stated that, in pointing out some of the difficulties attending a Franchise Bill at Manchester, he had expressly said that he did not suppose them insuperable ; but now he...

I T is by no means certain that M. Ferry is to win, after all. The result of the division on the Vote of Credit, taken on Friday, has not yet reached us ; but it was believed on...

Challemel-Lacour and M. Ferry in thus deceiving the public. They cannot have wanted a war with China, yet they did all they could to provoke one, and this in the teeth of their...

admirable joke, in the opening of his speech. He said that the great cataract of invective to which the Government had been exposed, and to which Lord Hartington had referred,...

that there is none of that coolness between England and Germany which the Conservatives delight to suppose and to condemn. This was what he said :—" Our relations with Ger- many...

any case.

of the solidly-instructive kind. In the first, on Wednesday, he told his audience that the recruiting difficulty was over, the rate of enlistment having risen again to 37,000 a...

day. He directed his remarks chiefly to badgering Lord Hartington. Lord Hartington, he said, wished to make the House of Lords into a kind of political parish clerk, that should...

mainly to Reform and the rehousing of the poor. He thought parties were approximating about reform, both of them admitting that household suffrage must be extended to the...

to recommend immediate redaction of the Tariff, except in the matter of wools for carpets, admits that the- country does not desire a reduction in the internal revenue duties on...

the Speakership, in consequence of the shortness of his sight, which, it is thought, would interfere seriously with the adequate dis- charge of his duties. All parties would...

met at Sydney on November 28th, to consider the question of Federation. The debates are secret, but by December 5th the Conference had agreed unanimously to the following seven...

have revolted against their leaders, in the interest of Free-trade. Those leaders wished to elect litr. Randall as Speaker of the House, but at a previous meeting or 'caucus,...

now certain that the Egyptian Army has perished, owing, as we suspected, to thirst and the total failure of ammunition, and that the natives consider the victory to settle the...

s Times, makes the occasional awkwardness of the hangman, and the consequent suffering of the victim, a plea for abolishing capital punishment altogether. A plea it may be, but...

Q.C., Professor of Feudal and English Law in the University of Dublin, has created a profound sensation of regret amongst all men of culture in that city. Singularly well...

succeeded in making a Commercial Treaty with Spain. Spain is to admit British goods under the most-favoured-nation clause, while Great Britain is to admit Spanish wines at the...

Kelso, on the extension of household franchise to the counties. He spoke with a certain fire of enthusiasm on behalf of the population of Northumberland and Roxburghshire,...

Thurs- day at Galashiels, in which he defended the Irish policy of the Government against the criticisms both of men like Messrs. Biggar and Healy, who say rather what their...

county franchise. He said that he was com pletely unaware of the divisions in the Cabinet of which the newspapers said so much. "To the best of my belief, every member of the...

MINISTERS ON THE COUNTY FRANCHISE. T N spite of Lord Hartington's warning against pressing on measures before the difficulties which they involve have been fully encountered,...

T HE new departure of the American Democrats, if they have really taken it, will be in one way a source of per- plexity to English Radicals. For a quarter of a century past they...

D URING the discussion of last year upon the Channel Tunnel, it was discovered that most civilians in England believed a sudden spring upon the Tunnel to be morally im-...

Til Australian Republic begins its career by proclaiming he "Monroe Doctrine." There can be little doubt that the Federal Representative Committee, which met at Sydney on...

-E VERY good has its drawback, even wise Finance. One would think, reasoning a priori, that wise finance could not possibly produce any mischief ; but it does, at all events,...

T HE case of "Priestman v. Thomas" has one plain moral, —do not presume on success. It seems probable that if Thomas had not forgotten this useful rule, he might still have been...

I T seems tolerably clear that, whatever may be the actual result, the Poet-Laureate has been assured of the wish of the Crown to raise him to the dignity of a Peerage. We con-...

No. of Votes. r "In Memoriam" (257). 1. Tennyson 501 t " Idylls of the King" (1591. c "Modern Painters" (238). 2. Ruskin 462 t "Stones of Venice" (125). ( "Literature and...

T HE deaths, a short time ago, of such prominent leaders of the Free Church' of Scotland as Dr. Begg and Sir Henry Moncreiff must have suggested this, among many ques-...

CHANGE OF RESIDENCE AND ELECTORAL RIGHTS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—Your correspondent, Mr. Rowland Estcourt (whose letter on "The Reform Bill" appears in the...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—Pray allow me, if you think it worth while, to set right a small fact of history. Professor Seeley, in his "Expansion of England" (page...

