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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorHE dispute between the Indian Government and the King of T Burnish has been made more intelligible this week, and at the same time more grave, by some telegrams, and an...
The prospects of the Dissolution of the French Assembly are
The Spectatorrapidly improving. All fractions of the Left, with a moderation rare in French politics, have agreed as far as possible to avoid discussion, that the Dissolution may be hastened...
Mr. Forster replied to Mr. Salt in a speech of
The Spectatora good deal of fire, of which we have noticed some of the main points elsewhere. He disclaimed above everything making a party issue of this question, and expressed his belief...
It has been decided that this visit should be a
The SpectatorState affair or Royal Progress, and be paid for partly out of Imperial and partly • -• out of Indian funds. Mr. Disraeli on Thursday stated in his place that the Prince would...
Mr. Trevelyan's Bill for the extension of Household Suffrage to
The Spectatorthe counties was debated on Wednesday, when Mr. Salt (M.P. for Stafford) moved its rejection, in a rather remarkable speech, in which he did not spare either the present or the...
The proposal, of course, did not pass without opposition. Mr.
The SpectatorBurt, Mr. Macdonald, and Mr. P. A. Taylor opposed the grant, assigning no reasons, but stating that it would create great discontent among the working-classes. Their speeches,...
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The Ministers and Legislature of the Cape Colony do not
The Spectatorapparently like the proposal to federate the South-African Colonies. They argue, in reply, that the time is inopportune, and are obviously offended that Lord Carnarvon should...
Lord Frederick Cavendish delivered on Tuesday a useful attack on
The Spectatorlegal sinecures, pointing out how many of the officers of the Courts of Law have either little or nothing to do, or else receive very much greater sums for a year of 190 working...
Lord Dufferin, the Governor-General of the Canadian Dominion, who is
The Spectatorat home for a holiday, was entertained on Wednesday by the Canada Club, and made a capital speech, brimful of confi- dence, and hope, and "go." There is something about these...
It would seem that the Abyssinians have some reason for
The Spectatortheir fear of the Egyptians. The Khedive has been receiving submis- sions all down the Nile Valley, including that of Darfur, and he has now purchased Zeyla, the best port on...
The trial of the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, pastor of
The SpectatorPlymouth Chetfch, Brooklyn, for seducing Mrs. Tilton, has ended without a verdict. The Judge, Mr. _Neilson, only occupied two hours with his charge, which, though incidentally...
Several of the most important Joint-stock Banks appear to have
The Spectatorsuffered rather severely from the recent failures, more especially that of Messrs. Collie. The London and Westminster has declared a dividend of 10 per cent. on the half-year...
The Marquis of Hartington explained his refusal to vote in
The Spectatora speech not very consistent with itself, since he first admitted the fitness of the agricultural voter, and then denied it on the ground of insufficient education. He declared,...
The division list shows Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Childers voting
The Spectatorwith Mr. Forster for Mr. Trevelyan's Bill, and Mr. Lowe voting against it, while Mr. Goschen appears to have followed Lord Hartington's example in not voting at all. The...
The Alfonsists, by their own account, have captured the fortress
The Spectatorof Cantavieja, and driven Dorregaray back across the Ebro. They have also drawn up a Constitution for Spain, by which religious liberty is fully secured, a Parliament is...
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The Church is once more said to be in danger.
The SpectatorCertainly the storm rages round the ship ; and the crew, or lower clergy, suggest very cautiously protective measures ; while the Upper House, or officers, mildly put by the...
The Ritualist organ has tried to open our eyes to
The Spectatorthe neces- sity under which Mr. Stanton lay of not celebrating the Eucharist in a common surplice, but it is not as lucid as we could wish. Mr. Stanton himself not only...
The most accomplished and the ablest of living economists, Professor
The SpectatorCairnes, died on Thursday morning, at the age of fifty- -one, after a most lingering and painful illness of several years. He was, however, much more than an economist, a...
On Monday the Duke of Richmond gave a very disappointing
The Spectatorreply to Lord Carlingford in relation to the admitted deficiency of Irish training-schools, and the means by which the Govern- ment propose, or rather do not propose, to supply...
There was a Slave-trade debate on Thursday of some import-
The Spectatorance. Mr. Hanbury, who called attention to the matter, showed that while we had put down the sea-borne traffic in slaves on the East Coast of Africa, a land-borne trade had...
The Astronomer-Royal, Sir George Airy, received this day week the
The Spectatorfreedom of the City of London from the Lord Mayor, and in returning thanks for the toast of his health, made a grace- ful speech, of which it appeared to be the chief object to...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE PRINCE OF WALES'S VISIT TO INDIA. W E do not know that the visit of the Prince of Wales to India will produce any political benefit either to the Empire or to the...
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THE COUNTY FRANCHISE AND THE QUESTION OF
The SpectatorTIME I T is quite evident that, for the hour, political opinion in England is simply stagnant. Last year Mr. Trevelyan's Bill for extending household franchise to the Counties...
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LORD DUIIERIK ON CANADA.
The SpectatorIT is a pleasure to any true politician to read a speech like that in which Lord Dufferin on Wednesday responded to the congratulations of the Canada Club. That it has in it...
