IN THE WOOD. IF it be true I cannot tell That spirits in the forest dwell, But, walking in the wood to-day, A vision fell across my way; Not such as once, beneath the green...

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NEWS OF THE WEEK. A GAIN a bolt out of the blue. On Sunday, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs was startled by a telegram announcing that Marshal Prim had offered the...

The Education Bill advances slowly, but strongly. The main points settled this week have been that education shall not be gratis,-carried against Mr. Dixon by 257 to 32; that...

The situation is undeniably serious. France, it is clear, means I war-indeed the Emperor, after his minister's declarations, could not avoid war without abdicating-and we are...

Note with attention that a great Prussian squadron id in the Mediterranean, that in the event of war all Spanish ports are open to her, that the combined Prussian and Spanish...

The latest intelligence (8 p.m., Friday) amounts only to this,- that the Prussian Government will do nothing to prevent Prince Leopold's accession, but calmly awaits attack,...

The attitude of the British Government in the affair is still I unknown, and that of the British Press is so far most discreditable. It appears to have exactly three...

The Peers, having had a Sunday for reflection, are getting along quite nicely again. On Tuesday, when the Report was brought up, Lord Granville offered various fair-seeming...

The changes in the Cabinet consequent on the death of Lord Clarendon were announced on Monday. Lord Granville, as was expected, has accepted the Foreign Office, and Lord...

Pronosals to pay off the National Debt which were once so | frequent arc now few, but on Tuesday Mr. Lambert brought forward a resolution declaring it the duty of Government to...

The House of Commons is greatly exercised about the best I ,method of dealing with bores. The regular practice when a (member will persist in bringing on a question which no...

I The French Chamber has rejected the petition of the Orleans Princes by 174 votes to 31, M. Thiers, chief of the party, remaining silent. The argument used by Al. Ollivier in...

The massacre of the Innocents has commenced. On Monday night Mr. Gladstone announced that the Bill abolishing primogeniture and the Merchant Shipping Bill would be withdrawn,...

What in the world is the India House about, or the Commons either, that so immense a change in the position of the Indiaa Railways has passed without comment? Mr. Grant Duff,...

Really, M. Ollivier is too silly. The Figaro recently published a story stating that Lord Clarendon lent Louis Napoleon when in -exile £20,000. The Emperor Napoleon repaid the...

The Bill for the Repeal of University Tests passed its third I reading on Tuesday by a vote of 247 to 113. The Bill as it snow stands is a thorough-going and logical measure,...

The Senate of the United States has finally refused to consider *either Chinese or Indians as citizens. It has resolved, by 2/ to 42, to retain the word " white" in the...

A real centenarian appears at last to have been found. Mr. Jacob Luning died on 23rd June, at the age of 103. His history can be proved by documents step by step from his...

The Dean of Norwich would appear to be a human being as well as a clergynman. On Sunday last he actually had the courage to preach a sermon in the cathedral denouncing the sin...

SPEEDY JUSTICE. THERE is a well-known story of a man who found, on returning to his home after a short absence, that all his plate and valuables had been stolen. " My dear!"...

The main result of this incident in the Lords is one which wel regret,-a distinct decrease in the prestige of the Marquis of Salisbury. No man represents instinctive Toryism...

A case was decided on Wednesday by the Petty Sessions of Ballinahinch which explains a good many Irish matters. Patrick M'Kenna, farmer, hired Patrick M'Comish, to do farm...

A rumour is current that Mr. Ayrton. who annoys the House I ,of Commons, is to be offered the Financial membership of the Indian Council. We hope it is true, for the...

We do not understand the verdict of manslaughter given by the i Coroner's jury in the baby-farming case. This particular prisoner may be innocent, of course, but if a practice...

A Io An extraordinary death ~has b-een in-vestigated by Dr. Lankester. R. Ashley, post-office clerk, was seen alive at Chalk Farm about midnight on Saturday week. At twenty...

