Dublin is pleased to call his reasons against the disestablishment of the Irish Church, that we need only add hero that in his charge, delivered on Thursday week, in St....

be supposed from a proceeding which beat any Irish bull that was ever made for perverse inconsequentiality. The Cabdrivers, wanting to punish the Railways for not admitting them...

T HE events of the week have not been thrilling. The usual chronic nervous fever still runs on in France, caused by doubt and anxiety as to whether the Emperor intends to go to...

up not only the Rigi, but the more select Mount Pilatus, besides making a short stay on the Furka Pass, returned to Eng- land yesterday, with pleasant memories, we trust, of...

of Education, is, as is well known, opposed to moral com- pulsion in the sense of compelling the poor to learn anything, but he seems to be rather in favour of moral compulsion...

India may betoken the beginning of another little war—possibly a very serious one. The independent tribes have attacked our frontier posts, and it is said the villagers on the...

Reverdy Johnson, received from the Sheffield magnates, by whom he had been entertained, as we recorded last week, on the previous day, two complimentary addresses,—for, in...

Disraeli is meditating another flanking movement on the Irish Church. We cannot believe that it is in his power to do this, looking to the bitter Protestant feeling he has...

ence a speedy settlement of the existing difference between England and the United States. " I entertain no doubt that all the difficulties which now exist between the two...

thirty- three victims of the railway disaster at Abergele brought in a verdict of manslaughter against Richard Williams, the senior breaksman, and Robert Jones, the junior...

lost Dartmouth by the Reform Act, is canvassing South Warwickshire, where he recommends his cause by comparing Mr. J. S. Mill to an owl, who looks very wise and sage in the...

Conservative candidates, Major Allen and Mr. R. Bright, and in speaking on their behalf and that of the Irish Church, at Chew Magna, he said it was much more honourable for the...

Henry Edwards, M.P., for incapacity, has written and circulated an exceedingly temperate and, we think, extremely success- ful defence of himself, in which he says that he...

Gladstone? At present the Members for West Surrey are Mr. Cubitt, a thorough Conservative, and Mr. Briscoe, a nominal Liberal, who were returned at the last election without a...

Roebuck's choice of a term for abusing the Spaniards,—" the dumbfounded Spaniard,"—but this incriminated expression seems to us the only one of any merit in the speech,—not for...

single seat which they can certainly secure. An announcement has been made that they are not satisfied with the arrangement -4 ' of the county squires to allow Mr. Henley,...

been far the most vigorous and exciting, and was upon the steps which the working-classes ought to take to prevent war. One man (a . Parisian) was for the working-classes making...

Sunday, and began by reading the annual report of the Association, which was of a rather vigorous political character. It sneers at the French Government as compelled to "...

off at the annexed quotations :- Sept. 4. Sept. II. I Sept. 4. Sept. 11. Brazilian, 1865 751x ti ' 11115819.11 ( Anglo - Dutch ) . 931 624 Egyptian, 1864 MI 874 Spanish,...

nurse- maids, perambulators, and the finer feelings of mothers and grandmothers. "A Mather and a Grandmother," "A Real Mother," " Mater," " A Mother of Seven," " An Old Hen,"...

the Stock Exchange throughout the week, and the amount of business passing has been very limited. Consols have remained at 93/ to 94 for money, and 94 to 4 for the 6th of...

respect of news, of any of our evening papers, has disinterred the baptismal register of the Prime Minister, as to the exist- ence of which a doubt was expressed in " A...

loft off at the annexed quotations :- Sept. 4. Sept. 11. Sept. 4. Sept. IL Great Eastern 384 384 Lon.,Chatham t &Dove 18 184 Great Northern 106ex. 0. 1064 Metropolitan 107...

pro- mote religious intercourse with Dissenters is not likely to prosper -without a change in the law. At present there is every encourage- ment held out to common religious...

THE ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN ON THE EVIL EYE. A RCHBISHOP TRENCH has discovered a few new argu- ments for the Irish Establishment,—or rather, we should say, for even his ingenuity...

