the necessity for an expedition to Abyssinia had been avoided. A letter was received by Colonel Merewether, Political Agent at Aden, from Consul Cameron, reporting that native...

a sitting. Mr. Disraeli on Thursday morning begged the House not to throw out an amendment passed unanimously by the Lords—no one not a Cabinet Minister having voted against...

franchise from 101. to 151. was introduced by Earl Russell iu a speech praising the London workmen, and declaring the 101. figure a parliamentary compact. Lord Derby accepted...

forcibly in Mexico, unless absolutely compelled by massacres of American citizens. The leaders of both parties consider that invasion would be followed by annexation, and that...

very great force. Mr. Gladstone condescended to use the argument of surprise, as if the proposal had not been dis- cussed for thirty years, but his main arguments were that the...

T HE Reform Bill may he said to have passed. It was under- stood from the first that of the three great amendments made by the Lords, one, the raising of the lodger franchise,...

repay members for passing it by guaranteeing their seats for one more year. It provides that in case of a dissolution before January 1st, 1869, if shall take place as if no...

Neu- trality laws. He objects to the provision in the Declaration of Paris which exempts enemies' goods from seizure if carried in neutral vessels. He holds that we have thereby...

the use of proxies. The Select Committee on the business of the House report that their use diminishes attendance and weakens the authority of the House, but that the privilege...

and Sicily has been marked by some most disheartening circumstances. Italians, brave enough under other circumstances, seem to go mad with fear of epidemics, and the doctors, of...

limits of insanity, was decided by Sir J. Wilde on Tuesday. A very remarkable case, involving subtle questions as to the limits of insanity, was decided by Sir J. Wilde on...

to send the Indian mails by Brindisi, and that the idea of giving the Overland contract to the Messageries Imperiales never entered any official's head. They were only asked to...

Bethnal Green is itself again. The parish officials, paralyzed for a time by the brutal interference of Parliament and the unkind remarks of the public, have recovered a good...

debate on the Orissa famine, remarkable as showing that the House of Commons considers Sir S. Northeote's despatch too mild. He himself admitted that it was only the first of a...

from England and Wales is decreasing, and the births in England and Wales increasing till the increase of population amounts to 750 a day—say a couple of towns like Leeds per...

week between the French and Italian Governments. General Dumont having been requested by the French Minister at War to see what was wrong with the Antibes Legion at Rome, the...

that its Budget for 1866 shows a surplus of 1,200,0001. This includes the.whole expense of the great war. This year also will show a surplus, and for the next no loans or new...

on Friday week are subjoined:— Friday, August 2. Friday, Augnet 0 Mexican •• 15it .. 151 Spanish Passives ... .. • • .. .. 21 .. 211 Do. Certificates .. .. • • 16...

given by the Lord Mayor. Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli both delivered speeches in an unusually jocund, not to say vain- glorious, vein. We have noticed the speech of the...

minority principle to the City of London, but of course with no -effect, the only additional argument being the historic dignity of the City. It would have been most unfair to...

Derby is about - to do an outrageous act of cynicism. Mr. Watkin, one of the ;gentlemen censured by the Yarmouth Bribery Commission., is to receive the honour of knighthood. He...

night Lord Aberdeen's t conundrum,' minority representation, must stand indelibly branded as one of the poorest political whimsies ever evolved from brains half-addled by...

Duke of 'Cambridge to Sir W. Mansfield which seems to have escaped atten- tion. His Royal Highness lays down a doctrine as to the " indepen- -deuce" of courts-martial which, if...

Commissioners have in twenty-one years spent 206,8001. on Bishops' palaces. No leas than 52,1941. was spent for the Bishop of Lincoln, 19,0371. for the Bishop of...

place in the value of Home Securities ; since then, however, the market has become firm, rather large quantities of Stock have been absorbed, and prices have steadily advanced....

Great Northern .. .. •. Great Western.. .. .. • . Lancashire and Yorkshire .. • • .• London and Brighton ••/ Pal ... •• Loudon and North-Western •0 .....

