the 15th inst., and were received by vast crowds, eager to see their future King and Queen. The papers of course make much of the loyal preparations, but there are obvious...

clears up a doubt which has long hung over Mr. Disraeli's relation to Judaism. Both his father and mother,—the latter " a scion of the Bassevis,"—were Sephardim, pure Hebrews in...

M R. DISRAELI has written another extraordinary letter, this time to a constituent. The Rev. Arthur Baker, Rector of Addington, Bucks, wrote, it appears, to his Member to ask...

banquet given by the Leeds Cobden Club to declare his views on the subject of the Irish Church. He was for total disestablishment, as a measure of justice to Ireland, and...

unex- pected death of the Marquis of Salisbury, from an attack of diarrhoea almost Indian in its severity, has relieved the Premier of his most dangerous opponent, and deprived...

Rambouillet on the 14th inst. pledging the Empire to peace. The plan for constructing parish roads would, he said, be laid before the Legislative Body at its next sitting,—and a...

Hall to consider the question of the Irish Church. Earl Russell took the chair, and in a short speech glowing with much of his old fire announced his approval of Mr. Gladstone's...

advo- cate the concession of the franchise to women. Mr. Bright's eldest daughter was to have spoken, but was prevented by illness, and the task of displaying female power in...

show that the sewage of London may yet yield a large revenue to the Metropolitan Board. It has been proved by actual results that for every 100 tons of sewage poured upon land...

prove a failure, turned out a decided success. Not less than 28,000 Volunteers reached Portsmouth, and went through all the evolutions of a mimic combat without mishap or...

Anglo- Indian telegraph line, via Russia and Persia, to join the existing Indian line at Teheran. The line is already complete to Moscow, and the most serious portion of the...

number of Catholics and Protestants in the different grades of Irish society. Only 8,412 persona were returned in the census as " landed proprietors,"—a very noteworthy little...

Robert Napier at Lat, sixty miles from Magdala, which he hoped to reach on April 2. Theodore, he thought, was growing " uneasy ;" but the troops were pressing forward in high...

America. The trial of President Johnson is proceeding, but the public is satisfied that on the main point, his refusal to obey the Tenure of Office Act, he will be found guilty,...

Ireland will be made the pretext for an increase in the allowance granted by Parliament to the Prince of Wales. We trust this is not the case. Such a bargain would take away all...

coming before the public very much more frequently than heretofore. The Emperor of the French, for example, - was to have inspected some works at Cherbourg on the 14th inst.,...

ever remember to have read even in its columns. Writing about a speech made by Mr. Goldwin Smith, it declares that the tenure of land in this country is unalterable ; that "...

Clerken- well outrage is fixed for Monday next, and will probably occupy a week. The Lord Chief Justice presides, but it is feared that none of the prisoners will be defended by...

hate their personal enemies ? It would certainly seem so from two cases recorded this week. In one a woman was accused of setting fire to letter-boxes. It appeared that some...

which we mentioned last week has been officially declared to be a forgery. It seems certain, however, that the Pope has found some means of influencing the Kaiser, for he has...

party to con- vince ignorant electors that Mr. Gladstone is a secret Romanist. Now a paper asserts that he and all his family have been Catholics for years ; then a schoolmaster...

that the King of Hanover is still at war with them. Ten officers, Hanoverians, were tried in Berlin on the 9th inst. on a charge of treason, and condemned, par contunzace, to...

to teach the doctrine of the Real Presence is about to be tried in the Court of Queen's Bench, of all Courts in the world. The case comes up in this wise. The Rev. W. J....

Scotch people, usually so ready to join in any " No-Popery" cry, are • decidedly in favour of the disestablishment of the Irish Church. A great meeting of Free Churchmen in...

firm and prices advanced to 931, ; but a reaction took place on reali- zations, and the quotation is now 931, 1. Reduced and New Three per Cents. are 92i ; Exchequer Bills, 15s....

Spanish New ... Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858 ... UnliSd States 5.20's . Thursday, April 9. 151 371 60 63} 72f Friday, April 17. ... 1 51 37} 59f 631 70} L c.

at the annexed quotations :— Great Eastern._ Great Northern Great Western ... Lancashire and Yorkshire London and Brighton ... London and North-Western London and South-Western...

SIR ROBERT NAPIER. I T is fortunate for Sir Robert Napier that he likes his work, for he is certainly not encouraged to do it by any breath of popular applause. There has as...

E XPERIENCE justifies us in believing that Mr. Disraeli will recover his head in time ; but, for the present, he seems not a little bewildered. He tries to stir up a " No-...

