Archbishop of Canterbury, the judgment of the Privy Council on the appeal in the Jenkins case. He decided that Mr. Jenkins had a right to Communion, and that nothing which he...

of Commerce on Wednesday, and made a speech in which he noticed the strong revival of national feeling. "There is a kind of sensation, a thrill, a longing for action, a desire...

reservation, that the revenues of Bosnia and the Herzegovina should not be spent within them. The provinces are only to have a portion of their taxes spent on public works. This...

won them all, but none of them are very encouraging to the cause. Mr. Rylands carried Burnley on Saturday by 3,520 to 3,077 votes given to Mr. Lindsay, but the Conservatives...

case.

IVTR. DISRAELI on Thursday applied for leave to bring in a Bill AIR. her Majesty to add to her titles, the addition to be made being one to express sovereigntyoverIndia. He did...

Suez Canal Shares did not come off. Sir Stafford Northcote, in apply, ing for permission to borrow £4,000,000 from the Commissioners of the National Debt, who are to receive the...

week at the City of London College for young men. He said that if England's commercial position was to improve, and more and more of her sons to devote themselves to commerce,...

as to the exchange of the Gambia for the French settle- ments on the Gold Coast, an exchange discussed by successive Governments. They seem to us to amount to this :—If...

the Turners' Company, one of the oldest and poorest Guilds in the City of London. He made an amusing speech, alluding to his own acquaintance with the use of the axe which the...

Mr. Sclater-Booth on Friday week introduced a Bill to secure uniformity of assessment, by associating the Government Surveyor of Taxes with the local assessing authority....

the international law in relation to fugitive slaves re- ceived on board Government vessels is an unusually imposing one. It is to consist of the Duke of Somerset, Sir Alexander...

war. General Martinez Campos has succeeded in getting between the Carlista and France, and if Don Carlos loses a battle near Vera, his escape may be matter of difficulty....

his "Increase of the Episcopate" Bill, of which he moved the second reading on Wednesday. Candid friends in all parts of the House assured him it would not do. Mr. Henley...

Professor Fawcett in the chair, to consider the action of the Government in relation to their Fugitive-Slave Circulars, and to condemn it. Mr. Fawcett vehemently protested that...

the World. On Thursday his counsel applied to the Court of Queen's Bench for a rule nisi against the publisher of that paper, on the ground that the World had accused...

rejoinder to the strange article on Bishop Thirlwall's tomb, all the bitternesses of which were apparently aimed at the Dean of Westminster, published in the Saturday Review of...

-modify the law as to crossed cheques, which has recently been so interpreted by the Judges as to make the utility of the crossing very problematic, or at least, very much less...

article on the mania for old china, that in 1836 his own house and Messrs. Babcock's were the only curiosity-dealers in Hanway Yard, and there were but six others in all London....

yet again finding them wanting. He has placed a glass hive on a pole, and on the other side of the pole has contrived a wooden promenade for the ants, with paper bridges from it...

light exercises a repelling force in a vacnum to weigh the light of a candle. He uses the repelling power so as to twist a certain glass thread round and round, and the number...

succeeded as Minister at Lisbon by one of the ablest of our diplomatists, who has hitherto filled the post of British Chargé d'Affairs of Munich. Germany has recently been one...

SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE ON THE SUEZ CANAL. S IR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE'S statement about the Suez Canal on Monday night fell, we are told, rather. dead upon the House. Mach of it...

T HERE will be many inclined to regret that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in giving judgment in the case of "Jenkins v. Cook," did not go out of their way to...

- A (R. CROSS'S Bill to amend the law relating to the Inclo- 1.11 sure of Commons has at least this merit, that it will draw attention to a very important question, which it is...

I F the comparative merits of a project for constr u cting--a I new Court of Final Appeal, and of a project for recon- structing the House of Lords as a Court of Final Appeal,...

W E have often pointed out before, but it is difficult to point out too often, the grand imperfection of Prince Bismarck's otherwise very powerful intellect. He never can...

M R. GRANT DUFF kept back his Elgin speech this year till close upon the meeting of Parliament. Had it been a speech of the usual stamp, the delay would have been fatal to its...

taken of "Domesday Book." The Local do not wonder at the comparatively slight notice hitherto t Govern- ment Office has, of course, not presumed to step beyond its Parliamentary...

rilHE debate of Monday on the Queen's new title, and the discussion which has followed it, have not been very exhaustive or very interesting, but Mr. Forster's suggestion seems...

I N his last entertaining and instructive book,* Mr. Proctor gives us an account of the calculations and observations made on the size of the Dog Star, its distance from us, its...

T HE Report of the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the subject of experimentation on living animals for scientific purposes has been presented to the Queen and laid...

LIBERAL POLICY AND THE CRIMEAN WAR. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIN—I wish to protest against the application of such terms as "change of front" and "so novel a course...

[To his EDITOR Or sracra1es.1 Sus,—To-day, for the first time, I have seen Lord Southesk's letter to you on the subject of the comparative strength of grisly bears and tigers....

[TO TER EDITOR OF TES "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent, "Queen's Bishop," asks for confirma- tion of his opinion that good chess-players are good draughtsmen. My father...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF TER SPROTATOR.") Si,—In a recent article on "Misquotation," you said that foreign poets were uniformly more correctly quoted than English ones by our writers....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The parish churchyard for every parishioner, with what service, decent and orderly, the parishioner pleases ; why not also the parish...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you permit me to call your attention to an incident of the recent election at Burnley ? Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bright wrote letters in support...

MY SONG. You ask a song, Such as of yore, an autumn's eventide, Some blest boy-poet caroll'd,—and then died. Nay, I have sung too long. Say, shall I fling A sigh to Beauty at...

the expression "a school of mackerel" is as invariably used as "a shoal of herring." I speak from experience, baying seen a village depopulated, its church and chapels deserted,...

LORD PALMERSTON.* (FIRST NOTICE.] THESE volumes will be even more eagerly read, and probably will better satisfy the curiosity of Englishmen as to the great poli- tical figure...

Mn. RAMERTON has given us the rare treat of an intellectual surprise. We open his book expecting an hour's pleasant enter- tainment by a writer of known ability, and we find a...

Sin - JOHN KAYE'S third volume, recounting the story of the Sepoy Mutiny and its wide-stretching consequences, does not advance the narrative further than the fall of Delhi, in...

and final reliques are, as a rule, apt to be disappointing. The rich sheaves have already been 'garnered, and the gleaner'a bundle makes but a poor show com- pared with them. As...

We do not feel inclined to criticise this book. It is like the sermon of a vigorous revivalist. The author means it to rouse men out of their apathy, and it is certainly not...

The Expositor. Vol. IL Edited by the Rev. Samuel Cox. (Hodder / and Stoughton, and Strahan.)—There is plenty of valuable matter here, though it is, sometimes at least, expressed...

(Lewis Smith, Aberdeen; Blackwood, Edinburgh and London.)—A copious history, which seems to contain an account of everything that one can possibly want to know about the past...

Hall.) —" Marie Denton," the longest and most important of these tales, is a tragical story. A. man condemned to transportation for life comes back, and haves it out in the...

good, healthy book for boys, with plenty of stirring scenes and adven- tures, ranging from the Arctic regions to the South Seas, and from Persia to California. With a good moral...

Dougall, F.S.A. F.Z.S. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This book is more precisely described as a "Treatise on the Art of Shooting." It will have more interest for proficients in the...

Collins. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—The former of these two stories is constructed after a model with which Mr. Collins has already made us familiar. A sturdy squire of the...