13 APRIL 1867

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In the debate on Thursday the first intrigue of the

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Govern- ment, attempted through its external allies, was delay. Lord' Grosvenor, strongly assisted by Lord Etch°, Mr. Henley, Mr. Dillwyn, and Sir R. Knightley did what they...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Mr. Gladstone's speech, though by no means one of his

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greatest displays, was wonderfully cogent. He showed clearly that the " barriers " introdiitakby Mr. Disraeli's scheme were utterly un- trustworthy. They would be swept away in...

The whole debate was spirited, and meant business. The only

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Liberal deserter who spoke wall Mr. *Wert, who AM MO 104 to count on Mr. Disraeli's vague assurances of some candid future con- sideration of his wishes about the compound...

When the House went into Committee, the borough franchise was

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the first topic. Nominally, the debate was on an amendment pro- posed by Mr. Gladstone, really it was upon this :—Both sides wish to establish household suffrage, with...

The instruction to the Committee on Reform empowering a 51.

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rating limit, and removing all inequalities in the conditions of the franchise above that limit, of which Mr. Gladstone spoke to his party at the Liberal meeting of yesterday...

Later in the evening Mr. Bernal Osborne somewhat revived its

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spirits by a very pungent attack on the Government and on the Liberal defaulters. He did not object, he said, to "fishing for a policy," but he did object to the unsportsmanlike...

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The Luxemburg affair remains as dangerous as ever. The French

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Government represses interpellations about it, but on April 8 M. de Moustier informed the Corps Legislatif, by the Emperor's order, that the proposal came from Holland, that...

We regret deeply to note that the Princess of Wales

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is decidedly worse. A bulletin issued on Thursday is very cautious, but it is clear from the medical reports that inflammation has again ap- peared in the knee, "without any...

The resignation of Baron Ricasoli has not yet been explained,

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but his successor, Rattazzi, has promised an explanation. The latter endeavoured, at first, to form a junction with the Left, and it was stated that Crispi at one time accepted...

Mr. Disraeli strengthened his hands on Saturday and Monday, by

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receiving Conservative deputations from working men, which he received with open arms, and an empressement not without traces of secret surprise. The deputation of Saturday...

Earl Russell made a most creditable speech on Thursday night.

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The old man has twice the pluck of some of our more modern- politicians, and he told the Lords he did not believe Canada was indefensible. It would be hard of defence, but not...

Mr. Debrett has just published a sort of Peerage of

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the House .of Commons, giving a short account of each member, and illus- trated by a sketch of his arms, when he claims any. Glancing over these we find, oddly enough, that Mr....

It may, we fancy, be taken as certain that any

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danger of a quarrel between Count von Bismarck and the German Parliament has passed away. The only serious point was compromised. The members would not vote the military budget...

Lord Stanley can get no answer from Spain. The Spaniards

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have got it into their heads that it is dignified to be obstinate, and on the 9th inst. General Calonge informed the Senate that in the Tornado affair he would "cause the rights...

On Monday another great deputation from Conservative asso- ciations of

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working men was received by Mr. Disraeli, at which the proceedings were very enthusiastic, and the Chancellor of the Eschews was stated by the reporters to have " caught some of...

The American Senate has ratified the Treaty purchasing Russian America.

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The Times is making in big type what the Americans

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call a " tall " proposal. It wants all the Railways to federate themselves under a Parliament composed of all railway chairman, who are to have, we presume, one vote for each...

Another little intrigue was got up yesterday. On the motion

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for adjournment, Mr. Osborne called the attention of the House to some paper which, as we understand it, professed to contain a pledge given by Colonel Taylor, the Conservative...

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Sir Morton Pao, on Tuesday, asked - for a .Ciammission. of

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In- quiry into the affairs of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone both expressed their deep regret at his misfortunes, but declined to accede...

We are happy to notice that Sir R. Collier intends,

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if Mr. Walpole will not pardon Toomar, to move an address to the Crown on his behalf. Mr. Walpole will of course argue that the House of Commons ought not to become a Court of...

The Oxford Test Bill was extended to Cambridge, by an

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instruction to the Committee moved by Mr. Fawcett on Wednes- day, which instruction was carried by a majority of 253 to 166, —or 87, the largest majority yet obtained on this...

The Times' Irish correspondent published on Tuesday a rather unfair

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document. It is a list of the personal property left by the twenty Irish Bishops who have died since 1822. It is, he says, independent of their estates and settlements made in...

