... Ellid ObelvitTA14 ? t1twei THE QUEEN'S COUNCIL. The Queen held a Council yesterday at one o6clock, at which were present Lord Carlingford, Earl Sydney, and Earl Grariville. Sir John Savile Lumley, ?? B vas introduced and sworn in a member of the Privy Council. Mr. Charles l ennox Peel, C.B., was in attendance as Clerk of the Council. . His fligbness Prince Prisdang was introduced Lo her ...

... Mr. Thorold Rogers, M.P., opened yesterday's proceedings of the Social Science Congress with an address on freedom of contract. Among the subjects discussed in the departments were-the assimilation of the laws of England and Scotland in respect to marriage and divorce, a topic which was recom- mended to the consideration of the Council the advancement of higher education ; the compulsory ...

... Lord Derby will receive the Transvaal deputation this afternoon at the Colonial Office. We publish in another column a timely article by the Rev. J. Mackenzie, the well-known successor of Dr. Moffat at Kuruman, in Bechuanaland, on one of the questions which will come up for discussion to-day. The interesting point about Mr. Mackenzie's article is the light which it throws upon the danger to ...

... No. II.-THE POSITIVIST SOCIETY.-NEWTON HALL. By MiR. FRaEDICc I-cHAPRRISON. I-\ one of the dingiest of our City courts, deep in that labyrinth of alleys which lie between the crumbling house of Dryden in Fetter-lane and the home of Samuel Johnson in Gough-square, there is a hall which in the last century belonged to the Royal Society, and wherein was stored the first nucleus of the collection ...

... When an Attorney-General goes down to the country to makeI speech on foreign policy, it is natural for people to suppose that he wit not go beyond his brief 'But there are exceptions, and one of them occurred yesterday at Bridgwater. Sir Henry James, referring to Egyp made the declaration that We, of all nations, had interests far beyond Egypt, yet dependent on it. Aml imtih l we have re ...

... WE can imagine few pieces of public intelligence that would send a more heartfelt thrill of satisfaction through Great Britain than the news that the police were at last really on the track of the band of assassins at Dublin. The evidence that was taken on Saturday looks as if some hope of this kind were not in vain. It has been tolerably certain all along that the only chance of detection lay ...

... Lord Elcho the father polled 469 votes in i 88o, where yesterday Lord Elcho the son polled 492, and twenty-five Liberationists who voted for Air. Buchanan and religious equality refused to vote for Mr. Finlay and the Establishment. Why they did so is sufficiently explained in the angry recrimi- nations which we extract in our Epitome of Opinion from the Edinburgh papers. Why Lord Elcho polled ...

... THE PROSPECT IN FRANCE. The Times says :- If the Senate reiects the bill it is probable that M. Gravy will bring about a dissolution. What the result of that dissolution may be none can tell with any approach to certainty. The elections, if they come about on this question, will be even more important for the future of France than those of 1877. It may be that a moderate majority will be ...

... WJII TIAG-FISIiING. TnrE winter months are by no means so fraught with sadness to the sea- fisherm-an as they are to the lessee of a couple of miles of salmon-fishing on the Tweed. To the wielder of a salmon-rod the end of November brings at best enforced idleness for some months, and, if the season has been unf-avourable, blank despair as the only return for the payment of an exorbitant ...

... TUIAT the enemies of the Government and of Liberal legislation should assure us that the country is indifferent whether Parlia- ment does its work or not, is natural as it is idle enough. It would be a more serious matter if this insidious delu- Sion were to creep into the minds of any considerable number of the Government's supporters. It is a misconcep- tion to which those who lose touch of ...

... Mr. Parnell's followers have lost no time in replying to the oterdict i the Pope. At Dublin yesterday Mr. Sexton, with other speakers of less note, informed the Supreme Pontiff, in more or less peremptory faion, &. he had made a mistake, and that they would brook none of his nieddlijo I Irish politics. WVe take our theology fromt Rome, said a town councill r quoting O'Connell and speaking ...

... THE FRENICH DEBT CON VIRSZIO THE financial resources of a great modern Statc are well exhibited in the proposed conversion of the French Five per Cent. Rentes, which appears to be really decided upon, though no ofilcial state- ment of any definite plain has yet appeared. All at once, appa- rently, the French Government is to get rid of troublesome finan- cial embarrassments-at least for a time ...