28 JULY 1866

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The terms offered by Prnasia and Italy to the Kaiser

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are moderate in the extreme, too moderate, we fear, for permanent peace. Austria is to retire from the Germanic Confederation, but to remain at liberty to form a new league...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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(AN Sunday the Kaiser accepted an armistice, or rather a truce k./ during which an armistice may be arranged, forfive days. It was to expire at noon on Friday, but up to Friday...

The week has been distinguished by a riot in London,

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from which everybody has emerged with greatly diminished credit. An association called the Reform League called a meeting in sup- port of Reform, to be held in Hyde Park on...

THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY of ENGLAND.—A Series of Articles will shortly

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be commenced in the SPECTATOR, containing the history of each province in England so far as it is separate from that of the nation, its geography, its ethnology, and the special...

Mr. Bright wrote a letter to the Reform League which

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had, we fear, no little influence in promoting the foolish and mischievous proceedings of Monday in Hyde Park. "It appears," he said, "that the people may meet in the Parks for...

The riot threatening to continue, Mr. Walpole sent for the

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managers of the League, to see if he could not come to some arrangement with them, and after a scene, described in another column—with Mr. Walpole overpowered by emotion, Mr....

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The police magistrates, especially Mr. Knox, seem to have not

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so much investigated many of the cases, as taken the part of the police in their controversy with the outer world. One man, George Williams, who admitted that he laid hold of...

The Hyde-Park mob, whatever else it was, did not seem

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to be irreligious. A Mr. Coffey, who addressed them, and abused Lord Shaftesbury for what he had said in the House of Lords about the meeting, went on to treat it as an...

Commons was almost as unfair as Mr. Brigh tin his

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correspondence. to /awl there on the 20th of July, eithealkneAurstrian fleet came in "It had been the anxious wish," hesaid, on Tuesday night, "oe- sight, and a great engagement...

The Prussian rule has been to treat the occupied cities

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of Germany with great forbearance, only making requisitions for the food of the soldiery. They have, however, made one great exception, the city of Frankfort. That city, for...

The cholera has broken out in East London in terrible

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earnest. The Registrar-General calls the visitation an " explosion " of the disease, and the deaths in the week ending the 20th inst. amounted to 346. The Privy Council have...

Two Austrian engagements were fought after the armistice had been

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decided on, though not after its formal commencement. The Prussian second army corps, under Prince Charles, has been ad- vancing towards Freeburg, and on the 23rd attacked Count...

The evidence given by some of the prisoners as to

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the conduct of the police themselves, especially after they had secured their prisoners in the Marble Arch, was very strong to show that the police had taken the whole affair as...

Bismark may be admirable, but he is expensive. He has

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cost us half a million already. On Monday the Chancelkm of the Exchequer moved that the Bill for creating terminable- annuities should be relinquished, and 495,000/. of the...

It is announced, though as yet not officially, that the

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Atlantic Cable has been successfully laid. When the last official telegram was despatched, at 6.40 on Thursday, the Great Eastern was within 80 miles of her destination, Trinity...

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The speech with which Lord Stanley closed the debate was

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very explicit as to the fixed wish and intention of the Government not to intervene or even to offer advice unsolicited on any of the „points at issue on the Continent. He...

Yesterday and on Friday week the leading Foreign Securities left

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off at the annexed quotations :- Friday, July 20. Friday, July V. Mexican .. .. .• Spanish Passive •• .• Do. Certificates .. Turkish 6 per Coats., 1858.. . 1862.. UniZil...

No change has been made in the Bank minimum, but

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at Paris the quotation has been reduced to 3, and at Berlin to 6 per cent. At Hamburg the rates of discount have also given.way. The stock of bullion here is 13,716,8291., and...

The Cobden Club held its inaugural meeting at the Star

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and Garter, Richmond, this day week, Mr. Gladstone taking the chair. This club numbers, it is said, 150 gentlemen, of whom 80 are members of one or other of the Houses of...

