gave the Liberals a majority of over 100 in the last election before Mr. Disraeli's Reform Act, and which has never since that Reform Act,—which fully doubled its consti-...

week,- that-the Government have given up all hope of a fusion, and intend to prolong Marshal MacMahon's reign for five years, if the Assembly can legally do it, which is very...

to-day, and in all probability will be ; but there was a hitch at the last moment, owing to a demand of the Germans for a million francs (£40,000) for the cost of the...

O UR Scipio has gone to Africa, and it is to be hoped, may make a good war, a good peace, and a good book out of it. If Sir Garnet Wolseley pays any attention to the papers,...

week, and it is stated, we suppose on some kind of authority, that he will draw a salary of £7,500, i.e., the whole of his salary as First Lord of the Treasury and the half of...

announcement that Victor Emanuel is to reach Berlin on the 22nd inst., General La Marmora has just published a curious volume, of which all we know at present is derived from...

case.

to stand for Hull, chaperoned by Mr. Reed, C.B., his ancient ally at the Admiralty, who has lately taken Hull under his protection, and who proposed that the Hull Liberals...

policy of the Government in relation to the Licensing Act, • which has been set afloat by a contemporary often regarded as-semi-official and inspired,' is quite baseless. The...

as the state of the case is known in England, Spain has com- mitted a most flagrant breach of international law in taking the Deerhound captive at all, and is making the matter...

has been made President of the Spanish Republic, and the ex-Presi- dent, Salmeron, has been (unanimously) removed to the Presi- dency of the Cortes. Senor Castelar was elected...

is the extreme eagerness displayed by the Italian Government to make it up with Austria rather than with Prussia, on condition of the cession to Italy of Venetia " on almost any...

the Moon, and Aquarius ascending, or some such nonsense, all sorts of mischiefs from water and steam may be predicted, and amongst them, we believe, railway accidents. Certainly...

Rotundo of Dublin last Thursday week, to hear Mr. Butt's report of a Convention of English and Scotch Home Rulers lately held at Newcastle-on-Tyne. If any one were to take the...

Mr. Richard's motion last Session for an address to the Queen in favour of a permanent system of international arbitration in Europe, and, indeed, if we may trust the Press,...

the Tablet, deny that any physical miracle is even alleged to have been suggested by Margaret Mary'a vision of the Sacred Heart, and Archbishop Manning has explained the whole...

to Mr. Denby Seymour, the defeated Liberal candidate for Shaftesbury, in which she reproached him with abetting one of her sons in disobeying his parent by lending bis name to...

studies by the invention of a new form of smuggling. They have smuggled cigars into France in the bodies of their children's rocking-horses. The French police, struck by the...

by its correspondents in the principal coal-producing districts of the United Kingdom, on the present weekly out-put of coal, the present and probable coming rate of wages, cost...

ordinary features of that life. Thus, the pilgrimage to the shrine of the Sacred Heart is described in our papers,—generally by Roman Catholic correspondents,—on the same page...

IS CONCILIATION POSSIBLE ON THE EDUCATION QUESTION ? A CORRESPONDENT, whose letter we publish in to-day's issue, accuses us, to our own great surprise, of an "envenomed "...

T HERE was something very forcible in Mr. Lowe's manner of stating last week at Sheffield how much the present Ministry have really done during their tenure of office, and the...

P ERHAPS it would not be the worst definition that has been given of man to call him the nonsense-talking animal ; for the language of other animals has meaning and purpose pre-...

A MONG the various and conflicting political rumours of the hour, a notion that Mr. Gladstone intends to make the repeal of Schedule D of the Income-tax the most prominent...

A RCHBISHOP MANNING has addressed a letter, couched in that strain of lucid and placid eloquence of which he is such a master, to the Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland, on the...

W E have more than once noticed the very hopeful and encouraging fact that the Roman Catholics are at last taking their proper position frankly in English literature, and...

M R. WILLIAM THOMAS was a learned writer of the six- teenth century. He was born in Wales, and educated at Oxford ; he studied modern languages at Bologna and Padua, was made...

TT is curious to observe that in exact proportion as travelling I for pleasure becomes more and more popular, a certain feeling of disgust towards travellers for pleasure...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,— Having been a curate in Northamptonshire, and seen , something of the hardships of the poor, and of the admirable contentment and...

THE EDUCATION QUESTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") you allow me to ask what it is yourself and so many of your correspondents really wish to see done in this matter...

Sin,—There is much, I fear too much, truth in your " Warning to the Clergy" of Saturday last. But ought you not to make some little allowance for the habit, which, to their...

Sin,—Few things are half so pleasant to read as the Spectator, from its great general ability, but also from some special causes. Among them, I think, is that its writers see...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-1 Sut,—There is one thing which we Canadians cannot see without surprise and aunoyance. It is the remarkable coolness with which our...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR."] SIR,—Allow me to mention a fact which militates strongly against the hopeful opinion you express in reference to the moral results of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —If there be one thing more than another which honourably distinguishes the Spectator from so many of its contemporaries— with whom the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] have perused in the Spectator of the 6th Mr. Murphy s reply to my letter in your previous print, and whilst even in its start he seems to...

SIR JAMES SIMPSON.* IF any one should doubt, before opening this book, whether Sir James Simpson was worthy of an elaborate biography, his doubt will be dissipated long before...

THE author of the Doctor's Dilemma is writing too fast. She has a good deal of material to draw upon, but it is of the kind that requires management, and suffers from dilution....

MR. Lurrox is doing a good work. The merits of Colet and the- value of his labours have received but scanty acknowledgment. Till very lately, most persons knew nothing of him...

in reviewing Mr. Martin's very interesting biography of Clare, we pointed out what we considered a defect in an otherwise well-written volume,—the want of more char- acterising...

THE last of a race, an order, or a family has a great attraction for authors of fiction. The very title sounds grand and melancholy, and will attract readers as it does authors....

Diversions of the Echo Club. (J. C. Hotten.)—We do not know what the authorship of this little volume may bo. The title-page describes it as " a companion to the Autocrat of the...

not a Medium myself," he says, "I have been favoured with very rare and peculiar facilities for investigating the spirit-phenomena in my own house, and in the houses of several...

we are told, "is written for girls," and dedicated "to the members of the St. Anne's Society." The plan of it is that a certain Mrs. Askell instructs her niece, Joan, who comes...

Weakness. By Robert St. John Corbet. 3 vols. (Tinsley.)—Mr. Corbet's new novel reminds us of those persons, not unfrequently to be seen, who are per- fectly sane, but for one...

(Stanford.) —Mr. Lewis, who fills a post in the Registrar-General's Department, has collected into a volume of manageable size and reasonable price the sub- stance of the two...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—The author prepares ns for a wide application of his title, by telling us in his preface that "it has been his endeavour to make a book in which he could...