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Mr. Disraeli, who on this point is the Tory Cabinet,
The Spectatorand the Tory party, and the Adullatnite clique, and the . Radical tail, assented on Monday to the " principle " of a lolger franchise. He would not, however, bind himself to the...
Lord Stanley intimated on Thursday night that the Conference question
The Spectatorwas settled,—that England had given her guarantee with the other great Powers of Europe for the neutrality of the Duchy of Luxemburg, and that he was prepared to take the...
It is dangerous to be too sanguine upon subjects which
The Spectatorare closely identified with the most powerful emotions of the human mind, as the consequences of disappointment after sanguine anti- cipation are apt to be very perilous, as...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorMHE Conference on Luxemburg met on Tuesday, under the pre- sidency of Lord Stanley, who will now like the Foreign Office better than ever. The work interests him, and if he had...
The Compound Householder was accordingly debated,—as we are sanguine enough
The Spectatorto hope, for the last time this session,—on Thursday night, when a majority of sixty-six for the Government showed how completely Mr. Disraeli had really succeeded in ex-...
If is particularly rzguested that all applications for copies of
The Spectatorthe SPECTATOR, and communications upon matters of business, should not be addressed to the Editor, but to the Publisher, 1 Wellington Street, Strand; W. C. Teams or...
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Mr. Gathorne Hardy will, it is reported, be the new
The SpectatorHome Secretary, and the Earl of Devon the new President of the Poor Law Board. Mr. Hardy has risen fast, but he site for a Univer- sity, is immensely rich, and speaks well—all...
A story is current in the United States which, incredible
The Spectatoras it looks, one would think must have some sort of foundation. It is said that Mr. Seward is negotiating for the sale to the Union of all British America from the Pole to 40 0...
Attorneys are prohibited from taking more than two articled clerks
The Spectatorat once. That is very right. ' Bricklayers are prohibited from taking more than a defined number of apprentices. That is very wrong. Attorneys who charge any but the customary...
Mr. Disraeli's Bill against Bribery does not get on, perhaps
The Spectatoris not intended to get on. As Mr. Mill said on Thursday, "the Minister who sowed bribery broadcast with one hand holds in the other a Bill for the suppression of bribery. The...
The semi-official journals of Paris are in great glee at
The Spectatorthe pro- spect of the collection of Kings who are, according to them, about to visit the Exposition. The Czar, it is said, has promised to come, and the Prince of Wales, and the...
Mr. Walpole has been so much badgered about Toomer, and
The SpectatorWager, and Mr. Beales, M.A., that he has at last resigned, saying. that his health will bear it no longer. We are not sorry for his resignation, as his sensibility of nature was...
The Positivists of London got up a very kindly petition
The Spectatorto the House of Commons in favour of the Fenian political prisoners, which Mr. Bright read to the House yesterday week. The peti- tion set forth that Ireland is kept in a state...
The Irish Church debate, raised on Sir John Gray's motion
The Spectatorlast Tuesday, was chiefly remarkable for Mr. Gladstone's very powerful speech. He pointed out very ably the inconsistent excuses offered so commonly,—and which had been offered...
The papers say the story about the new French gun
The Spectatorwhich shoots people without powder or smoke is quite true. The weapon is really a sling improved up to the nineteenth-century standard. Bullets are placed in a circular groove...
The latest report on the Princess of Wales is, we
The Spectatorare happy to perceive, favourable. So is that on the Prince Imperial, but the latter appears to be still seriously ill, with a malady which it may take years to care.
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Lord Derby announced on Tuesday his intention of appointing -a
The SpectatorRoyal Commission to inquire into the condition of the Rubric. They are apparently to inquire into the disputed points about vestments, and the time for publishing banns, and the...
S. Ferrari has brought forth his Budget for Italy. It
The Spectatorwas very warmly applauded, but after reading very carefully the two very elaborate telegrams in which it is described, we must confess we clo not understand the plan. S. Ferrari...
The French journals announce the formation of a "Peace League"
The Spectatorin France, which has apparently received some impor- tant adhesions. The French of Alsace, for example, belong to it, and the German merchants in many great towns, and the...
Mr. Disraeli has all his life been fond of explaining
The Spectatorthe im- portance of "the Semitic element" to modern civilization. But we doubt if it has any great importance to Mr. Disraeli's own private and interior civilization. When he is...
The closing prices of the leading Foreign Securities yesterday and
The Spectatoron Friday week are subjoined :— Mexican Spanish P&B3iVell Do. Certificates .. Tw kish 6 per Cents., 1850 „ 1852 Unite.' States 5.20s .. • • • • • • Friday, • • • • /day 3....
