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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE Daily News of yesterday contains a curious telegraphic rumour of a reaction against Prince Bismarck and his policy in Berlin. The double administrative struggle there,...
A telegram from Melbourne (April 7) announces that Mr. Layard,
The Spectatorthe British Consul, who, with Mr. Goodenough, was deputed to inquire into the expediency of accepting the sub- mission of, the Fiji Islands, has decided in favour of the mea-...
At Montrose on Monday night, Mr. Baxter spoke at length
The Spectatorto his constituents on the political situation. We have analysed and criticised his speech elsewhere, but have there hardly done justice to his placid and even pleased...
The Famine news of the week indicates little real change
The Spectatorin the position. There is a report of 500 deaths in Hattee, a subdivi- sion of Tirhoot previously stated to be in great danger ; but relief has been afforded, and the Viceroy...
The latest intelligence from Spain is nearly unintelligible. Serrano, it
The Spectatoris reported, has returned to Madrid to assume the ordinary government, while General Manuel Concha, brother, we believe, of the better known Captain-General of Cuba, assumes the...
It has been repeatedly rumoured of late that the Emperor
The SpectatorNapoleon did not enter into the war with Prussia as rashly as was supposed. He had secret alliances both with Austria and Italy, and only needed a victory to ensure success. The...
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The annual Co-operative Congress commenced this year at Halifax, on
The SpectatorMonday, with a remarkable speech from the chair- man, Mr. T. Brassey. After stating that the number of co-opera- tive societies in England and Wales was 746, with 300,587...
The Times publishes a remarkable letter from Rangoon, from some
The Spectatorone who must have -access to Acid information. He announces that the French in Cochin-China are engaged in the conquest of Tonquin, a dependency of Anam, and have already,. in...
The old Birmingham currency doctrine, under the name of "inflation,"
The Spectatorseems to have got strong possession of the American mind. Both Houses of Congress recently passed a resolution authorising an increase in the issue of greenbacks to 400,000,000....
Sir George Campbell has sailed for England, under compulsion of
The Spectatorhis physicians, and Sir R. Temple has taken charge of the Government of Bengal. Sir George Campbell has proved an able, though over-brusque administrator, whose great merit has...
Captain Glover has been entertained at a banquet at Liver-
The Spectatorpool, and has made a speech denying absolutely the report that any want of cordiality existed between himself and Sir Garnet Wolseley. Their official intercommunication was...
The anti-liquor crusade in the United States has received a
The Spectatorvery severe blow in Massachusetts. It appears that the Customs Laws, which are passed of course by Con- gress, the Federation alone having control over sea-borne imports,...
Mr. Roebuck is more delighted with himself than ever, if
The Spectatorit is possible to find a comparative degree for a state of mind which appears to be always one of political ecstasy over his own virtues and achievements. In his speech at...
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Mr. Goldwin Smith, in a speech made "in connection with,"
The Spectatorbut not to, this Congress, took occasion to make a very curious 'remark. He lamented the inequality of fortunes in England more than the inequalities of other kinds. A man who...
The Bishop of Orleans has published an admirable pastoral on
The Spectatorthe morbid condition of the French mind in relation to alleged miracles and prophecies, on which we have commented elsewhere. But we may call attention here to the evidence...
The Times gives an account of the strange practice of
The Spectator" flogging Judas Iscariot " which the Portuguese sailors went through yesterday week even in the London Docks. This consists in be- labouring a wooden image of Judas Iscariot,...
It is stated, we see, that one change has already
The Spectatoroccurred in the Ministry, Sir J. Karslake having resigned from increasing ill-health. We regret to hear that he is suffering from an affection of the eyes. Sir R. Baggallay...
The Church Conservatives of the present day have learnt something
The Spectatorat least by the history of recent years. They see the folly as well as the injustice of a scornful or stand-off attitude -towards Dissent. The great Richmond-Cemetery question...
We hope Mr. Cross is not bent on earning the
The Spectatorunenviable -reputation of intervening without adequate reason in the usual -course of the law. We referred last week to the remission of half the sentence on a young man...
The case of "Dolan v. the London and North-Western Railway
The SpectatorCompany" should be a warning to jurymen not to accept so im- plicitly as they often do the statements of persons who apply for compensation from railway companies for injuries...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorMR. BAXTER AT MONTROSE. IT is certainly full time that we Liberals were out in the cold. Here is Mr. Baxter, an able man, a thorough- going Liberal, and an ex-Minister of some...
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THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY.
The SpectatorT HAT there are a great many ominous signs in the situation of France is clear enough, and neither the French Press nor the correspondents of the English newspapers can be said...
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THE AGRICULTURAL LOCK-OUT.
The SpectatorT HE Lock-out in the Eastern Counties is becoming more' and more important. The Bishop of Manchester had, it seems, good data for his statement that the labourers locked out...
