“ J UMBO" has gone. Contrary to general expectation, he had grown accustomed to pass through the wooden box built for his transit, and on Wednesday night he entered it readily....

Raikes in a speech of singular force, of which we have noted sufficiently the most important features elsewhere. Here we may add that he was particularly happy in showing that...

their own little party, and nobody else. They published on Wednesday a solemn manifesto, telling all Home-rulers that the Closure was directed against them, that a vote for it...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPECTATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The Second of...

the Conservative ex-Chairman of Committees. Mr. Raikes, however, instead of communicating to the House his own experience, delivered a speech full of party animosity, one which...

case.

the allowance of Prince Leopold to £25,000 a year, as he is about to marry a Princess of Waldeck-Pyrmont, who, if her photographs are not forgeries, will shortly be a prime...

said that Lord Hartingtoa had treated the Closure as a mode of putting down bores, which he certainly did, so far as those bores take up time which the House greatly needs for...

to the Control. It is stated with great positiveness, and in many quarters, that Arabi Pasha now demands the Premiership, in order that he may carry out a more decidedly...

Acland, son of the Member for North Devon, and the same who fought the gallant contest ip West Somersetshire two years ago. Mr. Acland is welcomed by the tenant-farmers as an...

is eighty-five;, on the 22nd inst., and made a short speech to those who attended the usual reception. He remarked that no one could now be called safe, assassins having struck...

the second reading of Lord Redesdale's Bill proposing a declaration of belief in "an Almighty God" for all Members of Parliament, after a debate in which nobody supported Lord...

Company on Friday week ; but the debate, though bright and interesting, was not very instructive. There was little new to be said. The real feeling and first argument of the...

little parti-coloured, but they all point to the growing popularity of various kinds of religious sensation. Last Sunday, in more than a thousand churches, there were prayers...

lives of self-sacrifice which they lead, are due, it is broadly hinted in Evangelical quarters, to Beelzebub. We had occasion lately to refer to the noble work and rare...

France in relation to violent Socialistic outbreak is very much sounder and more trustworthy, than the state of feeling in Ireland in relation to that mean and sordid form of...

charge of having murdered Georgina Moore, aged seven years, on December 20th last, near Yalding, in Kent. Esther Pay is the woman supposed to have taken with her from Pimlico...

of the restrictions on liberty of speech in France. On the celebration, last Saturday, of the anniversary of the outbreak of the Com- mune in 1871, Mademoiselle Louise Michel...

hold franchise in the counties, his plan being, when a uniform franchise had been conceded, to divide the country into districts -containing 50,000 souls, as nearly as might be,...

the Stock Exchanges. S. Camaoho, the Finance Minister, thinks that if there is to be another conversion, he may as well make Spain appear solvent. This she can never seem, with...

"DRAWING GLADSTONE." T HE abuse, often scurrilous as well as vulgar, which the Tories are pouring upon Mr. Gladstone, will do their party harm in two ways, one of which at...

T ORD HARTINGTON'S speech on the Closure of Debate J by a simple majority was remarkable for the straightfor- ward statement which he gave of three cardinal features of the...

B Y far the most interesting speech upon the vote of Thursday, granting an additional annuity to Prince Leopold, was that made by Mr. Broadhurst, the workman representative of...

P RINCE BISMARCK, in domestic politics, meets with no- thing but rebuffs. There are features in his present position which are, so far as we know, without a parallel in modern...

T HERE is a kind of irony about Mr. Green's imprisonment which, if it were not associated with much undeserved suffering to an innocent and well-meaning man, would make it...

T HE debate in the House of Lords on Lord nedesdale's Bill proposing a genuine test of Theism for Mem- bers of Parliament,—if, indeed, a declaration of belief in an Almighty...

A LETTER which we publish in another column from the well- known Roman Catholic who wrote, in the February number of the Contemporary Review, a remarkable article on "Free...

A RE not the cultivated classes a little unjust, and even foolish, in their ridicule of popular " crazes ?" Many crazes are silly, some are injurious, and a few are wicked; but...

W E have recently brought against Literature the accusa- tion of being, in one important respect—its picture of the relative importance of Youth and Age—an unscrupulous libel ;...

[TOTEM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' . ] Sia,—The Bishop of Manchester has done me the honour, in a letter to you, to notice some words of mine,—" Through his. [Mr. Green's]...

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND MR. GREEN. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." j Sia,—In a metaphor, borrowed from the Book of the Revela- tion, the Bishop of Manchester charges...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Snt, — I have received from a correspondent in France a letter which presents so graphic a picture of the hideous condition of French...

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?') SIR,—Yonr rebuke of the blind and bitter hatred of Mr. Glad- stone which disfigures the political life of the present day must have been...

(To ran EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR..1 Sra,—I have read the Bishop of Manchester's " apologia " in your last impression with much interest. Will you kindly allow me to ask his...

"SIR, — Having read your article on 'Free Thought—French and English,' in the Contemporary Review for February, I take the liberty to write to you to tell you that, bad as what...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — In my last letter, I did state that Dr. Brunton had re- canted the opinions which Mr. Gurney had quoted (5,778) to. show my evidence...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — What you have said of certain kinds of audacity strikes me as being very much to the purpose, especially in the hints you give (but...

ITO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — It would be an ill-return for the note you were good enough to append to my letter to write again other than in brief terms. It would,...

DR. JOHN BROWN'S NEW VOLUME. * ONE good word, says Emerson, will serve us a great while, and, perhaps, no better illustration could be given of the truth of the saying of the...

How many of these ballads are new,—a few certainly have been published in earlier volumes of Mr. Buchanan's,—we are not able to say ; but a considerable number of those which...

Mas. ALEXANDER'S novels are pre-eminently of the kind to be studied when one has nothing better to do. This is not intended in contempt of them ; on the contrary, we have often...

TEE Carpathian Society is, we suppose, a friendly rival of the Alpine Club. We do not know what constitutes eligibility to the honour of its Fellowships, but sex and celibacy...

[SECOND NOTICE.] THE situation early in March, 1864, when Grant took command of the Federal forces, was briefly as follows. Meade, with the Army of the Potomac, on the northern...

SCHOOL BOOKS. The Iliad of Homer. A Literal Prose Translation. By II. Hail- stone, M.A. (Johnson, Cambridge; Cornish and Sons, London)— " He tore much hair from the roots out...

the scene is laid. "Good society" in Australia has doubtless much the same manners as good society here, still, there are differences which, where the subject is so familiar,...

Coloneus of Sophocles. By F. A. Paley, M.A. Cambridge Texts, with Notes. (Whittaker.)—The list of "Cambridge Texts with Notes," shows that Mr. Paley is the favourite exponent of...

Bendall's " legends" show, on the whole, an advance both in taste and in his mastery of his art. The old story of "The Spectre Ship" is told again in "The Dutchman's Doom," with...

Books of the Elements of Euclid (Hodges, Figgie, and Co.)—He has "endeavoured," we learn from the preface, "to select and arrange all those elementary and geometrical...