16 FEBRUARY 1884

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NEWS OF THE WEEK

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S INCAT has fallen, Tewfik Pasha having made a sortie, probably on the 11th inst., and been cut to pieces with his followers by Osman Digna. The British Government, however, has...

Canon Stubbs is to be the new Bishop of Chester.

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Every one knows the great reputation of Canon Stubbs as a constitu- tional historian, and we may add that his great learning, his -dignity of manner, and his useful labours on...

-*** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

The debate of Tuesday in the House of Lords on

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the Vote of Censure ended, of coarse, in a victory for the Tories. The vote was 181 against Government to 81 for it, a surprisingly small majority, which must have been galling...

For the new Bishopric of Southwell,—the Bishopric which is to

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include parts of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire,—the Head Master of Winchester, Rev. Dr. Ridding, has been nomi- nated. We believe that this, too, is an eminently happy choice....

Lord Granville's reply was in substance the same as the

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replies given in the House of Commons, and mentioned below, but he explained some details of great interest. He showed that the Government had from the first been opposed to the...

Canon Stubbs's appointment will leave the Regius Professor- ship of

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Modern History vacant at Oxford, and every one would agree that Mr. Freeman is the man who could best fill it,—at least, if he would,—though we believe that he vehemently...

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Sir Charles Dilke made a powerful speech in reply, in

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which• ' he maintained that but for the mistaken policy of Cherif& Ministry in the Soudan, the idea of the British Government in entering Egypt might have been fulfilled. An...

On Thursday, Sir W. Lawson brought forward his amend- ment

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which makes it the duty of the Government to leave Egypt as quickly as may be ; but the brunt of the contest fell to Mr. Forster. and Sir Charles Dilke. Mr. Forster, though...

The Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Stephen delivered last

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Saturday the unanimous judgment of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in the action " Bradlaugh v. Gosset," in which Mr. Bradlaugh brought an action against...

We regret to notice the death, on Monday morning, of

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Mr. T. Chenery, the Editor of the Times, and one of the most learned Orientalists in England. He was not, we think, quite in his place as a journalist, though he had wide...

In the Commons, Sir Stafford Northcote opened the debate in

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a speech singularly wanting in fire. He devoted the first half of it to proving that as the British Government was supreme in Egypt, they ought either to have forbidden General...

Mr. Gladstone rose after Sir S. Northcote, and replied in

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a speech which does not satisfy us as to the policy pursued in Cairo, but which was of unusual brilliancy, deeply impressed the House, and, as far as the Soudan is concerned,...

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The Tory speeches at the St. Stephen's Club on Wednesday,

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on occasion of the unveiling of the bust of Lord Beacons- field, were altogether wanting in interest, except so far as Lord Salisbury always gives a certain amount of literary...

The Archbishop of Canterbury's speech in Convocation on Wednesday as

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to the report of the Ecclesiastical Courts Com- mission, shows too much of the tendency so common among public men now-a-days to shrink from taking part in forming public...

Cetewayo, the former Bing of Zululand, died on the 8th

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inst., so suddenly that his death is attributed in Natal to poison, and a medical inquiry is to be held. It is much more probable that be died of disease of the heart,...

Bank Rate, 31 per cent. Consols were on Friday 101k

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to 1018.

In the course of the debate, Mr. Labouchere created a

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great sensation by saying that to him the final words of the oath carried no more meaning than "the trash of any mumbo-jumbo amongst African savages," for which he was rebuked...

Mr. Parnell rr oved his amendment to the Address yesterday

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week, condemning the conduct of the Irish Executive in pro- hibiting public meetings, and charging them with playing into the hands of the Orangemen. He attacked Sir Stafford...

This judgment had not been two days delivered before Mr.

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Bradlaugh presented himself in the House of Commons, went through the form of taking the oath, kissed the New Testament, and subscribed a declaration which is believed to be the...

Of course, the proceedings of Mr. Bradlaugh in the House

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of C ommons gave rise to very unseemly scenes there. On these occasions the House endeavours with great success to afford as striking a contrast as possible to Mr. Justice...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE DEBATES ON EGYPT. T HE debates of Tuesday, upon the Egyptian policy of the Government—which were the serious debates, for they were the debates of leaders—were on both...

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WHY LIBERALS SHOULD VOTE AGAINST THE CENSURE.

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W E have felt, and we have frankly expressed, sympathy with those who do not regard the Egyptian policy of the Government as a substantially feasible policy, on the ground that...

MR. JUSTICE STEPHEN'S LESSON TO PARLIAMENT.

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M R. JUSTICE STEPHEN, in the admirable judgment which he delivered on Saturday last, in the case of "Bradlaugh v. Gosset," has read the House of Commons a lesson which there is...

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THE TAXATION OF FRANCE.

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T HAT the national credit of France is in any serious danger, we do not believe. That credit rests upon a rock, the social system of France, which survives all Revolu- tions,...

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LIBEL AS A CRTAFFI.

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T HE Members for Northampton really deserve the gratitude of the public for the way in which they spend their time and their money in illustrating and reforming the common or...

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THE EDITORSHIP OF THE " TIMES."

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T HE death of Mr. Chenery is at least as important as that of any ordinary Cabinet Minister, for it leaves vacant the Editorship of the Times ; and the Times, in spite of the...

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THE HOMELINESS OF THE QUEEN.

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T HE fresh " Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the High- lands,"* which the Queen has just given to her people, are,. as a contemporary has pointed out, carefully weeded of...

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THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS.

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T HE first Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens has just been issued by the Archmological In- stitute of America, and consists of the Report of Professor W. W....

