almost a speech in itself, but the noble hero of the Strand Theatre so quickly betook himself to his MS. that it would have been better if he could, after the American fashion,...

R. DISRAELI'S first act as Premier has been to write a letter to the newspapers in answer to Lord Russell's charge against his Edinburgh speech. This was a mistake of Mr....

which was heard with considerable impatience. He called the Ministerial proposals "a beggarly account of empty boxes," and held that a Conservative Government which affected to...

in reinforcing Lord Mayo. He said, "We get into this vicious circle,—Ireland is miserable because capital can't be brought into it to take the people from the cultivation of the...

land- lords as the salt of that unhappy land,—a salt for which he pro- phesied an increasing, not diminishing, savour,--and characterized Mr. John S. Mill as a great deal more...

at length elsewhere. Mr. Horsman described it rather felicitously when he said that Lord Mayo appeared to be looking everywhere for his policy without being able to find it....

speech not without ability, but much tainted with declamation. He described how the country was now held, —gunboats in every river and harbour ; police offices easemated with...

men took part in it. It was opened by Mr. Horsman, who always speaks in a statesmanlike tone, though never in a statesmanlike way, and consisted mainly of an amplification of...

13th, but up to the evening of that day no telegram announcing the event bad been published. The country, which at first was excited, has since become perfectly tranquil, gold...

his constituents at Kettering, Northamptonshire. He appeared, like his leader, in the totally unaccustomed character of Uriah Heep, which must have sat oddly on his jolly...

but thoroughly Conservative speech, full of points, which told in the House, but do not tell outside it. He declared tenant right, like Mr. Goldwin Smith, to be "either illusion...

before the French Chamber. It authorizes public meetings, if held under cover, if limited to a definite subject, if attended by an official "in his insignia," if dissolved when...

Cranborne, waited on the Archbishop of Canterbury to pour out their dread of the Oxford Tests' Abolition Bill, and requested Dr. Longley to oppose it with all his power. This...

grandson of Lucien, brother of Napoleon I., a Cardinal, the nomination being made in some specially honorific manner He will be the youngest Cardinal in College, being only...

Monday. The debate was dull, but was marked by one incident. Mr. Laing, speaking, as he said, on behalf of the moderate Liberals of Scotland, offered to accept the Bill if...

and proposed as the Conservative candidate for the London University, has joined Sir John Lubbock's committee, as the Conservatives have given up the idea of starting a...

Trades' Unions. One Dodd, secretary to the House Painters' Association, forged a pass-book, and so abstracted about 800/. of the society's money. He avows that he was tempted by...

Gray,—two letters of which,—stated by Bishop Gray to have no importance or bearing on the controversy,—are now published for the first time. This curious statement of Bishop...

experience upon the present condition of Orissa. It will be seen that the original accounts of that catastrophe were not exag- gerated, that the old have disappeared from the...

was cut down by Miles Weatherhill, has since died, as has the child, which was but three weeks old when its mother was attacked, and died of the necessary separation. Mr. Plow,...

Lefevre yesterday week elicited a very conciliatory speech from Lord -Stanley, who argued that to arbitrate on the right of England to 'recognize the Confederates as...

of Westminster are anxious to give every facility for seeing all parts of the Abbey to all persons of whose respectability and trust- worthiness they can be assured. The nave...

400,0001. Perpetual 6 per Cent. Debenture Stock, under the borrowing powers of their:special Acts. The issue will be made at par, and the various instalments payable will extend...

off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, March 6. Friday, March 13, Spanish New ... Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858 ... If „ 1862 United States 5.20 ' s • .• ••• ••• ••• ••• 151...

ing the week, the opening price for Consols having been 93 to 93i, at which they closed last evening. Reduced and New 'rhreeper Cents. were 91k, 92; Exchequer Bills, 10s. to...

on Monday night after re-election, proposed, and promptly lost, a small Government measure,—for transferring to the Consolidated Fund eertain sums received for Irish fees,...

Friday, March C. 301 Friday, March 13. 31 Great Northern ••• 107 105* Great Western 461 ••• 47/ Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 1261 1253 London and Brighton ......

committee on Wednesday, by a majority which renders it most likely that it will not this time be rejected by the Lords. The principal clause wee/carried by 167 to 30, -and so we...

