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M. Jules Favre has resigned the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
The Spectatorand has been succeeded by M. de Remusat, who will, it is believed, be a reflection of M. Thiers. M. Jules Favre goes back to the bar with the respect of all Europe, except the...
Lord Granville, in reply, was of course conciliatory ; but
The Spectatorhe made one capital point, namely, that so far from an insult, it was a high compliment for the Crown to ask Parliament to embody an undoubted prerogative in a Bill ; and the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorJ T is quite evident that there must be an Autumn Session. The Government keeps the secret close, but we are wholly unable to believe that it is going to send the Ballot Bill,...
We print in another column an important communication. At the
The Spectatorend of a chatty letter about the tone of Paris, "R. II. IL," who we need not say is no "interviewing reporter," gives us M. Gambetta's programme, hot from his own mouth, and...
The debating as a rhetorical exhibition was very flue. The
The SpectatorPeers stuck to their text, the unwarrantable interference with the privileges of their House, and many of them made brilliant oratori- cal points. The Duke of Richmond, for...
The majority in the Lords wreaked its vengeance for the
The SpectatorWarrant on Monday. Even the pleasure of punishing, or seem- ing to punish, Mr. Gladstone could not induce much more than half the Peers to attend ; but in a House of 244, the...
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The "inaugural address" of the British Association for the Advancement
The Spectatorof Science was delivered at Edinburgh on Wednes- day by Sir W. Thomson. His address was mainly occupied with accounts of the great benefit derived by the world from purely...
The Ballot Bill has got through Committee, or nearly through,
The Spectatorafter a fashion. That is to say, the principle of secret voting has been sanctioned ; but the much more important prin- ciple that a man who has not 11,000 to throw away in...
Clause 26 in the Bill, which provides that all expenses
The Spectatorat an election not included in the public return shall be deemed corrupt expenses, perhaps the malt effective proposal ever made to check bribery, was also lost by 181 to 81,...
There was a charming dog case heard on the Croydon
The SpectatorCircuit on Tuesday. Lady Selwyn claimed a dog, a splendid specimen of the Labrador breed, all black but his chest and paws, and with a magnificent head. It was urged by...
The terribly difficult question, in a - party sense, of a
The SpectatorCatholic College for Ireland came up on Wednesday. Mr. Fawcett moved the second reading of his Bill, nominally intended to throw open . Dublin University and Trinity College to...
We give elsewhere an account of the campaign opened by
The Spectatorthe German Government against the Papacy. In addition to the facts there given, it is stated that the Austrian Chancellor, Count Beust, is in hearty accord with Prince Bismarck...
Sir W. Thomson believes in evolution as a zoological truth,
The Spectatorthough not as a biological truth, and he startled Edinburgh by one of the wildest fancies we ever remember to have read. Life, he says, can only come from life—which is true,...
Mr. Walpole is avenged. On Sunday it was resolved at
The Spectatora public meeting in Hyde Park that a meeting should be held on Monday in Trafalgar Square to protest against the grant to Prince Arthur. As the proposal for that grant was to be...
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Chief Justice Smale, of Hong Kong, has probably done more
The Spectatorto put down the coolie slave trade than Lord Grauville will be able to do. He decided on the 22nd of May, in the case of Kwok-a- sing, accused of piracy and murder, that a...
There are occasions every now and then on which Radicals
The Spectatorthink it a moral duty to talk solemn nonsense. The appointment of Military Attaché at St. Petersburg was vacant, and as the attache there to be of any use must be a good...
The run of ill-lack which sometimes sets in against private
The Spectatorshipowners has evidently turned against Her Majesty's Fleet. First there was the loss of the Captain, then the grounding of the Agincourt, and now here is the wreck of the...
The majority in the French Assembly is getting very restive
The Spectator'with M. Thiers. It thinks him too liberal, and on Tuesday passed a vote right in his teeth by 430 to 212. The vote rejected M. Thiers' proposal to make the Prefects presidents...
Dr. H. L. Mansel, Dean of St. Paul's, died suddenly
The Spectatoron Mon- day morning from the rupture of a blood-vessel in the brain. Re is a loss to the kingdom. The system of philosophy which made him famous, and which we describe in...
• The grant to Prince Arthur was introduced into the
The SpectatorHouse of Commons on Monday, and was opposed by Mr. Taylor, who moved the rejection of the resolution, and by Mr. Dixon, who moved a reduction of the sum from £15,000 to £10,000...
