Cele- bration on July 12 without being attacked, and the Catholics expected that they would be allowed to hold theirs also on August 15. The Orangemen, however, asserted that...

Marlborough has there taken the lead against the men ; the nen very wrongly used the harvest as a weapon to gain a sudden increase of 50 per cent., the farmers are intensely...

intends as soon as the Assembly meets to propose the defini- tive proclamation of the Republic, the creation of a Second Chamber, and the investment of the President and the...

T HE Bishop of Gloucester, in a letter to Mr. G. Mitchell, one of the Secretaries of the Agricultural Union, protests that ." although he expressed himself strongly, but...

the Continent, Bel- fast would throughout the week have been in a state of silge d, From Thursday week to Thursday again the Protestant Catholic mobs have been fighting,...

are 'struck by three points which come out.in all of them. The first is, that the men invariably demand lanthif farmers' rent" in aid of silver wages, the quantity fixed on...

feeling about the use of this word "heathen," which in India is never employed except in insult, just as " idolater " is in England about Roman Catholics. He had no intention of...

that the Khedive is invading Abyssinia, and all kinds of letters are being written about atrocities committed on European women by Prince Kassel. On the other hand, the Neue...

the Metropolitan Police that crime is distinctly decreasing in London. In spite of the recklessness of the people, who expose property, and leave their windows unfastened, and...

named May and Nagel, came over recently to England to avoid the conscription. They formed the acquaint- ance of a German girl named Burgess, living in a disreputable house in...

to believe in the literal accuracy of his stories about Dr. Livingstone. He has some right to be angry, for he has done a great deed, and all his more important statements have...

before the New York Senate, sitting as an Impeachment Court, with the Chief Justice at their head, has been found guilty, sentenced to dismissal, and declared disqualified for...

behalf of the Society for the Propagation off the Gospel, pro- pounded a very singular theory. He thought that the great influx of " heathen " into England—sixty Indians, for...

with preparation. The disadvantages of our disjointed and shifting organisation are brought out by the necessity for the gathering of divers battalions at Blandford, there to be...

sadors," that is to say, Sionii Iwakura, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and his suite. They differ very much from the Burmese "Ambassadors." The latter are a knot of...

seems to be the use of solid bottoms in ordinary fire-grates. It is asserted, and indeed proved, that in any fire-place not ex- oessively small a plate of iron placed upon the...

in one way a noteworthy event. He was the last surviving son of Tippoo Sahib, grandson of Hyder Ali, and the evidence that up to the last years of his life he exercised a sort...

a railway from Alexandretta to the Persian Gulf by a Government guarantee. The cost is to be ten millions, and the idea is that Turkey should build it, and England and India...

Gledstanes and Co., leading India merchants (Shand, Fairlie, and Co., in Calcutta), suspended payment on Thursday, with liabilities secured and unsecured to the amount of two...

Spanish Cortes will be moderate Radicals, and S. Zorrilla, the Premier, has ad- -dressed to them a somewhat important speech. He sees his way to an endurable finance, he uttered...

a very conscientious _person, with considerable intellectual power and a good many crotchets. One of them is that there is no such language as Oordoo, but only Hindostanee,...

A DANGER AHEAD. W E confess we look forward to the coming Winter with grave apprehension. We may underrate the conserva- tive forces at work—that is always easy in a country...

a certain reality of the truce proclaimed by the leaders of the Orange- suspicion of inequitable administration, a certain perception of men, it was resolved that a great...

T HE dismissal of Judge Barnard, of New York, the Erie Judge, and accomplice of the municipal Ring, may prove to be a much more important event in American history than at first...

THE object of the extremely able Report drawn up by Mr. Chichester Forteseue for the Joint Committee of Lords and Commons on Railway Amalgamation, is sufficiently clear. It is...

O N the last Sunday of the past July, there was a funeral and interment at Naples of a man who has left his mark in recent Italian history, more deeply, perchance, than any...

