was crowded, and Lord Salisbury in particular was like a captain with his decks cleared for action. It was very soon clear that if the Peers ruled England the Bill would soon be...

all future Lords Spiritual from the duty of attending in the House of Lords, and amongst the 102 there were one or two names of old Whigs,—like Mr. Hastings Russell, Mr. Ellis,...

case.

by the Opposition that the support of Conservatives was "like a shake of the hand from a man with the small-pox." He resisted the veto on formularies, asking if the 7'e Deuni...

marriage, to confiscation of all they possess. The Peers have referred their Bill to a Select Committee, with orders, as we underatand them, to make it into a Bill for securing...

measure now proposed, though not a complete national settlement of the question, would prepare the way for such a complete national settlement, and ridiculed utterly, on the...

T HE Irish Land Bill passed its second reading in the Lords on Friday week, the chief speakers in the third day's debate being the Irish Peers. Lord Lurgan said the legalization...

resumed on Monday by Mr. Richard, the Member for Merthyr Tydvil, whose speech resembled the whole debate in this,—that it pre- sented a very curious mixture of very different...

If it does, all that the British Government is going to do to avenge the massacre at Marathon is to demand an indemnity, which will be paid by the Greek people, who are...

raising a loan of some £370,000 to pay off old debts, and has obtained the British guarantee. She offers 4 per cent. The money has all been subscribed at 104. Consols are now...

with some renal disease, the Lancet says, but, as we should have thought, with worry. As if it were not enough to be baited all night in the House of Commons for saviug the...

on Thursday, and a distinguished company met at the house of the chairman, Mr. Fender, to celebrate the event, and amuse themselves with telegrams to everybody. The Prince of...

abrogate the law by which the Orleans Princes are exiled from France. It will scarcely pass, but the family think this a good opportunity to put themselves en evidence, and...

which he proposed to give a slice of Hyde Park to a private company. Bringing it forward was no fault of his, poor man !—but he should remember that when Robespierre ceases to...

has his K.C.B. at last. It has been given him for the smallest of the many services he has rendered to the Empire,— the aid he has afforded to Sir H. Storks, the...

were not equally important. Mr. Miall was moderate, but said nothing new ; Mr. Vernon Harcourt was flashy, but made no point beyond the by no means terrible threat of raising an...

opportunity of sallying out a long-delayed but most important improvement. Two courts, or small " rookeries," intervene between Rupert Street and Berwick Street, and but for...

case of the man Maw, flogged in Newcastle Jail by order of Mr. Green- well, puts a different aspect on the affair. George Maw has been repeatedly sentenced for acts of violence,...

meeting for promoting the Union of the three great branches of the Christian Church, the Roman, Greek, and Anglican, which he seemed to think could be done by rallying round the...

time been experimenting on the best mode of preventing the sears caused by burns. Following a French experimenter, M. Reverdin, who has detached minute pieces of skin and...

chiefly to Lord Salisbury, the new Chancellor, and Professor Bryce, who, as Professor of Law, introduced the candidates for honorary degrees, and exerted himself to describe...

a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury with reference to the wish of some of the members of the English Church that a protest should be put forth against the (Ecumenical...

good wearing article, not too ingenious. A gentleman in a light coat under his master's gown was entreated to go out, his name and college were asked, he was requested to...

commission to inquire into "the means best fitted to guarantee the security of every part of Her Majesty's dominions." The motion was of course absurd, as an Imperial policy is...

separated and usually hostile creeds, were compelled in their weakness to build up a State by the side of the mightiest Repub- lic in the world,—a Republic ambitious,...

I F Mr. Somerset Beaumont's attack on the political functions= of the Bishops were founded on Mr. Bright's scornful denunciation of them as the offspring of an adulterous union,...

been some specimens in our own columns, and many more elsewhere, as to the true characteristic of Charles Dickens's literary power, betray the usual difficulty in discriminating...

Titan" still staggers along, oppressed, it may be, by the "too vast orb of his fate," or it may also be by his own stupidity, but at least it is not for want of bit and sup that...

N1T E do not quite see all the difficulties which some of our contemporaries seem to perceive in the way of suppressing Baby-Farming. Infanticide, no doubt, has in all ages and...

II.—WILLIAM RUFUS. T HE sons of a Founder, if more favoured generally than he was in the starting-point of their career, are also exposed to some disadvantages. if their...

BRITISH AND FOREIGN SCHOOLS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your artic'e last week, you observe that these schools "profess to be unsectarian and undenominational....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR:1 SIR, —Your correspondent Mr. W. H. Northy, whose letter appeared in your paper of Saturday last, is entirely in error in what he says as to...

ABOUT AND HIS SCHOOL.* M. ABOUT is the best living type of that literary family which traces its lineage to Voltaire. The philosophic satirist of Ferney won his unrivalled...

IN a previous volume of poems,—two or three of which are republished here in their natural connection, with a great addi- tional number of the same cycle,—Mr. Buchanan gave us...

the part of this volume which is due to Mr. Jebb is far more entertaining and valuable than that which is ascribed to Theophrastus. We are decidedly of opinion, however, that...

THE writings of Wiclif have been treated with strange neglect. Judged merely by their intrinsic value, they deserve to be printed far more than many a bulky volume of medimval...

ONE comes rather frequently, in these days of rapid writing and much reading, upon books which would be valuable additions to well•stocked libraries, were it not for defects of...

WE have headed our review with the title of one of the sections of this book, and not with the title of the book itself, because neither illustrations nor text add anything to...

(Tinsley.) —This is one of the books from which we cannot conceive deriving either pleasure or profit. An English courtesan of a very coarse and vulgar type, whose proceedings...

M.A., and J. E. L. Shadwell, M.A. (Clarendon Press.)—There is a great difference of opinion about the utility of books of extracts for the purposes of a teacher. There are...

Piccadilly : a Fragment of Contemporary Biography. By Lawrence Oliphant. (Blackwood.)—" Personally," says Mr. Oliphant of his book, "I can be in no way affected by its fate, nor...

Hall.) —The author in her modest prefaea tells us that her tale is an attempt " to save some of tree relics of speech and thought still remaining from the old days." This will...

of E. van Bruyssel. Edited by the Author of the "Heir of Rodolyffe." (Mac- millan.)—The teller of these "stories of insect life" is supposed to have seen the scenes which he...

vols. (J. R. Smith.)—This work is based, Mr. Hazlitt tells us in his preface, upon the materials collected by the late John Brand, these, again, being largely due to an earlier...

book is called on the title-page " a novel," but it does not answer the description. Jabez is a man who has realized a large fortune in the tea treat), and who retires to his...

(Newby.)— The gentleman who is " caught " is a certain adventurer who runs off with a half-witted girl, expecting to get a fortune with her. The for- tune is hers if she reaches...

G. Vernon-Harcourt and H. G. Madan (Clarendon Press) is a very careful, and, as far as it takes the student, the analysis of a single salt, "one acid and one base," really...

us a new edition of his admirable guide, which has long been the monn- taineer's best authority on all the region to which it refers. Mr. Ball tells us that even since the last...

Author of " Christie Redfern's Troubles." (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We have not found this " tale from Canada" very easy reading, though the different scones and manners do...