The Free Churchmen of Scotland are considering the ques- I tion of the revision of their creed; and if we may judge from a very interesting letter written by Mr. A. Taylor...

I A letter by Mr. Arthur Jevons in Monday's Times calls attention to the improper conduct of the Clyde Trustees in pouring all their sewage into Loch Long, by which means that...

The Indian Councils Bill was read a second time in the I Lords on Thursday, after excellent speeches from Lord Northbrook, Lord Ripon, and Lord Kimberley urging the addition of...

The British go everywhere; but we are not aware of any I corner of the world where ten thousand English-speaking men dwell contentedly in one place under foreign domination....

We cannot permit the death of Sir E. Baines, the oldest journalist in Europe, to pass without a word. His politics, especially upon all ecclesiastical questions, differed...

There have been two very interesting letters this week, one in Monday's Tismies, from MIr. T. Gifford Nash, resident British chaplain in Teneriffe, and the second in Thursday's...

| Thursday's debate, in which Mr. Bryce finished his speech in the same statesmanlike tone in which it was begun, was enlivened by a forensic duel between Sir Charles Russell...

Mr. Gladstone condemned the appointment of the Com- mission; he condemned the course pursued by the House; he did not feel at liberty to thank the Commissioners. But he...

The debate on the Parnell Commission Report in the HouseI of Commons, which, it was predicted, was to have been so violent, has, with few exceptions, hitherto been as flat as...

A telegram of March 5th informs the world that the Czar has received " a threatening letter from a woman signing nerself Tchebrikova, declaring that his Majesty will meet the...

The Provisional Government of Brazil intends, as might I have been expected, to octroyer a Constitution. That is to say, according to the latest telegram, a ready-made system...

I The Forth Bridge, the mightiest structure of iron ever raised I in the world, its central span stretching m one ieap over an "lestuaryas wide as from Charing Cross to...

Sir Michael Beach replied in a vigorous speech, in which he reminded the House of the insinuations of unfairness showered upon the Judges at the time of the appointment of the...

M. Constans has fallen for the moment. The Cabinet, it . . - . I appears, did not like him, and insisted on appointing a Uhiet in the Court of Cassation, the highest legal...

The rest of Monday's debate and all Tuesday's was very dreary. Even on Wednesday the only interest m the aeDate was the duel between Sir Charles Lewis (M.P. for North Antrim)...

Portfolio. March. (Seeley and Co.)-A particularly good I number. In the series of " British Seas," Mr. Clark Russell takes us westward as far as Eastbourne. There is an...

Of High Descent. By George Manville Fenn. 3 vols. (Ward and I Downey.)-Considering the amount of experience as a tale-teller possessed by Mr. G. M. Fenn, we are surprised at...

Benedicite, and other Poems. By Richard Wilton, M.A. (Wells | Gardner and Co.)-This is a volume of religious verse, full of devotional feeling, and possessing no small variety...

Insomnia and its Therapeutics. By A. W. Macfarlane, M.D. I (H. K. Lewis.)-A subject which is, it is to be feared, of very wide I interest is here fully treated by Dr....

Lesbia Neurnan. By Henry Robert S. Dalton. (George Redway.) I - - 11 - -Y -The truth about this book can be told very briefly, and we fear that the brevity will sound brutal....

THE NATIONAL LEAGUE AND IRISH JURIES. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SiR,-If the charge of direct instigation of clime cannot be proved against the Irish National League,...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE GERMAN EMPEROR'S SOCIALISM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] ;in,-In the admirable article in the Spectator of February 22nd, entitled " The...

POETRY. A WINTER DAYBREAK,'NEW ZEALAND. FROM the dark gorge where burns the morning star I hear the glacier river rattling'on, And sweeping o'er his ice-ploughed shingle bar,...

In our issue of February 1st of this year, by a slip of memory for which we heartily apologise to him, we (LescrLDei tue crime for which Mr. Michael Davitt was "d justly or...