On Tuesday, in Committee on Sir Colman O'Loghlen's Oaths and

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Offices' Bill, Mr. Candlish, 111.P. for Sunderland, and a Liberal, moved the rejection of the clause opening the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to Roman Catholics, on the...

A "girls' home" has been started by some of the

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n&nbein 44 Church in West London, not as a reformatory or penitentiary, but as a "place in which girls who are growing up in neglect, and are likely to fall into evil courses,...

The closing prices of the leading Foreign Securities yesterday and

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on Friday week are subjoined :— Filday, April 5. Friday, April 12. .. 16i .. 154 Spanish Passive .. .. .. .. • • 21i .. 164 Do. Certificates .. .. • . .. .. 134 .. Li Turkish...

In the early part of the week the market for

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home Stooks was in a depressed state, and a fall of about 1 per cent. took place in the quotations. Since then, however, it has shown more firmness, and a portion of the decline...

Yesterday week Mr. Layard gave occasion for a good grumble

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in the House of Commons about the designs for the new University of London. Lord John Manners wisely promised to suspend the building operations till the elevation could be seen...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE COLT. APSE OF MONDAY LAST. T HE miserable humiliation of Monday, a humiliation which was felt by every genuine Liberal in the country like a personal injury, was Mr....

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THE LAST BATTLE.

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B EFOBE these lines can meet our readers' eyes, the most .1,11 critical debate of the session will probably have concluded, .and it is still not quite certain whether those who...

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OUR INDIAN FINANCES.

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T HESE Anglo-Indians are muddling their finances again. We do not see why a high range of the therfnometer should disqualify men for doing sums in compound addition, but the one...

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WAR OR PEACE?

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Air the mid of last week there was a general impression broad that a great Continental war, a war between a France and Germany, was immediately at hand. At the end of this -...

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OHIEF JUSTICE COCKBURN ON MARTIAL LAW.

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liffE principles of the English Law are at all events vindi- cated in the magnificently lucid charge of the English • Chief Justice, and if the practice, as exemplified in the...

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MEDDLE AND MUDDLE IN EDUCATION AGAIN.

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IN spite of the triumphant majority obtained on the 5th of 1. April by the Tory ex-Minister of Education, Mr. Corry, it is impossible not to believe that he has made a mess of...

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JUSTICE TO WOMEN.

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THE controversy which has been going on in these columns for some weeks back, and which has simultaneously, we believe, been going on in.the University of London, and. which is...

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THE POWER OF IMPARTIALITY.

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12EW peculiarities of English society are more noteworthy than r the prestige which still attaches itself to the higher Judges. A judge is almost the only kind of man left in...

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O NE of the most original and interesting chapters in Mr.

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Kemble's Saxons in England is that upon the Mark ; and as Sussex is a county which furnishes a very considerable share of the examples which he has adduced of the existence in...

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MUSIC.

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BENEDICT'S LEGEND OF ST. CECILIA AT EXETER HALL. THE production of Mr. Benedict's new Cantata by the Sacred Harmonic Society has amply confirmed the favourable verdict which...

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BOOKS.

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MR. SWINBURNE'S ITALY.* MR. SWINBURNE shows, as usual, a wonderful command of musical rhythm, of eloquent language, and of prismatic fancy, in this can- ticle to M. Mazzdni ;...

A CHILD'S TRADE IN BETHNAL GREEN.

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LUCIFER-BOXES ! —the name suits well With the stench, and the glare, and grime of Hell ! Thirty a halfpenny—no great waste, As the small manufacturers find their own paste....

FEMALE SUFFRAGE.

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[To 'THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] "L. E. B." had read my letters more carefully, she would have seen that the remark in my last, "I should be glad to see some wider opening...

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PROFESSOR PLUMPTRE'S CHRIST AND CHRISTENDOM.* THIS is a learned, thoughtful,

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and candid book, able in a literary sense, catholic in tone and spirit, fall of the minute study and special knowledge of a life devoted to divinity, and one, more- over, which...

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THE TURKS, THE GREEKS, AND THE SLAVONS.*

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IT has been. said lately, that while men can best describe the busy, intellectual life of the Western countries, women enter far more easily into the dreamy, sentimental, and...

FOUR CENTURIES OF THE HISTORY OF A COMMON:* LORD SPENCER'S

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late attempted encroachments on the pleasures of his neighbours have been fruitful in consequences. They have • Extracts from the Court Rolls of the Manor of Wimbledon,...

