Conference, praying that body. to assist the Church in resisting Mr. Coleridge's Bill for the abolition of University Tests. That Bill, he says, will legitimize the strife...

Throne, Church, and Constitution," held on Mon- day at the Crystal Palace, was a failure. Lord Fitzwalter (Sir Brook Brydges) was the only peer present, Mr. Newdegate the only...

T HE Empire has sustained a severe blow. For the first time since the coup d'etat an agricultural department has elected an avowedly Republican member. M. Huot, a most...

Higgins, better known as "Jacob Omnium," and perhaps the ablest member of a confrateruity peculiar to the nineteenth century, the guerilla journalists. Mr. Higgins never edited...

in Great Britain, happened to the Irish mail train on Thursday, near Abergele. The train was going at the rate of about forty miles an hour when it crashed into some waggons,...

protest against their expulsion from Spain, which is said to have affected the Queen exceedingly. We can quite believe it. Though decorously worded, it is an unmistakable...

William Scully, a well known landlord, being this time the assailant. He ordered his tenants on a new estate called Ballycoohey in Tipperary to sign leases binding them to...

a speech of extraordinary brilliancy and power. He denounced the Irish Church as the church of a minority "forced upon a whole people by external power," a symbol of ascendancy...

new cause. He is going round to all the corrupt little boroughs lecturing them on the evil of their ways, doing, in short, the kind of work a first- class Bishop could do, and...

appears from a telegram dated Rio de Janeiro, and therefore unscrupu- lously Brazilian, that the Marquis de Caxias delivered the long threatened attack upon Humaita on the 16th...

that the subscriptions to the loan of 18,000,000/. amounted to 600 , 000 I 000/., or 31 times as much. No less than 781,292 p-rsons sent in applications, and the cash deposit...

for the Advancement of Science for this year, and delivered his inaugural address on Wednesday at Norwich. We have mentioned one feature of his speech elsewhere, his advice that...

trans- lated from the Kioto Government Gazette, of one of the first debates in the Japanese House of Assembly, organized apparently during the recent revolution. The subject was...

on a new system of shoeing horses. Its inventor, M. Charlier, contends that the present shoe destroys the horse's foot, and substitutes for it an iron band, let into a...

the rush of applications has alarmed the Government, and the grant of civil leave has been suspended, under a clause reserving that power to the State. This difficulty will work...

including all the five Powers, have signed an agreement binding them mutually to assist the museums of Europe in procuring "casts and copies of national objects for the...

is that of unorganized civil war. White society is honeycombed with secret associations, whose members carry arms and bind themselves to put down negroes, while the Blacks seem...

way in which local museums are built and located. They are usually ordinary houses, imperfectly lighted, huddled away in dirty streets, and filled with the dust which destroys...

Mr. Ducane as Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and that Sir M. H. Beach be- .comes Under Secretary for the Home Department, vice Sir James Fergusson, neither of them appointments...

of the Wesleyan Conference, and who is clearly a Wesleyan, gives a remarkable account of the decline among them of propa- gandist feeling. "The Wesleyans cannot advocate one...

in the same city, but his speech was of the strictly partizan kind, and he descended to the assertion that if the Liberals obtained power upon the Irish Church question they...

upon Bulgaria through the Principalities. It is stated that the Austrian Government has prohibited the export of arms to Roumania, Servia, and Bosnia, and it is noticed that a...

Home Securities have been very inactive this week, and prices have had a downward tendency. Yesterday, Consols, for money, left off at 93.1, ; 1Liduced and New Three per Cents.,...

that he intends to meet the crash of traffic on that line by increasing the number of carriages in each train from five to six, and by increasing the trains until there shall be...

off at the annexed quotations :— Aug.21. :4 • 37 05 Brazilian, 186.5 Egyptian, 1664 Italian Mexican Aug. 14 77 851 591 151 Ang.21. 771 851 51 144 Russian (Angio-Dutch)...

off at the annexed quotations Aug. 21. Aug. 14. Aug. H. 364 Lon.. Chatham,i Dover 101 191 106 Metropolitan 1164 1111 44 Midland 100 10r4 130 Nrth-Eseteru, Berwick...

