M THIERS has fallen, and Marshal MacMahon reigns in his s place. The catastrophe came about in this wise. The Due de Broglie's motion (virtually of want of confidence) of...

cumstances, the rain of the previous day having laid the dust, and the day of the great festival itself proving clear, if not very sunny. The Favourite had been Gang Forward,...

own. Such is the sum of the evidence heard this week, during which the big trial has dragged its slow yet lively length along, inter- minably interesting. It is to be regretted...

God and the devotion of the Army, which will always be an army of the law, and the supporter of all honest men," to restore moral order throughout the country,"—but we conclude...

spoke, and then the Monarchical Right, acting together with the Bonapartists, who conditioned that the Due d'Aumale should not be selected as the new President, and a body of...

case.

the Royal Literary Fund, on Wednesday, and made an eloquent appeal for larger resources, stating that in the last thirty years, while the income of the fund has only doubled,...

by a vote of 196 votes against 46. The discussion was interrupted by a bitter debate on the permission granted by the original Bill to the heads of the religious Orders...

of a vocation, should ask Lord Enfield, after the Whitsun recess, whether Prince Bismarck's quotation, in a reply to Deputy Windthorst, on the 16th inst., of a passage from a...

doing anything in particular worthy of chronicle, except renewing on Monday night the interminable discussion as to the Alabama arbitration, at the invitation of Mr. Bentinck....

of "O'Keeffe versus Cardinal Cullen" on Monday and Tuesday, but what the character of his legal decisions were, very few English- men, as we have elsewhere pointed out, yet...

to an end—in a way that gives much force and point to Governor- Pope Hennessy's advice, to which Lord Kimberley alluded in the Peers' debate last week, and to which we drew...

Irish Board of Education in relation to Father O'Keeffe and the Callan schools has had one day's sitting, at which the testimony of Mr. Keenan,—one of the Board,—was heard,...

and some asserted and reasserted, though often denied, Carlist atrocities on Republican prisoners. The successes come to very little, except as showing the military weakness of...

demonic element in him, by which Goethe meant not anything diabolic, —for he claimed it for himself,—but an almost preternatural gift for magnetising the attention of men. A...

making arrangements for a postal service by way of Galle, according to the terms of Lord Kimberley's last proposal. The new Agent-General of Victoria, Mr. Michie, has, we...

-the Steppes has been playing that journal a very shabby trick, —one, moreover, by no means likely to redound to his own advantage,—by sending rechauffes of what he thinks the...

Bill was "talked out" on the Wednesday week previous. This was Mr. Plimsoll's own statement, but then Mr. Plimsoll is hardly equable enough in judgment to decide on his own...

at the Conference of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union, and made the agricultural labourers a very moderate speech, expressing his complete sympathy with the object of...

THE FALL OF M. THIERS AND ITS RESULTS. 1r THIERS has fallen by the unfaithfulness of nominal ../l• Republicans. We certainly did not apprehend when we wrote last that sixteen...

T HE second sessional period came to an end on Tuesday night, when a House composed of four Members adjourned for the Derby and the Whitsun holidays. It was a character- istic...

I F the Pall Mall finds it impossible to discover what Lord Chief Justice Whiteside really decided in the O'Keeffe case from the long summary in the Times, it would not find the...

I T is certainly to be regretted that a succession of delays, for which the Home Office has probably a right to disclaim responsibility, but which none the less will do the...

W HAT is likely to be the immediate policy of Germany and Russia towards one another ? There can be little doubt as to what their ultimate relations are likely to be. There is...

B LSHOP EWING'S death, at an age when a much longer career might fairly have been hoped for him—he was only fifty- nine—deprives the Episcopal Church of Scotland of, we believe,...

T EIERE is nothing like the Derby' for realising (if we may be permitted something of a paradox) the unreality of existence ; no place like Epsom Downs on a Derby-day for ring-...

METE " merry, merry men" who were " uproused " for the 1 "opening day" of the Alexandra Palace on Muswell Hill, on last Saturday, had at least one source of merriment which this...

THE FARM LABOURERS' PARLIAMENT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.] Sia,—The proceedings of yesterday and to-day at Leamington afford abundant confirmation, if any was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I agree with your criticism that a preacher may, in pursuit of his calling, indirectly promote the production of material wealth ; still...

THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I do not write to defend myself against the remarks in your journal called forth by my sonnets in the Examiner of May 17, on Louis Napoleon. It is to me a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Mitton ' s assertion that fees are paid at burials "solely for the ground occupied by the grave " is so very plausible, that I wish it were...

MISS SWANWICK'S .XSCHYLUS." NEARLY eight years ago (Spectator, October 7, 1865,) we reviewed Miss Swanwick's translation of the Oresteian trilogy, and expressed a hope, which...

(TO TER EDITOR OF TR& " SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—It has occurred to me that, at the present moment, some of your readers may like to be reminded of a passage which is curious, as...

GENERAL VINOY, one of the soldiers who came out of the late war with an augmented reputation, has written a book on the French Army in 1873 which will probably disappoint most...

TO THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.* • A Compendious History of New England from the Revolution of the Seventeenth Cen- tury to the Death of George I. By John Gorham Palfrey. A...

THE spring of every year awakens a new and vivid interest in the question of University Boat-races, and it is by a natural transition that men's minds and tongues pass from...

HARRISON (the editor of these extracts) has loved Canon Kingsley "not wisely, but too well," in making him, as it were, assume a position of authority on all subjects during his...

WE ought not to have to reintroduce to our readers a writer to whom we once introduced them as the author of Habit and" Intelligence, but we do not think his writings have...

our knowledge of primitive man. And it is satisfactory to know that English arcbealogists have greatly distinguished themselves in this line of research. To the works of Sir J....

Tux title of this book indicates a work very well worth doing, and to which it is very desirable that attention should Le called. IVe agree with Professor Amos that the law of...

Cavendish and pub- lished by De is Rue is almost enough to bespeak for it a successful future. The editor, feeling the want some time back of a system- atic treatise on...

of some little merit, though the plot is of a common-place order, and not very skilfully contrived. The heroine hears of a wrong committed by her father, who had stolen long...

Andrew Alciati and his Books of Emblems. By Henry Green, M.A. (Trfibner.)—Alciati was one of the most eminent juriseonsults of the day, a native of Milan, whoso life was divided...

King.)—Mr. Ranking's volume has its value, but there is somewhat of rashness and dogmatism in the language with which he. introduces it to the reader. We must take leave to...

Hall.)—The chief poem in the volume is 21 melancholy and painful tale, not redeemed by any particular power or grace in the telling. Nor can we ace anything above mediocrity in...

G. L'Estrange. (Hurst and Blackett.)—Mr. L'Estrange describes his book as "A Summer on the South Coast." As a matter of fact, for at least a con- si lerable part of his journey,...

volume," says the editor, "is composed of adaptations of certain fairy tales from foreign sources which are scarcely so well known in England as they ought to be." We do not see...

Scott. (H. S. King.)—The principal poem is a tale of which the chief inci- dent is one of those remarkable revelations which are known to have taken place in sleep of some...

Osgood and Co.; London, Trilbner.)—Mr. Bayard Taylor has taken a great subject, which in a poem of less than a thousand lines he can handle but superficially and partially. The...