in all 59 seats, instead of 22 as at present. This is to be effected partly by dividing the present boroughs, and partly by creating new ones. As an example of this last...

passed through Committee without amendment; and in all pro- bability it will have passed its third reading before this journal is in our readers' hands. In the House of Commons...

more than it at present possesses,—the 6 seats which are in abeyance being again restored to it. Ireland will be left as it is. Wales will be left as it is. Scotland will...

any case.

M R. GLADSTONE moved on Monday for leave to introduce the Redistribution Bill, expressing his satisfaction that it was possible to do so without much fear of raising...

Sir John Lambert, K.C.B., the Hon. T. H. W. Pelham, Sir Francis Sandford, K.C.B., Mr. J. J. Henley (son of the late Conservative Minister), Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Owen Jones,...

hostile to the proposed measure, and especially hostile to the division of counties into areas each of which was to return only a single Member. He sugared ill for the prospects...

great step taken in the direction of equal electoral districts. Towns with a population under 15,000 are merged in the counties to which they belong. Towns with a population...

leader of the Centre, on Wednesday moved the repeal of the last relic of the Falk Laws, the Act authorising the Government to intern priests guilty of " unlawfully exercising...

the expression of his great regret at the loss of so able a colleague, remarked that General Garfield, though a good man and a martyr, was hardly so convincing an example of...

peasant votes by raising the duty on corn, now so low as to be useful chiefly for statistical purposes, to four times its amount—that is, to 2 fr. GO e. per quintal, or 12 per...

of the coolies in Trinidad. His account makes the affair better, but proves the necessity for the independent inquiry which is at once to be instituted. It appears that as bands...

agreed to by the Cape Ministers and the Administrators of Goshen for the settlement of Bechuanaland, considering them insufficient even if sincere. This view of them is...

Lord Granville's proposals for the settlement of Egyptian finance. It is, however, known that they will be guided by France, and that France would reject the proposals ; but...

has been defeated, the Chamber having on Tuesday adopted M. Floquet's proposal to elect all Senators by Departmental household suffrage. The vote was 267 to 250, and it was at...

Lord Wolseley has issued a General Order, telling the troops that the " glorious mission " entrusted to them by the Queen is the relief of General Gordon and his garrison, and...

prosecuting to a successful issue her action against Dr. Forbes Winslow for attempting improperly to confine her in an asylum. The Jury found for the plaintiff last Saturday,...

Basin ?" The community is certainly not aware of it ; but it appears that the sole right to regulate and tax the traffic on the Niger for 600 miles from its mouth, and to...

" Mignonette," who were accused at Falmouth of murdering and eating a boy named Parker in a boat on the high seas, came on before the Queen's Bench Division on Thursday. The...

exclu- sion of proportional representation from the Redistribution Bill. It is rumoured that the late Postmaster-General (Mr. Fawcett) and Mr. Courtney had mutually pledged each...

at the meeting of the society on Wednesday, adopted at last the Hare scheme in its entirety as the plan on which they would like to see constituencies elect more than two...

Club on Wednesday. He remarked that there bad been assembled in one small room lately, champions whom a month ago Salisbury plain could not have contained without serious risk...

Northbrook in the Upper House, and Sir T. Brassey in the Lower, that the Government propose to spend £5,525,000 in addition to the Estimates, on the Navy, naval guns, and...

Consols were on Friday 99* to 991 xd.

THE REDISTRIBUTION BILL. T HE country certainly owes much to Lord Salisbury, though it owes much more to Mr. Gladstone. Mr. Gladstone supplied the moving force which has...

M R. COURTNEY'S resignation and opposition to the Redistribution Bill, so far as it is founded on the plan of dividing the counties and the great boroughs into constituencies...

T HE authors of Naval panics in England,—whom we do not wish needlessly to disparage, for they sometimes perform a useful function,—always seem to us to fall into one grand...

I T is not considered fitting just now to talk of the Provi- dential government of the world. One must write of the "progress of events," the "stream of tendency," or the "march...

