THE Belgian affair is no nearer a solution. The French Govern' ment still insists that the contract for selling the Luxemburg Railway shall be carried out, and M. Frere-Orban...

COUNT VON BISMARCK'S LAST SPEECH. T HE debate of the 16th inst. in the North German Parliament is one of the most important which has yet occurred in that body. It revealed at...

yi R. DISRAELI is an instructive speaker, if only for the exquisite precision with which he usually manages to invert the truth. Nothing was ever more complete in this way than...

I T has at length been found necessary to infuse a little more vitality and variety into the Council of India. That body, one of the most remarkable and, in its way most...

A COORDING to his own account of the matter Mr. Lowe on Tuesday night sprang a mine upon a new Tower of Babel, which the lawyers have been conspiring to build on the rather...

T HE Tories are changing their tactics with some adroitness. They see very clearly that their chance of resisting the Irish Church Bill in the Commons is very slender, and they...

A N anonymous volume, published in three several sizes,* is now selling like wildfire in Paris. Although the preface is only dated March 15, 1869, it has already reached its...

91EIE Times has been publishing for some weeks very long accounts of the magnificent entertainments with which the Pasha of Egypt and the Sultan of Turkey have welcomed the...

I N a House of 387 Members, a majority of only one less than 100 has decided, according to the view taken of the vote by most of the opponents of the Bill, to "abolish...

XCVILL—LINCOLNSHIRE. THE TOWNS. 13 ES ID E S the City of Lincoln, this county contains the boroughs and market-towns of Boston, Grantham, Grimsby, and Stamford, and twenty-five...

SELF-SUPPORTING EMIGRATION. [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] you permit me to ask, in reply to "R. B. D. M.," what good reason there is for a nation refusing to assist its...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sut,—If your powerful article on my very slight little essay in the Contemporary Review makes me look foolish, I may receive that as a...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIN—As my letter criticizing Professor Huxley's Edinburgh address has been once or twice alluded to by other correspondents, perhaps I may be...

[To TER EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."[ SIN—I have only just seen your paper of the 3rd April, in Which there is a notice of the Meath .Diocesan Synod. There I read, in connection...

A TRANSLATION OF UHLAND.* Titanic are difficulties peculiar and special to all translations, and we are not sure that the simpler and more youthful products of national...

WE have not many faults to find with this narrative of Captain Serames's adventures in the Confederate service. Notwithstanding a few Americanisms, a free use of slang, a tone...

Loches, and Blois, taken from the author's sketches, will no doubt attract many readers who cannot be expected to care much for the semi-historical, semi t o pographical gossip...

is comprised in the republished translations of two excellent plays, the" Son of the Wilderness," which may be already well known among readers of German, and the "Gladiator of...

NEARLY all English readers will find some interest in a well written account of the life of a schoolboy, and those who believe that the public-school system in the form we are...

The Dublin Review, for April. (Burns and Oates.)—The feature of this number is the editor's review (since republished) of Mr. Ffoulkes' "Letter to Archbishop Manning." Every ono...