DISRAELI AS AN ELECTIONEERING AGENT. M OST Tories distrust Mr. Disraeli, and many Tories cor- dially dislike him, but we never met one yet who had not a profound faith in his...

P EOPLE who care to understand Continental politics, that is, the inter-relation of three out of the four active races .of mankind, will do well to read, and read with some...

significance in the very name of the Lost Cause, by which citizens of the Southern States remember their late struggle. The old arrogant tone of the slaveholding fire-eaters has...

T WO out of the three judicial appointments under the Parliamentary Elections' Act will take the public, the Bar, and the House of Commons by surprise. Sir W. B. Brett was...

week ago to that remarkable freedom from crime which for years past has distin- guished Ireland among European countries, we took care to mark out a significant exception. We...

T last our Universities are beginning to stir. Dr. Pusey has made a desperate attempt to enlist the Wesleyan onference in favour of Sectarian Colleges at Oxford. But almost at...

W E can scarcely wonder at that feeling of irritable dislike for dogmatic theology which so many physicists entertain, and which Dr. Hooker expressed so clearly in his brilliant...

A DISCUSSION is going on, in which we may as well join, as to whether political life as a profession pays, whether it is worth the while, as we understand it, of an educated...

" A NTIENTLY a City, now a Borough," is the description which Thomas Gardner gives of Dunwich in 1754. The Reform Bill of 1832 robbed it of this title, and now, though still...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The case of " Rivington versus Hopwood" calls atten- tion to an evil which has often been neglected by newspaper writers as too small...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I hope that you will imitate the courage you so much admire in Bishop Hinds, by publishing some remarks of mine en your article...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—I am unwilling to make any further demand on your space, but in justice to myself I must ask leave to say that I purposely refrained...

go THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—On my arrival in Paris last week I was told that the Medical School of the University of Paris was at length actually open to women,...

Ix the quiet city park, Between the dawn and the dark, Loud and clear, That all may hear, Sings the Lark. And beyond the low black line Of trees the dawn peeps red, And clouds...

SIR ROBERT COLLIER'S CROWN ORATION.* ALTHOUGH the translation of the Crown Oration of Demosthenes by Sir Robert Collier was printed for private circulation only, its merits are...

CO-OPERATION is just now in fashion. A gradual rise in prices during the last few years has made careful housewives look round them for means of retrenchment, and the striking...

WE cannot see that any distinct principle has guided Mr. Charles Knight in making this selection. His object has apparently been to make a selection. Some of the letters in the...

lectures is very opportune. Dean Ramsay is a wise, humorous Scotch Episcopalian, very orthodox, but accustomed to live among people who are not Episcopalians, and, therefore,...

This is a book which for two reasons deserves a welcome from the public. It records the impressions of an intelligent and well informed American, with regard to an important...

Wayland Chetwynde. (Tinsley.)—We hope that Mrs. Chotwynde does not set much value upon her plot, which seems to as about as weak and wildly Improbable an affair as we have often...

The title does not exactly describe the book, for we do not reach Queen. Bertha or her times till we have got very nearly half through it. It is,, in fact, a description of the...

Robert James Mann. (Virtue and Co.)—Dr. Mann, who is Superintendent-General of Education in the colony, writes a book which can hardly fail to be very useful. It gives full...

The Mission of St. Francis de Sales in the Chablais. By Lady Herbert. (Bentley.)—The Chablais was " converted " at the end of the sixteenth century, that is to say, it came...

and Ot'ey.)—Isolated scenes and passages in this novel are fairly good. Tho flood among the Welsh mountains, for instance, is well described, and Mr. Rico shows some little...

Macdonald Henderson. (Skeet.)—Tho title promised an interesting book. Captain Henderson is quite right in thinking that recent events in Jamaica give a special interest to an...

and not without a certain vigour of language ; but we cannot go further in praise. Granny's Tale, by Harr jet Cave, is very poor stuff indeed The Harvest, an Allegory, by Mrs....

Smith.) —Mr. Sharpe is so eminent as a Biblical scholar, that we are bound to give our best attention to what he advances. He gives us in this volume a. chronology of the reigns...

of Mr. S. SoterOpoulos. Translated by the Rev. J.0. Bagdon. 2 vols. (Saunders, ()Hey, and Co.)—This is a book which, without any pretence to literary value, possesses remarkable...