of Wales are, we are happy to see, decidedly more favourable. The rheumatism is still severe, but the pain is gradually diminishing, and with it the danger from sleeplessness...

M R. DISRAELI introduced his Bill at last, as the fourth stage in the Ministerial progress, "or rather," as Mr. Gladstone said, "procedure," on Monday night. He was tame and "...

with the eagerness he always displays when battle is at last joined, and in a vehemently aggressive speech denounced the plan which, detailed three days before to Lord Derby's...

Bowyer, Mr. Roebuck, and Mr. Bernal Osborne among the (nominal) Liberals pleading for the second reading, and the first two reflecting angrily on Mr. Gladstone ;—Sir William...

was held at Mr. Gladstone's house on Thursday at two o'clock. Mr. Gladstone, as leader of the party and representative of the late Ministry, stated that in his judgment it would...

snowing, though the sun is again north of the Equator. The Clifton people complain that it has been snowing five weeks, and that there are eight inches of snow on the ground...

sent in as early in the week as possible, in order to insure insertion. In future, the latest time will be 10 o'clock on Friday Mornings.

Spain, it will be remembered, has released forty-five of the fifty-one sailors imprisoned, but detained the Captain and six men to "give evidence" for the captors. The seven...

the Emperor of the French has obtained currency this week. It is stated that Napoleon has addressed proposals, formal or informal, to Belgium, Switzerland, and Holland to enter...

think, add considerably to Lord Stanley's reotation. The Servian demand, it will be remembered, was that the Turks should evacuate all their fortresses in the Principality, that...

Pope, who is a man with a conscience, has at length been moved by the utter misery to which brigandage has reduced the districts on his southern frontier. Finding his Zouaves...

their creditors was smashed on Tuesday by Lord Cairns. In a speech of exquisite lucidity he showed that the Bill granted the Companies a "complete immunity from execution for...

Johnson has not ordered a 7's Deum for this great victory of the Union.

on Tuesday night. Mr. Peter Taylor was to call the attention of the Home to the recent promotion of Mr. Churchward (who had been found guilty of corrupt practices by a vote of...

The Metropolitan Board of Works only obtained an extension of the coal and wine duties on condition of carrying an improvement rate. It has proposed one of 4d. in the pound,...

up their minds to make the Small Tenements' Act universal below houses rated at 5/., and then to make the borough suffrage and "personal payment of rates" conterminous, there is...

in August last, by which each power guarantees the other's dominions. The Bavarian Army, moreover, is to be organized on the Prussian system, and in time of war, offensive or...

received in London. It occurred at 6 p.m. on the 6th inst., when a double shock was felt, which flung down in a moment whole blocks of solid stone houses. The castle, the...

Pakington has, it appears, promoted Lieutenant Yorke, son of the Earl of Hardwicke, to be Commander over the heads of about 350 senior officers, some of whom, at all events,...

the week is an advance in the value of Indian Five per Cent. Stock to 110, while the Bonds have sold at as high a figure as 45 per cent. prem. Consols for account have reached...

the thirty-ninth Congress had expired, and immediately .elected Mr. Wade, a strong Republican and an able man, Presi- dent of the Senate, and Mr. Colfax Speaker of the House of...

a somewhat unusual way. The relatives of a Mrs. Peaty, wife of a clerk in the Bank, applied to the Divorce Court to annul her marriage, on the ground that when it was contracted...

on Friday week are subjoined :— Friday, March 16. Friday, March 22. M exican .. .. .. Spanish Passive .. .. Do. Certnicates .. .. Turkish 6 per Cents., litsa .. Dia .....

in favour of joining the Canadian Confederation. There can be no objection except the difficulty of access, which is for them, not us, to consider, and may probably soon be...

off at the annexed quotations :- Friday, March 15. Friday, March 22. Great Eastern .. Great Northern .. Great Western.. .. 271 116 40 ,., ... •• 274 116 401 Lancashire...

through its second reading on Wednesday, by one of those great majorities which have not been obtained for the last eight years,-76. Both Mr. Gladstone and his son, who is said...

had all his farmers to dinner, wishing to ascertain their views on the edu- cation of agricultural labourers. Many of the farmers were much above the average British farmer, men...