Sir George Bowyer took advantage of the Foreign Policy Kdehate

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yesterday week to pour out his genial bitterness,—the -worthy baronet tells yon you are a villain with a jovial laugh in his eyes,—upon Prussia and Italy. Prussia not being...

Sir Hugh Rose has chosen the title of Baron, Strathuairn,

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where some of his family have or had an estate. He wanted to be Baron Betwa, but as the populace are not familiar with Central India, and would infallibly have-called him-Lord...

The American Internal Revenue Bill, including an inland revenue tax

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of 3 cents. (1fd) per pound on the producer, has been passed by both Houses of Congress, and received the assent of the Pre- sident. It takes effect in September. The second...

The Catholic poor are really to be allowed to have

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access to schools of their own faith, Protestant prejudices to the contrary notwithstanding. In debating the Poor Law Amendment Bill on Thursday night Lord Bingham -moved a...

The Emperor of Austria held on July 22nd a "Grand

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Council" of a singular kind. It was a conclave of political spectres. There was the Kaiser himself, who had just resolved to resign all hopes of the true Creaarship, the...

In the Consol market during the week there have been

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nume- rous fluctuations, the quotation for money having been as low as 87/, and as high as 88f. On Saturday last the quotations were 88i, f for money, and 88f, for account....

The closing prices of the leading British Railways yesterday

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• • •• • o 64 .0 • • go • • Oe 0- •• • .. • .. 1211 59 .. 99 .. 12i .. 1%1 I.. as • • 21i mil 126 1081 1061. Gel Great Eastern .. Great Northern .. Great...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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PEACE AND ITS PROBABLE FRUIT. T HERE are new players coming into this German game whose action deserves to be attentively studied. A truce has been proclaimed for the moment,...

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W.ALPOLE ON HIS TRIAL.

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M R. WALPOLE had better resume his seat at the Ecclesi- astical Commission. He can deal with curates capitally, and we dare say could even manage at a pinch to silence a...

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UHL FOREIGN-POLICY SIDE OF MR. GLADS'TONE.

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rr the delivery of the remarkable speech of yesterday j . week in the House of Commons, it has been a matter of common observation concerning Mr. Gladstone that he would have...

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AUSTRIA AND ENGLAND.

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T HE sudden fall of the Austrian Empire, a fall which appears for the moment to be alike complete and irre- mediable, has gravely alarmed those who perceive in how many points...

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THE REPORT OF THE LORDS ON THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS' BILL.

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1 T is five or six years since the edict went forth that the Public Schools should be reformed. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that up to that time they had remained...

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THE IRDIAN MAILS.

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T 'Port of the Committee appointed to inquire into our communications with India has been published, and as it has been signed by men of all parties, was agreed to by Lord...

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ENGLISH MOBS.

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O NE of the oddest peculiarities in the mind of British re- spectability, which is as full of quaint twists and gnarls as an old oak root, is its excessive dislike of a mob,...

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"GET GRIST."

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W TITLE the outer mind of London has been fermenting all the week with the turmoil of the Hyde-Park Riot, the inner mind of London has been travailing still more painfully with...

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THE MARCH TO VIENNA.

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T HE march of the Prussian armies from the Elbe to the Danube is not the least remarkable of their exploits in this campaign ; for it has been conducted with that steadiness,...

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THE HYDE-PARK DEMONSTRATION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Those who most regret the policy of our Ministers in raising the question where public meetings should or should not be tole-...

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IS CHOLERA CONTAGIOUS?

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SI11,—.You will pardon me for writing to say that your remarks as to the non-infectiousness of cholera are not quite on a level with the...

ART.

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ADVICE TO FUTURE R.A.'s.* THE teaching conveyed in these lectures is generally sound and sensible. It is not always novel, it is sometimes unconsciously paradoxical, and...

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BOOKS.

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MR. BUCIL1NAN'S LONDON POEMS.* Mn. BUCHANAN is far more than a minor poet. The volume before us would seem to prove that there is scarcely any eminence, short of the very...

NATURE'S LAST GIFT.

