MISSIONARY HEROES. Trjis brightly-written narrative is likely to find acceptance in many an English household. Miss Yonge's aim has been to excite an interest in missionary...

I The Dublin Nationalists are trying to lay down the astound- ing principle, of which they themselves, with the national instinct for militarism, are half ashamed, that...

The coroner's jury empanelled to inquire into the cause of the explosion of the gun-cotton factory at Stowmnarket have come to the conclusion. that it was "produced by somie...

H.M.S, lRinaldo has bail a credittril'e brush with the MIlay I pirates of Salangore, in the Straits Sottlemnotits. Commander George Robinson was ordered to Seiz3 six pirates...

Lord Derby in the course of the sWmB speech disputed the I assertion that it was difficult to buy land. lIe did not believe there was a county in England in which laud was not...

I The season for speeches outside Parliament appears to be begin- ning early, the Members for Oxfordshire leading off on Thursday. The Tory member, Colonel North, had little to...

I A discussion is going on as to the propriety of applying the rule which limits the tenure of certain Staff appointments to five years, to offices like the superintendence of...

The meetina of the Emperors at Salzburg came off on the 0th of September. Nothing deserving notice is yet reported of the proceedings ; but it is to be noted that Prince...

The death of Aali Pasha, the Grand Vizier who for ten years has governed Turkey with success, is expected daily. iHe was a firm strong man who held obstinately to the idea that...

Lord Derby adiressed. the MRnchester and Liverpool Agrical- I tural Society on Tuesday, directing his speech mainly to the best method of securing the highest average of...

THE RELIGIOUS ELEMENT IN THE CABINET. [|TO THE EDITOR Olt THE " SPEOTATOR."] Sir,-I perceive by your impression of last week that your correspondent "1 F." has occupied a...

ON SEEING GHOSTS. [TO Trig EDIToR; OFd TRIC " SPHOTATOIt."] SIRn,-You, no doubt, iin common with many of your readers, have met with the man firm in his belief that lie has...

LETTERS TO TTHE EDITOR. LORD SIIAFTESBURY AT GLASGOW. [TO THI EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SrII,-Would you allow a plain, unlettered man to state a few thoughts, suggested by...

BUILDING SOCIETIES. S it true, after all, that the masses of the English people are I divorced from the soil? We are tempted to put this question by a perusal of the evidence...

Ninety-Viree; or, the Story of the French Revolution. By John W. Lyn- I don. (Bell and Daldy.)-The story is supposed to be taken down from the lips of a French tutor, an...

The Family of Sunnybrow. By J. B. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)-| We cannot honestly reckon ourselves among the readers of whom the author expresses, but in the most modest...

Earky ( 'iamberland and Westmoreland Fniends. By Richard S. Ferguson . This volume contains sketches of some thirty or more members of the " Society of Friends," during the...

--THE DAY. TOPICS OF MR GLADSTONE AT WHITBY. I T is to be regretted that Mr. Gladstone did not take some holiday before he began to address the public. The people want to hear...

The magistrates are working Mr. Bruce's Act suspending the I 'issue of new licences with the stringency intended by its pro.noters, and we venture to predict it will yet become...

Mr. Isaac Butt, who wants to be the new O'Connell. will be I 'returned for Limerick unopposed. He advocates Home Rule, and ;tolls the people of Limerick he will have it within...

There is a curious free fight going on at Truro. Tories and I Whigs alike want Mr. Augustus Smith, lessee and King of the Scilly Islands, who pulled down Lord Brownlow's...

It is stated that the Germans are carrying out the idea of the " Battle of Dorking." Three minute ironclads have been built in Dantzic, called Baroassen, 60 feet long, and only...

The Hampshire Cainpaign appears likely to be a success. The Control Office is working well, though at a price explained elsewhere, the Militia Regiments are found to be in...

The Americans have got a new excitement. People have arrived in New York who say the English Republicans, with Mr. Odger among them, have decided that at the next vacancy in...

