I It is very hard even for a clever government to silence Parisians when resolved to talk. By law no elector in France can address a public meeting outside his own district...

One bad consequIlence seems likely to arise from the plan of re- I presenting inilloriti"S whlichl we have so often defended. The dotminant party cannot bear to give up the...

I One iudge, at least, has come round to the view always main- I taiaed in this journal about actions for breach of promise. A ,case was tried at Leeds on August 4, in which...

Tihe great ineetina of German riflemen in Vienna lhas been I turned to political purpose. The democratic riflemen have made speeches declaring that they waut a democratic...

I rhe Court of Cassation has finally decided that AIM. Emile and Isaac Pereire, Salvador and Biesta, with the Duke de Galliera, are responsible for the losses incurred by new...

I The Times has opened its columns once more to complaints about the badness of sermons, their weary length, and their uselessness, and suggests as a remedy that everybody...

Mr,. Stansfeld has issued the fullest and, in some respects, the best address yet put out by any lernibr of the Liberal Government. I1e desires to sweep away the checks upon...

The Anclo-Indians are not making a very great show in the present elections. -Neither Mr. M.assey nor Mr. Laing are quite entitled to that name, neither of them, having any but...

Mr gnurn'eon. it is sail, does not see wlhy Nonconformist TIinisters should1 not interfere in politics. IIis brethren, deprecatin(g such interference, remarked that they were "...

I The three new Judges to be appointed under the Bribery Pre- vention Act will, it is stated, be Sir WV. Brett, Solicitor-G-eneral; Mr. Pickering, Q.C.; and TMr. IHuddleston, Q.C.

I At, a meethig of the riflemien held at Vienna on Sulnday. the| old antagonism between the Democrats and the Socialists of Germany seems to have broken out fiercely. Tile...

I Messrs. Laina and Watkin are earning the hearty gratitude of all who desire good government in (Great Britain. Hitherto, only politicians an(l journalists have been strongly...

The blockading of Mazatlan in Mexico by Commtuanler Bridge, of 11cr \[ajesty's steamer ( itluticltre, sCells to have been ail illjudged affair. The Mexican authorities, it...

I AM. Magne has issued his loau for 18,000,0001. It is a 3 per cent. loan, to be taken at 69f. 25c., and will, therefore, cost the country nearly four and a half per cent., the...

Mr. Gladstone has decided to stand for South-Vest Lancashire, I a chivalrous resolution, and has opened the campaign by a great speech at St. Helen's. In a calm but eloquent...

The Tory candidates have evidently been told to admit that I there are abuses within the Irish Churglh which require reform. Mr. F. Stanley, who understands what Knowsley...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE Queen arrived in Paris on the 6th instant, and was expected to leave for Lucerne the same evening. Her Alajesty, who has never been in Switzerland, has...

I Only three States, Virginia, Mlississippi, andl I'cxas, now refuse to accept the Reconstruction Acts. Con grcss hms therefore passed an Act over the P'resident's head...

I The shipments of gold to Paris, on account of the new Freuch Loan, having been very large, the (;onsol Market has ruled heavy, and prices have given way about I per cent....

Mr. C. Sillar is reported to have discovered a process which will make the sewage of towns invaluable as manture. lIe or his partner, Mr. Wigner, an analytical chemist, had...

A terrible catastrophe occurred on Friday se'nnight at a music I hall in Manchester called "6 Ben Lang's," occupying the upper floors of a large building. Some 2,000 persons,...

I The report of the I)irectors of the London and County Bank, considering the low rauge of money for some time past, is very favourable. The net profits for the six months...

It appears from a list just published, that the influence of the I New England States on the Presidential election is now a very small one, "New England," that is, Maine,...

The ANatal .Mecur)- Rives a horrible account of the slave trade I -carried on by the Boers of the Transvaal Republic. The Boers make expeditions against the native tribes, kill...

The Dean of Canterbury has explained, in an eloquent letter I to the Guardian, his idea of a "comprehensive" Church. We cannot, he says, hope to reabsorb the Nonconformists....

I MNr. Gould, British Charlingg 'Affiirs at BLuenos Ayres, at last admits that Iluinaita has not fallen, nor is likely to fall; that its capture will involve much risk, and...

The Times is publishing, we believe for the first time in its ,career, reports of the annual Wesleyan Conference. They are not very interesting to observers outside the...

