THE " SCENE " OF WEDNESDAY. ARE we to have a Cabinet crisis in the Recess ? It looks like it, if we may judge from the tone of the lively, brilliant, and most indecorous debate...

LEGENDS OF TYROL.t- TuE1DE two volumes are published at an opportune mnouient for the autumni tourist, and we will therefore state at once the impression that we have formed of...

Dr. de No6 Walker forwards to the Times n translation of a report on Dr. Schiff's laboratory at Florence, written by the inspector employed by the Society at Florence for the...

The Home-rulers have done good service, though they have shown a good deal of intemperance and impatience in doing it, by their protest against the inclusion of Coercion Acts...

Mr. A'Arthur contrived to raise, on Tuesday, a perfeetly useless debate on the annexation of Fiji. Ile wanted to pledge the Government to annexation, irrespective of...

I Whatever the Public W~orship Bill has done or failed to do, it 1, biaa, at any rate, let the country know something of the ridiculous and wasteful expenditure of the...

The Peninsular and Oriental Company have a contract with Government, securiug to them £450,000 a year till 1880, for carrying the Mails to India, China, and Japan. That...

The hoa#t of the Irish that t*heir country is singularly free from ordinary crime seems likely to be refuted by facts, unless thle law can succeed in brigiiig to punishment the...

The Guardjins of St. Luke's contrive to combine cruelty and| -stupidity to A degree not common even in parochial 13oards. A man nAmed Heritage, aged 68, was found in the...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Business. By a Merchant. (Edmonston and Douglas.)-It is curious that a book on Business should recall by its method and style the days when there was such...

I The Church Regulation Bill has passed, without the appeal to the Archbishops, but it does not come into operation until June, 1875. The first Judge has, however, been...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. pARLIAMENT was prorogued on the 7th inst. The Queen's Message, as read by Commission, is an unusually lengthy, not to say tedious document, as full of words...

Lord Salisbury, in a despatch commenting on the recent riots in iomuay, lays cdown a new principle for the suppression of disturbances. Sir P. Wodehouse was of opinion that...

After flattering Mr. Disraeli and misrepresenting Lord Salis- J bury, Sir W. Harcourt took the opportunity to fling a little mud c at Mr. Gladstone. He hinted that his former...

The fissure in the Ministerial camp is widening. .. -1 . , .. F . -. . . _- - On Tuesday the Church Regulation Bill reached the Lords, and the Commons' amendment conceding an...

TILE MAGAZINES. Qt l] F the best pap'er ini Frascr. aid(l we think the best ill the MApzine sof this nonth. is one by 1Mr. Richard Jefferies. on thlle I armnes at Home," a most...

The Spirit of Chivalry; or, a Light from the Dark Ages. By Robert I Bigsby, LL.D. (C. Ferris.)-Dr. Bigsby administers a series of pretty sharp rebukes to the degenerate ago...

A Chequered Life, being Memoirs of the Vicomtesse de Leoville-3Ieillkan. Edited by the Yicomtesse Solange de Kerkadec. (Hcnry S. King I and Co.)-There is plenty of incident...

The Thorntons oy Thlornburg. By Mlrs. H. L. Chermside. 3 vos (Samuel Tinsley.)-It is commonly a mistake to carry on a story trom one generation to another, and The TIhor}totls...

I Fireside Entertaiunents. By Professor Giovanni Guerini. (Chapman and Hall.)-Professor Guerini published these tales in Italian, under the title of ;' Trenta Novelle," and...

Gray's In has "cdisbenched" Dr. Kenealy. I - - - - . .. . . - He has been declared by the ruling body of the Society to be unfit to take a part in its government, and has been...

The Endowed Schools Act, in its amended form, passed the Lords without a division, and with little criticism except from Lord Granville and Lord Lyttelton. Lord Grmnville a~sed...

Lord G. Hamilton advances fast. IHis speech on the Indian I N Budget, brought in on Monday, though borrowed in part from E Sir John Stracheyzs paper on Indian finance,-a paper...

The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs stated on Tuesday, in I answer to Sir G. Bowyer, that Iler Mlajesty's Government had no intention of intervening by aras in Spain; that...

The French Assembly has been prorogued, and the Republican I Members have issued a manifesto to their followers. They recommend them to maintain perfect order, and to express...

I A story reaches London this week from St. Helen's, Lanca- shire, which is, we should hope, almost without a parallel even in the police records of the North. Six young...

If Lord Cairns has ilot had the satisfaction of contributing |- himself to a reform of the Judiciary in the present year, it has been his fortune, probably without any jealous...

Lord Cairns took the opportunity afforded him by this debate ot giving the l remier a rather severe, though cautious wigging, for his conduct in shifting the responsibility of...

MARY LAMB.S LEI'l:IRS. To say in the samue senlt(ce that we are grattfl i Mr. I LfzIlift, for this volume of - geaicnings after the a;turl. a1t I t Nact dislike its tone and...

BO OK S. MR. SEEI3OIIMS, ERA OF THE PROTESTrAN.'T RE V O L UTIO'N.* IF Messrs. Longman's series of lEpochs of History " should keep up to the mark of the volume which opens...

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sri,,-It is perfectly natural that anl able tutor like Mr. Scoones should be disappointe(d at the results of the Indian Examination. lie has...

IP 0 E rT 1P Y. D)ORA WORII)SWORITHI. ()li.v a sister's part-yes, that was all, Anold yet her life was bright and full and free. She did not feel, a I give up all for him,"...

CLAIOURDAIN IN THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY. IF an elderly and respected Member of the House of Commons were to rise in his place, and ask whether another Member had said that Mr....

THE LAST ATROCITY EN LANCASHRE. I ICHARD MORGAN, shopman in the provision trade, a married man of twenty-six, and one of unusually good character, was on Monday evening passing...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. IN-DIAN CIVIL-SERVICE EXAMINATION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I have been a constant reader of the Spectator since I first made its...

rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sxin,-Mr. Scoones' very able paper in MVacmillaii, on which you comment in the last number of the -Spectator, has appeared at a time when...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE GOVERNMENT AN) THE SESSION. T HE main result of the Session has been to dissipate the belief that the Tories will enjoy a very long tenure of power. It...

CLERGY AND LAITY. THE Duchess of Bellamont," says Mr. Disraeli, " liked T Bishops,-in their places," but never defined precisely what their places were. That seems to be...

ASHANTEE-WAR BOOKS.* IT cannot now be said that England's " little wars " are neglected, or that they are likely to fall into oblivion for want of historians. A year ago it...

M. LIEON GAMBETTA ON THE SITUATION. THE French Session has closed with ominous symptoms and one great speech. The Legitimists, despite the declarations of General de Cissey,...

THE LABOUR-LAWS COMMISSION. THE Labour-Laws Commission have made their first Report, merely covering the evidence taken by them in the past six months. As they appear to have...

RECENT HERRING HARVESTS. JUST as the labours of this year's Herring Fishery are beginning, there is placed before us the official return of the Herring Harvest of 1873,-" the...