MR. T R. ROEBUCK tells us in his letter to Tuesday's imes that, so far from insulting Mr. Reverdy Johnson and the -authorities of the United States, when he explained so...

W HEN Mr. Mill accused the Conservative party of political stupidity, he could not have meant that the various members of it are, as a rule, stupid in the sense in which we call...

W ITH the prospect before us of a stormy election, we cannot be reassured by the steps which the Manchester magistrates have taken to prevent and punish rioting. The large towns...

T HE difficulties hitherto in the way of Extradition Treaties may be briefly summed up. The conflict of laws and judicial process in different countries has created confusion...

T HE Confederation of the British Provinces in North America has had, at all events, one good effect. It has set the Canadians heartily to work at the problem how colon- ization...

T HE metaphysician strives in vain to define a unit of " pheno- menon." The human consciousness will grasp nothing that is really simple ; and if you include what is complex,...

W E have probably received the last news we shall have for many months to come respecting the Expeditions which have been sent from Germany and Sweden to the Arctic Seas. The...

Than, Monday, September 7, 1868. Arran all, in spite of two great disadvantages, one casual,—that I was so oppressed with a variety of cares on leaving home that I had almost...

sea swallow from which she takes her name, weighed anchor in Tobermory Harbour, and began to work westward through the Sound of Mull towards Arduamurchan, the long swell coming...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR...) Sin,—The complaints of indignant Protestants, fresh from the incense of " High Celebration," are at this period of the year as plentiful as...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—I have read many letters and articles on the Abergele disaster, and am surprised that nobody seems to have noticed the fact that if the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—When " Vigilantius " objects to your phrase " the horrible faith" of the Recordite, he is, of course, unaware that the epithet...

MARIOLATRY FOR ENGLAND.* WHEN Madame Bunsen was showing to Sir Walter Scott, among other Roman objects of interest and art, a representation of the Madonna and the infant...

4 g Happy thought!" (Mr. Burnand must have said to himself when he reprinted these papers) —" puzzle the critics." The present critic -confesses himself puzzled. There is such a...

AMONG the philosophers whose researches must reach even a highly educated public through the agency of middle-men, is the great German philologist whose most important work has...

IT is, to a certain extent, difficult to know what to say of this story. That it indicates unquestionable power in its author, and that of a double kind, power of conceiving and...

Mn. QUICK has studied his subject so thoroughly, and he writes upon it so cleverly, as to deserve a better fate than he seems to anticipate, and a better treatment than he has...

The Life and Teachings of Confucius. By James Legge, D.D. (Triibner.)—This volume, the work of a well known Chinese scholar, gives us a most complete and, as far as we can...

makes are these. The apologetic tone in which St. Patrick speaks of himself, and the account which he gives of the opposition offered by his- parents to his resolution to...

Hall.)— Mr. Whyte Melville is a pleasant and agreeable writer, he is never too sen- sational in his incidents or extravagant in his delineation of character. But in the present...

; and historical Pictures from the Cumpagna of Rome, by John Wynniatt Grant (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.), are two volumes of verse which we do not care to criticize in detail. We...

is a volume of carefully written verse. The anther shows culture, good taste, tenderness, and purity of feeling, and yet we cannot say that ho has made out a claim to be called...

original and vigorous novel, although the promise of the first volume is• not quite sustained through the second and third. Tho typos of character in Flood and Flame, albeit not...

This volume contains a number of papers, some of them republished from the Railway Times, on the various institutions for mutual help which have been established among the...

These poems belong to what may he called the pre-Tennysonian period. The writer, though not by any means an imitator, recalls the style of Walter Savage Lander and of Croly. The...

(Hunt and Co.), is a volume of sacred verse, of very poor quality indeed, which touches a great variety of solemn subjects, but does not by any means adorn them. It may be...

cannot say more for this volume than that it contains some passable vers de societe: If Mr. Mayne would be less copious, more diligent in correction, more careful of his metre,...