Bonapartists was the discovery of a circular promising rewards to all half-pay officers who voted for M. de Bourgoing in the Nievre. M. Girard, deputy for that department, read...

most of the Bourses of Europe, caused, it is believd mainly by the position of Turkish finance. The financiers of the Porte, who already owe /120,000,000, at various rates of...

in relation to the Public Worship Regulation Bill, that he allows them to decide any issues on which both parties agree to abide by his decision without appeal, only providing...

striking out the famous Twenty-fifth Clause on Wednesday, Sir Henry Havelock (M.P. for Sunderland) seconding him. The discussion was remarkably free from the acrimony of former...

E VENTS in France seem to be hurrying towards some as yet invisible catastrophe. Marshal MacMahon is firm in his seat, 'there is no chance of disobedience in the Army, and there...

day against the proposal to place the suffrage for the minister, under the new Scotch Patronage Bill, in the hands of the parishioners and ratepayers, instead of the...

case.

well, Q.C., have declared war to the knife upon their labourers.. At a meeting held at Bury St. Edmund's, with this gentleman in the chair, it was proposed that the Trades'...

clear. It promised to be one, but whenever it is asked for cash it is as close-fisted as Mr. Lowe. On Tuesday, Mr. Meldon, Member for Kildare, asked for a little more money for...

Bill adding a sixth member to the Cabinet of the Viceroy of India, who will have charge of the Public Works Department, already vast, and about to be entrusted with irrigation...

late Cabinet, Mr. Lowe, Lord Hartington, Mr. Goschen, and Mr. Stansfeld, voted in the minority, and no less than twelve mem- bers of the late Government,—i.e., the four Cabinet...

manager retained four non-Union men. The manager, therefore, by way of showing how he hated oppression, requested Mr. Glad- stone to turn the strikers out of their cottages. Mr....

by letting the House do as it likes, and it likes to do very little, and that little in the restrictive sense. For instanee, the Home Secretary, who is in power because the...

presumably, first suggested the mandate to the Pope —to summon a National Synod for the consideration of 'various Roman Catholic ecclesiastical matters. Accordingly such a...

church, with his purse in his pocket. Last year's experiment was a disgrace to the wealth, the charity, and the common-sense of London.

Regulation of Friendly Societies, the chief principle of which is to carry out an elaborate system of district registration, to pro- vide forms in which the accounts of...

immediate imprisonment ; and the property of the Archbishop of Posen, M. Ledochowski, to the amount of some £20,000 or so, has been sequestrated. The moment approaches when some...

com- mittee for organising lectures, a Carlylean piece of invective against the taste for popular lectures. "1 find," he says, "the desire of audiences to be audiences only,...

change of tone ever since the discussion on Mr. Mundella's Bill. Mr. Hugh Mason's letter to Monday's Times, which not only withdraws his opposition to the Bill, but objects to...

has announced its financial programme. This is, to impose a stamp on all deeds of transfer, to collect all existing taxes equally and rigorously, and to resist, at all hazards,...

Bill by a triumphant majority on Thursday night. The only real -opposition to it was Mr. Fawcett's speech, and it was obvious that he spoke without much knowledge of the real...

the pupils of the Royal Normal College and Academy of Music for the Blind, by the permission of the Duke of West- minster, President of the College. The performers, who were...

on the use she is, or rather is not, in the world, and the difficulty of finding herself a practical and remunerative industry, will find one or two suggestions for her benefit...

W E are not quite sure that conciseness is a good quality in a Secretary of State, and we are quite sure that Lord Salisbury pushes it to a dangerous extreme. "The Indian...

THE CRISIS IN FRANCE. T HINGS are getting very hot in Paris. The result of the election for the Nievre appears to have inspired the Bonapartists with new hopes and the...

M R. W. R. GREG somewhat overplays his character of political Cassandra, in the very ably-written paper on the second of his "Rocks Ahead" which appears in the new number of the...

