The papers of this day week contained a very cordial letter from the Queen to Mr. Gladstone, expressing " her own personal and very deep sense of the reception she and her dear...

The Irish Members are taking advantage of Lord Derby's motion for a new Domesday Book to obtain a similar return for Ireland, with the addition of a list of Absentees. Lord...

Convocation has agreed to recommend the shortened revisions .suggested by the Commission. The Morning Prayer, the. Litany, -and Communion Service may be used as separate...

Mr. Holms on Monday brought forward his motion for a Teduction of the Army by 20,000 men. It appeared, however, that he did not want that so much as the organization of the...

Colonel Chesney, in a very interesting lecture delivered last . -A A - " _a I I I . . _ _ _- week at Aldershot, on the advance made in military science, dwelt on the great feat...

Mfr. Gladstone on Thursday, in answer to Mr. Kinnaird, denied that the Pope had applied for an asylum in Malta or anywhere else within the British dominions, and the rumour of...

In a discussion in the House of Lords on Thursday on the 'business of the House, the Duke of Richmond complained of not having more business introduced first into the Upper...

I According, to the Pall -1lall Gazette, the Boston Comzmonwtealthl I States that the following prayer was lately offered up by the Rev. Mr. Cudworth, the Unitarian Chaplain of...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE COMMONPLACENESS OF PEOPLE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR."J SIR,-There is so much of sad truth in the letter of your correspondent " Experto...

CORRESPON-DENCE. AUSTRALIA. - - I December 28, 1871. | TILE chances of travel during the last two months have taken me to the capital cities of all the leading Australian...

MR. FOWVLE ON NATURAL RELIGION. IN a remarkable article in the new number of the Conte'nzlorary Reriew, the Rev. T. IV. Fowle takes up a somewhat striking, position in relation...

The Emperor of Germany has at length assigned the money voted him by Parliament for distribution among his Generals. Prince Frederick Charles, Count Moitke, Generals Von Roon...

I The death of Lord Lonsdale, the head of the Lowthers, and one of the most influential of the Tory Peers, was announced on Wednesday. Lord Lonsdale was a man of much capacity,...

Hafiz Ahmad Hassan, " representative of the Nuwab of Tonk," has sent us a letter, unfortunately too late for insertion, in which he complains that we have " misrepresented "...

All the rumours from America seem to point to the same result, I that the American Government, while answering Lord Granville's note quite courteously, have insisted on their...

The Lords were amused on Monday by a speech from Lord Westbury, who, assuming his favourite role of amiable adder, stung all the Appellate Courts of the country for their own...

The Commissioners of Inquiry into the loss of the Alegera-| Lord Lawrence chairman-have submitted their conclusions, which exonerate Mr. Goschen, who was justified on the...

A large deputation-representing, they said, a million and a qua- I ter of people-waited on Mr. Lowe en Wednesday with a very cool i request. 'They wanted the income-tax taken...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Modern Mar: or, the Campaiyns of the First Prussian Arm1y, 1870-1. 13y Sir Randal Roberts, Bart. (Chapman and Hall.)-Sir Randal Roberts,who already had...

iMexico under Maximilian. By J. J. Kendall. (Newry.)-Mr. Kendall, who has had a commission in our Army, offered his services to thee Emperor Maximilian, who appointed him to...

I Ifelen Cameron: from Grib to Batte?:ly. By the Author of "tMary I Stanley; or, the Secret Ones." 3 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)-It may be presumed that an inhabitant of the...

Journal of the Lady Beatrix Graham, Sister of the Marquis of Montrose. By Miss Yonge. (Bell and Daldy.)-In writing novels in which histori- cal personages are made to act and...

A Bridge of Glass. By F. W. Robinson, author of " Grandmother's I Money." (Hurst and Blackett.)-MIr. Robinson's title, taken from| Massinger, applies in a double sense to his...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THRE SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The letter of " Experto Crede," in your number of March 2, has only too much truth in it. But give me leave to express my conviction...

LITURGICAL REVISION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The proposal to authorize lay sermons in Church-of-England pulpits is worthy of the heartiest support, and may, I...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Your correspondent "Experto Crede" seems to fall into the curious mistake of supposing that " commonplace people" can only be...

