in which he did not deny that Mr. Bradlaugh ' s willingness to use solemn words carrying, to him, no significance, was not com- mendable, still insisted that the House had no...

laugh returning repeatedly to the charge and claiming to take the oath, till the Speaker appealed for help, and Mr. Bradlaugh was, on the motion of Sir S. Northcote, ordered to...

any ease.

its former virulence. On Tuesday night, Mr. Bradlangh came up to the table and offered to take the oath, whereupon the Speaker, who, in our opinion, ought to have ruled that he...

• vancing towards Tunis. El Kef has been occupied, and the old of Tabarea, and the force is moving towards Biserta. The totimirs make, of course, but ineffective resistance,...

all his papers to Lord Rowton, with orders to publish such of them as he thinks advisable, but to avoid hurting private feel- ings; and as regards the correspondence with the...

nominally directed, form a group of Moorish — that is, half- caste Arab — clans, sixteen in number, who claim the coast between Tuuis and Algeria. They were formerly pirates,...

upon the Bill, alleging that it enacted not only the three 1■''s," but the "one R,"— simple robbery,—or what might, perhaps, be bettor styled the "two R's,—" Robbery wrapped...

of the Porte any better by the betrayal of Greece. The Government of Athens has now accepted the boundary fixed by the Ambas- sadors,—but it is with the internal reserve that...

the Bill, arguing the case for free sale in the interest of the landlord, and showing that it made it the interest of the tenant to keep and leave his farm in good condition. He...

as the Chief of his Party. At a meeting of the Conservatives at the Carlton Club, on Thursday, he deprecated giving a decided negative to the Irish Land Bill, and proposed to...

unreal. Mr. Gibson, indeed, opened it on Monday, in •a vigorous speech of detail, intended to denounce its legal com- plexity and its great injustice to the landlords ; but his...

Resolu- tions on the subject of the Laud Bill which must have the effect of greatly strengthening the hands of the Government, though some of them appear to us to press unduly...

Liberals. It ended in the return of the Conservative candidate, Mr. Tollemache,—who will " seriously consider" the Irish Land Bill,—but the Liberal vote increased from 4,008,...

the agitation against Vivisection as diverted. against " a harmless will-o'-the-wisp," and declares that it has diverted human feeling from its true work, the work of insisting...

of reminis- cences, but he also glided into the Laud Bill, which he believed would " steady the price of hind in Ireland," secure the land- lord in his moderate rent, and enable...

original quarrel with Peru, and have rather sympathised with the plucky and wail-organised little n ation in its campaign against its larger but amorphous antagonist. But the...

slimier given by the Fishmongers' Company. After a reference to Lord Beaconsfield, in which be recognised him as an honour- able , opponent who sought no personal or petty ends,...

far as they have been repelled in the papers, have not often been apposite ; but Canon Liddon's at St. Paul's was a remark- able exception, and so also was Mr. Baldwin Brown's,...

did not commit suicide after his deposition, but was murdered. The allegation is that the Minister of War, Hussein Avni, bribed a wrestler employed in the Palace to hold the...

that the Russian Government desires to summon the Powers of Europe to a Conference for the better prevention of . assassinations, and Sir Charles Dilke on Thursday, though he ,...

W E do not understand those who say that the Duke of Argyll need not have quitted the Cabinet, because. the difference between him and his colleagues upon the Irish Land Bill...

THE BRADLAUGH IMBROGLIO. T T is difficult to find any one connected with this Bradlaugh business who is not to blame. Mr. Bradlaugh himself is certainly to blame in ever,...

T HE Conservatives have been wiser than we expected. No formal meeting has been held, and no regular announce- ment made, hat it is evident from the semi-official statements put...

"T T is customary to begin estimates of great men just dead by saying that this is not the time to pronounce fully on their careers, and of course, at a moment when the...

T HE Church Boards Bill, the second reading of which was talked out on Wednesday, has been brought in With the best intentions, and aims at an object which in theory is most...

