Ger- many. Despatches have been published showing that Austria offered to diaarm one day sooner than Prussia, and that Prussia accepted the offer, but nothing has been done, and...

the Re- form Bill yesterday week—both the Liberal members for Galway County are conspicuous Troglodytes—by way of returning Mr. Bright's compliment as to the new party whose...

of Mr. Coleridge on Friday week, a speech which stamped him at once as a great master of Parliamentary oratory. He was not enamoured of the Bill, but pointed to the result of...

Privy Council, is at Rotterdam, and having advanced steadily towards our shores all last year, may now be expected as soon as the hot weather begins. As each succeeding visit...

T HE long debate on the second reading of the Reform Bill ended late on Friday night in a majority for the Ministry of 5 only. 318-318.

announc- ing that the Emperor of Austria had decided to withdraw Count Carolyi from Berlin, that the Prussian Ambassador was about to leave Vienna, and that orders had been sent...

lost by bribery two seats for Lancaster and two seats for New Windsor, while the Conservatives have regained the seat for Cambridge by the election of a Conservative in Mr....

on the same evening, that the adjournment of the debate had been moved " by an orator of commanding power, but who certainly seldom interferes in a debate without adding some...

declaring both Sir Robert Clifton and Mr. Morley guilty, the first of undue influence, and the second of bribery, and therefore dis- qualified during this Parliament. They...

his efforts, and produced a very groat effect on the House. It seems to ns, however, like all he has done previously, to damage his own cause, by failing to admit the real...

woman .a few doors off 'who saw Smith coma out of the house just at the time of the =ulna singled him out from four- teen others, and adheres steadily to her statement. Terry...

closely reasoned, and with much of that eloquence of character which tells so heavily in the House. He agreed that pledges ought to -be 'kept, but held that although the Rouse...

Calcutta University in defence of eramming. considers that " to cram" is nothing but to impart knowledge quickly, and be- lieves the crammers are making very important...

Times to describe the misery - which has fallen upon his county from the cattle plague, which had killed before the Act 58,500 head of cattle, worth 500,0007., while the...

Repre- sentatives over the President's head, without debate, by a vote of 122 to 41—much more than was needed. The President has as yet made no sign, unless a notice to the...

to per- ceive, sent an armed vessel to watch the Canadian fisheries. There is more danger at •that point than at any spot in the British Empire. Under the Reciprocity Treaty the...

creditable to his nerves, that as the division on the Fran- chise Bill would be taken on Friday, he should on the following Thursday make his financial statement. This...

Minister as to the new taxes to be voted. The most important is an income-tax of 8 per •cent. on all incomes not derived from the rent of land or houses. Those sources being...

the most acute of the Government speeches. It was full of points, too rapidly made and too little elaborated to take their proper Parliamentary effect. His best argument told...

nearly one-half per octet. On Saturday last the closing prices were, 871 for money, and 871 for account. Yesterday the latest official quotations for money were : For money, 86/...

Elector " charged us with " garbling" Mn. Mill, and at- tributing to both him and Mr. Hughes an "intention to vote against their opinions in deference to the exigencies of...

present Reform Bill does not excite very much enthusiasm. Professor Fawcett went down and addressed the electors in favour of Mr. Torrens —an excellent Liberal...

in :another column, assails our principle that all classes should be represented in the House of Commonsfor the sakeof mutual delibera- tive aid and information, by a sneer. He...

Union was held at Exeter Hall on Wednesday last, Lord Lyttelton in the chair. Mr. Cyrus Symons delivered an address in favour of the 7l. franchise, advancing a completely new...

off at the annexed quotations :— ...Friday, April 20. /kicky, April 27. spauieh Passive .. ... Do. Condi...sates ... *WO .0. ... .—. • • .. • . 1251 ow Sti Mexican .. .. .....

the statutory condition imposed on all the Colleges at Oxford ex Cambridge that all their Fellows shall sign their adhesion to the Church of England, was unusually mild and...

issue 230,0001. in debentures, bearing interest at eight per cent. per annum, at the price of 871. 10x. per 100/. The debentures constitute a first charge upon the line, and...

Great Eastern ... .. .. ... .- 401 ... Great Northern ..........1 23 Great Western. lMi .. Do. WeetMtdhuid, O x ford .. .. Al .. Lancashire and Yorkshire .. ... .. 1211 •....

with a proposed capital of 100,0001., in 101. shares. The object of the Company is to purchase and work the patent rights for the United Kingdom of the Graphotype process. The...

