29 MAY 1875

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It appears that Duchesne, the drunken Belgian workman accused of

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intending to murder Prince Bismarck, really did write to the Archbishop of Paris, offering to kill the Chancellor for £2,400, and that there is no law to,punish him. The Belgian...

The latest news (May 20) from the Burmese capital, Mandalay,

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comes from a correspondent of the Indian Dally News, Calcutta, and shows that the King is amicable, that he denies all share in the attack on Colonel Browne's expedition, and...

The Government made something of a fiasco on Thursday night

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of their Savings-banks Bill. It was read a second time by consent without a division before Whitsuntide. But on Thursday Mr. Fawcett moved, as an amendment on the motion for...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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?THERE has been much talk of another crisis in France, but it is improbable that it will come to anything. The Cabinet desire to supersede election by departments by election...

Lord Harrington asked Mr. Disraeli on Monday,—evidently by pre-arrangement,—whether Her

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Majesty's Government have advised Her Majesty to make any representation to the Govern- ments of France and Germany on the subject of the relations existing between those...

Mr. Fawcett on Monday moved a vote of censure on

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the Govern- ment in the shape of an amendment to Sir S. Northcote's Public Works Loan Act Amendment Bill, declaring that the Government had not redeemed its pledges about local...

* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

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The Tories have lost Breconshire, which, since the Reform Bill,

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has never returned a Liberal. At the last election, Mr. W. Fuller Maitland received 1,036 votes, and the Hon. G. C. Morgan, Tory, 1,594; but this time Mr. Fuller-Maitland...

Prince Bismarck is learning by experience. According to a special

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telegram to the Pall Mall Gazelle, he has issued an order dissolving the Press Bureau, out of displeasure at its indiscretions during the recent war panic. He is right. A...

Mr. Lowe on Monday asked the Under-Secretary for India if

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Government were prepared to remedy the grievance of the Bengal Civil Service described elsewhere. Lord G. Hamilton, in reply, stated that the Government admitted a hardship, but...

The Archbishop of Canterbury has written a letter to a

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friend on the Revivalist - movement of Mr. Moody, which is very just in its appreciation of Mr. Moody's aims, but a little too mild and cautious in its guarded treatment of his...

It is announced by telegraph that the widow of the

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late Gnicowar of Baroda has been allowed to select the eldest of three of his sons, Gopal Rao by name, to be the new Guicowar. The statement is not very intelligible—though the...

Sir Wilfrid Lawson has been very amusing this week. OR

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Monday he gave the Prime Minister a very effective rap by beg- ging the right hon. gentleman to inform the House "whether he had had time to make up his mind as to whether he...

' • Yesterday week Mr. Sampson Lloyd raised a short

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discussion in the House of Commons on the desirableness of having the Com- merce and Agriculture of the country attended to by a principal Secretary of State, who should always...

A strong deputation waited on Mr. Cross on Thursday, to

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ask him to bring in a Bill modifying the law under which the Brighton Aquarium Company was fined for keeping open the Aquarium on Sunday. It was stated that under the same...

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Dr. Kenealy is getting worse and worse, and seems, moreover,

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quite insensible to the wisdom of the proverb about persons who live in glass houses. Yesterday week, at Stoke, he made a speech in favour of terrorising the Press ; he...

The Irish Court of Common Pleas, Justices Lawson, Morris, and

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Keogh, have decided that the late John Mitchel was dis- qualified to sit in Parliament as an alien under the Naturalisation Act, which provides that "any British subject who...

We observe that the energetic and useful society for aiding

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the promotion of Working Men's Clubs, called "The Working Men's Club and Institute Union," has just founded a journal as the most efficient means of enabling all these clubs to...

Captain Boyton made his second attempt to cross the Channel

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yesterday, entering the sea in his life-preserving suit at Cape Grisnez, near Boulogne, at nine minutes past 8 a.m. on Friday morning, and reaching the mid-channel at about...

A remarkable letter from Professor E. S. Beeslyto the Pall

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Mall Gazelle of yesterday shows that he has lived and learnt, which is not what we usually expect from people who hold dogmas so very independent of anything like plausible...

The Derby was run as usual this year on Wednesday,

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and Galopin, a horse belonging to Prince Batthyany, won. The race seems to have been a dull one, the result was generally expected, and the scene was more like an overgrown fair...

On Monday night, in answer to Dr. Lyon Playfair, the

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Home Secretary, Mr. Assheton Cross, stated that it was intended to appoint a small Royal Commission on the subject of Vivi- section, in order that Parliament might have full...

The Secretary for the Colonies has prohibited the slaughter of

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elephants in Ceylon, where the beasts are being rapidly ex- terminated. No more elephants are to be killed except for Government purposes for some time to come, though -"rogue"...

Consols were at the latest date 93i-93i.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. FAWCETT'S AMENDMENT. T HAT Mr. Fawcett's amendment should be defeated on Monday night was of course inevitable. He moved that Sir Stafford Northcote's Bill on local...

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THE POWER OF ENGLAND.

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IV IR. DISRAELI'S reply to Lord Hartington on Monday night authenticates the rumour which we mentioned last week as generally accepted both abroad and at home, that England did...

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THE NEW CRIME IN BELGIUM.

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TB! recent discussion between Germany and Belgium is about have for its result in Belgium an addition to the list of Crimes. The Belgian Government has announced that it will...

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THE NEW " CRISIS " IN FRANCE.

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T ' great importance attached in France to this dispute about the scrutin de liste is not at first sight intern- uible to English readers, but it is not, when examined, more...