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM. 1.10 THE EDITOR OP THY " SPEOTAT0141 Sra—The Times, the other day, called those who opposed the late vote for the physiological laboratory at Oxford, "...

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THE CLERGY AND VIVISECTION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your leading article in yesterday's Spectator on "The Oxford Vivisection Vote," you notice, apparently with surprise, the absence...

[To TEE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J SIE,—Is not

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this the false thought that is at the root of the apathy of the Clergy on the question of Vivisection P—a man feels that there is a certain price that it would be immoral for...

AN ENGLISH CATHOLIC ON IRELAND.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sts,—I thank you much for giving farther publicity to the question I discussed in the Weekly Register, and for bringing before another and...

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.']

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SIR, —I earnestly trust that Mr. Orby Shipley will mark, learn, and inwardly digest (to use words with which he must be familiar) your remarks on his views on Ireland, which...

LORD LANSDOWNE'S QUEEN'S COUNTY ESTATE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] ..81a,—My attention has been called to a paragraph in the , Spectator of January 5th, in which it is stated, with regard to some recent...

THE FORCE OF HURRICANES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your article of the 2nd, on "Gales and Hurricanes," you say that the destructive force of a tropical hurricane appears to be greater...

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THE COST OF HOUSING THE POOR.

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(To TEE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sig, — In noticing the - Contemporary Review for February on the cost of housing the poor, you ask a very pertinent question, which ought...

ART.

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THE OLD MASTERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. [SECOND NOTICE.] Is our first notice of this exhibition we spoke only of the paint- ings by the late Mr. Falconer Poole, the Royal...

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BOOKS.

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MEMOIRS OF 'JAMES HOPE-SCOTT.* Tam book is the tentative at a memorial of the great Parlia- mentary barrister who married Charlotte Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott's...

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ENGLISH COMEDY IN THE PARCHMENT LIBRARY.*

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" IF it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly," would seem to be the feeling of the present day as to- most reading, especially when making...

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A NEW ENGLISH DICTIONARY.*

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A FEW days ago we saw a dictionary called the "Encyclopaedic advertised as " an exhaustive work, embracing all the words of the English language." Its superiority over any...

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DR. WESTCOTT ON ST. JOHN'S EPISTLES.*

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WE are glad that Dr. Westcott has at length given to the world the result of his prolonged study of the writings of St. John. We are told in the preface that it was "a dream of...

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THE HISTORY OF LIDDESD.A.LE.*

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THIS handsome volume is very nearly the perfection of a work of the historico- antiquarian type. Mr. Armstrong, whose very name is redolent of the romantic age of "the enchanted...

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A DUTCH NOVEL.*

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IN 1878 there was published in Holland, under the name In Dagen von Stryd, a novel that made a stir in the little kingdom such as is rarely accorded there to a literary event....

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NORFOLK BROADS AND RIVERS.* " To persons of a certain

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bent of mind," say's Mr. Davies, in his preface, " there is an engrossing charm in the lakes and rivers of East Anglia." And that, no doubt, as Corporal Nym would say, is the...

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THE OLDEST ENGLISH COLONY.* Tam oldest English colony—the first American

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land trodden by English discoverers or claimed by the English Sovereign—ought to have an interest for all English people. But every colonist, or sojourner in a colony, has most...

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later chapters are, we venture to say, particularly good. The

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char- acteristics of the four Stuart Rings as rulers are, to give an instance of his method, described and discriminated with skill and care. Many even of those who are familiar...

The Young Idea. By the Author of " Culmshire Folk."

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(Rem- ington and Co.)—This book ought to have come to us some two months ago. It would have been welcome among the " Christmas Books." Billy Banc% child of a London poulterer,...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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English Poetesses : a Series of Critical Biographies and Illustrative Extracts. By Eric S. Robertson, M.A. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Reid has put together an interesting volume. He...

Successful Preachers. By the Rev. George J. Davies. (Bell and

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Sons.)—The preachers described and discussed in this volume are all deceased, with the exception of some briefly noticed in the last chapter, —" American Preachers of the...

A Little Girl among the Old Masters. With Introduction and

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Com- ment, by W. D. Howells. (Osgood and Co., Boston, U.S.; Triibuer and Co., London.)—One may smile to see in this book another example of the cuffus of children which is one...

Felicitas : a Tale of the German Migrations, A.D. 476.

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By Felix Dahn. Translated from the German by " M. A. C. E." (Macmillan and Co.)—The time chosen for the scene is that at which the shadowy Empire of the West became extinct, in...

Robert Reid, Cotton-spinner. By Alice O'Hanlon. 3 vole. (Tinsley Brothers.)—Robert

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Reid takes to his home two nieces, whom the death of their rascally father (happily removed before the tale opens) has left orphans. The younger has a small fortune, and is,...

possession of the property which has been left her, finds

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herself suddenly dispossessed by her twin-sister, who claims to be the real marchioness, and is supported in her claim by the lady's-maid. The family lawyer, with characteristic...

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Golden Girls. By" Allan Muir. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)

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— The "golden girls" are two sisters, who are left orphans at an early age, and are made the objects of various schemes by interested people who want a share in their fortune....

Winifred Power. 3 vols. (Bentley and Son.)—This is a well-told

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story, but, it must be owned, not a particularly attractive one. The first volume introduces us to two particularly mean people, who both of them look a great deal better than...

Profitable Fruit-farming. An essay by Charles Whitehead. (Long- mans.)—A very

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useful little résumé of the best and latest knowledge on the subject of fruit-farming in England. It does not extend to the fruit-farming of other climates.

written in letters commonly failed of success, because all the

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letters were the work of one author, who could hardly throw himself into the mental attitude of all the writers. In the " Miz-Maze," so called after the country seat of Sir...