lower sections of the Army are bitterly annoyed with the failures in foreign policy ; the Parisian bourgeoisie hold Mexican coupons which they thought guaranteed, but which have...

so con- flicting as to be almost unintelligible. There seems no doubt that the Italian Government is arresting invaders, that armed parties, native or other, have appeared in...

Bishops first give hearty thanks for being thus brought together,—a thankfulness which some of them felt in a very questionable form ; secondly, express deep sorrow at the...

states that a few months since Lord Stanley requested Cardinal Antonelli to inform him whether the Irish Catholic prelates would accept an endowment. The Vatican professed...

the present condition of the Church in Natal," and again a committee is appointed to report how the Church is to be deli- vered from this scandal and "the true faith...

the last few weeks. The Bishops who did not join the Conference are making up for it by all charging at once ; the Church Conference has overflowed far into this week ; the Duke...

P ARLIAMENT will, it is stated, be summoned for the 19th November, "for the despatch of business." The reason for this unusual course is not the necessity for obtaining a vote...

fourth declares that, in the opinion of the Conference, "Unity in faith and discipline will be best maintained among the several branches of the Anglican communion, by due and...

letter to the Universal News, in which he threatens not obscurely that unless Fenians are treated as prisoners of war "reprisals " may be made upon high officials of the...

Peter- borough, Dr. Jeune, neither of whom attended the Conference, have charged their clergy instead. The Bishop of Ripon seems to have touched on no doctrinal point except the...

of September, a sure sign of an early, if not of a severe winter. Firing will, three weeks hence, be a necessary, and the crop has disappointed expectation. It is believed to be...

of seven (unnamed)plus the Bishops of London, St. David's, and Oxford, and all the Colonial Bishops, "to consider the con- stitution of a voluntary spiritual tribunal, to which...

Anglican Colonial Churches. Each Church must accept all the old standards of the mother Church, but may have the right to make "such adaptations and additions to the services of...

been very nearly drowned. On Thursday week (3rd October), they had been cruising on the coast, but the sea being too high to land at Biarritz, they started in the yacht's boats...

appears from its issue of Saturday last that it had not, nor ever had, any clue at all to the author of the hoax on Miss Braddon. We can only say that no suspicion ever entered...

attempt too much. It Certainly has gone to the length of encouraging free churches in -all the colonies, deciding how to keep them in communion with the national Church, and...

breathless pace. In one morning (October 5) it decreed the im- movability of the judges, the exemption of the people from "admin- istrative control," and the subjection of all...

we commented last week,—explaining how to get an extra Bishop in Natal, "if it be decided that a new bishop shall be consecrated,"—the Conference having characteristically...

committed for trial. The defence made for them was marked by extraordinary disrespect for the ma g istrates, who, how- ever, decided, it was said, to bear anythin g rather than...

licans, and their ma j ority has been diminished in several other States. These elections, however, are not to Con g ress, and are g reatly influenced by local q uestions,...

sorbed this week, the market for Home Securities has been in a very inactive state. On the whole, however, the q uotations have been fairly supported. Yesterday, Consols, for...

Tarbes of apoplexy. He was a loss to the Empire, for he really understood finance, had an intellectual preference for -economy, and was able to convince the Emperor that...

succeed the late Sir F. Brace as Minister at Washin g ton, now by far the most important of En g lish diplomatic posts.' Mr. Thorn- ton's character stands hi g h with the Forei...

of the Ritual- ist Churchwardens g ave evidence before the Ritual Commission has been exposed in the Holborn, St. Pancras, and Bloomsbury Journal, by the Rev. A. J. Ross, the...

the stone implements,—implements of the a g e of stone,— there. He wonders how life went on when you had only a stone axe to fi g ht with, and ichthyosauruses or me g...

lon g er any connection with the establishment which was, under her re'gime, called the Victoria Press, in Farrin g don Street. The Victoria Magazine is published in Prince's...

of Belfast wished to offer him a ban q uet, and to hear him speak upon the " g reat Irish q uestions immediately demandin g the atten- tion of the Le g islature." In reply, Earl...

caused by a rumour that the Emperor had suddenly shown symptoms of softenin g of the brain, and was incapable of g ivin g orders. The rt repo was a pure invention ; but there...

off at the annexed q uotations :— Friday, Oct. 4, Friday, 04 IL Great Eastern .. Great Northern Great Western.. .. Lancashire and Yorkshire .. • 01 811 . 110 471 127...

leadin g Forei g n Securities yesterday subjoined :— The closin g prices of and on Friday week are Friday, Oct. 4. Friday, 031.11. Mexican • • 15 15 Spanish Passives...

