[TO TliE EDITOR OF TIIHE SPECTATORP] Siu,-In your last number I observe a letter from iI A Subscriber," intended to correct popular misapprehensions on the stulbect of Papal...

TILE DECLARATION IN TILE ORDINATION SERVICE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE. "SPECTATOR."] Siit,-I venture, without touching on the general questions that may be raised by your comments...

THlE VENETIAN DESPATCHES. rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Si i,-Itl your number of December 18 I am accused of having usel a - crib," by means of which it is asserted that...

OPEN COMPETITION. ITpE newspapers state, and we believe quite truly, that the policy of opening the junior posts in all the various Departments of the Civil Service to...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. TIHE FRENCH MINISTRY. TIUE view we expressed last week of the continued Ministerial crisis in France did the Emperor Napoleon less than justice. We believed...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE '"SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I have read the note appended to my letter published in your paper of Saturday last, and must beg to express my dissent froni the...

" STORAM-BEATEN." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."I Sin,-As the owner of the copyright of the work entitled StorinBeaten, attributed to and produced by Messrs. Robert...

BO OK S. I MR. PEARSON S IIISTORICAL MAPS OF ENGLAND.* WVE have no hesitation in pronouncing the very handsome volume before us to be one of the most valuable contributions to...

THE "I METAPHYSICAL CRUELTY" OF FIELD SPORTS. I M R. BERNARD CRACROFT asks in another column a question which we have often asked ourselves during the recent discussions on the...

The Oxford University Magai:ne, Nos. I. and II. (Oxford: Shrimp- ton. London: Whittaker.)-Thera is a certain solidity about these two numbers which gives some promise for the...

The Levend of Christian Art. By the Rev. II. T. Armfield. (Salis- bury: Brown. London: Simpkin and Marshall.)-Mr. Armfield, who is a minor canon of Salisbury, takes the...

Winter and Spriinq on the Shores of the 3lediterranean, by J. Henry Bennet, M.D. (Churchill), and A Search for Winter Sunbeams, by Samuel S. Cox (Sampson Low), may be classed...

A History of Gibraltar and its Sieqes, with Photographic Illuwtrations. I By J. H. Mlann. (Provost.)-At least a hundred of the two hundred and eighty pages of this book are...

The Story of a Honenymoon. By Charles H. Ross and Ambrose Clarke. (Hotten.)-This book is full of a sort of fun for wbich there is, we suppose, a great demand nowadays, which is...

I The I ic-J's COUrtsh/ip. By Walter Thornbury. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)-This cannot be called a good novel, but it certainly contains . not a few good things. The plot...

Thle Post-OtQice Directmrq ,I' Chemists and Druygists (Kelly and Co.) is a large octavo of nearly five hundred pages. That so much space should be required for a catalogue of...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Tf'he Stltesafulls Yearr B ok. Soventli annual publication. By Frederick Martin. (Macmillan.)-This book is now become, by the I diligence and care of...

Herbert Treslviin. A Tale of the Great Rebellion. By the Rev. J. M1. Neale. D.D.. sometirne Scholar of Trinitv Colloge, Cambridge, I and late Warden of Sackville College, East...

|I A tutcryIy (Case. From the French of P. J. Stahl, with illustra- tions bv Lorenz Fr6lich (Seeleys.)-lIerr Frolich's children, Mlinni& and her cousin, aro as charming as...

I Thrice Dead. By Paul Ftival. 3 vols. (Nowby.)-This novel is, another " Mysteries of UdoIpho," after the French manner, furnished with all the machinery of Breton...

I A correspondent of the Times draws a picture of the advan- tages offered by Tasmania to the emigrant, which does not, we confess, strike us very strongly. A ploughman, he...

We believe that we, quite unintentionally, iuisrepresented the I Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol in followilng the Tinies' report of the Bishop of London's account of the...

The extravagant eagerness with which the Birmingham Leaguers are supporting the secular side of their case, sufficiently proves that with very many of them at least the "...

M:trtin, thre Fenian, started as a member for county Longford, v 1 - e. .. _ _ _ .l II hias been hopelessly beaten by Mr. (;reville Nagent, the Liberal caudidate, who polled...

Dr. TemDle preached his first ordination sermon in Exeter I Cathedral on''llursday, on the clergy as " ambassadors for Clhrist." It was one of the most real and most intense...

It seems to be the cue of the Birmingham leaguers to say everywhere that no education measure can pass in tue next Session, - chiefly because they know that the measure for...

'The Farmers' Club of Mallow leas pasedL a pleasant little resolution, wlhich has becn sent round to all similar clu bs in Ireland. The farmers resolve that they hail with...

ANGLICA-N SISTEIIIIOODS.* WVE are assure I that this is a true story. Miss Whately pledges ,herself to its entire authenticity and absolute truth. Her father, the late...

