serious check. Don Carlos, pressed, it is imagined, by the necessity of inspiriting his followers, recently bombarded Irun, the Carlist town on the frontier between France and...

on Sunday, the struggle lying in all of them between the Republicans and the Bonapartista, the latter being supported for the time by Monarchists of all shades. In the Drome,...

both published in the Times, one from Archbishop Manning and one from Lord Acton. The Archbishop of West- minster is very brief, contenting himself with saying that the Vatican...

depre- cate Mr. Gladstone's anxiety on the ground that long before the Vatican Council, Rome had been guilty of authorising, not only gross interference with the Civil power,...

T HE speeches made at the annual banquet to the Ministers at Guildhall were this year not very striking, but they had a certain interest of their own. The French Ambassador, the...

explained something of the tenour last week, appeared on the day of our last issue, and has, of course, given great offence to Roman Catholics, and apparently not very great...

any case.

Tues- day that Epping Forest should never be enclosed. A year or two ago the forest was rapidly disappearing, the neighbouring lords of manors taking it bit by bit, when the...

that, in ecclesiastical matters, war to the knife with Roman Catholics is the safest rule, for it has .even prosecuted some Westphalian ladies for presenting an address,—no...

sworn in on the 7th inst., and at the evening banquet took occa- sion to denounce the " West-end threatenings " the City had received. The Corporation, he said, had great...

Thursday, to the great chagrin and perplexity of his family. The only charge against him in the indictment is said to be that he has made away with official documents. There is...

by a very serious danger. The New York Times brings , statistics to prove that the demand for railway sleepers, fences, and fire- wood is so great that the forests are coming...

Forester's accession to the Peerage, was in part at least a fight between the families of Forester and Lawley ; but so far as it was political, the result has been a Liberal...

sentative at the Vatican, formal or informal, is no longer required, and Mr. Jervoise has been promoted to Lisbon. The measure might perhaps have been expected from this...

of the Italian elections has been most favourable to the Minghetti Government Out of the 500 Members of the Chamber, 356 are upon its side. The result of this, vote is of course...

this week. The Emperor, after threatening to drive the Japanese out of Formosa, buying an ironclad, and collecting an army at Amoy, has signed a peace, under which he agrees to...

which exercises many Foreign Offices, but apparently excites no interest in England. The point appears to be this :—The Government of Roumania wants to make treaties, that is,...

make short work with the Ritnaliets. It has adopted by enor- mous majorities in both Houses—both clerical and lay,—a new canon against Ritualism, practically prohibiting the use...

the chima3rical economy which attempts to make an army of 25,000 men supply the needs of such a territory as that of the United States. He compliments General Sheridan, his...

Catholic Uni- versity, as our contemporary the Weekly Register and Catholic Standard is careful ostentatiously to declare itself, does not pro- mise quite as well for the...

prove that typhoid fever is simply infectious,—the infection being propagated by some organism carried into, and multiplied in, the intestinal canal of the patient,—and that...

interest it is " to know the truth, states that the actual number of the regular German Army is 1,324,940 men, out of whom 401,659 are always on active service, and 304,000 more...

speech to his constituents at Warwick on Tuesday, on the inconsistency between the Tory charges against the late Government and the Tory mode of rectifying their predecessors'...

MR. GLADSTONE'S " P-XPOSTITLATION." GLADSTONE'S genius is great, but it is a little injured by a quality which rarely belongs to men of genius, and seldom strengthens, though...

vein, makes such a speech on a ceremonial occasion as Mr. Disraeli, and on Monday he was, if not in his happiest vein—for his happiest vein is banter— at least in a very happy...

rE Ministry have held their first Cabinet Council, and politic ians would like to know on what they have de- sided,—whether the Session is to be one of effort, or one, as Mr....

T HE late Lord Do ll ing, in his inadequate and obviously unfinished memoir of Sir - Robert - Peel,* brings out very • Jost publialted.by Bentley and Son. clearly what seems...

T HE arrangement concluded on October 20 between Japan and China is no doubt satisfactory to traders, but as a poli- tical incident it is puzzling, and may possibly prove...

