addressed a letter to Conference declaring that the reunion of the Connexion with the Established Church, which forty years ago was considered probable and expedient, has now...

the Union owe no allegiance to any foreign government, and directing that they shall receive the same protection as the native born. If the President hears that any such citizen...

a pseudo- Bishop of Natal is to be consecrated in England. The Arch- bishop of Canterbury, it is stated, has applied for a Royal mandate permitting such a ceremony, and the Duke...

his con- stituents at Richmond, explained his position with referenco to the Irish Church. He yields to no one "in personal and political attachment to Mr. Gladstone," and is...

in the Radical party, that of a commoner capable of filling the office of Foreign Secretary. He is standing for Tamworth, has taken all Radical pledges, apparently with perfect...

his constituents on Monday. We have analyzed his speech on the Irish Church, perhaps the most solid he has ever made, in another place ; but he also explained his views on...

MHE Emperor of the French arrived at Troyes, in Champagne, on the 8th inst., and received the Mayor, who read an address, previously, of course, sent him for the purpose. It...

has been seized in Paris, and its editor, already sentenced to four months' imprisonment for an assault under extreme provocation, has retired to Brussels. The seizure we do not...

the great cause of the unpopularity of sermons is "pulpit cowardice." The clergy are afraid, he says, to speak to the educated and the rich as they speak to the poor and rough....

A ragon is troubled by bands of insurgents, and troops have been sent in pursuit. Local movements of that kind come to little, but it is affirmed that the rural and civic guard...

sig- nificance is attached. The Prince Imperial was invited to preside at the annual distribution of prizes to the students of the Lycees, and one prize fell to young Cavaignac,...

the death of Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, the leader of the extreme section of the Radical party. As a consistent and sincere abolitionist, a determined foe to secession, and the best...

assembled at Vienna, to have laid down moral conquest as the programme of Austria. He disclaimed, on her part, any intention to "intrude" in the affairs of Germany, but "no...

dinner given him by the Corporation of Welshpool, to contradict the report that he had deceived Theodore. He never deceived him, having never altered his terms, which were the...

that "picketing" is an offence against the criminal law. Three stonemasons accused on this charge at Leeds have been found guilty, and sentenced to four months' imprisonment....

analyzing the result of French elections. In 1866 there were in the 89 departments of France 9,975,615 registered electors, of whom 5,354,779, or a clear majority of all...

The Ministry not choosing, under instructions from England, to propose the grant to Lady Darling, except in a separate Bill, the Legislative Assembly has passed a vote of want...

about the proper length for holidays, by publishing a letter from Mr. Samuel Tolfrey, who complains that, owing to the " dishonest " example of Eton and Harrow, fathers now have...

nuisances in railway traffic. The Companies are ordered to pro- vide means of communication between passengers and the guard, under penalty of 10/. for every instance of...

suitors. No less than twelve candidates are asking the suffrages of the -electors, one of them supported by Dr. Manning. It is believed that Sir John Ennis, who is making a...

a most .satisfactory document. Lord Salisbury's pluck and honesty seem - to have inspired the directors; the new traffic manager is up to his work, though he cuts off too many...

Company, with a capital of 1,200,0001., in 20/. shares, the instal- ments on which extend up to May, 1869. The Company have obtained the concession granted by the French...

off at the annexed quotations:— Aug. 7 761 85 521 151 kug. 14. 'Aug. 7. Aug. 14. 77 Russian (Anglo-Dutch) , 93 931 851 Spanish, 1567 1 an 14 521 Turkish, WS 67 674 151 „ 1562...

appeared within the last few years, ever met with an answer? It is from the Athenmum :— TO MEMBERS of PARLIAMENT, &e.—A gentleman of education, aged 24, seeks a good Government...

favourable. Both in the Fire and Life departments business has been steadily on the increase. At the annual meeting the usual dividend of 7s. per share was declared.

at Maidstone on Thursday, the culprit being Thomas Wells, a railway porter of eighteen, who deliberately murdered a station- master in revenge for a reprimand. The execution was...

Post Office for 1867, mentions that the customof sending valentines is by no means on the decrease. On the contrary, the number rose from 997,900 in 1866 to 1,119,142 in 1867....

the Sep- tember account ; Reduced and New Three per Cents., 93i, 94; Exchequer Bills, 13s. to 18s. premium. On the whole, the foreign market has been dull, but there was a...

fares on the Southern railways does not pay. The weekly receipts on most of the lines have actually fallen off, and there is therefore little hope that the Northern, and...

average cost of a county seat in England is 2,0411., and of a borough seat 950/. This is inclusive of incontested returns, and exclusive of all irregular—we do not mean...

off at the annexed quotations Aug. 14. Aug. 7. Aug. 14. 581 Lou. Chatham, & Dover 19 191 1061 Metropolitan 1161 1161 Midland 1061 106/ 1291 Nrth-Eastern, Berwick...

