A TELEGRAM from Rome announces that the Pope is about to bestow a cardinal's hat on Dr. MacCabe, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, in recognition of the efforts he has made...

House. On the Speaker's assuring Sir Stafford Northcote that the return of Mr. Bradlaugh to the House bad been com- municated to the House, and that the resolution passed on...

adjournment of the House yesterday week, in order to raise the question whether Members of Parliament against whom warrants were out had not some special right to be informed of...

Redesdale is a great deal more logical than the party with which he usually acts. On Tuesday, he introduced a short Bill into the House of Lords, providing a regular...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPEC- TATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of whichh will be devoted to Advertisements. The Second of...

with Mr. Marjoribanks, but that thirteen Liberals voted with Sir S. Northcote, besides a good many both of the irreconcilable and of the more moderate Home-rulers. Of the...

case.

Prince Bismarck has proposed, in the Prussian Cham- ber, that £4,500 a year should be voted to re-establish the Prus- sian Mission at the Vatican. He argued, through Dr. Busch,...

The Colonial Government has determined either to reduce the Basutos to complete subjection and confiscate their lands for their recnsancy, or to abandon the territory to the...

on behalf of certain Fellows of the Royal Zoological Society, applied to the High Court, Chancery Division, to restrain Mr. Barnum from removing the elephant. His argument was...

was concluded on Thursday night by a discussion, in which Mr. Lewis, the Conservative Member for Londonderry City, Mr. Chaplin, and Mr. Lowther said all the bitter things they...

that a modern ship-of-war is a great scientific machine, fall of complicated engines, and demanding in its builder, and therefore in the authority who controls the builder, a...

siastical affairs. M. Boysset proposed on Tuesday "to consider the abolition of the Concordat," or rather, that it should be treated as a simple treaty with the Pope, and"...

Com- mons on Tuesday on a point of political msthetics. Mr. Labon- chere had a notice of motion on the paper declaring that the House of Lords is " useless and dangerous," and...

Macbeth, which took place on Shrove Tuesday at tke Roman Catholic School at Beaumont, near Old Windsor,—the same school visited by the Queen on Thursday last, to receive Use...

Prince Milan to declare himself King of Servia. The invitation, which was, of course, arranged, was accepted, and all foreign Courts of importance have recognised the new...

which is chronic and incurable. Just at this moment, it is ruffianism on the Thames Embankment and in several subur- ban districts, especially Hoxton. Gangs of boys and young...

decided on Wednesday, in the High Court (Chancery Division), Mr. Justice Kay laid down as absolutely certain a doctrine which is, we fancy, wholly unknown to the public at...

the late Mem- ber for Malmesbury, Colonel Brine and Mr. Joseph Simmons attempted last Saturday to cross the Channel in a balloon, starting from Canterbury at 11.20, and passing...

circles, and even beyond them, at the unprecedented delay of the Home Office in filling up the Chair of Natural History in the University of Edinburgh, which Sir Wyville...

Minister was remarkably shown by an attempt of Lord C. Hamilton's on Monday night to fasten on him the discredit of having called Lord Grey " an old woman," during the campaign...

a maxim of which Ireland is destined, we hope, to verify the truth in relation to more than one excellent and potent policy ; but hitherto, we have undoubtedly been compelled in...

A GOVERNMENT majority of sixty-eight, obtained against a conjunction of forces between the Conservatives and the Irish Irreconcilables,—who in the first division of this...

-F INANCIAL ability is often found to be an hereditary quality, and we should not wonder at all if Major Evelyn Baring, who certainly succeeded in Egypt, turned out in India a...

M R. LABOUCHERE'S motion for the abolition of the House of Lords will hardly come to anything, and, indeed, is still regarded in the country as a kind of political joke ; but it...

M R. MUNDELLA and Lord Spencer deserve great credit' for the extraordinary pains they have taken to sift the opinions of school managers and teachers, and, indeed, of all who...

T HE British Government has been the last of the great Governments to recognise the elevation of Prince Milan to the Throne of Servia, but we do not suppose it is hostile to a...

