do not improve ; indeed, the Vermont State election seems to promise fair for General Grant's victory. In that election, both the Republicans and Democrats polled an increased...

are becoming visible among the smaller States of Germany. It is said that at Dresden the Saxon Court is notoriously orgauising a movement against German unity, and ta Bavaria,...

about as to the real drift and meaning of the triangular duel which is to take place among the three Imperial Ministers. It is obvious enough that what Prince Bismarck must wish...

aspect, and may here note progress made. The opposing armies have, during the week, advanced towards each other, and their respective cavalry forces have come into collision on...

Atbitrators will, in all probability, be delivered to-day, if it has not been privately conatnuuicated to the various Governments sooner. No intimation, however, of the result...

Moxon (the Mayor), wrote a sensible letter to Tues- day's limes on its result. The Ballot, he says, quite sup- pressed all excitement, and not a single case of drunkenness was...

THE events of the week are the meeting of the Three Emperors (Germany, Russia, and Austria) at Berlin, and the meeting of the International Society at the Hague,—neither of...

case.

has secured the re-election of its members through the folly of the Roman Catholic Bishop, who issued at the last moment a pastoral to Roman Catholics admonishing them to vote...

to. hound on English feeling against the Roman Catholics, as if there were any need of inflaming the hate and dread with which they have been regarded by the masses of the...

the human liability to plague. At the present moment, the vine and the potato in Europe are both suffering from a terrible disease, while the plague has re-appeared in one...

the Roman - Catholic Church against the celibacy of priests, having been married on Tuesday to an American lady, daughter of Mr. Amory Butterfield, and widow of the late Mr....

life crowded with original inventions by one of the mast beneficent of human achievements. He has invented, it is said, an apparatus for keep- ing the saloon of a steamer...

Freston, which is likely, it is said, to take place about this day week, or early in the week following. There are two candidates already in the field, and there is one, be-...

that what is called the natural "law of supply and demand" fixes the price of labour, and that no combination of labourers could ever interfere with capital "unreasonably." But...

that the liberty of marriage refused to Roman priests has done very much to pervert and to harden the power of the Roman Church, which has necessarily lost much of human...

concerning M. Thiers. For twenty years, it is said, a bouquet of violets has been every morning placed on his window-ledge, or even the chimney-piece of his bedroom, by "an...

study. The Guardian,—safest of able papers, which guards the barrier of its lips as anxiously at least as it guards the Church of England,—had committed itself to the following...

their constituents this week, and even they had very little to say, except that Parliament had attempted too much, and consequently done it badly. Mr. Henley thought that while...

'session last month at Brighton,—ought not to have had to explain, as he was compelled to do, to an evening contemporary of last Saturday's date, that the drift of his able...

THE EMPERORS AND THE SOCIALISTS. T HE Three Emperors at Berlin and the forty odd Socialists at the Hague appear to have certain common objects in view. Both at least have given...

Pt: CE has for some generations been regarded not naturally as the European centre of political romance and excitement. The Ex-Emperor once said that when France was satisfied,...

T HE Speaker of the House of Commons has rendered a real service not only to English Society, but to the English Constitution, by the important example which he has set at a...

A S the date approaches which has been fixed by the Treaty of Frankfort for the termination of the transitional stage in the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, the anomalies, to...

be a harsh, yet effective forms will have to make way for good investment of the public funds. It is sound policy to methods which touch the moral nature and self-respect of...

T HE conviction of Judge Barnard before the State Senate of New York is, as we have lately pointed out, an event involving several most important consequences. But we must admit...

A FEW remarks, in conclusion, on the very remarkable corre- spondence which we have published and which we have suppressed,—mere considerations of apace have compelled us to...

THE Dean and Chapter of Canterbury have already received J. - abundance of advice and reproof with regard to the casualty which has nearly deprived us of one of the greatest of...

A V. DISRAELI'S suggested explanation of the gloom of the 1_ Irish and of their love of excitement, —that "they live beside a melancholy ocean,"—was received at the time it was...

DARWINISM AND THEOLOGY.—I. ETO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."J SIR,—Now that Parliament is closed, the Treaty saved, and Livingstone discovered, you may perhaps find space...

rr0 THE MHTOE OF THE "SPBOTATOR:l SIR, —I shall be glad to be allowed to make a few remarks on the statement in last week's Spectator that at Stourbridge I (with Sir- John...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF TEES " SPEOTATOR:1 Sin,-0 wing to my absence from England on a somewhat erratic tour, I have only just received the Spectator of the 3rd and 10th of this...

the ultimate result of the contest now going on between our agricultural labourers and their employers, when the Unions become established on a firmer footing, and the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—An article in the Spectator of August 24 on "The Teaching of Girls" appears to call for some remark. It is there stated that fathers...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.'] have no desire to open any controversy in the columns of your paper, as I have elsewhere given expression to my views.. But my object in...

SIR,—Let me thank you for a notice of my volume on "Religious. Progress" which I feel to be, on the whole, quite as favourable as it deserves. For, unlike others, your critic...

[To THB EDITOR OF TSR " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In your article on "Our Fish Supply" and touching Columbia Market in your issue of last week there are one or two • 'Saturday Review,...

[TO THIS EDITOR OF THR SPZOTATOR.1 SIR,—I think there is a good deal of the unreasonable in the protests we have been making against the "high price" of fresh meat. It appears...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE"SPECTATOR.'] Stn.—Your review on my volume of poems might be fair enough, if you had neither received my two first volumes or my pamphlet -on "Free-Will,"...

materials for history seems to make it every day more difficult to attain to largeness of survey. Any- one who begins to study a given period, however short, soon finds the task...

WE must say that Captain Burton's literary industry, which is very great, would be more commendable were a portion of it expended in pruning and arranging his manuscript...

IT is not without reason that France prides herself on such a moralist as Honore de Balzac, but it is to be doubted whether the elite of French readers have any substantial...

THE death of Dr. Ueberweg last year was a loss of no slight kind to contemporary philosophy. An indefatigable student, a man of ceaseless industry, whom no labours would daunt...

No one can read without emotion the simple preface with which Mr. Cox introduces these Sermons to the public. No more pathetic story of pious courage was ever told. All who ever...

The History of Leicester in the Eighteenth Century. By James Thompson. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.).—Time affects strangely the interest of many things. We care little or nothing...

Collins. 2 vols. (H. S. King.)—" I like Dreamshire, I like Idlebridge." This is the con- fession of faith with which Mr. Mortimer Collins begins his novel. And Dreamshire and...

) —Here are thirteen poems, most of them of the serious sort, which, being Hood's, we are, of course, glad to see again ; and here, also, some engravings after Mr. Birket...

Version, Synoptically Arranged. Edited by the Rev. W. W. Skeet. (Cam- bridge University Press.)—This volume has been edited by Mr. Skeet for the Syndics of the University Press,...