E NGLISHMEN who hear of the excitement caused by the recent Presidential Election in America, and of the virulence with which it was conducted, are astonished to find that no...

[commurriceasp.] T HE recent outcry on the subject of the Navy and the defences of the Empire has done undoubted good. It ie only right that we should clearly understand that...

M R. ARNOLD'S lay sermon to "the sacrificed classes" at Whitechapel contrasts doubly with the pulpit sermons which we too often hear. It is real where' these sermons are unreal,...

p IIBLIC attention has fastened itself very naturally upon the sensational element in the " Whalley Will Case," and especially upon one bit of evidence, but the proceedings...

THE PROPOSED GRANT TO PRINCE EDWARD. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Fuller's letter on this question boldly states that the incomes assigned to the Sovereign...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Many good Radicals fear very much the effect of dividing large constituencies into wards, returning one Member each. A voter for• an...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Would you be surprised. to hear that the agricultural labourer is becoming quite indifferent to the occupation of allotment lands P I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. 'J Six,—Was Dryden a prophet ? The following portrait from "The Hind and the Panther" surely requires no identification to-day :— " Prompt...

THE ENEMIES. MINE enemy, who time and oft Had smitten me with words like swords, And trampled on my answer soft, Till I too smote with angry words, Is dead, and I am fairly...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER- COLOURS. Tux exhibition at the Royal Society in Water-Colours open to the public this week, is, we regret to say, a very indifferent one,...

MR. BROWNING'S THEOLOGY.* To Ferishtah's Fancies are prefixed two mottoes, one of which is from an article on ",Shakespeare" in Jeremy Collier's Historical • Perishtah's...

IN taking us in The Chantry Priest of Barnet to " fresh woods and pastures new," Professor Church still displays many of the characteristic excellences which have made his...

THE Magazines of this month are readable, but not brilliant. There is not a first-class paper in any one of them, and most of them give evidence that contributors are a little...

Barker. (Routledge and Sons.)—This is a volume of extracts from poets old and new, illustrated with appropriate pictures. Many of the poems have certainly, and some of the...

London and Newcastle-upon-Tyne.)—Some of these stories are familiar to most English readers ; some will be new. There are few who will not have heard of Wet Tyler, and Jack...

considerable amount of material, some of it interesting and curious, about the Crusades ; but she fails to put it together in a very artistic fashion. The book is readable, but...

Old Letters and New Illustrations of Ernest M. Jessop (Eyre and Spottiswoode) is sufficiently clever in its way. We must frankly own that our liking for Ingoldsby—putting aside...

book seeks to present the Amid in a popularised form. Mr. Hanson tells the story in an easy style that does not, however, in any way mall the original. He was scarcely well...

and Stoughton.)—This tale is constructed with no little skill. There are a good many cross-purposes in the love-making ; but it is artistically managed, and we are made to feel...

with a spirited account of a rescue by a lifeboat, and it is maintained with considerable vigour. The old sea-captain, who lodges with the maiden sisters, is somewhat, perhaps,...

are names that recall oar youth. The beautiful drawings of the one and the vigorous historical descriptions of the other will not soon lose their interest. We have received from...

GIFT-BOOKS. he Boy-Slave in Bokhara. By David Ker. (Griffith, Ferran, and Co.)—This story takes a place of its own among the literature of the season. The boy-slave, a young...

of this number contains an interesting article by Dr. John Chapman, of Paris, on "The Non-Contagiousness, Causation, and Scientific Treatment of Cholera." If the author can be...

Harper's Magazine, Christmas ; Good Cheer, being the Christmas number of Good Words, and consisting of a story, " The Prodigals, and their Inheritance," by Mrs. Oliphant, whose...

Ballads 4131ackwood and Sons). Is it not about time, we are inclined to ask, that something about their authorship should be prefixed P They are certainly one of the greatest...

Anatomy of Tobacco, cr 8vo (Redway) 3,6 Arthur (F.), The Coparceners, or 8vo (Triibner) 1016 Barbour (H. F.), Spinal Deformity, folio (W. & A. K. Johnston) 21/0 Bowker (J.),...

