his instructions, and as M. Thiers cares nothing about him or any other Minister, he drove on Monday down to the Committee of Thirty and said so. In a speech marked by...

day week on the prospects of the Liberal party, of one thread of opinion in which we have spoken elsewhere. He declared that the creed of the Tory was to stick to what is and of...

of the Erie Railway Company upon Mr. Gould have been settled by the restitution of the whole amount,—namely, over 9,000,000 dollars of real estate, and securities and cash to...

his wish that the House of Lords should control the House of Commons in interpreting the wishes of the people. Lord Salisbury had admitted, he said, that the House of Commons...

T HE fight between M. Thiers and the tI Thirty Tyrants," as the Kerdrel Committee might be called, has gone through several phases this week, but has ended on the whole to his...

continues to arrive from Berlin. It seems to be clear from all of them that the King of Prussia has resolved not to part with the Tories in his Cabinet, particularly General von...

case.

Gas Light Company were on Thursday tried before Mr. Justice Brett on a charge of conspiracy against the Company. They had injured it by combining to force it to change its mode...

of the festivities at Chatsworth, where the Duke of Devonshire has been entertaining the Prince of Wales in almost royal fashion. The presence of the Prince, the beauty of the...

the matter of the great Diamond Swindle. A knot of adventurers at San Fran- cisco bought a quantity of rough diamonds and rubies in Hatton Garden, sowed them about a Californian...

was prosper- ous ; that it was no part of his business to fill up the deficit the abolition of the tax would create ; that he did not know whether it would or would not be...

to the Times of Monday, that the experiment of Proportional Representa- tion just tried in Illinois has -worked admirably, and has worked admirably in the opinion of the Chicago...

the method of introducing natives into the public service. The educated baboos wanted local examinations, but the Viceroy considered that success in examinations would not,...

It says butchers are paying just the same wholesale price for best beef, namely, 9d. a pound, as they were four years ago, while the retail price has risen. Consequently the...

Praia presented the Cis-Leithan budget on the 14th inst., and it appears that the revenue of 1878 will exceed that of 1872 by £1,900,000. The expenditure is increasing also, but...

on the 15th inst. of his wife, the Viscountess Beacons- field, the first author of his fortunes. Some of the daily papers appear to us to pass all bounds of decency in their...

a poli- tician,—which can hardly be said of Mr. Whalley, who is apt to whine about his grievances,—and yet ho is as fresh and credulous as a child. At Rugby last week, Mr....

made by the Times to Polar expeditions,—on the ground of danger to human life. We should have thought that was a proper question for the volunteers, but not for the public. 'rho...

condemned the Governors of Rugby for passing so severe a censure upon him without removing him, it is only fair to state that the reason for this indefensible middle course, as...

5 per cent. as the national rate of interest, the just rental for money, than which any higher demand was extortionate and wrong, and have at last found an answer, at least...

regret that we cannot find room, from " A Lay Member of the Minority " in the Oxford Convocation, of which the main view is that Oxford should not be a" battlefield of beliefs,"...

which both the Protestant and the Roman Catholic Bishops,—the one of Manchester and the other of Salford,—took part, to support " the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal...

Bill for University Convocation votes,—at least, if the payment of travel- ling expenses by the competing parties be a corrupt practice. And undoubtedly it is a very unfair...

M. GAMBETTA ON DISSOLUTION. T HE prevalent English notion of M. Gambetta as a meteoric political phenomenon of fierce and ardent nature, kindled into sadden flame by violent...

are thankful for small mercies. Every day it becomes more evident that their jubilations over their power, whether well founded or not in the last resort, are at present...

M R. LOWE in his speech at Swindon last Saturday did something less than justice both to the Liberal party and to Mr. Disraeli, in replying to the Tory leader's assertion that...

SCITDAMORE is no dreamer, but it is very difficult for politicians to read the able lecture he delivered at Hull last Friday without dreaming a little over it. It is evident...

been accomplished without a shot fired in anger, but which nevertheless subverted the existing order in society or politics, or both, as completely as if all the...

T HE judgment of Sir John Wickens in the case of the Earl of Aylesford—the Peer who borrowed money at sixty per cent. —which we noticed briefly last week, must have roused in...

I T is curious to see modern science, under the guidance of Mr. Darwin's great intellectual impulse, so far returning upon its tracks as to find a new store of humour in those...

W HAT manner of men are they, really and truly, those bronze- skinned aboriginal dwellers in our great New Zealand colony ? Why are they so unlike, not only the natives of...

SIR T. ACLAND AND THE SMALL LANDOWNERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sm,—If you can afford me the space, I shall be glad to avail my- self of the opportunity offered by...

Sin,—Allow me to correct an error in my letter as it appeared in your paper of Saturday. Anxious, if possible, rather to understate than exaggerate my case, I put the diminution...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOILl Sra,—I venture to trouble you with a few remarks which may be interesting to your readers. The number of voters on the Forfarshire roll is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EPSOTATOR.1 Sin,—Allow me to thank you, even so late as this, for your- thoroughly liberal article on the Irish University question in your number of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Long before this reaches you, the English papers will, I Cope, have republished the fall details of the two voyages of the Carl. I do...

ON A GAVOTTE OF BACH'S. A GIANT ' S dance—with measured tread He comes o'er foes victorious ; With battle-axe swung round his head, Blood-stained by warfare glorious. He...

THE "Spat:mews:] your article upon the meeting in Exeter Hall, you lament that " not a single minister of either the National or Noncon- formist Churches was there to take up...

MR. GREG'S ENIGMAS OF LIFE, MR. GREG has never written a more eloquent book than this, and never any so full of deep religious feeling, in spite of its deep underlying doubt ;...

FULL many a deed of petty bigotry, Oxford! unthinking men have wrought in thee,— Gladstone rejected,—Jowett of his fee For years deprived on charge of heresy And last, a...

[TO THE Emma OF THE "SPECTATOR'] SIR,—Being known for an M.P. would not have protected Mr. Goschen from touting money-lenders. Just the reverse, for I have had several...

To old sportsmen who are troubled with the " anno domini com- plaint "—as a friend of the present writer's expressively denomi- nates the ailments of increasing years, a joke of...

* The Army of the North-pernian Confederation. By a Prussian General. Trans- lated by Colonel Edward Newdigato. London: Henry S. King and Co. COLONEL NEWDIGATE performed a...

THE subject of Mr. Jeaffreson's new work will make it popular with a larger class of people than could have been interested in his studies of doctors, lawyers, and clergymen,...

IN general we do not look with much favour on the practice lately introduced of reprinting the whole text of poems in an inconvenient form, to accompany illustrations which...

invaluable as a reference in all matters, from eclipses to tables of wages.

very best of the pocket-books ; strongly made, beautifully printed, and containing just , the information one wants ; as, for instance, a table of foreign coins, and of the less...

(Sotheran and Baer.)—The volume is described 'on the title-page as "a series of thirty high-class engravings from the pictures by the most eminent painters, ancient and modern."...

The London Post-Office Directory for 1873. — This wonderful book, quite the most wonderful, in the mechanical sense, of our literary pro- ductions, has appeared for the coming...

and Pocket - Book. (Ward, Chandos Street, Covent Garden.)— This is a remarkably convenient diary in four parts, one for each quarter,—an arrangement which, while it gives space...