Prussian Government from one form of persecution to another and more serious form in its contest with Rome, and the correspondent at Berlin telegraphed to the Times of Christmas...

not, to our minds, reassuring. Government evidently will get the food, for it speaks of 70,000 tons already collected—that is, food for one million persons for 140 days, after...

after all, secured her American papers for the Cuban expedi- tion by a fdrgery, and it has been rumoured that in consequence Spain has demanded the restitution of the vessel....

of the Emperor of Germany, and on one clay the populace of Berlin, convinced that he was dead, thronged every approach to the palace. He is, however, alive, and according to...

T HE Pope has at length decided to add twelve members to the Conclave, which now contains only forty-two, many of whom revery old. The annottncement was made in Consistory on...

the meeting in St, James's Hall to sympathise with the Prussian persecution of Roman Catholics, and is very anxious that Lord Russell should not abandon his intention of taking...

case.

assigning to Marshal MacMahon £6,000 a year for receptions and balls at the El3rsee, which, it is thought, will giw an impetus to- the trade of Paris, where people, it is said,...

into consideration rising prices, and so forth, passed a law doubling the salaries of the President and of the Judged of the Supreme Court, and adding 50 per cent. to their own,...

the South,— that is, has abolished the "ironclad oath," which compelled every person actively engaged in the rebellion to decline office. The effect of this will be, first, that...

that the Dutch troops are advancing, and that the Sultan is ready to treat, but it is not said that the capital, Kraton, is taken, or that any important victory has yet been...

the Catholic Religion" an elaborate address on " Cresarism and Ultramontanism," in which he contrasted the claim of the Civil power to rule over the whole spiritual life of man...

between England and India, are suffering terribly, partly titan disaster& like floods, partly from a divergence of the great ocean route, and partly, we suspect, from some want...

above the average died last week of the fog. We do not want them to die, of course, but if they were to die, it is better they should die of the fog, and so get rid at once of...

Peerage of the United Kingdom the Right Hon. William Monad, M.P. for Limerick ; Sir James W. Moncreiff, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland ; Vice - Admiral the Hon. E. G. Granville...

condition of the Gold Coast. He seems to have caught the great truth that unhealthiness is not the result, anywhere, of climate alone, but of sanitary conditions exaggerated by...

of Wed- nesday, has taken place at Florence, which shows how little account Italy as yet takes of the sufferings of the lower animals. A German physiologist of the name of...

of the United States the object of the dissidents, —Bishop Cummins of Kentucky and his followers,—being to declare their absolute repudiation of the high sacramental theory of...

an allowance to the Empress Eugenie. It wishes to make one, partly to conciliate the Bonapartiste, and partly out of the loftier feeling that those who have reigned in France...

borough College, where a meeting was held to inaugurate a new hall erected as a testimonial to the late Head Master and present Master of University College, Oxford, Dr....

deci- sion that, on the whole, the Boarding-house charges are now somewhat under the rate which will make the boarding-house as profitable as it ought to be, and they have...

CIVIL MARRIAGE IN PRUSSIA. T HE recent Ecclesiastical legislation in Prussia has pro- moted the rise of such vehement and sharply contrasted parties, that men seem hardly...

-who are on the spot, with every means of information in their hands, reveal to him a certainty of severe famine. He says that in the Littoral districts, i.e., Chittagong,...

TT is almost impossible to discover, or to imagine, the reasons which have governed the Papal Court in its last nomina- tions to the Conclave, unless indeed the conscious object...

O UTSIDE political circles, but few men in England have ever heard the name of General Ignatieff, the Russian Ambassador in Constantinople ; but inside them, in the Levant, in...

T HE decision of the Governing Body of Rugby which we announced last week has not been hastily come to. Our readers will remember the resolution so severely condemning Dr....

W E have at length the authentic text both of Dean Stanley's fine sermon, delivered in Westminster Abbey on December 3, and of the beautiful address by which, later in the day,...

S TRANDED high and dry on the beach of popular disfavour there stands a church in Whitechapel, capable of holding ' some 1,700 people, and once, not so many years ago, the...

T ETE noticeable fact about the speech delivered by Lord Derby on Saturday last to the students of the Liverpool College, is that he struck a note so much higher than usual, and...

THE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESULTS OF ETHERLSATION. (TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin, —On October 5, 1872, having to undergo a surgical operation, I was narcotised with...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 you give me leave to combat your first objection to the National Federation of Employers? You say, "They cannot carry out their design," and...

(TO THE EDTTOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") fear it is only too clear from Canon 51 (of A.D. 1603), from the Act of Uniformity, from the repealing schedule of the- Clerical...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The following is the text of the sentences of Herr - Reicheneperger's speech on the 10th inst., in which that Deputy made an astounding...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR:] Sra,—Having had something to do with the preparation of the special rules for the safe working of collieries in the district con- tiguous to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR:] SIR, —The supporters of a national scheme of education who dis- approve of the religious element being taken out of the hands of the Public...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") you allow me, while thanking you for a most sug- gestive and elaborate review of my selection of sonnets, to answer one question put to me...

IBSEN'S JULIAN THE APOSTATE.* MANY months ago, in reviewing the lyrical drama of Peer Gynt, we ventured to hope that its author, the greatest of living Scandi- navian poets,...

THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Your correspondent, "Minor Canon," has asserted in your last number that "No bishop can require his clergy to preach a second sermon." In the...

the "Theological Translation Fund Library," of which the object is to publish by subscription some of the less conservative and dogmatical modern theological literature of...

and portraits reproduced in this volume so fertile in suggestiveness, so full of interest, not only as exhi- biting the skill and humour of the artist, but as bringing before us...

under the name of Cruxborough, was to be the scene of the story, we indulged in hopes, not altogether realised, that all the ins-and-outs of the old Northern city would be woven...

NOVEL-READERS are, we suppose, easily satisfied, or the 'writers and publishers of fiction would not so often produce feeble and common-place stories. The novelist in composing...

THAT sceptical question of the mocking Frenchman, "Si un Allemand pent avoir de l'esprit?" must often suggest itself to the reader of modern German literature. The criticism,...

CHRISTMAS .AND NEW-YEAR'S BOOKS. Life in the Red Brigade, by ft. M. Ballantyne (Routledge), contains a collection of papers describing the life of a London fireman. Another...

Author of " Citoyenne Jacqueline." (Strahan and Co.)—The author of "Citoyenne Jacque- , line " has not succeeded so well in this, her second attempt at repro- ducing the manners...

was aunt to seven children, and these are the stories she told them. The most notable feature of the stories is that they are all taken from the French, and though (as is the...

(Warne.)— This is a pretty little story of a child whom her father brings home from India, and places in the care of an old friend of her mother's. The character of this old...