case.

get up a discussion on the so-called Treaty of Kilmainham was, in our opinion, a gross abuse of the terms of the rule. He asked leave to move the adjournment of the House, for...

settled. Baker Pasha will not be Generalis- simo of Egypt. He is to command the two thousand Egyptian Gendarmerie, who will provide for internal order; while an officer...

Redmond have recently made violent speeches in Ireland, pointing to a renewal of agitation against rent, Davitt in parti- cular declaring that unless the surplus under the...

T HE Correspondents in Egypt are telling us, in their vague and hesitating way, some important facts. In the conflict of English and Egyptian opinion, the trial of the Arabists...

passed at the close of last week and on Monday, with very little discussion, as follows :—" 10. That if Mr. Speaker, or the Chairman of a Committee of the whole House, shall...

dicts against murderers, are standing at bay. Six detectives were on Saturday watching some dangerous characters at a corner of Saekville Street, either with a view to arrest...

England, and on Monday an important deputation from the Aborigines' Protection Society, the Anti-Slavery Society, the London Missionary Society, and other philan- thropic...

bury is sinking rapidly, and that no hope is now entertained of his recovery.

has arrested Fuad Pasha, the youngest Marshal of the Army, and a favourite of the soldiers, with several other officers, on a charge of plotting his removal and the elevation of...

attracting the attention of all Europe. An engineer, named Armand Peltzer, is accused of instigating his brother L6on to murder M. Bernays, a Belgian advocate, in order that he,...

a nature to provide that the Grand Committees should never sit at times when the House is in Session, the first resolution of the second. series on Procedure was at length...

After retaining the Envoys from the Queen for some weeks in a state of honourable captivity in Paris, M. Duclerc finally desired. them to sign a Treaty, acknowledging that,...

Commons on Tuesday, on the subject of the working of the Irish Land Act, in relation to the avowed intention of the Government to super- sede the recent system of appointing...

favour of the experiment of two Grand Committees—a Corn- antttee on Commercial questions, and a Committee on Legal questions. These Committees are to perform for Commercial...

sorvatives in the Edinburgh Corn Exchange, and, on the whole, a very dull speech it was, though we cannot often charge Lord Salisbury's speeches with being dull. His chief point...

more import- ance in the world of Art than might be supposed, by granting to the members of the Royal Water-colour Society in Pall Mall ' the distinction of a diploma signed by...

lies in the appendix. From that it appears that on the O'Connor jury, all the jurors were Protestants,—eighteen Catholics and two Protestants having been sot aside by th'e...

'Conservative by nearly three to one. Mr. Raikes,—a very strong partisan, and by no means a man of high learning or other academical reputation,—was on Tuesday returned for...

a deputation from Manchester waited on him to ask him to contest the city at the next general election, but he 'declined, saying that he should sever his connection with Wood-...

satisfactorily, though one or two very useful mem- bers of the old School Board have been rejected, and one or two very unsatisfactory candidates have been returned. Still, the...

imprisonment of Mr. Gray by Mr. Justice Lawson for contempt of Court has been finally presented to the House since its return 'to the Committee to be amended for a technical...

per cent.

THE LESSONS OP THE CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. T HE Cambridge Election ought to teach both the Liberals and the Conservatives a serious lesson. For our own part, though we were rash...

T HE fresh outrages in Ireland are very terrible, but it is not well for Englishmen to be too much disheartened either by them, or by Michael Davitt's appeal for a new agita-...

I T is quite right that, considering Mr. Gladstone's great confidence in the experiment of Grand Committees, and his perfect readiness to meet the wishes of the House by giving...

T O'ilD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL continues his evening performance, "Imitations of Mr. Disraeli," with some acceptance, especially from the young and foolish, and those rowdies with...

evidence is ex parte, and may break down—murdered M. Bernays, according to the official opinion, which is, of course, based upon evidence, in order to obtain exclusive...

O UR remarks upon the possible conversion of Liverpool have been received on the spot with less disfavour than we expected, and are, indeed, generally admitted to be true, We...

M R, ST. GEORGE STOCK, an accomplished Oxonian, who believes, though not without having found many cases of imposture, in those manifestations of invisible agents which are...

" T O have seen a Grecian play is a great remembrance," were the words of De Quincey, after seeing a perform- ance of the Antigone in Edinburgh, more than thirty years ago ; and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Some little experience I have had as a missionary among the poorer class of electors in Liverpool quite confirms your view of the...

A SYNOD FOR THE CHURCH OP ENGLAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—Will you allow me, with best thanks for your leader, to place before your readers' eyes the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR, —Might not the "practicable expedient" required to meet the difficulty of the franchise be found by giving a vote to every...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mrs. Oliphant, at the end of the article on Lord Byron, Vol. III. of her most admirable " Literary History," appends a list of...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, —The darkness which envelopes the earliest history of Rome is first broken by the figure of Servius Tullius, the sixth King,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Pray allow me to supply "Ii. J. V." with a missing link between Chaucer and Prince Bismarck. When Louis Philippe surrounded Paris...

