the Lords on Thursday. Lord Granville, who on Monday made the same statement as Mr. Gladstone, had by some error used the word " neutralisation," as regards the Canal, which Mr....

from cholera occurred on Sunday, five on Monday, and six on Thurs- day,—the medical authorities being by no means agreed as to whether it be Asiatic cholera, or cholera of a...

M R. GLADSTONE made his anxiously expected state- ment on the Agreement with France as to Egyptian affairs on Monday evening. He confined himself rigidly to narrative, but, of...

objection to the Government plan, especially with regard to the withholding of information on finance ; but, except from Lord Randolph Churchill, there was no strong...

a great deal of time was unfortunately lost, through a well. meant but mistaken attempt of the Government to fall-in with a proposal for disfranchising criminals convicted by a...

Mr. Laing, Sir H. Wolff, Lord J. Manners, and others, maintained that the financial proposals to be made to the Conference were an integral and necessary portion of the scheme....

House of Commons on Thursday, is a change absolutely essen- tial to the real use even of our present franchise, and a change of the same kind is as much needed for School-Board...

Thursday afternoon without a division, after a very impressive speech from Mr. Gladstone on the threats so ostentatiously published that the Lords will throw out the Bill. His...

Millot, commanding in Tonquin, has telegraphed that, "in violation of treaties, a French column, numbering 700 men, has been attacked on the march to Lang. son by 4,000 regular...

afternoon of Jane 21st. It appears that, contrary to our impression, the - right of females to succeed to the throne of the Netherlands is - recognised by Europe as well as by...

German Parliament on his Colonial policy. He complained of British delay in affirming or rejecting the German claim to Angra Pequena, but allowed that the question was over now,...

favourable. to the Liberals, but have shown also that only a very languid, interest was taken by either party. They have shown, too, most of all, that to close a county poll at...

The heir, Prince Victor, to whom his cousin, the Prince Im- perial, bequeathed such rights as he had, has long been desirous of more independence, and recently quitted his...

at Coombe, in Surrey, of the Rev. James Baldwin Brown, the eminent Independent minister, at the age of sixty-three. He took his degree as a lad of eighteen among the first on...

occasion. Lord Granville declined to acknowledge the inefficiency of the House, though he acknowledged that the rushes of Peers, who took no part in the business, to vote on...

the House of Commons on the Bill for extending to the five exempted cities of Ireland the principle of Sunday closing. The Bill was talked out, and was talked out in great...

Vivi- section, held on Thursday, with Lord Shaftesbury in the chair, gave occasion to the .Daily News of yesterday to moralise deeply over the folly of talking of the rights of...

time) made by Mr. Fawcett early in this year, a meeting was held on Wednesday, at Grosvenor House, to urge upon the Government the expediency of instituting an inquiry, by a...

after all. The delay has been so great, that we should think it likely that the 'Government must have wished to make some other and more original arrangement ; for the Public...

Peer, and the Lords are startled. On Friday week, Lord Rosebery, in a speech brimming over with humour, eloquence, and knowledge of his subject, moved for a Committee of Inquiry...

Consols were on Friday 99i to 100 ad,

THE AGREEMENT WITH FRANCE. W E are by no means through the Egyptian wood yet, but at least one grand difficulty is out of the way. The Government will not be turned out in the...

T HE Franchise Bill is gone to the Lords, having been read a third time on Thursday without a division ; and now the great question for the country is what the Lords will do...

S IR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE'S treatment of Lord Randolph Churchill is at best capricious. Like the mothers of some spoiled children, who slap them or humour them without any...

I T is a great pity Lord Rosebery cannot get a private Act passed reducing him, say for seven, fourteen, or twenty- one years, to the status of a Commoner. He has a talent for...

T HE news of the week from China may prove exceedingly serious. It was reported on Thursday that 4,000 Chinese regulars had attacked a French force on its way to Langson, and...

T HE judgment of the Queen's Bench Division in the "Park Club" case is in some points satisfactory. For one thing, it shows that the law is not impotent, as it must have been...

T HE five thousand who left Toulon on the first clear evidence that a fatal form of cholera or choleraic fever had broken out there, may have contained many whose duty it was to...

W E suppose that, on the whole, Mr. Hughes is right ; and that for lads who can "rough it" easily, and like out-of-doot life, and have the abiFty to utilise labour, stock-...

