of the House of Commons on Monday, when the House went into Committee on the Franchise Bill. Mr. J. Lowther rose at once to protest that no negotiations between the leaders of...

his speech to a most violent flagellation of Mr. Gorst, for the excellent manifesto of the night previous ; but he con- cluded by exhorting the Government to present to...

T HE Debate on the Second Reading of the Franchise Bill was continued yesterday week by Sir Richard Cross, in a speech of studied conciliation, in which Sir Richard complimented...

sharp little party skirmish. Mr. Goschen began the discussion by lamenting over the outbreak of contentiousness on the previous day, and recommending to both parties, in a tone...

any case.

South Warwickshire, which had taken place on the previous day ; and the result was so intoxicating a stimulus to the hopes of the Tory Members, that the political situation was...

Robert Peel had declined all communication with the Government in 1831 on the very excellent ground that he was opposed to Parliamentary Reform, and was determined to be...

Stuart—who contested with so much spirit the University of Cambridge against Mr. Raikes--as successor to Mr. Fawcett; and we heartily hope-that he will be elected by an even...

the Guildhall on Monday, having to pilot the Franchise Bill through Committee ; but most of the remaining Cabinet Ministers were present, and three made interesting speeches....

the great coaling-stations, in a speech which, though moderate in temper, and full of knowledge, was really an accusation against the Government of gross neglect. He admitted...

as yet come to nothing, and, indeed, is reported to have been broken off. Lord Granville, it is said, demanded a preliminary agree- ment between the two Powers—" the well...

Nottage utilising the scenic capabilities involved in our Asiatic position. Asia always looks well on a stage or in a procession, and elephants with howdahs and camels...

tion. He does not refine, he is perfectly good-humoured, and he is not the least of an alarmist. His brother Peers, therefore,. might do worse than listen to the opinion which...

away the tone of his Friday's speech, and to accommodate it to Mr. Lowther's views ; and, after a short conversation, the Franchise Bill was read a third time without a division...

mous vote, that they have no desire for the federation of their island with Canada. That project, therefore, may be considered dropped, and it remains to secure for the Colonies...

that a strong French squadron has been ordered from Toulon to Tangiers. M. Ferry has not given up his design upon Morocco, and if he is obliged to retire from China, will...

the Nile Expedition was proposed on Thursday by Lord Hartington, and passed in a thin House by 73 to 17, the opposition being confined to Sir W. Lawson and Mr. Labouchere,...

Expedition to Bechuanaland, which will be stronger than was expected. In the discussion which followed, the critics confined themselves mainly to attacks on the vacillation of...

On three successive days the deaths have been 98, 89, and 81; and though this shows a certain tendency to abate, which may be due to the cold weather, it is too likely that any...

giving out that he intends not to grant the licence to preach to curates who are only in Deacons' Orders. Usually, we believe, the Deacons' Orders only last for a year; and...

demonstrations of public mourning which were at once unique and universal. The Heads of Cambridge Colleges, University professors and students, three members of the Cabinet,...

it would seem, been averted. The poor crofters there, more especially upon the Glendale estate, and at trig, have lost their grazing-lands, which have been let to large farmers,...

to Mg.

THE BILL IN THE RAPIDS. Li p UNCH'S " striking picture of the tugging of the Fran- chise Bill up the Rapids, represents with what is, to some extent, an accidental fidelity,...

W E are by no means too anxious that the Lords should pass the Franchise Bill. The existence of their House in its present form has become inconsistent with the political...

T HE appearance of the Cholera in Paris i almost as startling to Englishmen as it can be to Frenchmen. For Paris is, in the strictest sense of the word, our next-door neighbour....

M R. GOSCHEN is developing a certain talent for a paternal treatment of the House of Commons. His speeches on Friday and Tuesday, like his speech to the Liberal Party at the...

I F we were merely observers, interested in politics only from the historical point of view, and indifferent .whether the people benefited or not, we should wish very strongly...

I T is a little difficult to understand the langour of the public interest in the Nile Expedition. The politicians are interested, or say they are, for they talk about it as...

W ITH his grave scarcely closed, it is difficult for those who knew Henry Fawcett well to write calmly of the remarkable qualities which he brought to bear both upon the...

T HE feeling which has been manifested by the great body of the English people of both parties, and of all social degrees, towards the late Mr. Fawcett, is thoroughly creditable...

D R GEORGE MACDONALD, in the interesting preface which he has appended to the "Letters from Hell," just translated into English from the German version of a Danish...

A WHIG AND MR. CHAMBERLAIN. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ' should like, by your leave, to comment on the extra- ordinary and spiteful letter of Mr. H. R. Grenfell...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . 1 Sia,—The leisure of old age is not of necessity to be dreaded by the toilers of to - day. "I have arrived now at the happiest time of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — The following extracts from two letters of Bishop Phill- potts, on Macaulay's "History of England," may be read with interest and...

