A S we expected, the rank and file of the Tory party in the Lords proved on Monday wiser than their leaders. The Duke of Richmond still maintained that secrecy ought to be...

for a modes vivendi with Rome, the folly of his Roman opponents and the bigotry of his Liberal supporters, have pretty well re- moved the hope of all understanding into the far...

Loan Bill in the Assembly on Monday. it authorises the Government to raise £140,000,000 at 5 per cent., and to make any arrangements it pleases to facilitate the affair. The...

separate terms with the masters,—for an average of 51 hours per week at 81d. the hour, but the hours to be shorter in the three shortest months of the year and longer in the...

party candidate for the Presidency on the first ballot, and by a vote of 686 to 38. The delegates, in fact, went to Baltimore with precise instructions, and the next highest...

The vacancy caused by the retirement of Lord Milton has been filled up by the return, unopposed, of Mr. W. S. Stanhope, a strong Tory, who in his speech returning thanks stated...

to deliver the speech against the Ballot which he ought to have spoken, if at all, on the second reading. He was, as sisual, dogmatic, acrid, and historical. He believed that...

case.

on Monday by Viscount Midleton concerning a letter he had addressed to a Dublin meeting, in which he had violently assailed Mr. Justice Keogh'Ei judgment, even before he had...

Arch- bishop of Utrecht, a schismatic and Jansenist heretic, but whose "orders" are, we believe, acknowledged to be regular at Rome, has gone to Munich to confirm the children...

women named Squires, mother and daughter, one aged seventy-three and the other thirty-five, kept a small shop in Hyde Street for the sale of prints and stationery, and had, it...

their position. Everything used in the trade, from printers' ink to editors' brains, is rising in price, and still they are- compelled by the public to adhere to the uniform...

to London to announce Mr. Stanley's arrival on 11th July.. He has with him, it is stated, letters from Dr. Livingetone to the Government and to his personal friends. He found...

visiting the Bethnal Green Museum when the people of Bethnal Green are there, and have been accustomed to obtain tickets from Mr. Cole, enabling them to inspect the pictures on...

Parliament on the vote of 14,133 for the defence of Mr. Eyre in the actions brought against him. The ground of the vote was a virtual promise from the Conservative Government of...

the Potteries have so gracefully prepared for him during his time of weakness and retirement. The gift consisted of a beautiful cabinet, filled with the most perfect specimens...

becoming a very serious nuisance. The promoters of new and doubtful Companies, besides advertising them in the usual ways, have begun to forward their prospectuses to all...

a very serious matter. Best Walhend has already risen from 23s. to 35s.,—an increase of 50 per cent. Durham threatens a further rise of 2s. per ton next week, and it is...

his proportional representation Bill, by which, without going in -for equal electoral districts, which he greatly disliked and dreaded, he would assign to each constituency,...

House of Commons. Sir Wilfrid Lawson denounced it, of course, as a very weak Bill, but the licensed victuallers, who are tired of 'being all on one side, have accepted it as a...

the Prison Congress. He maintained that there had of late years been "an extraordinary diminution of serious crime in the inked Kingdom?' He did not pretend to explain all the...

-of a report on political affairs in Rajpootana which must be very amusing reading. It contains among other matters confidential esti- mates of the character of the Princes,...

THE PROSPECTS OF THE GOVERNMENT. i T is rarely that any Government approaches the end of a Session with indefinitely better prospects and, on the whole, a higher character than...

TT is quite possible that the argument from design would show a function exactly adapted for Mr. Ayrton. If, for instance, he could be made Public Prosecutor, might not the...

la ow on earth comes this British Constitution to work so well? There never was yet in the history of the world such a cumbrous piece of machinery, or one in which a crash, or a...

T HE daring operation proposed by the French Minister of Finance, M. Goulard, will, it is almost certain, be suc- cessful. He has asked the Assembly to permit him to raise a...

T HE Democratic Convention at Baltimore has nominated Mr. Greeley for President by a vote of nearly twenty to one (656 to 38), and it is certain that the majority of the party...

T EIE humanitarians are very excellent people, and constantly do good service to mankind, but they are apt occasionally to vex politicians of common-sense. In their eager...

T HE more we see of Free Churches, the less free they seem to us. Here is the " Free " Presbytery of Dundee, which has been falling foul of the Rev. William Knight, one of the...

THE PROPOSED PRAYER-GAUGE. rro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Although I agree with you in holding the letter in the Contemporary Review to be "an elaborate sarcasm,"...

Sin,—May I add a word to your conclusive article on the proposed " Prayer-gnage "? Its inventor offers it as "an occasion of demon- strating to the faithless an imperishable...

Sin,—Sharing the belief which you have powerfully expressed that no such test of the efficacy of prayer, by the effect produced on the statistics of disease, as has recently...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR.") your article of the 6th inst., on "The Political Strength of Dissent," you say that "even in Ireland the experiment [of religious...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—After "A Head Master's" explanation, I can only say that I shall be very glad if his scheme with regard to the dismissal of...

(To THE EDITOR OF THII "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your observations on the Public Lands Bill, introduced on Wednesday last by Sir Charles Dilke, were, I presume, due to the...

[To TES EDITOZ OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 zit,—Your correspondent "A. M." has rethrned to the charge against "the Moderates," and complains that I have, "through some strange...

THE LATE BARON STOCKHAR.* [FIRST NOTICE.] 'ruts volume presents some portraiture of one who, though scarcely known to the public, was amongst the most remarkable and actively...

THERE is no doubt whatever as to the readableness of this enter- taining volume. Literary gossip about authors whose faces were recently seen amongst us must be dull indeed if...

and vigorously, and has a very strong grasp of the close connection between faith and morals. No one can say that to Mr. Maccoll the Athanasian Creed is a lesson of abstract...

WE cannot but think that the author might have spared his fierce threat to punish by legal proceedings "any attempts to pirate the name or matter" of his book. As for the name,...

which examined the marriage laws of the United Kingdom suggested to Mr. Wilkie Collins the main features of the plot of Man and Wife, much has been said and written about the...

F.R.C.S. (J. and A. Churchill.)—Mr. Wolff does not believe that the various diseases which are known by the name of zymotic, and of which the chief are cholera, typhus,...

Co.)—It is impossible to censure the patriotic enthusiasm with which Mr. Bigelow regards the institutions of his country, though it may be as well to remind him that there are...

Chatterton is one of the few writers of novels who pursue that calling as an art. In her case it has not degenerated into a mere business. There is a fine flavour of old-world...

W. Wagner, Ph.D. (Deighton and Bell.)—Teachers of Latin could not do better than put this edition of the Trine/emus into the hands of their more advanced scholars. It is...

Rqsiel's Posthumous Papers. (Chapman and Hall.)--An interesting collection of documents translated from the French. They are the best monument of the gallant young engineer who...

of this book dates nearly half a century ago, when the author was associated with Sir 0. Lyell in the secretaryship of the Geological Society. A second edition was published in...

well-known personage, were to go to a publisher with a proposal for a volume of sermons, be would probably meet with a chilling reply. Yet, undoubt- edly, many volumes of...