NEWS OF THE WNEEK. THE German elections have ended somewhat unexpectedly. The Conservative electors of all shades of opinion have supported the " Freisinnige," or Radical...

I Yesterday week, in the course of the debate on Supply, Mr. Labouchere rosetQmove a reduction of the vote for the Civil Service and Revenue Departments, in order to give an...

It is stated in strong terms that Prince Bismarck intends to resign, or indeed has resigned, and only remains in order to organise a German Government which can work after his...

On the following day, Mr. Labouchere made a speech at North St. Pancras in favour of Mr. Bolton's candidature, in which he repeated the same statement in language a good deal...

The North St. Pancras election went against the Unionists on Tuesday, though by a very narrow majority. jar. L. i. Bolton, the Gladstonian candidate, obtained 2,657 votes; Mr....

CORRESPONDEN CE. . A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: GIVING THE LIE-THE MISSILES OF THE MOB-A GENTLEMAN'S OPINION. THERE are many things in public life at the present moment...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE LANGUOR OF THE DEBATE. THE debate on the Commission Report, instead of T being especially passionate, has proved hitherto especially heavy. With a few...

THE MAGAZINES. IN the March Nineteenth Century, the place of honour is given to Mr. Michael Davitt's article on " The Report of the Parnell Commission." In it Mr. Davitt...

MR. WATSON'S POEMS.* THIS slim little volume has a great deal to recommend it beside the blessed though negative merit of brevity. Mr. Watson has a real gift for verse; but it...

THE FALL OF M. CONSTANS. THE prospect in France has grown cloudy again. The T Cabinet has suddenly ejected MI. Constans, its one strong man, to whom it owes much of its success...

HISTORY AND POLITICS. THE discussion raised at Barnard's Inn Hall on SaturT day, by Professor A. Dicey and Mr. Bryce, on the relation of history to politics, was not exactly...

THE NEW TITHE BILL. SHE new Tithe Bill has at least all the marks of very 1 careful draftsmanship. It is concise in its terms, ample in its provision for contingencies, and as...

MR. W. D. HOWELLS'S LATEST NOVEL.* MR. W. D. HOWELLS has had what critics of painting would describe as two "periods." The most characteristic products of his first period were...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The March number of Cornhill is rather disappointing. For one thing, too much space is taken up with an unsatisfactory, though in passages clever and...

MR. LABOUCHERE'S SUSPENSION. IT is often difficult to say whether Mr. Labouchere is a shrewd man or not, chiefly because it is often difficult to say what he is aiming it. For...

BOO KS. -HENRY BRADSHAW'S BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PAPERS:* Two species of so-called bibliographers at present make themselves specially conspicuous in our magazines and journals. The...

THE NORTH ST. PANCRAS ELECTION. W E cannot see either the use or the fairness of denying that the result of the North St. Pancras election is a considerable blow to the...

THE FORTH BRIDGE. TT is of no use talking about the Pyramids when we are i praising the Forth Bridge. Except that they are both the work of human hands, the two structures have...

CAROLINE SCHLEGEL.* WE do not wonder at the difficulty which Mrs. Sidgwick confesses to have felt regarding the surname which she would choose to distinguish her heroine. It is...

SERMONS AND VERSES BY THE LATE DR. IIATCH.* THE main interest of the volume of sermons before us, and of the little collection of verses, is a personal one. There is little in...

ART. SOME BOND STREET EXHIBITIONS, AND THE PAlNTER-ETCHERS. MESSRS. BOUSSOD, VALADON, and Co. have got together, at the Goupil Galleries in Bond Street, forty-four pictures by...

THE BEAUTY OF WINTER. IT is much easier to see the beauty of a late than the beauty of an early winter; for the very essence of its beauty consists in the anticipation of the...

AMERICAN SOCIETY-SOUTH AND WEST.* IN these impressions of society, in various widely severed regions of the great Republic of the West, Mr. Dudley Warner proves himself to be a...