O F all the promises made by and for the Conservatives during the last election, one, it seems certain, will be kept. The country will have one Session of rest from exciting...

T HE resignation of the Bishop of St. David's will weaken the intellectual strength of the Episcopal Bench even more than the death of the late Bishop of Winchester weak- ened...

T HERE is nothing, or very little, that is new to be said about John Bunyan, or "The Pilgrim's Progress," or Allegory as an art, and yet it is just at this moment so hard to...

Al-R. i TUPPER has just published an antidote for Ritualism, n the shape of "Fifty of the Protestant Ballads, and the Anti-ritualistic Directorium of Martin F. Tupper, D.C.L.,...

T HE speech Which M. Louis Blanc delivered in the National Assembly last week must have surprised many Englishmen, as well as many Frenchmen. Being a defence of universal suf-...

MR. GOLDWIN SMITH ON FEMALE SUFFRAGE. [TO TIM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The opponents of Women's Suffrage make too much of Mr. Smith's paper. He has been to America, and...

" SPEC/TATOU.") relation to the curious question of the reasons for the local inequalities of agricultural wages in Europe, to which Mr. Cliffe Leslie has drawn attention in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—You look with dismay (p. 712) upon "Lord Shaftesbury's- Bill " (late Archbishop Tait's), if it is to be passed without Bishop. Magee's...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It being certain to myself that I am right, and certain also lately that you are reasonable, how can 1 help writing to you again ?...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In common with many of those who belong to the Church of Scotland, I rejoice to think that your valuable paper has lately been giving...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] But,—There seems to be some misapprehension in the minds of English editors generally as to the true position of the Free Church of Scotland...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" Minnie" is the spokeswoman of a class with whom I heartily sympathise. I am one of a number of ladies—headed by H.R.H. Princess...

"SIR,—Will you allow me to suggest to your correspondent ' 4 ‘ Minnie " that there is a great need of trained teachers, and that there are opportunities now provided for giving...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sru,—In the article on Mr. Wallace's paper in the Fortnightly Review which appeared in the last number of the Spectator, in referring to the...

GLEN SANNOX, 16TH SEPTEMBER, 1873. THEIR THOUGHTS. IN her hand her baby's hand, in her ear her cry, Heard on that night, that summer night, God bade her die. On her heart...

M. AUBERTIN ON THE AGE OF LOUIS XV.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THE period comprised within the reign of Louis XV., though obscured by the glare of the two periods between which it lies,...

Tars volume is a real advance on its predecessor of the same name, and contains at least one poem of great originality, as well as many of much tenderness, sweetness, and...

question, Why do women want votes? Unfortunately, instead of waiting for that authoritative reply which would come from the leaders of what the title-page of the book before us...

LEAVING the question whether Mr. Taylor has or has not dis- covered the true key to the Etruscan tongue, to be decided by more competent explorers in these little-trodden fields...

beat set of commentaries on a campaign which, because it wound up a war of giants, will long continue to be an object of close study. The term "Lectures" fitly describes the...

THE Fortnightly contains a- paper about "Modern Spiritualism," noticed in our last issue ; one on the "Power of the Farmers," by Richard Jefferies ; and one on "Agricultural...

The Silence and the Voices of God, with other Sermons. By F. W. Farrar, D.D. (Macmillan.)—If Dr. Farrar's sermons do not come into' the first rank, they certainly stand well in...

Whitcombe. (Bentley.)—This is a very curious collection of " superstitions, customs, and legends," belonging to the two great western counties. Every part of England could...

Verse. By Lewis Campbell, M.A. (Blackwood.)—Professor Campbell's translation, apart from its literary merits, will be a valuable aid to the student. So much his general fame as...

H. A. W. Meyer, Ph.D. (T. and T. Clark.)—The Epistle to the Galatians has been well edited by more than one English theologist. Dr. Lightfoot's commentary, for instance, with...