the Duke of Cleveland's amendment for giving manses to the Catholics and Presbyterians, nine of them (Canterbury, York, Ely, Gloucester and Bristol, Lichfield, Oxford,...

" of the eighteenth-aentury kind. A journal called the Queen's Messenger has for some time past scandalized London by a series of utterly inexcusable attacks upon big people,...

TIRE number of signatures to the resolution introduced by the Tiers Parti into the Corps Legislatif, demanding Ministerial responsibility, is already 125, and the 30 members of...

Friday week. That night was devoted to the great compromise under which the Episcopalians were to retain their manses and glebes, on condition that a house and ten acres were...

Peers voted against the grant to their own Church. It is to be regretted they have no very good spokesman in the House—indeed, they have a tendency to neglect public business,...

is more concerned with the discreditable incidents of the inquiry in Court. Mr. D'Eyncourt, the sitting Magistrate, whether awed by the rank of the defendant and his friends, or...

any case.

Sir Roundell Palmer withdrew his very ill-advised proposal to impose a negative test on University professors and college tutors, a pledge committing them not to teach or...

Protestant garrison of Ireland to the disestablished Church, the Government mustered only 55 votes against 103. The Bishop of Derry begged for this special State grant to the...

the date from which the " private " endowments were to accrue to the disestablished Church, —namely, from 1660 to 1560,—was met by Lord Granville by an offer of half a million...

reading on Thursday, on a motion by Lord Malnaesbury. That worthy Peer thinks the House of Lords already perfection, "the oldest Legislative body in Europe, the highest, and the...

to a most important problem. If the Irish Church Bill should become law, how was it intended to appoint successors for the offices of Prelate, Chancellor, and Dean of the Order...

December, when the Attorney-General will prosecute on behalf of the private prosecutor. There were not sitting days left suffi- cient for such a trial. We are far enough yet...

delaying the division of the surplus sine die (160 to 90),—a step in which he was supported by many who hoped in this way to get a locus penitentix for the vote of the Peers on...

Electric Telegraphs on Monday. The money to be paid to the companies, to the railways, and for expenses is 16,750,000, and the surplus, after paying expenses and interest, is...

Right Bill passed for the United Kingdom. They are evicting tenants wholesale for not voting as they are bid. The Member for Merthyr, Mr. Richard,—a new man, who is rapidly...

Trades' Unions' Bill, which repeals all the combination laws, and gives all societies of the trade, not otherwise illegal, the same protec- tion for their funds now accorded to...

for every petty expedition in which our troops may be engaged, and leave the Government to recommend them. On Thursday a medal was asked for for Bootan, an expedition which had...

draw his notice to call attention to recent negotiations with America. The Government of Washington "thought it desirable that some interval should elapse, in reference to the...

hint at the future,—which, on the high conventional theory of life, teems to us much more questionable than the more famous ." indiscretion" of Mr. Bright,—elicited from Mr....

the Democrat party, and have given their candidate for the Governor- ship of Virginia a heavy majority. The Democrats were obliged, ihowever, to give a public and " sacred "...

now a Democratic Member for Congress for that State, has written a letter on the Alabama question, which is sensible, though rather stilted, as far as the American side of the...

to Faraday last Monday night, said that it had not been customary to vote public monuments to private citizens,—meaning by "pri- vate," we suppose, men not eminent in political...

week, Mr. Lowe committed what they call "an indiscretion" graver than Mr. Bright's recent indiscretion ; but which nobody seems to be equally shocked at,—perhaps because...

THE FIASCO IN THE LORDS. T it, muddle in the Lords is deeper than we had supposed, so deep that it will take a dead heave from the chiefs of both parties to get the Bill out of...

F OR a statesman, and one, moreover, of singular ability as a man of business,—and none of his predecessors for generations back can rival the present Primate in either...

T HE interest of the situation in France is becoming very great. The very foundations of the Empire are believed in Paris to be shaking under a Parliamentary assault, led by...

T BE Engineer, that very solid contemporary of ours, which we never read without a certain reverential awe for its diagrams as well as for its science,—(who can help abasing...

I S it quite so certain, as most of our business contemporaries assume, that the remarkable lull in British enterprise, which has now lasted three entire years, is entirely due...

I F only the Darwinian principle were applicable to man, it must surely sooner or laterproduce a new sort of human nature in the United States,—a human nature with sensoria of a...

T HE Carington-Murray correspondence, published in the Times of Tuesday, brings into strong relief one of the many discordances occasionally revealed between English laws and...

T HE conversion of England to the obedience of the Faith" is a victory of which Rome has never ceased to feel or, at least to profess a hope. What the rulers of the Church may...

Saxon earl, in their raid into Herefordshire, of which we have already spoken, took and fortified Leominster ; but abandoned it on the approach of Earl Harold, who is said to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?) SIR,—Will you allow nie a word in reference to the article on this subject in your last number ? I am unable to see that liberality of...

THE CONSTITUTION OF MALTA. . [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It must be owned that the constitution which Her Majesty conferred in 1849 on the people of Malta, at Earl...

LECKY'S HISTORY OF EUROPEAN MORALS.* IT is, perhaps, a hazardous assertion to make, and yet we feel ourselves almost warranted in saying that, since Gibbon wrote his fifteenth...

Or all the trash provided nowadays for the amusement of the public, we hope there is not much so irredeemable as that in the book before us. Bad spelling and bad grammar occur...

WHEN it is remembered that our Indian Empire covers an area of a million square miles, or eight times that of the nation that rules it, and that, far from being sparsely...

AN American travelling in Europe and describing what he sees to his fellow-countrymen must of necessity write much that is neither new nor interesting to Europeans. Excepting in...

THE questions discussed in this dialogue, or naturally arising out of it, are of a more simple and generally intelligible kind than those dealt with by the Sophists& In the...

PERHAPS the most instructive paper in any of the magazines this month has been contributed by Professor Seeley to Macmillan. It is the first of a series of papers upon "Roman...

old preference. There is something very smart about all that concern the hero's adventures in Hungary, and nothing better than the sketch of the prince-bagman, or bagman-prince,...

is fairly up to the mark in cleverness and interest. There are some well-conseived and well-described scones in it ; the characters are dis- tinct, and the reader, though-ho...

say against this tale, but this, that it failed to make any impression upon us, except, indeed, to wonder whether there are yet, or indeed ever have been, schools of a...

(Sampson Low.)—We are very glad to see an "author's edition" of a very old favourite. Some of our readers may, perhaps, need to be reminded that some thirty years ago Mr. Dana,...

a very serviceable book of extracts from a great writer whom no student of French should neglect, but whose works are certainly not to be read in their entirety by any one not...

"It may be," the writer says in a note to an essay on the "2,300 days of Daniel," "that the millennium commenced with the confinement and restraint of the dragon's power and...

Mossman starts from the fact that the inclination of the earth's axis produces the variations of the seasons. What he adds to it of his own is that "the world has all along...

Apprentices. By Alexander Macdonald. (Mackenzie.)—It may be doubted whether a large-sized octavo of more than fear hundred pages can be properly called a "handy-book." Mr....

Such a reflec- tion as this, a propos of the Druid sacrifices, "Row sad those poor parents must have felt when their children were led out to suffer a cruel death!" is trite...

Farragut in the Flagship Franklin. By J. E. Montgomery, A.M. (New York : Putnam. London : Sampson Low.)—One naturally compares this book with that which some time ago gave us...