THrE TROJAN AND) PERSIAN WARS. 1f0 TILE EDITOIt OF TIHE "SPEICTATOI."] SIR,-Ou one point only in your notice of the new edition of my Greek Sf'ries you will, I hope, allow rue...

THE GALLERY OF THIE HOU'SE OF COMMA1ONS AND THE COMMITTEE- POO10M. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-You have been so kind to certain very diverse books and fugitive...

A WIN'TER TOUR1 IN SPAIN.* Iri was witi uo regret tlat we left Sp.aini," says tie autlor of this Winter tour, speaking, if we may judge fromn the plural pronoun, for self and...

THE SOUTHIERN RAILWAYS AN-D THIE PUBLIC. T HE Southern Railway Companies-the Brighton, the South-Eastern, and the Chatham and Dover-have picked a very serious quarrel with the...

The C(aanudos CIlassics. The Mforks of Shakespeare. I . . . . - - ..- - (Waino.)-Ilore is another volume of which we feel inclined to repeat what wo sald 01 ttne Slilling...

The Story of my Childlhood. By Madame J. Michelet. Trauslatod I from the French by Mary Frazier Curtis. (Little and Co., Boston, U. S.; London, SampsonLow.)-This is avery...

Noteson the Psalbs. Vol. I. By Albert Barnes. (Hamilton, Adams, and Go.)-Many of our readers are probably acquainted with the character of the commentaries on various books of...

The Counells of Castle Connell. Two vols. By Janet Gordon. (Mlac- I millan.)-No one, even among female novelists, could crowd more horrors and crimes into two volumes than...

CURRENT LITERATURE. I The Es17lislh Revolbtioni. By John Balker Hopkins. (Freeman.)-I .I,. I1kjlkins discusses the English Constitution nnd the changes which have been made...

| lph I? .r,1a er/. 3. )3 vols. By the Author of tho I V/ite Rise LYsct ay- I le .iy, (S-imilors witl O?l(,,.v,)-T'Aa winter hai eviloutly tho boit intan- tiolns: but wo...

I A hlandhobook of laccination. By Eblward C. Seaton, M.D. (Mac- millan.)-Dr. Soaton, who is Medical Inspector to the Privy Council, writes this Iook primarily for those who...

THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. LXXIV. - CENTRAL ENGLAND: - NORTHUAMPTONSHIRE ANID WARIWICKSIIIRE :-AFTER THE NORM[AN CONQUEST:THE LAND. A CCORDING to the enumeration in...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. A MIDDLE-CLASS -NLISTRY. I IT has become possible, we do not say it is probable or it is advisable, but it has become possible for Great Britain to have a...

I THE RUMOURED APPOINTMENT OF LORD MAYO. \V E do not see much to cavil at in the appointment of * T ~Mr. Ducane to the Governorship of Tasmania, or that of Sir James Fergusson...

THE ORIGLN OF STAMPEDES. 1HE narrowness of the entrance to " Ben Lang's,"-the Music Hall at Manchester, where twenty-three people have just perished in a mad stampede,-is very...

THE CHURCH AND TIHE IVORLD.* " INo author," we are told in the preface, "is responsible for the contents of any but his own contribution." The claim is reasonable enough,...

RUSSIA IN Tl1E BLACK SEA. [A friend, who has rare opportunities of knowing the truth, doubts if we are correct in holding Russia to be in Central Asia a civilizing power. He...

AROUND THE KREMLIN.* Is the Public Library at St. Petersburg a special compartment is reserved for books written about Russia by foreigners. There it is ,easy to form a...

FIFTY YEARS HENCE. A PAPER we published last week, headed " The Concentrated Progress of the World," raises very naturally an oft-mooted question,-whether the next fifty years...

SCIIOOLMASTERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR."] SIn,-In a conversation the other day with one of the junior Fellows of a College at Oxford, whose tastes were educational,...

ELECTION FORECASTS FOR IRELA.ND. THE party organizers are already hard at work, drilling their raw and unmanageable iceruits for the battle that must be fought out in November;...

SENSATIONAL NOVELS. AVELL known satirist of parsons, parsons' wives, and other A ecclesiastical and quasi-ecclesiastical persons and things has written a book,* which is...

TIHE COURT OF CHANCERY AND TRADES' UNIONS. DECISION was given on Friday week by Vice-Chancellor! A Alalins which will probably influenee the course of everv borough election...

BO OK S. E.TCIILNG AND ETCIIERS.* ITiiiS volume has been a labour of love to author and publisher, and the restult does equal credit to both. The subject is exhaustively...