almost without exception, urges the King to stand firm, the mer- chants declare openly that suspense is unendurable, and the people are ready to be summoned in the Landwehr....

is, also like Birmingham, not much in love wjth Mr. Disraeli's Bill. At a meeting held there on Tuesday evemng, Mr. W. E. Forster explained to his audience that the Act known as...

received from Government, which has given no sign beyond calling out the Reserves of 1865 and 1866 for "drill," and the Reserves of '61, '62, '63, and '64 for "inspection,"...

Craw- ford, the Member for the City, explaining, or intending to explain, the course he thought it his duty to take for the future on Reform. As an explanation the letter was...

rilliROUGHOUT the week the one topic has been the 1 probability of war, and the most important fact, the alleged intervention of Great Britain. We are not in Lord Stanley's...

at Birmingham on Monday, which was unusually moderate. He - attributed the immense advance in the Tory offer mainly to the Reform meetings, including the one which destroyed...

reports that the people of the Duchy like their present Government very well, but prefer, if they must be swallowed up, to be eaten by France. They dread the Prussian rigidity,...

was named by the Fenian prisoners to conduct their defence, and accepted the office, but the Government only offer him 25/. as a retaining fee, and 31. 3s. as a refresher for...

of Mr. Gladstone, and has caught at broken reeds in the attempt. He sent to Saturday's Times an extract from the Law Times, main- taining that the compound householder is under...

them, in the employ of eighty-five firms. They have a very good case indeed, which they are spoiling by attempts to intimidate. The men Leceally wanted-shorter hours, and- after...

By recalling heaps of dismissed drivers, and engaging anybody who knew anything about an engine, they have kept their traffic going, and have now signified that after April they...

were recently appointed a Monetary Commission, and one of the first questions pressed to a vote was the propriety of adopting either gold or silver as the standard. The...

rich,—was on Thursday married to a Princess of Hohenzollern. The marriage is considered favourable to the interests of Belgium; but the King of Prussia has eaten a good - many...

Dover. The men were brigaded for the first time with soldiers of the Line, and did very well indeed, especially the artillerymen. An old volunteer points out in another column...

agreed to restore the value of the Queen Victoria, to compensate Francisco, Homedes, the owner of the vessel, and to punish the officers who seized her. Everything demanded is...

on the recent indignant denial of the Times that Ler& Grosvenor was in collusion with the Tory Government, or the Tory Government with Lord Grosvenor, and that there could be...

quality is likely to become obsolete. The taxation of the United States is about 80,000,000/. a year, that of the State of New Y-ork, 2,000,0001., and that of New York City,...

the truth, is the assertion in the Times of Wednesday, made avowedly on the strength of evidence said to be given before the Trades' Unions' Commission, that the Unions...

from Dublin to a place near Appleby, crossing the Channel at night in a pouring rain which made the balloon so heavy that it nearly sank into the sea. Mr. Hodsman only kept it...

the Farriers spent 63/. 10s. 3d. out of their Benefit Society's funds in attend- ing the Reform Demonstration. Ile consequently informed the officers that he should proceed...

of money (Stock) were somewhat numerous, the Consul Market was in a feverish state, arising out of the Luxemburg question. Since then, however, more confidence has been shown,...

for the social evils of Ireland. He says the real difficulty of that country is, that while the landlord ought to find the fixed capital, barns, buildings, &c., and the tenant...

and that the rumour to that effect was an invention of the Johanna men who had deserted him. By a letter received from Dr. Kirk, dated 2anzibar, February 8, Sir Roderick...

Thursday, April 18. Frldsy, April 20. Great Eastern .. • • 281 Great Northern 1131 1121 Great Western.. 41 x. d. 411 Lancashire and Yorkshire .. 1221 1221...

day in Edinburgh by his proved fidelity to a master eight years dead, on whose grave he has slept every night for that period,— has shown himself superior to our human world,...

Mexlean 15 Spanish Passives 101 .. 101 Do. Certificates 12) .. 121 Turkish 6 per Cents., 185i 51. 481 „ 1852 .. 521 511 United States 5.20's 701 621

MR. GLADSTONE'S LETTER. M R. GLADSTONE'S letter to Mr. Crawford has had as many editors and commentators as the most defective chorus in a Greek play. Indeed, it is perhaps a...