THE ETHICS OF FORGIVENESS. [To THE EDITOR OF TH11 "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—Yon will, I am sure, with your usual kindness, allow me a few words of explanation of my sermon on "The...

T HE death of James Baldwin Brown is the loss of one whom it will be almost impossible to replace. He leaves behind him colleagues who exercise perhaps as large and liberal an...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE. " 1 Sia,—I find myself in such hearty general agreement with you on this subject that I feel constrained to point out what seems to me a...

[To THE EDTTOE OF THE "SPECTATOR." J Sia,—In January last year you opened your columns for a brief outline of the principal features of the Constitutional crisis in Norway....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As in your article on Home Lessons you mention the Bradford School Board, may I be allowed to say that that Board has no intention...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIE, — Y011 crown your sum-up of the middle-class appreciation of Mr. Spurgeon with,—" They let him talk English instead of Pulpit...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPF.CTATOR."] Era,—The attitude of the country towards the Government is practically the same as at the General Election. Such was the moral of the...

"Winn yer sacrifice a copper ?" cried an Arab to a /leak, And the little devil threw a dozen cartwheels as he spoke ; 'Twos at the very workhouse gate, this piece of precious...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TES "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—The epitaph printed in the Spectator of the 14th, on p. 788, reminds me of one in Bakewell churchyard, between Matlock and Buxton,...

GEORGE DU MAURIER.* WE confess to a certain feeling of irritation with this exhibi- tion, for which Mr. Du Manlier is wholly irresponsible, for it is one caused by the notes of...

'ATTA.PKEIA. I . BY thine own soul's law learn to live, And if men thwart thee take no heed, And if men hate thee have no care; Sing thou thy song, and do thy deed, Hope thou...

WYCLIF AND HUS.* WYCLIF has not hitherto been one of the popular heroes of England. As the "Morning Star of the Reformation," or under some similar title, he occasionally...

THOSE who agree with us in admiring Mr. Crawford's ability,. and deprecating, as disagreeable and unhealthy, the way in which he manifested it in To Leeward, will rejoice to...

and thoughtful book, though it is pervaded by that error which, as it seems to us, always tends to predominate in those forms of Christian philosophy which start from the divine...

conjecture what was Mr. Kent's object in setting himself his latest literary task. True, there has of late years been a revival of the taste for what used to be called in the...

history of the Serjeants-at-Law, whom he poetically designates as the "Order of the Coif," Mr. Serjeaut Pulling has given us a discourse on the antiquities of the pro- fession...

A STORY that begins with a case of kidnapping, related some- what after the fashion of Eugene Sue in Le J`uif Errant, will probably have little attraction for the lovers of that...

vols. (Remington and Co.)—This tale consists, in fact, of two tales joined together in a not very artistic fashion. "The friend in ten thou- sand "appears—indeed, plays an...

Viney.)—Mr. Urwick ingeniously begins his history of Hertfordshire Nonconformity with St. Alban (not feeling, however, quite certain that there was such a person), whom he...

Gems of Chinese Literature. By Herbert A. Giles. (Bernard Quaritch.)—Mr. Herbert Giles has in this volume (ornamented, by the way, with appropriate quaintness) added another...

" junk " was really not a junk, but an Indian harbour-boat, which two brothers hire at Bombay and take for a cruise along the coast southwards. This account of their voyage is...

(W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—The new rector of Kirby in the Dale was certainly justified in thinking that he bad been brought by circum. stances to a strange place. College...

and Sons.)—These letters furnish materials for the question that is now coming into public notice, the condition of the High- land population. Some of the facts and figures...

Wallace, Edinburgh).—These two lectures are well described as "two chapters in our life history." The first is a popular exposition of the "germ theory" of zymotio disease...

is a new variation, and not, we think, a very happy one, on the "Claimant Plot." Philip Debenham and Torrington Torwood travel over the world for ten years, Torwood furnishing...

Rev. Canon H. D. M. Spence, Rev. Joseph S. Exell, and Rev. Charles Neil (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), is before us. Five more sections, making ten in all, have been added, and...

French of Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez. 2 vols. Translated and edited by Walter Armstrong, B.A. (Chapman and Hall.)—These volumes are a sequel to the work on Egyptian...

Brothers.).—There is, of course, something in these volumes about Irish politics, but happily there is not very much. The end of this part of the story may be briefly...

(Religious Tract Society.)—Professor Sayoe sums up in this con- venient little volume the results of recent discovery in the history of the Empire of the East. The Hittites,...