NEWS OF THE WEEK. ORD HARTINGTON- broke silence on Thursday in a I IL speech which we have criticised elsewhere, but of which we may say here that two-thirds of it were...

I The French Government will I)rolbably leave "Philip VII., alone, but it is not so certain that the Chamber wvill. A strong antipathy exists there to the Orleanists and their...

It was on Egypt that Lord Hartington, as usual, went wrong. We hardly understand the provocation which induced him once more to suggest a date for the evacuation, but he did...

The Comte de Chambord was buried at Giiritz on Monday, I amid a crowd of French Legitimists, numbering, it is said, 2,000. The Comte de Paris was, however, not there, nor any...

I The danger of a war between France and China has szrcatlv increased. The attack on IHu6, made without orders, followed by the new treaty extorted from the King, has given new...

There seems to be no doubt that the body of the French Legi- timist party, now consisting of a fewv thousand gentlemen, threefourths of the Clergy, and perhaps half of the...

The Emperor of Austria has discovered, as we exnected. that. I discontent in Croatia is serious, but has for the present sided i c with the Magyars. He has sent back Tisza,...

Lord D)erby on Thursday made a very sensible and in one I way bold speech, at the iManchester and Liverpool Agricultural Show. lIe doubted if there was much reality in the cry...

On the other side, the French Ministers show no signs of I rvtreating. 'hwey ,have orlercl Admiral Meycr and the Flect in Chinese waters to go up to Canton as a naval...

Mr. Chamberlain has addressed a letter to the Battersea Radical Association, which seems to imply that the Government have decided to separate the County Franchise Bill from...

I The Prince of Bulgaria has issued a Manifesto, confessing virtually that his assumption of absolute power was a mistake,. and convoking a grand National Assembly to consider...

Prince Bismarck has given France a third, and, it is to be ! a hope(d, a final lecture. In an aiticle of the 4th inst. in the Yorth-Germ oit (G'fzette, obviously inspired,...

For once, the first account of a calamity proves to be below the truth. In spite of some contradictory statements and some possible exaggerations, it is quite clear that the...

LOCKED-UP HOUSES. T HE Police have lately made a slight concession to the T weakness of London householders. They have put out a notice advising them, if they mean to go away...

THE CLOSING OF THE HIGHLANDS. [To THE EDITOR Or TEE "S PECTATOR."] SiR,-As I feel sure that you do not wish to misrepresent facts, I venture to point out a strange inaccuracy...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE WISH TO BELIEVE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-In the interesting article on " The WVish to Believe " which appeared in your last issue,...

THE ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS' COMMISSION. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,-Canon Trevor is no doubt right in saying that it is a mistake to attempt to govern the Church by...

Marwood, the hangman, is dead of pneumonia, and for I some inexplicable reason the occurrence has been treated I as an event of public impirtance. The Times placed a notice of...

Nothing can be more right than the advice that Englishhmen should take a warner iiiterest in the West I ndlian ISlandl8 They are among our ohlest possessions, they arc...

The news from Zululaud is not pleasant reading, but we do I not know that it directly concerns us. Cetewayo, furious with ,defeat, and perhaps with the British for giving him...

I The Shtawird, of Friday, has an aulusing account of the kea, a variety of green parrot in New Zealand, which has lately been placed under baln by the Legislature. A nybody is...

The Spaniards appear to be convinced that the recent ~met'te in Spain, which was put down so easily that the King has now left his dominions for Vienna, was fomented aby the...

The Chancellors of Berlin and Austria have met by appoint- ment at Salzburg, and have held long conversations, extending *over parts of three days. All kinds of rumours are...

The election for Rutland ended on Friday week in a crushing ,defeat for the Liberals. The county is very small, and purely agricultural, while most of its landlords are...

I We confess with pleacsure that we hlave been taken in lby Mr. Healy and the Wlestern 3fail, and that no Liberal paper has published the rabid nonsense about the Ministry...

THE LATEST VIEW OF MORMONISM.* MIR. PHIL ROBINsoN has the art of saying common-place things in an amusing and effective manner; but for the most part, hi& sayings are far from...

BURKE'S HISTORICAL PORTRAITS.* AIR. BURKE opens his third volume with several chapters of notes on the last stages in the life of Cranmer, and he closes it with a similar...