The Times' correspondent in New Zealaud reports that the ,Colonial Governmaent is in great want of labourers to execute large public works, such as railways and roads, and...

We desire ouee more to call the attention of the public to the extraordinary decline in the art of reporting. If we had the means, we would print what Mr. Gladstone said at...

The Times quotes in its City article some remarks upon the | American mines so often now sold to English companies, the general drift of which is that Americans do not sell...

THE EVIDENCE ON BABY-FARAIING. T1IHE prevalence of the system of Baby-farming had been much TLdiscussed before the trial and execution of Margaret Waters made the subject...

THE ENGINEERS' STRIKE ON THE TYNE. T HERE has not often occurred in our time a struggle between Labour and Capital to be compared in point of importance with that which is now...

JOSIIUA MARVEL.* 'Or the hundreds of human beings who have read Mr. Lowell's poems, and who would deem it inexcusable ignorance to be unacquainted with the Bigelow P'apers, we...

THlE RELIGIOUS FUTURE OF INDIA. EVERYBODY who knows India at all adinits without argu. E ncent the existence of that deep mental unrest of which the Tintes speaks in its...

"FIGUIEL'S REPTILES AND BIRDS." [TO THR EDITOR OF THlE " SPECTATOR.J] Sinz,-In your review of " Figuier's Reptiles and Birds " (Spectator, No. 2,249, August 5th, 1871,) you...

I BOOKS. -B-BIRKSv' COIMMENTARtY ON ISALAEI, AMR. BEres tells us that on the death of Dr. M'Caul in the spring of 1864, lie was requested by the Editor of the Speaker's...

It was, however, on our military arrangements and our I foreign policy that Mr. Gladstone was moat feeble. He did not, it is true, hold isolation possible; but he hoped the...

I The Petroleuses under trial have been dealt with more sharply, being condemned, some of them to death and some of them to long terms of penal servitude. As the evidence...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE political dullness of the week has been broken only by two e speeches from Mr. Gladstone,-speeches which, in spite of their lofty eloquence, we are, for...

The speech at Wakefield delivered on Tuesday was of a more I general character. In it Mr. Gladstone defended the Ballot as a protection for the weak-which it is, but at the...

I M. Piers evidently considers that the newv title conferred upoa him by the Assembly is something more than a name. All the Mlideters resigned on his accession to his new...

I The Nationalists of Dublin, or rather the mob who followed them, have been disgracing themselves by a most discreditable attack upon the police. They had determined to hold a...

M. Thiers has behaved well in the matter of the Communists. HIe has reckoned up, on Burke's principle, the number of those slain in action, and has declined to add to it men...

THE CANADIAN D]QlMNION.* WIi give Mr. Marshall full credit for sincerity in all that he says about Canada, and we have found the greater part of his book alike valuable and...

LORD DERBY ON LAND. THERE is no man who makes so good an advocate for . the wrong side as Lord Derby; he always seems so l sensible. He begs fundamental propositions in the...

SANCHEZ RUANO. iT s the frequent reproach of the lively journals of Paris 1 that their world extends no further than the Department of the Seine, that if sometimes intelligence...

THE IRISH PREMIER OF VICTORIA. I F anybody wishes to know what the Empire loses by English I inability to conciliate Irish affection, let him read the speech addressed on the...

ENGLAND IN THE VENETIAN DESPATCHES-1520-26.* Tiin present volume of Mr. Rawdon Brown's collection comlmences at 1520-the second year of Charles V.-and covers the seven years...

THE ALDERSHOT ARMY. W ILL it last ? Up to the present moment a chorus of W applause has come up from the heathy moors of Aldershot ; the " special-correspondent," filled with...

CURRENT LITERATURE. JReasonsfor Returning to the Church of England. (Strahan.)-This is a book of great interest, though there are few readers to whom it will seam...