present Sessions, Juries have shown some readiness to convict, and this even in agrarian cases. In one case of intimidation, seven prisoners were found guilty, and in another...

the Ring Theatre, Vienna, were not exaggerated, but minimised. Instead hf 300 victims, nearly 900 were probably burned or crushed to death, official certainty having been...

has created much interest in London. The place was between Canonbury and Finsbury Park, in the tunnel under Highbury, which is always a scene of excessive traffic, the trains...

Tunis scandal. The " Compagnie Marseillaise," a financing company, bought Khaireddin Pasha's estate, the Enfida—" bigger than Middlesex "—for £100,000. Thereupon, M. Levy, a...

HE Rochefort-Roustan trial in Paris is a most discreditable scandal. M. Rochefort, who from the first has denounced the Tunis expedition, recently declared in his paper that it...

that the expedition was made for " financial, " that is, " corrupt," motives, and that M. Rochefort, even if in error as to details, had acted rightly in exposing the...

case.

for the protection of property in Ireland, was hardly a success. It - was not a City meeting at all, though the Lord Mayor and one or two City men attended it, but a West-end...

Mr. Sydney Buxton took the very sensible line of congratulating the country on the amount of public speaking during the Recess, which would, he said, help political knowledge to...

same meeting of the Bromley Liberal Association, of which he has accepted the office of president for the ensuing year. He remarked that Lord Salisbury and the Con- servatives,...

at Westminster, for erecting a monument to the late Dean Stanley, Dr. Bradley, the new Dean, on taking the chair, explained the object of the gathering in a few dignified and...

in answering to a toast on Tuesday at an agricultural dinner held at Lewes, criticised some strictures on the whole class of land- lords which had just been passed by a former...

Ply- mouth, for his sobriety and moderation, but almost at the time we were writing, yesterday week, he was making a very violent speech at the Chichester Conservative...

of Crawford have entirely failed, and it is believed that the family will very soon give up the search. They wish it to be known, it is stated, that they are certain the body...

a very able lecture to the Art students of the Academy last Saturday, in which he at once traversed the ethical theory of Art,—that which ascribes all its vitality and force to...

to Chili and Peru that he did not intend to use force to compel them to come to terms. Accordingly, on Novem- ber 22nd, Mr. Blaine addressed to Mr. Hurlbut, the American...

the condition of Ireland. He assured his audience that the news- paper reports were not exaggerations, that murder and arson were rife through the greater part of Ireland, that...

greater than ever. It was supposed that Prince Bismarck would court an alliance with the Centre; but his organs have abused the Ultramontane leader, Herr Windthorst, in no...

ago paid the penalty of his too great faith in the safety of balloons. Ascending, on Saturday last, with Captain Templer end Mr. Agg-Gardner, from Bath, the balloon drifted...

the University of Aberdeen his chief adviser on educational affairs—his secular chaplain, in fact—Dr. James Donaldson, Rector of the High School of Edinburgh. The selection...

THE IRISH PROPERTY DEFENCE FUND. W HETHER the Lord Mayor of London's effort to assist in the defence of property in Ireland is to do good or harm, depends entirely on what the...

M ANY years ago, in the height of the Cattle Plague, a Yorkshire squire was heard to clinch a long argument in favour of the compensation for slaughtered cattle by the remark,...

T HERE is one idea of Democracy which we observe almost everywhere in the world, Switzerland being, per- haps, the only marked exception, and which we believe to be wholly...

W E do not quite understand the outburst of jealousy excited in some quarters by the publication of the recent American Despatches upon the relations of Chili and Peru. They are...

T HE Liberal Members of Parliament who have, unfor- tunately, joined in the request for the remission of the sentence on the Bribers, have made a very serious mistake. Indeed,...

W E do not propose to say much about the ghastly incidents of the railway collision at Canonbury. The horrors that must always accompany the wreck of a train crowded with...

rr HE characteristic powers and defects of Sir Bartle Frere are notably illustrated in his Nineteenth-Century papers on the Scottish Land Question. He is right in fixing upon...

