of the enthusiastic preparations for war, and peace is only mentioned now in diplomatic documents. The Austrians have flooded the country round Mantua. Italian conspirators have...

night, in a crowded and curious House. It is very moderate, and gives so much to the more populous counties that the Conservatives will find it difficult to oppose it, except in...

W AR, commercial failures, and excessive panic both on the French and English Stock Exchange, have been the cheer- ful features of the week. Not that the war has yet begun, but...

us with the usual amount of perfume and prickle. Lord Shaftesbury especially is outdoing himself, and showing, with his usual true benevolence and narrow piety, which no one...

every power is anxious to shift the responsibility of the fast blow to the other, and some of them are still behind-hand with their preparations. In Prussia Count Bismarck has...

was no- thing to the panic of yesterday, and that even that of 1847 was lees tumultuous. A shrewd observer said yesterday that the best thing sensible men, whether bankers or...

days. It commenced with the Emperor's announcement,—or reported announcement, for it is said that he invented his own speech after- wards for the benefit of the Moniteur and...

all proba- bility, be to combine the Franchise and the Redistribution of Seats Bills into a single Bill in Committee. Mr. Gladstone left it very much to the House to decide what...

last Tuesday, it was resolved to ask the Senate to institute, and, if a new charter were necessary for that purpose, to obtain a new charter empowering them to institute, local...

the new President, Sir Francis Grant, who seems to have discharged The Royal Academy dinner took place this day week, under the new President, Sir Francis Grant, who seems to...

and Insti- tute Union was eaten in the Freemasons' Tavern on Thursday, the Duke of Argyll in the chair, and the purpose of the dinner was answered in the raising of a...

gains by grouping Kinsale with Bandon, Portarlington with Athlone, and Dungannon with Enniskillen. Of these three seats it gives one to the county of Cork, one to Dublin City,...

of the fifteen judges as to the legality of Charlotte Win- sor's—the professional child-murderess's—conviction, and she may now therefore be executed. There is an impression...

of the Tory party are satisfied with the Redistribution of Seats Bill, and will be likely to secede if any attempt is made to overthrow the Government on this point. Sir...

a municipal borough boundary includes more than the Parliamentary borough boundary, the latter should be extended to coincide with the former. And further, he proposes that if...

nesday, to consider the evils arising from overcrowding in London and the remedy proposed by the "Operatives' House-Building Company," an advertisement of which will be found in...

Scotland are to be apportionel thus,—an additional member . to each of the three counties of Ayr, Lanark, and Aberdeen ; an additional member to Glasgow, Edinburgh, and Dundee...

the -whole, perhaps been favourable to the Liberals, though the good fortune has been pretty fairly divided. At Windsor the two Con- servative candidates retired, and left the...

Society the profits were. stated to amount to 1.98,3631. 7s, 8d. Four-fifths of that amount have been set -apart for future annual divisions of profits, and the remainder has...

General Welfare of the Blind is to be held at St. James's Hall next Tuesday, at half-past two p.m., when many eminent anen are to speak, including Professor Fawcett, the member...

rate of discount has been raised to only 4 per cant., the value of money, both here and on the Continent, has rapidly advanced. On Tues- day, owing to an outflow of gold from...

:substantiation declaration in the House of Commons on Tuesday night, turned fiercely upon Mr. Whalley,—questioned his Pro- testantism, and suggested that he, too, is a...

last week at Westminster before Mr. Justine Mellor. A Hartlepool wine merchant, Mr. Lockwood, bought four hogsheads of wine as good port at the price of 45/. the pipe, from a...

Saturday last they left off at 861, 1- for money, and 85k, f ex div. for account. After the announcement of the failure of Overend, Gurney, and Co., on Thursday, the price for...

the amenities proper to that constituency. Lord Amberley had co- alesced with Mr. Handel Cossham, a viewy Radical of strong teetotal views, whose baptismal name received in...

on Friday week were as under :- Friday, ?Say 4. F.rlday, May IL Maxima .. .. .. .. •. In •• In Spanish Passive • • .. ...941 .. 201 Do. Certificates .. .. .. .. 14...

tions yesterday and en Friday week :— Great Eastern .. •• •• Great Northern .. (*mat Westena.. Do. West Midland, Oxford Lancashire and Yorkshire Louden and Brighton...

THE. CONSERVATivE TENDENCIES OF THE REFOBM BILL. W E have now the whole of the Government scheme of Reform before us, and we propose to discuss it in rela- tion not to its...

T HE Emperor has applied at once a goad and a guiding rein to the war tendency on the Continent. By one of those weighty oracles with which he loves at momentous crises to ,give...

N OTHING is easier than to be judicious when you are not called upon for judgment, and courageous when you are not in danger. So long as the prospects of war seemed dis- tant,...

m-E. LOWE, in his panegyric on civil engineering as the 1YJL last and greatest of the learned professions last Wed- nesday, spoke out his mind frankly enough—which indeed on...

it which is unconditionally opposed to an extension of the suffrage, has repeatedly asserted—and never more frequently than during the late Reform debates—that the...

The common idea amongst the outer world is that gin-shops and public-houses are haunts of dissipation. No charge, judging from our own experience, is more unfounded. No doubt...

A THOUGHTFUL little essay has just appeared, written with great simplicity and without any of that affectation of manner called with relation to the stage "tears in the voice,"...

'THIS is another Elizabethan family, said to have been derived - A - from the county of Oxford. A RICHARD DE CADLFELD married Alice, sister and heiress to William Fleming, and...

I date my letter is probably as uninteresting a spot as could be found in the habitable part of the earth. As. lonely too, and apparently as remote from all the modern incon-...

our accounts of the Irish Governing Families. The present Viscount Dunkellin is Click, the eldest son of the Marquis of Clanricarde, and not Hubert; and it is Lord Hubert, the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit,—Notwithstanding the great authority of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Mill, I may be pardoned for doubting whether there is necessarily any...

OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—There are a few typographical errors in my letter in last Saturday's Spectator which I should be glad to see corrected. Page 495, line 10 from top,...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. IT is generally as difficult as it is unprofitable to balance the com- parative merits of pictures exhibited at the Academy with such nicety as to decide...

OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—When noticing The Lady's Mile (p. 472), you ask, " Is it all Miss Braddon's ?" and you do me the grievous injustice of asserting that you praised my...

M. JULES SIMON'S LE TRAVAIL.* IF we could suppose some traveller shipwrecked twenty years ago on a desert island in the South Pacific, or made captive by a wild tribe Of...

miracle plays, this remark- able poem comes before us totally unfurnished with any such editorial comments as it will be the duty of posterity to pile up over it. We have no...

IT is a fit retribution for Mr. Arnold's censure of Mr. Palgrave that these Essays on Art should form a companion volume to the Essays in Criticism; and Mr. Palgrave must have...

that "no mortal has a right to wag his tongue, much less to wag his pen, without saying something," then the British Museum Reading-room, or, as it ought to be called,...

elaborate work in- cludes the greater part of the fifteenth and the beginning of the sixteenth century. It introduces us to an exhaustive review of Umbrian and Siennese art, the...

Aunt Judy's Magazine. No. I., May. Edited by Mrs. Alfred Gatty. (Bell and DaMy.)—This magazine promises to be an acquisi- tion to the children. There is in it a good mixture...

Selected and edited by J. E. Carpenter. (Warne.)—It is interesting to know that the "penny-reading" owed its origin as a self-sup- porting institution to the voluntary...