B O 0 K S. B TH[E SAtCRE;D BOOKS OI' CIII-NA.* TI'ERE arc some bools wbhich seem to owe their charnm to their obscurity. The Yi-Kigil is at best but a tawdry col!cction of...

TIHE RUINT. BEFoitr: my mind an old-world vision grows,Mim aisles, bright altars, priests, a rev'rent tlhrong,W'hlere now o'er cruniJling walls clouds sail along. Throulgh...

THE LAW OF TRESPASS. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] EIR,-Your correspondent, " J. L. P.," speaks of there being no specific law in Scotland making trespass in itself an...

FIELDING AND SARAII ANDREW. [TO THE EDITOR OY THE " SPECTATOR."] Sxir,-IilI you permit me to say, not in comment on, but by way of foot-note to, your very fair and sympathetic...

1 0 E T R Y. AT TIlE PIT-MOUTI. 'NEATII yon bleak hills that spread across the shire, Like earth-waves heaved by some convulsion strong,Where shrubs refrain from flower and...

MR. FOOTE AND THE BLASPHEMY LAWS. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Si.,-Nothing but a grave sense of duty could induce me to trouble you with a communication upon this...

THE RUTLAND ELECTION. IT would be unwise, of course, to exaggerate the meaning of * a defeat such as the Liberals suffered in Rutland on Friday week. No seat has been lost, and...

I POETRY.-The Hill of Stones, and other Poems. By S. Weir I Michell, M.D. (aoughton, Mifflin, and Co., Boston, U.S.)-The principal poem in this volume is a mediauval legend....

Libraries and Readers. By William E. Foster. (F. Leypoldt, New I York.) Libraries and Schools. Papers selected by Samuel S. Green. (Same publishers.)-These two little volumes...

L I letter and Spirit. By Christina G. Rossetti. (S. P. C. K.)-Miss Rossetti takes for her text the Ten Commandments, and makes applications of them to the moral and spiritual...

I Christian Ministry to the Young. By Samnel G. Green, D.D. (Religious Tract .Society.)-Dr. Green describes his book as intended for "parents, pastors, and teachers." The...

I My Home Farm. By Mrs. J. W. Burton. (Longmans.)-Every one who wants to try farming in a small way should read Mrs. Burton's little book. She goes, we may say, to the root of...

TOPICS OF_-TIlE DAY. LORD IIARTIN-GTON; AT SHEFFIELD. T HIE Heir-Apparent, while in his father's dominions and T with the King still living, rarely says much aloud. iHe does...

THE ROYALISTS OF FRANCE. WNTE do not believe that the Royalist party in France is N - g dead, or that it will adopt the theory of election, or that it will be broken up by...

IVAN TOURGENIEF. ON last Sunday, Ivan Tourgenief, after a long and painful illness, died, in the sixty-fifth year of his age, at Bougival near Paris. The Thackeray of Russian...

THE MEASURE OF JUDICIAL SENTENCES. I 'O NE of her Majesty's Judges has broken the habitual XJ silence of the Bench, in the face of criticism, by an article in the Nineteenth...

THE MAGAZINES. TLE Conteciporary is not very interesting. The most original paper in it is a dream, called " Medusa," and after the most careful reading we have failed to...

GLIMPSES OF OUR ANCESTORS IN SUSSEX.* | 4 Tuis is a very entertaining book, and will be found to be so not merely by Sussex men, but by all who take an interest in the "I auld...

WILL FRANCE FIGHT CHINA? IT will be time enough to discuss the annoyances which a French invasion of China must produce-and they will be many and considerable,-when war has...

DEMOCRACY ANI) LITERATURE. 1PlIIE' unaninious approval of Mr. Gladstone's avtion in offerT ing a pension of Lt2-J a Year to Mr. IMatthlew Arnold has been broken by one voice,...

SOMIE BOOKS ABOUT SCOTLAND.* TN saying that there is a little of Dryasdust in Dr. Anderson's thought and style, we mean nothing depreciatory; on the contrary, we doubt much if...

CHARLES THE VICTORIOUS.* [FIRST NOTICE.-TLIE DAUPHIN.] THE first volume of the monumental work in which the Marquis de Beaucourt records the results of his laborious...

CURRENT LITERATURE. I The Expositor. T.he first article in this number is a notable essay I by S. Almoni Petoni on " Miracles,-tie Problem Solved." (It should be explained...