T "great conspiracy against the liberties of France having been exploded by the letter from the Comte de Chambord, the conspirators have fallen back upon another plan. They...

best known to the English public as the Judge who tried the first Tichborne case, and committed "the Claimant" for perjury, died this day week at Combe, near Kingston-on-...

men for the legal appointments from amongst lawyers who have never entered political life. The late Vice-Chancellor Wickens,—one of the best of our recent Vice-Chancellors,...

an appeal to the people was taken and supported by M. Thiers, but it was so completely defeated that the numbers are nowhere given. The elections for the Bureaux, however, have...

prolonging the President's powers for ten years, which was met by M. Eschasseriaux with a Bonapartist proposal for a plebiscite, and a proposal from M. Dufaure—M. Thiers'...

ference, during which they may shake the Legitimists, who do not like the work they are doing ; or regain the doubtful portion of the Left Centre, or even carry away some part...

any case.

a very great gain for the Government, and a decided, though small gain for the Ultramoutanes, while all the middle parties have ground. In many purely Catholic districts even,...

on the condition of the Callan schools and on Mr. O'Keeffe's position generally, and decided, as we expected, not to entrust him with the office of manager of those schools by a...

delivered at Warwick on Tuesday night for having said that it was clear - that- the Ballot is turning out thousands of liars. Now when opposing - candidates declare that they...

the Prussian Cabinet, and though we are no admirers of his policy, we confess to a certain sense of satisfaction in seeing the true helmsman where he ought to be,—at the helm....

Assembly. It is a quiet and reasonable document, but showslhat the amount of expenditure for interest and for temporary payments to the Bank will exceed 124,000,000, and that in...

indeed, on good authority, that Lord Northbrook does not as yet affirm or-admit a famine in Bengal, but only in Behar and Rajshahye-3,000,000 population—but the Times'...

anguish of -mind about the decision, and gives a most inaccurate account of the course of the affair, in which it taunts the Commis- sioners with not having already resigned,...

in the case of the Ministers accused of accepting pecu- niary aid in their elections from Sir Hugh Allan, in consideration of a contract to be granted him. The papers completely...

9' per cent., and ten is being paid in open market. It is believed that the rapid failures going on in America will lead to considerable drafts from this country, and that the...

on the Ashantee war which, after the feeble rubbish talked by some of our statesmen and by the Times itself on this question, is like a refreshing breeze. He holds that England...

the blockade-runner Virgiaius six miles from Jamaica by the Spanish gunboat Tornado. The Virginias had 165 passengers on board, *chiefly insurgents, among them a son of...

It seems that at the late jubilee dinner of the Union Debating Society at Oxford, Archbishop Manning, though only a Roman Catholic Archbishop, was courteously given precedence...

violence and false swearing in repeated eases. We cannot analyse them in these paragraphs without unfairness, as the conduct of the men needs too minute analysis ; but it is...

fith November, and made a speech admitting the excellence of the new method of direct popular representation, promising a great many commercial reforms, affirming that economy...

to be again in official harness, and that as yet at least the rumour of his resignation has not been verified. Mr. Mon.sell has made a good Postmaster-General. He has given us...

N1 H. WARD HUNT made a speech at Northampton on Tuesday which seems to us a perfect specimen of the best school of modern Conservatism. A writer in the Contem- porary Review of...

THE MACMAHON DICTATORSHIP. T HE final vote will be taken this morning, and yet near as the time is, and heavily as the apparent evidence goes against us, we are unable to...

T HE papers just arrived from Canada, despatches from Lord Dufferin to Lord Kimberley, throw very little light on the great Pacific Railway Scandal, for which the Dominion Par-...

THE one great fear which we entertain about the Bengal Famine is that the official imagination may not catch fire, that action may be delayed until it is too late, and that the...

T HE Bishops have, we may suppose and hope, •certain consolations to sustain them amidst the tribulations of the world in which, as well as in the Church, they are to some...

T HE newer natural science is to some extent bewildering in more ways than one. We have heard so much lately of the ques- tion concerning the origin of man, that far more...

P EOPLE who enjoy, not the intimacy, for that is impossible, but the toleration of the Austrian Court, tell us that to this hour its exclusiveness , is one of the secrets by aid...

I T is a nice question—one of those on which you can talk for ever without coming to a definite conclusion, but on which, happily, no conclusion is urgently required—as to how...

E VERY one conversant with the literary life of the Norwegian capital knows that its central figure has for many years been an invisible one. Young students from the provinces...

(TO TER EDITOR 07 TEE " 87117ILT01.1 shall be glad of the opportunity of making my meaning more plain. The representation of the Congregational theory, against which I protest,...

SALE OF ECCLESIASTICAL PATRONAGE. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE “SPEOITTOR.1 SIR, — Although no leader of the Conservative party has spoken out concerning that great ecclesiastical...

SIR,—Sincerely sharing in the wish for a better understanding between Churchmen and Nonconformists, it may be 91 service to state that many beside myself, Of Nonconformist...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I thank Mr. Fox, of Wellington, very kindly for his noble- letter in the Spectator of October 25; it is the thing I have pat forward...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I be permitted to question, in the most friendly way, the assumption of "Lucy Field," in your last issue, that the lives of small...

ere THE EDITOR OF THS "SPECTATOR.") you allow me to correct a mistake in your notice last week of a recent correspondence concerning Dulwich College? It is not the fact that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPEOTATOR.1 Sla,—I must venture to remonstrate with you on the views of the duty of, an historian which you express in your remarks on Mr. Compton...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SI11,—Some weeks ago, in one of your articles on Elementary Education, you suggested that compulsion for parents refusing to send their...

HENRY FOTHERGILL CEIORLEY.* MR. CHORLEY'S vocation WU that of a journalist and critic, and his memoir is not without a considerable share of what may be termed professional...

PROFESSOR CAIRNES'S political essays are instructive and valuable' dissertations,—not so much from the originality of the ideas developed in them, or the range of information...

WE have not read Mr. Kickham's other book, Sally Kavanagh, or the Untenanted Graves, but if we may trust the opinions of the Press quoted at the end of the volume before us, it...

in a note to one of these lectures, quotes Schelling's remark that philosophy advances not so much by the answers given to difficult problems, as by the starting of new...

WE have commented on the political article in the Fortnightly elsewhere, and really cannot go through Mr. Galt's restatement of an unanswerable case,—the purchase of Railways by...

Studies and Romances. By H. Schutz Wilson. (H. S. King.)—The best among Mr. Wilson's sketches are the two in which he describes the perils and pleasures of Alpine climbing. The...

When we observe a lady novelist making steady progress and profiting by the remarks of her critics to cultivate the qualities and avoid the defects which they have descried in...

no reader be deterred by a title which does not seem to promise much entertainment. This is really an entertaining volume, and what is more—for have we not seen "A Comic Black-...

a Work- ing Life, by Charles Knight, 3 vols. (Knight and Co.), to which Mr. James Thorne, F.S.A., prefixes an interesting note, describing the literary activity of Mr. Knight's...