another column, explaining that he and Professor Beesly had both given in from the first their adhesion to Sir Roundel! Palmer's Lon- don Committee. Perhaps the Committee were a...

to take office ; but on Thursday he made some remarks which for a coming Cabinet Minister were, to say the least of it, rash. Mr. Gladstone likes a full Treasury, and will not...

that we are glad to record an instance in which be has done his duty. We say his "duty," because it is nonsense to talk of his monopoly as a private speculation. He published on...

p REDICTIONS about an election which will be finished within a fortnight are not of much use, but the great question at issue this year is, we believe, virtually settled. Mr....

Schuyler Colfax the next Vice-President of the United States by the votes of twenty-five States, while nine States went for the Democrats Mr. Seymour and General Blair. The...

in the House of Representatives by 27, which will prevent the Re- publicans from having, in the next Congress, the two-thirds' vote necessary to pass a bill over the veto of the...

all four seats, and have organized a somewhat elaborate machinery. Each ward, in the first place, is to talte care of itself, the policy of the managers being to keep the votes...

Dr. Harold Browne, may be made Archbishop of Canterbury. In the earthquake countries the lower animals, it is said, are always seized with horror before an earthquake, so that...

Mr. Broadhead, who perceives, with a true instinct, that if Mr. Mundella gets in, and carries his plans of conciliation, murders on behalf of Trades' Unions will cease ; but...

publication of an ad interim budget. It appears from this, which is probably truthful, that the ordinary revenue is about 117,800,000, and the ordinary expenditure £21,200,000,...

done us the honour of attacking us for our remarks, in a speech which shows how very much they were needed. He was very proud, he said, of the Treason-Felony Act. He thought the...

to the observations which we made on the New South Wales Treason- Felony Act as long ago as 23rd May. The writer's reply does not come to much. He observes, first, that one of...

a remarkable speech at Clitheroe last week in favour of Mr. Roundell's candidature for that borough,—one a the very ablest we have read throughout these weary elections. He...

or Sir Henry Hoare should retire from the candidature for Chelsea, decided yesterday week that it would be most for the advantage of the Liberal cause in Chelsea that Mr. Odger...

that it was ignored by the Times. It has certainly no longer reason to complain of this since it made advances to Mr. Lowe ; but then, on the other lewd, every time it appears...

the Professorship of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford is, we believe, a very respectable one. Either Mr. Church or Mr. J. S. Brewer would have filled the chair more ably, but...

the seat for Greenwich is tilled up, Mr. Gladstone will be too late for the debate on the Address, and the Government might retain power till February. That is the Premier's...

tion going on among sea-birds. On a strip of coast eighteen miles long near Flamborough Head 107,250 birds were destroyed by pleasure parties iu four months, 12,000 by men who...

been added to the Great Britain Assurance Society, an office established in 1844. The annual income now exceeds £65,000, while the new business is progressing at upwards of...

se i nnight, its which he avowed himself favourable to a reform of the House of Lords. Two plans, he said, had been suggested for that end ; one to make seats elective, the...

that they are forbidden to discuss the constitutional powers of the Chief of the State. So were all Spanish editors a few weeks ago, but their silence did not save the throne....

Two of the can- didates, Mr. Goschen and Baron Rothschild, chance to have German names, just as many of our best members have French names, and Mr. Bell, a Tory candidate,...

have been almost daily riots there between the Orangemen and the Liberals, and now the Tory millowners are attempting coercion as decidedly as landlords ever did. According to...

to be opposed in East Surrey by Mr. William Hardman and Mr. James Lord,—the chief assault being on Mr. Buxton's seat, for his conduct in the Jamaica business. Fortunately for...

week, owing to the continued demand for gold for export to the Con- tinent. Consols closed yesterday at 94+ to for money ; and 94+ for December; Reduced and New Three per Cents....