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THE GRIEVANCE OF THE BENGAL CIVILIANS.

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T HE complaint of the Bengal Civil Service, or rather of that section of it which governs the Punjab, Oude, and Hin- dostan Proper, which Mr. Lowe is to bring on Monday before...

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THE LAST TORY BLUNDER.

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T HE debate of Thursday night, on the Savings-bank Bill, will turn out to be a somewhat serious administrative defeat to the Government. It was so clear that their own...

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THE CHARACTERLESSNESS OF SERMONS.

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T HE correspondence on the subject of the trade in lithographed Sermons has produced a very early crop of the kind of com- ments and criticisms on the subject of Preaching which...

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SIR II. MAINE ON THE SECLUSION OF LNDIA.

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S IR HENRY MAINE, in his very striking lecture delivered at Cambridge on Saturday, on the possible value of the study of "India "—that is, its history, manners, and...

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THE ARCTIC SHIPS.

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IT was particularly pleasant to go to Portsmouth while all the world was at Epsom, and to visit the Arctic ships when visitors were not expected, and there was no crowd. The...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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CIVIL-SERVICE APPOINTMENTS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TUN "SPEOTATOR.1 seems that the Report of the Civil-Service Inquiry Com- mission requires a deal of explanation. We have already...

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THE MARKS IN COMPETITIVE EXAMINATIONS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I can hardly hope to interest any considerable number of your readers in so technical and difficult a subject as Examination- marks,...

AN2ESTHE'l'ICS AND THE LOWER ANIMALS. [TO THE EDITOR. OF THE

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"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It seems to be generally supposed in this country by people- who interest themselves in the present controversy about vivisec- tion, that chloroform and...

CIVIL-SERVICE REFORM.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As a junior half-way down the list, I may, perhaps, be trusted to present a more uncoloured view of Civil-Service reform that than of...

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"THE /ESTHETIC MODIFICATIONS OF DISSENT." go THE EDITOR OF THE

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"SPECTATOR.') SIR,—I am greatly interested by your article upon "The lEsthetic Modifications of Dissent," though I cannot endorse your conclu- sions. No doubt Dissenters have...

VIVISECTION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Would you permit a scientific student, whose experiments are confined to inanimate nature, and who, as regards the battle now raging on...

MR. SEYMOUR HADEN ON BURIAL.

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[TO THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—May I be permitted to suggest that the tone of raillery in which you last week referred to Mr. Seymour Haden's letter to the Times of...

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MR. BROWN AND THE COUNTY BRIDGE.

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[TO TUR EDITOR OF THR SPECTATOR:1 do not see that it matters much whether the couplet about the bridge was Mr. Richard's or your own. The fact remains that he amused Parliament...

POETRY.

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"TO HONOUR THEE, SWEET MAY !"—Woanswousn. How fares it with thee, heart, to-day, When all around thee blooms the May ? This year of grace, this "seventy-five ;" Say, does it...

MRS. ELLIOT'S "ITALIANS."

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 4 ] Sre,—In your review of "The Italians" you speak of "the very great improbability that this novel should make its way in Italy beyond the...

BOOKS.

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AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION.* THE records of Australian exploration are full of deeds of heroism.. For long the interior of that vast continent baffled all attempts to penetrate its...

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MRS. CAMERON'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF TENNYSON.*

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Mits. CAMERON'S photographic studies are well known for the rare skill with which she has contrived to give something of the effect of fine artistic design and purpose to...

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SWEET AND TWENTY.*

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WREN we take up a novel by Mr. Mortimer Collins, we are at least pretty sure of one thing,—it will not be insipid. We may find it wild and strange, or we may quarrel with the...

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PROFESSOR CAIRNES'S RECENT ECONOMICAL WRITINGS.

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ANYTHING written by Professor Cairnes on political economy is sure to command the attention of all who are interested in the development of a science which with every advance...

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LUARD'S "MATTHEW PARIS."* IN introducing a portion of the Chronica

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Majora which is generally more important and national than we have found the commencements of this work (see Spectator, September 14, 1872), Mr. Luard speaks of the old editions...

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Messa da Requiem. Di G. Verdi. (Ricordi, Milano; and 28

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Charles Street, London.)—This handsomely-printed edition of Verdi's famous "Requiem Mass" in honour of Manzoni was produced in England in time to give the lovers of music an...

The Hero of Elstow ; or, the Story of the

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Pilgrimage of John Bunyan. By James Copner, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Mr. Copuer is Vicar of the parish of Elstow, and his little book, which in any ease would be welcome,...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Spanish Reformers of Two Centuries from 1520. By E. Boehmer, after B. B. Wiffen. (Triibner.)—Mr. Wiffen was a member of the Society of Friends ; he travelled into Spain, with...

Govinda &manta ; or, the History of a Bengal Rdiyat.

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By the Rev. -Lail Behan Day. 2 vols. (Macmillan.)—Unfortunately for the literary success of this book, the hero of the tale is not the real hero. We have, indeed, the whole of...

Under Pressure. By T. E. Pemberton. 2 vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)—

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There is no great harm about this work, but it has the great fault of being without any discernible purpose or meaning. Hugh Haslip, the son of a wealthy farmer, wants to rise...

Life Among my Ain Folk. By the Author of "Johnny

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Gibb of Gushetneuk." (Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh.)— There are four little tales in this book, and all of them are interesting. The author is well-known in the North of...

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Practical Guide to the Isle of Man. By Henry Irwin

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Jenkinson. (Stanford.)—This book has been now for some time on our shelves, but we have delayed the notice of it till what seemed a convenient time. Every one can enjoy, in...