MR. ERNEST GEORGE'S ETCHINGS.* THERE is a distinction which is not always sufficiently borne in mind by the artist between subjects which are beautiful in themselves, and those...

HENRY FAWCETT. 0 STRENUOUS spirit, darkling hast thou shined ! 0 light unto thy country, who bast lent Eyes to the dim hope of the ignorant ! Why the great form of Justice...

To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. * ] SIR, — When the new Gallery of Casts was opened at South Kensington in August last, a critical notice appeared in the Spectator upon such...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOR.”1 &s, — Many of those who took part in this contest can confirm the accuracy of your conclusions. The Liberals found to their -cost at the...

DR. MOZLEY'S LETTERS.* Da. MOZLEY was comparatively an unknown man till the publication of his masterly Bampton Lectures—a compact piece of close reasoning which so prejudiced a...

how to dispose the palm for interest among the different sections of this extraordinarily varied and entertaining collection,—to decide whether it belongs to the diaries and...

THE anonymous editor of the selection of English Sacred Lyrics, which has been issued by Messrs. Kegan Paul and Co., remarks in his preface,—" It seems at first strange that...

first delivered in December of last year at the Leeds Philosophical Society, and has since appeared in the Princeton Review of last July. It contains a very forcible summary, by...

'Tins remarkable, terribly honest, and ruthlessly realistic book is not so much a historical and statistical account of Hayti as an indictment against the people that inhabit...

de la Rue and Co.)—This book rather misses its mark. The pictures are not badly drawn ; but both in picture and text a sort of rowdy vulgarity seems to be mistaken for humour. A...

of biographies of men who have won their way to eminence of one kind or another. It has reached a second edition.

—This is a compilation of passages from the poets, of which flowers and trees are the subjects. "Flowers in General," and "Individual Flowers," are the titles of the two parts,...

stories are very slight, little more than scraps of anecdote. The longer ones have much of the writer's characteristic merits. "Pit for Tat," a remarkably vigorous picture of...

GIFT-BOOKS. Play ; a Picture Book of Boys, Girls, and Babies. Drawn by Edith Scannell. (Marcus Ward.)—This is a first-rate book for children. The pictures are large,...

Co.)—Miss D'Anvers has added another volume to her inter- esting and valuable series of "stories of discovery." This time she takes us from Africa to America, not going,...

stories have, he tells us, "almost all already appeared in print, bat for the most part will be new to the rising generation of our day." He is too modest in supposing that his...

Ward.)— This is shook of the same class as the last. It consists of illustrations of the old never-to-be-improved-on nursery rhymes. The costumes of the personages are, perhaps,...

)—Mr. Henty is one of the hest of the story-tellers who provide amusement at this season for young people. This time he tells us "a story of Wallace and Brace." The subject...

(Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is a book with pretty pictures ; but both style, drawing, and colouring are perhaps too fanciful and too delicate for children. As for the...

story opens with a very spirited account of a rescue by a life- boat. The young hero of this adventure (who swims with a rope to the wreck) then takes service in a collier. The...

by R. Andre.—Papa Poodle, and other Pets. By the Same.—Tongues in Trees. By the Same. (S.P.C.K.)—Mrs. Ewing is too old a favourite with children to need commenda- tion. The...

and Son.)—Here we have some biographies, sketched, of course, from necessary limitations of space, in outline only, of various authors who have written books that are favourites...

Edinburgh.)—A heroine who is "not beautiful" in chapter 1 is pretty sure to become so before the .end of the story, and Ursula is no exception to the rule. She has other...

la Rue and Co.)—Very fair illustrations ; but the Deserted Village is hardly a good subject for illustrations h la Caldee,ott. There is no humour in it; and though the...

be a pleasant alterative to the romantic fictions amongst which they appear. Some of them, as "The Life and Melancholy Fate of La Perouse,' " "The Mutiny of the 'Bounty,'" are...

now published in England—appears rather early, and is filled with the usual matter, poetry—not this year very good,— illustrations very fair, but not sufficiently local, and...

and Co.), with its usual wealth of interesting contents and its excellent illustrations (five of which, pictures of scenery near Aix-les-Bains, are from the pencil of the...

singularly well printed and well got-up edition of Mr. Arnold's well- known epic. The volume is not too large, as almost all editions de luxe are, and its illustrations have a...

Miss Rowsell tells here, with some additions and fillings-in of her own, the story of the Rye-House Plot. The principal dramatis per- some are Master Rambold, maltster,—who is...

great abundance of excellent reading in this volume, which bears on its title-page the name of the Rev. Benjamin Waugh, itself a guarantee for good work. One of the serial...

(Hodder and Stoughton), is a reprint, in the convenient one-volume Meg's Mistake, and Other Sussex Stories, by Mrs. Robert O'Reilly (Hodder and Stoughton), is a reprint, in the...

is a republication of a story which appeared in a periodical nearly thirty years ago. Maurice is a very rollicking sort of person, who goes through all sorts of adventures,...