T HERE has been a Revolution this week which may prove im- portant or not, according to the connection between its author and the Spanish Minister of War. Marshal Saldanha, who...

Hotiie of Com- mons. On Monday the debate turned chiefly on the advances to tenants to enable them to purchase their holdings, with regard to which it was determined that the...

mont, Legitimist convert to the Empire, pro-Austrian with few political opinions, becomes Foreign Secretary, in place of Count Darn ; M. Mole, of the Right Centre, moderately...

permis- sive fixity of tenure on Thursday night. He proposed to permit any landlord to exempt himself from the Irish Land Bill by granting his tenants perpetual leases, with...

May), and was opened by the Cardinal-Vicar Patrizzi. The Vatican tells us that the schema consists of four chapters, the first three of which refer to the primacy, and the last...

case.

Legis- latif on Wednesday, and the official numbers are ' 7,330,142 affirmative, to 1,538,825 negative, with 112,915 void bulletins. It is calculated that in 17 departments,...

last tele- gram from the colony announces a considerable defeat of Te Kooti by the friendly natives, with the slaughter of nineteen of his comrades and the capture of 300...

Mr. Oakley, of St. Saviour's, Horton, on the amendments re- quired to the Education Bill. We contend as strongly as he does for - the perfect freedom of the existing Church and...

marriage with a deceased wife's sister by the narrow majority of 4,-77 non-contents to 73 contents. Lord Houghton, Lord Lifford, Lord Lansdowne, Lord Kimberley, Lord Westbury,...

demands to be addressed to Greece. The French Government has, it is said, notified the Athenian Government that whenever henceforth a Frenchman is captured by brigands the State...

at play." A. week or so ago certain undergraduates of Christchurch broke into the library, and dragged from it and destreyed by fire some valuable works of art, among theava...

last Monday a very great improvement in the attitude of the Dis- senters towards the Government Education Bill,—and their decided preference for a religious as distinguished...

duty of Her Majesty's Government, in co-operation with the French Govern- ment, to improve the transit across the Channel ; and proceeded in a long speech to show, first, that...

ought to introduce men acquainted with Indian Mr. Graves on Tuesday introduced a resolution affirming that Government ought to introduce men acquainted with Indian commerce into...

reform M. Emile 011ivier hopes to introduce into French criminal procedure which will be found of interest. While agreeing, however, with the writer in his dislike of the...

ordinary murder, committed for greed, and remarkable only for the accident which led to the criminal's detection. Ho had killed Mr. Huelin in the empty house, and buried him...

Dr. Brewer, Mr. Goechen made an impressive as well as an amusing speech about the inmates of the casual wards. The vagrants, by which he meant those who look to the casual ward...

to give it, has given the Collar of the Order of Nobles to Madame 011ivier, who, not being noble, has no right to receive it. In Paris it is suggested that the Collar is a...

.pereon obtains a next presentation, either by purchase of sthe next presentation- simply, or by purchase of the advo w -son with an arrangement for procuring a vacancy, or by...

moderate -of all their requests. The Married Women's Property Bill, the -original Bill, which gives them their own, passed its second reading anWednesday without a division....

Temple's motion censuring Mr. Ayrton for his cavalier dismissal of the Architect to the House of Commons, Mr. E. Barry. Mr. Ayrton said he had not dismissed Mr. Barry at all,...

new Judi- -cature Bills in an able and extremely eloquent letter addressed to the Lord Chancellor. It is unfortunate that a slight flavour of - personal pique detracts from the...

a "friendly' one, to secure order, and we fear we shall soon hear of a pardon for Riell, his offence being treated as political. Empires Are not kept together so. The expedition...

THE DEATH-BED REPENTANCE OF TifF I COLONIAL OFFICE. W E sincerely congratulate the Government on its tardy conversion to the belief which for so many years we have expressed,...

T HERE must be something rotten not only in the organiza- tion of the government of New York but in the public opinion upon which that organization depends. It begins to be...

TT would not be easy to exaggerate the importance of the J. reform which M. Emile 011ivier proposes, in his recent Report to the Emperor, in the French Criminal Procedure. Not...

13ERNAL OSBORNE has revenged the wrongs of LVI many a Member on whom the present First Commis- sioner of Works has ruthlessly trampled, by dubbing Mr. Ayrton the "noble savage,"...

W E wonder whether Mr. Disraeli really believes in "Secret Societies" as effective political forces, or whether, like Dumas, Bulwer, Henry Kingsley, and Wilkie Coffins, he...

M R. BUXTON'S Bill for the Government of London will scarcely pass in its present form, and we cannot heartily wish it should. It is much too timid. What London is asking for is...

I S the Royal Family a constitutional institution, as well as the Throne? Because, if it is not, we think it might be let alone a little more, without any very imminent danger...

G EORGE ELIOT'S thought is so fall of poetry and her poetry so full of thought, that it is often difficult to deter- mine whether one whose themes are so far beyond the themes...

THE REFORM OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. To THE EDITOR OF TIIE SPECTATOILl SIR,-I observe that the Spectator takes favourable notice of a scheme lately published in the Pall Mall...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE .` SPECTATOR:I am very sorry if I have misunderstood you ; you will remember that I expressed a doubt of having quite understood you. Nor am I clear upon...

[To ma EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIH i —Allow me to protest against your application of the phrase a "meagre device" to Miss Julia's Wedgwood's argument in favour of Woman...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SII2,—The excepting of the Heads of Houses from the operation of the University Tests' Bill, of which you speak in your issue of last week, is...

MR. ARNOLD ON ST. PAUL." IT is not easy to express strongly enough either the depth of our agreement with, or the depth of our dissent from, the doctrine of these remarkable...

IN July, 1586, Giordano Bruno came to Marburg, and during the next five years he led a wanderer's life about Germany. His first experiences in that country were not pleasant,...

GIVEN an exquisitely beautiful girl without heart or conscience, to find out what she is most likely to do. That is the problem which these volumes propose to solve. We believe...

THE Ilistory of France by M. Ernie de Bonnechose is generally recognized, at least for educational purposes, as the best. One therefore turns with hopefulness to a biography of...

The Visible Unity of the Catholic Church. By M. J. Rhodes. 2 - vols. (Lengmans.) — Mr. Rhodes' work bears the imprimatur of Archbishop Manning; and has, as he tells us, as far...

wrote a book of merit and interest, which many of our readers will probably remember, "My Bush Friends in Tasmania." We cannot say that wo have been favourably impressed with...

W. Chetwynd. 2 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—." Mademoiselle d'Estan- villa " is the daughter of a noble French Inoue, reduced by the extrava- gance of D'Estanville pare to a...

B.A. (Tab- ner.)—It is needless to speak at length of this volume, which presents the same characteristics as its predecessors, except that it is expressed with more moderation,...

2 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—The plot of this story turns upon the point of a wrongful ownership of property. This strikes us, we are bound to say, as being the weakest part of...

of Railways and Stations in London and its Environs. It is surprising, or, perhaps, not surprising, when we consider how intricate is the subject, that so few people are...

by Mr. W. S. Dallas. (Murray.)—It deals with the natural history of the Crustacea, to which Dr. Muller has devoted especial attention, and in which he believes himself to have...

written for "sheer amusement" do not, for the most part, produce the same result when they are read. They remind us of the "easy writing" which a great authority declared to be...

Walford's very useful Extracts from Cicero. (The Clarendon Press.)—Part II. contains selections from that treasury of "ghost stories" the "Do Divinatione," which may be called...