T HE French Elections were held on Sunday, and resulted, as M. Gambetta predicted, in a decided majority for the Republic. Of the 530 seats, more than 100 will not be filled...

gained is to be spent in paying the University Professors better, and in providing the University with better facilities for teaching. But what is to be the machinery of the...

who, in a dull, but weighty speech, affirmed that Government knew it would have no right to vote, but trusted to influence the Company, which bad already offered to allow votes...

M. Buffet, who was rejected by four constituencies, and left without a seat, while M. Gambetta was returned by Paris, Marseilles, Bourdeaux, and Lille, and only defeated at...

the scheme of the Government for the financial reform of Oxford. Cambridge is not to be dealt with at present, not till the Govern- ment proposal for Oxford has been...

off on Monday night. Mr. Lowe opened the ball with a rather weak, because over-minute speech, in which he argued that the Shares had been purchased in an extravagant way, much...

House to wait for the Report of the Royal Commis- sion just appointed, and he had no difficulty in showing that there has been a real divergency in the views taken on the law of...

is trying, it is believed, to enter France. He has still, it is reported, 24,000 men, and may try another battle ; but that is not probable, as his Generals have fled, and his...

adjourned debate, and made probably the ablest speech of the- evening, at least on the legal side. He showed that if it was a breach , of the comity of nations to help an...

Whitbread on Tuesday night, in a speech of very great ability,— thoughtful, discriminating, polished, and vigorous,—in which he did not conceal that his disapproval of Lord...

the Liberals. Mr. Easton, though he started late for.East Suffolk, and is not favourably regarded there, received 2,708 votes ; but Colonel Berne, the Conservative, obtained...

of the Vivisection Commissioners' Report in a leading article of this day week. Probably the article was written by some one who had turned over the pages of that Report, but...

to an end. On Friday, in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court, Serjeant Parry, on behalf of the World, offered a full re- tractation of the libel, and said his clients...

stitutional question on Friday week. Private Bills are now ' referred " by the House of Commons to Committees, or rather tribunals, in which Members are aided by the advice of...

has been called for the 27th of June, the Republican Con- vention meets a few days later, and from that time till November the United States will be occupied in electioneering....

Jenkins v. Cook" is that Mr. Flavel Cook has resigned his living at Christ Church, Clifton, rather than administer the Communion to Mr. Jenkins. Five hundred and forty members...

the hope of a reconciliation of our Church to Rome after the decree of Papal Infallibility in 1870. For our own parts, we should have thought that, except by the method of pure...

show a total increase of expenditure of £603,900, the total outlay being £13,989,500. The greater part of this increase is for military stores, but a sum of less than £200,000...

in last Saturday's Times, that he made a mistake, and one which has given pain, in asserting, what we copied from his letter into our last number, that the Dean and Chapter of...

THE RESULT OF THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. W E wish those Englishmen who despise the French as politicians would consider for a moment what the position of France would now be, if...

a very No doubt the real issue in debate was this,—and we do not strong and unanimous opinion. It was one on which certain think it was put with sufficient largeness by the...

I T seems certain that Don Carlos has failed, but it is by no means certain that Don Alfonso has been established on his throne. It is possible that tranquillity may follow the...

T HE upshot of the Jenkins Judgment is more instructive than satisfactory. It seemed obvious from the first that Mr. Jenkins, though he sturdily and justly maintained his right...

T4 IKE the majority in the House of Commons, though probably not for their reasons, we approve the purchase of the Suez-Canal Shares, but that is no reason why we should be...

I T is a safe assertion that the majority of mankind regard Canaries with only a feeble interest, as characterless crea- tures, of a monotonous kind. There is something to be...

W E are, of course, not about to discuss the guilt or innocence of Mr. Banner Oakley, late the head of the Co-operative Credit Bank, and now under examination on the charge of...

THB "SPECTATOR:'] Sin,—I do not feel quite satisfied that Sir John Lubbock does justice to the ants' altruistic qualities. Here, at least, is an ex- perience which tells in...

THE NEW CRUSADE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPROTATOR:1 Sin,—It might greatly assist the work of the Charity Organisation Society, if you would allow the readers of the Spectator...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE ''SPEETATOR."] SIR,—There appears to be no doubt that both the body and nervous system may do work of which the mind has not only no consciousness, but...

[TO THE EDITOR OE THE "SPECTATOR " ] SH2,—Will you permit me to say a few words on the letter of "A Lancashire M.P. " and on yoar paragraph upon the three elections just won by...

calls the Duke of Buceleuch "Earl of Doncaster," or the Duke of Leinster "Viscount Leinster ?" although these are the titles by which they sit in the House of Lords as Peers of...

