becoming serious, On the back of the Tornado case comes that of the Queen tctoria, in which the Spanish Government is so hopelessly in the wrong, that Lord Stanley was...

es. follows :— Foa 1867-8. REVENUE. EXPENDITURE. Customs .C22,000,000 Interest on Debt .C26,000,000 Excise 20,700,000 Other Consolidated Stamps 9,550,000 Fund...

Disraeli made his Budget speech on Thursday, which was bare and meagre in the extreme as regards the detail of our finance, but clear and concise as to the future. Mr. Disraeli...

indi- cations of Mr. Disraeli's charming state of spirits. The depression under which he laboured during the first series of Reform messes has quite *Bed away, and the success...

A MEETING of the Liberal party was held on Friday at Mr. Gladstone's house, and, as we are told, the final decision was of this kind. Mr. Coleridge, whose clear brain and...

Prussians who garrison the fortress have announced in a some- what informal manner that they do not intend to leave it, and the Grand Duke, who is also King of Holland, has...

sent in as early in the week as possible, in order to insure insertion, In future, the latest time will be 2 o'clock on Friday Afternoons.

received deputations this week from the Reform League. The former persuaded the working men not to make any demonstra- tion on Good Friday, and said something to soften the...

victory," made a rather remarkable speech on the 3rd inst. A proposal had been made to reduce the term of service to two years, but the General affirmed that the short term...

who governs it? Last Thursday week Sir J. Pakington consented to limit flogging to men reduced from the first class, that is, to about a tenth of the Army, and to confine it to...

the King of Italy. No explanation has reached England, but we presume it to be this. Ricasoli is pledged to the Vatican to carry out his ecclesiastical scheme, but finds he...

Russia had ceded all Russian America to the United States, and the treaty needed only the ratification of the Senate, which, by the way, is reported doubtful, the price to be...

on the demand of the four Continental Powers. Indeed, if gossip may be trusted, the Grand Vizier has not dared to show his master the "collective note," fearing an instant...

by the Emperor in person. It is chiefly full of unpacked boxes. The Commission has undertaken too much, very little is ready, and the scene is dreary in the extreme. By the 1st...

on the 5th of March. For 1865-1866 he had a surplus,— chiefly matter of account,—but for 1866-67 he had a deficit of 2,395,2471., caused chiefly by the Bombay panic, which...

support, excepting so far as they involved the great increase in the Army and Navy Estimates. Even on that point he said that "there are particular reasons at the present moment...

Sunday religious discussions and lectures such as were held last year and this at St. Martin's Hall ; and it may, we hope, pass without any substantial opposition. The Bill...

to the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford ought to be, and we hope may be, filled up by the election of one of the candidates, Mr. Green, the author of a hard but...

which a strong Minister so often combines with the greatest impatience of popular control. When reproached in the Chamber yesterday week with the passionate language he had used...

money, the market for National Securities has been inactive this week, and the quotations have shown a tendency to give way. The leading figure for Consols has been 91i ;...

Agri- cultural Gangs which we recently analyzed, demanding regulation for those gangs on the principle of the Factory Acts. Mr. Walpole assented, but agreed with Mr. W. E....

week, Sir Baldwin Leighton delivering the judg- ment of the bench, as usual. The worthy magistrates chose to interpret legal " malice " in the popular and familiar sen.se, and...

in another column, the object of which is to remove certain false impressions as to her medical standing, which a letter in our columns last week was—we regret to say—the means...

on Friday week are subjoined :— Mexican .. .. .. Spaniels Passive .. .. Do. Certificates .. .. Turkish 0 per Gems., 1658 .. „ 1862 .. Unite! 8tates15.26U .. .. .. .. .. .....

off at the annexed quotations :- Friday, March 29. Friday, April 5. Great Eastern .. 2 • • 11 11 .. 27 Great Northern .. .. • • 4V 123 1104 Great Western.. • . 12,34 . •...

United States. The publishers of Mr. Horace Greeley's American Conflict, Messrs. Case, have sent round a circular to their agents, in which they explain that, as it is...

which came to nothing, but in the course of which Mr. Stansfeld made an extraordinarily suggestive speech, the drift of which was this. He wanted the Admiralty to remember that...

MR. DISRAELI'S STRATEGY AND ITS BERM TS. - This, then, is in all probability the practical alternative in which Mr. Disraeli's strategy has landed us,—a thoroughly democratic...

T HE observation which Mr. Read, the one tenant-farmer who sits in the House of Commons, made upon Mr. Disraeli's Budget, that it was in fact adapted to conciliate the support...

T HERE is a scent of danger in this Luxemburg business. The demi-official accounts are still not entirely in accord, but none of them tend to diminish the gravity of the...

will, we hope, receive the highest credit for his motion and speech of Tuesday night. It required no slight moral courage in the representative of a commercial aristocracy, a...

O H for a little honesty! If only one Liberal leader, say Mr. Gladstone or Mr. Bright, one Liberal of "advanced" views, say Mr. Forster or Mr. Stansfeld, or even Mr. Peter...

