and he is supposed to be now near Laval, on the road to Rennes. It is quite evident that his army was not really strengthened, while its morale was injured, by the...

inst., notably against Aulnay, Le Bourget, and Dugny, none of them producing any serious results. According to the English accounts from the German side, the attack on Le...

accounts, that the bombardment of Paris so far has done little harm. It has not depressed the Parisians, has not greatly injured Paris—though a few houses, and large buildings...

be trusted, lost the battle. During the week he occupied St. Quentin, and after certain outpost skirmishes at Vermand in which the French claimed the advantage, fought on...

fortune of French commanders, and we suppose from the usual cause, not being able to trust his troops to attack except when they had every advantage, both as to numbers and...

of France to that of any party in it, by making the Papal Com- mander, Colonel Charette, a General. If he could only assign to. him the command of the Bretons, something might...

T HE King of Prussia was on Wednesday proclaimed Emperor of Germany in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles,—perhaps the most dramatic event of this century. He is now styled in all...

case.

order concerning the Alsatians and Lorrainers who volunteer for the French armies. Any one who volunteers for those armies will be punished by confiscation of all his present...

remains seriously ill, that he has lost nerve-power from overwork, the pressure of his former disease, and griefat thepublie amidomeetie consequences of the loss of the Captain....

plan of military defence. His ideas have been expressed this week through an article in the Edinburgh Review, through a speech to the London Scottish Volunteers, and through a...

at Chatham. He evidently wanted very much to tell them why he quitted the Foreign Office, and kept leading up to the subject, but finally resolved to keep his explanation for...

a speech partly on the war and foreign policy and partly on education, of which we have criticized the former section at length elsewhere. After he had expounded his view of the...

for Leeds, both addressed political meetings late last week, and their speeches form a curious contrast. Mr. Jacob Bright, as usual, speaks like his brother minus his...

with his constituents. His difference with them, however, was only upon the Contagious Diseases' Act, which he evidently dis- likes, but, as a member of the Government, cannot...

" The Education Act he regarded as the best measure that could be passed, under the circumstances." He was in favour of Army reform, and would vote for the removal of the Duke...

spread of small-pox in London, is not of a reassuring, still less of a pleasant, character. It affirms in brief, that the disease has been increasing slowly through 1870—rapidly...

a Times' " scientific correspondent's" account of a gale off the coast of Spain has been received. The scientific correspondent, who was a passenger in the Psyche, (which took...

wise thing. For many years the school has had a high reputation, not only for sending first-rate scholars to the Universities, but also for having extended its sphere of studies...

to America has been very quickly verified. The Philadelphia cor- respondent of the Times says, in the letter published yesterday, " The Fenian liberated prisoners, when they...

Tuesday. Nothing was, of course, done in the way of modi- fying the Treaty of Paris, but it is asserted that all the Powers represented signed a Note expressly repudiating the...

Co-opera- tive Hall, Rochdale, on the relations of England and Ireland, in which, after a lucid and fair sketch of Irish history , he proceeded to discuss the future of Ireland....

by " J. T. K.," has, we believe, been amalgamated with the "French Relief Fund, in aid of Paris and the suffering districts throughout France," of which the Daily Telegraph,...

THE " QUARTERLY " ON THE COMMONS. C AN a popular body ever be consistent, can it ever carry out a policy which requires years for its perfect de- velopment ? These are the...

P OPULAR constituencies are, no doubt, the only school for representatives. A man may be born a representative as a man may be born a poet, but it is almost as rare an event ;...

S IR WILLIAM MANSFIELD was wise in telling the public on Monday that he had recommended the Government to revive the ballot for the Militia, for no scheme of that kind has. a...

E is no good news from France. If we may believe T r i the last reports, General Bourbaki has, like all the other French Generals, lost the moment when success was within his...

T HERE is one peculiarity in the management of the Times which, for many years past, certainly for the last quarter of a century, has bewildered its readers. The great journal...

A MONG the questions likely to be brought before Parlia- ment during the coming Session, the foundation of a Legal University for the purpose of imparting a systematic...

T HERE has been a good deal of discussion of late whether there is any real and essential conflict between the genius of Christianity and W ar,—in other words, whether war can...

W E do not understand the undertone of half-admiration in which some of the papers record the latest thievish ." exploit "in Upper Berkeley Street. It seems to us sharping of...

THE BESIEGED IN PARIS. (TO TRII EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The following extracts from two balloon letters from Paris, dated January 13, may interest your readers. The...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Allow me to point out that you have seriously misrepre- sented a passage in my " Lectures and Essays." You say, " He seems to think it"...

Sir., - 1 agree with much that your article of the 14th inst. on " The Friends of France " says, but I trust to your candour for the insertion of my protest against the...

THE OLD MASTERS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE great success which attended last year's exhibition of works by Old Masters has induced the Royal Academy to repeat the ex- pernment....

[TO THE EDITOIL OF THE "SPEOTATOR.1 Six,--Tn your notice of the " Piccadilly Annual" you mention a story by Charles Dickens as "never before published in this country, having...

MR. BALDWIN BROWN ON THE CHURCH AND SOCIETY.% THESE essays are full of power of a very broad and refined kind. They seem to us, indeed, to lose not a little of their force when...

when we were young enough to thoroughly enjoy a story made up of dwarfs, alchemists, lovely golden-haired ladies, and equally lovely, but dark-minded ladies with black tresses ;...

curious book, and tried to think it over, and for the thousandth time think out the problem it presents, these words forced themselves most obtrusively upon our attention. Every...

MR. Annorr's book would at any time have great interest for all who are accustomed to consider theological questions. For his • Bible Lessons. By the Rev. Edwin A. Abbott, M.A.,...

"St. Olave's." (Mac- millan and Co.)—This is a charming book for genuine children, who like a simple history of natural juvenile life, and have not already been spoiled—by...

Studies in Church History. By Henry C. Lea. (Sampson Low and Co.) This able, thoughtful, and scholarly volume reflects much honour on the American Press, and will secure, as it...

D.D. (Rivingtons.)—Dr. Goulburn is a reformer of a thoroughly Conserva- tive type, He is not one of the Deans who wish to abolish Canons, and be naturally does not sympathize...

E. Carr. (Longmans.)—This is a handsome volume, better illustrated, we are bound to say, than written. The drawings are very graceful, and pretty with a somewhat conventional...

Mr. Gilmore, who is perhaps better known by the name of "Ubique gives us some capital sporting "adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America." Far as he travels, and strange...

specially French qualities of order, lucidity, and dramatic effect are unfailing in almost every page, and not less so, as we think, the power of historical perspective, in...

Blackie. (Edmonston and Douglas.)—Professor Blackie dedicates his little book to Mr. Carlyle, whose style, indeed, and manner of thought it not unfrequently recalls. The...