T HE Bishop of London's speech at Willis's Rooms on Tuesday put the case in favour of Diocesan Conferences with a commendable absence of exaggeration. He had tried, he said, to...

times been directed in the columns of the Spectator to the fact that the relations between the two principal countries of the Far East, China and Japan, have not during the last...

T HE proposal which seems to have been made to provide " a burial-place for pet animals, dogs, pussy-cats, and little birds," accessible to Londoners, is, as the Pall Mall has...

Queen's life revives the old question as to the morality and expediency of special laws for the protection of the Sovereign. Why, it is asked, should any such laws exist ? If...

T HE production of Romeo and Juliet at the Lyceum Theatre, on Wednesday last, has, perhaps, been more eagerly looked forward to and given rise to more discussion, than any other...

[To TILE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Suc,-,-Dr. Brunton and Mr. Gurney have now both replied to my letter defending my evidence given before the Commission, against the...

THE BISHOPS OF LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER. [To THE EDITOR OP TER " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The Bishop of Liverpool is hardly judicious in calling fresh attention to the singular vote...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—Owing to illness, the letter headed " Eternal Punish- ments," in your number of February 18th, has only just caught my eye. It is very...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " srzcrATon.-1 'Sr ,—I fully agree with your correspondent, " B. P. L.," that it is the office of faith to disclose the personality of God. This lies in...

IDYLLS OF THE ILIAD.—V. CHRYSES. CHRYSES, the priest, strode by the sounding sea, Which broke, and chafed, and spent itself in foam, As he in anger; and his snow-white hair...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—The writer of the article in Saturday's Spectator who suggests that if Indian opium was no longer sent to China, the vacant market...

A FRENCH ROMANCE.* Do our readers know the charm of eventide, when all that is inharmonious in the foreground is forgotten as we look towards • Elians. By Mrs. Augustus Craven....

will be read in India with deep interest, but in England we fear it will cause some disappointment. It is full of information, but it is so annalistic. All official writers upon...

THERE is much to render remarkable the two handsome volumes now lying before us. Mr. Black claimed, and we believe most deservedly claimed, to be " a sincere well-wisher of...

Tax first reflection suggested by this useful compilation is that Queen's Speeches are not such models of bad English as is commonly supposed. The wonder, indeed, is that the...

suffered under the plague of editions of various parts of the Classics prepared in haste, to meet the demands of particular examinations ; but unsatis- factory as much of the...

" WITHIN the latter half of this century, historical subjects have been rewritten." So says the author of these volumes, and • Stories from the State Papers. By Alex. Charles...

WE have only transcribed in our foot-note a very small portion of the letterpress which appears on the title-page of this bulky volume. We learn from that exhaustive and rather...

Brothers.) —The "new writer," for so we see the author of Cynthia is described, has succeeded in producing a very creditable imitation of a writer whom most of us know. " Fate !...

The History of Maidstone. By J. M. Russell. (William S. Vivish, Maidstone.)—We should be glad to see the example set by Mr. Russell in writing this book extensively followed....

Progress, and Equipment, by Sir Sibbald David Scott, Bart. (Cassell and Co.), com- prises the period from the death of Cromwell to the Revolution of 1683. It was a period during...

is a reprint from the pages of the Homiletic Quarterly. Twelve writers have contributed to it, representing Lutheranism, various shades of Anglicanism, and not a few shades of...

and Sons), is described, in the title-page, as "Notes on the British, Foreign, and Colonial Laws Relating Thereto." It will pro. bably be only a very serious damage that will be...

and Health Haunts of the Riviera (Alexander Gardner, Paisley), re- printed from the Glasgow Herald and Fraser's Magazine, may be commended to those who are now thinking of...

Ancients. By Osmund Lambert. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Lambert's " Descriptions of Fishing by the Ancients" do not seem to proceed out of a very full knowledge of the subject....

Arthur, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—That this book is worth reading, need hardly be said. The Count is, for many years, the most distinguished ecclesiastic that has left the...