5 AUGUST 1865, page 16

A Word Fo4 Par A.guay.

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—Whilst the Times is holding forth, ex profess°, after its fashion, on the merits and probable issues of the singular war now raging in......

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PREHISTORIC MAN.* Wa have nowhere seen it stated that objection was publicly made to Sir John Lubbock during his recent candidature for the represen- tation of West Kent on......

Oxford To William Ewart Gladstone.

Os, noblest statesman thou, of all our time, On to the tasks that lie before thee still, To guide, control, raise, purify the will Of toiling millions in their manhood's prime.......