21 AUGUST 1880, page 8

Curiosities Of Ecclesiastical Patronage.

T HOSE of our readers who have not made acquaintance with the iniquities which have gathered round the sale and exchange of ecclesiastical benefices, may have been sur- prised......

Sir Henry Layard's "usefulness."

TT is, we own, with much regret, not unmixed with a feel- ]. ing of uneasiness, that we have read the complimentary references made by Lord Hartington and Sir Charles Dilke to......

Free-trade And The Sugar-bounties Committee.

W E cannot quite understand the passion with which the question of the operation of the European Sugar Bounties is treated by some of our contemporaries,—a question which seems......