Produced by Coiling and Uncoiling. By James Hopps.—This paper, originally read before the Physical Society, and now reprinted from the Philosophical Magazine, deserves some...

Year. Translated from the Sacred Offices by Various Authors, with Modern Original and other Hymns, and an Appendix of Earlier Versions. Selected and arranged by Orby Shipley,...

Notes, by David M. Main, editor of " A Treasury of English Sonnets."—This handy and elegant little volume is chiefly selected from Mr. Main's greater work, which we reviewed in...

belief, at least an interest in chiromancy, for we have received a third edition of Your Luck's in Your Hand ; or, The Science of Modern Palmistry. By A. R. is disposed to ask,...

us specimens of their very elaborate Christmas and New-Year's Cards, many of them in compartments and fringed with silk,—an ornamental effect which we hardly appreciate as...

stone Alma neck, we may briefly express the opinion that it is a vulgar and scurrilous production. There is something very strange in the contrast between the fine literary...

admirable Pocket- books in various bindings, containing some of the most useful diaries that are published, and of their diaries for the desk and for the waistcoat-pocket, all...

November 29th, the authorship of Sugar-Plums for Children was erroneously ascribed to Mary E. Palgrave.

12 a.m. on Friday. not be addressed to the EDITOR, but to the PUBLISHER, 1 Wellington I

in the Precinct of the Savoy. Strand, in the Goanty of Middlesex, at 18 Exeter Street, Strand ; and of the " SPECTATOZ" Moe, No. 1 Wellin g ton Street, Strand, aforesaid,...

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MILTON REDIVIVUS.* WHATEVER may have been the errors in judgment displayed by Bentley, in his notorious attempt to restore the text of Milton, it cannot be denied that the...

LONDON : DECEMBER 6, 1884.

Jun now Miss Sarah Tytler's novels are coming in quick suc- cession ; but, so far, we fail to find any evidence of that ill- judged haste in production which has ruined the...

MANY of our readers will probably remember the story of Mrs. Fletcher's trial for fraud, and that the interest it excited was due to the fact that the fraud supposed to be...

WHAT Mr. Max O'Rell—a pseudonymous compound, by the way, that recalls the strange names in L'Homme qui Bit—con- ceives to be the proper mode of dealing with the subject of his...

Spencer's philosophical admiration, Lord Coleridge's polished though rather undiscriminating panegyric, Mr. Arnold's cautious appreciation, and Mr. Irving's self-adver- tising...

reached a fourth edition, and has increased its value at every step, may fairly claim a fresh recognition from the Press. In this new edition, such subjects as the House of...

WE are glad to see that such a work as this has reached a fourth edition. It consists of sermons preached to the author's congregation, and apparently printed just as delivered....

Surface, and perhaps also writing down to the level of his subject, " is not intellectual or critical, but sturdy." The reader is tempted to think it must be so, after he has...

THE magazine or newspaper first, and then the volume, is the literary order of the day ; and to this rule The Life of the Fields is no exception. The book consists of brief...

is a most vigorous and lively story, and does the greatest credit to Miss Childar's power of keeping up the interest of her readers. She provides herself with four heroines and...

Amis. ol. I. (Calmann Levy, Paris. 1884 )—Madame Quinet pursues liar task of pious affection (interrupted, it appears, for a time by serious illness), of publishing her...

Co.)—" Sorrowful and unlucky " is the motto appropriate to any one who, like the conscientious reviewer, is obliged to wade through this singularly uninteresting story. It is a...

have sketches of the life and work of eight divines who may fairly be described by the title given to this volume. •The eight are, — Owen, Bunyan, Boston, Edwards, Wesley,...

comprehensive category, by tbe way—than that contained in a brochure entitled the Printer's Devil, and which has just been pub- lished by Cousins and Co., we have never come...

wood. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Whittier's descent is an interesting fact in genealogies. It is traced back to the first emigrant from England in a surprisingly small number of...

White and Co.) —The "mad game" is the love made by Arthur Randolph to Eva Cameron. Arthur is Eva's guardian ; but he labours under the difficulty of being at least apparently...