SIR CHARLES BARRRY.* AMONG great English architects Charles Barry occupies an honoured place. Prolonged industry and undeniable cleverness won for him a position second to very...

Fraser's Miagazine for February is perfectly choked with good articles. I *The best to our minds is the last upon Irish tenure, in which a writer, -vho thoroughly knows Ireland...

Blacavo.2d's Jlagazine for February has also an article upon Ireland, which, strange to say, makes the following clear admission "Land-freehold land-which in Ireland the...

T[ie Cornill Magazine. February. The special article of this number, apart from the novels, and some padding in the shape ot essays on " Talk," and a good paper on " Iron...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Mfacmillan's Ifaga-zie. The mo3t interesting paper in M1acmillan I -the only one, indeed, which has interested us, is on Plhilaret, the late Archbishop of...

Town has been talking all the week of the disappearance of the I Rev. B. Speke, a clergyman of Somerset, and a brother of the late African traveller, who on 8th January, while...

On the question of the land he proposed his old land-coininis- sion scheme for buying up absentee estates, an(1 selling again to tenants who should be allowed to pay the...

Mr. Bright made a great speech at Birmingham on Monday I: on the condition of Ireland. He attacked Lord Stanley for his cold declaration of the hopelessness of the case, but...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE event of the week has been the suppression of an e'mcute in the French Legislative Body. The Emperor, in pursuance -of a promise more than a year old,...

Sir Stafford Northcote intends to offer the Indian Exchequer to Sir Richard Temple, an Indian civilian, exceedingly able, exceedingly lucky, and exceedingly gifted. with tbc...

Lord Derby has offered the Law Justiceship in A)Deal. vacant by the resignation of Sir John Rolt, to Sir Roundell Palmer, -rather a cheap way of obtaining credit for...

It has been said in some quarters that in our few remarks last week,-founded on the statement of the Daily Neitws,-concerning the withdrawal of Dr. Wood from his candidature...

St. Pauls h1ag'aiine. Edited by Anthony Trollope. No. V. (Virtue I and Co.)-The two tales, by Mr. Trollope and Madame de Bury, which are, ewe suppose, the principal...

The Student and Intellectual Obserter of Science, Literature, and Art. No. I., February, 1868. (Groombridge.)-This magazine promises, as far as we can judge from a first...

Carella: Lyrics, Lays, and Sympathies. By J. J. Britton. A.IV. I Bennett.)-Theore are some fair verses in this book. The first story, which | gives its name to the whole, and...

MIR. GLADSTONE ON E CCE 110310. HT ERE have been two remarkable essays published during the T past week on the method of reasoning in regard to Christianity best suited to the...

rT'he mail from Abyssinia, which arrived on Thursday, brought little news, but heavy reflections on the vast expense of the expedition. It appears that Menelek, Chief of Shoa,...

I The Comte de Paris, head of the Orleans family and, after the. childless Comnte de Chambord, next in succession to the Bourbon line, addressed last July a long letter to a...

I It is stated that the Committee of Foreign Affairs in the American House of Representatives have "reported," that is, recommended a bill declaring that naturalized Americans...

The shinwrights in the Isle of Dogs appear to be coming to I terms with the builders. They have agreed to take the price off eredl by Mr. Bullevant, 51. a ton, and are now only...

Thp r.l(Metion for the Professorship of Political Economy at Oxford terminated on Thursday in a vast majority for Mr. Bonamy Price-more than 3 to 1. Mr. Price recorded 620...

It is announced, apparently on authority, that Mr. Lowe has, since Dr. Wood's retirement, received and accepted a requisition from i"more than 24;0 graduates of the University...

I Count von Bismarck has passed his Bill, voting heavy dotations of 3,600,0001. in all, to the King of Hanover, the Elector of Hesse, and the Grand Duke of Nassau, through a...

I General la Mtarmora has addressed to his constituents at Biela a letter in defence of his own former policy as a Minister in defending the French alliance, and bitterly...

Lord Willoughby d'Eresby, one of the two Hereditary Great I Chamberlains of England, has appeared before the public this i week in a very discreditable light. Nineteen years...

Tn thp name of sense and humanitv. what does this mean ? We I take it just as it stands from the special correspondence of the Daily Telegraph. "To the right of the unfinished...