MR. BUNNEY'S VENICE.* Tux chief matter which is made evident by this exhibition of paintings and drawings illustrative of Venice, is that Venice has never been painted at...

PROFESSOR CLERK MAXWELL.* Pr is well known, at least among educated men, that the late Professor Clerk - Maxwell was not only unsurpassed, but un- 4 ' The Life of Jaws Cleik...

Ma. COTTER MORISON'S Macaulay is a fine study, a worthy com- panion to his Gibbon in this same series. And though there are criticisms in it from which we strongly disagree, and...

in this book to popularise the tales told by the Persian poet, Firdusi, in his immortal epic. Three circumstances have embarrassed my task : the great length of the Shah Nameh'...

THESE very pleasant _Reminiscences, by the widow of the distinguished diplomatist who from. 1845 to 1870 represented this country successively at St. Petersburg, Berlin, and...

that is true, and true without being common- place, in these lectures on poetry ; there is much, also, likely to make the reader question the author's judgment and critical...

picture-books very successful specimens this time. They are devoted to the two nursery rhymes, " Hey Diddle Diddle " and Baby Bunting,"—which, we believe, have not yet been...

ILLUSTRATED AND OTHER GIFT.BOOKS.—III. The History of Fashion in Prance (5. Low and Co.) from the French of M. Augustin Challemel, by Mrs. Cashel Iloey and Mr. John Lillie,...

success so little to claptrap and so much to honest and careful management as the Leisure Hour (56 Paternoster Bow), the annual volume of which is again before us, and of which...

Duke Yonge, is a very good example of the historico- biographical gift book, it being quite unnecessary to say that Mr. Yonge tells, in a way that is thoroughly suited to the...

from the original drawings by David Roberts, R.I., with historical descriptions by the Rev. Dr. George Croly, dealing with the Jordan and Bethlehem, will be found a very...

and London Society, Beeton's Christmas Annual, and Arrowsmith's Christ- etas Annual. They are all beneath the average, and we have placed them in what is conventionally known as...

Sattorlee, and Christmas Rhymes and New Year's Chimes, by Mary D. Brine (James Clarke and Co.), are two American illustrated books, which, while produced nominally for children,...

Ferran), has some pleasant touches in it, but it, is not altogether satisfac- tory. The illustrations depicting the adventures of a band of girls 'who have gone off on a...

and Co.)—Christmas numbers, as a ;ale, seem to us a mistake,—their literature is, for the most part, of so ephemeral a character. But Good Cheer is an exception, It is mere...

B.A. (Macmillan.)—What Mr. Pollard calls a translation might fairly be called "An Edition of Ballast for English Readers." In the case of the Catiline, the illustrative matter...

and Others. (Bradbury, Agnew, and Co.)—The series of "Handbooks of the Farm," which began with Mr. R. Warington's excellent little volume on agricultural chemistry, is...

chiefly to the class which are intended to please the eye alone, and have nothing to do with the Christmas season. Many of them are attrac- tive enough to make up for the want...

Galloway. (Macmillan.)—A book with such is title should have had an index. Without that help a reviewer finds it no easy task to test and value an author's object and method,...

of Great Stanmore, October 29th, 1882, in refernco to the sudden death of the Rector, the Rev. L. J: Bernays, by Henry Montagu Butler, D.D. Sudden Death. Preached in the Chapel...

by Mr. Thomas Preston, "ox-Lieutenant, R.V.," to a small collection of ad- dresses and sermons by celebrated preachers of the last century in praise of the Volunteer movement to...

Ferran.) —This book, though it contains a number of excellent and eloquent lectures on subjects connected with biology and geology, has an interest of a peculiar sort, which...

M.A., LL,D., F.R.S. (Macmillan and Co.)—This very small book contains a popular and much condensed account of the main arguments which have been used to support the theory of...

Co.)—Under this title, we have a small volume of ser- mons, called by their author a practical exposition of the eleventh chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews. They are very...

King. (Stanford.)—It would bo painful to seek or find minute defects in a book like this, with its pleasant dedications, and its kindly mention of old friends and neighbours....

a companion volume to " Consecrated Women." It sketches in a strongly Evangelical spirit the lives of eleven women who have displayed patience in suffering, courage under...

and Windus.)—This is a revised edition of a little book that first appeared in 18G0. It is interesting in style and instructive in matter. If only the author's advice and...

Raleigh. (A. and C. Black.)—For this work we have nothing but good words, and it is one of those for which the fewest are the best. All that is told of Mr. Raleigh in this...

(T. Hogg, Edinburgh), supply a curious chapter of forgotten local history of East Lothian, or Haddingtonebire. It is strange to learn that in this .ebscnre village was laid down...

of the Times, and contains an account of a journey across the continent of North-America and back, made by the author in the summer of last year, in the company of the Duke of...

rather larger volume, by the famous Baptist preacher, contain- ing nineteen sermons on subjects connected with farming, is the first book of the kind which we have seen adorned...

local pocket-books now published, and which bring to those who open them a flavour of the older time, when there were no railways, or magazines, or local circulating libraries,...