T HERE is a process at work in the English rural districts which may yet affect the tenure more than all the arguments of all the philosophers, and that is the slow but steady...

N O question connected with Lord Beaconsfield's career is quite so puzzling as his relation to the masses of the people. There can be no doubt that, next to Mr. Gladstone, he...

T HOSE who feel an interest in estimating the relative judg- ment and common-sense shown by the various critics of the original documents of Christianity, should read M. Ernest...

THE IRISH LAND BILL. ere THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The,proposals of .Mr. Gladstone are treated by one power- ful party as confiscatory, by another as illusory. Those...

THE . " SPEC CATOR:1 ,Sra,—William Law must have written the sentence quoted in your numbers of the 16th and the 23rd inst. thus,—" No creature can have any misery from which...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The reviewer, in last week's Spectator, of' Walpole's " His- tory of England," says, " We think that this question [whether the cat '...

SIB ,-I have delayed my answer to Mr. Wilson's letter until I could refer to We " Letters of William Law." Absence from home has prevented me from making that reference until...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") S1R,—A short letter in your last number, headed "A Verinont Ruskin," and signed "J. T. C.," suggests the question put over these lines. "Mi....

it,—Allow mo to draw your attention to a possible source of the now celebrated phrase, " Peace with honour." Mr. Swinburnc- puts these words into the mouth of Knox, in the...

[TO TB E EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") inc to correct an erroneous impression c onvoyed 1.1:1 my letter to you in your issue of the 2nd inst. I 1 .ittid that believed the oaks...

fro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The late Earl had as much right to keep peacocks as King Solomon (II. Chronicles, ix. 21) or anybody else; but those- birds at the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.") your issue of April 23rd, you comment briefly on a paper read by the Rev. E. F. MacCarthy before the National Union of Elementary Teachers....

[re THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] S1R,—As a member of the Society for the Protection of Animals liable to Vivisection, I crave the insertion of a few lines in vindication of...

TO APRIL. [FROM A SICK-BED.] .0 APRIL month of sweet expectancies, The girlhood of the year, the pride of Spring, Why coin'st thou thus .on Earns' withering wing, _And 'neath...

THE CONTINEI1T OF THE FUTURE.* Da. HoLue's seven years of travel, research, and hunting Adventures between the South-African diamond-fields and the Zambesi, began with 1872,...

[FIRST NOTIC]I.] As we omitted, owing to some accident, to review Mr. Leslie Stephen's History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century at the time of its first appearance,...

TitAl the aim of the author of this work is not an ambitious one, may be inferred from the following quotation from Lady Mary Wortley-Montagu, which is placed on the title-page...

'Tux " Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studios" has been now for nearly two years in existence, and the above-named Journal is the first outcome of its activity,...

career of one of the foremost of English soldiers. Colin Campbell was not, in the highest sense of the term, a great General, but he was a very gallant officer and capable...

of miscellaneous experiences of rural life, of its business, its amusements, its dark side, and its brighter aspects. Sometimes be touches on grave economical questions, as in...

Songs. By the Rev, W. W. Gill, B.A. (Didsbury, Wellington.)— This volume is a sequel to the author's "Myths and Songs from the South Pacific." Much legend is mixed up with the...

tion, adorned with some well-executed portraits, engraved on steel. At the end, a brief biographical appendix is given. This contains some ninety names, the place of birth...

of Heinrich Kiopert, Ph.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—We cannot too highly recommend this excellent text-book, which does for ancient geography, as far us may be, what Into been done...

1879-80. Edited by James Mason. (Ward, Lock, and Co.) —We can only repeat the praise which we have bestowed in former years on this excellent Publication. Mr, Mason candidly...

men- tioning under this beading The Forty Shires ; Their History, Scenery, Arts, and Legends, by Charlotte M. Mason. (Ilatehards.) It has an appearance more ornamental, not to...