by the Times on the recent changes in the Ministry, to the effect that Mr. Monsell's resignation was deliberately accepted, and that Sir Henry James, Sir W. Vernon Harcourt, and...

at Oxford on Monday, in a very able and ambitious speech, in which he proclaimed his &him of party-speeches, his thorough loyalty to the Established Church of England, his...

old. gentleman's productions, rigmarolish. He says what you would. of course expect him to say on the Swiss and German persecution; promising a homily on the calamities, as he...

411HE trial of Marshal Bazaine concluded on Wednesday, Decem- ber 10. After four hours' consultation with the other six judges, the Due d'Aumale returned to the Court, and...

and who -was not under trial for his deeds in Mexico, is so tremendous, that the punishment may be considered sufficient. It is doubtful, however, whether it will be so esteemed...

of admiration for Mr. Disraeli. That statesman's political speech at Glasgow was a "glorious model of satire"; his academical speech was "exquisite." Sir W. Vernon Harcourt...

case.

to the demands of the United States, strongly seconded as they are from Madrid. At least the stipulations as to the time, manner, and place of the surrender of the survivors of...

address on Saturday to the Birkbeck Literary Scientific Institu- tion, in Chancery Lane. His main subject, after stating figures and so on, was that the ancient teaching in art,...

to appoint two batches of Cardinals, one of which will be very soon given to the world,—indeed, the names are mentioned, but are probably not yet settled. The important...

unanimously elected, on Wednesday, Mr. Charles Reed, M.P. for Hackney (Dissenter), their Chairman, on those plain grounds of his special trainingfor that office,—of which he...

with- drawn his resignation of the Lieutenant-Governorship of Bengal. It was arranged before the famine had become probable, but was withdrawn in part on its appearance, and is...

Con- stitutional Laws have come to the conclusion that they must first discuss the Electoral Law, and bring up a Bill about that. The power of the President is a ticklish...

humorous but disagreeable speech in defence of the Police. He reminded his audience that London was a country rather- than a town, and that a Continental ruler would think it...

day, in which he made a statement for which we were hardly prepared by Mr. Forster's recent speech at Liverpool. "He had much satisfaction in believing that in the next Session...

signed by a good many of the High-Church party,—not of the rebel- lious Ritualists, but of the moderate Sacramentalists, including Canon Liddon,—(Archdeacon Denison seems to be...

'Turks for a time endeavoured to ignore the orders of the Sultan, but General Schneider, the Resident at Aden, at last informed the Governor-General of Yemen that the Turkish...

of labour has really been formed in London. Its object is to defend capital against the unjust demands of labour, whether put forward through strikes or by means of legislation...

who is in- clined to acts of ecclesiastical audacity, like Dean Stanley. He has been very severely attacked this week, nominally for using " coram" with a noun that denotes a...

principal fact being that Sir Garnet Wolseley had been ill—with sunstroke, some accounts say—and had gone on board the Simoom. He - was, however, believed by the last advices to...

speech on Monday to the Farmers' Club. He maintained that the farmers must accept the Unions, give higher wages, and work with as few men as they post:ably could. It was not his...

that it will be The General in command of the besieging force las been changed three times in ten days, the bombardment, at rust furious, has been almost discontinued, no fort...

THE SOLICITOR-GENERAL AS A LIBERAL DISRAELI. I T was generally rumoured when Mr.Vernon Harcourt entered Parliament, that next to the duty of representing his con- stituents, he...

B whatever az airi e o r f for r objecting endon endorsing, to except t he s e o n n - g rounds of policy, the recommendation to mercy whichthe tribunal forwarded to the...

S CARCELY anything in Continental politics is so difficult to understand as the dread entertained by statesmen of - the freedom of the Press. It is shared by all parties, and...

A RCHBISHOP MANNING has had another animated controversy with the Times this week on the drift of the recent Prussian legislation, on which we have something to say. We will not...

T HE M.P. for the Kilmarnock Burghs has been visiting his constituents. There are five considerable towns in the group he represents. He has spent the best part of a fortnight...

W E have not yet a perfect confidence in Sir Samuel Baker as an explorei, believing that he sometimes trusts in native accounts which are more or less untrustworthy, but of :ts...

T HE Clergy are almost as easily ruffled as the doves in a dove- cote. From the sort of comment which one hears on the lecture given by Professor Max Muller on "Missions," in...

changes recommended would imply retrogression rather than advance ; others of them seem to us hopelessly impracticable ; but it is well to have the subject considered in...

T HE picture which has of late been drawn of the Collier, re- presenting him as spending the greater portion of his time in play, drinking champagne, travelling in first-class...

BISHOP PATTESON.* ONE thousand one hundred and seventy-one pages, exclusive of preface, on Bishop Patteson I He was an exemplary, admirable, useful man, and Miss Yonge is a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—You refer in your last week's number to Mr. Gladstone's "very clever and very courteous letter to the Contemporary, in re- lation to...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEers.roal S/12,—In Tuesday's Times Mr. W. Forsyth and another gentle- man protest against the use of " coram" otherwise than with a person. The Dean of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “SPECTATOR:1 Sus,—Obscurity certainly has the disadvantage of rendering those who are sunk in it liable to strange misrepresentation. I was, I confess,...

' [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR.1 Sut,—It is very unfair of Mr. Morley to say that the teachers of our primary schools are utterly bad because they have not -done what they...

THE contents of this little volume, poems and memoir together, present a satisfying picture of a mind and life of much beauty and fascination,—of the kind of mind and life which...

THE unknown Hebrew Quaker who wrote the 119th Psalm had a very profound belief in what Mr. Leifchild happily terms the higher ministry of Nature. He believed in the reign of...

IT is a pleasure to turn from the crowd of disagreeable novels, made up of far-fetched incident, coarse caricature, complicated machinery, and every variety of unnatural and...

SiNcE Geoffrey Hondo, the best achievement of its writer, and the portions of The Hillyars and the Burtons, by the same author, which dealt with Colonial life, no fiction of any...

THIS is a small book of little more than two hundred pages. In this space the author treats of three most important social subjects —Juvenile Crime, Education, and the Poor...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. volume of Christmas stories as re g ularly as the Chancellor of the Ex- che q uer his Bud g et. In fact, he is become an institution, and has achieved a...

Sons.)—A tale of the end of the last century, with panics of French invasion, the mutiny at the Nero, prose-gangs, smugglers, wrecks at sea, gambling in lotteries, and other...

spite of its sentimental title, this is an unpretend- ing, pleasant volume, a genuine record of the impressions of travel upon a cultivated mind, ready of observation, candid,...

H. C. Adams. (Routledge and Sons.)—We do not think it was necessary for Mr. Adams to request his critics not to treat this book as obviously sug- gested by "Tom Brown's...