S INCAT has fallen, Tewfik Pasha having made a sortie, probably on the 11th inst., and been cut to pieces with his followers by Osman Digna. The British Government, however, has...

Every one knows the great reputation of Canon Stubbs as a constitu- tional historian, and we may add that his great learning, his -dignity of manner, and his useful labours on...

case.

the Vote of Censure ended, of coarse, in a victory for the Tories. The vote was 181 against Government to 81 for it, a surprisingly small majority, which must have been galling...

include parts of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire,—the Head Master of Winchester, Rev. Dr. Ridding, has been nomi- nated. We believe that this, too, is an eminently happy choice....

replies given in the House of Commons, and mentioned below, but he explained some details of great interest. He showed that the Government had from the first been opposed to the...

Modern History vacant at Oxford, and every one would agree that Mr. Freeman is the man who could best fill it,—at least, if he would,—though we believe that he vehemently...

which• ' he maintained that but for the mistaken policy of Cherif& Ministry in the Soudan, the idea of the British Government in entering Egypt might have been fulfilled. An...

which makes it the duty of the Government to leave Egypt as quickly as may be ; but the brunt of the contest fell to Mr. Forster. and Sir Charles Dilke. Mr. Forster, though...

Saturday the unanimous judgment of the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice in the action " Bradlaugh v. Gosset," in which Mr. Bradlaugh brought an action against...

Mr. T. Chenery, the Editor of the Times, and one of the most learned Orientalists in England. He was not, we think, quite in his place as a journalist, though he had wide...

a speech singularly wanting in fire. He devoted the first half of it to proving that as the British Government was supreme in Egypt, they ought either to have forbidden General...

a speech which does not satisfy us as to the policy pursued in Cairo, but which was of unusual brilliancy, deeply impressed the House, and, as far as the Soudan is concerned,...

on occasion of the unveiling of the bust of Lord Beacons- field, were altogether wanting in interest, except so far as Lord Salisbury always gives a certain amount of literary...

to the report of the Ecclesiastical Courts Com- mission, shows too much of the tendency so common among public men now-a-days to shrink from taking part in forming public...

inst., so suddenly that his death is attributed in Natal to poison, and a medical inquiry is to be held. It is much more probable that be died of disease of the heart,...

to 1018.

great sensation by saying that to him the final words of the oath carried no more meaning than "the trash of any mumbo-jumbo amongst African savages," for which he was rebuked...

week, condemning the conduct of the Irish Executive in pro- hibiting public meetings, and charging them with playing into the hands of the Orangemen. He attacked Sir Stafford...

Bradlaugh presented himself in the House of Commons, went through the form of taking the oath, kissed the New Testament, and subscribed a declaration which is believed to be the...

of C ommons gave rise to very unseemly scenes there. On these occasions the House endeavours with great success to afford as striking a contrast as possible to Mr. Justice...

THE DEBATES ON EGYPT. T HE debates of Tuesday, upon the Egyptian policy of the Government—which were the serious debates, for they were the debates of leaders—were on both...

W E have felt, and we have frankly expressed, sympathy with those who do not regard the Egyptian policy of the Government as a substantially feasible policy, on the ground that...

M R. JUSTICE STEPHEN, in the admirable judgment which he delivered on Saturday last, in the case of "Bradlaugh v. Gosset," has read the House of Commons a lesson which there is...

T HAT the national credit of France is in any serious danger, we do not believe. That credit rests upon a rock, the social system of France, which survives all Revolu- tions,...

T HE Members for Northampton really deserve the gratitude of the public for the way in which they spend their time and their money in illustrating and reforming the common or...

T HE death of Mr. Chenery is at least as important as that of any ordinary Cabinet Minister, for it leaves vacant the Editorship of the Times ; and the Times, in spite of the...

T HE fresh " Leaves from the Journal of a Life in the High- lands,"* which the Queen has just given to her people, are,. as a contemporary has pointed out, carefully weeded of...

T HE first Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens has just been issued by the Archmological In- stitute of America, and consists of the Report of Professor W. W....

