to blow up the Times' office, in Printing-House Square, by someone who fixed -a tin-box containing explosives on the ledge of one of the ground- floor windows. Mr. Alfred Evans,...

majority of 622, the Hon. Alan de Talton Egerton obtaining 4,214 votes, against 3,592 given to the Liberal candidate, Mr. Latham. Both candidates increased their poll over the...

any case.

Irish Land Act Amendment Bill, a Bill which, in principle at least, would transfer the whole land of Ireland, except the rent representing the value of the wild land, to the...

by the police; and a serious one is arranged for to-morrow, when the Anarchists will celebrate the anniversary of the Commune. It is not expected to result in grave conse-...

furious speech of the old kind against the plunder and pillage of the Irish landlords, and concluded by quoting Lord Hartington's and Lord Derby's strong declarations of the...

a great explosion took place in the Local Government Office, which wrecked the .room in which it appears to have occurred and forced out the win- • dows, hurled a huge stone,...

Tonqnin. On Tuesday, M. de St. Valuer argued in the Senate that the possession of Cochin China ought to be made "more fruitful," by the seizure of territory in Tonquin, "in...

rapidly accelerating progress made in the settlement of the judicial rents. Of the contentious cases, one-third (30,000) had been settled by the end of January last, while...

in the Cabinet. It is supposed that Lord Rose- bery will be President-in-Council, but nothing is yet known, and Mr. Gladstone has stated that the opportunity will be taken to...

informed the Government of Washington that the Prevention of Crimes Act included a revival of the old Alien Act, and though "he had every reason to believe the Act would be...

case in South Africa, where the Government of the Transvaal, either from weakness or connivance, has allowed its subjects to oppress two Bechnana chiefs in a manner prohibited...

upon the navigation of the Danube, held in London, came to a conclusion on Saturday, when a Treaty of nine clauses was provisionally signed. By the terms of this agreement,...

to waste- time, and so exhaust "the Gladstone period." While Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, therefore, "asked for a day" to discuss South-African affairs, Mr. Gorst bad a motion on...

is on the whole favourable. The account for 1881-82' proves that the revenue was £73,696,000, and the expenditure 271,113,000, leaving a surplus of £1,583,000. The revised....

reduce one of the votes, for conveying "distinguished persons" across -the Channel in special packets, Mr. Labouchere,Mr. Illingvrorth, and others freely expressing their...

on Sunday, when the Rev. Alan Hunter Watts, who has been appointed by the Aston Trustees to succeed the Rev. R. W. Enraght, displaced by the operation of the Public Worship,...

fortnight ago, the cause being the presence of a Papal Chamberlain, an M.A. of Brasenose College, of the name of Grissell, who was supposed to be using persuasive influences to...

very rapidly. It appears from a lecture by Professor Ayrton, delivered at the Royal Institution on the Lith_inst., that on the Portrush Railway to the Giant's Causeway, in...

'Government in Egypt with great vehemence, the Right contend- ing that the British offer to accept Italy as an ally in putting down Arabi's insurrection ought to have been...

breach- -of-promise case brought by Miss Hyland against him applied for a new trial on Wednesday to Lord Justices Brett, Cotton, and Bowen, on the ground that the jury had found...

T HE tone, even more than the substance, of the Prime- Minister's speech on Wednesday will be a serious dis- appointment to a considerable section of the English Liberals.. Mr....

THE USE OF THE NEW FENLIN OUTRAGE. I T is said to be an ill wind which blows nobody good, and we are not sure that even in this dastardly attempt at Westminster we may not find...

T HERE is not much truth, we imagine, in the rumours of M. Gr6vy's resignation. He may have said in a moment of impatience that if the Chamber did not mend its ways, he must...

T N most places it is safe to expect the unforeseen, but in South Africa it is safer to await the disagreeable. Within the last thirty years, we never remember a piece of...

T HE election of Mr. Alan Egerton for Mid-Cheshire is a severe party defeat for the Liberals. There is no ex- planation of it, except that the majority of electors in that...