Imagine the Upper House of Convocation engaged in defending religious liberty! It has happened this week, nevertheless. It appears that the scholars engaged in the revision of...

The Moriing Post, on the authority of a telegram from Tientsin, dated 25th June, reports that an outbreak occurred in Pekin on the 21st June, and the mob murdered M. Rochefort,...

The Lord Chancellor, ou Friday week, said the Government were well aware of the arrears in the business of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and hoped to improve...

We have given elsewhere the substance of a remarkable letter I addressed by Mr. Fox, Premier of New Zealand, to the Governor, declaring Lord Granville's policy to be dictated...

A RT. PRECIOUS AN'D CURIOUS STONES. A SPLENDID collection of jewels, bequeathed to the nation by the Rev. Chauncy Hare Townshend, is now displayed in one of the galleries of...

TIlE CHROMOSPHERE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, -My attention has been called to an article in last week's Spectatorl, in which the writer states that the solar...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE ROCHESTER CONFERENCE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In your article headed " Parish Councils" in to-day's Spectator occurs the following...

Irma. By the Count Vetter du Lys. 2 vols. (Strahan.)-Ir-ma is a book| which does not produce upon the reader an effect proportionate to the evident ability of its author, and...

We have too much of very poor fun still among us, both in talk and in print, bnt, thank goodness! we have got past tiee age ot comic histories and comic grammars. It seems that...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Social Politics in Geat Britain and Ireland. By Professor Kirk. I (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)-Professor Kirk's views are tinged with the fanaticism from...

ASSAM. THERE is a splendid tract of country in our Indian T possessions covering some 22,000 square miles, or, say, ten Suffolks, which, in the minds of Englishmen, is possibly...

LUMP VOTING FOR SCHOOL BOARDS. IDEAS win their way, in spite of momentary defeats. Thegreat discussion of 1867 on the representation of minorities, in which all the thinkers...

THE GRAVES OF FRILFORD.* AN American statesman has drawn an eloquent contrast between a country like England, in which those who lie under the earth are more numerous than...

THE PARIS AND LYONS PLOT. IS there an "International " plot in Paris against the Empire? If there be one, is such plot carried out by the so-called " International...

THE NEW SPANISH CRISIS. THERE is nothing very odd, that we see, though there may 1 be something very dangerous, in the reported selection of a Catholic Hohenzollern for the...

AIR. DICEY ON THE EAST.* AVE feel as if an apology were due to Mr. Dicey for keeping his book so long beside us. As in some respects an occasional production-a book, that is,...

VOYAGE OF AN ORLEANIST PRINCE.* Tins lively, vigorous book of travels may be considered as the best plea for the Princes of the House of Orleans which has been made for many a...

A MISSIONARY IN ASIA MILNOR.* -Mucar careful reading of the records of numerous missionaries concerning many lands has led us to the deliberate conclusion that they are on the...

SILVIA.* SILIVIA NARDI is an Italian girl, about eighteen, of old " patrician" blood, crossed with. Welsh. She comes tripping out of Dom Sabino's house on the heights above...

BO OK S. FRANZ BERG.* FIVE hundred and more closely-printed pages of biography of an unknown " geistlicher Rath," whose life was spent in the unsensational existence of a...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. t -4---~~~~~~~~~l THE CHANGES IN THE CABINET. 4R. GLADSTONE'S method of filling up the vacancy in I t M his Cabinet may not disappoint, but it assuredly...

THE MORALITY OF MUSCULARITY. R. WILKIE COLLLNS'S new and very readable novel, Al "'Man and Wife," marks, we conceive, another point in the reaction against Athletics, which at...

I ESTIM3ATES OF TiHE ENGLISH KINGS. IV.-STEPIIEN AND AIATILDA. IF we were seeking for an illustration of that peculiarity in Royalty which sets it apart in the public eye from...

A SCOTCH WILL CASE. THE Court of Session has just had before it a very singular case, in which the will of Mr. Maxwell Stewart, of Lochnagar, has been set aside on account of...