M R. GLADS . 'ONE is to publish on Monday a somewhat bulky pamphlet, which will probably exert no inconsiderable Influence over the minds both of his Irish supporters and of his...

the complete overthrow of the Republican party. The entire South may be said to have been lost, and the moat important States of the West, and New York State and New York City,...

to Birmingham on Tuesday, and met the warmest reception from the people and the Mayor, Mr. Chamberlain, supposed to be a Republican- of the milder type. He was expected to...

on Sunday, and ended in the election of the Bonapartist, M. Delisse- Engrand, He received 18,000 votes more than before, the Legitimists, whose candidate had retired, having ....

the meeting of the Assembly on November 30, a Message will be read from the President, demanding that the Deputies should proceed with the Constitutional Laws. These laws, which...

of the Raskolniki, the Nonconforming sects of,Russia, have at last been removed by decree. They do not aeicnOwledge the Patriarchate of the Czar, though acknowledging his civil...

at which Mr. Hugh Mason presided. The general tone of the meeting was in favour of pushing on the agitation Without reference to the exigencies of the Liberal party, and also in...

case.

made by the Rev. George Reany Warrington, that in politics "grati- tude was grossly immoral,"—the bearing of which was, that gratitude to Mr. Gladstone or any other leader...

Mr. Westby Smith, stockbroker, of Belfast, em- ployed Mr. Bernard Cracroft, of the London Stock Ex- change, to buy and sell shares for him to a very great amount. He represented...

to clear away the "veil before his eyes" which harasses his view of Indian politics. He has learnt, he thinks, all that. can be learnt at home, and he certainly has learnt one...

Manchester manufacturers, who pray for -the abolition of the heavy duty now levied on their goods in India. Lord Salisbury acknowledged that in principle the remonstrants were...

Leathern, in his very amusing and able speech at Hudders- field, on Thursday. We may add here that he was very happy on the Licensed Victuallers, and their desertion en mane to...

House caused by the retirement of Sir John Kaye through continued ill- health. His office—that of permanent Under-Secretary to the Foreign and Secret Department—is, perhaps, the...

a town of some 24,000 inhabitants. The reason is abominable filth. ,'\ Darwen is drained by cesspools, acres of excreta lie uncovered, and the inhabitants are, in fact, living...

fanciful hopes that Convocation may yield to the wish for a revision of the Rubrics in the sense desired by Parliament. For -example, both Lord Galway, M.P. for East Retford,...

sentenced to a very moderate punishment, con- sidering the nature of his-crime. The sentence is fourteen years' imprisonment in the House of Correction, -ten years' loss of...

week, on , 4 Crystalline and Molecular Forces," seems to have misssed Professor Tyndall's meaning in the final exhortation to "cast out scepticism," and of course, therefore,...

their-recent 1 , reform" has been received, have put forward a defence which contains new promises. They will put on Pal- man cars as fast as they can, they will set aside...

no hope that 'Convocation will stir a step in the matter of Rubrical Reform. In the Times Thursday, there is a short correspond- ence between these gentlemen, in Which...

week a very careful Pastoral on the relation between science and faith, as discussed at Belfast in the meeting -of the British Association in August last. The Cardinal broaches...

MR. JULMS VOGEL. W E wonder how many of our readers ever heard of the man whose name we have placed at the head of this article, and yet he is a British statesman, and a...

T HE French Republicans would do well to translate and the French people to read a very vigorous assault, from the Roman Catholic point of view, in the new number of the Dublin...

MIIE wave of Conservative reaction has -reached America, and but for the peculiar structure of the Constitution, would have overwhelmed the Government of President Grant as...

T HE reception of the Prince of Wales at Birmingham is a very curious incident, for a great variety of reasons. It is very curious, for instance, that the personal reputation...

AI R. LEATHAM is always lively, and often witty, bat he has never been more so than in his speech at Rudders- field; and in it, to liveliness and wit he adds a certain magna-...

I N the interesting and lucid paper in the Fortnightly Review in which Professor Huxley reproduces, with modifications and extensions, his British-Association address at...

performance than the very indiscriminate and hasty praise which was lavished upon him in the morning papers of Monday would have led us to expect. He has to a large extent cured...

MR. "ESSAYS." [TO TES EDITOR OF T55 fincrATos.1 SIR, —Perhaps you will kindly allow an old subscriber to the Spectator to say that he turned this morning with more curiosity...

(TO THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR.") SIR,-It may be in the recollection of some of your readers that in August and September last year the Spectator contained a cor- respondence...

(TO THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPBOTATOR.") Sis,—The recent unusually high tides have again directed public attention to this subject. The extraordinary tide of March last must have...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR?') Sta,—You have criticised my dream. May I give you some of my waking thoughts? If in my dream I was "not a wise parti- san," it is no great...

[TO THE EDITOR OE TEE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There was a misprint in my second letter to you, which I . should not have thought it worth while to correct, if "An East- End Vicar"...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—While I thank you heartily for your notice of my Theo- logico-political treatise, I must be allowed to vindicate my explana- tion of...

BISHOP WILBERFORCE'S ESSAYS.* WE are inclined to think that, upon the whole, the republication of these Essays in their present form is a grave mistake. The tempta- tion, of...

MARY STUART DE MIMIC, otherwise " Queenie," tells us in this work the history of the bother she had with her lovers, and how much harder it WM for her to get well married than...

IT is so common to associate decay with age, that we find very clever men sometimes forgetting to distinguish between the age that necessarily involves decay and the age that is...

Blackwood is eminently readable this month. There is no political article, and a review of Lord Dolling's "Life of Lord Palmerston" is disfigured in only one instance by an out-...

is nothing very good or very blameworthy in this novel. Miss Cameron, indeed, keeps her heroine on the brink of bigamy for a consider- able time, and once seems almost to have...

The Rev. W. Benham sends forth (Macmillan) a new translation of the De Imitations Christi, to which a preface is prefixed, discussing the authorship, and giving a brief estimate...

pro- bably belongs to the same family as that "Citizen of the World" whose astonishment at the manners and customs of England is so admirably depicted by Goldsmith. But there is...

Judd Company.)—The novels that reach us from across the Atlantic do not come in the pomp and circumstance of three volumes, and in our judgment, are all the better for it. The...