THE END OF THE STRUGGLE. T HE division of Thursday night, which established the principle that minorities have a right to local as well as to Imperial representation, may yet...

P RIVATE accounts from Italy are by no means reassuring. For the first time since 1861 Liberal statesmen are beginning to doubt 'whether Italy is really made, or whether if it...

vr do not wonder that Mr. Carlyle's semi-delirious utter- ance, or rather scream, in this month's Macmillan should have attracted much attention. Force is a reality, the mights...

R. DISR ATILT has openly admitted that party motive for 1/1 the Reform Bill which Lord Derby, when taxed with it, did not venture to deny. Lord Granville, with his adroit in-...

(111HE last person to whom an average Englishman can 1 bring himself to be just is a Roman Catholic. There never was an act so directly opposed to true Liberal. principles, so...

THERE E is a class of minds to which explanation of the mode in which anything came to pass is equivalent to a proof that it ought to be maintained. When they are asked why such...

F OR four or five days during the month just past the Swiss lake of the " Four Cantons " was more enlivened, and the steamers running upon its waters were more thronged, than...

I F Professor Newman is well informed, which is by no means invariably the case, the cause so long advocated under the name of " Women's Rights " is about to receive a new and...

BUCKING-MA/11' 4 . SHIRE :—SAXON PERIOD. W E have no account of the conquest of this Province by the tribes included under the general title of Anglo-Saxons. Our earliest...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] CIRCUMSTANCES have made Tasmania lean more than any other Australian colony to sober conservatism in its ideas and its politics. The youthful ideal of...

LORD DUFFERIN ON IRELAND.t A series of letters on " Irish Emigration " and the " Tenure of Land in Ireland," originally addressed to the Times newspaper, have now been carefully...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Will you allow one of your readers to say that the verses of " Valerius," which your reviewer quotes as unsurpassed speci- mens of...

that a book had been written about the humour of the Scotch, would answer—in sublime forgetfulness of Sir Walter and of Robert Burns—" Scottish humour ! There is no such...

DR. ADAMS, whom we take to be a native of North Britain, went out to India as medical officer in the 64th Regiment, at the com- mencement of 1849, and during his sojourn of...

• The Huguenot Family in the English Mime. By Sarah. TyUer. S vole. London : Hurst and Blacken. WERE it not for her pure womanly instincts, which, like lights at sea, shine...

IT is a peculiarity of that fashionable instruction of which litera- ture without inductive science is made the staple, that it can only give the understanding an elementary...

of the public has been so lately called to the men and the institutions of Belgium, and while the cheers that greeted the Belgian Volunteers in London are still almost in •...

CURRENT LITERATURE A Treatise on the Sacraments of the Church. By John Colet, D.D., formerly Dean of St. Paul's. Now first published with an introduction by J. H. Lupton, M.A....

produced by reading this story is one that it is not easy to analyze or give an account of in the way of criticism. The work does not seem so much a story as a family history of...

John Bowden. (Chapman and Hall.)—Generally speaking, we can recom-. mend this book of Mr. Bowden's as new and interesting, though we are-aware that it contains some...

and Charles Dexter Cleveland. (Low, Son, and Marston.)—The two addresses contained in this volume are respectively the Pennsylvania address of 1844, and the Cincinnati address...

King Solomon.. With notes and illustrations by Satyam Jayati. (London and Edin- burgh, Williams and Norgate, 1867.) "Satyam Jayati," (i.e., truth prevails) is a nom de guerre...

rules of cricket, croquet, football, and many other less known and less popular games. The rules of cricket are fairly complete. Those of croquet are long out of date, and...

Country Parson. New edition. (Saunders and Otley.)--There is not much in these short and plain sermons to call for notice at our hands, or to account for their appearance in a...

quite- understand the drift of it, or give an account of its arguments in a short compass. Some passages which struck us as good have been marked by us in passing, and others,...