Early in the month it was reported that Mr. Alexander Adams had established the existence of electric tides iri telegraph circuits. This news was sufficiently startling; but it is so long since we have ceased to be astonished at anything which is discovered regarding Lord Lytton

--4- We understand that the Bibliography of Thomas Carlyle is being prepared by Mr. R. H. Shepherd, and will be pub- lished, uniformly with his other Bibliographies, immediately by Mr. Elliot Stock. At the meeting of the Victoria Philosophical Institute last Monday, a paper " On

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LONDOAO SATURDAY, JA4NUARY I5, I SL. THE DEBATE ON THE ADDRESS. The Government themselves must have anticipated that it would not be exactly a bed of roses upon which they would find themselves lying after the meeting of Parliament; but perhaps even their bitterest opponents cou

THE LITERARY EXAM'INER.-; MADAME DE STAEL. T71e Life and. Tmes of Madame de Stad. By A. Stevens, LL.D.. 2 vols. Murray. . . The life of the author of "Corinne " is in many ways. a tempting one, and a good dealhas been written about. it, but, as Dr. Stevens justly says, nothing as

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL: Notes ?? 97 Forcible Feebleness ?? 99 The Candahar Conflict ?? zoo Scotland's Cry for Home Rule IoI Essays on Finance-Deposits.. 1o2 Gambetta and Greece ?? 103 Parnellism ?? 104 TRADE AND FINANCE: The Stock Exchange Settle- ment ?? I05 Influence of the Easte

The Lord Advocate was on Thursday returned for Edinburgh by a decisive majority, having polled II,390 votes, as against 3,940 for his opponent, Mr. E. Jenkins. That means that the Home Secretary will be able in future-he at present frankly confesses himself unable- to answer que

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It was known by the Government at the beginning of last week in London that General Skobeleff had achieved an important success over ?? Tepe Turkomans; but the news was kept secret until the beginning of this week, when it reached England from ordinary sources. The same sources

Professors Balfour Stewart, of Owen's College, Man- chester, and Tait, of the University of Edinburgh, are to lecture this season at the Victoria Philosophical Institute. There is some talk of the joint authors of the "Unseen Universe" being invited to a banquet, at which Lord S