Bill took place at 3 a.m. on Tuesday morning, and showed a majority of nearly two to one against it,—contents, 97; non-contents, 192. All the Catholic„Peers present voted for...

resumed yesterday week by Lord Carnarvora in the most remarkable speech of the whole three nights, but as we have noticed it carefully, as well as the various speeches of the...

a very strange speech,—a speech more like Lord Royston's in the Lower House than like anything we should have expected from a grave and reverend Whig senior. He began by...

Northcote does not go to India, and the Viceroyalty is therefore open to competition. A strange rumour is at the same time afloat among Indians that Lord Stanley is willing to...

one of his hardest and narrowest speeches. Personally, Lord Salisbury would defend the Church a l'ouerance, but he admitted that he could not trust the army,—" the troops won't...

Parliament were voted to Sir Robert Napier and the officers and men of the Abyssinian Expedition on Thursday night. The Premier moved the vote in the Commons in a speech which...

a literal sense—by an immensely long discourse of the special-pleader kind. One of his points, for instance, was that the Church was wrongly described in the Suspensory Bill, as...

say was not very powerful. He .protested against Mr. Disraeli's exaggerated statements that the whole basis of civil and religious liberty might be destroyed if the Irish Church...

excellent effect of disintegrating the Evangelical party, the Evangelicals who rely on endowments having one opinion, and the Evangelicals with tendencies to Voluntaryism...

nephew of Michael, Prince of Servia, and he has been received in Belgrade as Sovereign. As he is only fourteen, the real question for the country is the Regency, on which...

Victoria, would appear to have offered terms to Sir C. Darling. At least, he writes to say that he will give up his claim to the 20,000/. voted to his wife if the Colonial...

made in the Commons about the Boundary Bill. It was under- stood there that the report of the Select Committee, which left things much as they are, was to be supported by...

all to agree upon two points—that the Empire has spent on an average 12,000,000/. a year since 1852 in excess of the revenue, and that the total budget of France cannot be...

Legislatif is fairly frightened by the debt which he is imposing upon Paris, and which threatens to make her present heavy taxation a permanent burden on the citizens. The...

a vigorous but somewhat acrid speech, the great points of which were three, —first, that the disestablishment of a Church which keeps up the tradition of the old miseries of...

of the Catholic Church for the 8th December, 1869. All Bishops unable to appear are to be represented by proxy, and it is hinted that the objects of the Council will be to...

in the value of corn, the Cousol Market closed very firm to-night, and the quotations show an advance of i on the week. Consols are 95 to both for money and the account ;...

reading, on Wednesday, by a majority of 58,--198 voting for it, and 140 against it. The adjourned debate was not very interesting ; but Mr. Bentinck made a speech curiously...

and impotent shrieks,—chiefly on the old score, the deposition of Dr. Colenso. This time the theme was introduced in the form of -a report from a Committee of the Upper...

to expressing illiberal views on the Natal question. It has taken up the Irish Church, the Bishop of Lincoln having moved and carried an address to the Queen, "praying that Her...

In South Carolina sixteen districts have returned Demo- crats against fifteen Republicans. As the Democrats are now determined to accept a platform which differs only iu its...

off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, Juno 20. Friday, July 3. Brazilian, 1805... ... ... ... ... ... 77 ... 761 82 — 821 Italian 544 ... 521 Mexican — ... 15/ 16 Russian...

should have. So does the House of Commons, which on Tuesday, committed the Bill, in the teeth of both Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone, by 79 to 47. The argument is that their...

of the Volunteers at the late Windsor Review appear to have been mis- interpreted and applied to the whole body there assembled. They were confined to those who returned by the...

the wisdom of Solomon, and really not without some pretence to wisdom of Solomonian calibre. On Wednesday, George Herbert was summoned before him by one Eunice Coe, for...

on Thurs- day, when the Dean of Westminster, with his usual courage, moved a rider to it, expressing the opinion (1) that the ano- malies of the existing Irish Church should be...

T HREE Archbishops,—their Graces of Canterbury, York, and Armagh ; and three Bishops,—the Bishops of London, Oxford, and Killaloe, spoke in the Lords' debate on the Irish...

THE LAST SCENE OF THE ABYSSINIAN WAR. T HE vote of thanks to Sir Robert Napier has been a pleasant interlude in a most disagreeable session. The party strife has been very...

T HE Dr. Abernethy of politics,—that is Lord Salisbury. Dr. Abernethy was great in his way, but there have been and are men in the profession as great as he, though of more...

T HE Germans have just been giving new expression to the national feeling towards Luther, with all that solemnity and enthusiasm which naturally marks the dawn of a new national...

T HE Liberals are not behaving well about Mr. Disraeli's Anti-Bribery Bill. It is an open and, as far as any one can perceive, an honest attempt to put a stop to an evil which...