T HE painful contrast presented between the brilliant successes of Mr. Stanley and the results attained by the Expedition organised by the Royal Geographical Society, is...

W E fear the world will not gain much from the debate at Brighton before the British Association on the Education of Girls. It may have been very instructive to those who heard...

WLITARY questions are never likely to be very popular, but ji it is now more probable that such attractiveness as they possess will increase. The enlarged circle of readers is...

C ONSIDE RING that the main purpose of Dr. Carpenter's address to the British Association last week professedly was to rebuke the overweening pretensions of some men of science,...

THE EFFICACY OF PRAYER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SMIOTI,TOR.1 thank you for having opened your columns to discus- .sion upon the efficacy of Prayer, and to have so well acted...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 SIR,—We often hear of extraordinary instances of the memory of memorable events passing away, but the most extraordinary that has ever come...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—In your article on the Pontefract election, you point out certain drawbacks to the vote by Ballot, and you consider that the result, on...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sur,—It appears to me that your correspondents "A. J. W." and "A Liberal Baronet" have failed to appreciate the difficulty sug- gested by...

will turn your eye from Pontefract, 1872, to South. Devon, 1835, from Mr. Childers' election to Lord John Russell's election, you will see a condition of things so nearly...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the notice of my book "Up in the North" which you were good enough to insert in your impression of the 10th inst., you lay stress on...

to know who the Mr. Simpson is "who is animated by the true spirit of chivalry," and who has given you your information about the trousers-makers of Liver- pool. We guess he has...

THE DORSETSIHRE LABOURERS' MANIFESTO. EES,—Zur, you knows the law, no doubt, We poor men scarce can spell it out. I've broke my contract, more vool I, I've maids my bed, and...

Sin,—In your "News of the Week" of last Saturday you state that "the only defect in the legal arrangements appears to be this, that the returning officer must count the votes...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR:] ▪ have read with much interest your notice of the condition -of the needlewomen who work for slop-sellers in Liverpool, and of the effort Mr....

much interest your article on "The Liver- pool Needlewomen." There is one point on which I could wish that Mr. W. Simpson would give us a little information, viz., the number of...

A LITTLE nook of wilderness Between the meadow and the river, Where two erewhile together came, And one will come no more forever. The rustic bridge, the narrow road, The seat...

CHRISTIANITY AS A SYSTEM.* THE last volume published by Dr. Newman "as a contribution towards a uniform edition of his publications" affords the critic an opportunity, vibich,...

eminent place in the region of contemporary English literature, Mr. Henry Reeve is more dis- tinguished as a translator and skilful retailer of other men's thoughts, than by any...

calculated the time at which Christianity as an historical religion must by the necessity of things cease to exist. He took as his premiss the thesis that- the belief in...

students to Three Centuries of English Literature (from the Elizabethan to the Victorian age), is to make a selection of "the most perfect specimens" of each 'kind of...

Tins interesting volume is rendered still more interesting by the fact that its author has been blind from early infancy. Mr. Levy is the Director of the Association for...

MR. PALMER'S two volumes contain the account of two distinct journeys. In 1868 he accompanied the Ordnance Survey Expe- dition to the peninsula of Sinai, and in the following...

Long's history of the fall of the Roman Republic narrates the events of only nine years, B.C. 58-50, and neither begins nor ends at any well marked point. It begins with...

Modern Turkey. By J. Lewis Farley. (Hurst and Blackett.)—Mr. Farley's book is divided into two parts. In the first he has "endeavoured to point out the benefits to health that...

might suppose that this book had something to do with King Arthur and his "table round." We may enlighten him by quoting the rest of the title. page,—." Notes on Cookery and...

Taylor. (Sampson Low and Co.)—" Beauty and the Beast" is a tale of Russian life as it was rather more than a hundred years ago in Southern Russia. "The facts are borrowed," says...

Gairdner. (5 Queen Square, Blooinsbury.)—We have before us the first volume of this very useful reprint, which we may say is pre- sented to the public in a very useful and...