But the great speech of the occasion was that of Air. Leicester, a glass-blower, who remarked that Lord Derby had translated Homer, but could not blow glass, a just but trite...

Only one scene of disorder marred the proceedings. By some I mismanagement the London "roughs," who are so often confounded with the workmen, were allowed to gather near the...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE " Demonstration" of Monday was on one side a failure, and on another a great success. The workmen of London, who, as the census shows, can send 400,000...

I Mr. Bright's speech to the working-class meeting on Tuesday was full of power,-and menace, the moral legitimacy of which we have discussed elsewhere. The grandest of his...

Miss Burdett Coutts is genuinely liked by the workpeople for her I interest in their welfare, and the first division of the Trades' procession seeing her in the balcony of her...

I At the end of the evening a curious interlude occurred on the entrance of Mr. Ayrton, the Member for the Tower Hamlets. That cynical and able speaker, either over-estimating...

The speeches of the processionists were scarcely even so success- I ful as the procession itself. They were naturally a little stilted and vehement, but what was especially...

THE DEFENCE' OF THEIII' AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES. | r[o TInF EDITOR OF TIO E " SPECTATOR."] SiSI,-The recent banquet given to 'Mr. Verdon, the Finance Minister of Victoria, opens...

DEBENL'rIEU-IIOLDERS AND SLIAREHIOLDERS. [rO TllE. Eil~roIt OF THE " SI'ECTATOR."] Sir, -Your invariable fairness towards dissentients from your own views leads me to hope that...

An abstract of the President's Message, delivered on Monday, I the 4th inst., was published in London on Tuesday. We. have commented on the }'t'SU)j,-which is a stingy and bad...

Count von Bismarck has, it is. auuounced, returned to Berlin, where his presence is greatly required to. esoothe t1e Uibsalr, who are savage at constant press trials,; the....

Alr. BriAht then seized the opportunity to pay back Mr. Ayrton for various drops of vitriol Wvhichi the MeMiber for the Tower Haamlets has let fall incidentally upon him during...

I is now affirmed that the Emperor Maximilian is lying sick at Orizaba, and that messages arrive in Paris from General U'asteinau which the Emperor keeps in Jis pocket....

The Government continues its arrests in Ireland, but nothing of importance has been discovered this week. An offer of 1,0001. has been made for the apprehension of Stephens,...

I Tile rise of .wages so observable in England and America has, it appears, extended to France. M. Casimir Perier reports to the General Council of the -Department of the Aube...

Thp crroat case of " `hunter v. the Pall Mall Gazette " ended on I Saturday, having lasted five days. The Gazette had accused Dr. Hunter of being an unaceredited practitioner,...

Society has been full of political rumours, all of one kind, and I all denied most strenuously by the Tory press. According to these stories, which are all more or less...

I TA. Deak has won the game again. On the 6th inst.-the. pro- posals of the violent party, shaped into an adress by M. Tisza, were rejected by 227 against 107, and PM. Deak's...

r The French troops have begun to evacuate Rome, and by next Friday the last Zouave will have disappeared. Still the Pope gives no sign of having come to a decision, and it is...

BROADWI)AY PAST AND PRESENT. [it'uom OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Yew York, Novenzber 16, 1866. I SAT last evening, at a great dinner, between an English gentleman who, having...

THE MARCH OF IONDAY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,-As the true value of the Workmen's Procession can perhaps only be ascertained by a comparison of many views, I...

MAR. MARTINEAU AND) UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. [TO TIaE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-YOUr correspondent, "A Friend of the College," deserves much credit for the liberality of his...

AIETEYARD'S LIFE AND W`ORKS OF WEDGWOOD.* MISS MIETEYARD'S opus magnumn, the first instalment of which we briefly noticed in the early part of Mlay last year, is at length...

The Confraternity of St. Peter, an association of Catholics to help I the Pope in his difficulties, held a meeting in St. James's Hall on Thursday night, the titular Archbishop...

The new play at the Adelphi is a very exciting piece of acting, the plot turning partly on the Indian mutinies. There are great faults in the story, as, for instance, when the...

:The famine in Orissa is reported to be declining, the officials I averring, apparently with some pride, that in the district of Cuttack the deaths from starvation and ite...

IDurina the greater part of the week the Consol Market has ruled heavy at drooping prices. Yesterday, however, a better tone was perceptible, and at the close of business the...

