appearance of Mr. J. S. Mill's and Lord Russell's tracts on Ireland. On Mr. ,1. S. Mill's, which is much the more striking, we have com- mented elsewhere. Lord Russell is, as...

and on one very important point the Opposition obtained a very large minority. M. Berryer moved an amendment that the papers to which the Government advertisements are to be...

in Prussia against Austria by the Hanoverian dinner to celebrate the King of Danover's silver wedding,—many of the Hanoverians present having had Austrian passports. The King...

O N Tuesday the Times wrote of Lord Derby in the past tense, though explaining (rather awkwardly) at the commence- ment of the article that it was to be hoped the past tense...

Catholic Judge of recent times) prematurely on Saturday. He survived the announcement some days, but died on Wednesday morning, at the age of 64, having been barely four years...

the Scotch Members. Mr. Baxter (M.P. for the Montrose district) entered a very manly and vigorous protest against any addition to the number of the House of Commons. " Rather...

Advocate on Monday. It extends the borough franchise to a household rating suffrage, the county franchise to a 121. rating suffrage, as in England; and guts the counties of "all...

of the settlement has decided as the Archbishop of York predicted a fortnight ago,—that Natal was a Crown colony, and not a colony with " representative institutions,"—when...

duties proposed to be conferred on the Judges by the Corrupt Practices Bill has been published, and seems to us, we confess, cavalier in style and weak in substance. It conveys...

harshly ridicul- ing Mr. Walpole's appeal to sentimental memories ;—" they were asked to be guided by the sentimental feelings of gentlemen who happened to have been educated...

tion has been defeated in Alabama, and so ends the hope of a speedy reconciliation between the South and the North. Had it been ratified, the intention of the Republicans was,...

its usual rather helpless chatter, and rather idle work. In the Upper House a resolution has been agreed to on Ritualism, to the effect that the legitimate ritual practices...

Mr. George Melly,—a sound Liberal and an able speaker,—by a majority of 79,-1,489 having polled for Mr. Melly, and only 1, 420 for the Conservative, Mr. Campbell.

alone, having bitterly quarrelled with the Democrats and the President on the subject of Mr. Stanton's reinstatement in the War Office. The President charges him with having...

Public Schools' Bill. Of course, he praised the public schools, and dwelt on the fascinating memories of boyhood. Of course, also, he delicately hinted, that though they deserve...

first ran very close. But the last returns yesterday evening, up to the end of the third day's polling, were, for Mr. Beresford-Hope, 1,4554; for Mr. Cleasby, 1,182. Still there...

question will be settled. Mr. Gladstone moved the second read- ing of his Bill abolishing the compulsory powers attached to the• Church-Rate, except so far as promises of...

pro- vision that a majority of the registered electors must vote on the ratification. The whites sedulously kept themselves and their negro servants from the poll. 80,000 whites...

Mr. Lowe for the University of London writes to Tuesday's Times to deprecate depreciating criticism on the claims of the various candidates as unusual in " University...

"do not quote the prices of best articles, but merely a low- priced article. For instance, in the price book of the C. S. S. A., now before me, the highest quotation for nutmegs...

sense,—an institution in the country where young women should be resident during the whole of the academical (half the actual) year, has becu begun by a magnificent donation...

last week the capital needed by a grocer, when we assumed that it would be equal in amount to his purchases. " Any grocer will tell you," writes our correspondent, " that in...

off at the annexed quotations :— Fr:lay, Feb. 14. Friday, Feb. 21. Great Eastern— ... ... 301 ... 301 Great Northern ... ... ... 1031 1074 Groat Western ,.. .... ... 451...

Friday, Feb. 14. Friday, Feb. 21. Mexican 16 13.1 Spanish New ... 331 364 Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858 63 624 1862 616 614 United States 5.20's 2i 721

H. Worms, made a good suggestion in the course of an address on Wednesday last,—that no adult who, having been educated at a primary school, should afterwards applyfor a place...

the course they were going to pursue with reference to popular education. He insisted on the advantage with which a Conser- vative Government could legislate on the subject, and...

Earl of .Mayo (better known as Lord Naas), moved the first reading of the continuation of the Habeas Corpus Suspension Act. The classification of the occupations of the 265...

was heavy, at depressed quotations. At one time, Consols were done at 924, 4. They have since recovered to 931, 4, at which they closed yester- day. Reduced and New Three per...

THE TORY PREMIERSHIP. A S Lord Derby has declined to gratify the Times by dying, it is still possible, of course, that he may retain for a period his place as nominal Prime...

I, 4R. J. S. MILL has, we are very happy to see, abandoned 1.11 the view, which he recently held, that the state of Ireland does not call for " heroic remedies." He has had the...

S OME days of the Parliamentary Session of 1868 have passed by, and from the tone of discussion in the House of Commons we have reason to anticipate a year of languid...

T HE Daily News,—with that careful sobriety of tone, tending towards frigidity, which is one of its most striking and not unfrequently one of its most useful characteristics,...

it_ MIDST the folio piles annually printed at such heavy, and in nine cases out of ten useless cost to the country, there was issued last year a thin quarto of two hundred pages...