T HE Reformed Church of France seems to be on the eve of a great schism. It is split up into two parties, who differ from each other about the fundamental dogmas of...

S OME of our readers may remember that justafter the murder of Mr. Briggs, and just before the arrest of Miller, an article appeared in the. Spectator, purporting to be a...

rpHE question now occurs, as it has any time these ten years," says Mr. Francis Franois, writing the other day to the Times newspaper, " Why are Oysters so scarce and dear ?"...

Sin,—I sincerely hope you will find time for a more careful criticism of my argument. No political or social question can be more important than one which touches so closely the...

--411■—•••• CHURCH LAY REPRESENTATION. (TO THE Enrroa OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIRS I fear I trespass too much upon your courtesy, which has already allowed me twice to argue...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Being one of your few Catholic readers, I was delighted to read your article. People in the position of the French Legiti- mists...

LORD LYTTON AS A POLITICIAN AND ORATOR.* Tars collection of the spoken and unspoken speeches of the late Lord Lytton is preceded by a short memoir by his son, which includes the...

[TO TER EDITOR OP TILE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Permit me one word in defence of the assertion that in politics gratitude is grossly immoral. Surely circumstances might arise, when...

A restless prescience—howsoever won— Of a broad pathway leading to the sun, With promptings of an oft-reproved faith In sunward yearnings. Stricken tho' her breast, And faint...

[FIRST PlaTICB.l This book is not only very interesting, but very instructive read- ing. Sir Edward Strachey has spared no pains to present Jewish history during the time of...

FEW cities exercise over the mind greater fascination than Venice. Steam locomotion has made it easily accessible to thousands, and few, if any, who fall under the spell of its...

l'ins volume consists of lectures and mapavine articles, some of which, but not all, come fitly under the title of " Health and Education." Every one familiar with Canon...

risked the reputation which he gained by that exceedingly able book, in the present ungracious, uncourteous, uncharitable and altogether unprovoked attempt to throw into the...

THE special of the Muses seems to accompany in every de- partment the labour of those remarkable examples of unappreciated industry, the " adapters " of foreign authors. The...

Mayor, M.A. (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. J. B. Mayor (whom our readers will distin- guish from Mr. John E. B. Mayor, the learned editor of Jnvenal) has given in this volume a most...

3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—There is little to be said about Mr. Ainsworth's romances except to announce what the title does not always explain, the subject with which they...

Stevenson, and Co., Toronto.)—This little tale forms one of a series published under the head of " Collection of Canadian Authors." It is a quiet story, cleverly told in the...

Tinsley.)—If this novel had been brought to an end at the close of the first volume—and this might have been done 'without much loss—we should have had little fault to find with...

B. Mackenzie, M.A. By the Rev. Gordon Calthrop, M.A. (W. W. Gardner.)--Mr. Mackenzie was for many years the well-known incumbent of St. James's, Holloway, a church to which from...

our readers do, that brilliant book, this is very high praise. There is no particular purpose in the book, except it be to show up the emptiness of the pre- tentious schools of...

By Henry Attwell. (Williams and Norgate.)—This table enumerates, under the six heads of Indic, Iranic, 'Celtic, Grreco-Latin, Slavonic, and Teu- tonic, the various languages of...

Autobiography. By F. C. Burnand. (Macmillan.)—Whatever Mr. Burnand writes is sure to be brilliant. Yet even brilliancy tires, and we must confess that we have sometimes found...

Moon.. Translated by William Palmer, M.A. (Trubner.)—In this volume, which, like its predecessors, is a stout volume, of between-five and six hundred pages, Mr. Palmer finishes...

little book is one which may serve as a very fair guide to other wan- derers in the country districts of which it speaks. It is a slight sketch of a holiday tour in some parts...

Roberts.)—The first edition of this book was published thirty-seven years ago. Meanwhile, the success of Mrs. Alcott's books have created a fresh interest in the subject....

of a kind of which the world ought by this time to be getting pretty well tired. The time has gone by for these galleries of conventional carica- tures, every one ticketed with...

Kennaway. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Kennaway went over to the Canterbury Settlement in the earlydays of that colony, and he tells his experiences in this volume, giving them, as...