THE ARREARS BILL. a~W~z are not particularly fond of the Arrears Bill, any -Wvv ]more than of any other Bankruptcy Act, having a rooted impression that if people were obliged...

LORD DERBY ON PROTECTION. LORD DERBY is always worth listening to, and he is never otmore at home than on such an occasion as the dinner of the Cobden Club. If he has a fault...

THE SEASON AND THE CROPS. TIHE delightful change in the weather which set in at the end of June was an inestimable benefit to the country. Never were fine weather, sunshine,...

Michael Dlavitt, though he still protests his harmony with Mr. i'arnell, still insists to the New York labour organisations that the Irish peasantry ought not to possess their...

The ;' drum has been restored by dcecrce to the French Army." I The, notice seems not a very important one, but it may mean I that the new Minister of War, General Billot,...

Sir E. Watkin has at last been compelled to suspend the works on the Channel Tunnel. The Board of Trade on Wednesday applied to the High Court (Chancery Division) for anl...

Lord Dufferin has rarely exhibited his tact and coolness in a I more useful manner than in a recent interview with Said Pasha, -the Turkish Foreign Secretary. Said was...

The Times comments upon the visit of Cetewayo in a long I leading article, full of sentences like these:-" All the institutions wvill expect a visit; a thousand distinguished...

I William George Ward, who, thirty-seven years ago, was de- graded by the University of Oxford for his book on " The Ideal of a Christian Church, considered in comparison with...

Mfeyer's Comnmenttary on the New TCstameint. The Pastoral Epistles _- _- . I - . I -The Epistles of Peter and Jude. (T. and T. Clark.)-Thcse are volumes of the translation of...

Lawvn-Tennis. By Lieutenant-Colonel R. D. Osborn. (Strahan and I Co.)-This is an excellent little book, in its way. We could have spared some of the writer's humour. We are...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Dorothy: a Country Stor Y. (Kogan Paul and Co.)-We lhave oeen tong in noticing v0oeemny, nuor Decauso Ut ueI'y -i e -. it, for this we did long ago, with...

NovIcns.-My Lady Clare. By Mrs. Eiloart. (White and Co.)- On the whole, Mrs. Eiloart may be congratulated on having written an extremely readable novel. As the plot is...

A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW. N OTHIING is more striking or more strange in the political -5 W situation than the sharp contrast between the gencral position of affairs in the United...

THE FRENCH IN ASIA. -D URING the last few years, the French have been actively -0 engaged in extending both their territory and their influence in the vast region lying to the...

Mr. O'Donnell, one of those who, bIy the Chairman's own subsequent admission, had not been guilty of obstruction in the night preceding this incident, said, from his place, "...

The British preparations in India and England are complete, -nnfl~ ~ ~ ~ ~~~,n Engan are) coplte Iw n~s A -anCt z;,uuv men are ready to start at a signal, with 25,000 more held...

After the suspension of the sixteen Members on Satur- day morning, the Committee was resumed and proceeded with till about five o'clock, when Mr. A. O'Connor, Mr. O'Sullivan,...

The Conference still keeps its secret, but the account which looks I nearest the truth runs in this way. The Ambassadors, convinced that Great Britain means action, have...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE shells have not fallen yet, but the situation before Alexandria is most strained. The British Ad- I-rat saw reason to believe that Arabi Pasha was...

There has been another great coup d'eJtat in the House of Uoommons. As we stated last week, the Irish extremists were pressing their resistance to the "Prevention of Crimes...

THE PROGRESS OF LIFE INSURANCE. IT appears to be admitted on. all hands that there is a pause in the expansion of Life Insurance business. The old Offices do not find that...

A GREAT WELSH PREACHER.* IN Christmas Evans, the great Welsh preacher, his times, and his contemporaries, Mr. Paxton Hood has found a good subject, and has prodctLeed an...

