of Conservatives, moved the adjournment, in a speech which was only a request at great length for more facts. Few Members remained, Tories not caring what was said, so that time...

T HE Times correspondent at Khartoum telegraphed on March 16th that General Gordon's attack on the insurgent Sheikhs had been defeated, partly by the cowardice of the Egyptian...

Franchise Bill, in a speech strongly supporting the separation of the Franchise Bill from the Redistribution Bill. He refused to go into general motives for a forced...

in the Soudan. He declined to answer certain points in Sir Stafford Northcote's question, but explained that General Gordon had proposed to make Zebehr Pasha Governor of the...

case.

George's Chapel, Windsor, amidst universal regret, which found good expression in Lord Granville's and Mr. Gladstone's speeches on Monday, when moving the votes of condolence...

one.. Mr. Broadhurst, who began it, gave abundant evidence of the- deep interest taken by the working-classes in this measure, showing, for instance, that the Trade Unions of...

all the genuine Conservatives, made a speech which might much better have been delivered against Mr. Disraeli's Bill of 1867 than against the present measure. His idea seemed to...

allotted to England, Scotland, and Ireland, Mr. Forster held to his con- viction,—Ireland should have 91, instead of 105; Scotland 71, instead of 61; and England and Wales 495,...

fence of the policy of including Ireland in the Bill. "If nine- tenths, or even ninety-nine hundredths," he said, "of the popu- lation of Ireland were Parnellite, practical...

was, as usual, the signal for a shower of congratulations from all Germany. He is materially better in health, having recently submitted to physicians who insist upon reasonable...

interrogated as to the best mode of getting rid of this interrogating nuisance, declined for the second time to- separate it from the general question of procedure, of which it...

that was ranch laughed at, though its irony was very common-place. He called Mr. Forster the most expert political tight-rope dancer he had ever seen in his life, and spoke of...

the Italian Court of Appeal, which appears to take away from the Vatican the power of disposing of the accumulated wealth of the Propaganda as it pleases, and there have been...

solicitor's clerk, of twenty-two, named Edwin James Perkins, was left on Saturday at two o'clock by his employer, Mr. T. H. Bartlett, of 2 Arthur Street West, to lock up. With...

Governments become, that the Russian Censor has received orders to prohibit the publication of anything offensive to German feeling, and he is doing it. A foreigner translated a...

a criticism of his lectures and speeches in the Boston Herald, —one of the most popular of the American papers, and cer- tainly one of the most elevated in tone,—which no...

stantly of late refused to find verdicts of murder, and last week a man named Berner, who confessed to a murder for gain, was found guilty of manslaughter only. A body of...

at Madras. The city has been visited by an epidemic -of small-pox, falling chiefly upon unvaccinated children, and the death-rate for a whole year has risen to 85 per 1,000,...

to 102i.

T HERE are sometimes important lessons to be drawn front a debate, even when the speakers themselves have not had the power or not had the will to discuss the question at issue...

THE MINISTRY AND THE SOTTDAN. T HE drama of Thursday night divided itself into two acts, in the first of which Lord Hartington appeared to explain affairs in the Soudan, and in...

F OR once we find ourselves sympathising with rioters. The riots in Cincinnati on March 29th and three following days were evidently, and indeed admittedly, due to the just...

W E need hardly say that after Mr. Chamberlain's various speeches on the Merchant Shipping question, the country has the largest confidence in his judgment and impartiality as...

T HE question of the hour is Parliamentary Obstruction, which threatens a dead-lock in the House of Commons, and the absolute stoppage of the public business of the country....

I T is quite natural, and may be useful, when a murder remains undetected, to scold the Police, but it is not always just. When, as happens in nine cases out of ten, a crime can...

M R. MUNDELLA'S evidence before the Select Committee on the working of the Education Department, which was fully reported in the Sheffield Independent of Wednesday, is...

M R. ARNOLD, delivering himself to the people of New York, as he is reported in the April number of the Nine- teenth Century, on the functions of the righteous Remnant who...

T HE pain felt in England at the death of the Duke of Albany is, of course, in great measure, due to a feeling for the Queen. The Queen has a place in her people's thoughts...

BISHOPS IN THE LORDS. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE " S7ECTATOR:] Sf.a,—Are we not discussing the advisability of a constitutional change after it has been made, and has come into...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SnrcrAroa."1 Sur,—A favourable crisis now approaches for the nation to con- sider what to do with the House of Commons. Its character is utterly bad. This...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I SIR,—We ventured to assert, in the letter you were good enough to publish, that the Government loaned money to Lord Lansdowne at 3i per...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—As you "wish I would give my proof" of the fact that Congreve has been wronged by the attribution of his work to Steele, I will do the...

