Con- ference of Nonconformists, called together on Thursday at the Can- non Street Hotel, Mr. Gilpin, M.P. for Northampton, in the chair, to resist the action of the...

that the three hours in dispute between them and the Masters should be conceded by the masters in return for a proportionate lowering of the men's wages to be determined by...

a suggestion to the masters from which we should have hoped somethiug, if the struggle had not now entered on a new phase, a phase in which it will be difficult, for a time at...

number of those rho maybe expected to pass with advantage from the primary into the secondary schools of the country. Ile calm- hated that of the 9,000 children who ought always...

power 'which enables School Boards to pay the fees of poor children in any properly qualified elementary school, be it denominational or not, taken away from them by...

M R. FORSTER has spoken twice this week at Bradford, and once 1 at Manchester, each time on education. At Bradford on Mon- .day he defined the proper relation of voluntary...

case.

G. Armstrong's letter, for the assembling of a National Congress of the representatives both of masters and men to consider the questions at issue,—on the ground that they are...

the French Government have decided to give us notice next February to ter- minate the Commercial Treaty with France in the February fol- lowing. If M. Thiers has really...

parts afloat, and with similar results. The mighty ironolads, not less than the battalions, squadrons, awl batteries, meet and manceuvre to show that they require more drill in...

ment had received no leas than /20,000,000 sterling in gold (15,000,000 in sovereigns and 115,000,000 in French napoleons), and had locked up a great deal of it, partly to keep...

that the Alsace Cleatoms' Treaty is not yet signed, that M. Pouyer- Qaartier has gone to Berlin to try and remove the difficulties which exist ; that at Lyons, General Bourbaki...

Life Guards. at Aldershot is not the only recent example of this startling phenomenon. During the recent sham campaign near St. Peters- burg the Empress's Cuirassiers, 900...

again a Honveul army, or, as we should call it, a Militia, Count. Andrassy has succeeded in raising and organizing once more really useful battalions aud squadrons of national...

Seller Zorrilla,`has been defeated in the Cortes on the nomination for the President,—his candidate, Sefior River°, having been rejected as too advanced, too "red," by the...

tively, what has also been stated elsewhere, that Prince Bismarck has not only determined on a gold standard for Germany,—whicl. is, we believe, true,—but that the gold standard...

"Quarterly Journal of Science" on psychic force, and also the very uncom- plimentary criticisms of some eminent men of science on his experiments, and on our own provisional...

Edwards Holbrook, one of the most eminent zoologists and com- parative anatomiats of the United States, has recently died at Wrentham, in Massachusetts. One who knew him...

of making the grants to the Science and Art schools depend, as in the case of the primary schools, to some extent on results, and keeping the grants in a fixed proportion to...

Ports, opened a new middle-class school and college at Dover, which has been established by a local company, for the sake of ovidin g a good, sound, secondary education at a...

Maurice, in opening last Monday the new session, brought before the College a proposal proceeding from the Working-Women's College, in Queen's Square, for such an enlargement of...

about to address a despatch to the other Powers of Europe showing them the means of putting an end to the social agitations which are the greatest danger of European society....

on Wednesday with an address on the condition of the working-classes, which seems to have leaned very decidedly 'towards the extreme into which are now not unlikely to drift, of...

ENGLISH REPUBLICANISM. P OLITICIANS who study carefully the symptoms of dis- content with our monarchical Constitution which show themselves from time to time amongst us, will...

M R. FORSTER has been making some very valuable and terse educational speeches at Bradford and Manchester, of which, perhaps, the most permanently important part is his...

E VENTS have marched rapidly in Austria of late. The dissolution of the Reichsrath; the dissolution of as many Provincial Diets as were likely to have their centralist character...

T HE failure of the Newcastle negotiations is a misfortune of far more than local importance, and is, we do not doubt, due to far wider than local causes. That failure exhi-...

A S all groat wars for a hundred years have been decided by the skilful marches of troops in the field (properly under- stood, indeed, they always were), a wholesome disposition...

"T HE International League of Peace and Liberty" is a very different sort of thing from our respectable Peace Society or M. Passy's Parisian imitation of the Quaker insti-...

Xi R. RUSKIN has just published his tenth letter to the work- 1.11. men and labourers of Great Britain, which, as far as we understand it, lute very little in it that much...

I T is often very difficult to understand why scenes apparently of no very different physical character should produce such very different effects on the mind of almost all who...

T HE new evidence on the Patent Laws which a Select Com- mittee of the House of Commons has just got together, strikes us as perhaps most interesting for the light it throws on...

THE MORMONS AND TEIEIR PRESIDENT. [Faesi a CORRESPONDENT.] Salt Lake City, August 29, Oun Sunday in Salt Lake City has been fortunately chosen ; an we have heard an address...

THE LABOUR QUESTION IN AMERICA. [TO TIIR EDITOR OF THE SPROTATOR:] SIR,—In the present state of the labour question at home, I think the accompanying letter from the bead of the...

(TO TER EDITOR OF THE SPEOTATOILI Sirt,—Your article of last Saturday on the "Reserve Forces' contains some remarks on the Volunteers so just and apposite thab I venture to...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE uSPEOTATOR.1 Sin,—Sir W. Armstrong, in his letter to Mr. Mundella, allows that the Nine Hours' Movement has become a national question. To those who were...

[TO TRH EDITOR OP TED , EPROTITOR.") Sift,—The British tourist abroad is a well-known animal. He is peculiar under all circumstances ; but when he is travelling lb company...

rTO TDB EDITOR OF TIM `. SPECTATOR.") really cannot allow you to escape, in the easy, complacent style you have adopted, from the consequences of your criticism on my...

LIVES OF THE KEMBLES.* Mum as we may regret that a better use has not been made of *such promising materials as Mr. Fitzgerald ha e collected, we are inclined, on the whole, to...

the middle-aged British tourist is apt to bring to the contemplation of foreign countries are familiar to every one who has overheard in September the common English talk at the...

preface informs us that Colonel Rtistow's work, still unfinished, is, so far as it has been published, regarded 41 throughout Germany, and even in France, as the most complete...

THE Magazines have a certain air of fag about them this month, as though the principal contributions had been prepared before the holidays instead of since. Thus Mr. Matthew...