CARLYLE AND DR. COOKE TAYLOR. LTO TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPLCTATOU.'] StR,-A verbal inaccuracy which occurs in a, passage cited by your critic last weel-, from " Carlyle's Journey...

OUR CANAL POPULATION. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPFETATOR."I Sin,-May I be permitted to say, in reply to the latter portion of Mr. Smith's letter of Juue 27th, that I never...

THE PLAGUE OF CATERPILLARS. (TO TIlM EDITOR OF THIES "SPROTATOR."] SIR,-I notice that an interesting discussion is going on in your paper respecting the probable cause of the...

On Monday, in a very excited House, the Speaker was pelted| with questions on points of order, raising, of course, the legitimacy of the coupf d'etat of Saturday. The Speaker...

I The inajority of s evonty-five Nwvas not so large as it should have been, the explLaIatioLu being that nearly eighty Liberals stayed away, while only forty Conservatives were...

I Tie Duke of Argyll noved ol Tuiesday night the secolud read- I ing of his Parliamentary Oaths Act (1866) Amoeudrent Bill, the object of which was to substitute a declaration...

I The debate of Thursday called up bigger men, Sir En. Hicks- Beach leading off with an elaborate attack upon the Covernment, the gist of which was that it was " alvays...

There were two long debates in the Commons on Wednesday and Thursday on the motion to go into Committee on the, Arrears Bill, but they were not good ones. All the Members felt...

Mr. Playfair then briefly stated that neither the Government I nor the Opposition had anything whatever to do with his couhp d'itat, that he took counsel with nobody, and was...

On Tuesday, under the vote of urgency, the new clauscs I were taken up, when Mr. Justin M'Carthy, on behalf of the Parnellites, read a protest throwing on the Government the...

BOOK S. THE GALLICAN CHURCH AND THE REVOLUTION.*I [FIRST NOTICE.] IN The GallcanGl Churc and the Bevolulion, Mr. Jervis has given us a book which would have been of very great...

LIJFE AND LETTERS OF BERI1OZ.* Ti[IE life of Berlioz seems to have been one long-continued struggle of conscious genius with an unappreciative, or at best a halfappreciative,...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. EGYPT. EV ERY historic event displays as it advances some charA_'A acter of its own, and the Egyptian difficulty is no exception to the rule. A magazine is...

I THE CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEES' COUP D'fWiTAT. TIHE Irish Members suspended on Saturday last were proT bably by no means ungrateful to Mir. Playfair. for giving them the excuse...

TIlE AMERICAN IRISH.* m - 1@. I - .1 1. .1 . . T'ims little book was well worth writing; but the author's motive puzzles us. He is a strong opponent of Mr. Gladstone's Irish...

THE MAGAZINES. A vERIY good number of the Contemporary R1leview. Al. G. Monod, to begin with, is to the front again, with his impartial, pellucid summary of aflairs, political...

WI'LLIAM GEORGE WARD. O N Thursday there died at Hampstead one of the most 0 notable of the Anglican seceders who followed Dr. Newman to Rome,-one who was degraded by the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. ARCHBISHOP WHATELY AND CARDINAL NEWMAN., rTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-May I offer a few remarks on a notice of Mozley's "Reminiscences," in...

CHINESE SKETCIIES.* MR. HERBERT GILsS is already favourably known to the reader as the author of Strange Storiesfront a Chinese Studio, and in the present volume he seeks not...

MAGAZINEs, ETC.- -We have received the following for July :--The I M31agazine of Art, some of the illustrations in which are fine specimens of the now style of wood...

The Andria of Teronce. The Hauton TintOrumenos of Terence. Dy Wilhelm Wagner, Ph.D. Cambridge Texts, with Notes. (Doighton, Bell, I and Co., Cambridge; Whittaker, London.)-It...

THE RELATION OF HISTORY TO POLITICS. WAE have lately been, and still are, passing through what may Y be called a Political epoch, an expression which we use to designate not...