T HE " smash " at Buenos Ayres, which has been expected for the last six weeks—cipher codes for announcing the assassination of the President to Stock Exchange specu- lators,...

yesterday week by a division in which Mr. Glad- stone and the Front Bench of Opposition did not take part. There voted for the second reading of the Bill 209, and against it...

case.

personal explanation as to his statement in 1870, in answer to a question from Sir John Hay, that if it should be proposed to cede territory in Gambia to the French, he had no...

obvious that Guatemala is not to have it all her own way in her attempt to force San Salvador to join the proposed Federal Union. On Monday it was:reported that a revolt had...

that it seemed as if the overthrow of the Government, and its dangerous and perhaps corrupt financial policy, was assured. Europe, therefore, was astonished to learn on...

to make it a great reproach to the Government that the Pope should have expressed his willingness to acquiesce in such arrangements as England liked to make for the Maltese...

the people tamely allowed themselves to be in- timidated by moonlighters and outrage-mongers, instead of resisting this kind of oppression even by "Lynch-law," was the subject...

credit, the newspapers, and especially the evening ones, have been filling their columns during the past week, ended on Wednesday in a verdict unfavourable to the petitioner....

answer to Lord Stratheden and Campbell, who, in his own peculiarly heavy manner, had been trying to make out to the House of Lords that if Lord Salisbury had not been loaded...

Manchester on Monday. Sir Michael Hicks- Beach, the President for the year, in his inaugural address, while admitting that England was, speaking generally, far behind her...

Lynch-law, Mr. Gladstone was very eloquent. No one denies that the phrase was a dangerous, and would have been a most mischievous one, if there were any popular faction in...

National Liberal Club on Wednesday, and went as near to making a " No-Popery " speech as Mr. Gladstone could go. He chose the Embassy of Sir Lintorn Simmons to the Pope, on the...

the British Medical Association at its Birmingham meeting, on Tuesday, threw his influence rather against the teaching of classics in any form to lads who are to begin their...

Duke of Wellington's, which runs as follows :—" Strath. fieldsaye, July 27th, 1837.—Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington is happy to inform William Harries that his toad is...

to their Standing Committee on Law, was considered on Tuesday afternoon. The most important clause—the third—was finally amended so as to make every director and every promoter...

completed a quarter of a century of Parliamentary work for the Conservatives, which was held this day week in the grounds of Oakfield, Dartford, by the permission of Mr. R. C....

a special jury had before them a case of considerable interest to householders. Mrs. Brunton, the plaintiff, claimed damages for a Persian carpet, worth 21,000, which was...

week which was not quite so gloomy as agricultural speeches have recently been. He said that a good deal of the plentiful hay crop had been very fairly got in, though a good...

meeting at Great Barr, Birmingham, last Saturday. He said that the Opposition had succeeded in postponing the Irish Land-Purchase Bill, but that there was no Bill which ought...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 951 to 95f.

LORD SALISBURY AND MR. GLADSTONE. T .1 OR]) SALISBURY and Mr. Gladstone have both made characteristic speeches this week,—speeches so characteristic, that there is, we think,...

months past has been gathering over the Argentine Republic, broke last Saturday in the form of a revolution in the capital, Buenos Ayres. To understand what has taken place, it...

misinformed, the Russian Government is about to perpetrate a crime for which it is impossible to find a parallel in recent history. The terrible programme of statutory...

W E did not enter into the controversy arising out of Lord Hartington's speech with any intention of rivalling our excellent contemporary, the English historical Review. We...

same length will echo ba,ck, so a State in a different phase year in which the view of Church property put forward by of political or constitutional life will ignore...

stress, it not unfrequently happens that a period of perfect calm and stillness ensues ; of such stillness that one wonders how it could ever have been otherwise, and is almost...

" p RIVATE property in England," writes an American lawyer in a work which we notice elsewhere, "is, on the whole, less secure from attack on the part of the Government to-day...

I N Captain Marryat's days, the main stress of the first day's duty at sea fell on the That Lieutenant. Even if the drunken, sea-sick crew obeyed orders better than he ex-...

T HE exceeding wrath with which some of our politicians warn Lord Salisbury that he will be held accountable at the General Election for permitting Cardinal Manning to be named...

I T is all over. Vanity Fair has taken to itself wings, and fled away from the sober and serious city where it holds its annual carnival. Only yesterday it seems that it was...

T O speak of the cat as a humorist, in any shape or form, sounds, we admit, something very like a contradiction in terms. There are hundreds of people—and by people we mean, of...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: THE CIVIL LIST-" THE GRACIOUS CONSIDERATION OF THM SOVEREIGN, AND THE GRATITUDE OF THE COUNTRY." THERE have been a great many witty things said...

MR. STEPHENS AND THE NATIONAL CHURCH. [To TEN EDITOR OP THU " SPECTATOR." J SIB,—I neither would nor could add a word to your argument in reply to Mr. Stephens. But will you...

was glad to find, in the Spectator of July 26th, that Mr. Stephens had raised a voice of protest against what seemed to me the strange inaccuracies of your article on Lord...

[TO THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your lady-correspondent from Trinity Vicarage, Gains- borough, asks if any instance can be given similar to that of her tamed rook. I...

wish to prolong a correspondence upon this topic, especially as I am about to leave England for a few weeks ; but I hope you will allow me to submit a few remarks upon the...

rro THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."' Si,—An appeal is being sent out to old Haileyburians to become members of a Guild that is being formed in pursuance of a resolution passed...

HORACE.—BOOK I., ODE I. 212ECENAS ATAVIS. MAscENAs, friend, my stay, my glory, Scion of Kings renowned in story ! Some o'er th' Olympic plain delight To guide the chariots'...

[" TANTO GENTILE E PANTO ONESTA PARE."] So gentle and so beauteous doth appear My lady, when she maketh a salute, That every tongue, trembling, becometh mute ; The eye to look...

JESUITS AND SECULARS UNDER ELIZABETH. * SUCH recent publications as the Dauay Diaries and the Letters' and Memorials of Cardinal Allen have already done much to clear up the...

THE novel-reading public sometimes manifests unaccountable freaks of attention and neglect. We see it announced that two orthodox writers have combined their powers to answer a...

which we regret that the author, who has, if we may judge by internal indications, a con- siderable training in the appreciation of historical evidence, has not given his name....

THE origin of the Gipsies is one of the unsolved problems of ethnology, and appears likely to remain so. There is no difficulty about the name. It is obviously a corruption of...

THERE is something very attractive to the writer, at least in such little collections of chatty, disjointed pieces of informa- tion as the book before us; it is a pleasant...

sister-isle are not infrequently surprised to find the natives speaking a dialect which is at once purer from a literary standpoint than that to which they are accustomed at...

Advanced Physiography. By J. Thornton. (Longmans and Co.) —It would be equally correct to call this an elementary astronomy,. for the greater part is devoted to the study of the...

not know whether the author means this book to be one of "those objectionable, as a rule, productions—a novel with a purpose," to quote her own words. If it has a purpose, we...

Re- creations of a Country Parson." (Longmans.)—This is one of the pleasantest books which Dr. Boyd has given us. Sometimes, perhaps, he is a little wanting in kindliness of...

Age : with Chosen Poems of Nicholas Breton. Edited by A. H. Millen. (Nimmo.)—Mr. Bullen has done so much good service to all students of Elizabethan poetry, that one feels sorry...

one of the series of "Catholic Manuals of Philo- sophy." From the nature of its subject, it is a book which a reviewer must either treat at great length, or very briefly indeed....