with the Bribery Bill or not,—probably not—but he is going on with the Telegraph Bill, and going on very cleverly. The principle of the Bill is to be affirmed by the House, and...

by the easy process of leaving it undone. The redistribution clauses in the Irish Reform Bill involved some little trouble, and conse- quently Mr. Disraeli on Thursday withdrew...

Commission to proceed to Nova Scotia and inquire into the griev- ances alleged by the Nova Scotians against the Act of last session which incorporated them in the Dominion of...

the House, first, because he is an auctioneer, and secondly, because he is not very wise, insists that he is a follower of Mr. Gladstone and the Liberal party. Mr. Gladstone...

M R. DISRAELI made one of his most unblushing speeches at the Merchant Taylors' dinner on Wednesday. Indeed, the Merchant Taylors' dinner generally seems to make him shameless,...

seem that Sir Robert Napier thinks it more important to do his work than to chatter about the way he did it, and consequently left his despatch unwritten until he got a hint...

to contest West Kent, in which we have no doubt, and earnestly hope, that he will be successful, and to abandon his candidature for the London University. Three candidates,...

be the sub- ject of judicial inquiry. On Tuesday the Times published a letter from Admiral nous, of the Jockey Club, denying the report that he thought Lady Elizabeth had been...

that the last division of the Army of Abyssinia quitted the port of Zoulla on the 2nd of June, on its way to Suez and Bombay. Only a few cavalry have been left to protect some...

the Irish Reform Bill, the Queen's University has lost its repre- sentation for the present. air. Chichester Fortescue, who wishes to see a single University in Ireland,...

are still very conflicting. All that seems clear is that he was walking in the park he has made near Bucharest, with Madame Anka Obren- ovitch and her daughter, his cousins,...

been brought up in Parliament. These capitulations are really treaties, under which foreigners resident in Turkey are exempted from the authority of the native tribunals, from...

selection of Senator Reverdy Johnson to represent the United States in this country,—and we should like to know why. He is a worthy old gentleman of 72, who has written good law...

from Mr. Dudley Field, of New York, a very eminent jurist, on the actual operation of the law in that State which gives married women the legal control of their own property....

to our article of last week. We have nothing to say in rejoinder except this: that Professor Brewer's argument appears to require that there should be an established Church in...

of the Irish Protestant Church, for which we have unfortunately no room, reproaching us bitterly for the cynicism of saying that the Bishop of Durham (Dr. Waldegrave) "inferred,...

has ruled fiat during the; week, and the general course of prices has been unfavourable. Consols have declined to 941 to for delivery, and 941 to 95 for the July account....

Friday, June 12. Friday, June 19., Great Eastern... ... ... 361 — 36 Great Northern 1031 — 103 Great Western 534 — 63f Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 129 — 129i London and...

deal more about Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions, but it may be comforted by ;learning that it will hear no more of Mr. Ewart's University Bill, at least as far as Oxford is...

subscriptions for 230,000/. 6 per ceut, obligations, the instalments extending to March, 1869. The bonds will be redeemed by annual drawings during ten years, and, in addition...

South-Eastern Railways to a Committee, with the understood intention of rejecting the clauses which authorize the Companies .to increase the maximum fares, that is, to compel...

session this year at Berne. This League is an informal Parliament of Red leaders, and its meeting at Geneva last year was im- mediately followed by the attack on Rome. This year...

Egyptian ... Italian Mexican Russian (Anglo-Dutch) Spanish, 1867 ... Turkish, 1858 1862 .7 1 7e 12. 7 80 i 024 16i – ' 8 71 ... es — 66 Friday. Jane 19 . 76i • •• ••• •••...

THE "AWFUL DISPENSATION" AND MR. DISRARLI. B. DISRAELI "cannot resist recognizing the hand of .1.11 Providence in this awful dispensation," namely, that the newly enlarged...

I F the philosophers and the masses are in accord on the Continent, as Mr. Disraeli says they are in England, the Priests will one day have to pass through a bad quarter of an...

M R. LOWE, who aspires to represent the University of London, certainly does hold, for a man of eminent ability, some of the most disorganizing and anarchic views on education,...

I T is, we suppose, natural that men interested in the result of the next elections should be somewhat in a hurry. Nobody knows exactly what the new Electorate will demand,...

S IR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE intends, we fear, to with- draw his second Bill for the better government of India, on the plea that the "state of public business" will not allow the...

