T HE Lords have had the week to themselves. They began the debate on the Irish Church Bill on Monday, and have continued it through the week, Wednesday, however, remaining, as...

THE RELIGIOUS GUIDANCE OF THE BISHOPS. T HE Bishops have unquestionably entered a good appearance during this Irish Church discussion, not only as orators, but as political...

T HE debate in the Lords, 80 far as it affects the Lay Peers, has not been memorable. Not many of them have shown much intellectual grasp in dealing with this great...

this journal will scarcely be accused of an undue reverence for Mr. Bright. We have always considered the doctrines of the Manchester School, apart from their economical side,...

T HE termination of the Riots in Paris has not in the least altered the situation. It is well, of course, that order has been restored, and restored without bloodshed, but the...

T HE member of Parliament who takes a bribe for his vote is an unjust judge, and ought to be punished as one of the very worst of criminals. That may seem harsh ; but unless...

O UR leading statesmen certainly appear to have been intended by nature expressly for caricature. They are almost all of them plain, they are many of them ugly, and all the most...

T HE Times, writing the other day about the execution recently put into the principal residences of the Duke of Newcastle, expressed a surprise, often expressed before, that men...

CI T I.—TIIE WELSH MARCII I—MONItIOUTIISIIIRIC AND HBRE• FORDSIIIRE.—THE LAND AND TIM TOWNS. W E have alluded to the Castles of the March as among its most salient features. It...

MR. LEIGHTON'S " HELIOS AND RHODOS." (TO TRH EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR'] SI11,—Your critic "V.," whose criticisms always carry weight, seems to me very severe upon Mr....

MR. ARNOLD'S POEMS.* MIGHT not the Court of Chancery be applied to, to restrain Mr. Arnold, in the interests of general literature, from shuffling his poems any further, and...

[FIRST NOTICE.] MADAME DE Wirr has in the book before us supplied the general public with a readable and interesting volume of historical biography. The book is prepared with...

review, the Letters, by Mr. Martineau, have already appeared in these columns. The political conclusions they express are very different from those we have always supported,...

undoubted culture and undoubted candour, have endeavoured, first, to describe the religious system of Congregationalists, whether Baptist or Inde pendent; and, secondly, to...

THE general public are not, we suspect, particularly familiar with Philip Messinger. They do not ask for him at the popular libraries. Shakespeare is more or less known to all,...

The Education of the People. By J. P. Norris, M.A. (Lawrie.)—Mr. Norris was an Inspector of Schools for fifteen years, and acquired a well deserved reputation in that capacity....