believe, that all the redistribution clauses in the Reform Bill will be dropped, on the ground of want of time. The Bill will then pass as a franchise Bill only, Mr. Disraeli...

T HE Luxemburg Treaty was signed in London this day week, and is, we suppose, by this time ratified. The Conservative papers are very great on the success of Lord Stanley in...

The borough franchise is the same in form as the English, but it will work rather differently. There are no compounding Acts in Scotland, but as a rule the tenant who pays less...

at St. James's Hall, and was attended by some ten members of Parlia- ment, including Mr. Bright and Mr. Forster. The meeting pledged itself, in a series of resolutions, to...

the SPECTATOR, and communications upon matters of business, should not be addressed to the Editor, but to the Publisher, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

sign of an intention to disarm, and according to the Berlin cor- respondent of the Times considerable uneasiness is still felt in that capital. He states on official and...

moderate Reform League—waited on Mr. Gladstone on SaetisClay, to express their dislike of the Tory Bill and their con- fidence in himself. In reply, Mi. Gladstone told them that...

deputa- diaries," and regretted that persons of that kind " should have come forward to pay their homage to one who, wherever he may sit, must always be the pride and ornament...

of the motion for the complete abolition in Parliamentary boroughs of the Small Tenements' and other local compound- ing Acts. He showed that this was quite in harmony with the...

pass an examination in modern history. It seems that Mr. Cole, the South Kensington man, who is exhibiting shelves of Blue-Books at the French Exhibition, wants to publish a...

Had he proposed an addition of eight members instead of seven, the number of the House of Commons would have been the mystic number of the Beast, 666 Mazzini, who is rather the...

on Wednesday at the ceremony of admitting to degrees the graduates of the past year, and conferring on the successful candidates for honours the distinctions they had won. Lord...

Suffrage. A house is not to be a house unless it has two rooms, on the distinct ground that a family which lives in one is not civi- lized. Mr. Disraeli, of course, " regretted...

by a some- what unusual process, invented apparently expressly for that end, which the Echoes of the Clubs, —a new gossiping periodical cor- responding to its name,—describes in...

close of the conversation on the Scotch Reform Bill, and Mr. Disraeli assented to the enfranchisement of lodgers in rooms (not less than two) of 101. clear annual value, who are...

Mr. Glad- stone's unpopularity in the Carlton some eleven or twelve years ago, when he first began to betray the undergrowth of Liberal ideas in his mind. It is said that some...

man on whose authority we have hitherto believed Dr. Livingstone's murder, has given to different people two quite different and inconsistent accounts of the transaction, and...

ques- tion in the Times. Is it wrong to feed a wild beast with live animals? The boa is so fed with rabbits, and "Telam " says that is very cruel. Clearly it is cruel if the boa...

had resigned, but hinted that he would remain in the Cabinet. If so, it is a pity he should think it beneath his dignity to take the Duchy of Lancaster, to be vacated by Lord...

non- society man, one Jordan, and the Union ordered bier dismissal, under penalty of a strike. Mr. Kitch prosecuted the secretary, and the magistrates convicted him. He...

of the worst American kind. Mr. Layard complained that Mr. Lewis, Member for Marylebone, had called him something or other not specified, and Mr. Lewis retorted that Mr. Layard...

of Habeas 'Corpus from a Virginian Court, and held to bail. He will probably not be tried, and has in fact escaped with an imprison- ment of two years, not a tenth of the...

large arrivals of gold from Australia and the United States, and the great abundance of money seeking employment, have given additional firmness to the market for home and...

of Inquiry on the Malt Tax, but the foolish and obstinate man rejected Mr. Gladstone's suggestion that it should be instructed to inquire also into the relation of this...

to a gentleman in Suffolk, a county where Mr. Tomline is perhaps the most conspicuous accumulator of land. He thinks Mr. Disraeli's measure equivalent to simple household...

cold temperature of the last few days to our having got bank into the same plane with the orbit of the meteorites which gave us six months ago so brilliant a spectacle. If so,...

is interesting. On the first dividend day in 1865 less than 127,000 persons held the entire National Debt, and less than 70,000 held the greater part of it. It is asserted that...

off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, May 10. Friday, May 17'- Great Eastern Great Northern . - Great western.. Lancashire and Yorkshire 281 1101 411 121 281 110 421...

on Friday week are subjoined :— Friday, May 10. Friday, May 17. Mexican 161 101 Spanish Passives .. • .. 211 224 Do. Certificates .. • • .. 14 141 Turkish 6 per (alk,...

. ANOTHER LECTURE FOR MR. GLADSTONE. IF Mr. Gladstone would only learn that earnestness is a quality to be economized! He is always wasting it, till men of the world, who know...

Yet Lord Derby's and Lord Stanley's language, in speaking of this guarantee, strongly support the view that England has gone into this guarantee without the slightest vestige...

"there are very few people in the political world who are in a condition to deny that it is fair to expect a man to vote with his master, his employer, or his landlord, unless...