The Luxemburg question being virtually settled, large quantities of money
The Spectator(Stock) have continued to be absorbed by the public. Rather an important rise has, therefore, taken place in the value of National Securities. On Monday Consols for money were...
Some leading friends of the Co-Operative movement have started .11
The Spectatorjournal called the Industrial Partnerships' Record, a curious re- pertory of out-of-the-way facts, figures, and proposals, all bear- ing upon the subject. 'The following little...
Poor Mr. Young, the Orange poetaster, is to keep his
The Spectator402. a year. Mr. Disraeli admits it was an " inadvertence " to give it him, but he says he will not cancel it until he and Lord Derby have read all his poems, a new and very...
We learn with great and profoundly selfish regret that almost
The Spectatorthe only really powerful actress on the English stage, Miss Kate Terry, is likely soon to retire, though for the pleasantest of all good reasons. Whether there can be any good...
At the annual meeting of the Universal Life Assurance Society
The Spectatorthe accumulated profits or surplus funds beyond the sum of 602,016/. set apart to meet liabilities were returned at 202,973/. The policies in force are for 2,621,999/.
Yesterday and on Friday week the leading British Railways left
The Spectatoroff at the annexed quotations :— Great Eastern ... Great Northern Friday, May 3. 271 110 Friday, May 10. 241 .. 1101 Great Western.. .. O. 04 VO 391 411 Lancashire...
The Oriental Bank Corporation invite tenders for 832,000/. New South
The SpectatorWales Government loan. The loan is to be issued in . bonds of 100/., 500/., and 1,000/. each, bearing interest at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum. The lowest price that will...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorMR. DISRAELI'S LAST STROKE. I F success be the true test of statesmanship, Mr. Disraeli is a statesman. To all appearance he is about to pass a Bill establishing Household...
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A HUMBLE GOVERNMENT.
The SpectatorW HAT we are pleased to call the Government has at least one Biblical virtue. Its heart is not haughty, nor .has it any proud looks. It has refrained its soul, and kept it low,...
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LORD STANLEY AND THE LUXEMBURG QUESTION.
The SpectatorW ll HAT is an endorsement on the back of a bill? Is it a promise to pay if the other parties to the transaction do not, or only in case they do? We should have thought that a...
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OFFICERS AND JOURNALISTS.
The SpectatorTHE better Officers of the Army, the men who besides being officers are educated gentlemen competent to write pamphlets or be Members of Parlia ment, have a curious grievance of...
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THE IRISH CHURCH DEBATE.
The SpectatorMR.inGdLAD.nSgTaOtNeEndeisnesyomtoettihmes d e d by fle hi xi s bl e e ne di mi al e e s ct o ic f subtle an of an ecclesiastic. Any one who thinks him really deficient in...
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THE BISHOP OF SALISBURY ON ABSOLUTION.
The SpectatorT HE Bishop of Salisbury, the bishop who described it in his first episcopal charge as a fact of his own (shall we say psychological or physiological?) experience, that since...
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THE BATTLE OF POSITION.
The SpectatorA COURAGEOUS and clever writer fights hard in this month's Blackwood on behalf of those who struggle through life for what they call "position." It is, he says, rather...
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OFFICERS AND MEN.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR2] SIR, —In the article, published in your last impression, headed "Mr. G. Trevelyan on Purchase" occurs the following sentence:— " We must make...
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THE LATE CHARLES H. BENNETT.
The Spectator[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Lord Derby was no doubt singularly unfortunate in dis- pensing of the Queen's Bounty Pension Fund in favour of Mr. Young. However...
THE POSSIBLE IMMORALITY OF SELF-DENIAL [To THE EDITOR OF THE
The Spectator"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you allow me to say a few words on the interesting article in your last number, headed "The Possible Immorality of Self-Denial ?" You sum up your...
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ART.
The SpectatorTHE most strenuous partizans of the Academy do not deny that there are some circumstances of the annual Exhibition in Trafalgar Square of which the general body of untitled...
LODGER FRANCHISE.
The Spectator[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra r —The question is often asked, bow will it be possible to define a lodger franchise? Will you kindly permit me to make a simple...
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B OOKS.
The SpectatorSITANA.—A FORGOTTEN CAMPAIGN.* IT is not often that an Indian 'campaign finds a chronicler like Colonel Adye, one of the many officers in the Royal Artillery who unite to great...
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RELIGIOUS FATALISM.*
The SpectatorTiffs curious little book is one of the very few religious works which appear in any year that are wholly and in every fibre instinct with the unconventional personal faith of...
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CAPTAIN JACK.*
The SpectatorMa. MAITLAND has made the mistake of thinking that because the special information which he had acquired concerning the • Captain Jack ; or, the Great Van Broek Property. A...
