T HE week has been marked by what is called "a constitutional crisis." The Lords on Monday passed a vote intended to be equivalent to a rejection of the Army Bill, and on...

debate, the dread entertained by the House of abolishing Pur- chase, and made in reply a most able speech, by very far the most convincing one he ever made in his life, one...

speech of singular acrimony and singular poverty of political capacity and prudence. He urged that the House would not be afraid to re- ject the Bill on the ground that, if the...

of the majority all show that their wish was to protect that mode of promotion. The Duke of Rutland's point, for example, was that purchase and professional education were quite...

from the ruck was Lord Derby, who, in the most serenely sensible and annoying manner warned the Peers to take care leet they made fouls of themselves. He disposed of the...

any case.

Ministerial policy as " high-handed, but not illegal," depre- ciating the Liberal majority, and asking why Purchase had not been abolished by Warrant at once. But in the next...

speech against Purchase, dropped one extremely improper remark. He said he would not call the web which imprisoned the Army a spider's web ; he would drop the spider, "for the...

Com- mons the course which the Government intended to pursue in consequence of the defeat of the Army Bill on Monday in the House of Lords. He explained that the Lords had not...

W. Pook, the person accused of the Milani murder, was given, after a trial in which the conduct of the police in getting up the case was sub- jected to the severest censure by...

for some reason he was not at his ease in his reply. Perhaps it was the lateness of the hoar and the heat of the night. He protested against the Marquis of Salisbury's...

130,—but it is stated that among "the Peers of the realm" Government gained a positive majority of one (146 to 145, in- cluding pairs), and were defeated only by the...

Green- wich, as we have remarked elsewhere, is extremely violent and definite against the accused, and on Saturday, Monday, and Tuesday great crowds assembled before his...

the .pyx of the Mint," was performed on Tuesday. The trial, despite its grotesque name, is of importance, the Goldsmiths' Com- pany, which is independent of the Government,...

contributors to a dislike of letters, and write to remon- strate. They are entirely mistaken. The paper was not levelled at correspondents at all, but at a single class of...

the manslaughter of Mr. F. Moon on the same day as that on which Mr. Pook was acquitted, and sentenced by Baron Chaunell • to eight years' penal servitude, a sentence which...

against Miss Jex Blake have written to the Scotsman to express their great regret at the award of the judge that she should pay the costs (about £600). The result of the award...

of divisions, and hundreds of petty obstructive speeches, during the past week. Amendments providing such important matters as,—that the voter may be identified on a scrutiny...

Mr. Home and his "psychic force," in the Quarterly Journal of Science, noticed in these columns a fortnight ago, that a paper, to the same effect as the article, was offered by...

cent. on the raw materials used in French manufactures has been rejected. The Budget Committee of the Assembly rejected it by 17 to 5, and a modified proposal of a 6 per cent....

held on Tuesday last of the lecturers at Surgeons' Hall, Edinburgh, a motion was brought forward to rescind the permission given last summer to the lecturers, who desired to...

the 'Contagious Diseases' Act this year, the Commission appointed to inquire into them having reported in their favour on physical grounds, but doubtfully on moral grounds. We...

-day. This girl, a nursemaid only fifteen years old, is believed to have a mania for witnessing or causing death, being accused of killing cats, birds, as well as four children...

N EITHER Lord Salisbury, who, though not nominally, really headed the opposition to the Army Regulation Bill, nor Lord Granville, who, of course, both nominally and really led...

THE "CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS." M R. GLADSTONE has acted with splendid nerve, but in truth he had no option. He was compelled either to defeat the Lords, or to allow them to...

T HE grand subject of speculation just now among political Frenchmen is the probable action of M. Gambetta, who appears, except M. Thiers, to be the only "personage" left in...

T HERE ought to be no shadow of doubt about the willingness of Government and the eagerness of Parliament to favour the application which has been made by scientific• men for...

p ARLIAMENT has little time to attend to anything but English affairs ; but we cannot avoid the expression of a hope that the Commons will give a few minutes to the recent...

I T is difficult to imagine a harder task than the one which M. Pouyer-Quertier has before him, or one in which a financier like Mr. Gladstone, a man with a true financial...

"T IIE Daily News of Thursday contained a curiously suggestive letter from a pauper. The man, George Atkins Brine, • originally a charity-boy at Sherborne, Dorsetshire, and...

T HERE are three rude popular impressions as to matters of justice prevalent just now in Londou,—that the claimant in the Tichborne case is the real Sir Roger, and is kept out...

LIFE OF THE FIRST EARL OF SHAFTESBURY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE usrserseolt..1 Sin,—An instructed and conscientious reviewer must always be welcomed by an honest author, and such...

[TO ME EDITOR OF me "SPECTATOR.") am not insensible of the incredulous air of the concluding sentence in the review you have done me the honour to write on "Seadrift." You are...

"SPECTATOR."] a notice of a little Latin book of mine in your number of July 15, you express a doubt as to the correct Latinity of " (yerire baton," " to open a school," and "...

FROM HEINE. In TEACH SAM ICH DIE GIELIEBTE." DREAMIN(1, I saw the beloved one, A woman careworn and pale, Now withered away aud faded The form once blooming and hale. One...

" ELLE ETAIT BELLE SI LA NUIT." FAIR was she, if the Night that sleeps Within the chapel bare, Where Angelo has made her couch, All-motionless, is fair. Good was she, if it...

THE "SPECTATOR.") Siu,—The arguments of the Birmingham working-men may go too far, but I question whether an opposition to the allowance to Prince Arthur necessarily implies...

MISS AUSTEN'S POSTHUMOUS PIECES.* As we noticed- but latelyt the somewhat slight, but still interesting memoir of Miss Austen, by Mr. Austen Leigh, we need only refer now to the...

Winn NOTIOE.] THIS book is in two parts, the second containing a valuable collection of materials for a history of the development of religion. We will reserve it for our...

and triumphant, till the sadness of the outer life pre- veils, and the triumph is of the spirit only. The events are laid ingly the course which our own conviction pointed out...

Messrs. Crowe and Cavalcaselle have now added to their former labours deal with many painters of littlo note, and but few of any real value. The names of the Bellini, of...

of even penetration in discovering a mystery which cannot but be perfectly the best critics. But in all other instances Messrs. Crowe and plain to everyone. Why the authoress,...

is both simple and truthful. None more adequate has boon given to the British public. In this edition he carries his story down to the eve of the resumption of tho play in the...

preface explains the signification of the term " subtropical," a name which, as he says, is neither very happy nor very descrip- tire. "Subtropical gardening," Ito says, "...

(Tweedie), will take its place as a book of the highest authority on this subject. The form, habits, and localities of every British buttofly are carefully deseribed (we noticed...

By the Rev. F. H. Laing, D.D. (Washbourne.)-0an any one imagine why the supremacy of the Pope should follow as a consequence from the fact— could it be made out to be a...

and Co.)—This is a story of how John Seymour, descended from the old Puritan stock of Now England, and in manners and character worthy of his descent, though not lacking in...

(Long- mans.)—This is a new edition of Mr. Maguire's "Rome and its Ruler," enlarged and continued down to the present time, the chief additione being an account of the...

first edition of this work when it appeared about three years ago with the praise which it scorned to deserve. We have now to mention that a new and improved edition, carried...

is one of the crowd of little books which the marriage of Lord Lorne has called forth. It is tolerably readable, and has anyhow the merit of a reasonable size. If the reader...