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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorTr HE French Assembly commenced its Session on November 30, but the President's Message was not read till Thursday, the .3rd inst. The Marshal tells the Deputies that...
Slavery, as a legal institution to be enforced by Courts
The Spectatoror police, has been abolished on the Gold Coast. On 3rd November, Governor Strahan called the native Chiefs of the Protectorate together, and after recapitulating the recent...
Another great steamer has gone down. The 'La Plata,' 969
The Spectatortons, left Gravesend on the 26th ult., with 300 miles of telegraph cable on board, intended to renew part of the cable from Lisbon to Brazil. On the 29th she encountered in the...
Bishop Clifford (of Clifton) also issued a pastoral on Sunday,
The Spectatorwhich seems intended to find voice for those loyal Roman Catho- lics who are opposed to the reigning school of the Vatican. He begins by observing on the number of Roman...
The Comte de Chambord has desired his friends not to
The Spectatorvote for anything that may impede a Restoration, and it is understood that the Right, with part of the Right Centre, will therefore oppose the organisation of the Septennate....
By a circular read in the Roman Catholic churches on
The SpectatorSunday evening hurt, Archbishop Manning explained to the faithful of his Church that as both the Immaculate Conception and the In- fallibility of the• Pope had been defined by...
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The elections for the Municipality of Paris have ended in
The Spectatora triumph for the Radicals. Out of the 80 wards into which Paris is divided, 66 at least have returned Radicals, 63 of the candi- dates on M. Gambetta's list in the Republique...
Vice-Admiral the Honourable Joseph Duman, who died on Thursday week,
The Spectatorwas one of a family who have served England well in many different relations, and though he had for several years before his death been incapacitated by illness of a type like...
We were mistaken last week in thinking that the Danish
The Spectatorclergy were appointed by the landlords. A resident in Den- mark tells us that when a vacancy occurs, the candidates send in their names to the Minister of Public Worship, who-...
The Times' Correspondent telegraphs from Calcutta that the man arrested
The Spectatorin Gwalior is not the Nana, and that Scindiah has acknowledged his mistake. It is not known who the man really is,—probably a man who hoped to obtain help from Scindiah and...
The Benchers of Gray's Inn have disbarred Dr. Kenealy for
The Spectatorpublishing in a journal, which he is advertised on the face of the journal to edit, libellous statements about the Queen's Judges. There can be no doubt that the insults poured...
Mr. W. Rathbone has published a plan of local government
The Spectatorwhich would, he thinks, remedy many evils and attract to it many superior men. He would divide the counties into convenient Districts, and in each district he would have a...
It is stated that Marshal Serrano intends himself to take
The Spectatorthe command against the Carlists, and that 20,000 men of the Reserves have been forwarded to the North. As Marshal Serrano is by no means the ablest of Spanish Generals, this...
We are sorry to hear that the Bishop of Oxford
The Spectator(Dr. Mackar- ness) inhibited Bishop Colenso from preaching in the City Church of Oxford last Sunday, so that the sermon he would have preached was read for him by the Rector,...
The Dean of Westminster, with his usual gallantry, selected the
The SpectatorSunday on which this stigma had been cast on Dr. Colenso to pass upon him a very warm eulogium, in the pulpit of West- minster Abbey. After a hearty panegyric on two great Mis-...
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Mr. Reed (M.P. for Pembroke District), the former adviser of
The Spectatorthe Admiralty in relation to Naval construction, addressed his constituents at Tenby on Thursday in a curious speech, of which -this sentence from it may be taken as the motto...
Mr. Rodwell, Q,.C., M.P. for Cambridgeshire, and in a very
The Spectatorspecial sense the representative of the tenant-farmers of that county, has been making a somewhat embarrassed endeav- your to reconcile himself and his constituents to the...
Nothing is more groteique than the fancy some Biblical students
The Spectatorhave for identifying modern nations with the "lost Ten Tribes of Israel." Mr. Edward Hine seems to have tried to per- suade the people of Woolwich last Tuesday that the English...
The Academy of last week contains a paragraph on the
The Spectatorquestion as to the reality of spontaneous combustion, recently discussed at the Societe de Chirurgie de Paris, which concludes thus :— " Again, after injection made into the...
Mr. G. H. Davis, the Secretary to the Religions Tract
The SpectatorSociety, seems to think himself very ill-used by the Press in its remarks on the piracy of Miss Maury's book, "The Memoirs of a Huguenot Family." Mr. Davis states that the book...