T HE death of Mr. Justice Shee, and the consequent vacancy on the Judicial Bench, have attracted attention to the extraordinary amount of legal patronage which has fallen to the...

T HE Saturday Review, in the course of its exhaustive, not to say rather exhausting, campaign against women, has indicted them formally in its last nnmber for having entirely...

I N a singular journal, Les Etats Unis d'Europe, sprung from the Geneva Peace Congress of last autumn, and professing to be the " organ of the International League of Peace and...

LIII.—THE SUBURBAN COUNTIES AND HERTFORDSHIRE :— THE LAND SINCE THE NORMAN CONQUEST. T HEprincipal landowners in Middlesex at the time of Domes- day Survey were, among...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] you permit me to offer to your readers a specimen of American history which may induce you to reconsider your decision as to the impossibility...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In a recent number of the Pall Mall Gazette appeared some remarks on Mr. Gladstone's lecture on Sir W. Scott. Their drift was to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your able review of the Pilgrim and the Shrine, you make an assertion which strikes me as very questionable. Speaking of the power...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I hardly expected to have had to complain of unmannerli- ness on your part ; yet when, instead of leaving silently, or honestly answering, my letter...

MR. PAITISON ON ACADEMICAL ORGANIZATION.* THE public, dimly conscious that Oxford has initiated or accepted during the last twenty years great changes in the distribution of her...

have invaded the French stage, and triumphantly taken possession of a part of its domain." So says one of the Parisian theatrical critics, after summing up the successes lately...

Mas. HUGH BLACKBURN is an artist of rare genius in her own line. Her birds are not so much copies, as reproductions ; they are not merely from nature, they are nature itself,...

PROFESSOR Nu.ssoN's book does not pass over so wide a range of archaeology as Sir John Lubbock's Prehistoric Man, being devoted entirely to the period called by Sir John the...

Jesus Christ during His Ministry on Earth. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The object of the compiler of this book has been " to gather together in a complete whole," without any more...

Early Home. (Edin- burgh: W. P. Nimmo.)—One of the objects of this book is to vindicate the Pentateuch from the charge of scientific inaccuracy. Another is to show us that we...

Gardenhurst. By Anna C. Steele. 3 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)— This might be a good novel, but for the ending. It opens with some promise, runs a pleasant course, and then winds...

Oilier. (Hotten.)—Some of the miscellaneous poems in this volume please us much more than the classical pieces with which it opens. We cannot say much for them. " The Masque...

Rawlinson. (Rivingtons.)—The author of these sermons held the living of Wilton for nineteen years, and the sermons published here were, with two excep- tions, preached in the...

F. D. Huntingdon, D.D. (Miall.)—This book contains eight "Graham Lectures" delivered at Brooklyn, New York. Haman society is treated in them as a divine appointment, a living...

(Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. Robert Lytton says modestly, in the dedication of these volumes, "I presume not to hope from many readers that patient perusal which, nevertheless, I...

Heat from Open Fireplaces. By Frederick Edwards, jun. (Hardwicke.) —The questions started by Mr. Edwards are moat important to all householders, and the second half of the...

Men of the Time is somewhat more complete than its immediate predecessors, while it has entirely lost that vice of puffery and partizan- ship for which the first volumes were...

Charles Wright and Henry Smith Wright. (Bell and Daldy.)—Father and son are the literary copareenors of this book, and the father is already known as a translator of Dante and...

Mary Jewry. (F. Warne and Co.); The New Cookery Boo':. By Anne Bowman. (Routledge.)—It is idle to profess to review two such book; unless one can read them at sight, as it...

(Tinsloy.)—We cannot say that we feel much interest in Mr. Pem- berton's subject, and the want is not supplied by his treatment of it. Monaco must be a pretty place, not only...

History discussed from a New Point of View. By Marcus Keene, M.R.I.A. (Hodges, Smith, and Co.)—To do justice to this elaborate work, the reviewer ought to be an Irishman, an...

Douglas.)—Sketches of the lives and adventures of Magellan, Cook, Park, Franklin, and Livingstone. The idea is a good one, and Mr. Moasman has produced an interesting book. We...

Yonge. Vols. III. and IV. (Tinsloy.)—The period over which these two volumes of Mr. Yonge's work extend is that beginning with the death of Louis XIV. and ending with the...

Hastings. (Nisbet and Co.)—Notwithstanding the abundant supply of literature of all kinds, and especially of works of fiction, which the present day presents, there is still...

billiard-table, and one that will enable young players to forsake the dashing style of flukes with which so many of them begin, for a more certain and artistic method. Mr....

of Christianity. By John Vickers. (Triibner.)—We have no doubt the author of this book thinks it extremely fine, and has quite converted himself by his own reasoning. To us it...

pieces of verse in this book, two of them being tales, one a patriotic drama, and the other what used to be called a didactic poem, that is, a rhymed guide to the management of...

Paraphrase and Introduction. By Sir Stafford Carey, M.A. (Williams and Norgate.)— Sir Stafford Carey attempts in this little book to make out, with much ingenuity, that the...

Local Events from 1741 to 1841. Compiled and edited by John Alfred Langford. Vol. I. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—There is some curious matter in this book, and its compilation...