Is THE CABINET TO STAY IN? SE men ought to be put out. If the "Moderates," as they - - call themselves, insist that Mr. Disraeli's Bill shall „ ppaosidered in Committee, Mr....

T HE Conservative Reform Bill is before us at last, though it is pretty well understood that, in conformity with the humiliating Ministerial precedents of this session, its one...

A BOUT fifty years ago, prices for corn being very high, the landowners of the districts of Lincolnshire near Louth began enclosing the Fen on a great scale. Cottages not...

calculated to inspire a deep sense of the dreariness of human life than such a debate as Wednesday's in the House of Commons on Church-Rates. To see some two or three hundred...

URENCH Parliamentary orators speak, when allowed to do I' as they like, from a tribune, like so many English lec- turers, or country clergymen, who do not usually make much...

W E wish every broad-acred many-consolled man in England could be induced to read the extraordinary paper con- tributed by Mr. Frederic Harrison to the last number of the...

M ISS COBBE has written down a very touching autobiogra- phy of her dog Hajjiu, whose pathetic narrative* of her own loss in London and her recovery through the Holloway Home...

PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. XXIL—SUSSEX AND SOUTH SURREY.—GEOGRAPHY. W E include under this Province the district to the south of that remarkable elevated range called the...

answered promptly, The general aspect of the Province, then, is that of a wall of and with truth, that our institutions were not established for the chalk running parallel to...

But there can be no reaction where action has never been, and as the political rights of persons of the female sex, with the exception of those of members of the Royal Family,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In attacks upon Positivism it is usual to attribute to it doc- trines the exact contrary of those maintained in the works of Comte. A...

SIR C. WOOD'S ADMINISTRATION OF INDIA.* THE Anglo-Indians will open this volume with the hope of finding in it some contributions to secret history, and will be sadly dis-...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your very interesting article in the current number of the Spectator, which I for one most heartily enjoyed, and with a very great...

IF criticism be not a delusion from the very bottom, this pleasant little story is written by Mr. Anthony Trollope. We have nt› external evidence for saying so, and there is the...

IN his preface to this volume, which concludes, though it cannot be said to complete, the life of Fox, Earl Russell suggests that a Whig view of that life ought to find a place...

WHEN, about a year ago, Mr. Lowe was uttering the most eloquent of his many eloquent libels on government by the people,—when he was denouncing democracy, "that bare and level...

began his career as a clergyman by writing two sermons a week and reading them to his congregation. The results he experienced were much the same as the conclusions that must be...

England. By Thomas Erskine Holland. (Butterworths.)—This plan has been submitted at the suggestion of Lord Westbury to the Royal Commission which is now sitting. Mr. Holland...

The Contenporary Review. March. (Strahan.)— Lord Lyttelton opens the March number of this solid monthly with an article on "Ex- travagance in Devotional Writings" which will...

A very proper book, despite the exceeding bad taste of its title, and a very stupid one. Mrs. Lott, instead of continuing the narrative of her own experiences, which had from...

is a very lively little nursery volume, and Grandmama, though she "points her moral," also "adorns her tale," into quaint illustrations. Morality may indeed, in the story of...

very neatly written, well devised story, without any trace in it of original power. The characters are all natural, the incidents such as might occur in any household, yet with...

Italy. (Williams and Norgate.)—So many English travellers who can read German have put their trust in Btedeker that a translation of his guide- books for the much larger number...

(Edinburgh : W. P. Nimmo.)—These are odd quaint stories, which seem Romances of the Old Town of Edinburgh. By Alexander Leighton. (Edinburgh : W. P. Nimmo.)—These are odd quaint...

Step by Step. By Henry Caubes and Edwin Hines. Arithmetical Tables in Rhyme. By Rev. H. C. Davies. (Dean and Son.)—Ever since the Bishop of Natal turned his attention to the...

