T HE Egyptian crisis smoulders like a spark in a barrel of damped gunpowder, giving a dangerous little fizz now and then, but never exploding. On Saturday, Arabi and his...

fresh squadrons to Alexandria, and have agreed to a Conference of Ambassadors at Constantinople. The Imperial Powers, with Italy and Turkey, have accepted this proposal, and the...

Chamber a debate on the same subject, his argument being that the Government had trusted to the perfidious alliance of England, and had so managed affairs as to make Turkish in-...

of Commons, before the adjournment for the Whitsuntide recess, on the character of the evictions on Lord Cloncnrry's property, in the county of Limerick. So far as we can...

as to the action of the British Government; but neither Lord Granville nor Mr. Gladstone added much to the information already given. The former, however, called the position...

has been subject for some weeks to incessant and nearly intolerable attacks of rheumatic pain, forcing him to keep his bed, disabling him from work, and impeding his usually...

of Ireland have been so often quoted in Parliament of late,—has been appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. There are two vacancies, caused by the death of Sir James Colvile...

in tone. In the speech as reported in England there is not a word of condemnation of outrages, while there is this discreditable sen- tence concerning the popular movement :—"...

far as we can see, the Government honestly desires to protect them, but the rage of the populace has risen high. They are resorting to fire ; and town after town inhabited...

support Mr. Parnell and the more moderate party. The murders of Lord F. Cavendish and Mr. Burke shocked their supporters,. and subscriptions fell off so rapidly, that the...

resumed on Thursday, the debate turning chiefly on a proposal of Mr. Davey's to omit treason and treason-felony from the list of crimes which the Viceroy is authorised to try by...

much improved tone. For instance, Mr. Lalor, one of the Mem- bers for Queen's County, and Mr. A. O'Connor addressed their constituents last Sunday, in the Market Square at Mary-...

re- signed his seat on the Bench, rather than remain liable to the duties likely to be cast upon him by the Bill now passing through Parliament, of trying criminals without a...

a new Sessions-house at Kirkdale, delivered a speech which must have made many of his fellow-magistrates wince. He said they must make up their minds to hand over their adminis-...

on Wednesday, in which he stated that the present period of settled gloom was a result of Liberal policy. He accused the Govern- ment of sacrificing the honour and interests of...

Mr. W. Hutley, of the London Mission, on the Central-African slave-trade. It is too long to condense, but we record its ap- pearance as proof positive that this trade is as bad...

period of flourishing finance. All recent reports have indicated greatly reviving prosperity, and it is very decidedly demon- strated in Sir Bryan O'Loghlen's Budget speech,...

-one of the younger sons of the late Bishop Wilberforce. He was made Canon of Winchester in 1878. The new Bishop is, how- ever, only just forty years of age, so that he has...

day, Mr. Bright made a very pleasant speech on books,—chiefly on books of poetry, on which Mr. Bright is a really great autho- rity. He has brought to our notice two poets of...

was found guilty this day week of maliciously sending to Sir Henry Ponsonby a letter threatening to murder the Queen and Prince Leopold, with the hope of extorting money. The...

Coleman Mechanical Refrigeration Company," in bringing over the car- cases of 5,000 sheep, at a temperature of 20° below zero, all the way from New Zealand, in the vessel '...

T HE Irish Party have not done much during the past week to dissociate themselves from complicity in agrarian crime. The speeches made by Mr. Lalor in Queen's County,. and by...

TOPICS OF THE DAY EGYPT. T HE secret of the present Egyptian complication is not far to seek. Everybody is afraid of everybody and every- thing. The Khedive, who alone among...

M R. LOWTHER is a very useful man to the Tory Party, —and to the Liberal. To the former, he is an admir- able electioneering lecturer, who can say precisely the things...

Al RENAN delivered a discours—not a" discourse," which • is something very different indeed—last week, in welcoming M. Cherbuliez into the French Academy, in which, after...

T HE Select Committee of the House of Commons on Electric Lighting has presented its Report. The Committee was selected with unusual care, and its conclusions are unexpectedly...

