it will bring in its Bill for the redistribution of seats. Sir H. Hoare asked on Monday whether it would be early next session, but Mr. Gladstone informed him that while the...

appear to have a very distinct conception of the drift of English public opinion as to the recent orgies of our troops in,- that island. He writes to the • Times of Monday a...

of Fenians was expected on St. Patrick's Day, 17th inst. ; the Government had called out 10,000 volunteers, and the response was almost unexpectedly eager. The Catholic Bishops...

every day more alarming, so much so, that trade in Vienna has re- ceived a serious check. On the one hand, it appears certain that. the Kaiser, whether to indicate his...

T HE event of the week has been an announcement made by Earl Grosvenor, that he should on the 12th inst. move a resolution declaring it inexpedient to discuss any Bill for the...

out the worst fears entertained amongst is concerning the conduct of the Army in suppressing the disturbances. Even the Times now speaks in a tone of denunciation as strong as...

troops linateamerica. There he will proltabl,t towel with O'Mahony will make short work-of the Fenians, whether in, Chicav or New and the.Sanate, and so foem a thirckFeniamparty.

Marquis allowed that his

63. A subsequent amendment in favour of the right of the scarcely a unit accepts it with any intelligent conviction ; Mr. press to trial by jury was lost only by a vote of 188...

Reform Thursday by 101 to 70' ordered Mr. Cowper to admit all the best . Bill passes, and may require special legislation. Altogether the architects. We wonder how much work Mr....

service time with some °thee children at some game we have the returns of the previous week—then admitted, au& with pennies A child missed a penny, and Willard, after count-...

all this fun, will do well to remember the facts at the next ing, with the greatest gravity, that about twenty persons had election. The latest idea, is to prohibit the import...

of con- siderable promise, though thought in the House a little too full of The. Marquis of Westmeath has original vibws of Parliamentary University chat. Mr. Coleridge...

Co. may have heard, if they availed themselves of the delay decreed, we have spoken elsewhere. The only one reported which .did not " whittle away " the idea of humiliation...

of bullion having been augmented to the extent of 900,0001., whilst bills discounted show a decrease of 1,947,0001. The Paris rate has been reduced 3i per cent.

the preservation of the commons round London, of whieh ' within, a .radius of fifteen miles, there are 180-10,500 acres in all. The Bill renews the existing provision giving...

determined-looking man, with an expressive cast of countenance," was sentenced, to death on Thursday at Lewes. He had killed his sister-in-law, Harriet Horton, for calling him a...

no marriage in an English.. Divorce Court. That Court proceeds tile theory of Christian marriage, and cannot recognize &contract which involves the right of polygamy. If it...

have announced the closing of the share list this day for London, and on Monday next for the country.

on Friday week were as under Caledonian Great Eastern Great. Northern Great Western. . • .. Do. W est Midland, Oxford Lancashire and Yorkshire London and Brighton Lcndou and...

prices have declined. On Saturday last Consols left off at 871 f for money, and 871 1 for account. Yesterday the closing quotations were :—For transfer, 861 1 ; for time, 861, 87.

of copyright with Great Britain, and. every author of eminence in America has signed a, petition in its favour. They see at last, whatever the Protectionists may do, that...

House of Commons on Monday night than on. the subsequent morning itself: 4. bitter little deb* spraug up. on Mr. Glad- stone's motion fig putting off the meeting of the. Select...

off at the annexed quotations :- Friday, March 16. Friday, March 23. Mexican .. .. Spaniel' Passive •• .. • . Do. Certificates .. .. Turkish 8 per Ceuta., 1853.. . 1882, ....

shape of an " Operatives' Housebuilding Company, Limited." It is that the occupants of the bloelas —all to be built for the present in the most thickly populated...

EARL GROSVENOR'S MOTION. T HE Landlord of the House of Commons declines Earl Rus- sell's Reform Bill. A few days ago the House was con- sidering one of the hundred metropolitan...

-filHE view taken in . England of President Johnson and his recent quarrel with the majority in Congress, is probably wider astray from that warranted by the facts of the case...

without reason that the division of 'Monday on M. I. Buffet's amendment in the Corps Legislatif is considered an event. It is true the minority in its favour was only 63, while...

The charm of intellectual domineering is felt chiefly by ignorant persons, and as the ignorance diminishes the respect for others' freedom is pretty sure to strengthen. If the...

of the British people, the wisdom which, like the swallow's flight southward instead of northward, does not depend on intellect, was never more clearly shown than in their view...

W E have no need now to justify the course we pursued iu- regard to the Jamaica cruelties. As in the matter of the American war, so in this, the " audacity " of the Spectator...

I T is impossible to deny that all those clergymen from whose vigour of mind and piety of heart we expect the best teach- ing on any critical religious question, devoted...

THE political news of the week is brief but important. It is that the proposed amendment to the Constitution changing the basis; of representation, and intended to bring about...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The right to the franchise of that great recently dis- covered creature, the working man, is presented to us under half- a-dozen...

GUSTAVE DORE'S FAIRY REALM.* G USTAVE Domes mode of illustrating the Fairy Realm is characteristic. So far as natural scenery is concerned, when- ever there is opportunity for...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—We have just passed the day appointed by the Bishop for " humiliation " for the cattle plague. The shops were shut, and we went to...

Mn. BAGEHOT continues in the Fortnightly the wise chat which is his forte upon the British Constitution. This is the sixth paper of a series which is by far the best Mr. Bagehot...

and reflects much credit on his industry, his powers as a narrator, and his views of history. We can see that his whole heart is in his task, yet his judgment is never warped by...

How to make a book when you have got nothing' to say, is a problem which has puzzled the brains of many abler writers than Lard William Lennox. To him, however, belongs the...

and Elder).— This is a thoughtful and well reasoned volume, by a utilitarian theorist. Mr. Ellis says that he is unlearned, and that his appeal is to the un- learned. The only...

little volume lays down a few general principles which may be studied by every one with ad- vantage. He deals with such questions as the nature of the vital prin- ciple, the...

late Fellow of C. C. C., Camb. (Longmans.)—Mr. Prescott in this second part deals with the difficulties that are to be met with in the Gospels of St. Luke and St. John. He has...

sermons such as these preached in the pulpit of the Presbyterian Cathedral of Glasgow. In the very home of dogmatic theology, dogmatism fs decried, and the simplest elements of...

Peking and the Pekingese. By Dr. D. F. Rennie. An account of Pekin written in the inconvenient form of a diary, and valuable chiefly because its author is friendly to...

Twelfth edition. Corrected to February, 1866. By B. Vincent, Assistant-Secretary and Keeper of the Library of the Royal Institution. (Moron.)—This well known volume professes to...

be found a very useful book of reference by those who wish to refresh their memory as to the facts of British-Indian rule. It com- prises within its 177 pages a mass of varied...

Boole. Edited by I. Todhunter. (Macmillan.)—The present volume has been printed from the manuscripts that the late Professor Boole had prepared for the purpose of enlarging his...

wood.)—Mr. Page is as enthusiastic as he is learned in geological matters. He is never weary of writing on his favourite subject, and takes as much pains to fix the attention of...