LORD MAYO'S IRISH PROGRAMME. y r R. MAGUIRE'S too declamatory eloquence, the dropping I fire of Mr. Neate's intellectual pea-shooter as it rained its harmless artillery on Mr....

W E have at last got, we will not exactly say a theolo- gian, but a man of a highly speculative turn of mind, who has always considered theology as one of the highest subjects...

be trouble, it may be serious trouble, about this Nova Scotian business. The 350,000 of ' inhabitants in that colony were, it will be remembered, always more or less hostile to...

T HE public in this country seems still unable to understand the impeachment of President Johnson. The event has startled it into a closer attention to American politics, but it...

T HE Custom-House Clerks, a great body of Government servants, who collect a revenue of 22,000,000/. a year, who prepare all our commercial statistics, and who, in certain...

" IT is all very well," said a professional man the other day I whom the writer was congratulating on his apparent chances of promotion, "but I don't see what to do with my...

real accession in Mr. Bandmann. It is true that the first impression he makes upon the spectator is that of a Mr. Fechter on a diminished and somewhat confined scale,—Mr....

been renewed in its integrity for another period of thirty years. This has caused a feeling of security which has not been without a beneficial influence in the rapid...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SI11,—I see that you have done me the honour of noticing in a lead- ing article in the Spectator of last Saturday a reply of mine to...

Sin,—Allow me to point out a mistake into which your reviewer has fallen when commenting upon the Dies kw in your last number. He remarks upon the fifth stanza,— " Tura liber...

[To THE EDrfOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the able article in to-day's Spectator comparing the Dies Iris with the verses suggested by it in the Lay of the Last Minstrel,...

MR. DARWIN'S LAST WORK.* WHATEVER view we may take of what is now commonly called Darwinism, there is one aspect of it under which the thanks of all persons are especially due...

" SHE was not yet seventeen, and beautiful with a beauty rarely seen in such places as Swamp Town. It was a face that would have been a fortune to a tragic actress—mobile,...

Mn. SWINBURNE has made a profound study of Blake, and there is no one whom it takes more effort to make a pro- found study of than Blake, in spite of his unquestionable genius...

IN a former article we gave an account of the life of Prince Henry, and an outline of the geographical discoveries immediately due to his personal exertions ; we propose now to...

had more readers and given more delight than any other fiction in the language belongs to the famous " Globe " series of popular authors. The preface, gracefully written, but...

vols. (Skeet.)—The title of this novel does not lead us to expect much from the book itself, but even our moderate expectations are disap- pointed. Alternately vulgar and...

not impossible, to give the palm to any of the many Peerages which now compete for public favour. One is cheap, another full, one contains some genealogical information, another...

Lift and Correspondence of Richard Whately, D.D., late Archbishop of Dublin. By E. Jane Whately. New Edition, in 1 vol. (Longmans.)— Miss Whately tells us in this new, cheaper,...

Arden. Poema Tennysonianwn. Latine redditum. (Moxon.)—Lord Lyttelton's Greek version of Samson Agonistes and Mr. Selwyn's Latin version of Enoch Arden come to us just at the...

Cree. (Murray.) —This is an interesting little book, but it would be better if its tone were not so controversial, and if Mr. Cree did not constantly attempt to describe by...

the faults of the book are grave, and we are, perhaps, more disappointed by it than we should be if it was far weaker. Mr. Speight does some things so well that we are inclined...

(Longmans.)—Everything treated of by Mr. de Burgh is made perfectly plain and intelligible, so that hia book may be read after the popular writings and studied after the...

girl who gives her name to this story is almost in love with an artist in the first chapter of the first volume, and is engaged to him in the last chapter of the third. The...

Edited by P. R. Cola. (Virtue.)—In this work the late proprietor of the Ark- wright Cotton Mills in Bombay gives an account of the processes of manufacture required for cotton,...

Georgiana Fullerton. 3 vols. (Bentley.)—It seems ungracious to say that the pains Lady Georgiana Fullerton has taken with this novel have not pro- duced an adequate result....

Equip- ment, Armament, and Camp Life. By H. A. L., "The Old Shekarry." (Saunders and Otley.)—This book is written for those whose lines are cast in out-of-the-way places, and...