\I R. MATTHEW ARNOLD has been preaching from month I , to month in the Cornhill on the importance of developing the intellect in full proportion to the will, and of resisting...

there is a bit of practical businesslike sense on which we have a mind to say a word. The writer, clearly a woman who if she gets a fool for her husband, will reduce the pledges...

LXIX.—BEDFORDSHIRE, CAMBRIDGESHIRE, AND HUNTING- DONSHIRE :—THE TOWNS. C AMBRIDGE is situated on the river Cam, fifty and a half miles (by road) N. by E. from London, in nearly...

popu- lation is of convict descent. It is impossible to say what proportion, for the line of separation is no longer strictly pre- served, as it once was, between free settlers...

[To TIIE EDITOR OF TIIE SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—In your last week's issue you very generously and im- partially inserted a correspondent's objections to the disestablish- ment of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] notice a few words about the statistics of the Quakers in your last issue ; perhaps you may think that some further figures may be of...

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A bishop may be a goose. So may a father. Yet fathers are "officially exempt from having their folly commented upon" in such terms as "like a father and a...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TIIE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Some little while ago you called attention to Mr. Seebohm's interesting paper in the Fortnightly Review on the Christian hypothesis...

PROFESSOR CONINGTON'S COMPLETION OF MR. WORSLEY'S ILIAD.* PROFESSOR CONINGTON has in this volume done what is very rare in literary labour,—devoted a very great amount of time...

Sin,—You will, I trust, be able to help the clergyman whose letter I have just been reading in your last week's paper out of the dilemma in which he fancies himself. He says he...

A LITTLE story of but mild interest, but very skilfully and pleasantly told, and far better worth reading than forty-nine of every fifty novels which pour out of the press for...

Mn. KIRICIIS discusses a variety of subjects in the volume before us. He has furnished us with essays on "Satire," "Convict Management," and "Mr. John Stuart Mill." Then there...

unquestionably good. Mr. Jeaffreson has bestowed upon it some of his best work, and before we came to its close we hoped he had at last worked himself free from many...

Gospels for each Sunday of the Christian Year. (Hunt and Co.)— Readers who are in the habit of lamenting the obscurity of Mr. Maurice's writings, should be very much obliged to...

Foul Play. By C. Reade and Dion Boucicault. (Bradbury and. Evans.)—We cannot find it in our hearts to criticize this novel formally or at length. We might as well analyze the...

Ran. (Leopoldt and felt: New York.)—In this tale, which has been translated into fairly good English by Mr. E. H. Sill, we find introduced the main incidents of the great...

is, as we suppose it to be, a first effort, it shows considerable promise. The style, if sometimes incorrect even beyond the limits of colloquial licence, is easy and natural,...

are some elements of interest in this story, but there is. notmore than enough of it for one volume, and it is most unneces- sarily spun out into three. The description of Maud...

Smith.)—Some short time ago we noticed a biographical sketch of Qmirard by the writer of this work. In this work he endeavours to emulate Querard himself, and to do for the...

initial "G." must conceal a feminine name. It is thus that we amount for finding the second master of a country grammar school described as having "the regulation military...

Elton. (Wildy.)—Mr. Elton's volume is very welcome, and is likely to be useful, not only to lawyers, but to the public in general. It discusses with great learning and with an...

Mr. Box hardly fulfils the large promise of his title, but contrives, nevertheless, to make a sufficiently amusing book out of the scraps of a cricket learning which seems very...

is an accomplished writer of poetical verse, which, could it always keep up to the level of its highest excellence, might be called poetry. Most of these poems, he tells us,...

to have seen before the nom de plume of Kay Span, but if this is a first essay it is a very happy one. It is a tale of domestic life, told in the simplest, most unaffected way,...

Clark, M.A. (Saunders and Otlay.)—There is nothing remarkable about this book, except it be that Mr. Clark, who is a High Churchman, recognizes the value of other modes of...

Merican. By John M. Dagnall. (American News Company, New York.)—These are two volumes of verse by American writers, and are of much the same quality as hundreds of other volumes...

Hall.)—This is by far the most offensive appearance which Lord Macaulay's New Zealander has yet made. A certain Governor Robin- son, living in A.D. 3867, addresses to his friend...

in this volume a collection of tales omitted in the usual edition of the Arabian Nights. Mr. Hanley thinks that Lane's translation is too literal, and that the charm of these...

Second Series. (Riviugtons.)—Of the second series of the Mediwval Myths some are better known than others, but to all of them Mr. Baring-Gould brings the same patient...

Delepiorre discusses various historical questions, some about which the learned still differ, and others about which they have come to an agreement, without, however, entirely...

connoisseur in clouds. He has described and drawn some scores of combinations, from the " plain cloud," to the cloud which seems to pile its masses into the semblance of...

first number of a work which it is proposed to publish quarterly. Groat labour has evidently been expended in drawing it up. Those who have over to undergo that most wearisome...

Blackwood and Sons.)—We can heartily recommend this sensible and practical guide to all who, with small means and perhaps smaller experi- ence, take a delight in rearing...