to the German Parliament has been, it is stated, rejected by the Federal Council. If the proposal was energeti- cally pushed, this vote would be important, as the Council rarely...

on Monday, on some leading portions of which we have com- mented elsewhere. He spoke strongly of "the ability, the courage, and conscientious industry" with which Lord Harting-...

Con- sols, the idea being that the Government would not have been so decided unless aware that very serious events were in prepara- ration. In spite of the urgent denials of...

but no vote has yet been taken on the third reading of clause 14, substituting election by districts for election by depart- ments. It is not expected that the vote on the...

duced some striking statistics. It was objected, he said, that you could not admit another million of voters into the counties with- out giving the counties a larger proportion...

TT is not easy to get the better of Mr. Disraeli. The slowly sink- ing reputation of the Government has been suddenly revived by one of those dramatic and yet statesmanlike...

his first introduction to Indian sport. He was, to judge from the telegrams, bored with the hunting of deer by trained leopards, a cruel sport, interesting only for the...

A. J. Van Breda, the Assistant-Treasurer-General, was arrested for the theft of 152,567, which, it is alleged, he abstracted from the Treasury, and " lent " to friends, most of...

dence tendered by Miss Sugden, the daughter of the late Lord. St. Leonard's, as to the contents of the old peer's missing will. In doing so, he was guided not only by the high...

defeat on the 15th, when Commander Sterling, and Captain "Whittle," of the 10th, with 250 men, 5 guns, and 2 rockets, attacked four stockades, and of course, having learned to...

servative Press, to some extent countenanced by ambiguous words of Lord Hartington's, as to the dependence of the Liberal majority of the late Government on Scotland and...

been going on all the week, with very little that is startling, very few new turns in the evidence, to break the monotony of a somewhat tedious repetition of the testimony...

the freedom of the Press, and uses language which makes one almost agree with him, has made a speech in Belleville. It was a compound of humour, bravado, and impudence. He...

important speech in the German Parliament, declaring that he never would consent to govern Germany through a " college " of Ministers, whose corporate responsibility reduced the...

once issued the instructions for which Mr. Plimsoll asked, that an expenditure of £2 should be authorised by every English Consul or Vice-Consul in foreign ports, for the...

versy in the Times this week, but without shedding any new light on it. Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen and his opponent, {'.Quondam Etonensis," have both written again, Mr. Hugessen...

near Plymouth, which has been very variously reported, and the official account of which, published on Thursday, if it tells the whole truth, does not bear out the alarm at...

Oxford, dedicated to-St. Aloysius. He took as his text the motto of Oxford University, "Dominus illuminatio mea," "The Lord is my light," and'descanted on her great fall since...

Saturday last by Sir James Bacon. A suit was brought by the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton against the Committee of the Junior Naval and Military Club, to set aside the expulsion of Mr....

who made the whole business a party affair, have elected an auctioneer, Mr. Chaston. We wish other counties would follow the example, and , elect coroners still more unfitted...

Hewes remarkable for the unflinching "legitimacy" of his opinions, for his large fortune, which he used principally to help Don Carlos, and for a shadowy claim to the throne of...

M R. FORSTER'S speech at Bradford on Monday was of course delivered under conditions less narrow than Lord Hartington's last week at Bristol, since the former was not under the...

ENGLAND AND THE SUEZ CANAL. T HE Government has recovered by a single act of far-sighted courage the reputation damaged by the many failures of the present Recess. The purchase...

W HAT precisely it was that happened on Saturday last to the Iron Duke' the public do not even yet know, but there can be little doubt that the official narrative pub- lished in...

I T is very easy to deride or to denounce the expression " manifest destiny," but English Ministers must often be tempted to believe that there is some truth in the idea. They...

E NGLISH opinion on French Press Laws is rendered powerless in France by a failure to understand one of the conditions of the problem, viz., the opinion of ruling Frenchmen as...

W HAT with Bishop Claughton and what with Dr. Hornby, the English public will not be likely to form just now any very high idea of the justice of clerical minds in dealing with...

S TROUSBERG—it is quite absurd to call him Dr. Strousberg, or Herr Strousberg, or Mr. Strousberg—has failed, and the English public, so far as it knows anything of him, is...

W E have read somewhere of a young preacher who, after - he had delivered an eloquent sermon before a learned assembly, was beckoned aside by one of the ' , fathers," twho thus...

THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND HIS PUBLIC TALKS. [TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR.") accept your criticism in the friendly spirit in which, I am sure, it is intended. I only...

SIH,—Your observations on " The Bishop of Manchester and his Public Talks " make me fear that a sentence in my letter of last week may have been understood to imply that " the...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 TH7 " SPIIIMATOIL1 am not surprised that the friends of Eton should regret the publicity that has been given to the recent action—and in- action—of her...

Stn Your excellent article on the Eton disturbance has been most satisfactory to many interested readers, to whom the general inadequacy of the remarks of the Press upon the...

Sin,—I hope you will allow me to intervene in the discussion respecting the character of Bishop Wilberforce, and to suggest a different mode of solution. It is not by balancing...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.. " ] SIR,—In your article of last week on "The Liberal Party and Home-rule," you appealed to the party traditions of European and American...

CAPTAIN BURTON'S LATEST BOOK ON AFRICA* THE reading of a book by the indomitable traveller and inex- haustible writer, Captain Burton, never fails to affect us in • Two Tripe...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " spEcreroR.1 SIR,—I see by an article in the last number of the Spectator that you accept Mr. Lyulph Stanley's dicta respecting the Church Fellowships at...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE ..SPECTATOR.1 Stn,—Mr. Grignon must thank himself if a worse construction than was intended be placed on that sentence in the letter to the parents and...

NOT a few notable translations of great classical poems have appeared within the last few years. The Lucid has been trans- lated once with remarkable skill ; the Iliad, we are...

and theology, which, in spite of some unpleasant features, must be valued as a great educating agency in England, has lately taken a somewhat interesting turn. Ever since...

[FIRST NOTICE.] MR. TTIOROLD ROGERS has made a valuable contribution to the constitutional history of England in the collection of the Protests of the Lords which recently...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Among the writers of "Christmas Tales," we may give precedence, for his own merit, yet more than for courtesy's sake, to M. Jules Verne. This year he gives us...

he has only £3,000 to leave his daughter. To in- crease " her fortune," he proposes to write a book, which should be pub- lished after his death, and to assist him in this work...

J. Cargill Guthrie. (W. Paterson.)—This is a disappointing volume. In appear- ance, in print, binding, size, and general get-up, it is everything that a volume should be, but...

and Hall.)—It is difficult to divine whether this is intended to be a scientific work or a popular treatise. From the preface, the definition of the square of a number (p. 141),...

Barton had added to the title of his book something which would have limited its scope to the ancient history of the East, it would have been well. Many persons, otherwise well...

Lord Watts. (Longman.)—This little volume does not claim to be either a treatise on Iceland or, indeed, anything more than a simple narrative of the travels of the Rev. J. W—...

and Co.)—All these pencil sketches have appeared before in the Illustrated London News, and gain in excellence by being printed on. fine paper. They comprise quiet bits of...

Series. (Tinsley Brothers.)—This volume is, we are not sorry to find, "a final farewell" to what the author calls his "comprehensive sub- ject." Ten chapters are devoted to...

of sensationalism, but the anther has made very poor use of her materials. The personages move in the most genteel society, and of the heroine's family we are assured that...

and Hall.)—The first of a series of hand-books issued by the authorities of the South Kensington Museum, and reprinted from the prefaces.of their catalogues. The greater part of...