In the BanklruDtcv Court on Thursday a striking instance was afforded of one of the effects of the 192nd section of Lord Westbury's charming Bankruptcy Act-the section relating...

A requisition, signed by fourteen ";Fellows" of University College, London, including men of all faiths, and six other proprietors, including two members of the House of...

The Bishop of Oxford delivered his Charge on MIonday. He I was opposed, of course, to the agency of the State in adjudicating -on the doctrinal errors of members of the...

Mr. G-oschen made a good speech at IIalifax on AYednesdlay night, in presenting the prizes and certificates gained by the conipetitors at the examinations of the Society of...

DR. TAIT'S REMEDY FOR RITUALISM. I F Bishops would only speak out! That, however, seems toom I much to hope for, Bishops apparently regarding all man-kind as weak brethren and...

THE PRESIDENT S MESSAGE. T| HE re2uswnJ of the President's Message flashed through the So Atlantic cable by Reuter's agency is an exceedingly bad one. That great concern could...

THE SUPPOSED SPLIT IN THE CABINET. WE do not attach the least importance to the 'special W information' of a Northern contemporary as to the split in the Cabinet. ' Special...

HALMIED UNIVERSITIES. I T is an instructive illustration of the false principle adopted by I the majority in the Council of University College, London, that those who have...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. AM. BRIGHT ON VESUVIUS. R. BRIGHT is guilty of a slight sophism when he comI.i1 pares the prophecies addressed to nations by great political prophets with...

THE ORIGIN OF M1. rro THE EDITOR OF THE "SrECTATOR."] SIR,-Suffer me to defend myself from a charge of unfairness brought against me in the notice of my book, The First lan,...

THE SO-CALLED ATHANASIAN CREED. [TO THrE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I wish to call the attenticn of your realers to a very important historical point connected with the...

BO OK S. GUSTAVE T)ORE'S MILTON AND QUIXOTE.* TUSH power and the weakness of M. Gustave Dor6, who at thirty has become the best known of all French artists, could scarcely be...

SIR BROOK FOSSBROOKE.* } Ai. LEV-ERT'S reputation is founded chiefly upon noisy novels, novels great in stLeplechlses, military adventure, violent lovemaking, students' wine...

I The Leisure illour. 18(;. Vol. XV. (Patornoster Row aud Picca- I dilly.) The Sunday (at Home. 1S6i. Vol. Xi1i. (Religious Tract Society.)-There is no doubt that amiongst...

I Belgravia. No. 2, December. Conducted by M. E. Braddon. (War- wick House, Paternoster Row.)-For the second number of a new mnagazine that has its way to make we really think...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The Silver Shilling and other Stories. By Hans Christian Andersen. ,translated by H.. WV. Dulcken, Ph.D., and illustrated with many pictures. The Little...

I We have also received 7h/c Year of Prayer, by IHonry Alford, D.D. (Strahan), an addition to the books of family prayer, which has for its specialite adaptation to the Church...

Juvenile Tales: -" The Children in the Wood," " Little Red Riding I Hood," "Jack and the Beanstalk," "Jack the Giant Killer," 'The White Cat," "John Gilpin," "Cinderella."...

CHIEF JUSTICE ERLE. TllE retirement of this distinguished Judge from the Bench I calls for some more marked notice than a passing reflection -in a paragraph of news. The...

THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. XII.-THE WEST Dow-Ns AND THE VALLEY OF THE SEVFERN:UNDER THE ANGLO-SAXONS. I TIIE history of the events by which Roman Britain passed into...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,-Your last paragraph on University College, in which you criticize the variety and shiftingness of the grounds taken by the advocates of...

CAN PANICS BE PREVENTED? [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Siit,-The Pall M4all Gazette, some days ago, had an article headed "Can Panics be Prevented?" The answer seems to...

THE IRISH UTOPIA. YOUI do not understand," said an Irish friend a few days since, " you do not understand what the Fenians, that is all Irishmen not landowners or well-to-do...

TWO LIBEL CASES. I lAVO libel cases have recently been before Sir A. Cockburn, 1both of which are of some importance to the public. In the one the plaintiff tried to limit the...

t - - THE MAGAZINES. . .. a, . _... . . a _ 1 1_ - 1__ l | BY far the best paper in the Magazines of this month is the sketch b in the CornkhiU called "l Mediaeval Warfare,"...