I T would seem to be almost impossible for England to adhere to the policy of non-intervention. If ever there was a Foreign Secretary who might be trusted not to intervene un-...

r NGLISHMEN all seem to believe, when they think on the .1. 1 4 subject at all, which is not often, that a "Native State" is a kind of political mollusc, an imperfect...

T HE Times of Wednesday was very powerful on the disin- genuousness of the evidence given by Mr. Applegarth -and others before the Trades' Unions' Commission with respect to the...

vice, and ours is a particularly dirty one. Envy, the vice of French- men, is, perhaps, morally worse than covetousness, as malig- nity is morally worse than drunkenness, but it...

T HERE is no doubt, when you rush out of town even for a day or two's quiet at Easter, that you do feel a peculiar rest in the sight of the fields and the woods which you could...

T HERE are certain periodical occurrences amongst us, and the Volunteer Review on Easter Monday is one of these, which are specially calculated to drive Englishmen into the...

O N TUESDAY, a Hansom cab, exactly like every other Han- som cab, and probably taken off the stand outside, was driven across the stage of Drury Lane Theatre. As it entered, and...

THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—I will not attempt to discuss what an interesting article on "The Fourth Gospel" truly says cannot be adequately dimmed in a newspaper article, namely,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As the Spectator has now fairly become the organ and re- presentative of most Liberal Churchmen, in a sense much more actual and real...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is much in your article of the 6th inst. on the Liberals and the Army which must be gratifying to the latter. It is something in...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Allow a frequent reader of your paper to remark briefly upon a paragraph in your last number. You appear to think that a Liquidator...

DEAN ALEXANDER'S POEMS AND ESSAYS.o. THESE poems and essays, like other poems we have reviewed in these columns, are collected and published evidently as pieces justificatives...

no degree inferior,—it strikes us as perhaps on the whole superior,—in ability to the volume of Essays- on Reform which we recently reviewed, proceeding from another...

extraordinary facts in the whole history of the Sciences and Arts, is the strong presentiment which existed for a eentury or more at the revival of learning that magnetism would...

Mn. Hanwooc appears to be a novelist of one character an one idea, neither of them very good. The idea is the extreme dissonance which may exist between the outward or apparent,...

Ella. By Charles Lamb. A new edition. (Bell and Daldy.) The Last Essays of Ella. By Charles Lamb. A new edition. (Bell and Daldy.)—These two pretty and cheap volumes of...

whether the presence of such a work in the house was the cause of the reviewer's little boy expressing a sudden desire to go to Australia, and putting various awk- ward...

Scriptures and other sources. By the Author of Visiting my Relations. (Triibner.)—We have not mach to say about this little work, the quota- tions in which are indeed...

their Perfect Harmony and Wonderful Concord. By George W. Victor le Vaux. — (Lockwood and Co.)—Mr. le Vanx professes to read the Mosaic narra- tive by the light of science,...

M.A. With Preface by Thomas Hood the younger. The Comic POEMS of Thomas Hood. Edited by Samuel Lucas, M.A. With Preface by Thomas Hood the younger. (E. Moxon and Co.)—These...

Skeet, M.A. (Boll and Daldy.)—A ballad poem in the style of Scott, and written with much of Scott's spirit. In one instance, too, a lino of Scott's has slipped into Mr....

(Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—With the exception of the discovery that Micah was the first Ritualist, we find little novelty in this volume. Mr. Binney has read The...

By Patrick Scott. (Bentley.)—Mr. Scott writes fluently and sometimes gracefully, his thoughts are often far above the average of modern verse, and he has gone thoroughly into...

Act. By Robert Baxter. (Longmans.)—The conclusion drawn by Mr. Baxter from the panics of 1847, 1857, and 1866, and from the palliative measures adopted on each of those...

Stephens. (Routledge.)—This book mast have given its com- piler infinite trouble, and it can be but of limited service. It seems to contain the name of every village in the...

Meritens. (Triibner)—Madame de Meritens is apparently a French Mrs. Markham. She does her work agreeably, and with accuracy so far BA we have examined it in detail, but she is...

Tale. By S. L Emery. (Dean and Son.)—The story of a little spoiled prince who once tried to kill a white rabbit, and was in consequence carried off into Fairyland ; was...

responsibility of returning MS. of which he cannot avail himself: It is suggested that Cor- respondents and Contributors should keep Copies of such Docuntents as they value.