Commercial Treaty has "not the slightest chance" of being ratified by the National Assembly. The diffi- culty appears to be precisely that which we ourselves carefully pointed...

elsewhere, for punishing religious teachers who use their ecclesi- astical power against the Civil power, or who even publish the names of persons visited with otherwise legal...

filHE situation in France is very grave indeed. On Tuesday the Kerdrel Committee presented its "Report" on the reply which ought to be made to M. Thiers' Message, a report which...

.offer, conveyed to the Assembly through M. Dufaure, to submit the proposal for Ministerial Responsibility to a Committee of Thirty, which should define all executive functions,...

they do about M. Thiera' appearance in the Assembly injuring his dignity as President of the Republic by exposing him to the strife of parties ? It is all pure prejudice,...

story has been circulated in the City and obtained a place in many journals that he has been poisoned. M he has been threatened ever since his accession, and once attacked by...

case.

a man - who. has been before the world as author and politician for sixty years,. and as a sort of commercial Envoy for the Government whenever commercial knowledge was needed,...

pulsory sale of corporation lands, and makes out an excellent case for his opinion. He says that the Colleges and other bodies which would be forced to' sell would lose the...

the capture of Khiva by Colonel Makasoff has been received,. but says it still requires confirmation. We incline to suspect,. as the story has also reached Cabal, it is true,...

from the Metropolitan Board of Works, sent to ask their help in freeing the London Bridges. This work will cost 21,500,000, and the Board purpose to accomplish it by continuing...

Orleans Domains, or rather of the portion of them which has not been alienated. This portion is worth £1,440,000, divisible among no less than eight families descended from...

the county, attended a public meeting on Saturday, called to assist in founding a County Friendly Society for Berks.. The object of this society is to supersede the petty...

in order, for Kincardineshire threatens to elect Sir G. Balfour. Sir George is a near relative of the late Joseph Hume,. promises to tread in his steps, and knows more about...

the late imeute have made a full submission, and have all been reinstated at the bottom of their respective grades. That is a kindly and we believe a wise act, and will restore...

was still more emphatic. It was provoked by a motion of Herr Malinckrodt condemning the exclusion, by a decree of the 15th June last, of all the regular clergy, members of...

recorded this week in the Liverpool Daily Post (which by a blunder of the pen we referred to last week as the Liverpool Daily Mail) on the secrecy clauses of the Ballot Act. Mr....

chiefly to canvass for Sir H. Drummond Wolff, the defeated Conservative candidate at the last Christchurch election, who is going to stand again next time, but dilating also on...

stituents on Wednesday. He said that land was taxed in 1692 at the rate of 4s. in the pound, and that in that year the rental of land was about £10,000,000. It is now...

Hepworth Dixon against the Pall Mall Gazette, for speaking of him, in relation to his books called Spiritual Wives' and Free Russia,' as an obscene writer and a vamper-up of...

Palles, seems likely, like one of his predecessors (Mr. Serjeant Barry), to go begging for a seat. Mr. Palles was beaten by a combinatioa of the Presbyterians, who, as a rule,...

been too much for Mr. Horace Greeley. His head has been affected, he has become unconscious, and on Thursday was reported to be very rapidly sinking. His wife's recent death,...

desert at the rate of more than 8,000 a year, but it appears that the names advertised by the Police have often been counted twice over, and that the annual desertion does not...

THE GRAVE CRISIS IN FRANCE. T HE situation in France changes so rapidly from hour to hour that it is almost impossible to write on it, but it is sufficiently clear that its...

T FIF1 new Bill submitted to the Prussian Diet for the purpose of controlling the rights of ecclesiastical bodies in Prussia seems to us a measure of feeble persecution,—which...

W E should not wonder to see the Tories next Session make the greatest mistake they have ever made in their party history. It is quite evident that the Ministry have made up...

j[R . GLADSTONE wants, we fear, too much of the Metro- .111 politan Board. A strong deputation from that body waited upon the Premier on Saturday, to ask the help of the...

W have now ample materials for passing a judgment on the recent case of Prefect's flogging at Winchester ; and while adhering to the view we have throughout expressed, that it...

N O one that hasn't the love of cocks and hens in 'em can tell the comfort of 'em, and the company they can be," said an old lady, whose heart was wholly centred and whose life...

W E are able this week, in continuation of our recent dis- courses upon the numbers of the very rich among us, to give a curious fact as to the numbers of the Comfortable class...

W E gave some reasons last week for thinking that while Mr. Darwin had absolutely proved the close connection of many characteristic expressions of animal emotion with actions...

THE NEW UNIVERSITY REFORMERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOP.."] SIR,—As one of the "New University Reformers" whose efforts you noticed in your last number, I should like...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In an article published in the let of November issue of the Fortnightly Review I cited a particular fact in proof that the Belgian clergy make the...

'&u,—The noble and fearless words spoken by Sir Benjamin Brodie at the recent meeting on University Endowment reported in the Times of Saturday last, showing that the enormous...

SIR,—I am reported in the Spectator of last week as hiving said, "I believe that the examination system is entirely unnecessary for the great mass of mankind." I am told that I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIB,—It was not "some silly, narrow, and doctrinaire educational authorities" who said what you quote about Lord Granville, but one person...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 Sin, —In your article of the 23rd on "The Fascination of Money' you remark that English millionaires never do anything noble- with their...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,. –.The result of the Municipal elections has, in the great majority of towns, been in favour of the Conservative candidates, and this...

[To THIS EDITOR OF THII "SPEOTJTOR.1 SIR,—In your interesting article on " Ewelme," in the Spectata of November 16, your writer repeated and enlarged on the old skew of Thomas...

MR. FROUDE ON TIIE ENGLISH IN IRELAND.* Mn. FROUDE cannot be accused of want either of courage or- of consistency in writing this book. From first to last it is &- pamphlet...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTITOB-'] SIR,—Will you ask your last week's correspondent who calla , Bountiful "good Saxon" to buy a half-crown etymological dictionary, and learn...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR?] SIR,—Your doubt whether it can be right "for public school- masters to teach their scholars, who will be the magistrates of the next...

Constitution and Course of are certain perplexities arising from the fact that men should, as a. Nature. By Bishop Butler. THE CONSTITUTION AND COURSE OF NATURE.* IT appears to...

Myths of the Middle Ages has found an appropriate task in writing The Lives of the Saints. We have already briefly noticed the first of these volumes, .but the magni- tude and...

Tnis is a clever story, easily and naturally told, and the reader's interest sustained throughout; indeed, the second and third volumes are decidedly better than the first,—so...

in doubt whether they ought to be included under this title. The "Christmas Books," however, form a company so respectable, we may say so splendid, and not only this, but often...

Syllabus of Latin Pronunciation. Drawn up at the request of the Head Masters of Schools, by the Latin Professors of Cambridge and Oxford. :(Deighton, Bell, and Co.; James Parker...