Stories. (Cassell, Patter, and Galpin.)—The fault of this story is that it reminds us of The Channings and other novels of the same author. The good boys are too good, and the...

of extracts, very thick, and not pretending to any order or arrangement. Mr. Jenkins has probably kept a common-place book for a good many years, and has now given it to the...

of Mary- Powell. (Sampson Low).—This is a return to the first loves of the Author of Mary Pozoell, for the Masque at Ludlow is the story of the- writing and first performance of...

in some of his earlier ones, and while these will hardly be popular in the sense of "The Psalm of Life" and "Excelsior !" they will command a more critical approbation. The...

(Longmans.)—We presume Mr. Hodgson has a theory, but we have not been able to find it out. He has peppered it over with such long words, and put these long words into such long...

Church. Printed by authority of H.M.S.L. the Bishop of Iona. (Simp- 77ie Eastern Liturgy of the Holy Catholic, Apostolic, and Orthodox Church. Printed by authority of H.M.S.L....

Asia. By Rev. Marcus Dods, M.A. (Edinburgh : Maclaren.)—These are discourses on the history of the Seven Churches addressed at the beginning of the Revelations, and on the...

(Strahan.)—The title.page and the author's name are sufficient indica- tions of the contents of this volume. There are twelve sermons in it, some of them more particularly...

James Nicol, Edinburgh : Oliver and Boyd.)—Two popular lectures which certainly ought to be popular. Mr. Nicol writes on geology so as to be under- stood, and on scenery so as...

(Van Voorst.)—Mr. Crichton's chapters appeared originally in the Field and deserved the honours of a reprint. He writes chattily of his experiences in chase of birds and seals,...

Richard Glover, M.A. (W. Hunt and Co.)—Mr. Glover is the Incumbent of Christ Church, Dover, and this volume contains a series of sermons he preached on the occasion of Mr....

War. By the Author of Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—The Draytons are a family in close alliance with Mr. Oliver Cromwell of Ely, and the...

We can appreciate Mr. Wood's raptures about football when it is played according to the rules he his laid down. By the Rugby code the game becomes a mere scuffle, a race between...

Fel& Lebahn. (Lockwood and Co.)—This meritorious little book would have been dismissed in a line, but for its unconscious comedy. Let the two following extracts speak for the...

Vol. M. A.D. 1122-1303. (Murray.)—It seems unfair to dispose of these 630 solid pages of learning in as many letters, but what are we to say of such a volume ? The absence of...

to transfer an object from one hand to the other. while actually retaining it in the one ; to make a shilling pass into the- centre of a ball of Berlin wool, or walk about a...

B. Patin. (F. Warne and Co.)—We need only say that this is a simple and pleasing little story. There is nothing very new in it, but the readers for whom it is intended are not...

TUCKER—On the 19th inst., at Cannes, in the 25th year of her age, Margaret Anne, the dearly loved wife of Marwood Tucker, of 28 Wilton place, Knighte- bridge, and tecond...

responsibility of returning MS. of which he cannot avail himself. It is suggested that Cor- respondents and Contmlutors should keep copies of such Documents as they value.

Longman and Co.—The Theory of Business, by John Laing; The Jonrual of a Home Life, by Elizabeth M. Sewell; Liber Librorura; Statistical Vindication of the City of London, by...

By Charles Boner. (Hardwicke.)—If any man has a right to speak of the enjoy- ment to be derived from mountain travel, it is the author of aiantois- Hunting in Bavaria. His...

The Progress of Engkrad. A Poem. (Edinburgh: Nimmo.) Poems. By Rev. E. S. Wilshere. (Hatchard.) Alfieri. A Drama in five acts. (C. J. Skeet.) The Times, the Telegraph, and Other...

Memory and the Rational Means of Improving It (Triibner); Dr. Lee's Ilomompathy and' Hydropathy Impartially Appreciated (Churchill) ; Alleine's Saint's Pocket Book (Tegg); Mr....

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