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declaration, but the declarations which he continued to make Now
The Spectatordoctrines of this kind, coming from M. Buffet, seem to on various subsequent occasions, rather confirmed than relieved us just what was wanted to put the Government in a sound...
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THE DEGENERACY OF CITY CHILDREN.
The SpectatorD R. FERGUSSON, certifying Surgeon under the Factory Acts at Bolton, has revived an old and important dis- cussion in a somewhat novel form. Thirty years ago the public was...
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THE JUDICATURE AMENDMENT BILL.
The SpectatorT HE Common-law Barristers in the House of Commons made a dead-set at the Judicature Bill on Monday night, but though they had all the will in the world to mar, they con-...
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THE ENGLISH CONGREGATIONALISTS AND MR.
The SpectatorBEECHER. D R. PARKER, the Minister of the Congregational Church in London called the "City Temple," must either be a very inconsiderate person, or a very stupid one, or must...
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THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON INSTINCT IN BIRDS AND MAN.
The SpectatorT HE Duke of Argyll has written a very entertaining and, in its earlier portion, a very graphic paper in the new (July) Contemporary Review, on "Instinct in its Relation to the...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
The Spectator" THE SECOND DEATH " AND THE CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The almost entire disappearance from current theology of the old intolerable...
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THE OPIUM TRAFFIC.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The only consolation one has after enduring the lash of your criticism is that the Spectator will not, like some other journals,...
THE AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS BILL AND THE LABOURERS.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sra,—Your correspondent "A. K. C." seems to have overlooked the important alteration in the Agricultural Holdings Bill whereby the basis of...
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SHAKESPEARE'S " HENRY VIII." [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ")
The SpectatorSIR,—I am surprised to find the question of a twofold authorship• ignored in your review of "Henry Mr. Furnivall tells us that Mr. Tennyson detected Fletcher's hand largely in...
BOOKS.
The SpectatorTRAVELS IN PORTUGAL* MR. LATOUCHE has not suffered so severely at the hands of his publishers as Mr. Rose, whose Untrodden Spain was the most slovenly production of the...
THE ROMAN CATHOLICS AND IRISH EDUCATION.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—The following is from the Daily Express (Dublin) of this date :— " Tam:sum or NATIONAL SolooL TEACHERS. —Lord Carlingford [in the House...
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ALICE LORRAINE.* MR. BLICKMORE'S hand has not lost its cunning.
The SpectatorSince we called upon an indifferent public to recognise the merits of Lorna Doone, we know no story which has given us quite the same amount of pleasure as the one before us. We...
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MEMORIALS OF MILLBANK.* IT is proverbially easier to get into
The Spectatorprison than to get out again.. Our experience has been exceptional, though we have frequently been within prison walls. Our " ticket-of-leave " was an " open- sesame," which...
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A CONTROVERSY ON THE PLAY IN "HAMLET." THE "play in
The SpectatorHamlet," bearing the name of the "Murder of Gonzago," is introduced with divers hints that Hamlet has in- serted something in it, or more particularly, if we tie the Prince to...
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CAMBRIDGE SERMONS.*
The SpectatorWE live in an age which professes to despise the pulpit, but certainly profession and practice were never farther apart, if we may judge from the multitude of human beings who...
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THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorTHE Fortnightly is this month perhaps the most readable of the graver magazines, M. Emile de Laveleye contributing an interest- ing paper on the " European Situation," Mr. G....
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A History of the Weald of Kent. By Robert Farley.
The SpectatorVolume U.,. Parts 1 and 2. (Ashford, H. Igglesden ; London, John Russell Smith.) —Mr. Furley has done so much, has collected so vast an amount of information, that it would be...
Walter's Word. By James Payn. (Tinsley Brothers.)—This is such a
The Spectatorlong story, that when we get to the very romantic and satisfactory denouement at Palermo, we can scarcely believe we began—apparently some years ago—at an equally romantic, but...
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorThe New Quarterly Magazine, for July. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.)— The most interesting article in this number is one on "Affonso Henriquez and the Rise of Portugal," by Oswald...
Summer Days in Auvergne. By H. de K. With Illustrations..
The Spectator(Richard Bentley and Son.)—A very pleasant little book about the pic- turesque little bath Mont Dore and its neighbourhood, embellished by interesting illustrations. Those who...
Brenda Yorke. By Mary Cecil Hay. 3 vole. (Hurst and
The SpectatorBlackett.)^ —The heroine Is loved by and loves a man of station superior to her own. As he is a very honourable man, and quite willing and able to overrule all opposition on...
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Diary of the late John Epps, M.D. Edited by Mrs.
The SpectatorEpps. (Kent and Co.)—The " friends and patients " to whom this volume is dedicated will possibly welcome the 672 large and closely-printed octavo pages of which it consists, but...
The Deceased Wife's Sister, and My Beautiful Neighbour•. 3 vols.
The Spectator(Bentley.)—An exceedingly unattractive title almost prevented us from reading this book. It is only fair to say that we are agreeably dis- appointed by its contents. The subject...