IT is almost impossible to notice any exhibition of this Society without repeating a remark which is at once ungracious and antique,—namely, that the Society is sadly in want of...

DUBLIN TRANSLATIONS.* PROFESSOR TYRRELL, Dr. Ingram's brilliant successor in the Regius Chair of Greek at Dublin, may be cordially congratu- • Dublin Translations into Gresk...

WE have given the designation of "a plain Englishman" to , the author of this work simply on account of its character ; of Mr. Adams himself we know nothing, except that he...

MR. REID has written a very good novel, though, strange to sap, he has made a more living picture of his heroine than of his hero. We greatly prefer the wild and headstrong girl...

Art books published by the Fine-Art Society, and is produced as regards paper, print, and binding, with the usual good-taste of that Society. It consists of a series of photo-...

THE grave Magazines are doing their first work, the exhaustive discussion of the topic of the day, very well this month. They publish seven, or, we may say, eight papers on the...

by telling us how "Miss Mag Pyo had an ungovernable passion for all kinds of bright things," and "how she was sentenced to imprisonment for life" for indulging this passion...

his Son, Ernest W. Longfellow. (Cassell and Co.) —Here we have twenty poems, illustrated by more than twice as many engravings. The poems are, for the most part, familiar....

painted in colours by R. Andre (S.P.C.K.), is an amusing story in verse, with equally amusing illustrations. The lobster who was not satisfied with being blue, and would be red,...

are fairy-stories and other stories here, the best, we think, being the tale how an Irish boy, Master Roby by name, comes to the house of his maiden aunt to spend his Christmas...

Robinson Crusoe, on the same principle, by Mary Godolphin (Routledge and Sons), are two volumes which we have, we think, noticed before. We think that to keep, without...

with descriptive Stories, by C. Shaw. (Shaw and Co.)—These outlines are to be coloured, a process for guidance in which the artist gives some simple directions. It is a little...

and Co.)—Here is another book of the didactic kind. That "all play, no work, makes Jack an idle boy," is the obvious moral which it is in- tended to enlotce. "Master Guy" comes...

GIFT BOOKS. Cities of the World : Their Origin, Progress, and Present Aspect. By Edwin Hodder. (Cassell and Co.)—We have here the account of seven cities of Europe, four of the...

fellow. (Roatledge and Son.)—" Michael Angelo" was written by Mr. Longfellow about ten years before his death, and published in the Century magazine. We have spoken of it...

Sons), contains a number of gaily-coloured pictures for the little ones, describing life out of doors and at home.

and Co.), contains a number of brightly coloured illustrations, showing forth the various sights of London, accompanied by verses which are scarcely good enough. Little folks...

number of Good Words, and Paths of Peace, the Christmas number of the Sunday Magazine, are both capital this year. The stories in Good Cheer, by Charles C. Gibbon and...

successful stories for children. We have before us Mistress 3fargery, a Tale of the Loll ards, by Emily Sarah Holt ; and Scamp and I, by L. T. Meade ; and Froggie's Little...

from the pen of M. hmile Zola. This, so far as it goes, is quite inoffensive ; but it reveals the capability of becoming quite volcanic. This quiet Theritse may develope into...

(Religious Tract Society.)—This is in the main a story of school life, and a very excellent story, too, so far as this element of it is concerned. Of course, it is idealised—boy...

at Coventry, by Annie S. Swan ; and Fritz's Experiment, by Letitia McClintock (Blackie and Son) ; The Christmas Roses, 1883 (James Clarke and Co.), with its particularly...

now appear collected in volumes. From the Religions Tract Society we get The Leisure Hour and The Sunday at Home, of which we can do little more than repeat the now familiar...

holidays, from the pen of Mr. George Saintsbury. The frontispiece is an excellent, etched portrait of Sir John Lubbock. " Master and Man," by Miss Alice Corkran, gives an...

is another story of child-life. It is the tale of a friendship, strengthened by more than one adventure and by mutual services, between "Edie " and " Launcey," and should make...

is made with so much presumption and so little judgment, so much boldness and Do little skill, that it entirely fails. The book is fall of anachronisms, extending to criticisms...

ducted is it, and so sound are its judgments on educational matters. The short notes with which its first pages are occupied are always an admirable résumé of the educational...

Edited, with an Introduction, by H. P. Liddon, D.D. (Rivington.)— Antonio Rosmini (1797-1855) was a compound, more remarkable in his days than now—and it is scarcely common...

to Grammar, Composition, and Logical Analysis. By C. Schaible, Ph.D. Second Edition, revised, partly rewritten, and edited by T. F. Althaus, B.A. (W. Swan Sonnenschein and...