on the Army Bill has been, as we expected it would be, compromised, partly, no doubt, through the disinclination of the Liberals to avail themselves in any way of Ultramontane...

with too much prolixity indeed, and with a certain tendency to blander as to arithmetical detail . which re- minded one more of the results .of Mr. Lowe's defective vision than...

with the Roman Church. On Wednesday, Archbishop Ledochowski's case was tried before the Ecclesiastical Tribunal at Berlin, and the Archbishop not appealing, he was condemned in...

T HE French Government has finally decided that the Septennat shall not be considered an interregnum, but a substantive Government, established for a period of years. M....

and expenditure, if no change were to be made in the taxation, would be as follows :— REVENUE. EXPENDITURE. aust01313 420,740,000 Interest on Debt ... 426.700,000...

case.

is going on, and while it matures, General Manuel Concha inspects -the enemy, and the Carlists inspect him, and officers of both armies have comfortable afternoon conferences,...

of the surplus as follows :- 1. EXTRA EXPENDITURE. Subvention to the Comity Lunatic Asylums (for this year) ... £240,000 Subvention to the Police Rate ... ... 600,000...

except that the Daily News' correspondent has reported the completion of the Railway to Durbungah, a splendidly rapid bit of work, which will save the district, and reflects the...

is in a terrible state of mind. The Turkish Government insists that he shall adhere to the contract rates of charge on vessels passing through the Canal. M. de Lesseps thereupon...

made a most weighty speech, quite the most im- portant delivered during the Famine. He spoke of the remark- able conflict of opinion in India about the famine itself, but he...

a majority in the American Congress, both Houses having now passed a Bill for inflating the currency. The authorised cir- culation of greenbacks or legal-tender notes has been...

surplus of £5,492,000, as before. "What was he to do with all this money ? " He had had plenty of advice. The various depu- tations he had received had amongst them proposed to...

half Regent Street and then fails should go to prison. It is veiy right that an artisan or labourer whose wife has bought useless dresses -on credit should go to prison. That is...

to us inevitable that he should decide, that the blundering about polling-places at Hackney has invalidated the election of Sir Charles Reed and Mr. Holma. The question turned...

has decided that the Exeter reredos is an illegal ornament of Exeter Cathedral,—in other words, that the alto-relievo carvings upon it are offences against the law which...

the 'parable of a Penny a, Day pitched at his head, and here it is, with some other texts, thrown by Lady Stradbroke. Her ladyship tells the Bishop that there is no combination...

be interred in Westminster Abbey. Before burial it was necessary that the body should be identified, a work of much difficulty, as the features were indistinguishable, the limbs...

Solicitor- General. Mr. Huddleston was to have been, but Mr. 'Ellett, -of Norwich, put in his veto on Mr. Huddleston's re-election for Norwich, in punishment for the insults the...

the gout, but meetings like that of the Conservative Club at Birmingham on Friday week must try it a little. There are only two chances for the Liberal party at present. One is...

THE BUDGET. T HE Budget is respectable and sensible, but a little timid. Sir Stafford Northcote has not only not made the dramatic use of his enormous surplus which Mr....

W E do not like the recent intelligence from the United States at all. As far as we can gather, the Western and South-Western men, who now, from their numbers, rule the Union,...

discovered the secret, and with the calm superiority of age and experience discloses it to the world. It knows why the Gladstone Ministry fell, why the people deserted its chief...

S IR JOHN LUBBOCK'S anxiously moderate Bill for securing the country against the results of the ignorance and folly of its inhabitants in their mode of dealing with ancient...

T HE contest between the farmers and their men has not spread much this week, except in Suffolk, but it is visibly becoming embittered. The farmers openly reject Mr. R. Temple's...

T HE late war had no sooner come to an end, than projects for fresh fortifications around Paris were broached on all sides. It was not only Frenchmen with talents for...

T HE great meeting at the Mansion House on Tuesday to further the Subscription for sufferers by the Indian Famine was in one way a success. Lord Salisbury stated, in a speech...

n UR lively correspondent of last week, "A Busy Old Maid," might have made even more of one of her points, —the vast importance to the community of the maiden aunts,' who are...

BEUL1 .0 4, who died in Paris the other day with a strange .01, suddenness, would have been nothing more than a scholar and a writer of the second class, if he had been an...

THE FAMINE IN BENGAL. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] North Behar, March 19, 1874. :SINCE my last letter I have been over a considerable area in North Behar. That letter...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPEomfame."] have read your amusing critique on Sir John Lubbock's experiments on the sagacity of bees, and although "the little busy bee" was as much my...

THE FLOWER MISSION. [TO THE Enrroa OF THE "SPECTATOR'] have read the article on this subject in Macmillan, and I laid it down without being able to bestow on it the unqualified...

SIR,-If the writers of the two letters in your last number care to read what I have said about the obvious difficulty of worker-bees and ants being sterile, and therefore...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I am a poor stop, with a grievance, and a grievance you alone can remove. I have been familiar with your paper ever since its first...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Both the friends and the foes of an Established Church appear to think that the Church of England has a prospect of, at all events, a...

PICTURES ON LOAN AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION. WILKIE, Constable, Roberts, and Egg are the four oil-painters this year specially selected for representation at South...

MR. FRO UDE'S ENGLISH IN IRELAND.* MR. FM:JUDE has published two more volumes of his history of the English in Ireland, but we do not know that we have anything to add to our...

Theresa the Pilgrim were ever so much more numerous than they are, her readers ought to pardon them, in consideration of the extraordinary spirit which pervades her book, and...

THE narrative of Mr. Ellis's life was worth writing, and his biographer has, on the whole, accomplished what must always be * Life of William Ellis. By his Son, John Eimeo...

by results in disregarding the advice which, as he tells us in his preface, the Palestine Exploration Fund gives to private adventurers,—" Don't I " That he made any great...

THE records of this regiment, which was long ago known as " Leven's " or "The Edinburgh," present several points of in- terest from the circumstances of its formation, from its...

Two Years in Peru. By Thomas L Hutchinson. 2 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Here are two stout volumes, full of antiquarian learning, shrewd observation of men and things, and...

this book is the appendix, which consists chiefly of Acts of Parliament. The writers have also inserted the schedule of rules approved by the Institute of British Architects....