p RINCE BISMARCK, in despair at his Parliamentary defeats, has at last compromised with the Centre. On Tuesday a Bill of six clauses was introduced into the Prussian Diet, under...

Commons yesterday week, as ordered by the House, but did not at first seem at all disposed to give the pledge not to proceed in the matter of his challenge to Mr. MacCoan, M.P....

Monday without a division, the Tories and Liberals alike approving, though the former think the Bill too severe. This is true as to agency, as we have argued.elsewhere, a...

to hint, with more or less of obscurity, that the Sultan has been intriguing against the British in Egypt. According to the story, he has employed for this purpose his private...

It is announced that he has no difference - with the Government, and only desires to facilitate the appointment of a Commoner; as the Liberals in the debate of Thursday week...

attack on the discipline of the Civil Service. His motion, technical in form, in reality meant that Civil Servants might combine to bring pressure to bear on Members of...

received from Sir Stafford Northcote yesterday week, his Jack-in-the-box elasticity displayed itself in a speech at Chatham, to Mr. Gorst's constituency, last Wednesday, a...

a threefold attack on the Liberal party, at a meeting of the Conservative Association held at Willis's Rooms on Wednesday night. Lord Lytton described the tremendous victory...

on the Affirmation Bill, and who is now beginning to feel the need. of repose, has since resigned his seat for Derby, and Mr. Alderman Roe has been selected by the Derby...

was renewed on Thursday by Lord R. Churchill, who did his best to make Mr. Gladstone ridiculous for his thoughtful little speech on Garibaldi, at Stafford House last Saturday,...

the Figaro, in which a serious writer, M. Leo Lavedan, professes to reveal "the secret of Bismarck." The German Chancellor, he says, has framed the Tripartite Alliance in order...

the Cathedral Statutes Bill, of which the Bishop of Carlisle moved the second reading—a debate made memorable by n powerful speech -of the Bishop of Peterborough's, not on the...

the Criminal Appeals Bill, and got to work on the Criminal Code Bill, which it is hardly possible, however, to suppose that it can get through during the remainder of the...

six lads, between sixteen and eighteen years of age, who agreed together to throw all their spare money into a common fund and spend it in a great carouse, after which they very...

Parliament, a Knight of Malta, and a Companion of various other foreign Orders, died at his chambers in the Temple on Wednesday night. He was a rather learned lawyer in some...

the vote of 210,000 for Professor Burden Sanderson's physiological laboratory was carried by a very narrow majority of 3, 88 voting for it and 85 against. Professor Burdon...

have discovered evidence that the Invincibles used poison. They poisoned, in particular, a hotel-keeper named Jury, who had. accidentally opened a letter which contained...

LORD ROSEBERY'S RESIGNATION. L ORD ROSEBERY'S resignation of his Under-Secretaryship does not signify much in itself, because in the form which the Government is assuming no...

1 )RINCE BISMARCK has at last discovered that artillery, however scientifically constructed or carefully served, is of no avail against ghosts. The Roman Catholic Church, though...

I T is a curious fact that the Conservative speakers who most vehemently condemn Mr. Gladstone for what they call the violence of his Midlothian speeches, themselves use...

T HE debate on the second reading of the Corrupt Practices Bill was characterised, as is usual on such occasions, by an edifying unanimity as to the necessity of doing something...

T WO points strike us strongly and painfully in the Lords debate of Monday on Recruiting. One is, that there is even now no consensus of opinion as to the comparative advantages...

I N almost every Monarchy the position of the members of the Royal Family is one of the difficulties of statesmen, and we should not wonder if it became one even in England....

M R. O'KELLY'S magnificent scorn for Mr. MacCoan because the latter gentleman very properly declined to fight a duel, is a survival from a world now almost passed away, the...

friends who could not obtain admission to his Oxford Lectures, repeated to them this week, in a private house at Kensington, much of what he had said as Slade Professor on the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR, — The letter signed "A Member of the Junior Bar," in your issue of Saturday last, is, I am afraid, of a nature likely to arouse...

have read with great interest the article of your correspondent on the charitable organisation of the Canton of Bile. From that article it appears that forty - five separate...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Are you not mistaken in saying that "the Greek Church, like the Roman Catholic Church, grants to the laity Communion only in one kind ?"...

a serious mistake in your article on the Czar's Coronation. The Greek Church is most scrupulous in communicating the laity in both kinds, and the only approach it knows to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE" SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—YOU are not "Notes," and I am not " Queries," but some of your readers may solve me a question, upon some authority which I can accept....

. [To THE EDITOR OR THE " STECTATOR.1 So„—The Convocation of the University of Oxford has just voted £10,000 for building a laboratory, and supplying means and opportunities...

A CRY FROM ERIN. ERIN, our country,—our dear one ! Sadder thy days grow, and sadder ; Never a promise before thee, Hardly a record behind. Ever a yearning for greatness, Ever a...

[THIRD NOTICE.] IN this notice we intend to speak, as fully as our space will permit, of the majority of the pictures which we have hitherto left unmentioned; but we do not...

[SECOND NOTICE.] tSra JAMES STEPHEN'S work has a twofold aspect. It constitutes an important addition to our knowledge of English history ; it also consists of a series of...

but praise to bestow upon so charming a writer as the author of Mademoiselle Mori and The Atelier du Lys, but we hope that she will look upon our blame as the very opposite of...

'THERE are many signs that the chief religions controversy of the immediate future will be concerned, not with the questions of the existence of God, of design, or even of...

accompanied by a circular from its American publishers. They state that it is unique, graphic, and scholarly—the ablest that has ever appeared * Divebrpment of English...

Ma. MIIRRLY in his preface criticises with a severity that is scarcely courteous the opinion expressed by a brother-novelist that all the stories have been told. The statement...

WE have already noticed one or two of the papers in the Fortnightly, especially those by Mr. A. Dicey and Mr. MacColl, on the relation of the Clergy of the Church of England to...

.Art and Letters gives its readers an ample supply of illustrations. There are twenty in all, of which the most attractive are the two views of Mont St. Michel. The pieces of...