T HE proceedings of the Co-operative Congress, at Oxford, betray a certain consciousness that Co-operation is not quite so magnificent an idea as was once supposed. The speakers...

I N 1849, Carlyle wrote of the " Nigger Question " that it was louder than it was big, and to-day probably most. Englishmen whose attention has been called to the Chinese. in...

I N the new number of the Nineteenth Century there is a paper, for which three well-known writers make themselves re- sponsible, laying a solid foundation at least for an...

,O UR excellent correspondent, " W. W.," thinks he has quite disposed of our recent argument about the value of Exercise, but we fail to see that he has even touched it. He...

EXERCISE AND HEALTH; OR, THE VALUE OF EXERCISE. [nom • COMMIPONDEFT.] Tnz very day on which the article on "The Value of Exercise" appeared in the Spectator, a lecture on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—It may seem an improper return for your kind, albeit severe, notice of my book, to ask to be allowed to encumber your pages with a few...

WORD S WORTH' S WEAKNESS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Bra,—I have read your article in last week's Spectator on Mrs. Oliphant and Wordsworth, and I take the liberty of...

CONTINUING our notice of the Academy in order of the galleries, we come to the third room, the largest of the exhibition, and passing by with the respect that is due to the "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] 'SIR, —You have followed with so much interest the progress of secularisation of the schools of France, that you will perhaps permit me to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sra,---Mr. Knowles, at the end of a paper on "Thought Read- ing," in the current Nineteenth Century, makes certain extracts from a paper...

THE LITERATURE OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE.* WITH these two volumes Mr. Symonds brings to a close his great work on the Italian Renaissance, a work of which it is no exaggeration...

Smith will win—one-idea-d men always do ; and we mean that phrase in no contemptuous sense. The man who sees one wrong, and looks steadily at it alone, till it is remedied, gets...

controver- sial manner. Half a loaf, may be better than no bread, but half a controversy, is certainly, as a rule, worse than no controversy at all. What opinion can be given...

THE author of the volume before us has long been known to at least a few readers as a disciple of the prophet who " sate on Highgate Hill," and in his later years he is still...

THE characteristics of the larger of the works whose titles are given below are easily stated. The author does not profess to give a new theory of the founder of Bonapartist...

(Bentley and Son.)—We have already re- viewed in the original this refined story of modern French manners, so that we have but to observe that the translation is very much...

The Recovery of St. Thomas. A Sermon preached in St. Paul's "Note" showing the exact character of Mr. Darwin's own view, as it was presented by himself, and the relation which...

Translated by W. J. Gordon. (Sampson Low and Co.)—M. Verne has given a characteristic development to his story. We left the hero in the serious dilemma of having fallen into the...

Hope-Edwardes journeyed in a dahabeah up the Nile, and wrote letters, during her travels, describing what she saw and thought. These letters are now published, a somewhat...

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By Edward Walford, M.A. (Reeves and Turner.)—We have here some twenty speeches, all of them, with a few exceptions (notably one made when Erskine, then Attorney-General, was...

Brothers.)—Mrs. Ware has about as curious a notion of telling a story as any writer that we have ever had the pleasure of reviewing. Whatever plot there is in her book consists...

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MR. LESLIE STEPHEN'S "SCIENCE OF ETHICS."* [FIRST NOTICE.] Tars is an able book, and extremely fair in its endeavour to state those views which Mr. Stephen rejects, but it is...

BASIL " must be sharply admonished, for his waste of excellent materials. He has given us three volumes containing wit and wisdom, shrewd observation, and refined perception of...

MR. HOLMES'S book is the most original work of legal speculation which has appeared in English since the publication of Sir Henry Maine's Ancient Law. The feature which gives...

adorn the reign of Victor Em- manuel, that the biographer must sometimes feel puzzled as to a choice of a subject, in so rich a field. " Leave me the glory of dying poor,"...

the wide world, are to be found scenes of more entrancing loveliness than among the volcanic islands of the distant South Pacific P Mountains, grand or fantastic in form, rear...

MR. ARNOLD'S collection of passages from English authors differs but slightly from compilations of a similar character. The hook is intended as a companion volume to the...