THE COUNTESS BROW.NLOW.* "I Am now an old woman," says Countess Brownlow, "and having lived in stirring times from my youth, and most of my contemporaries having dropped around...

Alit. I)UTTO-N COOK'S SHOIT' TALES.* As stories, there is the highest conceivable attenuation about these tales, and yet not one of them is without a literary flavour of its I...

THE L.AND LAW. [TO TaE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I think there is some misunderstanding latent in yourarticle on the land laws. Pray excuse my sending you a few...

TWO PICTURES. I I. WARREN'S PICTURE, " THE STAR IN THE EAST." In the soft darkness of the Eastern night, The vast, calm, sapphire heaven above them spread, 'The Gentile Kings...

B 00 K S. AMR. BUCHIAN-AN.S ESSAYS.* I Tnis is a most unequal book, containing many fine things and not a few silly things, much beauty, much bumptiousnless, and a little...

SCIENCE AND RELIGION. I s.AW in dream where met proud rivers twain From the east and west-one without storm or stain, Clear-eyed and paved with crystal, as to glass The merest...

The -reat horse-dinner came off on Thursday, and the guests, who had eaten, among other things, of ` boiled withers," seem to have declared that their own " withers were...

A conference of the Nonconformists of Hampshire, Salisbury, I .and Poole was held on Tuesday in Southampton, to discuss the subject of education. About 350 attended, and they...

On Wednesday Mr. Bright spoke on Education, opposingI technical as distinguished from general education with considerable acuteness, but objecting, we are sorry to say, to the...

Liverpool has lost a distinguished worthy of a class less common ' -than they once were in great provincial towns-the class of men who, to some extent, really impersonate the...

Nir. G. F. Train formally claims 100,0010l. as the fair compen- Isation for the two days' detention of his important person in the Cork prison, and founds his modest estimate...

Dr. Thorne, the medical inspector sent by the Privy Council to I Terling to describe the typhoid fever which has. broken out there, 4ias presented his report. Terling is a...

The marriage of Prince Humbert, heir apparent of Italy, with I iis cousin, the Princess Margherita, Duchess of Genoa, is fixed for April next, and has been formally announced...

Although nearly 600,0007. ill gold has been withdrawn from the Bauk of England for shipment to the Continent, the Consol MIarket, owing to a scarcity of Stock in the hands of...

THE HOUSE OF ORLEANS UPON GERMANY. 1F the letter published in the Leipzig Gren :boten, and translated in the Times of Wednesday, is really the production of the Conite de...

TIHE SPEKE MYSTERY. THE real marvel of the Speke mystery is the completeness with which his fate appears to baffle or, so to speak, to derange men's power of conjecture. In...

MR. BRIGHT ON IRELAND. N jR. BRIGHT'S speech at Birmingham shows two great M qualities, one natural to him and one acquired, each of which belongs separately to many who...

THE PRIOVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. LI. - THE SUBURBAN COUNTIES ANtD IIERTFORDSHIIRE. - EARLY HISTORY. | VE I leave already seen how difficult it is to assign localities...

"SAVAGE CLUB" LITERATURE.* TitiERE was once in Paris a Bohemiani Literary Society, brilliant, open-handed, sad, and insincere. Henri Mdrger wrote of it. Alfred de Musset in his...

THE POLITICAL DUTY OF TIHE WORKING CLASS. MR. STANSFELD has condensed one Tory theory of the M Reform Bill into a very happy epigram. A section of that party hoped, he said,...

TRINTITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, AND ITS REFORM.-II. [Two THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] &R,-lHaving, in a former paper, attempted a sketch of the present constitution of Dublin...

THE RUMOURED RESIGNATION OF MR. ADAMLS. T is confidently asserted in America. and seems to be I believed generally in London, that Mr. Adams has resigned his post as Ambassador...

EWVALD'S IISTOUY OF ISRAEL.* IT is a somiewhat curious fact that, at least in the Southern portion of our island, the clergy, as a rule, are wholly unacquainted with the Hebrew...

TOPICS OF TIHE DAY. TIHE FRENCH EMPEROR AND THE FRENCH PRESS. I THE debate on the Press Bill now going on in the Legislative Bodv excites extraordinary interest in France,...