CURRENT LITERATURE. ConstitittioalProgress. By lontagua eBrrows, M.A. I ., I - - (Murray.) -In this volume we have seven lectures delivered by Mr. Burrows at Oxford in his...

Etude sur le Malaise des Glasses Ouvricres. Par M. II. Dupasquier. (Neuchatel, imprimerie de James Attinger, 1869.)-M. Dupasquier is a man of known benevolence and of religious...

Far and Wide: a Diary of Lony and Distant Travel, 1857-1860. By I Joseph Frith. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.)-Wo cannot think that tho "many and frequent solicitations " which,...

Under these circumstances the Assembly has clearly done wisely in memorializing the Governor to retain the 18th Regiment; for the mere prestige of support by England will do...

We observe with pleasure that at a meeting of the North Walsham Agricultural Association on Wednesday night, Mr. Charles Buxton, M.P. for East Surrey, took very much the view...

I The news from New Zealaud is very bad. Te Kooti is not only not dead, but is as highly fanatical and prophetical in his religious claims as ever. He has demanded to be made...

The Commission at Bridgewater is rummaging out a great mul- titude of important facts-on which we have commented elsewhere-and for that we must be grateful. But we cannot...

Father Ilyacintlie appears to have actually incurred excom- munication. At least, he is reminded by a letter from his superior, dated 26th September, that this is, by the rule...

We see with sincere regret that Mtessrs. Schneider and Fen- wick, who were unseated for bribery at Lancaster, and who, afterwards withdrew from the Commission of the Peace,...

Mr. Espin's paper was admirable, but what on earth does a really wise man like him mean by admitting the indelibility of priests' orders, while desiring deacons to have a locus...

One of the best papers of the Congress was read by its honorary| secretary, Mr. Espin, the sector of Wallasey, Birkenhead, on the supply and training of the clergy,-a paper so...

We observe with sincere pleasure that Mr. Thomas Walker, -till now the editor of the Daily News, has been appointed, by the Government, to the Editorship of the Loiidon...

The Pall 3fall Gazette tells us, on the authority of a Russian paper, that " an inmate of one of the prisons in St. Petersburg has obtained damages to the amount of five...

The Scotsnan of yesterday week attacked us-of course, with I its usual courtesy and ability - for the line we have taken on the English education question; but ably as the...

It seems not quite improbable that bWot the Scotch University constituencies may have to find new representatives,-not only Aberdeen and Glasgow, which is already vacant by the...

W Who is Dr. Vellere, of Harrow, who took more *an a year of his half-holidays to write Stern Realities, and five months to write the play called Trzst d? Whoever this...

We look forward with great interest to the Birmingham meet- ing next week of the National League for promoting free, compulsory, and unsectarian education. It will be apparent...

I A very big jewel has been found in Australia, which was half believed to be a diamond,-a thing nearly as larfe as a turkey's egg, weighing some 900 carats, 3<6,0 grains,-or...

THE LATEST ELECTION DISCLOSURES. SINCE we wrote a fortnight ago, the Election Commissioners though their sittings have been somewhat intermittent, have gone a good deal farther...

THIE POPE AND MODERN CIVILIZATION. LNGLISH life certainly contains enough of striking contrast E and picturesque antithesis. Consider only these two characteristic phases of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-With reference to your remarks on the National Education League in the Slpectator of 25th September, will you permit me to state that...

IRISH LOYALTY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I find in your last paper a letter from " H. F." on " The Irish Difficulty." This writer, after "1 eighteen months of...

LETTERS TO TIHE EDITOR. TIHE NATIONAL EDUCATIONT LEAGUE. rTO TIl E EI)ITORt OF TllF SPECTATOR. ] Sly,-Perhaps you will allow me to make a few remarks on part of your article...

TAHE MAGAZINES. Tfimi (C7ornhill gives the first part of an essay by Mr. Matthew Arnold on ".'St. Paul and Protestantism."' le opposes to MI. Renan's dictum that " St. Paul is...

The King of Prussia has opened the Prussian Diet with a I financial wail. The revenue did not equal the estimates in 1868, and the expenditure exceeded them, so that there was...

T the Church Congress at Liverpool was opened on 'Tueslay, with a thoughtful and very liberal sermon from the Dean of Che3ter (Dr. IHowson), who dwelt on the coining...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE Emperor has fixed the 29th of November for the meeting of the French Parliament, a mouth later than it had constitu- tionally, according to the Radical...

I A frightful murder was comnmitted at Wrood Green, not very far from London, on Monday, by a man who was himself living in adultery, on two other persons, both living in...

The Congress has had the usual fate of CoDgresses,-to give occasion to some useful discussions, some amusing discussions, some thoughtful speeches, many earnest speeches, and a...

On Sunday last, Archbishop Manning, preaching in all the I glories of purple and ermine in the pro-Cathedral at Kensington, took up the defence of the Pope's brief condemning...

THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. CXIX.-THE 'WELSII M\ARPCH:-CIIESIIIRE.-(Co11cluIlded.) I STOCKPORT, situated thirty-eight miles north - east from Chester, is built " on an...

OVERGROWN SCHOOL HOLIDAYS. T IIE Schoolmaster abroad w' was once a hopeful watchword, T complimentary to a worthy yet ill-appreciated and illrequited profession, and expressive...

(tETTIR THE STRONG.* TIiE story of Grcttir the Strong is not absolutely new to the English public. Portions of it appeared some years ago in Mr. Baring-Gould's charming volume...

T Tales of Chivalry and RThnance. By David Murray Smith. (Virtue.) -The writer tells again eight or nine stories which most of us have heard told before, and, we cannot help...

Mystifications. By Clementina Stirling Graham. (Edmonston and I I Douglas.)-This is a new edition of a little book which contains an interesting glimpse of Edinburgh life as...

Fatal Zero: a Diary Kept at Homburg. Two vols. (Tinsley.)-The I author has got hold of a good subject, and makes a not unskilful use of it. A young bank clerk is sent to...

DEAN CLOSE AND SCENXCE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.:] SIR,-Will you allow ine to call my friend and your correspondent Mr. D'Oyley Snow's attention to the following...

BO OK S. THE BfGUJNAGES OF BELGIUM.* WIT-H a view of exciting the curiosity of those who took an interest in ter account of the City {qf the Siniple, and of repeating a...

THE LEADIINTG RESULTS OF THE IRISH LAND DISCUSSIONT. C ERTALN points are beginning to come out very clearly J from the great discussion on the Irish Land question, which we...

PR ',OFESSOR W. S. JEVONS ON THE TRUE PRLNCIPLE | OF REASONLNG.* I PROFESSOR JEVONS concludes this original and striking little book by a kind of threnody over the little...

THE SPANISH CRISIS-PILLS AGAINST THE EARTHQUAKE. THE thunder-cloud has been blackening once more over 1 Spain, and the forked lightnings have been playing again, this time in...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE DUTY OF KEEPING TIlE CHURCH INSIGNIFICANT. THE Tlics has invented a theory for Mr. Gladstone's policy in relation to the Churcb,-a theory, indeed, not...

HABITUAL CRIMINALS. TlHE " Habitual Criminals' Act" has now been in force 1 about two months, and though its ultimate effect upon our criminal classes cannot be ascertained for...

SEVEN YEAR-SS IN PAR' AGUAY.* 1uri nature of the Paraguayan struggle has yet been outlined only in the dimnmnest inanner. Nothing could be more slipshod or unintelligible than...

THE SECRET OF THE AURORA. \rEN of science have long felt that a strange secret lay hidden 1A1 in the brilliant folds of the Aurora. The magic arch, with its pointed streamers,...