troops near Paris, or 50,000 of them, and on Monday he issued an Order of the Day, not to them, but the whole Army, which we have dis- cussed elsewhere, but which is held...

of some kind, that Mr. Disraeli is not quite so secure of the House of Lords as he has been. He is said to have pointed out to Con- servative Peers at a recent meeting that the...

stantine, with many distinguished officers, to congratulate the Emperor of Austria on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his admission to the Military Order of St. George, June 28....

bury's (or Lord Shaftesbury's) Public Worship Regulation Bill into the House of Commons ; and Thursday next, the 9th July, is fixed for its discussion. Mr. E. A. Leatham and Mr....

T HE foreign event of the week has been the death of Margin.; Concha, on June 27, while rallying his troops for an attack upon the Carnets. The accounts of the event are con-...

the initiative in ecclesiastical legislation, is not to be pro- ceeded with this Session, and is hardly likely, we should think, to be reproduced in any future Session. When...

case.

Bant(Morpeth), Mr. Cowen and Mr. Hamond (Newcastle-on- Tyne), Mr. John Kynaston Cross (Bolton), Sir Charles Dilke (Chelsea), Mr. Eyton (Flint District), Mr. Gourley...

Budget. The accounts as yet received are hardly clear, but it would appear that he expects a revenue of 1,19,000,000, partly dependent on new and bad taxes ; that he hopes_ to...

soon worked itself clear, and became very amusing as well as sagacious. He remarked that Repeal must precede Federation, as Federation clearly means an arrangement between...

extension of School Boards, that Mr. Birley, the Conservative Member for Manchester, who had given notice to move its re- jection, and formally did so, was surprised, as Mr....

of Tuesday and ThtusdayallAtty It ist,..er4 course, impossible for us to condense even the prinCiial siieeches,: though we have noted the great lines of argument elsmetere ; but...

extending educational compulsion (by the agency of School Boards) to the whole of England and Wales, was chiefly remark- able forthe extreme moderation and ability of the...

meeting in Lincoln, to hear a lecture on the life and times of John Wesley. At the conclusion of the lecture, he greatly eulo- gised Wesley, especially for saying that none of...

University of London, who declined last Wednesday, by a majority of 17 to 10, the request of the majority of Convocation, urging the Senate to apply for a new charter with power...

duty is either to initiate a scheme for supplying gas to London, or to secure legislative protection to consumers, who are now at the mercy of private companies armed with...

garden in LeicesterSquare to the Metropolitan Board of Works. The Garden has been completely renovated, and ornamented in a slightly florid style with fountain and marble busts...

dis- tribution o? honours and prizes to the students of the Countess of Huntingdon's Theological College at Cheshunt (of which Fletcher of Madely was the first President),...

His Bill helped to let them into power ; Mr. Cross's attempt to im- prove it has helped them to waste the Session in talk ; and now Lord Aberdare has let them off with the...

the government of the Gold Coast would be satisfactory which involved the recognition of slavery in any form," and proved that as the number of inhabitants was only 200,000, and...

MR. DISRAELI IN HIS PATERNAL POSE. DISRAELI with a majority at his command is a new man. The Mr. Disraeli who governed with the acqui- escence of a divided Opposition, more...

T HE Debate of Tuesday and Thursday on Home-rule has been a good and even a brilliant one, but it has left the Home-rulers weaker than they were. We do not speak of the...

M ARSHAL MACMAHON'S "Order of the Day," issued on Monday, after a review of 50,000 men on the previous morning, whatever its ultimate object, clearly has this first mean- ing....

T HE result of the debate of Wednesday, on the subject of educational compulsion, is to our minds much less satisfactory than it appears to the Times. The division- list is...

I T is hard to say whether the shelving for the Session of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's Friendly Societies' Bill— honourably buried on Monday last by a pro formel...

Mr. John Morley's Essay on "Compromise," to be found in the present number of the Fortnightly, is as wholesome in doctrine as it is able and thoughtful in expression. Of course...

T HE pessimist view, whether as to politics or society, is probably in an immense majority of cases the erroneons,view. English- men are very fond of it, especially as regards...

THE PUBLIC WORSHIP BILL. ETO THE EDITOE OF THE " SPEOTAT0/1.1 SIR,—Whilst I heartily sympathise with much of what you have said in recent articles on ecclesiastical questions,...

makes the minister officiating the mere mouth-piece of a majority, why not bethink us of the "cast-metal king " which moved Herr Teufelsdrockh to mirth so mightily ? Have a...

out that when, in your article on the above Bill, in your last issue, you compare surrendering the initiative in Rubrical legislation into the hands of the clergy of the...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I thank you for publishing on the 27th ult. my letter on the position of the Irish National-school teachers, in which I urged their...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR.".1 SIR,—In your review of "Mr. Deutsch and the Talmud," at p.795, and about 27 lines from the bottom of the first column, you give a list of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —As some of your correspondents ate asking for information with reference to the construction of labourers' cottages, you may perhaps...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Your recent review of Mr. Symonds's "Sketches in Italy and Greece" mentions the fresh-water spring which rises in the sea, near the...

PEASANT FARMING.* HARDLY any time could have been more opportune than the present for the republication, with emendations and additions, of this thoughtful and suggestive essay....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " spEcTATos.1 Szn,—In your remarks on this subject, in your issue of June 27, you state that the Women's Suffrage party do not care about Mr. Forsyth's...

ON MR. LEIGHTON'S PICTURE. [" Clytemnestra, from the battlements of Argos, watches for the beacon- lres which are to announce the return of Agamemnon."] THE stars are clear...

difficult to find two volumes containing more acute sense and ridiculous nonsense, more pleasant feeling and taste, more interesting anecdotes of birds, beasts, and fishes, or...

at Tangiers, the career of African travel which has rendered him so famous, and which Mr. Winwood Reade, who cuts his intro- duction even shorter than that by which he prefaced...

Tam fifth volume (the fourth in the German) of Ewald's History of Israel treats of a period which in some respects seems, if it is not really, obscure and anomalous in...

Fraser, and the Fortnightly will be already familiar with the contents of this volume. In these days, • Hours in a Library. By Leslie Stephen, London: Smith, Elder, and Co....

WE do not know that Mr. Ralston was quite wise in publishing these lectures. They are intended, he says, only as a snack to whet the appetite for Russian history ; but a snack,...

Specimens of Composition. By Charles Nests. (James Parker.)— Mr. Neste gives us in his preface a very brief hint of what we may conjecture to be a theory on the teaching of...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—Persons who have not time or taste for the reading of large works of travel, but who wish to know what are the points which have been reached in the...

James S. Reid. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Reid's volume deserves our thanks, for many reasons. In the first place, he does something to vindicate a character often most unjustly...

nothing funny in this novel, except the geographical definition on the title-page. Why "a Cape Colonist"? especially when nothing can be Flainer than that Ingram Place is...