the hope that the relations which they bore to each other in the last Government may be continued in Opposition ; but he declares his need of a certain amount of rest after "the...

upon to apologise in Parliament for the calculated insults to Mr. Gladstone contained in his address to the electors of South Paddington. Nothing, however, is further from Lord...

satisfactorily, though Lord Hartington's words on the main subject of his address, the paramount importance of keeping the Liberal Party together, and of not incurring the...

p ARMAMENT met on Thursday, and the House of Com- mons proceeded at once to the election of a Speaker. Mr. Peel, of course, was chosen, Sir E. Birkbeck moving and Mr. Gladstone...

be that for East Birmingham, where Alderman Cook is coming forward to contest the new Home Secretary's seat, on a platform, it is said, satisfactory to many of the Liberal...

appointments which we mentioned last week, Sir Richard Cross and Sir Frederick Stanley, who are both to have peerages, are to hold respectively the offices of Secretary of State...

case.

impression,. on Sir Robert Hamilton's position, Sir Thomas Farrer added, in an able letter to Saturday's Times, a fresh protest against any precedent which would interfere with...

"conspicuous by their absence" from this Administration, are Lord Carnarvon, the Duke of Richmond and Gordon, and Lord Harrowby, in the Cabinet; and also Mr. Chaplin and Mr....

have very hard work if he is to restore the authority of the law there, even as regards the worst class of outrages. Even the Kerry Sentinel (Mr. Harrington's own paper) is...

and more especially Mr. Henry Howorth, now M.P. for South Salford, who has so often spoken for the Tory Party. In a letter to Thursday's Times, he expresses his dissatisfaction...

and was renewed again on several subsequent days. If we can trust the letter of Mr. Dempsey in Wednesday's Times, on the former day it originated with the Orangemen, and was,...

Aberdeen in Ireland was doubtless more than a personal tribute; it had a political aspect as well. Bat a personal tribute it unquestionably was, of a very genuine and unusual...

delivered in the Vosges as long ago as Sunday week, was not reported even in Paris till yesterday week, and did not, of course, reach England except by way of Paris. And yet it...

altered the relative position of the two parties. The -elections of Sunday show the return of 847 Republicans, and 411 Conservatives or Reactionaries, showing a net loss of 2...

between England and the United States will pass the Senate before the adjournment, which is now close at hand. The Com- mittee on Foreign Affairs reported favourably on the...

for the Hallamshire Division of the West Riding ; Mr. Palmer, M.P. for the Jarrow Division of Durham ; Mr. Jones- Parry, who has represented Carnarvonshire, and more recently...

solemnity, one of the most curious features of the occasion being the presentation by the Pope to the University of a splendid catalogue of the works and MSS. of which Tilly...

of Spain to the Commercial Treaty with England has been imme- -diately followed by the resignation of Senor Camacho, the Minister of Finance, who had done so much to forward the...

to 1011.

batch of honours. Four commoners were made Peers,—Sir Thomas Brassey, K.C.B.; Sir Michael Arthur Base; Mr. J. G. C. Hamilton, of Dalzell ; and Sir Henry Thring, K.C.B., the...

N OTHING seems to us more astounding than the pre- maturity of the confidence which is felt in so many quarters that the result of the Elections will dispose finally of the...

THE MEETING AT DEVONSHIRE HOUSE. T HE main feature of the meeting at Devonshire House on Thursday,—namely, the firm language held by Mr. Cham- berlain on the necessity that the...

T HE Tories have now a great opportunity. The question is,—What will they do with it They have two courses open. They may try to out-Radical the Radicals, and pass ultra-...

M R. GLADSTONE a good many years ago said that he would think once, he would think twice, he would think three times before proposing to abolish the House of Lords, and...

TI NDER the above heading, we to-day publish from a correspondent signing himself "A Foreign Lawyer," a letter dealing with an article in the Spectator of last week on the...

I T is a happy thing for the public and the Education Department when Mr. Matthew Arnold is employed to take a holiday task, and do a little educational work. In 1865 he went...

