T HE Liberals have been beaten again at Truro, where a Con- servative, Colonel Hogg, the Chairman of the Metropolitan Board of Works, has gained for his party the second seat...

knew last week. She has had bad sore-throat, followed by a formidable glandular swelling under the arm, the reduction of which has much weakened her. On this the Times waxes...

second Imperial meeting at Salzburg, and though we have, of course, no trustworthy information of the drift of the understanding arrived at, except from rumour and from the...

question of a French convent at Rome over which France has a sort of protectorate, and into the affairs of which the Wien Government proposed to inquire. It seems that the...

Government, from Sunday next till the 4th December, a much longer holiday than, with a still unsettled budget, any one had anticipated. Nevertheless, both the amendments which...

marching, camping, drilling, and outpost practice. The three divisions have hitherto worked separately, each in its own area, but now two have united, south of the Hog's Back,...

any case.

immi- grants whom they have brought in in the place of the recalcitrant engineers, and it would appear that they have had a good deal more success, and have more chance of an...

hurt us, can have no real meaning, unless it be this,—should the time ever come when Engrand would be called upon in honour and humanity to give offence abroad, we ought not to...

German army of occupation to 50,000 men, and to evacuate immediately the Jura, the Cfite d'Or, the Aube, and the Aisne, on condition that the French will ratify a commercial...

next year's International Exhibition at South Kensington, and of course they got him to make a speech there on commerce and peace, which he did last Tuesday, when he was even...

to take its holiday, and which was read out in a very mournful manner by M. Jules Simon, was certainly one of the poorest and most pompous of his productions, and was received...

Treaty of Washington till we are tired of the subject, yet we sometimes doubt whether one person in a hundred knowe either what the claims are or what the treaty contains. We...

tunnel,—passing from Italy to the north side of the Alps in forty minutes,—certainly the longest and rapidest subterranean journey ever yet made. The highest temperature of the...

Christiana Edraunds was charged with having poisoned several persons in Brighton with chocolate drops mixed with arsenic and strychnine, one of whom, a little boy, died, ended...

of which the present editor had previously heard something by a private correspondence, of a spontaneous revival of Catholicism in Syria,—spontaneous, we mean, in the sense that...

a German General who, on inspecting his troops not long ago, addressed them thus,—" Now, my children, we can once more get seriously to work. The past one of war is at an end,...

North-Western has effected a junction,—for working purposes,— has made what is called a "common purse,"—with the Lanca- shire and Yorkshire. In other words, though there is to...

for the policy of federation in the new Reichsrath, the numbers appearing to be something like the following :-140 for the Ministry and 60 against, i.e., great enough to ensure...

services at Glengarry, in the Established Kirk of Scotland, this autumn, and the performances of the latter, who preached and conducted the service there last Sunday, are...

THE NEWER DIFFICULTIES OF PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT. M GOSCHEN'S excellent speech at Sheffield, to which 1. we made brief allusion last week, contained a remark- able passage on...

M. Thiers was placed in the vacancy where as yet a throne was not, expressly because he was, as it were, the most expres- sive living symbol of political uncertainty of which...

inebriated grasshopper over the "great Conservative triumph " at Truro,—and we should be very sorry indeed to deny that the Liberals have had a warning there which, after the...

A DMIRAL YELVERTON'S cruise from Cork Harbour to. the Tagus has furnished a partial answer to the over- captious critics who think small things of the modern seaman and detest...

A FTER two Sessions almost wholly occupied with Irish affairs, Parliament in 1871 gave itself heart and soul to Great Britain—not with very great results, unless the Abolition...

A T the meeting of the British Association in Edinburgh few discussions excited a keener interest than that which concerned the recent reform of four of the large Hospital...

by no means pleasant, to observe from time to time the deep because quite unconscious irony with which the party that thinks itself Conservative on social questions, uncovers...

T HE news of the death at Biarritz of Don Luis Gonzalez Brabo, the famous Premier of the last cabinet of Queen Isabella, announces the close of one of the most extraordinary...

O NE of the most remarkable features of the greater modern crimes seems to be the very slight incentive which the public are disposed at all events, whether truly . or not, to...

[To THE EDITOR OF TilmI " SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—I read with much interest the well-balanced article on the Newcastle Strike which appeared in your issue of last week. Om one point,...

INDIAN DISCONTENT. [To MK EDITOR OF TUX " SPECTATOR:] is such a rare thing in an English paper to see intelligent criticism on Indian subjects, that your recent article...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TILE "SPECTATOR:1 S1R,—In your number of the 25th August you remark, very truly, that the Birmingham movement for Reform of the House of Lords is "a...

[TO TES EDITOR OF TILE "SPEOTATOR."] San,—Referring to the Truro election, you state in the Spectator of last week that Mr. Jenkins is "a philanthropist of the Fawcatt type."...

(To zas EDITOR OF THE "SPICOTAT011.1 Satt,—Your correspondent "J. R.," writing in last week's Spectator from Glasgow, raises a question of the gravest magnitude. His letter...

CAMEOS FROM ENGLISH HLS'TORY.—THE WARS IN FRANCE.* Ws; confess to grudging Miss Yonge to the writing of history, and none the lees that her history is so well amid...

of Students' Histories is well known as a collection of useful and unpretending educational works, useful not merely for school-boys, but for more advanced students, and not...

THz two travellers whose books we have placed together, and of whom one is an American, the other an Englishman, went over the same ground during the latter part of their...

Pr is not long since we reviewed a book by this author in the faith that it was only a true story in one sense, namely, that it was true to human nature. The correspondence...

WE gather from the preface that the publisher had a some- what original idea in intermixing the two distinct parts of this book. He tells us that "after he had looked over what...

THERE is a curious mixture of the apologetic and complacent tone in Mr. Gibson's prefatory description of his "attempt to write history in the attractive form of Historical...

(Chapman and Hall,)—A satirist above all things must be vigorous. A common consent allows him to be unjust. He cannot always be weakening his condemnations by reservations,...

The Theology of the New Testament, By the Rev, J. J. Van Oosterzoo, D.A. Translated from the Detail by Maurice E vans, D.A. (Hodder and Stoughton,)— . Fhough this book certainly...

Close of the Sixteenth Century. 4 vols. Edited by W. Carew Hazlitt. (Reeves and Turner.)—This is another important addition to the already consider- able library which we owe to...

Apostles. By J. P. Norris, M.A. (Rivington.)—This little volUme is one of a series of " Keys." The title is not very happily chosen, for it suggests one of the "cram" books...

a laborious and exhaustive work about one of our groat national writora which we ewe, as indeed we do often owe such works, to the energy and enthusiasm of a foreigner. Mr....

Jacob, D.D. (Strahan.)—This is an able, well-roasonod book, more powerful, perhaps, in its destructive than in its constructive aspect, but certainly a valuable contribution to...

(Longroans.)--Mr. Goan, whom we find to be a University man, has probably learnt that it is a praiseworthy thing to insert a phrase, or indeed as many phrases as possible, of...