Govern- ment, attempted through its external allies, was delay. Lord' Grosvenor, strongly assisted by Lord Etch°, Mr. Henley, Mr. Dillwyn, and Sir R. Knightley did what they...

greatest displays, was wonderfully cogent. He showed clearly that the " barriers " introdiitakby Mr. Disraeli's scheme were utterly un- trustworthy. They would be swept away in...

Liberal deserter who spoke wall Mr. *Wert, who AM MO 104 to count on Mr. Disraeli's vague assurances of some candid future con- sideration of his wishes about the compound...

the first topic. Nominally, the debate was on an amendment pro- posed by Mr. Gladstone, really it was upon this :—Both sides wish to establish household suffrage, with...

rating limit, and removing all inequalities in the conditions of the franchise above that limit, of which Mr. Gladstone spoke to his party at the Liberal meeting of yesterday...

spirits by a very pungent attack on the Government and on the Liberal defaulters. He did not object, he said, to "fishing for a policy," but he did object to the unsportsmanlike...

sent in as early in the week as possible, in order to insure insertion. In future, the latest time will be 2 o'clock on Friday Afternoons.

Government represses interpellations about it, but on April 8 M. de Moustier informed the Corps Legislatif, by the Emperor's order, that the proposal came from Holland, that...

is decidedly worse. A bulletin issued on Thursday is very cautious, but it is clear from the medical reports that inflammation has again ap- peared in the knee, "without any...

but his successor, Rattazzi, has promised an explanation. The latter endeavoured, at first, to form a junction with the Left, and it was stated that Crispi at one time accepted...

receiving Conservative deputations from working men, which he received with open arms, and an empressement not without traces of secret surprise. The deputation of Saturday...

The old man has twice the pluck of some of our more modern- politicians, and he told the Lords he did not believe Canada was indefensible. It would be hard of defence, but not...

the House .of Commons, giving a short account of each member, and illus- trated by a sketch of his arms, when he claims any. Glancing over these we find, oddly enough, that Mr....

danger of a quarrel between Count von Bismarck and the German Parliament has passed away. The only serious point was compromised. The members would not vote the military budget...

have got it into their heads that it is dignified to be obstinate, and on the 9th inst. General Calonge informed the Senate that in the Tornado affair he would "cause the rights...

working men was received by Mr. Disraeli, at which the proceedings were very enthusiastic, and the Chancellor of the Eschews was stated by the reporters to have " caught some of...

call a " tall " proposal. It wants all the Railways to federate themselves under a Parliament composed of all railway chairman, who are to have, we presume, one vote for each...

for adjournment, Mr. Osborne called the attention of the House to some paper which, as we understand it, professed to contain a pledge given by Colonel Taylor, the Conservative...

In- quiry into the affairs of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway. Mr. Disraeli and Mr. Gladstone both expressed their deep regret at his misfortunes, but declined to accede...

if Mr. Walpole will not pardon Toomar, to move an address to the Crown on his behalf. Mr. Walpole will of course argue that the House of Commons ought not to become a Court of...

instruction to the Committee moved by Mr. Fawcett on Wednes- day, which instruction was carried by a majority of 253 to 166, —or 87, the largest majority yet obtained on this...

document. It is a list of the personal property left by the twenty Irish Bishops who have died since 1822. It is, he says, independent of their estates and settlements made in...

Offices' Bill, Mr. Candlish, 111.P. for Sunderland, and a Liberal, moved the rejection of the clause opening the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland to Roman Catholics, on the...

n&nbein 44 Church in West London, not as a reformatory or penitentiary, but as a "place in which girls who are growing up in neglect, and are likely to fall into evil courses,...

on Friday week are subjoined :— Filday, April 5. Friday, April 12. .. 16i .. 154 Spanish Passive .. .. .. .. • • 21i .. 164 Do. Certificates .. .. • . .. .. 134 .. Li Turkish...

home Stooks was in a depressed state, and a fall of about 1 per cent. took place in the quotations. Since then, however, it has shown more firmness, and a portion of the decline...

in the House of Commons about the designs for the new University of London. Lord John Manners wisely promised to suspend the building operations till the elevation could be seen...

THE COLT. APSE OF MONDAY LAST. T HE miserable humiliation of Monday, a humiliation which was felt by every genuine Liberal in the country like a personal injury, was Mr....

B EFOBE these lines can meet our readers' eyes, the most .1,11 critical debate of the session will probably have concluded, .and it is still not quite certain whether those who...

T HESE Anglo-Indians are muddling their finances again. We do not see why a high range of the therfnometer should disqualify men for doing sums in compound addition, but the one...

Air the mid of last week there was a general impression broad that a great Continental war, a war between a France and Germany, was immediately at hand. At the end of this -...

liffE principles of the English Law are at all events vindi- cated in the magnificently lucid charge of the English • Chief Justice, and if the practice, as exemplified in the...

