T IIE French Elections came off on Sunday in perfect quiet, but there were trifling riots in some places on the following day, the mobs singing the Marseillaise. The total...

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. F RANCE has begun to weary of the Government of Napoleon. That is, stated broadly, the result of the Elections. The Opposition, which recently numbered...

T HAT Mr. Lowe has plenty of genius, no one who has watched his course in Parliament could for a moment honestly deny. But mere genius may almost disqualify a man for a...

L ESS attention than it deserved has been given to the recent controversy at Oxford on the subject of the Statute establishing an honours' school in theology, which passed...

J UDGING by the printed accounts exclusively, the Derby this year was a very dull Derby, a race on which most people lost their money, in which there was no surprise, and by...

MIALL. in one of his recent speeches at Bradford, Al remarked that a grand characteristic of the Reformed House of Commons was its increased assiduity. The Members attend as if...

C ONGRESSES are a bore. Few, even of those who have officiated at these melancholy solemnities, will be disposed to contest the general truth of this axiom. If any do,0 wise...

T HE Archbishop of York is a sensible man, but like many other sensible men, he evidently has a secret persuasion that Namby-Pamby is essentially Christian ; else why should he,...

W E quoted last week some extracts from a life of Edmund Kean, by Mr. Hawkins, which must have struck many of our readers as totally incredible. According to that writer, Kean's...

W HEN the Romans invaded Britain, Monmouthshire and Herefordshire seem to have been inhabited by the SILURES, whose territories are believed to have also extended over the...

[FRON OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, May 11, 1869. UNTIL just now I had not seen the Pall Mall Budget of April 27, and was therefore in ignorance of that journal's call...

NEW ZEALAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—As the Spectator has always been a true friend to New Zealand, impartial in its comments and reasonable in its...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Six,—It was with considerable regret that I found the Spectator of last week pronouncing against the principle of the Permissive Bill. I...

--4■-•-•••• THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE Royal Academy has marked the commencement of its second century with new galleries and a poor exhibition. As for the new building, it was a...

DR. CURTIUS'S HISTORY OF GREECE.* THE work of Dr. Curtius has one obvious advantage over those with which it is natural, for Englishmen at least, to compare it. The two volumes...

THERE is in the minds of a large and perhaps the best class of readers, a feeling which amounts to positive annoyance when a new memoir is pressed upon their notice. A novel may...

now reached a second edition, is the work of a scholar, a gentleman, and a Christian, Jew of its readers, we should imagine, even among those who would most dissent from his...

Navigation and Nautical Astronomy. By John Merrifield, F.R.A.S., and Henry Evers. (Longmans.)—This is a very elaborate and complete work, which may be used in schools where...