I Lord Kimberley appears to have not been very well advised in treating the Australian Colonies to a lecture on the Imperial right to veto their intercolonial fiscal...

Kelly, the man accused of shooting Chief Constable Talbot, was to be tried on the 7th December for shooting at Constable Mullins; but Mr. Butt applied for a postponement, on...

One entire page of each daily paper has been given for five days I of this week to the cross-examination of Mr. Baigent, one of the witnesses for the claimant in the Tichborne...

The Cats have assembled this week in the Crystal Palace, and in cage No. 1 there has been shown to the world "a pure tortoise. shell tom-cat without a white hair on him." The...

Lord Mayo seems intending to spend a great deal of monev about the Looshai savages, who have been harassing Cachar. They are to be attacked by a regular force, divided into two...

I Canon Liddon, in beginning last Tuesday a series of lectures intended to consider whether or not Christianity is on the decline, premised au apology for not reading, with his...

Mr. Vernon Harcourt writes to the Times a very fierce butI thoroughly well-deserved attack upon the present condition of our system of appeal in civil cases, which partly...

I We wish to call attention to some remarks which will be found elsewhere upon the working of the Indian Income-Tax. That toax it is clear, is condemned by the officials of the...

It amears to be araduallv beoomini certain that the Prine.A smd I Lord Chesterfield were attacked by the fever daring the visit to Lord Londesborough. It appears that the...

I The Message, so far as we may judge from the telegrams, was condemned on all hands as a feeble and wordy document, in which almost every " burning question " is left...

I M. Thiers affirms that his relations with all Europe are "1 peace- able and cordial," although Germany occupies six departmentu and although the independence of the Pope must...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THlE Prince of Wales, we regret to say, is seriously worse. Up to Friday the disease had advanced favourably, there being no complications, and the symptoms...

We do wish Reuter would quarrel with Prince Bismarok. There | might be some hope then for the Press, which at present seems to lie hopelessly at the mercy of the Agency. M....

The Lord Chief Justice of England, never very favourable to the Gladstone Cabinet, has just thrown a shell into it. He has published the letter in which, on Sir R. Collier's...

We are informed that the bad news from Sandringham caused I great excitement in the Money Market, sending down. almost everything except Console from one to two per cent.

I President Grant refers in his speech to a diplomatic scandal which has been the subject of much discussion in Washington. According to American accounts, the Russian...

In relations to the Republican agitation, Mr. Lowe condemned Sir Charles Dilke with some severity for his conduct in broaching his charges against the Throne in a popular...

In the evening a crowded publia meeting was held, at whizh Mr. Auberon Herbert (M.P. for Nottingham), made a suggestion that a second4 Chamber causes perhaps more political...

The annual Message of the FPesident of the United States. was read on Monday, but contains little of foreign interest. General Grant congratulates Congress on the reference of...

Mr. Lowe made one of his keen and trenchant speeches at I Halifax on Monday, chiefly on Education; but as we have referred at some length to that portion of it elsewhere, we...

I The Birmingham Conference on the reform of the House of Lords was of interest rather for its want of interest than for anything said or done in it. It had been long...

The Germans have recently found it impossible to obtain I verdicts from French juries against men who have assassinated German soldiers. In one case, that of Tonnelet, the...

The Republicans of London appear to be quarrelling among themselves. The Mforizing Advertiser reports a scene which took place at " The Hole in the Wall " between Mr. Osborne...

THE ROYAL INSTITUTION.* DR. BtNOE JONES has now supplemented his Life of Faraday by tracing the fortunes of the Royal Institution from its foundation' by Rumford, until the...

GEORGE ELIOT'S IDEALISM. [TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "*lSPETATOR."] SiR,-Your suggestive article on George Eliot and Mr. Tennysonr has excited no little discussion in my circle, and...

DISESTABLISHMENT. [To THR EDITOR 01 THE "1 SPUOTATOR. ' SIR,-Jnst ten years ago the election of the electors pledged to confer the Presidency of the United States on Mr....

THE UTILITY OF DOCTRINE. THE very beautiful and spiritual sermon on the second coming of Christ, preached before the University of Oxford by the Master of Balliol on Sunday...

M. THIERS' FIRST MESSAGE. THE first Message of the French President is not encouragTing to any friend of France. It was read on Thursday to the Assembly, with a strange want of...

THE POLITICAL PHYSICIANS AND THE GOYERNMENT. THE Tines has been publishing for some weeks past volunteer political prescriptions for the health of the Government, from various...

"SHADE OF BACON!" [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] Sin,-The Times has put the above heading to an extract from your paper, in which you speak of Mr. Justice Grove as "...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. MR. PIM'S SUBSTITUTE FOR HOME RULE. [TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-I am glad to see by the Spectator of Saturday last that you consider Sir...

DAVID COPPERFIELD AND CHARLES DICKENS. ON5E of the most striking points in the admirably-written volume of biography which is Mr. Forster's first instalment* towards the life...

OF SOLAR ERUPTIONS AND THE APPROACHING ECLIPSE. B ETWEEN the hours of two and six on Tuesday morning next the shadow of the Moon will traverse the Earth's illuminated. face,...

PO ET RY. THE POET. 4' Sweet " did you say that my verse was? 0 could I but bring to your ear The soundless songs that entrance me, Which only my soul can hear,Songs learned...

BOOKS. MR. BUCHANAN'S DRAMA OF KINGS.* )NWE of the " celestial spectators," before whom Lucifer and his no mpany of actors represent The Drama of ICitzgs, objects "Is it not...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE. I THE Lord Chief Justice has thrown down a heavy log in the way of the State carriage. No sincere friend of the...

CORRESPONDENCE. THE SOUTH-SEA ISLANDS COOLIE.-HOW I WENT I TO FETCH HIM.-II, LFaos A CORRESPONDENT.] SIR,-Ln the former letter which you have done me the honour to insert in...

MR. LOWE AT HALIFAX. MR. LOWE has been making a very characteristic speech IVI at Halifax, strongly coloured by the qualities which usually distinguish his speeches,-extremely...

MR. BUTT ON THE IRISH LAND-LAW.* IT is not possible, for us at least, to contemplate this ample, clear, and careful treatise, which is not merely the most complete commentary...

THE INDIAN INCOME-TAX. WE trust the India House are attending to the revelations W of the working of the Income-Tax in India given to the world in the Tihes of Tuesday. They...

CURRENT LITERATURE. I*IRISTMAS Boo~s.-Th~ Art of fI I -utRisTMts Boom.-Tlaa Art of Skcetching fiom Natured By philip I H. Delamotte. (Bell and Daldy).-Mr. Delamotte is known...

THE MAGAZINES. Timosi who are interested in such matters -and we confess we are interested-will be pleased with a most instructive paper in Fraser on " The Constitution of...