T HE impressive letters which we publish from Mr. Hansard and another correspondent on the recent sentence passed upon Mr. Foote and his colleagues in the Freethinker, will shed...

M R. BRYCE is to be congratulated on his first Parliament- ary appearance in the character of Chairman of the Commons Preservation Society. The Bill to make a Railway from...

T HE Athenceum mentions casually a striking incident which is stated to have recently occurred in °Hasa, and which would have broken Lord Beaconsfield's heart. Sergeant...

R. BROWNING might have taken as a motto for his work as a poet one of Cardinal Newman's striking verses : — "Can Science bear us To the hid springs Of human things P Why may...

be quite true, as you say, that under the present law against blasphemy, writers like Mr. Matthew Arnold ought not logically to escape the punishment which has been inflicted...

THE BLASPHEMY SENTENCE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — It is with much diffidence that I express disagreement with some of the statements in your article on the...

[To THE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Referring to the criticisms by Mr. Bullock-Hall on my statements respecting the agriculture of some Continental countries, may I...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SpEcrATop.."1 should just like to say a few words in reply to your correspondent "J. K.," with regard to Mr. Bradlaugh's seeming inconsistency in the...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Most certainly the Church Catechism teaches us to rever- ence our betters : that is the reason why it is so precious a docu- ment for all Radical Churchmen....

[To Tax EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—May I be permitted to draw attention to two points which seem to arise out of your article on "The New Suffering of the Poor "?...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—It was with great interest that I read the admirable article on "The Conditions of 'The Grant Style,'" in Saturday's Spectator. With...

TEAR AND SMILE. "WHAT are you ?" said a tear, To a smile playing near. "With a flickering shimmer, You transiently glimmer On the meaningless features of mirth ; But you...

&a, — T told a meeting of country parsons some months since that, in spite of their care in teaching the Catechism, working- men still believed that that document taught...

THE PARCHMENT TENNYSON.* THE "Parchment Library" is very taking in form, though it has one defect, that the thick paper on which it is printed rebels against the parchment...

FT0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' 'Sts., — Canon Rawlinson says, on page 25 of his tract, "There is no evidence that the primeval savage ever existed." He makes - this...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to a quotation from Milton, in the article on "The Conditions of the Grand Style," in your paper for last week, the...

Oxford men, but they hold office in the University of Melbourne, and distinctly claim as an ad- vantage for their translation the fact of its having been exe- cuted while they...

[FIRST NOTICE.] THE first centenary of American national life was celebrated -only a few years ago, and the first distinctive epoch of Ameri- can literature is just drawing to...

THE Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings may be excused for adding all possible attractions to a book published for the purpose of increasing their funds. Otherwise,...

IT is undoubtedly advisable in these days, when everything is divided, and classified, and made popular, that an art so old and so dignified as that of Needlework should have a...

Tuckerman was at one time projected by Mr. Anthony Trollope. That he would have • written a highly entertaining volume is not open to doubt. It is of no slight advantage to have...

Taylor. Vol. III. (J. W. Arrowsmith, Bristol ; Griffith and Farran, London.)—This third volume brings to a conclusion this interesting account of Bristol. The period of history...

" And that unlettered time srpped on, Saw tropio climes invade the polar rings. Then polar cold lay waste the tropic merge; Saw monster beasts emerge in ooze and air. And run...

(Tinsley Brothers.)—There is no lack of good work in this novel, but far too many "passages that lead to nothing." The tipsy man at the railway-station with his belongings is...

and Stoughton.)—This "systematic and critical study" is a book which all students of theology should wel- come. Professor Brace brings to his task the learning, the diligence,...

and Sons.)—Justices' justice, however much it be de- spised, affects every one, and makes advances, like everything else. We are, therefore, very glad to see a third edition of...

is an unusually complete popular atlas, with many definite merits and a few patent defects. The maps, to begin with, are printed on faced linen, which will not tear,—an immense...