will deliver its final verdict and sentence. It was expected to deliver them on Tuesday last, but the Court is, above all things, anxious to avoid any appearance of hurry or...

House of Commons praying that she would place the temporalities of the Irish Church at the disposal of Parliament was delivered on Tuesday night through the Comptroller of the...

Queen at Windsor on Thursday, by the two Archbishops and nine of their suffragans, aided by the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, and one or two more of...

efforts are directed to make an early dissolution feasible. The question is, therefore, debated whether the new constituencies can be elected before 1869. It is quite certain...

Thursday, the 8th inst. We have endeavoured elsewhere to sum up the force and feebleness of his public character, and have succeeded in disinterring from one of the scarcest of...

T HE week has been comparatively a dull one. The Boundary dis- pute, which was expected to be so serious that the Government might dissolve on it, was averted by a compromise,...

Orleans, . —and said nothing. He told the Mayor that the progress of his city " might be developed with confidence in the midst of the general tranquillity of Europe,"—but that...

Irish Bishops. It is kindly, and avoids all reference to recent pro- ceedings ; but it does not imply in any degree, as the Bishops probably hoped, that the Queen is prepared to...

Friday, the 22nd, when the exhausted debate will, we may presume, begin afresh. The Tory object is to gain time, and as nobody ever convinces an opponent on ecclesiastical...

whether he would support a Marshal or an Archbishop, and of course he has thrown his sword into the soldier's scale. Monseigneur de la Vigerie, Archbishop of Algiers, desired to...

Directors in the Credit Mobilier are ruined or not ; they have eaten their cake, and must suffer the consequent indigestion. But the reputa- tion of M. Michel Chevalier as the...

Republic to the British possessions ? It looks very like it. The brave, but cruel and half civilized Boers, who some years since marched out of our territory, bag and baggage,...

chiefly remarkable for its breadth and lucid detail ; and the fact it made apparent that the Government had adopted to a great extent the naval policy suggested last year by Mr....

the cost of the Abyssinian Expedition. It will be about 5,000,0001., if Sir R. Napier leaves the country by 31st May, and 600,0001. more for every additional month, or say, five...

Chancellor announced on Monday that the Bankruptcy Bills were withdrawn ; the plan ?or absorbing the Telegraphs has been shelved ; and one, at least, if not both, of the India...

James Atlay, Vicar of Leeds, a High Churchman, but not a Ritualist, and a man with considerable reputation for organizing power. He was, we believe, one of the dozen or so of...

of St. Thomas on the South embankment of the Thames on Wednesday. The ceremonial was performed in a pavilion erected for the occasion, before a select crowd of some 2,000...

University for admitting succ es sful candidates to degrees, made a pleasant speech on the proposal to grant diplomas to female students—which he approved, and alluded in...

of the House of Conainons has, it is said, finished its inves- tigation and decided on its report. It intends to recommend the construction of an entirely new House, to seat 569...

supply for any article of prime necessity has this year received a new illus- tration. We have, according to the Times, imported in one quarter 1,241;382 cwts. of wheat from...

Company asking for another million for irrigation works in Orissa. The Directors now fix their expectations at the modest return of 12 per cent., to be raised in certain...

bridge was adjourned on Wednesday without a division. We have analyzed the arguments elsewhere, but the debate was remark- able for the debut of a man likely to be heard of...

at St. James's Hall on Tuesday, to support Mr. Gladstone's policy, and " denounce the conduct of Mr. Disraeli and the present Govern- ment." The meeting, which is described as"...

states that the total premiums on the new business of the past year amounted to 55,2651., whilst the gross receipts were 363,250/., against 349,1431. in 1866. The payments of...

have been by no means extensive. Prices, however, have tended upwards. Consols, for money, have been done at 941, 1, and for the 4th of June, 921, 93. The closing money price,...

do not , support a decimal coinage more warmly. It would incidentally make their fortunes. We have already the pound and florin, and vrant only the groat, or cent, or dime, or...

system was carried on Wednesday by a vote of 217 to 65, an .extraordinarily heavy vote, considering that the majority of the House know no more about the metric system than...

evening that the Opposition had at length given notice of a motion of want of con- fidence. We fear that the announcement is based on a rash threat by an individual member, but...

Great Northern ... Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire London and Brighton ... London and North-Western London and South-Western London, Chatham, and Dover Metropolitan...

incidence of local taxation, a subject rising every day into greater importance. He showed that landed property, which is only one-third of the =total property of the kingdom,...

wealth, its population, greater than that of many kingdoms ; its trade, (larger than that of India ; the annual addition of a new city to its extent and resources. It is well...

off at the annexed quotations:— Friday, May 8. Friday, May 15. 151 .... 1.51 371 .., 35 so ... sst 621 ... 62 x. d- 701 ... 701 Mexican Turkish C per Cents., 1858 United...

