W. Har- court, in a very clever speech of the peculiar kind which he affects,—a kind savouring not a little of pomposity and clap-trap. He described Mr. Gladstone's theory of...

case.

Thursday night, against Mr. Russell Gurney's Public Worship Regulation Bill. Mr. Russell Gurney, going on the cautious policy of saying as little as possible that could excite...

in form, is not exactly dictatorial. It contains but two thoughts, the first of Which is repeated in different words six - times. This thought is, "I am legally President of the...

this week was the publication in the Union of a new manifesto by the Comte de Chambord. It is of the old kind. The Count declares that " France has need of Royalty," that " his...

THE French Assembly has been trying all the week to show .1 how powerless a representative body can be when it has out- lived the confidence of the electors. On Tuesday it...

inade- quate reporting. On Tuesday, the Liceii`sing Bill was getting comfortably through the - Lords, when the Bishops of Lon- don and Peterborough chose to intervene. Dr....

Business issued by the Crown, to discuss the Rubrics, but has not done much as yet. The Upper House appears to have agreed to make the rubric enjoining daily services only...

the following questions :—Is it true that the sham-fight at Chob- ham was suddenly ordered, to provide an entertainment for visitors of distinction, and for no other reason...

place in the House of Commons on Monday night, was not particu- larly remarkable. Mr. Baxter moved that it was inexpedient to legislate without further inquiry, on the ground...

the defeat of the Republicans will have a most serious effect upon the Spanish Civil War. It is. now stated, by men who are no friends of his cause, that Don Carlos has nearly...

House of Lords on the extreme deficiency in Ireland of trained teachers for the National Schools, and the natural result of that deficiency.' In England and Wales ( with a...

made up.their minds that the creation of a great body of electoral law is much more important than the representation of Stroud, and have resolved to sacrifice their borough to...

bulky report, the general drift of which is that the Govern- ment have already 'quite power enough to stop unseaworthy ships, and that the further remedies needed are to be...

a singular 'want of acquaintance with the 'first conditions of Indian finance. The drift of the paper is that the famine must have been exaggerated, for if it had been a great...

respectable scholar and a Welshman, and that is pretty much all that the world in general knows of him. Archdeacon William Basil Jones was a scholar of Trinity College, Oxford,...

on the Napoleonista, circulating in the 'Paris streets, which it seems to treat as if it were seriously meant as a panegyric on the Napoleonic regime, instead of a blow at it....

Friday, - furnishes an odd postscript to a paper we publish elsewhere on the Hanley dog-fight. He had gone up. on Thursday in his .1h tlalloon with, a Mr. G. "F. Hawkins, and...

answers given this week • to questions in Parliament „show* that there is urgent need. for some kind of reform. The President-of the Board of Trade (Sir C. Adderley) replied on...

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE CHURCH. rE House of Commons is in a false position, and it is amusing to see the sort of tantrums into which, under these circumstances, in an...

M ARSHAL MACMAHON has spoken out at last, and even the most prejudiced can no longer mistake his meaning. Last week, writing upon the " Order of the Day " which he issued to the...

R. DISRAELI declared on 'Monday that he was relieved to see Mr. Gladstone back spin in his place, and though his remark that his -rival had been attracted " naturally " by an...

UTE have never been able to forget the Luxemburg guar- V V antee, and have therefore never been able to place any cordial confidence in Lord Derby as Foreign Minister, but he...

safely predicted that the Bill for the 1 abolition of Patronage in the Church of Scotland would draw Mr. Gladstone back to his accustomed place. He began life as an...

L ORD SANDON is bent on reconciling the Dissenters to Mr. Forster, by making them aware how far that much-abused statesman was in advance of the narrow spirit which they sup-...

B ISHOP WORDSWORTH, in his' sermon at -Westminster Abbey last Sunday against Cremation, can hardly -have meant, indeed certainly did not .mean, that the persecutors of the-early...

' present writer once ventured to say, in a room where it was allowable to talk, and not merely to chatter, that the English required law to keep them civilised ; that their...

THE IRISH EDUCATION SYSTEM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] an 1 subsidised by the State. Now, of what nature are these private establishments to be ? No one who knows...

SIR,—Although the defects pointed out and the remedies pro- posed by Mr. Murphy have, to some extent, been anticipated by the Royal Commission, I hail it as a good omen that...

[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] your leader of Saturday last on this Bill, you have brought charges against us in reference to our issuing stamped policies for infantile...

[TO • THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR: . '] SIR,—Mr. Langton, in your issue of July 4, speaks of thc• " unfortunate " use of the word " against," instead of " towards," in our...

has given in your columns so clear and truthful an account of the merits and demerits of the system of national education in Ireland, and has given so unexceptionable and,- with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] Sin„—Your correspondent, Mr. .Llewelyn Davies, is evidently but imperfectly informed on the subject on which he writes „somewhat...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR.1 Sin,—Some -facts which have recently come to my knowledge :appear to me to have interest and significance in relation to the future .of...

SLAVONIC FAIRY TA LES.t SINCE this book has been in -our hands, it has been aut....happy fortune to be seized by a little troop of golden-haired bandits, tend dragged out into...

[FIRST NOTICE.] DR. CARPENTER has collected in this volume the researches and systematic thought of many years on the relations between the mind and its organism, and on the...

WE have had Lives of Christ presented to • us under forms of German philosophy and French sentiment, and now we have one in that most popular English style, the style of the....

1w, as cannot be denied, our short-comings in matters of the table are many, various, and flagrant, if our wives or housekeepers are- careless, and our daughters ignorant, and...

MR. MICKLETHWAITE'S book does not pretend to be a profound or exhaustive treatise on modern Church architecture ; indeed, its size—that of a small-octavo volume—precludes the...

Carlist war, and gener- ally of Spain and the. Spaniards, by one who. describes with great vivacity and picturesqueness, have much interest, at .a time when what will, we...

`WE willingly make the acknowledgment which Miss Ramsay asks of her Protestant readers, • that the time spent in reading this biography will not be lost. Bishop -Grant was a man...

Heterodox London. By C. M. Davies, M.D. 2 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.) —We shall illustrate our estimate of these two volumes by a comparison which many of our readers will be able...

Bray. 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a story of the old-fashioned sort, with all the machinery to which we are so well used. There is a grasping old man who tries to secure...

and Co.)— The heroine has two lovers, one of them a man of birth and position, who. has behaved to her with the utmost baseness, a baseness which he avows and justifies with...

Smyth. (Isbister.)—This is a second and enlarged edition of a work which many of our readers will remember as having appeared about ten years ago. They will recollect how the...