approval to Ridolfi's scheme for the assassination of Elizabeth, the Tablet also contains a pertinent defence, though it does not amount to a vindication. It attacks Ridolfi's...

arrest first reached England, that Scindiah had surrendered him out of fear, or revenge for his conduct in 1858. It appears from the detailed accounts that this view was...

of the Conservatives, but by a much reduced majority. The Liberal candidate, Mr. Stitt, received 2,474, Mr. MacIver, 3,421 votes,—Conservative majority, 947. Last February, the...

support his assertion that one of the few Popes who had also been a saint had commissioned an assassin to kill Elizabeth ; that Fenelon had privately declared that his...

Catholic Churches of the diocese of the Bishop of Birmingham (Bishop Ullathorne) on the dangers of the times, and especially the " Old- Catholic " heresy, in which the Bishop...

election of 400,000 Municipal Councillors for the 37,000 communes of France was completed on Sunday, but the returns have as yet been received only from the towns. They show...

case.

it is said, resolved to introduce Bills into Parliament giving them power to buy up all Metropolitan gas-works, to make and supply the gas themselves, and to establish a grand...

attributed to him by the Correspondent of the Daily News, on Mr. Gladatone's pamphlet, in which Mr. Gladstone was called " a viper," though we cannot assert that the viper was...

very strong statement about desertion. He says that in 1873, 2,078 - recruits entered for the Cavalry, and 934 deserters were adver- tised for ; 3,479 recruits joined the...

the German Parliament. The Government has recently imprisoned three " Socialist " Members of Parliament, and is prosecuting Editors on all sides, generally for translating...

to his constituents at Diss, in Norfolk, made a remark which is under- stood to mean that the Government will next Session introduce a mild tenure Act, giving compensation to...

Saturday the proceedings which preceded the cession of Feejee to the Queen. We cannot pretend to condense a most charming letter, but it is evident from it that King Thakombau...

some orthodox Roman Catholics to attenuate the force of the Vatican decrees, but we have not there enumerated one of the boldest of these orthodox minimisers, Mr. F. H....

his post, and Lord Lytton, who has for a few months been virtual ambassador there, goes as Minister to Lisbon. It is, we suppose, indispensable to maintain some sort of...

week on the progress of unbelief, but not, if we may judge by the report in the Times, with much . force or per- tinency. He declared that men ought to expect "a scientific...

for recalling General Loma and his army from the pursuit of the Carlists. They feared that Don Carlos might destroy or break through the force upon the Ebro, which had been...

Statistical Society, in which he produced figures showing that the value of land in Ireland has risen by nearly three years' pur- chase since Mr. Gladstone's Land Act came into...

Disestablishment bursts upon them like a thunderclap in a serene sky. At Bristol, on Wednesday, the Society held a meeting, at which the Rev. J. Allanson Picton delivered an...

Bank. It is to be a German, and not a Prussian one. A Bill with that object is to be prepared—after the consent of the separate Parliament of Prussia has been obtained—and laid...

- we are a nation of shopkeepers. At the Cutler's Feast at Sheffield on Thursday—a very dull meeting, at which nothing was said worth reporting—the American Minister told his...

N OTHING can be much more striking even to Roman Catholics themselves than the spectacle of the great mass of fallible thought about Infallibility which is so rapidly accu-...

THE FRENCH MUNICIPAL FLECTIONS. TIT immediate effect of the Municipal Elections in France an hardly be otherwise than disastrous. Those elections have been governed for the...

AV E cannot quite agree with Dr. Colenso in all that he has writen about Langalibelele, the native chief who has recently been sentenced in Natal ; but it is impossible to read...

IMIERE is one fatal flaw in the case which a few officers are always presenting to the public, in their attacks on our recruiting system, which deprives their assertions of half...

WE have been told this week by General Schenck, in his amusing speech at Sheffield, that there is nothing which will make Englishmen and Americans such good friends as personal...

I T may seem sad that, after three centuries of a glorious history, the Reformed Church of France should be on the eve of disruption. She withstood massacres, of which the...

G AS Shares, says the Echo, have risen on 'Change this week from 1 to 2 per cent., apparently in consequence of the Bills prepared by the Metropolitan Board and the City of...

feel very much obliged to Mr. Spalding for stating so clearly the results of modern science on the illusions of volition and consciousness, for I am no longer young, and though...

SIR,—Had not a considerable experience of the Spectator con- vinced me of its fairness and willingness to hear the other side, I would not trouble you with this ; but your...

Sni,—In a recent number, while expressing your opinion that Dr. Appleton's scheme for the Endowment of Research was deserving of serious consideration, you suspend your own...

[TO THE XDITOIL OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The consciousness of every one at every moment of action is so indisputable—we are so distinctly conscious that our actions are...

Srrt,—In your article of the 21st, on the "The Automaton Super- stition," you appear to admit that Mr. Spalding has proved his case, if the law of the conservation of energy is...

of our knowledge, is it not dangerous to assume any such definite physical hypothesis concerning free- will as that contained in your article on "The Automaton Sulierstition "...

THE SWAN. [FROM THE SWEDISH OF RIINEBERG.] FROM cloud with purple-sprinkled rim A swan, in calm delight, Sank down upon the river's brim, And sang in June, one night. Of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In an article on "Titles in Denmark," which appears in the current number of the Spectator, the writer speaks of "the absurdity of...

"SPECTATOR."] SIM,—You did me the honour some time ago to insert a letter from me, describing Mr. Francis's proposal for the reform of our Parliamentary system. It may interest...

EDGAR POE.* IT is pleasant to have Edgar Poe rescued from the reputation of something like infamy to which his first biographer had con- signed him, even though it seems simply...

contains are amongst the best we have read for many years ;-simple, vigorous, spiritual'. They are not about divinity, but about God, and they have that unmistakable touch of...

• California: for Health, Pleasure, and Residence. A Book for Travellers and Bottlers. By Charles Nordhoff. New York: Harper Brothers. (FIRST NOTICE.] THAT the "good...

of the very remarkable treatise now before us thus sums up the result of his elaborate and scholarly researches :—" The victory of Christianity marks the end of ancient...

LOOKIKG at this work from a purely legal point of view, we have no hesitation in according it very high praise. It is at once short, compendious, and reliable. The writer, while...

THEOLOGY, which, to quote Hooker's language, "is the science of things divine," is not, we think, an accurate phrase as applied here by Mr. Brooke. The religious feeling of the...

ORBISTIddS BOOKS. Military and Religious Life in Me Middle Ages and at the Period of the Renaissance. By Paul Lacroix. (Chapman and Hall.) In point of time, this volume, which...

of Land. By Charles Elton, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. (Wilding and Sons.)—The working lawyer will be glad of a convenient hand-book of the Law of Copyholds from the...

of the things quoted in this book we have noticed from time to time, as they happened to occur in books which have been reviewed in these columns. Even an advanced High...

and Hebron.)—One expects from the title a tale about manufacturers and artisans, - with the scene laid in some busy town of forges. But "Ironopolis "—an unnecessary and...

J. E. Harting and Engravings by T. Bewick. (Bickers and Son.) —This is a convenient, well-printed, and well-edited edition of one of the most -charming books in the language....

is so much practical inconvenience in the multiplication of grammars, that a new one requires a very complete justification for its appearance in some superior excellence that...

Walford. (Edinburgh and London : Blackwood.)—The chronicling of small-beer has been done faithfully by some of our best writers who have had sufficient skill to interest all the...