pro- ceeding with the National Debt Bill, Mr. Hubbard and Mr. W. H. Smith warmly asserting that there was no longer time to discuss the Bill with the care that it required. But...

in the Phoenix Park murder trials, Mr. Mottley, a Dublin hatter, who was not an informer, but gave evidence that he had seen Kelly standing by the car of the murderers, has been...

case.

relief to the utmost of his ability, and showing his sympathy freely and cordially, in spite of the fears of his Ministers, who had some reason to dread that some of the many...

O NE of the most fearful catastrophes of a generation rich in catastrophes took place in the beautiful island of Ischia, in the Bay of Naples, last Saturday, when an earthquake...

Melrose,' between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth, last Sunday, the 29th July, by an Irishman who gives his name as O'Donnell. In writing three weeks ago we pointed out the great...

population of Dublin with savage joy. On Tuesday night, bonfires were lighted in the streets, and people danced round them, expressing in some instances their delight that Carey...

Lesseps presented a volume of M. Marius Fontane's "Universal History," entitled, "The Asiatics," to the Academy, and seized the occasion to make a very ingenious speech on the...

very inconsistent contention, first, that there no political danger in a frank discussion of this ques- tion,—that it is a mere question of arrangement between the British...

to deal with the cholera, and, indeed, with almost all other questions, in any sense satisfactory to European criticism. In truth, the position of Egypt, exposed as it is to...

praying her not to recognise any claim of the Suez Canal Company to such a monopoly of water communication between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea as would exclude the...

under the presidency of Mr. Bright, to support Lord Ripon's Indian policy in relation to what is called the Ilbert Bill,—the Bill permitting a few Native Judges who are members...

great ability for the exclusive rights granted to M. de Lesseps; and Mr. Davey against them, though he supported Mr. Nor- wood's amendment reserving the freedom of the House of...

reserving to the House of Commons perfect freedom of judgment, did not deplore the breaking-off of the negotiations, but held that there was plenty of leverage for future...

on the Indian contribution towards the Egyptian war—which Mr. Gladstone described as a contribution of about one-seventh of its ekpenaes — was brought to a close, and Mr....

on the Irish Land Act, by a speech in which he assumed that the Lords' Committee,—who had examined the Chief Commissioners and a few Sub-Commissioners, one gentleman who had...

Niagara River, seven miles below the Falls. There was a bad fracture of the skull. But the doctors profess to have dis- covered that this injury was inflicted after death, and...

meeting on the Dbert Bill, was held in the Town Hall, Lime- house, on Thursday, under the presidency of Mr. Stanhope. Mr. Stanhope's speech was very moderate, insisting rather...

the new Bill on the Magistracy of France which suspends for three months judicial irremoveability, by the small majority of 3,-133 Senators voting for it, and 130 against it. It...

Agricultural Holdings Bill, and struck oat, by a majority of 90 (166 against 76), Mr. Balfour's amendment, which had limited compensation under parts one and two of the first...

SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE'S DEFEAT. S LR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE would certainly have done much better, had he been content with that portion of glory which no doubt accrued to him in...

are now pretty nearly over, though, on the vexed question of Indian Judges, there was to be a Party demonstration in the House yesterday, while the South-African policy of the...

T HE opponents of the Ilbert Bill are very bad tacticians. Their wild exaggeration and violence have caused a reaction in favour of the Bill, which is pretty certain to en- sure...

O F all French Statesmen of the present time, no one is so little known to the English public as M. Challenael- Laconr. If we consider the comments of English papers upon his...

W HAT can be the motive of the Tory Peers in their systematic and persistent hostility to the Irish Land Act ? It cannot be mere peevishness or chagrin, for besides the...

I T is difficult to forecast the effect on particular classes of such a change in the conditions of social life as will be worked by the Parcels Post. That the nation as a...

S OME of us must have been tempted, when we read the account in the Times of the wonders of the Yellowstone National Park, to envy its happy possessors. It was not so much the...

I T is difficult to look upon the method by which James Carey brought the murderers of Lord Frederick Cavendish to justice, and by which the Irishman O'Donnell has now assas-...

M R. WILLS'S drama of Charles I. was, thanks in great part to Mr. Irving. a remarkable success. By making Cromwell appear a vulgar and canting ruffian, and Charles L as not only...

W E believe that the phenomena of Mirage, or Feta Morgans, as they are seen in the Desert, are well known to be due not to mere illusion, but to the displaced images of real...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") S1R,-A Steamboat Company hires the services of a Captain, giving him iustructions where to proceed, &c. On taking charge, the captain...

LORD CLIVE'S DEATH. frO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR., Sra,-In reference to the doubts in last week's Spectator as to the circumstances of Lord Clive's death, permit me to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Pray, Sir, have the kindness to inform an admiring but perplexed reader of your article on M. de Lesseps how, at five a.m., and with...

[To TER EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I think the question has been mooted in your columns as to whether dogs sometimes understand our language. A cir- cumstance that has...

MR. JULIAN HAWTHORNE'S LATEST NOVEL.* To one who, like the present writer, is grateful to Mr. Julian Hawthorne for a large amount of peculiar but very genuine intellectual...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. ") was much surprised in reading Dr. Maudsley's ex- planation of what he considers the illusion of Free-will in your columns, to see that he...

impressive and suggestive books on religion that we have read for a long time. Indeed, with the exception of Dr. Mozley's University Sermons, we can recall no book of our time...

long list of contributions which Dean Stanley has made to English literature. Short and fragmentary as many of the papers are, they bear the unmistakeable marks of his character...

As a record of the life of a thorough soldier, one possessing in a more than ordinary degree the love of his profession, a cultivated intellect, and the desire to benefit his...

"I TELL Ion," said a Californian miner, "men is the queerest things in natur; beasts is nothing to them, earthquakes is nothing to them, you bet !" and Mrs. Bridges, after...

little that will be new to any one tolerably familiar with the literature on the sub- ject. After a short introductory statement, we have iu chapter ii. a somewhat elaborate...

IN the general interest and opportuneness of its articles, the Fortnightly Review of this month is considerably ahead of the other magazines. It leads off with two articles on...

those who buy books is still sufficiently numerous, when we find a publisher under- taking so serious a work as the reissue of Sir Walter Scott's edition of Dryden. The first...

The Edinburgh Review, July. (Longmans.)—This seems to us a cumber of more than ordinary value and interest, except for its strange deficiency in politics. The first article, "...

V, White and Co.)—This is a collection of short tales and miscellaneous papers, that have done service before, we presume, as padding for magazines. The motive of the first...

examination of which would carry us far beyond the province to which we are limited in these columns. In The New Golden Age (Blackwood and Sons), Mr. R. Hogarth Patterson has...