T HE week has been full of rumours about Reform, some of which are more or less trustworthy. The mass of them point to a course of procedure which may prove to be of this kind....

Bradford meeting about the Reform Resolutions, in which he states that "the course taken is an insult to the House, and a gross offence to the whole body of Reformers in the...

Dr. W. B. Hodgson, who resigned his seat on the Council of University College in consequence of the recent infraction of its =sectarian principle, have given notice of motions...

night. After Mr. Sclater-Booth (Conservative) had put to Mr. Disraeli a friendly question on the point whether the Government wished to delay their Reform Bill till after the...

of the ablest and most moderate of the Reds, as his Chancellor of the Exchequer. He has also made a very able appeal to the country. In a short but well written circular to the...

has at length been prepared. It is a stupendous measure. The Emperor cannot be frightened from his fixed idea that all France should be armed, and has only consented to reduce...

of a daughter,—or, as the doctors report in their bulletin, of "a princess," as if that were something else. The Princess had been previously ill, but we are happy to perceive...

than ever this week. On Wednesday, his agent in New York told us, under date New York, 18th inst., "The Bill for the military government of the South appears likely to fail. The...

the result•of which was this. Mr. Seely affirmed that the dockyards were mismanaged ; Sir John Pakington admitted the fact, and said the fault lay in the constitution of the...

attacked this week both at Lancaster and Yarmouth. The Commission of Inquiry into the conduct of the former place report that out of 1,339 voters who polled, 884 were bribed and...

Act suspending the Habeas Corpus, for three months only. It was, he said, with the greakest reluctance that Government made the application, but it was absolutely necessary to...

a decree ordering that all persons printing, editing, or writing in clandestine journals, or supplying fail& for their main- tenance or circulation, should at once suffer death,...

Paris Exhibition. Napo- leon, finding that his spectacle will cost 1,500,000/., owing to some heavy jobbing, has ordered that each nation shall pay part of its own expenses. So...

Brunswick, and Nova Scotia on Monday night. The colonies are to form one colony under the name of Canadia, the one chosen by the Delegates. The new State will be ruled by a...

their end. On the 17th inst. an Imperial rescript was issued, informing Hungary that the Emperor "restored her Con- stitution." The announcement was received by the Diet and...

by the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland at a State dinner, dressed in red stockings and all the other paraphernalia of a Prince of the Church. The next thing will be to receive a...

he has been to London. He has just given 200,0001. in cash and 200,0001. more in Mississippi Bonds,—worth, we fear, scarcely so much as cash,--" to educate the youth of the...

favour- able, and the amount of bullion held by the two establishments is now about 48,000,000/. The official minimum rate of discount here and at Paris remains unaltered at 3...

been brought out in London, Paris, Frankfort, and Bucharest. The price of issue is 71, and the rate of interest 8 per cent. The scrip is to + dia., and more than the whole of...

exceedingly creditable thing. The Blacas collection of gems, which is simply invaluable, was in the market in Paris, and he sent over Mr. Newton—the artist employed to disinter...

-" That in the opinion of this House, in any further scheme to amend the Reform Act of 1832 and increase the body of electors, it is not desirable or necessary that all boroughs...

which recites that since additions to any consecrated church are held to be consecrated by the mere fact of becoming part of that the whole of which was intended to be...

Foreign Securities yesterday and on Friday week :— Friday, Feb. 15. Friday, Feb. 23. • • 141 .. 14 173 .. 171 221 .. 22 • . ••• • • .• •• 00 MI 00 58 .. 73 .. 781 58 .. 581...

Great Northern Great Western.. Lancashire and Yorkshire .. Loudon and Brighton London and Noah-Western London and South-Western London, Chatham, and Doter Metropolitan • ....

THE NUMBER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. T HERE is one assumption which pervades every debate, speech, and essay upon Reform, which is vital to the question, which nobody disputes,...

N OTHING strikes an external observer of Parliament with greater surprise than the extraordinary amount of self- *denial which appears to be involved in the attempt of any party...

1W HILE the House of Representatives has been pressing— VT as it now appears successfully—on the Senate a measure for organizing in the disaffected Southern 4 Btates, for a...

W E were right in our judgment upon the Napoleonic reforms. They are mean, so mean that disappointment will probably produce more anger in France than continued suspense would...

T HE Improvement Bill introduced by Lord Naas is a valuable contribution to the literature of tenant right, but we fear it is nothing more. It is of no use to pass any land Bill...