SCIENTIFIC FREEDOM. 1.10 THE EDITOR OP THY " SPEOTAT0141 Sra—The Times, the other day, called those who opposed the late vote for the physiological laboratory at Oxford, "...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your leading article in yesterday's Spectator on "The Oxford Vivisection Vote," you notice, apparently with surprise, the absence...

this the false thought that is at the root of the apathy of the Clergy on the question of Vivisection P—a man feels that there is a certain price that it would be immoral for...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sts,—I thank you much for giving farther publicity to the question I discussed in the Weekly Register, and for bringing before another and...

SIR, —I earnestly trust that Mr. Orby Shipley will mark, learn, and inwardly digest (to use words with which he must be familiar) your remarks on his views on Ireland, which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] ..81a,—My attention has been called to a paragraph in the , Spectator of January 5th, in which it is stated, with regard to some recent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your article of the 2nd, on "Gales and Hurricanes," you say that the destructive force of a tropical hurricane appears to be greater...

(To TEE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sig, — In noticing the - Contemporary Review for February on the cost of housing the poor, you ask a very pertinent question, which ought...

THE OLD MASTERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. [SECOND NOTICE.] Is our first notice of this exhibition we spoke only of the paint- ings by the late Mr. Falconer Poole, the Royal...

MEMOIRS OF 'JAMES HOPE-SCOTT.* Tam book is the tentative at a memorial of the great Parlia- mentary barrister who married Charlotte Lockhart, Sir Walter Scott's...

" IF it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly," would seem to be the feeling of the present day as to- most reading, especially when making...

A FEW days ago we saw a dictionary called the "Encyclopaedic advertised as " an exhaustive work, embracing all the words of the English language." Its superiority over any...

WE are glad that Dr. Westcott has at length given to the world the result of his prolonged study of the writings of St. John. We are told in the preface that it was "a dream of...

THIS handsome volume is very nearly the perfection of a work of the historico- antiquarian type. Mr. Armstrong, whose very name is redolent of the romantic age of "the enchanted...

IN 1878 there was published in Holland, under the name In Dagen von Stryd, a novel that made a stir in the little kingdom such as is rarely accorded there to a literary event....

bent of mind," say's Mr. Davies, in his preface, " there is an engrossing charm in the lakes and rivers of East Anglia." And that, no doubt, as Corporal Nym would say, is the...

land trodden by English discoverers or claimed by the English Sovereign—ought to have an interest for all English people. But every colonist, or sojourner in a colony, has most...

char- acteristics of the four Stuart Rings as rulers are, to give an instance of his method, described and discriminated with skill and care. Many even of those who are familiar...

(Rem- ington and Co.)—This book ought to have come to us some two months ago. It would have been welcome among the " Christmas Books." Billy Banc% child of a London poulterer,...

English Poetesses : a Series of Critical Biographies and Illustrative Extracts. By Eric S. Robertson, M.A. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Reid has put together an interesting volume. He...

Sons.)—The preachers described and discussed in this volume are all deceased, with the exception of some briefly noticed in the last chapter, —" American Preachers of the...

Com- ment, by W. D. Howells. (Osgood and Co., Boston, U.S.; Triibuer and Co., London.)—One may smile to see in this book another example of the cuffus of children which is one...

By Felix Dahn. Translated from the German by " M. A. C. E." (Macmillan and Co.)—The time chosen for the scene is that at which the shadowy Empire of the West became extinct, in...

Reid takes to his home two nieces, whom the death of their rascally father (happily removed before the tale opens) has left orphans. The younger has a small fortune, and is,...

herself suddenly dispossessed by her twin-sister, who claims to be the real marchioness, and is supported in her claim by the lady's-maid. The family lawyer, with characteristic...

— The "golden girls" are two sisters, who are left orphans at an early age, and are made the objects of various schemes by interested people who want a share in their fortune....

story, but, it must be owned, not a particularly attractive one. The first volume introduces us to two particularly mean people, who both of them look a great deal better than...

useful little résumé of the best and latest knowledge on the subject of fruit-farming in England. It does not extend to the fruit-farming of other climates.

letters were the work of one author, who could hardly throw himself into the mental attitude of all the writers. In the " Miz-Maze," so called after the country seat of Sir...