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THE PLEAS FOR GERMAN PERSECUTION.
The SpectatorT HE oddest phenomenon of the time is the sort of plea we hear advanced on all sides for the new German Persecu- tion. We hear it stated, for instance, in one quarter, as a...
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THEPRESENT PHASE OF THE BENGAL FAMINE.
The SpectatorT HE plain answer to Mr. Colvin's demand that the Press shall abstain from embarrassing Lord Northbrook by criticism is, that the business of a publicist is publicity, and that...
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BISHOP DCPANLOUP ON MIRACLES IN FRANCE.
The SpectatorT HE Bishop of Orleans has written one of the best pastorals on that craving for miracles, prodigies, and prophecies, of which the disasters of France have produced so frightful...
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THE STOCK EXCHANGE.
The SpectatorT HE statement recently made that the nominal business of the Stock Exchange declined last year about fifty mil- lions, did not, we suspect, excite among the public an unmixed...
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CORRESPONDENCE.
The SpectatorTHE FAMINE IN BENGAL. [Flom OPR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] March 11, 1874. MERE is no doubt that the official mind has, within the last three months, been in a whirl of...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE INDIAN FAMINE AND THE PRESS. [TO THI EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 Sin,—In your good-humoured remarks on my article in the last Fortnightly, you say " that it is a little...
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THE AGRICULTURAL LOCK-OUT.
The Spectator[TO THE ,EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—In to-day's Spectator you say, " In declaring that they will not take Unionists, the farmers are legally in their right." But morally...
THE BUSY BEE.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] am diurnally compelled to read in silent indignation Radical and Revolutionary sentiments from which I vehemently dissent. When it comes,...
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorSIR,—Shall I be permitted to enter a brief protest against the- sentence passed on the " Little Busy Bee" in your last number?' Bold as it may seem, and almost impertinent, on...
THE INDIAN RELIEF FUND.
The Spectator[TO TEl EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—It seems to me that it would be very undesirable to attempt the formation of a second fund for the relief of the distress in Bengal....
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorBra,—Sir John Lubbock's experiment proves no more than that in certain cases the bees did not communicate their knowledge to their fellows. Five years ago a remarkable case,...
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."
The SpectatorSin,—I have read with considerable interest your contributor's remarks on Sir John Lubbock's recent experiments, and venture to back the bees against the philosopher, if only...
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C.XSARISM AND ULTRAMONTANISM.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Will you allow me to call the attention of your readers to one point in Mr. Fitzjames Stephen's article on " Cassarism and...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorHUME AND THE UTILITARIAN ETHICS. WE have in a former article aimed at tracing the system of thought most in vogue at the present day to the speculations of a thinker of the...
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MR. BUCHANAN'S POETICAL WORKS.*
The SpectatorTHESE are the first two volumes of an edition (to be completed in five) of Mr. Buchanan's poetical and prose works, of which we trust that the poetical, either both in form and...
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MR. COX'S HISTORY OF GREECE.*
The SpectatorTHESE two volumes take us to the end of the Peloponnesian War ; a third is to follow, bringing down the story to the death of Alexander the Great ; and in a fourth, traversing...
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THE BAVARIANS IN THE LATE WAR.* AMONG the troops engaged
The Spectatoragainst the French during the late war, next to the Prussians, the Bavarians supplied the greatest • Operation,' of (he First Bavarian Army Corp, under General Von der Tann....
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THE LIGHTER MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorBlackwood continues dull, but the customary political article is distinguished by moderation of tone and the absence of some of the offensive peculiarities which have recently...
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Sahara and Lapland. By Count Goblet d'Alviella. Translated from the
The SpectatorFrench by Mrs. Cashel Hoey. (Asher.)—A somewhat singular - love of antithesis has led our author to explore and to describe the torrid and the frigid zone, and he finds a...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorThe Portfolio. April. (Seeleys.)—The chief illustration of this month's number is one of unusual excellence, —an etching by M. Brunet-Debaines, after Cuyp. The original is a...
Once and for Ever. By the Author of "No Appeal."
The Spectator3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—This is a well-told story, which, without aiming very high, shows no little power of observation and of describing char- acter. " Passages in the...
Sermons Preached in Manchester. By Alexander Maclaren. Third Series. (Macmillan.)—Mr.
The SpectatorMaclaren's reputation as a preacher is already well established, and these sermons fully support it. They have little to do, f■ - ,r the most part, with ecclesiastical, or oven...
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Deal.
The SpectatorPETERS—On the 4th of April, at Venice, in the 22nd year of her age, Josephine Gemmel, second daughter of Josephine Gemmel and the late Samuel Twyford Peters, of New York.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE WEEK. — 8 —.
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