The l:armers have declared war on their friends. The repre- -sentatives of the Cbambers of Agriculture met on Tuesday, and MIr. H-I. Beddill moved the following resolution:-"...

The dinner at the opening of the Royal Academy took place this day week, when the incident of the evening was Mr. Disraeli's entertaining speech. lie accepted the principle...

I Last week, at a dinner given to the farmers connected with tho Royal Buckhounds, Lord Granville made an amusin speech on the lunting memories of other days, whichi he ended...

The Convocation of Canterbury won't hear even of any modifi- I cation of Archbishop Tait's Public Worship Regulation Bill. The Committee appointed to consider it by the Lower...

Lord Salisbury has brought in a Bill for dissolving Magdalen I Hall, Oxford, and for incorporating in its place the Principal, Fellows, and Scholars of Hertford College, and...

The Duke of Richmond, it is offic ally stated, intends to bring | in a Bill to abolish patronage in the Church of Scotland. As the Church wishes that change, and as under the...

The Times publishes an interesting account of the means by -which the Khedive prevented the closing of the Straits of Suez. M. de Lesseps, who at first expected to have...

I We have neither the time nor the space to criticise criticisms on our criticisms of books, nor would it be a useful occupation. (Gross misrepresentation, however, ought to be...

Air. Sheridan has been unseated at Dudley, the intimidation having been so great that the election was unreal. He attributes this in the Times to an importation of strangers,...

If we may judge by what. le promptly did to reverse Mr. ] Forster's action as regards the education of pauper children, Lord Sandon will regard Mr. Forster's purpose not as an...

I The ' Liberation,' Society (why didn't it keep its easy and intelligible old name of the Anti-State-Church Society, which nobody misunderstood?) has been holding a triennial...

The Home Secretary, Mr. Cross, proposed a compromise. lie I had himself sketched out a measure he was himself preparing, limiting the labour of women and young persons to...

The news of the Bengal Famine received this week is, on the i whole, unfavourable. It would seem that Durbungah is now safe, but the Viceroy reports that the supplementary...

Sir John Lubbock took up a subject which he has now made I almost his own, in connection with the Minutes of the Education Department, yesterday week. Hle complained of the...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Lectres #n the 1Geography of Greece. By the Rev. IT. F. Tozer, MA. I (Murn.iv.)-We may look upon this volunse as one of the results of the admliirbl!e...

O Opiniions Goncerni-n the Ryllle Law of Mlia7 ictge. By One of the People. (Philadelphia: Claxton and Co.)-The writer defends monogamy, and is emphatic in dispraise of...

THROUGH THE MIST.* IT is not uncommon with novelists who have no very large stock of imaginative or inventive faculty to utilise their knowledge of different parts of the world...

AN EXPENSIVE' "FAD." ACURIOUS book might be written on the fantasies or fancies of great Corporations, the dreams to which they adhere with the constancy and unreason so often...

SPANISH AFFAIRS. THE Carlists, like our own Jacobites and the French Legitimists, pass their lives in hoping, and we do not wonder, therefore, that they represent their retreat...

HEALTH AND EDUCATION OF AMERICAN GIRLS. I [TO THE EDITOR OF TIHE "SSPECTATOR."] SisR,-During my recent visit to Vassar College, I had a long conversation wvith the resident...

PATRONAGE AND THE CIIURCII. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR." SIR,-The Bishop of Peterborough says, '; Let us reform patronage by binding it more closely to the land." But can...

TIHE GREAT ICE AGE. [TO TiE EDITOR OF TIE SP'ECTATOR."] Ssn,-Frorn the review of Profeesor Geikie's "1 Great Ice Ag-e," in the Sjiectator of yesterday, it appears that he...

THE "I)UBLIN REVIEW" ON FREE-WILL.* Alucii the most remarkable article in the new number of the Dublin Reviecw is that on Determinism (or Necessarianism, as it used to be...

I The lock-out in the Eastern Counties continues, and has spread to Berkshire, where the people are meeting it by emigration, and to Kent, whence no results are yet known....

I A warm debate took place on Wednesday on Mr. Mundella's Nine Hours' Factory Bill, for limiting the labour of " women" and "young persons" in the textile fabrics to 51 hours a...

The Paris correspondent of the Times says that on the visit of I Victor Emanuel to Berlin last year, Prince Bismarck expressed his apprehension that enough had not been done to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. BILBAO has been relieved. General Concha, finding himself in command of 43,000 troops, was able to turn Somorrostro, while Marshal Serrano attacked in front....

The debate on the Gold Coast was resumed on Monday, but was remarkable only for a speech by Sir Wi. Lawson, who says English commerce with natives means rum and gunpowder, that...

Lord Russell on Monday night interrogated Lord Derby as to 1the prospects of peace or war on the Continent, expressing in'cidentally his own rather arbitrary opinion that "...

THE " EDINBURGH REVIEW " ON THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE. I THE Edinbarghi Review is scarcely fair to the Indian Civil Service when, in charging it with containing "I an...

A R T. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. TiERE is no way in which a critic can do full justice to a galleryof 1,624 works of art. He must either comment too slightly onthe many, or deal too...

P 0 E T R Y. TWO IRISH IDYLLS. I.-RIDING DOUBLE. TROTTIN' to the Fair, Ale and Moll Mo010DY Seated, I declare, On a single pony, How aim I to know that Molly's safe behind,...

BO OK S. LOUISA, QUEEN OF PRUSSIA.- MISS HUDSON- is kind enough to furnish us with ample details as to how it came about that she felt herself inspired to compose two volumes...

THE MAGAZINES. FEYw readers will fail to turn with curiosity to see what Mr. Gladstone has to say about "The Reply oi Achilles to the Envoys of Agamemnon" in the Contetnor(ary....

DR. ANSTIE ON VIVISECTION. THOSE of our readers who have read our remarks on Vivisection should also read Dr. Anstie's bitter criticism upon them in the AMay number of the...

A FRENCH PICTURE OF SAINT ANTHONY. I l/1 GUSTAVE FLAUBERT has won a French, if not an EugM$ l @ ish fame, by means of his M11adame Bovary, a novel which dissects with ghastly...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. ENGLISH FOREIGN POLICY. THE Foreign Minister of England must, under any Government, feel his position an awkward one. He is apparently expected to talk...

THE RECENT TORY MESSES. IF the Liberals were united, as we freely confess they are not, this Government would not last nearly as long as its supporters suppose, or as we,...

THE REACTIONARY EDUCATION MINUTE. W E always regarded Lord Sandon's appointment as ViceW President of the Education Board as the weakest of Mr. Disraeli's selections, and Lord...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THE DOMESDAY BOOK OF SCOTLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THU " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-Will you allow me to support with a few figures what you aay in your...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOBI"] Sin,-The article in your journal of May 2 on the "Scotch Domesday Book " contains so many curious errors on matters of fact, and as it...

GENERAL GRANT ON PAPER-MIONEY. PRESIDENT GRANT'S Message vetoing the Bills passed by Congress in favour of Inflation will benefit his Z reputation both here and in America,...