he attacked, first, the late Government for its " overdosing ;" next, the advanced Liberals for expecting all the party to be guided by their " blazing rhetoric ;" and last, not...

in the Corn Exchange, Oxford, in a long, witty, and very clever speech on behalf of Whig moderation; which we have criticised elsewhere. He said that when the storm - came down...

:dinner at Exeter on Monday, on the character and ten- . -der\ey of the moral experience he was getting as Chancellor of the Exchequer. In the first place, he was learning not...

tion by the Liberals in the division on the arrest of Herr Majunke, and the Liberals therefore resolved to show that their -conduct involved no attack on him. They chose the-...

of age, and his partisans have taken advantage of the opportunity to send him addresses. We have commented on them elsewhere, but may mention here that all ask him to be a,...

TTIHE Berlin Metropolitan Court delivered its sentence on Count 1 Arnim on the 19th inst. The tribunal acquitted the accused of criminality in detaining Prince Bismarck's...

case.

of the theatres under his control, calling on them to aid him in repressing indecent dances and immodest dressing. He will, he says, withdraw the licence from any theatre in...

agent from New York had, it appears, no better founda- tion than the talk of the President with some persons about him. This was forwarded to New York from Washington, was pub-...

tating a return to specie payments. The Senate, by 34 to 14, has passed a Finance Bill, fixing January 1, 1879, as the date for the resumption of specie payments, ordering the...

Government, with all its enormous expenditure, could not place 30,000 troops in the field for a war in Afghanistan. The Native Army of Bengal is now officered from the Staff...

the private soldier will be found in the next Estimates. At all events the cue appears to have been given to alarm the public into sanc- tioning an increase, Tory speakers...

Committee of the Metropolitan Board, that the rateable value of London may be taken to be £20,000,000 a year, and that every penny of rating imposed on it yields more than...

for the special Advent service of last Monday, to the Bishop I -of Natal, and justified his offer in an extremely courteous and grace- ful letter of apology to the Bishop of...

has had, he says, thirty years' experience among soldiers, in the service and discharged from it, repeats that the physique of the rank and file is declining. He quotes official...

severe weather of last week great migrations of birds, especi- ally of larks. Two correspondents, one at Brighton and one at Havant, declare that these birds go in great flocks...

of the late Lord Hominy, who died somewhat suddenly on Wed- nesday, in his 73rd year. He was a Peer of excellent character, a fair average judge, though of no unusual power, and...

warmth to that Confessor of the English public, the Times, most of which are not less familiar to everybody, and much older, than the Times itself,—as for instance, " Sleep in...

some investigations by Messieurs Claude Bernard, Malassez, and Picard into the constitution of the blood. It appears, according to M. Malassez at all events, that the red...

F. 0. Morris, the ornithologist, writes to Tuesday's Times, on the subject on which we made a remark last week,—the kind of sense by which animals find not merely each other...

THE JUDGMENT IN THE ARNIM CASE. W E cordially congratulate all Germany on the judgment delivered by the Metropolitan Court of Berlin in the Arnim Trial. Whether Prince Bismarck...

A BOUT a year ago, Sir William Harcourt assured us that "ambition was the noblest of all passions," and described it, funnily enough, as the desire to be something "higher and...

Times of Monday publishes a remarkable report of an in- terview, described as accidental, but possibly prearranged, between a correspondent in Paris, a member of the Right...

has never, so far as we can remember, been a very " robust " Liberal. Indeed his leaning has always been very marked to what is best described as the Liberalism of the...

O F all the Pretenders in Europe, the Prince of the Asturias is probably nearest to a throne; and as Don Alfonso is, though only seventeen, now legally of age, the addresses...

AATE do not quite agree with Mr. Auberon Herbert, who says TT in his letter to the Times of Tuesday that the difference between the poor Shakers, who have just been ejected from...

W E should not wonder if the ultimate result of the verdict in the " Frederick " case just decided in the Probate Court were to produce a great crop of interesting law-suits....

T WENTY-THREE miles from the Golden Gate, in the Pacific Ocean, six rugged, rocky islets, rising abruptly from the sea, with hardly space for a human foothold on their...

present Free, like yon rock, from base, vindictive pride, yesterday at St Mary's to hear the sermon preached by your Grace, Emblaze with gems the wrist that rends thy side ; and...

drunkard,. correspondence, in reference to the sermon preached by his Grace within the pale of his serene teaching "? A most distinguished Orion- the Archbishop of York at St....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE" SPECTATOR. "] Stn,—Will you kindly give me space for a brief reply to some of your criticisms in the elaborate review which you publish to-day of " The...

(TO THE Emma OF THE "SPECTATOR."] 'Sue,—Lord Lyttelton is President of an Association for the reform of Convocation by the admission of a Lay Representation, —a project...

London, December 4, 1874. DEAR Sut,—Your letter has just_ reached me here. and I have read it with great interest. But it does not appear to represent what I said. Of "Eastern...

THE LAST JOURNALS OF LIVINGSTONE.* THE interest of the volumes with which the record of the life and labours of Dr. Livingstone is brought to its conclusion, consists rather in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sui,—In the Spectator of the 19th, you mention evidence which you think proves that the tiger-moth is able to produce sounds audible to its...

CHRISTMAS DAY. THE Christ is come, a God is born to-day! A woman's arms enfold the wondrous Child, A woman's breast sustains the Undefiled; And simple folk hear the first...

difficult task. His theme is a wide one, for it embraces several centuries ; and it is one demanding • Characteristics of English Poets from Chaucer to Shirley. By William...

As we felt bound-to protest against the badness of the translation of the first volume of this "Theological Translation Fund Library," we are glad to say of the volume before us...

MARSHAL BAZAINE may have "betrayed" Metz, its garrison, and the army sheltered within the outlying works, but we doubt whether even soldiers so prejudiced as General de Riviere...

THERE is a story told of the late Professor de Morgan that, after examining a school in algebra, and even trigonometry, he asked the head class what they understood by the...

this handsome volume, resplendent in green and gold, the fruits of a year's study on the Thames, in a series of steel engravings of great beauty from original wood- cuts,...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. The English at the North Pole. By Jules Verne. (Routledge.) M. Verne's story, which has already appeared in some serial, has the spirit and interest which we...

see an able statement of the Roman Catholic view of the duty of civil alle- giance as it is affected by the Roman Catholic's duty to the Pope, should consult the paper in the...

of Mrs. Radcliffe's obsolete romances, and his brutal tyranny, dense ignorance, and extrava- gant violence injure the general effect of the book, in which the colours are indeed...

by the Princesses Ouroussoff, (Henry S. King and Co.)—The position which this story is constructed to prove, as defined in the con- cluding sentences of the second volume, are...

History. By the Rev. J. G. Wood. (Longmans and Co.)—This plea- sant and instructive little volume will prove a delightful companion to lovers of nature. It is a reprint of...