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The Ships of Tarshish : a Sequel to Sue's Wandering

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Jew. By Mohao. (Hall and Co.)—We feel some scruple in recommending this book, which we took at first to be a magnified tract. But, on the whole, we can safely confide it to such...

A Greek Primer for the Use of Schools. By the

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Rev. Charles H. Hole, M.A. (Rivingtons.) —We incline to accept the heresy that if young boys are to be taught Greek, it will be an advantage to them to under- stand the grammar....

Japanese Odes translated into English. By F. V. Dickins, M.B.

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(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—This is a curiosity of literature, and is quite as worthy of a place on a drawing-room table as a Japanese tray or 'workbox. All the odes are short—most...

The Sentence of Iictires, and Other Poems. By Henry Nutcombe

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Oxenham, M.A. Second Edition. (Longmans.)—One-fifth of the verses in this edition are, says Mr. Oxenham, new, the verses are all smooth, many of them musical, but none original....

Ciceronis Epistolcwwn Delectus: a Selection from Cicero's Letters, illus- trating

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the Contemporary History of Rome. By E. St. John Parry, M.A. (Longmans.)—A hundred and eleven of Cicero's letters are contained in this book, all of them having some bearing on...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Tennysoniana. Notes, Bibliographical and Critical, on Early Poems of Alfred and C. Tennyson, In Memoriam Various Readings, with parallel passages in Shakespeare's Sonnets, ec.c....

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Our Glory Roll, and Other National Poems. By W. C.

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Bennett. (Routledge.)—Mr. Bennett is much below his better standard in this frothy volume. His national poems read like the beginnings of Daily Teegraph leaders collected and...

The Beginner's Comprehensive French Book. By J. Delpech, B.A, (Triibner.)—As

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a rule the pronunciation of French is the chief stunt- bling-block to foreign learners. But there are many other difficulties. not indeed like that, insuperable, but still...

Descriptive Poems. By John Askham. (F. Warne and Co.)—We should

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never have guessed that these poems were written by a work- ing man. They have rather the characteristics of a higher culture, and their fault, if they are not indeed "faultily...

A Bandy-Book of the Law of London Cabs and Omnibuses.

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By William Thomas Charley. (Routledge.)—This book is not so much intended for those who ride seldom and quarrel often, as for those who make mach use of cabs, and are curious...

The Iliad of Homer, with English Notes. By F. A.

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Paley, M.A. VoL I. (Whittaker.)—The series of which this volume forms a part and the name of its editor are sufficient guarantees of its value. Yet we must not dismiss Mr. Paley...

The Treasure-Book of Devotional Reading. Edited by Benjamin -Orme, M.A.

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(Strahan.)—A. very neat and handsome volume, but the contents are even better than their accompaniment. Such a book we feel is not to be criticized, save by one whose stock of...

First Steps in the Better Path. (F. Warne and Co.)—Four

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little stories with unimpeachable morals, and with a praiseworthy desire to make all their readers as good as their heroes. How far they will succeed in this object we cannot...

Ritualism in the English Church. By Robert Vaughan, D.D. (Jack-

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son, Walford, and Hodder.)—Dr. Robert Vaughan has nothing very new to say on this subject, and what he does say is dry, and not particularly inviting. His first chapter is a...

London Pauperism. By J. H. Stallard, M.B. (Saunders and Otley.)

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—After all that has been written on the subject of the London poor, there was room for Dr. Stallard's volume. It is devoted chiefly to a comparison of the system of relief in...

A Memoir of the Rev. Robert Turlington Noble. By the

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Rev. John Noble. (Seeleys.)—The life of a missionary who laboured for twenty- five years in South India, educating "the higher castes of Hindus in order to raise up a native...

Viga Glum's Saga. Translated from the Icelandic. By the Right

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Hon. Sir Edmund Head. (Williams and Norgate.)—Prefaced with a Greek epigram from the pen of Mr. Lowe, this matter-of-fact account of murders deserves general appreciation. As a...

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Tufts of Heather from the Northern Moors. By Edwin Waugh.

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(Simpkin, - Marshall, and Co.)—This volume contains seven stories, in an extreme dialect as regards the conversations, and in a somewhat overstrained style as regards the...

Portrait of Shelley. Sir Percy Shelley has sent us a

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lithograph from the picture of his father, painted at Rome in 1822 by Miss Curran, the only authentic portrait of the poet in existence. The lithograph, which is published by...