N OTHING could reveal the altered position of the Peers more clearly than the feeling which has been displayed on the " elevation " of Lord Cranborne. The Marquis of Salisbury...

A MAN with a splendid property, who only spends seven- eighths of his income, can hardly be ruined by any con- fusion in his accounts. That is a most satisfactory reflection,...

this week at Manchester passed a great many resolutions, but they did not, we fear, do much to protect themselves. Smooth Mr. Watkin, who every now and then put in his word when...

I T is as nearly certain as anything political can be, that within the next five years the Householder Parliament will have abolished Purchase in the Army, established a pure...

A MAN, in all human probability an escaped lunatic, named Heasman, was found on Friday week in the cupboard of a house in Hackney Wick, dead. There appeared at first to be a...

T HOSE persons who have of late years paid attention to the internal affairs of the Austrian Empire, cannot fail to have remarked the great change in the manner in which German...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, April 3, 1868. I RISE to a privileged question—to one at least which is always so regarded here—the correction of a personal...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] SIR,—In accordance with your instructions, I last week came to Ireland, to try to ascertain somewhat of the feeling of the mass of the Irish...

THE ANNALS OF RURAL BENGAL.* Mn. W. W. HUNTER, of the Bengal Civil Service, is a most impertinent and presuming person. What earthly right has he, a mere competition wallah of...

70 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Permit me to point out two fallacies in your remarks on my last letter :- 1. You confound Englishinterests with English ideas and...

to the Principal and Students of King's College, and states that his object in writing it is " to supply in a cheap, concise, and learnable form what is really necessary to...

ADMITTING that Mr. Morley was right in his refusal to repeat the story of Burke's life as told in Mr. Macknight's volumes, we can- not think that this historical study fully...

IT has been justly remarked that there is no sadder sight under heaven than that of men, able and willing to work, standing idle because no man will hire them. And yet the...

Newman. (Trubner.)—The most curious feature in these translations is that they "were not made for exercise or amusement, but as part of a practical scheme for instruction in...

The Golden Sheaf: Poems contributed by Living Authors. Edited by the Rev. Charles Rogers, LL.D. (HonIston and Wright)—We are not told with what object this selection has been...

Perception. By R. S. Wyld. (Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.)—For a philosopher Mr. Wyld writes with remarkable clearness, and those who have entered at all into the questions with...

Press.)—This selectionfrom the "morning star of song" comprises the pro- logue to the " Canterbury Tales," the " Knightes Tale," and the " Nonno Prestos Tale." Mr. Morris has...

Kingsbury. (Macmillan.)—The tone of these sermons is high, but Mr. Kingsbury takes care to avoid all appearances of distinctively Roman doctrine. In the fifth sermon he marks...

and Theologians. (Dublin : Kelly.)—These sermons were delivered at the second plenary Council of Baltimore, in October, 1866, the largest council ever held in Christendom since...

Source of the Nile, compiled from the Memoirs of Captains Speke and Grant. By George C. Swayne. (Blackwood.)—We presume that Mr. Swayne's object in compiling this work has been...

Lord Bishop of Oxford. Revised and condensed from the original edition. (Murray.)—The "original edition" was published in 1838; there were five volumes of the Life, and they...

diffi- cult to convey our impressions of this novel in a few lines, yet it does not deserve a long review. Indeed, whatever space we devote to it, we are perplexed by its want...

hardly the view we should take of the contents of these volumes. The stories and sketches collected in them have appeared, so Mr. Spicer informs us, in All the Year Round, and...

Macintosh.)—This is a very good and seasonable tract. It is addressed more especially to working men, and we trust many of them will read it. They will find that the authoress...

are short histories of successive strikes, and these chapters, though valu- able as reflecting on the political economy of such combinations, do not contain any theory on the...

W. Bennett.)—E. fair little tale, though decidedly young, and more likely to proceed from one who is in the act of verifying his title than from one who has already gained such...

of this story has not yet gone through the same process as his hero, and we are afraid ho will find his task quite as difficult. We may fairly infer from his style, from the...

writings of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D. (Strahan.)—This volume contains portraits of patriarchs, judges, kings, and prophets, taken from Dean Stanley's Jewish Church ; sketches...

photographs, chiefly illustrative of places mentioned in the Queen's book. The photographs have been prepared by a process discovered by Mr. Joseph Adam, the specialty of which...

; London, Nutt.)—Reading these poems has been a painful and thankless task, and our only satisfaction is that a time came for closing the volume. Dr. Kalisch suffers from an...

Telegraph Cable. By John Timbs. (Routledge.)—Another of Mr. Timbs's industrious and useful compilations. We have in it the history of the mariner's compass, the lighthouse, the...