[To THE EDITOR OE THE " SPECT/20141 SIR,—I am thankful to you for having opened your pages to such a discussion as this, for it is one on which light is greatly needed ; and,...

TO MATTHEW .ARNOLD IN AME RICA. 0 POET! who bast left awhile, For larger land and sea, The narrow limits of our isle,— What gain is come to thee? What higher dreams ? what...

SPECTATOB."1 &a,—The quiescent stage in the history of the Middlesex Liberal Association has given place to a condition of enterprise and hope, consequent - upon the hearty...

THE TUILERIES, FROM 1815 TO 1848.* Tan is, perhaps, the most provoking book that has been .given us by a most provoking writer. Yet Lady Jackson's readers will forgive her once...

reading of fiction is a matter of business will fail to agree with us that a genuine romance is very pleasant to come upon, in the course of their systematic working through the...

land system, with the most hostile intentions, could hardly frame a stronger indict- ment of it than the unintentional one which is presented by this book. The book is intended,...

than the former one ; it may, roughly speaking, be said to be that which separates the Red from the Brown Indians, who are at least as different from one another as the Latin is...

on a chapter in our social history which remains unwritten among ourselves. Are we really so much more interesting to other nations than we are to our- selves P Is it that we...

THE book consists of a collection of six lectures delivered by the author in the Anglo-Saxon Room of the British Museum, and a -most interesting book it is, fall of...

"TEAT'S the wery point," said Sam Weller, when his father re- marked that he pulled up rather sharp in his letter to Mary ; "she'll wish there was more of it." One of the rarest...

Mn. ARNOLD republishes in the Nineteenth Century his lecture on "Numbers," delivered in New York, which we have spoken of elsewhere. If it has an inner drift against democracy...

lated from the German by Alfred Tulk. (Began Paul and Co.)— Oken was a naturalist of eminence, who had the misfortune to be a keen politician of the Liberal sort, in days when...

life from practical experience. Hence his book is more than an:essay. He dwells on the history of the religion, and he goes into fall details of its system. In fact, he has...

other side of the Atlantic. English Verse : Chaucer to Burns. Edited by W. J. Linton and R. H. Stoddard. (Began Paul, Trench, and Co.)— The editors prefix an introduction which...

Putnam's Sons, New York.)—Mr. Deming has collected here some reminiscences of travel and sport contributed during the course of recent years to the columns of the New York...

Record of the Unisersity Boat-Race, 1829-1883. Edited by George G. T. Treherne. (Bickers and Son.)—The sumptuous volume of last year has been replaced by a new edition, enlarged...

(Hurst and Blackett.)—Here we have a somewhat confused story, in which a great number of incidents are mixed up in a perplexing way. It begins with a rescue from a shipwreck on...

C. Green, M.A. (Longmans)—The flow of Homeric translations has some- what slackened of late. Pope, whose work, to parody a hackneyed phrase, is "magnificent, but no...

introduces the familiar characters of Irish fiction,—the Protestant rector and the parish priest—here bound together by a friendship which is now, we suppose, very seldom to be...

—This pastoral, as the author calls it, truly deserves its name. It is a pastoral, too, of the genuine kind. We have no Damon and Amaryllis, but Hodge and Madge, true country...

(Bryce and Son, Glasgow.)—This is one of the books which are now becoming more and more common, and which are always welcome. These parish histories give us a better insight...

(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—This "eighth edition" has attained an almost gigantic bulk, its two volumes containing some two thou- sand pages. It is true that the second volume,...

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"THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD" IN THE PARCHMENT LIBRARY.* THE Vicar of Wakefield in the Parchment Library is the right book in the right place,—an apple of gold in a dish of silver....

MR. CARL BOCK'S travels extended between four and five hundred miles nearly due north from Bangkok, the furthest point reached being Kiang-Tsen. Any one who will compare the map...

these Reminiscences remind us of Senior's unique Journals and Conversations. They deal with literary rather than political personages and events, but they are marked by the same...

RECALLING various thick volumes, which represent as many schools of quackery in economics, we confess to having felt a sense of dis- couragement as we opened this solid...

book, whom we assume— with all needed apologies—to be a son of the well-known New York publisher, Mr. G. P. Putnam, deals with his subject from a publisher's paint of view. He...

of a military man who has travelled in many Asiatic countries, and who has the invaluable knack of keeping his eyes open, and of thus realising at a glance the distinctive...

York Castle. By Captain A. W. Twyford, F.R.G.S. (Griffith and Farran.)—If people take up this book with the idea of learning something new of the history of the city of York, or...