It is stated, but we hope not truly, that one
The Spectatorof the Staff of the British Museum, a member of the Printed Book Department, Mr. Warren, when attacked some time ago by an illness which pointed - to the bad ventilation of the...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE MARSHAL-PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE. T HE Message of Marshal MacMallon to the Assembly, the letter of the Comte de Chambord to his friends, and the attitude of the Republican party...
THE 01 11CLIL PRESSURE lN THE ARNIM CASE.
The SpectatorIT is more like old times to read Prince Bismarck's frank and, from his point of view, thoroughly statesmanlike speeches on Alsace-Lorraine and its deliberative Assembly. The...
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SLAVERY ON THE GOLD COAST.
The SpectatorTil Government deserves great credit for the way in which t has dealt with the very difficult and complicated pro- blem of Slavery on the West African Coast. It was, of course,...
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POLITICAL NON-SEQUITURS.
The SpectatorW7 N Sir Stafford Northeote stated the other day that the Revenue, instead of falling short of the estimate by about a million sterling, as even moderate calculations made out...
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Tab SUPPLY OF MISSIONARIES.
The SpectatorT HE Protestant Churches, Established and Nonconformist, are crying aloud that they cannot get men for Missionary work ; and the cry, which was the common burden of all the...
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THE APPROACH OF DOGMATIC ATHEISM.
The SpectatorP ROFESSOR HUXLEY has said something lately about the drum ecclesiastic, but it seems to us that there is another kind of drum whose low reverberations are beginning to be...
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A CALIFORNIAN PEABODY.
The SpectatorW E do not see why we are required to fall down and worship James Lick, Esquire, of San Francisco, California. He is, or was, very rich. He matle his money without stealing....
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The SpectatorTHE FRENCH MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPBOTAT011.1 SIR,—The correspondents and editors of English newspapers, as a general rule, so justly appreciate the...
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CONSERVATION OF ENERGY AND "HUMAN AUTOMATISM."
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF !RR SPRCTATOR.1 Sin,—Agreeing considerably with your article of Saturday, the 21st ult., concerning " Human Automatism," and holding that the doctrine of...
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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] SIR,—With reference to the
The Spectatordiscussion now going on in your columns as to the automatism of animals and their possession of sensation, the fact should not be forgotten that, in the year 1837, Dr. David...
[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE ‘. SPBOTATOR:1 STR,—You have altogether
The Spectatorthe advantage of an exact perception on your side in this controversy. The will itself is an energy, you point out, and an energy that directs force. Let us expose hostile, hazy...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorSPOILING BOSWELL.* .1)tin. LEWES possesses some of the finest qualifications of the critic, and there are few living writers for whose judgment on purely literary matters we...
[To THE EDITOR Or TEE ErBOTATOR.1
The Spectatormy letter on Automatism in the Spectator of the 28th ult., you have in two places printed " venoms " instead of "nervous," which, of course, makes nonsense. 1 believe in the...
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THE MAT]) OF KILLEENA.*
The SpectatorIT is not every one, unhappily, that knows the sensation of peaceful but inexpressible joy that pervades the country-bred man, when for a time he returns in the summer from the...
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MIL NORDHOFF'S BOOKS OF TRAVEL*
The Spectator[SECOND NOTICE] Ix his later volume, Mr. Nordhoff treats of the northern counties of the vast State of California — which, if it lay along the Atlantic as it lies along the...
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A FEW CHILDREN'S BOOKS.
The SpectatorAs is usual at this season, books for young people are making their appearance in great abundance, a very large proportion of the Christmas literature which pours from the press...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorIx the Contemporary Review Mr. Julian Hawthorne continues his "Saxon Studies," sketches of life in Dresden, with even increasing spirit. He gives the rein to his quaint humour,...
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CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorCHRISTMAS BOOKS. Dr. Ox's Experiment, and other Stories. Translated from the French of *Tales Verne. (Sampson Low and Co.) M. Jules Verne is entitled to a high place among the...
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The British Almanack, by the Society for the Diffusion of
The SpectatorUseful Knowledge for the year 1875, and The Companion, or Year-book of' General Information for 1875, are contained in a volume, which embodies not only an elaborate digest of...
De la Rue's Improved Indelible Diary and Memorandum-Book, 1875. Edited
The Spectatorby William Godward, F.R.A.S. De la Rue's Improved Diary and Memorandum-Book for the Desk (De la Rue and Co.)—The 'various very useful pocket-hooka, diaries, and memorandum-books...