T HE letter of our correspondent, " T. A. Lacey," will ap- pear to many of our readers the strongest argument yet published against negotiations with the Vatican. There is a...

T HE catastrophe at the Ring Theatre, Vienna, will prove, we fear, by far the greatest of the kind which has occurred in modern Europe. A much greater one happened in Santiago,...

M R. LOWELL, the American Minister, who generally contrives to beat his English friends in saying the ha . , piest thing at meetings where nothing is so desirable as to say what...

A NECDOTES of ludicrous, or worse than ludicrous mistakes occasioned by bad handwriting are numerous enough. Some of them are as obviously invented as Moore's "freshly-blown...

THE MENTAL SECLUSION OF INDIA. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] you kindly allow me, though quite ignorant of the art of writing to the papers, to make a few remarks upon...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sxa,—The Spectator has been indulgent to correspondents lately. May I be indulged? I respect Mr. Green sincerely, but I have scant...

ro THE. EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] S1R, — You have allowed yourself to be misled by Sir Arthur Hayter into a ridiculous misstatement about Colonel Stanley, Sir Arthur was so...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — It was not anything that my friend Mr. Llewelyn Davies said in his recent letters to the Spectator that made me think that he was in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,— Numerous petitions have been sent to her Majesty pray- ing for the release of the Rev. S. F. Green from Lancaster Gaol. The Home...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—You seem to assume that no objection to the renewal of diplomatic relations with the Pope need be regarded, save that which arises from...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " ErECTATOR."1 SIR,—S0 very candid a friend of the Bishop of Manchester as is the Rev. J. W. Horsley must on no account be accused of having misrepresented...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j Slit , - I ant sure we ought all to thank you for your courage in protesting against the false sentiment which is being excited on behalf...

PROFESSOR MASSON ON DE QUINCEY.* IT is a pleasant duty to begin a notice of Professor Massou's latest work with a cordial eulogium. We have him here, not certainly at his best,...

Jr there be less of original handling in Mr. Church's stories from Herodotus than there necessarily was in the stories from Homer and from the Athenian Dramatists, there is even...

Miss ETHEL COXON takes for the motto of her second novel one of the most striking sentences in Middlemarch, perhaps the one that gives the reader the truest measure of the...

passed away since an advertisement in the Quarterly Review announced a new edition of Pope's works, under the editorship of John Wilson Croker and Peter Cunningham. The promised...

THIS, though certainly not one of those abiding works which are the outcome of deep, earnest thought, " taking root down- wards and bearing fruit upwards," is, nevertheless, an...

Tar: faculty that enables a writer to produce a really satisfac- tory book for children, a book at which the candid young folks will not look askance, tolerating it only for the...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. The Magazine of Art, 1881. (Cassell and Co.)—Nearly fifty full- page illustratious, and four or five times as many of a smaller size, together with a great...

Fane. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—The "savage " is the daughter of an enthusiast, Francis St. Clair, who has married a gipsy girl, and who, after her death, devotes his life...

and Son.)—In these volumes, of which we have now the first of four before us, Mr. Archer " proposes to recount the wonder- ful story of the half-century." An introductory...

W. B. Odgers, M.A. LL.D. (Stevens and Sons.)—In this digest not only has every reported case decided in England or Ireland during the last fifteen years been noticed—so, at...

Edited by C. E. Pascoe. (Griffith and Farran.)—Wo have no reason to be dissatisfied with this book, if we remember what may fairly be expected from it. These scholars, past and...

of the sixpenny issue of the Ingoldsby Legends, "People's Edition," contain- ing forty illustrations the originals of which were the productions of Cruickshank, Leech, and...

Art Journal, the plate illustrations this month being by M. L. Menpes, P. F. Poole, and J. E. Millais.—Art and Letters.—The Magazine of Art.—No. 1 of a serial illustrated...