The Calcutta correspondent of the Times warns the public that _- -. - , . . another Sonthal insurrection may be approaching. The tribesmen who in o855 rose to avenge themselves...

I ie was followed by Mr. Richard, who complained of the hostility of the Department and its inspectors to School Boards, and then Mr. Forster moved his amendment-that it was...

M. Pouyer-Quertier, French Minister of Finance, has resigned, under circumstances explained elsewhere, and M. Thiers is greatly puzzled to find a successor. A clerk might not...

On Thursday the Scotch Education Bill was read a second time, Mr. Auberon Herbert and Mr. James White carrying only six members with them into the lobby on behalf of their...

Mr. Dixon's motion condemning the Education Act as unsatis- factory because it does not establish a national system, i.e., universal compulsion and universal School Boards;...

NEWTS OF THE WEEK. T HE Tichborne case has collapsed. Oa Monday the jury intimated that their minds were made up, and Serjeant Ballantine *asked time till Wednesday to...

The expenses of the trial will be monstrous, not less, it is said. I than £120,000-and although the estate can bear them, their amount is a disgrace to our legal system. Why...

LESSONS ON ENGLISH.* OF all school books of the present day the most attractive to a reviewer are those which deal with English. New classical books may improve the old methods...

BO OK S. THE NORTH-WEST COAST OF NEW CALEDON-IA.* | BOOKS of travel are less numerous in French than in English literature, and as a rule, more readable. A Frenchman,...

POOR MEN AT OXFORD. i N unpretending announcement, issued by one of the Oxford 11 Colleges-an announcement which may not, indeed, be the first of its kind, though it is the...

The Princess and the Goblin. By George Macdonald. Jof_ rlAA__ a.. ... (Strahan.)- X M ..-' -. - uIgY iuacaonala. (6itraban.)Mr. George Macdonald's fairy tales would be the...

Christian Sacerdotalism, by John Jardine, M.A. A_ An . --. _ (Longmans), and I' -- k_-rW~±~UW6U5J, ana An Answer to Dr. Pusey's Challenge respecting the Doctrine of the Real...

At Book of Parliamentary Anecdote. Compiled by G. H. Jennings and XV q Toh----- I7_ ...I. - . . _ I W. S. Johnstone. (Cassell and Co.)-This book consists of "' illustrations...

Stolen lVaters. By Mrs. Mackenzie Daniel. * -1 2 vols. (Newby.)-This is | a novel of a very well-known type. A young woman falls wildly in love with a worthless scoundrel, a...

THE MAGAZINES. THE most interesting papers in the Fortnightly, at least to the general reader, are Castelar's estimate of Figueras, and " The Aim of Reform " by Mr. Goldwin...

A SHADOW OF DANTE.* TInE aim of this book may be guessed from these words of the authoress: "A shadow may win the gaze of some who never looked upon the substance." The book...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE ASSAULT ON THE ENGLISH EDUCATION ACT. IR. MIALL'S motion for the Disestablishment of the M81 Church of England obtained 89 votes last year; and Mr....

THE SENTIMENTAL ASPECT OF AMERICAN DIPLOMACY. THE relations between England and America are curious enough. At the present moment, we are resisting an interpretation of the...

SHE WAS YOUNG AND HE WAS OLD.* NOT that he was so very old-only forty-five-but he was old for his age, and this could not be explained in the title without spoiling the,...

MISS EDENS LETTERS FROM INDIA.* Is it possible to have too much of a good thing ? The answer in i the affirmative, we fear, is given by the fastidious minority. When and where...

MI. JANVIER DE LA MOTTE. THERE never was a story so characteristic of France as that revealed in the trial of -M. Janvier de la Motte, whilom Prefect of the Eure. It might have...

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN JUDGES. M~y[R. BRYCE the historian has published a paper in this -&,1 month's Macmillan which all politicians in England should attentively read. They may...

THE DECISION ON THE MEG.LERA CASE. THE " conclusions " arrived at by the Commissioners '1 appointed to inquire into the loss of the Megaera are not pleasant reading for any...

THE END OF THE TICHBORNE CASE. IN all this gigantic Tichborne case, with its long array of counsel on each side, its endless lists of witnesses, and its revelation of model...