MR. FORSTER AT BRADFORD. conclusive. His address this year to his constituents at Bradford, delivered on Monday, is a fine example of his best manner,—a speech which he who...

T HE uneasiness expressed in Paris as to the external rela- tions of the Empire seems to derive its nutriment mainly from the extreme dullness of the time. There is nothing for...

I T is not difficult, now that Mr. Burlingame's Treaty has been published, to perceive the line of policy upon which - the Court of Pekin is entering, and which, if the European...

S the Liberal party justified in contrasting its management I. of the finances when in power with the management of the Tory Administration ? The question came up in the last....

T HERE is no more remarkable example of the trite common- place that if you throw enough of mud at anybody some of it is sure to stick, than the notions which most Englishmen...

T O confound cause and effect, the disease with the mere symptom, is one of the most fruitful sources of error in the world. Something is evidently wrong in the system of the...

D R. HINDS has gone just a little too far. In a pamphlet of unusual cogency, yet marked by an unusual moderation, the late Bishop of Norwich has maintained a thesis which will...

A LMOST all the city delusions about the country are more or less poetic, and most of them are harmless, or were harmless till citizens, innocent of country facts, gained so...

— NORTHAMPTONSHIRE AND WARWICKSHIRE :—THE TOWNS. N ORTHAMPTONSHIRE at present has one city, Peter- borough ; the county town—Northampton ; two other borough and market...

fro THE EDITOR OF TIIE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The two writers who explained some time ago in your columns,—the one why he went, the other why he did not go to Churcb,—agreed, if I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] cannot think that the question which has been raised respecting the Coronation Oath is a light one. It touches very deep moral principles ;...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your impiession of last Saturday you ask, "Is it, or is it not, true, that while Mr. Spurgeon could ask the Dean [of Can- terbury] to preach in the...

DE BONNECHOSE'S HISTORY OF FRANCE.* "THE history of France," said Napoleon I., "must be written in two volumes, or in a hundred." M. Emile de Bonnechose, mind- ful of the...

[TO TIIE EDITOR OF TIIE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. G. W. Cox does not apprehend the point which I wished to make. I see no inherent improbability in the central fact of the Trojan...

Jr is worth while to read this book on Iceland. Yet the subject will scarcely commend itself to a very wide audience, unless indeed the present excessive heat invests Jiikulls...

Tins is a curious book, and will be welcome reading alike to those who seek political information about the momentous Eastern Question, or wish to know something of the social...

THERE is little in these sunny descriptions of Algerian life to attract the reader in search of information. The aim of the author is to record impressions, rather than to...

ANOTHER of the great charitable organizations which the late American War brought forth—the United States' Christian Com- mission—has published to the world its final record....

To write elaborate epitaphs is to employ the dead as custodians of the wit of the living, a practice savouring of irreverent egoism, and no doubt incongruous with the piety of...

some isolated scenes that are fairly conceived and executed, but the book, as a whole, is very weak. John Haller is a gentleman who has been jilted, and vows that he will never...

Memnon, and other Poems. By John Edmund Reade. (Moxon.)— Memnon is an Egyptian republican who rouses his countrymen to rebel against King Amasis, refuses the crown for himself,...

Graves, M.A. (Virtue.)—The only thing in this book which suggests a comment is the title. We cannot see why the heroine, Jane, if heroine she is, should be called "prosy "par...

(Macmillan.)— This is a volume of sermons on the Commandments preached in one of the parish churches of Cambridge. One of them—that on the Fourth C o mmandment—is very good. The...

(Burns.)—This is a collection of about as melancholy a set of little tales as we ever saw. The character of the writer is, we suppose, assumed, nor is it supported with more...

has views about sea fisheries which seem very reasonable. He is especially emphatic on the necessity of having the fishing boats provided with wells in which the fish might be...

and Forms, and Tables of Offences. By James Edward Davis. (Batterworths.) —Mr. Davis gave evidence on the law of master and servant before the select committee of 1866, and some...

fortune, about which there has been some little mystification, to save the honour of her father, who has speculated with and lost a ward's money. So she cannot be married. But...