A S we ventured to prophesy last week, the overthrow of Selior Castelar was instantly followed by a military 'dic- tatorship. We have described Castelar's efforts to obtain a...

this is still unexplained, but is not likely to have occurred without the acquiescence of the Comte de Chambord. The occurrence revives the memory of the story that Henri Cinq,...

death of Mr: 1Vinterbotharn has resulted in' much the most important of the Tory triumphs hitherto achieved. Stroud-has returned . a Conservative (Mr. Dorington) by a majority...

speech at Elgin on Wednesday night On the very unfortunate omission in that speech,—the insignificant space given to the great Indian calamity with which the Indian Govern- ment...

nominated the Due de Broglie's Cabinet, has received its first severe check. The Bill for investing Government with the power of nominating Mayors was on Thursday postponed by a...

this one was a Monarchical intrigue is, we believe, incorrect. Whatever Serrano's private desires, it seems certain that circumstances com- pel him to accept the Republic, and...

his evidence to induce him to go to America. This last point is admitted by Mr. Omdow, who says he wanted Luie to find some corroborative evidence of his apparently true story,...

School Board are not beginning their campaign judiciously. In a discussion at the meet- ing of the Board last Wednesday, Canon Gregory, the eccle- siastical " Red " of the...

resignation, after retaining his seat on the Bench since 1850, i.e., for twenty- three years. A growing deafness is the cause of his retirement. He will be a great loss to the...

to-day, except in Alsace-Lorraine, and the Roman Catholics are hoping for something hie a majority against Prince Bismarck and his policy. That, -however, is in all probability...

on Tuesday night with his usual vivacity. He attacked Mr. Disraeli for his masterly command of political clap-trap, declaring that the Conservative leader has never been able...

exceedingly bad. The Viceroy's weekly telegram, published on Saturday, and dated January 3, reports generally no improvement, but two telegrams from the Times' correspondent are...

have peti- tioned the Viceroy to double the excise duty on spirits. The Calcutta authorities have always been averse to this plan, as they think that in so vast a country...

in England than the public is aware, but for the last twenty years the Queen is, we think, the only great official who has been struck, an outrage which produced the Flogging...

to see, succumbed to fever on board the Simoom.' A Guardsman, and very popular in London society, he volunteered for the Ashantee war, insisted on going, in spite of earnest...

we shall lose it, Mr. Cowan, the Liberal candidate, actually accepting Home Rule, the Permissive Bill, Arbitration, and every Radical "fad" it is possible to think of. Genuine...

to his scheme of Home Rule in Ireland. At a meeting held in the Free-Trade Hall, Manchester, on Monday, a letter was read from Lord R. Montagu, stating that he had become more...

this week that the practice of habitual private confession has no sanction in our Prayer-book,—which is for- tunately true,—but they seem to imply also that the Prayer-book...

his assistant, Mr. Herzen, in the physiological laboratory at Florence, assert in the strongest way that their physiological experiments, whenever they anticipate the...

speech on New Year's Day at Stoke-next-Guildford, in which he defined his position as not being that of a party Bishop, but of a Bishop who had sympathies with all parties,—with...

THE NEW REVOLUTION IN SPAIN. 1V0 one outside Spain can pretend to understand fully what 1.1 goes on in Spain, and more especially what goes on in the Spanish Foreign Office. It...

W E have never liked the ostrich policy of ignoring the importance of a defeat, and we don't mean to begin now. Till now Stroud had never returned a Conservative since the...

Are . dGevRotin g a p greater h p as art m of ehias seriousp ee o c u h s to mistake the t i e a rri n b o le t calamity now threatening the Indian Empire. It is a kind of...

T HE resistance offered on Thursday in the French Assembly to the Bill for the nomination of Mayors by the Home Department may prove to be a mere flash in the pan,' or the...

V ERY few Englishmen, we imagine, care to argue out even in their own minds the question of Universal Suffrage. Mr. Chamberlain preaches the doctrine at Sheffield, Sir Charles...

I N the second edition to his thoughtful lectures on "Some Ele- ments of Religion," reviewed in these columns a year and a quarter ago,.1. Canon Liddon has replied in a very...

M R. GLADSTONE has asked the Bankers, and through them the public, whether they would rather retain the Half- crows or the Florin, as it is impossible, if we keep the...

A LL the world has heard of the angry contempt with which Mr. Charles Reade denounces his critics, and we found, in reviewing Mr. Hamerton's last-published volume some weeks...

11 ,.. RAY LANKESTER has at least the courage of his opinions. He not only defends Vivisection quite apart from the practice of giving anm3thetics,—in Harvey's time, for...

MR. DISRAELI'S BATH LETTER. [TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTAT0R.1 Sit,—In one of your articles last Saturday you say, "Now, as everybody knows, the Bath Letter lost the Bath...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOILl Ste,—It is encouraging to find that the Education Department has at last been moved to interfere with the Newmarket School Board, though as...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Slit,-It is unnecessary to discuss further the particular case of Professor Schiff and the Florentine laboratory. It is not at all evident...

LANDSEER AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. WE confess to have shared with other persons daring the last few months a doubt whether the exhibition of all Landseer's pic- tures together...

SIR,—Some time ago the Lancet informed its readers that Professor Montego= of Pavia had made certain experiments with the object of ascertaining "the physiological effects of...

THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF POULTRY.* MADAME MILLET-RODINKT, a well-known French authority upon. domestic economy, observes that the poultry-yard has always been. an important...

him down to the eve of the disruption of the Established Church of Scotland in 184a, is a thoroughly enjoyable composition, and lends valuable assist- ance towards forming a...

J unictous critics of A &apt Gold Ring recognised in Mr. Wed- more a writer of culture and refinement, who made it his object - to bring his work up to a high standard of...

refer to Mr. Baring-Gould as an authority on any of the various subjects to which he has devoted his volumes. He has, as a rule, only second-hand information, and that not...

compiled by staff officers from the head- quarter archives of the corps to which they were attached, special interest belongs to the story of the First Army, under the gallant...

James Allan Main (Routledge.)--31r. Muir has taken much pains with his work, and produced a volume which, if not entirely satisfactory, has very considerable merits. Those more...

Marjorie Daw " is a very skilfully constructed and very amusing little story. John Flemming, a wealthy young gentleman of twenty-four, is laid up with a broken leg, and becomes...

(Trilbner.)—Mr. Leland has studied the Gipsies in the same way iu which Mr. Borrow, of whose work in this direction he speaks with the highest respect, studied them, by living...

Redgrave. (Longmans.)—The two qualifications of a really good dictionary—that A Dictionary of Artists of the English School. By Samuel Redgrave. (Longmans.)—The two...

the credit duo to an honest purpose and a keen sympathy with the subject of which he treats. Mr. Farjeon's proposition amounts to this,—given radical difference of home and...

Foods. By Edward Smith, M.D. (Henry S. King and Co.)—Dr. Smith discusses, with much minuteness, the economical and sanitary-value of the various kinds of animal and vegetable...

L and the Heads of the Noble Earls, Lords, and others, who suffered for their Loyalty in the Reballion and Civil Wars of England : with their char- acters engraved under each...

by W. Oncken, and translated by Mrs. G. Sturge. 2 vols. (Strahan.)—Dr. Musser was Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Heidelberg, and these two volumes...

Tinsley.)—This is an interesting and pleasing story. Florence is the daughter of a wealthy baronet, by an early and unacknowledged marriage. She has been left to the care of an...

for the time seen fit to use ? If Mr. Cotton is a distinct person, he certainly writes in a style which bears a very curious resemblance to that of the anther of the "Princess...