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION. W E are at length fairly at war with Abyssinia. The pre- liminary expedition, under Colonel Merewether, started * to seize Massowah on the 28th ult.,...

I T was the Temporal Power which fell at Sadowa. We repeat that sentence now for the third time, because it is still the key to all that has occurred and is occurring within the...

M R. GRANT DUIP is a wonderfully clever man, and there is no political duty in the year easier and pleasanter for a politician than the reading of his speeches to his Elgin con-...

I T was Mr. Bernal Osborne, we believe, who last Session prophesied that the next Radical task attempted by Mr. Disraeli would be the abolition of the Irish Church, and he would...

T HERE is scarcely one among our statesmen who has more of the humility of real strength than the Duke of Argyll. Nothing is more curious than to read successively the two great...

1 F we cannot say that the present year is a year of Law Reform, we must give it the credit of having initiated the most im- portant discussions on that subject, and of having...

in Austria, and that is Vienna. Every other belongs more or less to some separate nation- ality. Salzburg is German, Prague Bohemian with a German varnish, Buda-Pesth Hungarian,...

M R. CARLYLE'S last wail over England was appreciated by us in its political bearings at the time of its first appear- ance two months ago in Macmillan's Magazine. It is now...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Two hours' railway travelling will take you from Melbourne to Geelong, over rich, flat, grassy plains, with scarcely a tree, nothing but ugly posts and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] am not sorry that you have commented as you have done upon the Pastoral Letter of the Pan-Anglican Synod, though in some of your remarks...

[To TAB EDITOR. OF THE " SFECTATOR.1 Belvoir Vottage, Wandsworth, October 8, 1867. Sin,—/ am no longer "A Wife on Her travels." An inspired but forgotten poet has, I think,...

WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN.* THE curiosity with which we opened this volume has not been gratified. The interest we were prepared to feel has not been created. We must say that...

a French book possessing claims of no slight ephemeral kind, the Memoirs of Madame de Montagu, née Noailles. It purported to be one of those deeply interesting recueils of...

book, in every sense of the term. Five hundred and sixty-seven pages of essays in large octavo, closely printed, even if from the pen of "the righteous," are apt to be of those...

this modest-looking little volume with great pleasure. It is worth a hundred more pretentious books that we could mention. Strange to say, it owes its existence to what we may,...

—4— The Contemporary Review. October. (Strahan.)—Two articles in the present number of the Contemporary Review are purely secular, but we do not think this importation of...

Association at Dundee, in Reply to the Speculations recently promulgated in Regard to the Antiquity and Nature of Man. By the Rev. James Brodie. (Hamilton and Adams.)--It is...

and the Laws relating thereto. (Bemrose and Lothian.)—This book is short, rather scanty in detail, and by no means elegant or always cor- rect in style. Still, we should think...

for last week, but it deserves a separate notice. Profes- sor Masson's article on "London University, and London Colleges and Schools of Science" is highly suggestive, though...

more Difficult Questions in the Civil Service Reports, with full Solutions. By W. A. Browne, LL.D. (Stanford.)—This title-page tells its own story. The book itself seems...

and Marston.)—We had none of that difficulty in detecting the nationality of this volume which seems to have oppressed the Pall' Mall Gazette. But we agree with our...

By. Elizabeth Watts. (F. Warne and Co.)—Another of Miss Watts's cheap. and useful manuals, addressed to readers who, like the authoress, have , had through life between a pole...

Two editions of this book are on our table, one cheap, and one with illustrations. The selection is made for "the children of our parochial schools and those classes of our...

(J. E. Cornish.)—There are some valuable facts and inferences com- municated in this book, but we can hardly treat Dr. Fletcher as an im- partial witness. He calls himself on...

P. C.. Little. (Churchill and Sons.)—Mr. Little's remarks are brief and pro- fessional, but his account of twenty cases of cholera treated by him with almost perfect success...

Cole. (St. Leonard's : Burg.)-This volume consists of two papers, read before different associations, and published at the request of the hearers. Such a "request of friends" we...