T HE whole country is occupied with the Election, the papers are full of speeches and addresses, and the wire-pullers put out endless calculations. We trust none of them, under...

case.

speech to the electors of North-East Lancashire, and a very masterly speech it was. He called it a mere preliminary skirmish, a reconnaissance on the position of the Government,...

an idea of the shoals of addresses published by the thousand or so of candidates standing for the 652 seats. As a rule, the Tories follow their leaders' cue,—exult in their...

Monday, nominally about the Eastern Question, which was discussed by Lord Campbell and Stratheden, but really about Lord Beacons- field's manifesto. Lord Granville attributed...

being a man of peace. All Lord Stratheden's suggestions, he said, for an alternative policy to his own, led direct to war. He had preferred peace. As to Lord Granville's...

for Middlesex is to be contested, and by Mr. Herbert Gladstone. fourth son of the ex-Premier. Lord George Hamilton is a pro- mising young man, but apparently he will always...

by bursts of popular enthusiasm as extraordinary as those of his November journey to Midlothian. An enormous crowd of many thousands was assembled at the Great Northern Station...

the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the new fashion he had introduced, in reckoning his operations on the National Debt, of taking credit for the assets he had created, in the...

which has greatly interested Italians, closed on the 16th in a decided victory for the Premier (S. Cairoli), who declared that Italy had no " peculiar designs ;" that she "...

Wednesday it is, of course, simply impossible to condense, or even to characterise, in the few lines at our disposal. It was a speech on the strength of the Empire, on the...

Corstorphine, three miles from Edinburgh, was chiefly devoted to refuting Lord Beaconsfield's allegation that the Liberal Government had bequeathed to him special difficulties...

certain that the Government of Pekin has rejected the treaty for the sale of Kuldja, and has eitherexecuted its Plenipotentiary,. Chung How, for signing it, or has sentenced him...

in describing Ifahmoud Jan as ready for a new attack on Cabal, and as supported by the Kohistanees, who last year fur- nished his best soldiers. At the same time, it 18...

at the meeting of the committee for promoting Mr. Lowe's election for the University of London, is mis- leading. Certainly Sir Julian Goldamid could not have intended to...

'(the Earl of Sefton), dated March 12th, has publicly avowed his secession to the Liberal party. He was very unwilling, he amid, to separate himself from the party with which he...

de- sperate resistance from the few Liberals left in town, and the hire -of cabs by candidates in boroughs has been legalised for England. Sir Stafford Northcote gave up the...

political quarrel concerning Clause 7 of the Ferry Education Bill, with some address. First, he told the Senate that he could not propose any further comproinise, as he regarded...

the amount of new ability which is to be brought into the electoral con- test so close upon us. But we see with pleasure that Mr. Sidney Buxton—the son of the late Charles...

large towns, will do well to remember that this Government has not declared its intention of abandoning the Water Bill. 'On the contrary, Lord Beaconsfield spoke of it as an...

LORD HARTINGTON IN LANCASHIRE. 'L ORD HARTrNGTON grows. If he would only take a little more interest in his political duties, and not be away hunting when the country and his...

Tory capacity for managing foreign polities is to examine what they have done for the military security of India. They have always pleaded that this was the pivot of their...

Emperor of Ger- many—who has a voice in the matter—that there shall be no war during their reigns ; and has made successful war impossi- ble for a moment, by recalling his...

I N the new and final volume of the "Life of the Prince Con- sort," we are told of one of the wise and pregnant sayings of the late Sir George Cornewall Lewis,—a man whose...

pliE Clergy of the Church of England are so large and irdtu- .1. ential a class, that their action in the approaching elections is naturally the subject of a good deal of...

S COTLAND sends up sixty Representatives to Parliament, of whom at present eighteen are Tories. Only two of the eighteen are burgh Members. They were returned in 1874 by the...

T HAT was a very wise little criticism which Lord Granville quoted on Monday night from his " first - rate judge," to help him to convey to the Lords his own idea of the...

TN the meeting held at the Mansion House yesterd - ay week in praise of Thrift, there were two observations -made, of which we might say, with Ophelia, "That's for thoughts."...

DR. RUSSELL, OF MA.YNOOTH. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] S1R,—As one of those who had the happiness of being intimate with the late Dr. Russell, I must, in the name of...

cry Peccavi! to Mr. Kenny. There can be no doubt that Sir William Jones wrote "Discretion," and not "Oppression." The genesis of my own blunder was this I had forgotten the...

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the review of Mr. Perry's "St. Hugh of Avalon," which appears in your issue of last Saturday, you note, as an instance of the Saint's " superiority to...

BAGEHOT'S ECONOMIC STUDIES.* WE shall hardly attempt to criticise these last utterances of a great economist—not that they will not stand the test of keener criticism than we...

BEN-BASTES FITRIOSO. [AFTER—IT IS TO BE HOPED—"REJECTED ADDRESSES.1 I Au the Peerless Premier, 'Tis mine to speak, and yours to hear. Intelligent England ! now the time has...