[TO THS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] have been a Liberal Churchman all my life, and a constant reader ofthe Spectator for a good many years, yet with all respect 'for your great...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There is one point in connection with the sufferings of animals subjected to vivisection which may be viewed in yet another light. It...

Down in the deep of the wood, Hid in thy still retreat, Far from the sound of the street, Man and his merciless mood :- Safe from the storm and the heat, Breathing of beauty and...

THE PLNWELL GA MERY. IT is a strange and sad coincidence that the works of Messrs. Pinwell and Walker, whose names were often coupled while the artists were living, should this...

VICTORIAN POETS.* Mn. STEDMAN is an American, and his position as a foreigner gives him, perhaps, in some respects, an advantage over British critics in his estimate of...

Loan PALMERSTON'S foreign policy, as distinguished from his personal mode of urging it, was much less bold and audacious• than has sometimes been supposed. It was not only at...

THE appearance, some years ago, of Mr. Palgrave's Golden neasury may be said—if the reader will allow us the use of an awkward-looking, but very convenient German compound—to...

commerce has been disturbed by a sudden failure of credit, resulting in the painful phenomena known as panics. The periodical recurrence of these ebullitions of distrust has led...

to teach the grammar of a vernacular language has been insufficiently considered by teachers. Nearly all text-books on English Grammar are fashioned on the same model as...

Tinsley.) —Among the difficulties which press on the novelist, two seem to be peculiarly grave. Two people, genuinely attached to each other, and destined to be united, must be...

and Son.)—Mr. Speight is more than generous, be is positively lavish and waste- ful. There is sufficient material in A Secret of the Sea for three ordinary novels of the...

G. A. Raikes. (Bentley.)—The " First Regiment of Militia " is the" Third West York Light Infantry." The regiment has never been quartered out of the United Kingdom, and its...

younger Mrs. Trollope's "Charming Fellow " is quite as improbable, but not nearly so amusing a personage as the elder Mrs. Trollope's "Attractive Man." A great many years have...

The Indian Alps, and How We Crossed Them. By a Lady Pioneer. (Longman.)—About three hundred miles duo north from Calcutta is the station of Darjeeling, and close thereto,...

Bremmer.)—This is a carefully compiled book on a little - known corner of our Colonial Empire, and as we are candidly informed in the preface that the "land question " is a...

Lindsay. Vols. III. and IV. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The former of these two volumes deals with the subject of the Navigation Laws, pass- ing on in the later chapters to a...

Commiuion on Vivisection, published by the " Society for the Protection of Animals liable to Vivisection," have been sent to us, and we may say that they contain a very...

(Cambridge University Press.)—In this volume we have six of Demosthenes' private speeches, well selected and very carefully edited. We reviewed some months ago Part L, and wo...

Dangerfield. 2 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The story from which these volumes get their name is a good one on the whole. We do not see exactly the author's point. Edward Wynter...

Frank Buckland, and a Chapter on Antiquities by Lord Selborne. (Macmillan.)—That this is a very handsome volume, and such as the countless admirers of Gilbert White may well...

Founded on the Letters of Horace Mann to Horace Walpole. By Dr. Doran, F.S.A. (Bentley and Son.)—Dr. Doran is a pleasant writer, who has a remarkable faculty for inspiring one...

Tinsley.)— We have nothing but praise for this quiet little story, though the title, we must say, rather frightened us. The vein of applied fairy-tales, first so happily struck...

good service under the Red Cross in the Franco-German war, and he went last year to the theatre of war in Spain, to see how he might help in the same cause. His experience was...

Arthur, or the Knight of our Own Day, 2 vols cr 8vo (Chapman A Hall) 21/0 Blake (W. P.), International Exhibition, Vienna, 1873, Au., 8vo (Triibner & Co.) 9/0 Blunt (E. M.),...

By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.D. (Longmans.)—Dr. Hassall has succeeded in making us thoroughly uncomfortable. If there is one thing in which we are at the mercy of our...

Optics. By Dr. Eugene Lommol. (Henry S. King and Co.)—To those who take an amateur interest in scientific pursuits, this book will be most ac- ceptable. The nature of light is...

3 vols. (Bentley.)—There is good, or, anyhow, smart writing in this book. On the whole, it is not otherwise than readable. Perhaps the best, as it is certainly the most amusing,...

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