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EPISODES OF INSECT LIFE.*
The Spectator" ACIIETA DOMESTICA"—who is " Acheta Domestic.a ?"—writes with elegance and grace, a certain glossy grace, the hot-pressed, second-hand grace of the shining green and gold...
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Reports on the Natural History and Habits of Salmonoids in
The Spectatorthe Tweed and Its Tributaries. Published by authority of the Tweed Fishery Commissioners. (Blackwood.)—The Commissioners of the Tweed Fisheries drew up a certain number of...
Sporting Incidents in the Life of Another Tom Smith. (Chapman
The Spectatorand Hall.)—The other Tom Smith presupposed by this title-page (not this other Tom Smith, but the other other Tom Smith) is Thomas !Whe- t= Smith, whose life was published a...
The Vicar of Southbury's Story. A Christmas Poem. By a
The SpectatorPoet. (Alfred W. Bennett.) A Wreath of Shamrocks. By John K. Carey (Leo). (Dublin, M‘Gee.)—More verse, and unluckily mere verse, though the author of the second volume writes...
The Tallants of Barton. By Joseph Hatton. (Tinsley Brothers.)— An
The Spectatoraverage story, with too many characters, which are therefore faintly sketched ; too many incidents, which are therefpre often im- probable—the changing of children is a very old...
The Year - Book of Facts in Science and Art. 1867. By
The SpectatorJohn Timbs, F.S A. (Lockwood.)—The industry of Mr. Thnba's scissors cannot be too highly commended. Scarcely a fact escapes their watchful snip. We seem to bo,jesting, but we...
CURRENT LITERAT URE.
The SpectatorJoyce Dormer's Story. By Julia Goddard. (Bradbury and Evans.)— Miss Goddard has written many stories, we believe, yet this one leaves on us the impression of being a first...
Rout/edge's ReadyReckoner. By John Heaton. (Routledge.) —This book is said
The Spectatorto contain 63,000 calculations. We have not counted them, and it is needless to say that we have not tested many of them. Of course the value of such a book lies in its...
A Travers Champs. Flitneries. Par le Chevalier de Chatolain. (Rolandi.)—The
The SpectatorChevalier de Chatelain is well known as a translator of English poetry. He is also, we believe, an Anglomane. If we remember rightly he was some time back a candidate for the...
May and Her Friends. By E. M. B. (F. Warne.)—A
The Spectatorgirl's story, rather too long, and studiously moral. We can recommend it, however, to the class which considers Miss Yonge the greatest of novelists, and indeed to all who are...
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An Address delivered by Way of Inaugural Lecture. February 7,
The Spectator1867. By the Rev. William Stubbs, M.A., Regius Professor of Modern History. (Oxford : J. Parker.)—We are glad of the opportunity of reading a revised edition of the lecture,...
world almost a century too late. There is a good
The Spectatordeal in it about sub- terranean passages and robbers, but we had not the patience to pluck out the heart of its mystery, and it is too prosy to reward any greater perseverance.
Our Children: Sketched from Nature in Pencil and Verse. (Dean
The Spectatorand Son.)—An unpretending little publication, the sketches having been taken for family amusement, and having gradually enlarged their circle of appreciative admirers. If it is...
The Rob Roy on the Baltic. By J. Macgregor, M.A.
The Spectator(Low, Son, and; Marston.)—There is not the same freshness in Mr. Macgregor's account of his second cruise as in his first little book, which we reviewed at length. And yet we...
Medical Students of the Period. By R. Temple Wright, M.D.
The Spectator(Black- wood.)—With the exception of some parts, which deal with a painful if I not repulsive subject, this little book is worthy of much praise and general reading. Its sketch...
Little Folks. Twenty pictures. By Oscar Pletsch. (F. Warne and
The SpectatorCo.)—We noticed some similar pictures the other day, and it seems to us that too short a time has elapsed since then, for such exactly iden- tical faces to come forward with new...
Emily's Choice. An Australian Tale. By Maud Joanne Franc. (Sampson
The SpectatorLow.)—There is nothing peculiarly Australian in this tale, nor indeed much of anything noticeable. It tells the story of a minister's wife, and moralizes to a very great extent...
A Thousand and One Gems of English Poetry. Selected and
The Spectatorarranged by Charles Mackay, LL.D. (Routledge.)—Dr. 3fackay's name is a sufficient voucher for the creditable way in which those selections have bean made. The editor's original...
figured, or might figure, in fair average magazines. The best
The Spectatoridea in them is in the first story, where the mode of proposal adopted by a diffident young man, and the consequences entailed by it, are amusing enough. The young man is in...