company with Ferre, convicted of complieity in the murder of the hostages, and a serjeant named Bourgeois. Rossel, who was a Protestant and by his mother's side a Scotchman,...

tracted while the Prince was staying at Lord Londesborough's seat near Scarborough. At least if it was not, it is a strange coinci- dence that Lord Chesterfield, also staying...

T HROUGHOUT the week the continued illness of the Prince of Wales has caused deep and general concern. Although the physicians who draw the bulletins have worded them very...

has led to serious riots in Brussels. Owing to the dis- sensions among the Liberals, M. d'Anethan's Ministry has a majority of two-thirds, but the minority is very strong among...

reached its climax. Major S. A. Smith, Assistant-Resident, writing from Bushire, says the people are worn to skeletons, the children "to famished beasts," and some of them are...

ing of the Legal Education Association, made a very good speech against the tardy and languid attempt of the Inns of Court to meet the new danger which menaces their monopoly,...

case.

the principle known as the " correlation of forces," i. e., the real equivalence of physical, chemical, and vital modes of force, has • been made a puisne judge in the place of...

got in by an increased majority as compared with the last election ; but for all that, the figures are not encouraging. They show that. whereas Mr. Jessel polled, in 1868, 1,435...

contradictory, but we imagine the following to be nearly correct ; M. Thiers approves of the proposals to make the Republic defi- nitive, to elect himself for life, to renew the...

speech the most important paragraphs of which refer to ecclesiastical affairs. Pressiii is to have more railways, more railway plant, and so on, but her political work is done...

Colston Hall, attended by 3,000 operatives, who listened to. speeches of the most diverse character from Mr. Morley, Mr. Kirkman Hodgeon, and Mr. Hughes with the deepest...

27th No- vember, —a great event in Italian history. He declared thatItaly was restored to herself and to Rome, and intended to seek the secret of reconciliation between Church...

a rowdy meeting, and now Chelsea and Bolton have followed suit. On Tuesday, the anti-Republican constituents of Sir Charles Dilke at Chelsea tried to hold a ticket-meeting to...

Thursday week at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he made two. speeches, one on Disestablishment and one on Secular Education. Ile took the same view as the Rev. It. W. Dale, of...

Sheffield, Manchester, and Lincolnshire Railway which we, with most other journals, quoted last week, was incorrect. The telegram announcing the fact was a forgery, intended...

years. During that time the regular force to be kept permanently on foot will be 401,659 men—exclusive of course of both Reserves and Landwehr—and the annual expenditure...

Oxford Congregation as a subject of examination for the ordinary degree. Candidates arc to be examined in them for the future only in the honour schools of theology. A book of...

a remarkable letter on University Extension to the resi- dent members of the University. He remarks on the hardship it is to the poorer classes of society that they should...

gravity of his letter to Mr. Gladstone informing the Prime Minister that his (Mr. Whalley's) Peterborough constituents think the question whether Mr. Gladstone is, or is not, a...

to the Scottish Law Amendment Society in favour of Home Rule,— rather an absurd proposal for a country which not only rules itself, but generally rules its neighbours too,—but...

who abuse their office by preaching against the State, passed its second reading by 179 votes to 108, and the third reading also by a considerable majority. Herr Lutz, the...

RCHBISHOP MANNING has recently expressed, if we may trust the newspapers, an opinion favourable to the Voluntary system, at least for the Catholic Church in Pro- testant...

THE ILLNESS OF THE PRINCE OF WALES. P OLITICS have been shadowed, and indeed.overshadowed, this week by the grave illness of the Prince of Wales, now, it is hoped, beginning to...

a great misfortune for the Government of France. We said last week it would leave a stain on the French Government, but it would have been more strictly just to have said it...

'SA TE admitted last week that Mr. Bright's return to Parlia- ment will probably prove of less use to the Administra- tion of Mr. Gladstone than some of our Liberal...

T HE International will not make much of the Ipswicbr Engineers. The "tyranny of capital" seems to be felt. in that rather out-of-the-way town as a very beneficent influ- ence,...

M R. REED has written, on the stability, security, and capa- bilities of the Glatton, a letter which really opens the whole question of Coast Defence. The Glatton is an ugly,...

T UE well-informed essayist who in last month's Blackwood discoursed to us all so amusingly about French servants gives UB this month a lecture on French children, less amusing...

A WEEK in which we have had additions to the permanent literature of England from both George Eliot and Mr. Tenny- Kat i —indisputably the greatest literary artists of our own...

THE SOUTH-SEA ISLANDS COOLIE.—HOW I WENT TO FETCH HIM. [Fit051 A CORRESPONDENT.] Sin,—The South-Sea Islands Coolie, or, as he is commonly called, the Kanaka, has been, is, and...

[nom A OORIUSSPONDBNT.] Munich, November 27. I AVAILED myself yesterday of the opportunity to attend the Old-Catholic service in the little chapel which, I suppose, may at...

THE NONCONFORMISrs AND THE ENDOWED. SCHOOLS. [TO THIII EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR:] taking leave of "Alpha," I will only tusk permission for: a few lines. 1. It is admitted...

need not have ventured abroad to find in "the illustrious Rothe " a sanction for his notion that only good people are immortal. Our familiar Thomas Paine set it forth with the...

[TO THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin,-1 am sure you will, with that sense of justice which has ever been characteristic of the Spectator, allow me to remove a misconception,...

THE " SPEOTATOR.1 $111,-1 cannot presume to occupy your columns with a discussion of the grounds of faith in human immortality, but I am anxious to say that your correspondent...

THE POETICAL WORKS OF MATTHEW PRIOR.* Atniouou Prior held a conspicuous position among the wits of his age, and was engaged in the public service of his country, we know...

IT is not often that an artist lives to see the fruits of his labour - garnered in such sumptuous volumes as these, and their production is a good proof of the deep-rooted...

IT is not likely that any man will start on such a cruise as this and will then publish an account of it, unless he is an enthusiastic votary of canoeing. We do not know that...

Tins is a somewhat heterogeneous and unequal book. It is full of pleasant reading, and contains many good criticisms and de- scriptions; but its theories are often very...

M103. CRAIK has selected the vexed question of marriage with a deceased wife's sister as the subject of a story which is very like a lecture with illustrations, or one of those...

The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined Explained, and Illustrated. By James Edmund Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. (J. Van Voorst.) —This book will be welcome alike to the...

be included under this title, even in the more extended and, general form which we have given to it. We very often feel uncertain whether authors and publishers will like 16...

—Few readere, we should think, fail to enjoy the pages which Mr. Bar- nand commonly contributes to Punch, and few will be sorry to have a chance of renewing their acquaintance...

Co.)—This is a manual of the simplest and easiest kind, on a subject which must rouse the interest of a learner, of any learner, that is to say, in whom there is any sort of...

: Osgood. London : Trabner.)—This is a very sensible little book. "How to Do It" means "how you are behave in society," "how you are to read," "how you are to live with your...

of these of all sorts and sizes and bindings, for all purses and very nearly all purposes. They are all exceedingly good, prettily lettered, simply arranged, with...