"T T is the unforeseen," as the Frenchman said, "which I always arrives." Of all improbable occurrences, one would have said that a war between Great Britain and Spain was the...

• profit like that of a prosperous bank, but there is no temptation even to try. If the experiment succeeded, nobody who ran the • risk would enjoy the benefit to the full. The...

ryinE native [Maori] saying is, AB the white man's rat has I driven away the native rat, as the European fly drives away our own, as the clover kills our fern, so will the...

A NDERIDA appears as one of the fortresses of the Comes of the Saxon Shore or March in Britain, and as garrisoned by a company of the Abuki, whoever these may have been_ What...

women have in conimon. Male and female students in any branch of science, or practitioners in any art, must have their qualifications and capacities tested by precisely the same...

DR. LIGHTFOOT ON THE GALATIANS. * THE present volume is intended to form part of a complete edi- tion of St. Paul's Epistles. Judging from the ripe scholarship, the patient...

Vicron from the fight disrobing, Lover, now that heaven's attained— Ere the shouts be lost in sobbing, The clear heaven with storm-clouds stained— Mind ye—'mid your golden...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The statement contained in your last issue purporting to be a document signed by Assistant-Surgeon Crane, by order of the...

Sta,—The letter and statement purporting to be from a "Medical Student" in Boston, Massachusetts, in reference to Dr. Mary E. 1Valker's proceedings in London being calculated to...

• The sea-Oull (La Oariola). From the Spanish at Fenton Caballero. By the Hon. Augusta Bethell. 2 vols. Loudon; Bentley. DONA CECILIA FABER, who is, as Miss Bethell informs us,...

IT is natural that these two books should be abused, but then it is also a little unfair. The capacity to write books is not hereditary, as the capacity to legislate is assumed...

spell cast over every one who attempts to write about the legal profession, which prevents the production of a really good book. There are many curious points of social and...

WE wonder if Mr. Yates is aware that in Harriet Routh he has made by far the highest effort, the one most worthy of an artist, which he has yet attempted. Apparently he is not,...

places more interesting to the English lover of history or architecture than Normandy. Almost every part is in some way connected with the history of the two peoples so...

Reviews and Magazines. The Westminster for April has articles on the Italian campaign of 1866, on Hobbes of Malmesbury, "Contemporary Musical Literature," "Mr. Swinburne's...

shortened. But he would like to have a daily form of more brevity. He would have busy people coming for part of the service on week days, and the churches always open for...

(John Russell Smith.)—This will be useful as a book of reference. Mr. Grenville gives in - line an event in the New Testament, going chronologically through the whole course of...

the University of Cambridge. By C. J. Vaughan, D.D. (Mac- millan.)—We heard the other day of a bishop who refined to ordain a young man on the ground that he had been reading...

Buchan (Whittaker) ; Percy Villiers, and Other Poems, by John Newlands, formerly a volunteer under General Garibaldi (A. W. Bennett) ; Meg Soupirs—Italian Dreams—Mirrors and...

and Wright.)—Mr. Neil's notes are copious and well selected. He writes for the use of students and for the University of London B.A. examination. Bachelors of Arts might indeed...

the Mediterranean, France, Somersetshire, Cornwall, the Scilly Islands, Wilts, and Dorsetshire, in 1866. (A. M. Pigott.) — None of the places here described are very strange to...

Times. By John Henry Blunt. (Rivingtons.)—This is a convenient and readable sketch of the history of the Church from the birth of Christianity to the Middle Ages. By calling it...

Wright); Sermons Doctrinal and Didactic, by Thomas Williamson Pelle, D.D. (Rivingtons); The Religion of Redemption, by R. W. Monsell, B.A. (W. Hunt and Co.)—Three of those books...

and Co.)—We feel no doubt that to the writer's friends these songs and sonnets will be a very welcome volume. They seem to be a happy self-revelation of the author, and...

as Described in the Word of God By a Bible Student. (Pitman.)—In this odd little book the righteous have a page of texts to themselves, while the wicked are accommodated with...

—This volume has its own peculiar public, and does not need much notice at our hands. If it did, we should say that we found the first paper, "On the Stature of the Lapps, byJ....

Wedgwood agrees with Mr. Farrar, rather than with Professor Max Muller, as to the importance of imitative sounds in the creation of a language. We do not know that he adds much...

taining, though absurd, and paradoxical under a show of reason. We will not enter into the author's argument about the Germans and the Normans, or do more than allude to his...

G. Chaplin Child, M.D. Two vols. (Murray.)—At first sight this seems rather a strange idea, and if it was worked out in the manner natural to so many preachers, it would be...

Williams, D.C.L., Bishop of Waiapu. (Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday.) —The Bishop of Waiapn begins with a half apology for publishing a history of the growth and spread of...

Warne and Co.)—" We always get out of bed either on the right side or with the right foot first ; we take care not to cross two knives on the table ; mothers never allow a child...

master Bolus, recounting the various incidents taking place at the Court of King Saul r to whom the ambassador is accredited. We write with all seriousness, as will be seen by...