IN spite of the triumphant majority obtained on the 5th of 1. April by the Tory ex-Minister of Education, Mr. Corry, it is impossible not to believe that he has made a mess of...

THE controversy which has been going on in these columns for some weeks back, and which has simultaneously, we believe, been going on in.the University of London, and. which is...

12EW peculiarities of English society are more noteworthy than r the prestige which still attaches itself to the higher Judges. A judge is almost the only kind of man left in...

Kemble's Saxons in England is that upon the Mark ; and as Sussex is a county which furnishes a very considerable share of the examples which he has adduced of the existence in...

BENEDICT'S LEGEND OF ST. CECILIA AT EXETER HALL. THE production of Mr. Benedict's new Cantata by the Sacred Harmonic Society has amply confirmed the favourable verdict which...

MR. SWINBURNE'S ITALY.* MR. SWINBURNE shows, as usual, a wonderful command of musical rhythm, of eloquent language, and of prismatic fancy, in this can- ticle to M. Mazzdni ;...

LUCIFER-BOXES ! —the name suits well With the stench, and the glare, and grime of Hell ! Thirty a halfpenny—no great waste, As the small manufacturers find their own paste....

[To 'THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] "L. E. B." had read my letters more carefully, she would have seen that the remark in my last, "I should be glad to see some wider opening...

and candid book, able in a literary sense, catholic in tone and spirit, fall of the minute study and special knowledge of a life devoted to divinity, and one, more- over, which...

IT has been. said lately, that while men can best describe the busy, intellectual life of the Western countries, women enter far more easily into the dreamy, sentimental, and...

late attempted encroachments on the pleasures of his neighbours have been fruitful in consequences. They have • Extracts from the Court Rolls of the Manor of Wimbledon,...

Jew. By Mohao. (Hall and Co.)—We feel some scruple in recommending this book, which we took at first to be a magnified tract. But, on the whole, we can safely confide it to such...

Rev. Charles H. Hole, M.A. (Rivingtons.) —We incline to accept the heresy that if young boys are to be taught Greek, it will be an advantage to them to under- stand the grammar....

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—This is a curiosity of literature, and is quite as worthy of a place on a drawing-room table as a Japanese tray or 'workbox. All the odes are short—most...

Oxenham, M.A. Second Edition. (Longmans.)—One-fifth of the verses in this edition are, says Mr. Oxenham, new, the verses are all smooth, many of them musical, but none original....

the Contemporary History of Rome. By E. St. John Parry, M.A. (Longmans.)—A hundred and eleven of Cicero's letters are contained in this book, all of them having some bearing on...

Tennysoniana. Notes, Bibliographical and Critical, on Early Poems of Alfred and C. Tennyson, In Memoriam Various Readings, with parallel passages in Shakespeare's Sonnets, ec.c....

Bennett. (Routledge.)—Mr. Bennett is much below his better standard in this frothy volume. His national poems read like the beginnings of Daily Teegraph leaders collected and...

a rule the pronunciation of French is the chief stunt- bling-block to foreign learners. But there are many other difficulties. not indeed like that, insuperable, but still...

never have guessed that these poems were written by a work- ing man. They have rather the characteristics of a higher culture, and their fault, if they are not indeed "faultily...

By William Thomas Charley. (Routledge.)—This book is not so much intended for those who ride seldom and quarrel often, as for those who make mach use of cabs, and are curious...

Paley, M.A. VoL I. (Whittaker.)—The series of which this volume forms a part and the name of its editor are sufficient guarantees of its value. Yet we must not dismiss Mr. Paley...

(Strahan.)—A. very neat and handsome volume, but the contents are even better than their accompaniment. Such a book we feel is not to be criticized, save by one whose stock of...

little stories with unimpeachable morals, and with a praiseworthy desire to make all their readers as good as their heroes. How far they will succeed in this object we cannot...

son, Walford, and Hodder.)—Dr. Robert Vaughan has nothing very new to say on this subject, and what he does say is dry, and not particularly inviting. His first chapter is a...

—After all that has been written on the subject of the London poor, there was room for Dr. Stallard's volume. It is devoted chiefly to a comparison of the system of relief in...

Rev. John Noble. (Seeleys.)—The life of a missionary who laboured for twenty- five years in South India, educating "the higher castes of Hindus in order to raise up a native...

Hon. Sir Edmund Head. (Williams and Norgate.)—Prefaced with a Greek epigram from the pen of Mr. Lowe, this matter-of-fact account of murders deserves general appreciation. As a...

(Simpkin, - Marshall, and Co.)—This volume contains seven stories, in an extreme dialect as regards the conversations, and in a somewhat overstrained style as regards the...

lithograph from the picture of his father, painted at Rome in 1822 by Miss Curran, the only authentic portrait of the poet in existence. The lithograph, which is published by...