Every threat of resignation increases the difficulty between M. Thiers
The Spectatorand the Chamber, and it is proposed, therefore, to relieve the situation by declaring M. Thiers President for three years. He would be invested with all his present powers,...
The peace campaign in Berkshire has been abandoned, to the
The Spectatorgreat irritation of the whole country. We have discussed the matter elsewhere, but may state here that Sir Henry Storks said on Monday the single difficulty was the lateness of...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorPRINCE BISMARCK'S NEW CAMPAIGN. p RINCE BISMARCK has declared war on the Papacy, and is carrying on the campaign with all his accustomed vigour, and even more than his...
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THE LORDS' VOTE OF CENSURE.
The SpectatorT HE debate in the Lords on Monday was an able one, as it always is when the Political Peers are excited by the accident of an audience ; but after all, only three arguments...
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MR. ODGER'S REVOLUTIONARY PLAN.
The SpectatorT is a custom to abuse Mr. George Odger, the one working- man who, as far as we know, has fought through a contested election, and certainly this week it is a little difficult...
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MR. BRUCE AND MR. CARDWELL.
The SpectatorAlit BRUCE and Mr. Cardwell will bring this Ministry down between them. We have honestly and sincerely tried to discover excuses for their conduct about the Trafalgar Square...
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THE QUESTION OF RENTS IN PARIS.
The SpectatorA T the close of the war with Prussia, and at the end of the second siege of Paris, France had many curious legal problems to solve. The old formulm made for ordinary sea- sons...
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THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT. T HE knowledge requisite for a
The Spectatorsettlement of the questions of local government and taxation is accumulating. The committee of last session and Mr. Goschen's report and speeches this session throw an amount of...
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DEAN MANSEL.
The SpectatorT HE loss of a clear, vigorous, and acutely logical thinker in the maturity of his intellectual powers, and with the apparent capacity of much good work still in him, is, in the...
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ENGLISH INCOMES.
The SpectatorM R. GLADSTONE was evidently a little bothered to justify the amount of the annuity he proposed to grant to Prince Arthur. In defending the grant itself, he could appeal to...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorPARIS AND M. GAMBETTA. [TO TIM EDTTOlt OR TUB "SPECTATOR."] August 1, 1871. SIB t —Some weeks ago you had some striking verses in which Paris was delineated as a Bacchante...
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THE "PROVINCIAL" CIIA.RA.CTER OF LONDON.
The Spectator[TO WTI RIAT011 Oil' TOE .OPROTATOit."] Sie,—The fact that I am a Seotchinan will be amply apparent in what is to follow ; also the other fact that I am fresh from the far...
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P 0 E T it Y.
The SpectatorFROM HEINE. ICH WEISS NICHT, WAS SOLL ES DRDEUTEN." A BODING sadness is o'er me, And I know not what this may imply, For still there keeps floating before me A legend of times...
A CORRECTION.
The Spectator(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,-1 cannot pass over a slip in your number Wilma to-day which gives the credit of the best of all classical puns to the Whig pedant Parr....
THE LORDS.
The SpectatorTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") tint,-.-I observe in your last Saturday's number you indulge in a good deal of contemptuous comment on what you call "the puer- ilities of...
Where once the Templar bowed his head, Where nursemaids walk
The Spectatorand children sport, Where Blackstone wrote and Murray read,— A lasting halo o'er them dwells, Though dingy look those little cells. The Queen's Bench and the Common Pleas, The...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorCHRISTIANITY AND POSITIVISM.* Tins is a series of discourses belonging to the same family as the Bampton and Hulsean lectures. Mr. Zebulon Ely, of New York, founded in 1865 a...
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CUBA WITH PEN AND PENCIL.*
The SpectatorJr is amusing sometimes, and especially at this period of the year, when everybody is revolving the important question,—where to go, what to see, and how to see it? to contrast...
WALKS ABOUT WAKEFIELD.*
The SpectatorTine excessive minuteness of detail into which Mr. Banks enters, and his constant habit of allusion to facts which cannot be generally known, will tend to confine his book to a...
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FIGUIER'S REPTILES AND BIRDS.* WE are late in noticing this
The Spectatorbook ; but it can afford to wait. While the charm of the passing productions of the day must be caught as they pass, M. Figuier's volumes will be as attraotive ten years hence...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorTrtx, Magazines are not specially bright this month; they rarely are in August ; but each of those we have time to read contains at least one good paper ; and after all, as the...
