200,000 Muscovite troops who are holding the provinces on both sides of the Balkans. We hear a good deal of promised reforms however, and the Sultan has been holding New Year official and diplomatic ...

... : : 1;Oug eA+ w Exi: % , , RITUALISM.-The churchwardens of Christ Church and St. Andrew's, Wolverhampton, and St. Matthew's, Smethwick, have replied to the Bishop of Lichfield's recent letter on the ritualistic practices of those churches. They remind his lordship that at an interview with them he said it was useless for him to interfere and try to appease when they declined to accept a comn- ...