might be,—he hoped it might be the year after next,—to set apart a fixed sum of £28,000,000 for the charges on the National Debt and the reduction of the principal, the whole...

his own leader, moved the previous question, declaring his entire concurrence in Dean Milman's belief in "the immortality of humbug," and intimating that Mr. Disraeli had been...

T HE House of Commons showed, on Thursday night, that they 1. fully appreciate the gravity of the popular agitation for the release of Arthur Orton and for the removal of the...

Budget. Sir Stafford Northcote stated that while the estimate of revenue of the past year had been put at 174,425,000, it had actually proved to be /74,921,873, showing an...

case.

a Tenant-right Bill out of the Peers. The Duke of Richmond's Bill came on for its second reading on Thursday, and the Whig Lords denounced interference with freedom of contract...

The Earl Grey on Monday brought up the affair of Langalibalele, gloom was a little increased on Saturday by a notification that and moved a resolution condemning Lind...

being very much bored with Committees, is displaying a taste for questions of Privilege. On Tuesday night, there was quite a- serious debate on a motion by Mr. C. Lewis, that...

Commons as to the position of affairs in Belgium, and has given very indefinite replies. On Friday week, in answer to Mr. Sandford, Mr. Bourke explained that a con- fidential...

land to be appointed rural Magistrates was on Tuesday very coldly received. by the Peers. At present a magistrate must be possessed of a hundred a year in land, and the Earl of...

the Government would take with regard to the Appellate Juris- diction. They propose to bring in a Bill constituting at once an intermediate Appellate Court to hear appeals from...

in not supporting the Natal authorities against the unlucky Zulu looked as if great events might be at hand, but the Crown Prince chief. We have commented on the debate...

of a mode of ventilation adopted by Mr. Tobin, a retired merchant of Leeds, and which rests on the principle that a narrow stream of air can be sent up through lighter air, like...

statement as to the amount of money which the people of the United Kingdom spend on their drink. They bought last year 20,205,306 gallons of alcohol in distilled spirits,...

across the Channel, but it was not for want of either pluck or strength, for it was calculated that he paddled him- *elf at least forty miles, though, owing to the drift of the...

Pekin, 'has insisted on an inquiry into the recent murder of Mr. Margary in Western China. The Chinese Government has yielded "under pressure," and two British officers are to...

sugar refiners and Members of Parliament who wished to repre- sent the state of the sugar industry. They say they are over- matched by the beetroot-growers of France,—who...

Dr. Sigl - was a blundering one. Dr. Sigl had never been imprisoned, because the law had never been finally declared against him, and 3re escaped into Austria before his appeal...

annual growth of the Revenue as about £2,500,000 at the present moment. If so, Sir Stafford Northcote has been very moderate indeed in his estimates, for while his last year's...

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS AND THE MULTITUDE. T HE House of Commons never showed its characteristic sagacity more strikingly than on Thursday night in dis- cussing the propriety of...

S IR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE'S Budget was certainly not a sensational one, but he proposed in it by far the greatest scheme which has yet been laid before the country for the...

THERE is one peculiarity in the situation of Germany to which 1 Englishmen do not as yet, we think, pay quite sufficient at- tention. It is very doubtful whether the statesmen...

T HE Liberal Peers did not appear to advantage in Monday's debate upon Natal. There never was a case in which a Conservative statesman had more tight to expect fair treatnaent...

N the Paris correspondence of the Times there is some curious information as to the means by which some of the Paris journals fish for subscribers. Instead of covering every...

I T is pitiful and impressive to watch our National Church in the agony of a terrible doubt whether or not it may not be desirable for her just at present to make a few...

T HE House of Commons' Committee on Foreign Loans must, we suppose, continue its investigations, but there can be little doubt now that the House ' in sanctioning this method...

if it was not, as we have heard stated, actually more lenient than the law intended, may, considering all the circumstances, be re- garded as at least excusable. There was clear...

T HERE are very few men, or at least very few experienced men, who, if granted by Providence or a fairy, the fulfil- ment of some one wish would not, after deliberate...

N O kind of dogmatism is less reasonable or more common than the dogmatism of dramatic criticism. Each critic sees the character which is personated before him with his own...

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE IRISH CATHOLIC OATH. ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have read the elaborate letters of "An Irish Catholic" with great care, but I am not...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF TUB SPECTATOR.") Sta,—The defenders of "open spaces " and the public generally —more especially that great section of the public which spends • See, for both...

SIR,-4 abandon the field to so great a master of controversy as "An Irish Catholic " has shown himself to be. I am not sure whether he can claim credit for absolute originality,...

Sin,—Your able correspondent, "An Irish Catholic, " has sub- stantially vindicated Catholic honour in both the sister countries from Mr. Gladstone ' s insinuations. But his...

Sin,—Dr. Ernest Hart's definition of "cruelty" is so peculiar and original, that I think he ought to pardon us all if we have been hitherto guilty of misunderstanding him. That...

of last week you append the following com- ments :—"Mr. Hart, then, does not think the operation on the poor girl which was the origin of this correspondence 'cruel'? Assuredly...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I should have thought that the moral effect of repeated vivisection was too obvious to admit of discussion. Abernethy says that such...

DR. REYNOLDS'S LECTURES ON JOHN THE BAPTIST.* Tam is both an extremely learned and a very thoughtful book, which we could have wished to see compressed within more moderate...

TO THE UNKNOWABLE. 0 Tnou! whom men affirm we cannot 'know,' It may be we shall never see Thee nearer Than in the clouds, nor ever trace Thee clearer Than in that garment...

THERE are books of which we have so much to say, that when we have written the title of one of them at the head of our notice we have got over all the difficulty. It only needs,...

[FIRST NOTICE.] It is an old charge against us English that we allow the Germans to show greater appreciation of and to bestow far more attention on our great national poet...

Tins is, on the whole, a pleasant book of traveL Mr. Thomsop has no theory to ride, and but little ambition to do more than tell a plain story plainly, and considering the...

he might derive from a closer acquaintance with nature. He is never weary of dwelling upon the fact that close at our doors lies an inexhaustible store-house of models, an...

The British Quarterly Review. April. (Hodder and Stoughton.)— The first and most interesting article in this number is on the life of Gaspard de Coligny; it refers to. and is,...