The colonists in England don't intend to be beaten, even by I 'Lord Granville's bland contempt for their proceedings. They know somewhat better than Lord Granville what the...

The Goloss, the organ of Old Russia, publishes a statement in- I tended to prove that Russia must open up relations with Xasbgar and its ruler Yakoob Begi, in order to sell her...

Mr. Vernon Harcourt addressed the " Ancient Order of Druids " I at Oxford on Monday, but he did not say much. " He looked upon the condition of Ireland as profoundly...

I "i Professor" Ganigee, on the whole, niust be considered to have won the controversy about the cattle diseasc. We opposed himu rather severely, but still the stamping-out...

Air. Wells, the well-known Commissioner of Revenue in the I United States, has sent in his annual report, which is in fact a strikingly able pamphlet in favour of free trade,...

Al. Louis Blanc has some amusliug remarks in the Tiimps on the methodical character of our English emotions. We have certain states of mind, he says, pigeon-holed for given...

I The Pall Mall has done a lavish and costly thing in obtaining from America by Atlantic Cable a whole columni of suninary of Mrs. Stowe's reply to the Quarterly Review a31d...

The Emperor of the French received everybody, as usual, on I .New Year's Day. He told the Diplomatic Body that their presence was a proof of the good relations between France...

We shall yet have to make assassination a special crime in Ireland, and pursue, try, and punish assassius by exceptional means, as the Indian Government does Thugs. The...

According to a telegram dated 11th November, and published in London on the (ith inst., Sir Rutherford Alcock has succeeded in making a new treaty with the Chinese Government....

One of the first acts of the new Cabinet has been to dismiss Jiaron tiaussmann, now for seventeen years Prefect of the Seine, Vice-Emperor of Paris, and the most successful...

Spain is for the moment without a Government. Victor Emanuel has finally refused to compel the Duike of Genoa to accept the crown, and the entire Ministry, with Prim at its...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. ALL the lists of French Ministers published last week were A wrong. To the surprise of all around him, the Emperor Napoteon, atter weeks or apparent...

There really is not *tny news this week of the (Ecumenical Uouncil,-except that the second public meeting, on the Feast of the Epiphany, took place without any promulgation of...

THIL SITUATION IN' ROME.-IV. [Fl9ui oUR SuECI.Al. (0tL'r1E.sPONDKNT.] Romnte, Janum'j 1, 1S70. TriE Council has now entered on actual business, and its proceedings have been...

THE BELIEF OF TIlE, ULTRAMONTANES. [TO THE EDITOI. 01 TIHE 'SPECTATOR."] Sir,-Nothiing is mnore characteristic of the .Spertabr than preeminent fairness, even towards those...

THE PAPAL CLAIM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'1 SIR,-As your correspondent of last week, " A Subscriber " (who is apparently, like myself, a Roman Catholic), has made...

STATE AID FOR EMIGRATION. PARLIAMENT will, we fear, be occupied as soon as it meets with the old " condition-of-England question." which has so often depressed our statesmen,...

LETTERS TO THIE EDITOR. TILE AMORALITY OF FIELL) SPORTS. [TO TIHE EDITOIR OF rlE I Sl'ECTATOI."] Sir,-I suppose I am one of that body of men, numerous it seems, who, unlike...

'I'll TT1)ENDRNESS FOR ACT'OES. III. C11,111tLlS M1AT.'17'lllEWN'S evidently keenly appreciates, Al and if it were only possible, might be almost said to reciprocate, that...

THE TORY LEADERSHIP IN THE LORDS. HE Tory papers evidently feel sensitive at the somewhat T cynical interest displayed by the Liberal journals as to the prospects of their...

THE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES' ACT. IT is, we believe, our duty, at any risk of annoying any section of our readers, to give a decided opinion upon this most unpleasant subject, and...

LEARNING TO READ).* '1'IIESE are admnirable reading books, because they arc constructed on a principle, and that the simplest principle on which it is possible to learn to read...

AIABELDEAN; OR, CHRISTUIANITY RIllEVERSED.* I Tiiis novel is dedicated to the youth of England, whoni it is apparentlyintended to instruct in the knowledge of society,...

LORD LYTTON'S IALPOLE.-' WiV: may say of Lord Lytton what Dr. Johnson said of Goldsmith, " Nihil tetigit quiod non orniavit," and with much the same intention. Johnson had...

THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLA&ND. CXOXLX.-YORKSIIIRE:-EARLY HISTORY. THEIE early history of Yorkshire is involved in considerable T obscurity. WVe gather from the Roman...

MR. PENLEY ON SKETCHING IN WVATER COLOURS.0 F'Vw IUen have had greater experience in teaching the art of painting in water colours than Mr. Henley. Few, therefore, should know...