25 NOVEMBER 1871, page 11

Encke's Comet.

W ITH an opera-glass—possibly with the naked eye—there can now be seen each evening towards the west one of the most remarkable Comets known to astronomers. It is not, indeed,......

Simplicity Or Splendour?

p RINCE BISMARCK has just delivered to the German Par- liament a long and very amusing sermon upon a text which is always of interest to Englishmen, and is just now the subject......