S EVERAL journals, notably the Chronicle and the Pall Mall Gazette, have recently published an extraordinary story of an intrigue now going on in Italy, the object of which is...

T HE Report of the Commissioners on Railways is a very able, very tedious, and very annoying document. Nobody can read it without being bored, some really brilliant...

M R. POYNTER'S great picture in the Royal Academy of the Israelites made by their Egyptian taskmasters to "serve with rigour," is one which takes hold of even the dullest ima-...

AND MOON. IN a recent work of some interest but little method, Dr. Forbes I Winslow* has given us some account of a very curious subject, professedly the physiological...

a distinct treatment as a Province in itself, it is the County of Kent. From the time of the first Roman expedition to Britain it has -constantly had a distinctive character...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,-I have been long familiar with the assertion that "the settlement of land stands or falls with that of personalty." It is, indeed, much...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—While thanking you for the geniality of your remarks on my book, I cannot see your difficulty in understanding how selfish people can be...

TRANSLATIONS FROM SCHILLER'S MINOR POEMS.* SCHILLER is in some respects even more difficult to translate than Goethe, as poetry which depends chiefly on the mere lyric ring of...

Blue-eyed MISS PIETY, walking sedately, Mused thus beside the classic Isis lately :— " Must I for ever spend my days apart, Watching the mild flame of a maiden heart ? Or...

DR. Hoorc tells us that in this volume he concludes the history of the Primates who governed our Church antecedently to the period of the Reformation, that in the next the...

This book is a curiosity in its authorship and in itself. The writer of it, the Comtet3se de Boigne, has left the mark of all her own peculiarities in the characters, the...

Mn. SALA'S special correspondence is amusing, and Mr. Sala's books are amusing, but we prefer to have them separate. When the two are combined their effect is somewhat patchy....

The Philosophy of Classification, being a Base for Thought, a Measure- ment for Morality, and a Key to Truth. By Frederick J. Wilson. (Pitman.)—As we start with an admission...

A. Fuentes. (Triibner.)—The illustrations of this work are by far the most valuable part of it, but some of them are extremely good. The style of the letter-press savours of the...

Tainsh is one of those who write with ease. He has filled three volumes with matter which a terse and compact writer would have got into one. His novel is therefore somewhat...

Drs. Luthardt, Kahnis, and Briickner, Professors of Theology, Leipsic. Translated by Sophia Taylor. (Edinburgh : T. and T. Clark.)—With the exception of some stiffness, and...

Ticknor and Fields ; London, Trubner.)—A book of devotional selec- tions on the plan of connecting a text of Scripture with some passage of sacred poetry, and some meditation in...

hardly commend Dr. Atkinson'a treatise as satisfactory to general readers. It may possibly be beneficial to some medical advisers, if they are content to follow out its...

W. Benuett.)—The writers of this volume "resigned themselves to the service of proceeding to Jamaica" shortly after the insurrection, as a deputation from the Society of...

of their history, of their relation to the Gospel history, and of their reception by the Church. This introduction is extremely able, and marked by a close acquaintance with all...

might almost have taken for the motto of his book the old rhyme, which declares that brandy is for all men the very best of physic, he seems to have pro- scribed it so often,...

tion. (Edinburgh : Neill and Co.)—As Mr. Waddle has sent us a copy of these plays and poems, we presume that he invites our criticism. We assure him that we have no wish to be...

Bellamy. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—This new translation, which, it is needless to say, is in some respects a considerable departure from the authorized version, is accompanied by...

of Edon Restored. By a Pilgrim from the Holy Land. (Adams and Francis.)—On so grave a subject we must needs speak under correction, but this poem seems to us a very fair attempt...

Thomas Miller. (Routledge.)—Mr. Miller's idea is good, and the execution is such as will cause the book to take admirably with children. Of course it is written for the quite...

Mr. Harrison's, for all we care. But if Mr. Harrison wished us to wade through his 720 pages, he should have written his introduction in a more inviting style and a more...

the Year of Grace 1867. (Church Press Company, Limited.)—This must be a useful book to many who will not appreciate its peculiar doctrines. It must be amusing to many more who...

the Church. By the Rev. Gerard Moultrie, M.A. (Masters.)—Two or three of the poems in this volume deserve a favourable mention, but the majority can hardly detain us. Mr....

M.A. (W. Rant and Co.)—The title of this book is in questionable taste, and the style of the discourses themselves might be greatly im- proved. Sometimes, too, we notice points...

By C. C. Felton, LL.D., late President of Harvard University. Two vols. (Boston, Ticknor and Fields ; London. Triibner.)—Those two volumes contain four wanes of lectures ; the...

E. B. (F. Warne and Co.)—Our praise of a book such as this may seem earned Holy Meditations for Every Day. Compiled and edited by B. E. B. (F. Warne and Co.)—Our praise of a...

the Results of Missionary Effort throughout the World. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—The title of this book tells its story, and we have only to add that " A Summary of...