The lease expired, and Mr. Studd, either in a pet at some want of courtesy, or in a rage with the Epsom Grand -Stand Association, whom he accuses of sharp practice, or anxious...

off at the annexed quotations :— ; Oct. 30. Nov. G. Oct. 30. Nov. C. Brazilian, 1865 771 U' Egyptian, 1864 82 754 Russian (Anglo-Dutch) , 91 341 391 Italian, 1861 641 82...

MR. GLADSTONE'S SECRET. H ITHERTO Mr. Gladstone has strictly abstained from saying what he intends to do with the revenue which will remain when the life interests in the Irish...

T HE Liberals of Chelsea prefer Sir Henry Hoare to Mr. Odger. The claims of Sir Henry Hoare to the position of a member of Parliament are, we believe, two,—his baronetcy, and...

of Government by a calamitous Accident, from which the United States have suffered for three years and a half, has not quite come to an end. General Grant is elected and Mr....

T HERE is grave reason to believe that the winter, now so rapidly approaching, will be a terrible one in London ; that the pressure will be greater than that of last year, under...

I T is difficult for Englishmen, however liberal, to read the latest accounts from Spain without a feeling of mingled annoyance and misgiving. The destructive work has been done...

T HE metallurgist has ever been a mysterious and inscrutable man. In the middle ages his science was associated with astrology and necromancy, and its professors not unusually...

F we were to say that the greatest existing revolutionist in London is the Thames Embankment, we should probably be accused of paradox. Yet we hold it impossible for a thinking...

I F England were ever to become the centre of a region of active earthquakes like Peru and Ecuador,—earthquakes not like that of October, 1863, and yesterday week, which alarmed...

LXXX.—CENTRAL ENGLAND: RUTLAND, LEICESTERSHIRE, AND NOITINGHAMSHIRE.—THE SAXON PERIOD AND THE NORMAN CONQUEST. R UTLAND-or, as it was called, Rote-land—was not in Saxon times a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR] Sin,—A line in your article of the 24th October on "The London Elections" suggests so naturally, and so nearly in my own words, a reform in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIIE SPECTATOR:1 have only just had an opportunity of reading the articles and letters in the Spectator on the subjects named above. Permit me, if not too...

MR. BRIGHT'S SPEECHES.* Tug republication of these speeches is meant to vindicate Mr. Bright's sagacity as a statesman, as much as to perpetuate his fame as an orator. It will...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sru,—Your statement that a section of the Oxford Radicals, including Mr. Beesly and myself, are withholding our support from Sir R. Palmer,...

THE charm of Mr. Greg's writing, more especially upon political subjects, consists in no slight degree in the difficulty his readers feel in differing with him. Grant his...

SHERIDAN LE Fu deteriorates more rapidly than any (novelist of our acquaintance. In his first or second novel, the House by the Churchyard, he showed power of a very original...

Messrs. Church and Brodribb for putting into the hands of the English reader, in a form singularly complete and 'convenient, two of the most popular of the works of Tacitus. The...

Mn. H. MERIVALE'S paper in the Fortnightly on "Some Features of American Scenery" strikes us as the freshest thing in the November Magazines. The subject has been very little...

Daldy.)—Mr. Reithmfiller is the author of Teuton, a poem which deserves to be mentioned with respect, but we can hardly say as much for Alders- leigh. He writes good English,...

The Quarterly Review. October. (Murray.)—The political :track is of no particular mark. It discusses the ordinary topics, but its chief interest lies in the proof that it gives...

Hall. (Tinaley.)—The author includes in his definition of bric - a - brac pretty nearly all objects of art, even pictures, for instance ; but he says little about anything but...

Farrar, M.A. (Macmillan.)---We have marked many passages in these sermons which seem manifestly open to adverse criticism. Mr. Farrar's style is highly rhetorical. That,...

is an old friend, well known and well loved in our youth, when it bore the name, which was, we believe, its original name, and which we cannot see any reason for changing, of...

no very deep fountains of poetry from which to draw. She gives na of her best as far as she can, and on the whole the gift is a worthy one. In this little volume there are...