THE POSSIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF IlLE DIVISION. I T is perhaps very useless, with the division just at hand, to speculate on the result of a Ministerial defeat, yet it is hard to...

B EFORE what we write can meet our readers' eyes, the result of the division on the second reading of the Reform Bill will be known, and will probably show an in- finitesimal...

O H for a Metropolitan Gladstone, a financier with skill enough and power enough to reform the finance of the capital, and create a really , great revenue, by means which the...

lATELEN. Mr. Beresford Hope said on Wednesday that V V liberalism often means "a desire to get something which belongs to somebody else," it was an obvinus reply that...

T HE times are very hard indeed for credulous people—the country clergymen, stockbrokers, squires, and other innocent persons, who believe that telegrams must have some...

T HE first impression made upon the ordinary visitor by the National Portrait Exhibition, now open iu South Kensington, is not a favourable one. Up to far too great a height, in...

fi RENAN'S new volume on the Apostles, which we hope to e review next week, contains a very remarkable preface, in which, amongst other things, the author explains his...

T HIS is a Kentish family. They appear to have been possessed of the manor of More-Court, in the parish of Ivechurch, in that county, as early as the reign of Henry II. The head...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I do not complain of your remarks on my " dogmatic " tone, &c., because I dare say there was some truth in them, though people do say that, as coming from...

EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] April 13, 1866. SIR,—I now come to the difficulties that will attend the introduc- tion of the Metric system among us, and I hold that, good as it...

April 21, 1866. SIR,—I am very happy to find that Mr. Sonnenschein has entered on the discussion of the merits of the Metric system of measures and weights, as well as of the "...

OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I have read with much interest the remarks contained in your paper and elsewhere, on the subject of Mr. Mill's speech on the contemplated exhaustion...

THE WATER-COLOUR INSTITUTE. AMONG the causes which produce the lifeless and empty repetitions which year after year claim attention at the picture galleries, not the least...

GILPIN'S POPULAR POETRY OF CUMBERLAND! To write simply and vivaciously about purely local topics is one of the likeliest means by which a poet may obtain a lasting and...

tranquil picture of American rural life and labour, and of that peculiar tone of intellectual independence and self-reliance which has always dis- tinguished and still...

" Ix spite of the conviction that nothing new can be written about the East by a hurried tourist," says Dr. Macleod, " that all that one can say has doubtless been said before,...

to one of our contemporaries, is that a man should leave his father and his mother and cleave unto his wife. Some might be tempted to interpret the story differently, and if...

he has led a life of adventure, and he tells his adventures very naturally and agreeably, with no trace of Munchausenism and very little picture- making. We do not know anything...

Second series.—Very inferior to the former two volumes. Their suc- My Life and Recollections. By the 'Hon. Grantley F. Berkeley. Second series.—Very inferior to the former two...

Co.) —Letters full of epigrams of singular clearness and sense, but some- how not so interesting as any of their author's more formal works. There is a scrappy tone of...

Cecil and her husband, Laurence O'Boynesville, the gallant Irish lawyer, so brave, and patient, and cool, who calmly wins his wife away from her temptation by a love the tempter...

perfect copy, with 'introduction and notes, by Dr. Herman CEsterley. (J. R. Smith.)—Beatrice, it is well known, in Much Ado About Nothing accuses Signior Benedict of saying...

Plain John Orpington. By the author of Lady Flavia. (Bentley.)— Very much better than Lady Flavia; almost, if such a thing could be, a natural sensation novel. It is a story of...

tional literature is, we do not quite see why they should have thought this particular book too strong for the market. It is not fit for Mudie's, but there is much less genuine...

Mr. Saunders is out of his true groove in this kind of work, but he does it a great deal better than the majority of workmen. He has endea- voured to graft a novel of character...

sensational kind, in which a father sends his daughter to a mad-house by forged certificates for no better motive than dislike to a possible lover, wills are stolen, false...

taking nude photo- graphs of her, we should say it was not precisely the book for Mr. Mudie's purpose. We should not say its intention was bad, but the author has forgotten...

B. Harris Cowper. (Williams and Norgate.)—Mr. Cowper has translated into very readable English the six books in which S. Chrysostom, de- fending his early disinclination to the...

musicians. Selected and arranged by John Math. (Macmillan.)—This charming little volume contains the majority of the best and most popular songs by deceased poets and musicians,...