irritated by an order, embodied in that unlucky Metropolitan Streets' Act, directing them to provide their cabs with lamps, and on Wednesday all cabs drove home at four o'clock....

Abyssinia, the tameness of which was a little broken by a speech from the Earl of Ellenborough. His Lordship, who has ordered invasions in his time, thought the war just enough,...

p.m. at Exeter Hall, which was attended by about 5,000 masters and drivers, so many., indeed, that a supplementary meeting was held in Trafalgar Square. The meeting was most...

P ARLIAMENT has finished its work, and will not reassemble till the fith or 13th of February. It has been sitting seventeen days, during which it has voted two millions for the...

to us unintel- ligible change in French politics. On Monday, M. de Moustier was reasonable, not to say conciliatory, in his language about Italy, and even on Wednesday said at...

publishes without a date, that lie has discovered a pass from the coast to the highlands of Abyssinia, passable-for cavalry and camels, and improvable by hard work. A second...

now Bishop of New Zealand. We have discussed the appointment, which, in spite of our cordial dislike to Dr. Selwyn's Church principles, we heartily approve, elsewhere. The new...

by a vote of the Chamber, rejecting M. Jules Favre's proposals by 237 to 17. The Napoleons announce that their permanent func- tion is that of gendarmes to the Vatican, and a...

intended for the Current Number being sent in as early in the week as possible. - It is impossible to guarantee the insertion of Advertisements sent in after 12 o'clock on Friday.

majority of 33 was officially declared this day week, the issue having been doubtful to the very last moment. The Liberal victory shows, as we explained last week, an enormous...

now brings out is the extreme feeling of some of the Guardians against "petting paupers." Several of them declared the tramp wards, which are shameful overcrowded hutches, as...

recommend a peculiar form of charity. The poor children in Loudon are half starved, so starved that they can learn nothing in the Ragged Schools. It is found that one good...

been offered the American Embassy in Vienna,—an appointment con- firmed by the Senate, but declined by Mr. Greeley himself, who Mr. Johnson nominated him to the post, in order...

be a is right, we think, in objecting to the appointment of any one to the bead of our Educational institutions as an average Sunday- Vienna who is entirely unable to speak...

evening with a very few remarks, but one curiously perfect repartee. Lord Romilly pleaded for free trade, the price to be painted up on each cab every six months, and said...

to have been worse in its effects than that of October, 1864. The storm began at 11 p.m. and raged till morning, sweeping from N. to S. and N.W. to S.E. with tremendous fury,...

for the year ending June, 1869, will be 76,200,000/., and the expenditure 74,400,000/ s and that the public Debt has, in the year ending November 30, been reduced by...

with a brief report of President Johnson's Message to Congress, presented on 2nd December. We have commented at length elsewhere on the two first paragraphs, which announce that...

accepted by the House of Commons on Friday se'nnight, though not without some murmurings. Mr. Ayrton objected to the shortness of the time allowed for tenders, ridiculed the...

of Denbigh's, who, as a convert to Romanism, was, as usual, violent and rather silly. He "repudiated such a thing as nationality, and said he was nothing but a Catholic, an...

behalf irk St. James's Hall on Wednesday, at which Dr. Manning, the Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, presided, to protest against -" the outrage and sacrilege which had been...

that has been seen there for some years, Her Majesty's Theatre took fire, and the fire illuminated the top tier of Somerset House—at least a mile off—as brilliantly as a...

is spreading fast in Hungary, but does not very clearly describe its tenets. Its followers call themselves Nazarenes, appoint no priests, refuse to baptize their children, swear...

Willis's Rooms, and decided on raising 50,000/., "to enable the Council to assist parishioners who may apply to them ior advice and expenses of appeals to the Law Courts,...

to the Eastern patriarchs, bishops, and others the sending of the recent Pan-Anglican Encyclical, a copy of which he encloses. He auks his correspondents to rejoice with him and...

the value of National Securities this week, although the sale of Money Stook has not been extensive. On Monday, Consols were done at 93f, ex. div., for delivery, and 93a, for...

and urbane a nature that he sometimes exposes himself to impertiuences the risk of which would not be even incurred by another. Not satisfied with the ample and most courteous...

Society have not yet absolutely decided to exclude women from their diploma. The Secretary has now told her that the subject would be "taken into consideration." It requires it.

THE PARLIAMENTARY COLLAPSE. T IIE Autumn Session is over. No one of any sense or know- ledge of the world looked to it to take great practical resolves on more than one subject...

P RESIDENT JOHNSON'S Message to Congress, the last but one that he will ever transmit, will give the finishing stroke to his reputation as a statesman. No man in our time ever...

