A . FRIGHTFUL accident occurred at Shoeburyness on Thursday, involving almost as many deaths among officers as a sharp Egyptian skirmish. An experiment with a new sensitive fuse...

T HE great debate upon Egypt, which has lasted all the week—though its last day, of course, could not reach us—was, up to Friday night, a poor one ; for the debaters, though...

M R. GOSCHEN'S speech is a disappointing one. It is hardly the speech of a true statesman. It is a speech which probably embarrassed, and was intended to embarrass, the...

well feel the utmost shame at the occurrence of Tuesday evening. On that day the usual motion, in case of Votes of Censure, was made by the Government to give the debate on...

fighting-power which the Mahdi, or any leader accepted by the Arab tribes as a Messenger from Heaven, must necessarily wield • but there is another side to the matter, which...

I S late always better than never ? That is the question which the Prince of Wales has set himself, and he has practically answered that it is. There was a time when frequent...

T HE only facts which come out clearly in the mass of correspondence with Germany presented this week to Parliament are that Prince Bismarck is irritated with the British...

T4 ORD JUSTICE FRY'S resolution expressing sympathy with the objects of the Association for Establishing a Teaching University in London was carried on Tuesday in the...

I F we were to be asked whether, on the evidence before the Court which tried Mr. Hillman's case on Saturday, there was as much evidence that Mr. Hillman is insane, as that the...

IXTIA do not exactly understand why Sir William Earcourt respited the murderer Lee; but we are sure he was right in doing it." That seems a sentence indicating a rather confused...

CITY COMPANIES' COMMISSION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In reply to your note, I entirely fail to see the obscurity either of my arguments or figures. My...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—I do not, any more than Mr. E. A. Freeman, consider that two blacks make a white; but I certainly think that an argumentum ad hominem...

SIR,—May I suggest,.in reference to the letter of "C. E. S." .(Spegator, January 17th), that were we to grant, even "for the sake of the argument," that uncompensated, vicarious...

[TO THZ EDITOR OF THE " EPECITATOR."1 SIR,—Surely the nation should not allow its admiration for one of the most magnificent instances of chivalrous self-sacrifice on record to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—" His disconsolate widow now carries on the old-established business in Brick Street." "Let me see, sirs ; first we lost our wee...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPMETLTOR.1 Sin,—May I be permitted to point out a slight error into which your reviewer has fallen in his kindly notice of "Congregational Hymns." He...

A MOAN IN CHURCH. [WRITTEN DURING SERMON.] Duu-ssarnaso,leaden-eyed, the preacher stands, And holds the sacred volume in his hands. No touch of genius lightens up his face ;...

• LA 131113YERE.* IT is not easy to determine La Bruyere's exact place in literature. He tells us that he is neither a writer of maxillas, like La Rocliefoucauld, nor a...

book is, we are told, "printed for private circulation ;" but as we have reason to believe that the only reason why it is not at present published is a certain diffidence on the...

Miss PEARD'S new story is one of those few novels which a male, rather than a female critic, may without any insincerity describe as charming. If not a very great work of...

Tins work, which is far more readable than its title and appearance promise, for once justifies the plea which so many authors consider necessary to excuse their rushing into...

EVtar now and then it strikes one as quite extraordinary in literature how much more important manner is than matter. This is not usually believed to be the case in...

THE main interest of this remarkable volume is to be found, as Mr. Tylor points out, in the picture it presents of Polynesian life before the introduction of Christianity, and...