9 AUGUST 1879, page 6

The Coming Harvest.

THAT on the 9th of August we should still be speaking • ef the Harvest as "coming," and not even near, is in itself an e-ril portent. Late harvests have occasionally been......

Lord Salisbury's "historic Consciousness."

L ORD SALISBURY'S "historic consciousness" may well compare with Lord Beaconsfield's for accuracy, after the former's Bank-holiday speech on the foreign and colonial policy of......