the Geneva - Arbitration as a wholly extra-legal affair, in relation to which all the Arbitrators ou g ht to have assigned their decision without giving their reasons, and he...

meeting attended by 2,000 persons, the freedom of the city of -Glasgow, a present which he repaid by a lively and rather do g - matic speech, one leadin g feature of which we...

and gravely considerin g the proposal for a new commercial Treaty with France on the basis of a favoured-nation clause, the aban- donment of the differential duties against En...

T HE se l iarate jud g ments of the several Geneva Arbitrators have been published in the Gazette, and as of one of these, the ablest, the most elaborate, the most rhetorical,...

taken off, he said, £9,000,000 in annual taxes since he took office in 1868, and yet in the half-year just about to be concluded the yield of the revenue would be £1,200,000...

case.

work- ing of the Ballot in the Pontefract and Preston elections, that it has missed for the most part a much more instructive experiment, —the first trial of the Ballot in...

his German judge that the result of his imprisonment will be to give an enormously increased circulation to his forthcoming book, to put money in his pocket, to make his...

the German Ambassador at Paris, had complained so bitterly of his treatment in French society, that Prince Bismarck had decided on the suppression of the Embassy as soon as the...

and Herr Pfretschner has been definitely entrusted with the formation of a new Ministry. The Bavarians are genuinely canny in making it so difficult to form a professedly...

Austrian delegation at Pesth that the political aim of the Govern- ment is the preservation of peace ; that this was its aim in assent- ing to the Imperial meeting ; and that...

not appear as yet to have much visible difficulty in getting its bread. The strike affects only those firms which stand out against the four- to-four system, and though they are...

long- vacation meetings, and while sometimes coaxed and sometimes. scolded by the Liberal or Conservative mentor of the occasion, has almost always been exhorted to avoid all...

week at Penrith, was this brilliant outburst against the House of Commons. The Committee of the Penrith Agricultural Society, he said, "had done perfectly right in putting the...

on Tuesday , but avoided saying much in which also he has a great tact. He enumerated the really great achievements of Mr. Gladstone's Administration, pointed out how much party...

stroke of Bismarckism on its own account, and is interfering with a subordinate of Bishop Manley (Bishop of Geneva and Lausanne) in a very unintelligible way, merely,...

with the Roman Catholic Church in Prussia,—at least if it be true, as was asserted yesterday, that he has decided to with- draw the Bishop of Ermeland's State income because he...

last week by the Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Earl Bathurst in proposing the health of the Bishop, alluded to the famous "horse-pond" speech at Gloucester, saying that...

at the little town of East Dereham, in Norfolk, where he wrote "The Cast- away," and where he is buried, has been bought by the Independent body in East Dereham, with the...

to show that the 'Old' Catholics at Cologne are rushing fast and far beyond the lines of 'Old' Catholicism, in Dr. Dollin- gees sense, and bid fair, under the able and...

Mr. Fawcett, M.P., by Dr. Maguire, of Queen's College, Galway (who is a Roman Catholic graduate of Trinity College, Dublin), on the subject of the higher University education in...

SIR A. COCKBURN'S JUDGMENT. S LR A. COCKBURN'S judgment is hardly as wise as - it is able. It has a little too much of the flavour of an Advocate's speech. In his examination...

M R. LOWE has the reputation of a very keen and stringent reasoner. And there is no doubt that his speeches generally present the appearance of keeping very tenaciously before...

T HE prohibited banquet on the 22nd, to celebrate the foundation of the first French Republic, came off in a fragmentary way in spite of the prohibition. The great fireworks in...

T HE death of Charles XV. of Sweden, the third monarch of the family of Bernadotte, and the grandson of the lucky Gascon adventurer who so strangely won a crown, robs the roll...

I T can hardly be maintained, we imagine, even by the recognised organ of Prussia in England, that the German Militarists have displayed much more than their usual clever- ness...

A PROFOUND feeling of dissatisfaction with the per- formance and policy of the London School Board has for some time been manifesting itself in various and very dissimilar...

D R. DOLLINGER'S prudent conservatism in claiming for his followers the title of the "Old" Catholics is becoming every clay more and more inconvenient. He meant, and asserted...

T HEY are a pair of lovers, and they undergo numerous adventures in fairyland,—admirably represented by-the great stage of Covent Garden Theatre, —in the course of which the...

Ts it too much to ask that the Report of the Commander-in- 1_ Chief on the late Autumn Manceuvres should be drawn up and published with as little delay as may be consistent with...

A MONG the literary curiosities of contemporaneous literature, the most striking and interesting is what the French have styled "Collaboration." To France belongs the initiation...

THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have read with great interest, in your number of the 14th inst., the letter of "A Radical Squire." It is...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") yon allow me, as one who took part in the agitation against the Scotch Education Act, to explain briefly the Radical ground of my...

Sin,—To improve the position of the agricultural labourer we must increase the profits of agriculture ; not the exceptional profits made by very careful, very intelligent, or...

Fain, soft, Humility, so seldom seen, So oft despised upon this little earth, Counted by men as dross of nothing worth, Though in the sight of Mightiness supreme 'Tis hailed and...

Of hopeless craving for a long-sought rest ; Hurrying along, as if it too could know The wish for shelter for a heart opprest. And then a milder strain ; the soft sweet notes...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —It was unkind of "Mark Twain" to write you that note last week concerning myself. You may, perhaps, remember that in June last you...

[TO TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Permit me to say a word on a subject, touched on by your correspondent "C. H. W. B.," which interests me much. I share his strong...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —I have seen to-day the letter (under the above heading) in the Spectator of September 14, mentioning that the Leicestershire word " kid...

in our last number, there was a slight misprint which affects the sense somewhat seriously. One of the sentences in the last para- graph but two should run thus :—" Who can...

SIAM.* PEOPLE who want to go from Singapore to Siam must take any ship they can get, and be thankful. M. de Beauvoir got probably one of the worst that ever floated, and is both...

[SECOND NOTICE.] IN a previous notice we spoke with pleasure and gratitude of what. Mr. Helps had done towards raising the tone of business life by portraying for us the moral...

THE reader who takes up Guy Manneriag for the first time in mature age will have misgivings at the introduction. Ha sees that Ellangowan's son is to be the hero of the tale, and...

twenty years hence, when Dr. Hook shall have reached the times of Sancroft and Tillotson, a future genera- tion of critics may have no fault to find with his performance of his...

HAZEN, of the United States' Army, has made an ad- dition—both popular and scientific—to the literature of the Franco-German war which will be read with much interest when it...