18 FEBRUARY 1882, page 13

Correspondence.

MR. GLADSTONE AND HOME-RULE. Enron • CORRESPONDENT. j Sift,—The excitement caused in certain quarters by Mr. Glad- stone's reference to Home-rule, in his reply to Mr. Smyth's......

Friends And Friends.

n ow is it that Friendship, which ought to be an infallible consolation in the great calamities of life, only aggravates them ? It is Balzac who puts this question, in a letter......

A Farm-yard Fable.

O NE day the poultry belonging to a farm-yard were idling about, with nothing particular to do, and evidently just in the humour to observe and comment upon each other's move-......