a Restoration in France. The Monarchists say that the Orleanist Princes having yielded their claims during the lifetime of their cousin, a majority can be found in the Assembly...

Judge-Advo- eate-General, and all the world is sneering at Mr. Gladstone, who fills an office he intended to abolish with a man incom- petent to perform its duties. We have...

Attorney-General declining the promotion, after a delay which excited the alarm of the Equity Bar. The new Master of the Rolls will add rather to the strength than to the polish...

while, the name of Mr. Baxter was omitted in our sketch of the Reconstruc- tion last week. He, of course, by a decisive resignation, set the ball rolling, and it is very...

necessity of Mr. Gladstone complying with the law by standing for his re-election at Greenwich. As we are informed, the best legal opinions exempt him from the obligation, and...

M R. GLADSTONE'S enemies seem very confident just now, but we suspect they are inventing some of the reasons for their own exhilaration. Their theory is that the Premier will be...

North- West Riding does not strike us as much of a political event. It may be evidence of a reaction, but it may also be evidence of a much more vulgar spirit, a dislike to...

case.

has now, at Waterford, explained that this phrase means "the repeal of the Union, and something more." What is the " more " to be ? Independence? Federalism ? the confiscation...

access of typhoid fever, which would have created little or no excitement in Poplar or Bethnal Green, struck Cavendish Square, Harley Street, Wimpole Street, and even Grosvenor...

of transportation to New Caledonia, where the prisoners, as shown by the Melbourne Argus, die by hundreds of scurvy. The sentence is death by torture, and then the Legitimists,...

General of Canada, has not dissolved Parliament, and so referred the recent scandal to the judgment of the electors. The Oppo- sition desired this, hoping to make capital of the...

the Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday that he should ter- minate his speech on Monday, and begin calling his witnesses. He will then have spoken for eighteen days, and his...

a Spanish steamer has seized an English vessel off the coast laden with arms for the Carlists. They declare that here is a cases belli, a grand crime, an act of piracy, and we...

has arisen in Bengal, and which is formidable for this reason. We can do anything in Bengal except beat down passive resistance. We cannot kill the people in millions, and if...

Sir Garnet Wolseley to go out to the Gold Coast as Dictator, with supreme civil and military command ; and aided, as he will be, by Captain Glover, who has a genius for forming...

£300,000, besides a large estate in Italy, and, we believe, some lands in this country. We say with pleasure, because much of the latent suspicion that he was personally...

rise of prices of which housekeepers complain so much. It has been very considerable, wheat, for instance, in the quarter end- ing 1st August, was 56s. 5d. a quarter, instead...

with. They want to build " baldacchinos," or canopies, -over their altars, of course to signify that the mystical Presence is there ; and their congregations are very angry, and...

that Mr. Gladstone was in June making great efforts to secure to the poor greater advantages from the Railways. He appears to have informed the Railway Companies' Association...

which fully accounts for the unpuuctuality of the Shah. He carries about with him a little fat man, whom he calls his astrologer, and who ascertains for him the propitious...

of the state of the Italian Army. It is now so organised, he says, under General Ricotti that it can place 300,000 men in the first line, with endless half-trained reserves....

laid down, we believe, by Lord Lawrence, that while Government is bound to stand neutral as between Hindoos, Mussulmans, and Christians, it is still able to use a wider dis-...

sus- pected, troubled Munoo. The great Indian lawgiver, or the rulers whose ideas he embodied, appear to have appre- hended either that cattle would be slain in war or eaten in...

are nevertheless fully acknowledged by the Government, could not have been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Essex without a breach of order such as has been perpetrated by the...

IS A RESTORATION POSSIBLE IN FRANCE? T HE Monarchists in France are evidently in high spirits at the success which, as they conceive, will now attend their plans. The Assembly...

S IR JOHN COLERIDGE has earned the gratitude of the community as well as the respect of the legal profession by resisting a dangerous temptation. He has declined, after a longer...

T HERE are some remarkable signs of the abatement of faction in the province of Ulster. The great Orange anniversaries have been celebrated this year with only a very slight...

T HE agrarian discontent in Bengal, which has now, by the latest telegrams, appeared in four counties, may be a mere worry ; but it also may turn out a very serious affair, so...

B EFORE many weeks, the first Direct Elections for the Austrian Reichsrath will take place, and the surpassing importance of that event can be read in the feverish activity of...

TT is only right that the constituencies should know why 1 there is " discontent " in the Army—meaning, according to the latest official definition of the term, the Officers who...

T HE simple allegation that most Catholics are fools, and the rest knaves, by which our contemporaries explain the recent revivals of Pilgrimages in Western Europe, does not...

T HACKERA.Y was always harping on the idea that it is a serious business for Harlequin to make people laugh. Him- self a great master of the droll, he probably deduced from his...

T HERE are no out-of-the-way places now-a-days, but out-of- the-way people have not ceased to exist, who do odd things, relieving the monotony of their own lives considerably,...

THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRISTIANITY. [To MB EDITOR OF THR "Ell'ETA.TOR.1 Sin,—In your article on the "Development of Christianity," for which I beg to offer you my cordial thanks...

[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,-I am very sorry that I have not convinced you that "Catholic reporters" or any other Catholics believe nothing so utterly wicked and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THIS "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is not the smallest warrant for your assertion that in my article in the current number of the Fortnightly Review I am "for...

(TO THE EDITOR OF 1115 "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In a natural feeling of disappointment with Mr. Fitzjatnes Stephen's defeat at Dundee, you seem, besides being a little unfair to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If your readers are not tired of the subject of Women's Labour, I will ask for a little more of your space to discuss the question...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTATOR..] Sin,—It would be unfair to a young and rising artist not to state that most of the pen-and-ink sketches of which you speak so highly in your...

UNORTHODOX LONDON.* THE American practice of " interviewing " celebrated men, how- ever questionable its taste may be, is not without its value. Moreover, if statesman and...

third biography of a man is written, this question natu- rally arises,—Is it required ? Has the career of that man been so eminently distinguished as still to afford fresh...

XVI.* THE autobiographer whose reminiscences are here presented to the English public by the author of the Heir of Redclyffe, was. admitted to the French Court as one of the...

the form and material of Miss Strickland's later works, it will not be easy to learn how she has gained her repute as an historical writer. For the carelessness and inaccuracy...

TRAVELLERS to the United States and American authors them- selves have often remarked on the affectionate veneration shown by Americans for the oldest things in Europe, and for...

LL.D. (Oliver and Boyd.)—An English translation of the Sophisnies Econotnigtees is very welcome. M. Bastiat's views, when he comes to construct theories, are not considered...

The Portfolio : August. (Seeleys.)—Mr. G. A. Simcox contributes a. noticeable article on "The Greek Face before Phidias." We have read it with attention, and as need hardly be...

Henry Russell knows all about the Basque provinces and rapidly-rising Biarritz, and might, one would think, have written a pleasant book on these subjects. He has, however,...

America. By Henry E. Croasdaile. (The Town and Country Publishing Corn- pany.)—It is the faintest of praise to say of a book that it is un- pretending, but there are certain...