some kind from Berlin. On Monday, on the re-assembling of the Assembly, he told the members that the Government could dis- cuss the Army Bill much more usefully at the sittings...

T HE week began with the announcement of the Daily News that the Government were in great danger of defeat on Mr. Fawcett's Bill for the reform of Trinity College, Dublin,...

speech, Mr. Gladstone defended himself as far as he could against such a mere indefinite buzz of vague resentment ; but did not make much of ne answer, simply because there was,...

appear to have no slight connection with the Stock Exchange. At the beginning of the week it was said that Mr. Fish had reso- lutely declined to withdraw the indirect claims....

a Government night, on the ground that, as Mr. Gladstone had made a Government question of the Trinity College Bill, and so deprived him of his best chances of bringing it on on...

Counter-Case, and very moderate, and not very telling. It slightly strengthens the special case against our Government in relation to the 'Alabama' but the most significant...

by 199 to 91 that the voter should not be compelled to disclose his vote in any legal proceedings, and on Thursday that personation should be a felony punishable with two years'...

for leave to bring in a Bill for the appointment of a very odd Commission of Inquiry,—namely, into Conventual Institu- tions, and further, to inquire what regulations are needed...

of work. The Revision of Military Grades, for example, has been completed by the Commission appointed for that purpose, and has been accepted by both armies,—Napoleon's and Gam-...

Lord Chancellorship in England and Lord-Lieutenancy in Ireland to be occupied by Catholics, which •prohibit the foundation of monasteries, and which declare bequests for masses...

say £1,500 of capital, might now make a large fortune in Jamaica. There is no limit to the demand in Europe and the Union for tropical fruit, and no kind of tropical fruit, from...

has addressed a letter of regret for Lord Mayo's death to the acting Viceroy, Lord Napier, which contains a remarkable ex- pression of the great sub-thought of Asia, the...

Catholic Episcopate. The Bishop of Ermeland recently excom- municated. two Professors of Braunsberg for declining to teach the doctrine of infallibility, and the Minister of...

at Laun- ceston against the sale of advowsons, which he said was most shocking to the religious sentiment, not only of Churchmen, but of Nonconformists, and lowered the patrons'...

in which he stated that "he would never impose himself upon the Spanish people, but neither would he allow himself to be accused of deserting the post which he occupied by that...

agreed to three resolutions. They will not take service where the regular hours are longer than from six a.m. to ten p.m. ; they will have Sunday once a fortnight ; and they...

bail, and lb is Quite possible may never be tried. The Attorney General seems disposed tel make an enormous business of the trial, talks of bringing witnesses over from...

firm. He pointed out that it was absolutely essential - to a policy of compulsion to give the poor parent all the freedom -of choice there was to give, that it would literally...

-of the Metropolis in favour of religious education. In M.arylebone, -a Liberal clergyman was preferred to a most eminent mathemati- cal professor, because the former was...

sailor and man of engineering resource, writes to the Times to say he can build a vessel which will make the Channel passage pleasant. It will consist of two hulls, each 400 by...

the other Fellows of the Royal Society, on the sub- ject of a paper by Mr. Crookes on "Psychic Force," offered to the society by Mr. Crookes in February last, and refused by the...

condition of the slaves and coolies in Cuba, which unfortunately wandered into the general Cuban question. He gave, however, facts sufficient to prove that the Captains-General,...

clause 'of the Education Act,—the clause which enables School Boards to pay the fees of pauper children at denominational elementary schools in case their parents prefer them to...

MR. FAWCETT AND THE GOVERNMENT. As to the reproaches which have been lavished on the Government for declaring that the acceptance by the House of the constructive part of the...

T HE Presidential campaign in America has begun, and the split in the Republican party has been officially revealed. At an immense meeting of influential electors held at New...

T HERE is a curiously marked difference between the tone of the debates in the Upper and Lower Houses of Convo- cation about the Athanasian Creed. The Bishops were most of them...

1 T ought to be very easy just now to organize a Middle 1 Party, but the difficulties in the way of the enterprise are almost endless. Just at this moment one would say it was...

T HE two great facts in the momentary situation of France are the check received by M. Thiers from Berlin in his military preparations, and the decided rise of M. Gambetta in...

T HE Quarterly Review of this month contains a very entertain- ing paper on British Parliamentary eloquence, which is full of racy and characteristic illustrations of the...

TT is not easy to conceive a more curious moral phenomenon than 1. that of a Frenchman deeply read in the popular aspects at least of modern science, and especially of modern...

XXXIII.—GEORGE I N speaking of the conduct of George III. as a King, we must not forget that we are speaking of one in whom there was not only the predisposition to insanity,...

QUEEN'S COLLEGE, GALWAY. [TO THE EDITOR Or TES " SPHOTATOR.1 SIR, —It seems, I admit, less than fair to Mr. Berwick, Presiden of Queen's College, Galway, from whom you...

INFLICTING ANY PENALTY ON THE VOTER. (To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPEOTATOR.") 8m,—When in Paris, in June, 1857, during the general elections of that year, I addressed a letter to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—You ask if I believe that justice has nothing to do with the relation between successive events, and claim that if there be an admitted...

THE WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY. tug that bravely cleaves its way to the rescue. The gayest streamer was never more welcome sight than that pitchy volume of down - beating smoke....

TIIE SOUL AND MONEY.* IT is surprising and unsatisfactory that the purveyors of light literature, who have been doing so brisk a business of late, do not try the experiment of...

Olrig Grange is a poem in six books. Each book contains the utterances of a distinct person. The whole is knit into a consecu- tive story by the loops which the reputed editor...

THIS is a very pleasant little novelette, not particularly clever, and certainly not particularly natural as to its plot—" not to put too fine a point upon it," very...

FOR those who are attracted by the unfulfilled possibilities of history, there is no more curious subject of speculation than that of the momentous changes which would have been...

Harper.)—An American variety of the species "Religious Novel," and a very bright and lively creature too. Mr. C. Wall, trained for the " ministry " at a seminary, goes out to do...

—If you could take out of this novel what the author evidently means to be as important to it as the character of Hamlet is to the play, there would be no great need of finding...

Light Science for Leisure Roars. By Richard A. Proctor. (Long- reans.)—Mr. Proctor has collected from various newspapers and maga- zines a number of papers which he has...

millan.)—Miss Yonge has revived in this volume certain favourites which delighted the childhood of a former generation. The strangers—for strangers they are to most readers of...