A MONG the speeches uttered in all parts of the world upon- the Roman question, perhaps the most noteworthy are- those just delivered in the Senate of France by two Cardinals...

excellent choice for the Bishopric of Lichfield,—and we at least shall not be accused of partiality in saying so; for we hold that the new Bishop has done as much political...

Cabmen of London and Mr. Hardy, which terminated so pleasantly on Wednesday, cannot be fairly described as a contest between Her Majesty's Government and a section of her...

review, the other a monthly magazine of the elder and graver sort, attempt this week to reopen a discussion which three years ago almost occupied the Recess. In the North...

T HE special friends of the Cat have been somewhat outraged in feeling by the remarks which we made on the qualities accounting for her imperfect civilization in our last...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sur,—The gentlemen who have recently met to institute a Union under the above title, seem to me to strangely misapprehend the nature of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have read Mr. Bright's letter in your number of last Saturday, and beg leave to apologize to him for having said that did not think he...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie,—Having always enjoyed your quaint and instructive articles on the animal creation, it was with great astonishment that I read your paper...

markable power of suggesting action. The group of Arabs on in view " the improvement of the stream, bed, and banks of the the right hand are positively alive. A masterly drawing...

FATHER LACORD AIRE.* Tnrs great reviver of the Dominican Order in the most modern nation of modern times,—the nation to whom "the new era" confessedly owes its birth and its...

The author describes in a series of essays the life and work of a schoolmaster, and as he has lived that life and done that work from deliberate choice, his story is worth...

THE second volume, now published, completes the History of the Commonwealth of England by Mr. Bisset, of which the first volume was published three years ago. We do not propose...

Thu Corshill is full this month of the very best padding, papers worthy the careful perusal of men who know something. Two among them, at least, are absolutely new. One contains...

The Englishman in India. By Charles Raikes. (Longmans.)— When we opened this book we expected to light on a description of an Englishman's life in India. The contents are in...

of Venetian Minia- ture Vignette Outlines for Illuminating. The centre of each contains ft small picture, very well executed, and the space around is to be filled up according...

J. S. Stallybrass. Second Edition. (D. Nutt.)—In order to con- quer the feeling of strangeness which meets a learner on the threshold of a new language, this excellent little...

Henry Pullen. (Macmillan.)—There are considerable novelties in the arrange- ment of bars and the pointing of this psalter, but without deciding the question, we think Mr. Pullen...

a very close imitation of bad verse, and puzzling from this very closeness. It is often a toss-up whether the lines have a meaning or not, whether that meaning is expressed or...

a Seaside Story, by Mrs. Eiloart (Routledge).—These are two very plea- sant stories for boys, by the author of a novel which we lately had occasion to commend. The boys of...

(Saunders and Otley.)—To speak candidly, this novel is great rubbish, but it has the merit of being fairly skimmable, and can be gone through without difficulty in little more...

France. By F. M. P. (J. and C. Mozley.)—These are short tales, which will be found pleasant, by children and instructive by their parents. The Wood Cart itself is highly to be...

Fair. VoL L (Smith and Elder.)—We must content ourselves hero with chronicling the appearance of the first volume of Messrs Smith and Elder's "Library Edition" of Thackeray....

Memoir. By the Rev. J. Scott Porter. (E. T. Whitfield.)—We have no doubt that these sermons and this memoir will be welcome to the friends and flock of the departed preacher....

—These are fair verses. The idea at the end of the copy called "A Lunar Eclipse" is good. We can say no more. We might have said loss. Sermons Preached in Liverpool. By Andrew...

Thomas Madge. (Whitfield and Green.)—We learn from this volume that Mr.. Madge was formerly Minister of Essex Street Chapel, and that these sermons are published at the request...

The Travels of Baron Munchausen, with five woodcuts by George Cruikshank. (Tegg.)—This edition of Bunyan is small and, handy, but there is not much to be said of the...

is cruel of Mr. Gilfillan not to have published this poem during the lifetime of Professor Aytoun. Another scene might then have been added to the spasmodic tragedy of Firmilian...

good little story, but too obviously nice and good to be recommended to any but young children. To them we recommend it heartily.

Moron's Standard Penny Readings. Vol IL (Moxon.) — The first of these books is, apparently, a private pennyworth, for the illus- trations can be of little use in a public room...

Rev. John Henry Blunt. (Rivingtons.)—" A Sketch-Map of Sacra- mental Theology is the name given to this book by its author. It is not surprising that he should express the...

Earl Spencer proposed to improve Wimbledon Common by selling part of it and enclosing the rest, a committee of the commoners and residents of Wimbledon was formed to watch over...