G ENERAL BOULANGER has gone up like a rocket, and gone out like a damp squib. The comparisons are not complimentary, and what is worse, they are true. Three weeks ago the...

tradition at Oxford that Cardinal Newman, in his old Oxford days, was once asked by a friend whether he did not remember some superlatively good dish of which they had partaken...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] I T was some weeks ago, in Switzerland, that I was reading in my Spectator some brother- wanderer's jubilant description of Anjou as a country where it...

T HE orchards of England are surely amongst the fairest bits of Nature still left to us. Let it be premised that by this name we do not suggest a prosperous, well-pruned,...

THE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR AND PERJURY. [To THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."] concede that the law of England is not only great and venerable, but is sufficient in itself, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have been often struck with admiration of a trait which shows the generous, manly character of the English nation.. They are...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR, — I had in my mind not especially the Sheffield outrages in 1867, but the whole system of outrages perpetrated throughout the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TRE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — As there seems to be some hallucination in England on the subject of Romish intolerance, and as to the treatment which the Protestant...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In his letter in your issue of July 31st, wherein he seeks to correct alleged errors on your part, Mr. H. P. Cobb entirely...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Permit me to express the deep gratitude and pleasure with which I read your article on Mr. Chamberlain. Radicals are often compelled to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your issue of July 31st, you refer to Mr. Bright's 4etter to a Birmingham correspondent, which appeared in the Times of July 29th,...

THE SHIP OF STATE. (HO RACE.—Boos. I., On 14 ). AD PATRIAM. Slur of the State, beware ! Grapple the port : fling all thine anchors down. New floods, new eddies, bear Thy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have been out of England for the last three weeks, and have but just received extracts from the Spectator of July 17th with Dr....

CJIUItCIIILLES' tongue, to Britain's isles the spring Of troubled omen, Fortune's goddess, sing ! The tongue whose hollow democratic chords Sent Northcote's honoured head to...

[1 . 0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Allow me to reply briefly to the two correspondents who wrote in your last issue about the Baker Street "mad-dog" case. In answer to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,— One word in reply to your note on my letter last week. I complain of nothing. I do not wish you to express any opinion on the...

PUBLIC OPINION AND LORD BEACONSFIELD.* IF the title of this work were after the quaint but sensible practice of the seventeenth century, when the title-page really told readers...

THis is a clever, slight, curious tale, whose chances of popularity would be all the better if there were more of it, and if what there is were not sometimes in danger of being...

WE welcome with extreme satisfaction these admirable aids to the study of Homer. Mr. Way, it is true, has not completed more than half of his accurate and spirited verse...

Life with a singular sensation of having been transported, for the time being, back into the old world of thought and feeling, even back again into the time of the artistic...

Mu. WESTALL has chosen as his field that portion of the ground of novel-writing which may be called the innocent sensational. The two books he has recently brought out, and...

ON the whole, the Nineteenth. Century is the most readable of the half-crown magazines. Its reputation in this respect is sustained, however, not by one of those celebrities to...

is a very unpleasant novel, showing the writer to have an intimate know- ledge of certain social "circles," but full of millinery and slang, and vulgarity of sentiment. There...

There is an air of dryness about The Church and the People (gee- niven and Wallace, Edinburgh), which is the sixth series of "The St. Giles's Lectures," in connection with, and...

volumes are likely t3 be of considerable value to the managers and teachers of elementary schools. The writer had considerable experience in teaching in London before he went to...

those who are interested in the progress and work of women. Without any exclusive political or religions bias, it collects, and as far as possible verifies, all information...

cards are prepared "in order to provide as far as possible such examples as may give proper education to the eye and mind of the very young child, and at the same time be...

LL.D. (Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bag, and Lowrey.)—This is a very good subject very indifferently handled. The main purpose of the book appears to be a sketch of the careers of...

2 vols. (Bentley.)—Crude and incomplete as this "last work of Colonel Burnaby" is, being, in troth, little more than a rough draft— or, rather, a series of rough drafts of...