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Mother, when the light is dead, And night-throngs round us thicken, Are there other joys instead, Which the holy dark must quicken ? Is there any gift of thine, That may help...

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THE "RAILWAY SPL.NE."*

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IT is not often that a strictly medical book is reviewed in our pages. Such work is better done as a rule in professional columns, and is, moreover, if well done, of all...

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THE ORATORICAL YEARBOOK.*

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Tars book is an exceedingly good and useful one in conception, and on the whole, we think, well executed in detail. A collection of the great speeches of the year really forms a...

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A LAY OF THE FIRST CRUSADE.*

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THE author of this poem has taste, talent, and culture, and pro- bably wants nothing so much as a little experience of life, which might have led him to build, even in a work of...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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W.S.W., a Voyage in that Direction to the West Indies. By Robert Elwee, Esq., author of A Sketcher's Tour Round the Workl With illustrations. (Kerby and Son.)—The illustrations...

Lynton Grange. A Novel. By I. R. S. Harington. 1

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vol. (Pitman.) —We sustained our first shock in reading this story when we were in- formed that a poacher had received a pardon from the Crown before he was convicted of any...

The Lives of the Seven Bishops. By Agnes Strickland. (Bell

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and Dalcly.)—Kings andliCaisers, princes and princesses having been used up, the purple gives place to the lawn, and to the contemplation of that fabric Miss Strickland carries...

No Union with Rome. An Anti-Eirenicon. By. Alex. Gavazzi. (Westerton.)—"Non

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talis auxiliis," to me one of Signor Gavazri's quo- tations, is the cause of Protestantism to be vindicated when in danger' from a man of Dr. Pusey's piety and learning. The...

Wayside Flora; or, Gleaningsfrom Rock and Field towards Rome. By

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Nona Bellaire. (Smith andElder.)—Our authoress, when she travels on the Continent, is in the habit of bolting out of the carriage and laying hands on any stray flowers she sees....

The Life and Light of Men. An Essay. By John

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Young, LL.D. (Strahan.)—Dr. Young is one of the many theologians of the present day who hold the doctrine of vicarious, as opposed to expiatory, sacrifice in connection with the...

Millicent Legh. A Tale. By Emma Marshall. (Seeley, Jackson, and

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Halliday.)—The authoress has modelled her tale on a careful study of the earlier triumphs of Miss Yong°, and the result is an Evangelical Heartsease, marred by .a pernicious...

Researches into the History of the British Dog. By G.

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R. Jesse. With engravings. 2 vols. (Hardwicke.)—These handsome volumes may be commended with confidence to the attention of those whose affection for the canine race rather...

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Popular Astronomy. A Series of Lectures. By G. B. Airy.

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(Mac- millan.)—The Astronomer Royal in this little pocket volume undertakes - to instruct all persons who will really give their minds to the subject in the principles on which...

A Sanscrit Grammar for Beginners. By Max Muller. (Longmans.) — All

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Sanscrit students willbe glad to hear that Professor Muller has added a grammar to his list of handbooks for the study of that language. It is chiefly intended for beginners,...

Geological Sketches. By L. Agassiz. (Trabner.) — The articles collected

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in this volume, first delivered as lectures, then published in the Atlantic Monthly, are to be considered, in the words of the author, rather as familiar talks on scientific...

Peace through the Truth ; or, Essays on Subjects connected

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with Dr. Pusey's "Eirenicon." By Rev. T. Harper, S. J., Professor of Theology in the College of -St. Benno, North Wales. First Series. (Longmans.)— Dr._.Ensey must by this time...

The Battle of the Two Philosophers. By an Inquirer. (Longmans.) —

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This is an able defence of Sir W. Hamilton against Mr. Mill's Exami- nation, by a writer who considers that the latter, in grappling with a. metaphysical problem, misses the...

A Smaller Dictionary of the Bible. By W: Smith, LL

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D. (Murray).. —This edition, as distinguished from the Large Dictionary and the- Concise Dictionary, is intended for the use of schools and young persons.. It is meant to serve...