E XTERNALLY the Lower House of Convocation is one of the most picturesque of English institutions. Meeting in the old oak-wainscoted Jerusalem Chamber, and meeting always in...

p E Esterhazy Jewels, now on view at Mr. Boore's, in the Strand, are worth seeing for more than one reason. To those who admire precious stones, who obtain a genuine pleasure...

THE existence of -a- Visi-Gothic principality in what was after- -IL wards called Normandy, and- of a "Saxon Shore," which -extended along the northern coast of Gael, and the...

THE NEW LAW COURTS' DESIGNS. This is by far the most important single prize offered to an Eng- lish architect since the competition for the Houses of Parliament in 1835. The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sui,—In recent discussions on the much vexed Conscience-Clause question two points appear to me to have been overlooked, which are...

Sxn, —I was unfortunately prevented from replying to " S. D. C.'s" letter of February 2 in time for your last impression, but I hope you will allow me to do so now. Four...

"Do you say, Venture not ? If you leave me, you are lost?' '0 public road ! ' I say back, 'I am not afraid to leave you—yet love you.' "—Warm. WHITMAN. Thus far, then, side...

THE MONKS OF THE WEST.* THE mind of the Count de Montalembert is probably unique as an intellectual phenomenon. A Frenchman, he yet loves and appreciates England, and...

In spite of the improbable tissue of incidents by which it is disfigured, and the author's admiring delineation of moods of wholly morbid sentiment, there is a sincere and not...

of Argyll last week published a charge to his clergy, by way of caution against "gross conceptions of the Sacraments" in which he traverses generally, with that depth of * On...

A WORK which professed to put forth new views on the nature and treatment of such a disease as Cholera would at all times be received and looked into with attention, and now,...

in respect to the "Alabama." (Longmans.) American Neutrality; its Honourable- Past, its Expedient Future. By George Bemis. (Boston : Little, Brown,, and Co.; London: Sampson...

Publishers and Authors. By James Spedding. (John Russell Smith.) —The name of Mr. Spedding on the title-page of a small volume which was refused insertion in more than one...

is a book which ought to be in every household, but which it is hopeless to recommend to every kitche-^ If cooks would only read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest it, we should...

Taylor is already known to the reading public as the author of a book called Convent Life in .11.4. His present work is an equally careful study of the great religious houses of...

Herbert has done well to bring the life of St. Monica, the mother of St. Augustine, before the English public, though the French bio- graphy which has here been tranalated does...

Jean Mace. Translated by a Lady. Two vols. (Saunders and Otley.)—Two charm- ing little volumes. It is hard to say whether instruction or amusement predominates in them, whether...

Romilly, late Chairman of the Board of Audit. (Ridgway.)—There is enough in this letter to make us hope that it will reach its address. But we cannot take upon ourselves to...

little book the speeches of Lord Houghton, Professor Selwyn, Professor Fawcett, and the others who took part in opening the Cambridge Union Buildings are collected, with a...

and Lincoln's Inn. (London: J. Parker and Co.)—Mr. Elton's book is so good, that it deserves to be widely known, and so interesting, in spite of an anti- quarian subject, that...

worths.)—Mr. Lushington in a modest preface puts his volume forward as being designed for the use of naval officers in war time. More than this, he says, it does not attempt ;...

Ecce Homines ! or, a Lije's Quest. (Adams and Francis.)—There was siothing to repay us for the trouble of wading through these two books of verso, except that they were soon at...

making many books about Shakespeare there is no end. We do. not wish to be uncivil to Mr. Rushton, but he might go on for ever in this quest of parallel passages. And we notice...

and Co.)—Mr. Glover has boiled down into one short volume the largo work of Professor Julius Miiller, of Halle, called The Christian Doctrine of Sin. The original work has...

by a Lady. (London, Bfurby.)—The object of this book is to supply an English history at once concise, attractive, and cheap. The first and last of these requirements have...

By the Rev. Oliver Raymond, LL.B. (Longmans.)—Mr. Raymond's treatise con- tains valuable hints about fishing, as well as moral reflections on the principle he enunciates. His...

Douglas.) —This essay appeared in the North British Review, and is now re- printed, with additions. A tender and loving study of a tender and /eying writer, it would at all...

Co.)—This is Dr. Hunter's account of his action for libel. The short-hand writers seem to have followed the evidence and the Chief Justice's summing- up correctly, and to have...

(J. C. Hotten.)—Dr. Holmes's poems are not new to the English public. If we mistake not, one of those which appear in this collection was quoted nearly fifteen years ago by Miss...

Cooper's Waterwitch and Lost of the Mohicans (Routledge); Mr. Forsyth's Sporting Rifle and its Projectiles (Smith, Elder, and Co.); Col J. Robertson's Historical Proofs on the...