Xas. ChTTY was one of those wise, but not too numerous, Tenons who, being more or less notable in their time, have yet begged their friends to let them go out of the world...

the reviewer of the present day is continually called upon to answer, though it is hardly less diffi- cult of solution than the enigma of the Sphinx, and that question is...

perusal of Mr. Clayden's history of six years of the Beaconsfield Septennate, was to ask why is not what the author has done for six years, done for every year P That first...

Jr is not often that novelists give the cotton-mills a turn. Since Mary Barton, we do not remember any good novel in which the hands" have played the parts of heroes and...

No thoughtful mind could fail to find matter of interest in this grim book, written by one who, in a sombre way, has thought deeply on the fundamental questions of human life....

prophecy, a tempting subject for a bookmaker of research. As we were turning over the handsome and attractive volumes which form so graceful a memorial to the scholarly and...

John Wynne, who flourished about 1600 A.D., and was one of King James's baronets, wrote this history of his family, while the present and former-editors have enriched it with...

one of a series of "Manuals for Health." It is almost needless to say that it is full of good-sense and useful advice. We may not in all things subscribe to the author's...

himself so much to the literature of Shelley's poems, and has shown his discrimination in relation to them by more than one publication We approve of the chronological...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—This is described as "a book for all who read and speak in public," and has a very well-defined purpose. The orator is, like the poet, born, not made;...

Green, M.A.,. and Alice Stopford Green. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Green is a little too. hard, in his introduction, on "geographical text-books." They are- not all so dreary as he...

from the Italian by Marcellino. (Charing Cross Publishing Company.)-- A somewhat curious story of Italian life, turning on a situation which we certainly should not like to see...

book was published ten years ago, and is now, we suppose, though we see no intimation of its being so, a new edition, reprinted. A "Biographical Study" is apt to show, not so...

time ago Mr. Cotterill wrote an article to prove that the Epistle to Diognetus was a forgery. The idea has grown upon him. The volume before us is intended to show the same...

an amusing book, aud makes disclosures which, after all allowance made for the hostile animus of the writer, show a grotesquely absurd state of things. Mr. Marvin, whose name...

By Zeta. (Hatchards.) --A very sensible little volume, admirable not only for the hints which it gives, but for the plain-speaking with which it tells people what kind of work...

By Wirt Sikes. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Itwould be rash to say that there is more superstition in Wales than in England. One hears things often enough that might make us hesitate....

little or nothing to say that is new about this publication. The same artists, " Ape " and "Spy," give us their weekly present- ment of persons more or less eminent or...

and Indexers. By 'Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. (Published for the Index Society, by Longmans, Green, and Co.)—Mr. Wheatley gives a sketch of the history of indexing, and then...

(Burns and Oates.)—The last of the five sketches which this volume contains, that of Archbishop Darboy, is peculiarly interesting. The - writer seems to have known him well, and...

" Barrister " gives some very sensible advice to his brethren of the Bar, "as to opening a case, examination-in-chief, cross-examination, re-examination, reply, &c." He goes to...

is a simple, absolutely impartial statement of the con- dition of the law, how it deals with men and women under the same circumstances. The questions suggested are hard enough,...

the Rev. T. P. Boultbee. (Hodder and Stonghton.)—Mr. Boult- bee has not yet had occasion to deal with the burning questions of the day, but he gives the best promise of candour...

and Possible Future of our Hospitals, by the Rev. J. Dodd, M.A. (James Parker), is a book sufficiently described by its second title. Mr. Dodd has studied his subject, and has...

Ten Texts, with the Glosses, and the Lox Emend ate. Synoptically edited by J. H. Hessell. With Notes on the Frankish Words in the "Lox Salica." By H. Keyn. (John Murray ;...

this volume an autobiography, very interesting at times, though written in a didactic tone (it was intended for the author's children), which does not attract. Mr. Perinchief...

in The Shakespeare Key, by Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke (Sampson Low and Co.), which is described on the the title-page as "unlocking the of his style, elucidating the...

With a Preface by the Rev. H. R. Reynolds, D.D. (James Clarke.)— It is not necessarily praise to say of sermons that they might be preached without offence to any assembly of...

Settlements of Property. By Sir Arthur Hobhonse, Q.C. (Chatto and Windus.)—The author enlarges on various aspects of the thesis that the will of the dead ought not to...

with Some English Antiquities, by Llewellynn Jewitt, F.S.A. (l)avid Bogue) ; Edna : a Tale of the Babylonish Captivity, by Juliau St. Clare (Charing Cross Publishing Company) ;...

i8 a volume of well-executed sketches of Scandi- navian life. These Northern stories are as like to each other as so many 'Chinamen; and we should be puzzled to distinguish Herr...

Gilbert. (New- man and Co.)—Mr. Gilbert's play was withdrawn after five nights (in what certainly seems to us, as he states, an unjustifiable way), and he appeals from the...

J. F. Gantillon, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—A very useful volume, this, containing, as it does, papers set in the examinations for University scholarships, for the most respectable...

(Edinburgh : R. Grant.)—An interesting little volume, 'though its contents will not be found flattering to English vanity. Keine had no love for this country, and for some of...