• T HE whole country will hear of the death of Prince Napoleon in Zululand with regret for the victim, and deep pity for his unfortunate mother, the Empress Eugenie. The...

According to a long telegram in the Standard, General Newdigate's column is at last to advance to a point where it will be joined by General Wood's force, and thence to send a...

was followed by a still more violent Cassagnac scene last Monday. It was deliberately provoked by M. de Cassagnac, who began a speech in relation to M. Jules Ferry, by saying, "...

hardly be 4011 false, that the great Governments of Europe have come to the decision to depose the Khedive, for what reason, except that he may not pay the Bondholders, is not...

he raised proudly aloft the standard of Lord Beaconsfield. " I do say," he declared, " that it has been owing to the great firmness, the great courage, and the great energy of...

stimulate the enthusiasm of the Conservatives of the Tower Hamlets, attended a banquet of the Constitutional Asso- ciation of that borough at the Bow and Bromley Institute on...

case.

Con- stitution,—one in the Commons, on Monday, by Sir W. Harcourt, and one in the Lords, on Thursday, by Lord Northbrook. Both condemned in the strongest manner the method in...

Portugal with some ability. Under one Treaty, referring to South Africa, the British Government, though it does not obtain Delagoa Bay, does obtain full use of that port, and...

denounce the absolutism which declared the Afghan war, without consulting Councils, but we conceive he is abso- lutely wrong. Not only is the Secret Committee, which is...

The sufferers by the Pittsburgh Railway riots, two years ago, claim £800,000 damages from Alleghany County, in which the riots occurred. The claim is allowed, but the county is...

the last incident, M. de Cassagnac's denunciation of the Government as " infamous," and M. Gambetta's hasty and inaccurate retort, had been suppressed in the Official Journal;...

Senate sitting in one body,—met on Thursday to consider the amendment of the Constitution, in relation to the return from Versailles to Paris, and decided by a majority of more...

Liverpool, and made an important speech on agricultural matters, which is sufficiently described elsewhere. We must notice here, however, that among the concurrent causes of...

on Saturday, at the dinner of the Savage Club, made some terse and amusing remarks on the tendency of any special life, like the political, to temper the cunning of those who...

herd against the publisher of the Athenceum, for articles in which he had been, it was contended, variously referred to as an "insect," as "devoid of the faintest tincture of...

with the Cathedral in Berlin, on Tuesday last, the Emperor of Germany spoke a few words, to the following effect :—" If there is anything capable of acting as a stay to us in...

of the Royal Academy at Woolwich, adds some sharp remarks on the amount of luxury allowed, both there and at Sandhurst. The cadets, he says, are allowed balls and concerts,...

expressed his belief that there was still a great future before the Church of England, especially if all the parties in that Church could restrain their anxiety to promote the...

THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL. T HE destiny of the Bonapartes presses them hard. The House rose by war alone, and through the consequences of war every successive chief of...

T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer was wise in finding Mr. Ritchie's tongue as" seductive," as he assured some of the political wire-pullers of the Tower Hamlets on Wednesday that...

L ORD DERBY, in his address at Liverpool on Saturday, approached the Liberal Land Reformers much more closely than some of the commentators on his speech perceive, or possibly...

continue to maintain, just three solutions of 1 the Egyptian Question which would be more or less bene- ficial to Egypt, and endurable to the world at large. The first and best...

THE painful scenes in the French Chamber are far more important for what they imply, than for any result which they are likely to cause. They show that there is a party, and a...

T HE question of Flogging in the Army affords at best but a choice of difficulties. Retain the punishment, and you run the risk, or more than the risk, of keeping men out of the...

W ITHOUT feeling the least surprise at Mr. Browning's very natural annoyance and indignation at finding his wife's crudest youthful poems disinterred for the admiration of the...

T HE long discussion in the Times about the emptiness of the churches in the East End of London strikes us a little superficial. The writers of the letters express themselves...

N EARLY two years ago, we had occasion to consider in these columns Dr. H. Draper's recognition of the bright lines of oxygen in the spectrum of the Sun. At that time, doubts...

THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. PATRICK. [TO TOR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—With much personal good-will to Mr. Aubrey de Vere, no impartial man can admit that his statement of...

A BURIED LAKE VILLAGE. [FROM A CORRESFONDENT.] TirE present year has been unusually rich in lacustrine " finds" in various parts of Switzerland. The long frost of January and...

!TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—Your article describing the Westport meeting as " the new' agrarian movement in Ireland," gives an importance to that meeting which it...

SIR,—I' cannot agree with " W. T." that the Parliamentary return on this subject ought to be accepted as a fair "state- ment of the proportion of the population in connection...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] read lately the able review which appeared in your journal upon a letter from " An Old Liberal," in one of the London dailies, and although...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is amusing to read the complaint of your correspondent, " W. T.," that a paper so fair in its spirit and so broad in its sympathies...

[re TILE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR:.] SIR, —In your review of the new edition of my "Habit and Intelligence" (May 31st), you find an inconsistency between these two passages :—"...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—On reading your interesting article on the London School Board, in the Spectator of the 14th inst., it struck me how, by endeavouring to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your article of last Saturday on " Conservative Democracy in Switzerland," you remark on the seemingly singular fact that Swiss...

AT SEA. WoRN voyagers, who watch for land Across the endless wastes of sea, Who gaze before and on each hand, Why look ye not to what ye flee The stars, by which the sailors...

PICTORIAL POEMS, BY VERESCHAGIN, AT SOUTH KENSINGTON. THAT these works are decidedly clever, and clever, too, in an original and peculiar style, we think no one who sees them...

My small Charlie said to me That he had lots of riches, " How much, old man ?" said I ; said he, " Two farthings in my breeches, A silver fourpence in my purse, And one French...

THE LOVER'S TALE.* Tim poem—the first three parts of which were, as the Poet- Laureate tells us, composed in his nineteenth year, and the last part in his maturity—will always...

the Hatton Correspond- ence is here set before us by Mr. Manacle Thompson. His selection consists principally of news-letters addressed to Lord Hatton, Governor of Guernsey, by...

of Trinity College, Dublin, have just undertaken the publication of a series of works, chiefly educational, to be entitled The Dublin University Press Series." The list of works...

[SECOND NOTICE.] Ar the conclusion of our former notice of this work, we expressed a very favourable opinion of the author's treatment of our Lord's great prophetical...

; Simpkin and Marshall.)—Mr. Lefroy has reprinted twenty and more articles contributed by him in the course of the years 1876-7 to the Oxford and Cambridge Undergraduates'...

The Student's Ecclesiastical History. By Philip Smith, B.A. (Murray.)—The author has achieved, we think, a considerable success in this volume. To give within the compass of...

Co.)—Books of anecdotes, such as is the volume now before us, can- not be justly estimated by the reviewer. They are intended to be taken up and laid down, as occasion may...

"Dream Children." (S. B. Barrett.)—The " Bodley Family" moves into the country, and thus give occasion to some very pleasant narratives of country pleasures. Interspersed with...