LI England poet, who has just been graced with a degree by the University of Cambridge, says very truly, but not without something of satire on the nation which receives him,...

T HE English people is, we believe, the only one in the world which considers thrift discreditable, which attaches oppro- brious epithets to carefulness in expenditure, and...

:—TIIE LAND AND TEE TOWNS. .S IR ROBERT COTTON (in the time of James and Charles I.), as Mr. Speed tells us, made an observation upon the county of Huntingdon that the families...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As you have been very hard upon inc for my letter in the Pall Mall Gazette on the Irish Church, and have stigmatized me on that account...

Fro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have not the least excuse for putting myself forward as a defender of your correspondent "Z.," who is quite able to defend himself. I...

Sin,—If an apology be necessary from one of those unfortunate Liberals whom you designate as " crotchetty " on Church matters, in addressing you I would freely offer it ; but...

and (2) as an architect, that it is not our common practice, but only a rule of one trade union, to which hundreds of us would as soon claim affiliation as Mr. Gladstone to the...

THE WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY. INJUDICIOUS or unfair hanging is not a monopoly of any one picture gallery, though there is usually little said about it except in the case of the...

SIR,—Being a constant reader of your well written paper, I pre- sume to write a word of criticisai on the justice of a passage in your last number relative to the practice of...

THE EARTHLY PARADISE.* MR. MORRIS has revived the delightful art of dreaming the old dreamy stories in verse, so that' they soothe and charm the ear and fancy without making...

of thought have risen among us, growing silently side by side. The one has occupied itself with purely physical science, has taken the earth (and for that matter, the stars...

Mn. SICEATS has chosen to write as a partisan rather than as an historian, and has consequently failed to do justice to a great sub- ject. This is the more to be regretted,...

one reasons for not heading this article with the title of the book under review are, that we formed an erroneous idea of its contents from that title, and we do not wish to...

A Sister's Bye-Hours. By the Author of Studies for Stories. (Strahan and Co.) 1868.—The title of this book is not suggestive of its contents. Here are six simple stories with no...

De Forest. (Harper : New York.)—Mr. De Forest is a zealous partizan, and speaks his mind very clearly, yet with as much fairness and as little offence to good taste as could be...

of British scaweeds will prove a serviceable companion to the col- lector. The descriptions of the several species are succinct, and yet so characteristic as to render...

Translated by Gordon Willoughby James Gyll, Esq. (Boll and Daldy.) —We must be content to take on trust Mr. Gyll's assertion that this pastoral romance is worthy of the author...

(Hurst and Blackett.)—Mr. Wingfield gives us in these volumes the impressions produced by several months' travel in Africa and by a visit to Tunis. We do not find him to possess...

Mackay makes his translation of the Sophistes, which is neither a very attractive nor a very easy dialogue, sufficiently readable, and also sufficiently faithful in representing...

(Stanford.)—Sir Edward Sullivan has hit many blots in our system, but he has not been the first to do so, and he does not suggest any possible remedies. The evils of our Poor...

—This magnificent work, containing more than five thousand closely printed pages, is a complete digest of chemical science. And chemical science must be understood as including...

very compact and useful manual, very opportune at this time, when there is a strong feeling in favour of introducing the practical applications of geometry into the curriculum...

by learning from Professor Pirie's preface that he considers "his main argument to be perfect demonstration," " to be as certain as any proposition of geometry." We thought to...

seen, what I have heardl By Cyrus Jay. (Tinsloy.)—Mr. Jay gives us in this volume his recol- lections, gathered from hearsay or personal knowledge, of various legal persons,...

Row, M.A. (Williams and Norgate.)—If the matter contained in this volume were greatly condensed and thrown into a somewhat different shape, the book would take a respectable...

forty years Mr. Atherstone republishes his poem of Nineveh. He has revised it, he tells us, with the utmost care; and it now represents, we are accordingly to. suppose, what his...

Russell, LL.D. (Tinsley.)—We suppose that Dr. Russell will not materially increase or diminish his reputation by This book. He does again what we knew before that he could...

is a remarkable book, coming from such a quarter as Sicily, and not from the head-quarters of Sicily, but from Catania. The author believes that the root of all the evils of...

her famous countrywoman, Fredrika Bremer. Her writin g —we jud g e from this, the only specimen that we have seen—is less attractive, has not the same tenderness and g race, and...

novel Mr. Le Faun deals, as is his wont, with the horrible. He has shown himself more than once no mean artist in this kind of subject, a truly sensa- tional writer, not one who...