A NONDESCRIPT CONSTITUENCY. T HE Constitution remains in a state of coma. The Govern- ment has no power ; the Opposition is not in power ; the House of Commons is afraid to use...

P ROBABLY the hugest human phenomenon of our century has passed away in the death of Lord Brougham. He was the Demiurgus of Liberalism during the early part of the century, and...

I F Parliament cannot contrive to strengthen our county and 1 municipal arrangements for maintaining order, it will wake up one day to find civil war raging over half the North....

E should not be surprised if Mr. Trevelyan obtained a majority for his motion of Tuesday against the Pur- chase of Commissions. The shadow of the coming Parlia- ment is over...

T HE worthy men who imagine that they can preserve the religious character of the Universities by continuing to demand tests of the members of the governing bodies and of the...

i - R. HOME is always ready to challenge inquiry as to the • In spiritual phenomena which attend him, but he is not fortunate in arranging the preliminaries. It so happens that...

LX I IL—SUFFOLK AND NORFOLK.-(CONCLUSION.) NATE have, in concluding our notice of this Province, to refer to one or two towels whose burgesses are not specially mentioned in...

T HERE is probably no affliction to which humanity is liable which excites so little sympathy as deafness. Every one helps the lame, and even criminals affect to respect the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of Saturday, April 18th, there are one or two statements having reference to matters ecclesiastical in Scot- land the...

MEMOIRS OF BARON BUNSEN.* [SECOND NOTICE. AFTER leaving Gottingen with name and fame, the University of Jena having, meanwhile, conferred on him the honorary degree of Doctor...

Ix the very fresh and genial memoir prefixed to this collection of posthumous pieces, Mr. Alexander draws with much skill the pic- ture of a man whose sense of the fitness of...

England that many will take up this book with interest. We are afraid everybody will lay it down with disappointment. This is not altogether the fault of the writer, though the...

the numerous class of critics who love to detect " motes in sunbeams." He brings a quite sufficiently large share of reverence to his work, but like many another zealous...

International History. By John Cunningham, D.D. (Edinburgh, Menzies.)—The ambitions title of an international history covers a succession of some- what disconnected sketches of...

(James Parker and Co.)—This pamphlet bears a continual but unex- pressed reference to the elaborate work of Mr. Pattison on the same subject which was lately reviewed in these...

Otley, and Co.), is a lively and pleasant sketch of scenes in Greece and Asia Minor, drawn by a traveller of eighteen, who had not learnt to see below the stuface of things, and...

come back by Bologna, Milan, and the Spliigen, that Mr. Smith must publish this record of his journey ? Do not the inhabitants of the largest of all counties, of the county...

Clarendon Press.)—The collection of pathological preparations to which this is a guide has been formed and brought together by Dr. Arland, part of it having served to illustrate...

Wright. (Clark : Edinburgh.)—Mr. Wright's views seem to be, in the main, thode of Dr. Candlish and his school, and he states them with a baldness which does not make them more...

but faulty novel, which partly makes us regret that the writer has sacrificed truth and nature to a rigid design, and partly makes us -suspect that he has overlooked an...

-" first English edition" of a portentous work, and we fear that, in the present state of human intelligence, it is also likely to be the last. So far as we understand Mr....

Memoir of General Lord Lynedoch, G.C.B. By John Murray Gra- ham. (Blackwood.)—All we learn from this book is that Lord Lyne- doch was one of Wellington's Generals, and conducted...

Whittinghant, K.C.B. Edited by Major-General Ferdinand Whiffing- ham, C.B. (Longmans.)—Our first impulse was to protest against reading an octavo of the very largest size about...

use- ful publication, apparently intended to be annual. The information given is of a serviceable kind, recent, and accurate. We notice one or two omissions which the report of...

Emile de Keratry. (Sampson, Low, and .Marston.)—This is a political history of the Mexican Empire, written from the point of view of the Opposi- tion in the French Chamber. The...

By a Layman, (Longmans.)—" A Layman " states, in a temperate tone, which deserves all praise, the objections to the authenticity of the Fourth Gospel. We observe little or...

Old Cheltonian does not write well enough to interest those who are not connected with the school which he describes. And how tan we trust his accuracy, when he tells us that...

—Our readers should bo informed that the Apostle of Abyssinia was one Justin do Jacobis, an Italian, of the Lazarist mission, who died about seven years ago. So Lady Herbert, or...

Otley, and Co.) —We cannot think for whom this tale is intended. Girls and oven boys might have road it in the old times on a Sunday afternoon, when nothing better was...

By W. A. Oliver. (Foster.)—Much has been written of late, notably by the Economist, on the rule of the road at sea. Mr. Oliver has clearly illus- trated the Board of Trade...