A CATHOLIC named Kulmann, a carpenter from Magdeburg, a man of very violent temper, has been mad enough to think that he could assist the Catholic cause in Germany by...

Disraeli's political virtue. Forgetting that a Tory Premier should treat the Act of Uniformity as something beyond discussion, he jninped at the opportunity of placing his rival...

has laid his proposal before the Assembly. We have commented on it elsewhere, but may remark here that its central idea is to invest Marshal MacMahon with all the powers...

the rights of Private Members. We have described the main features and course of the debate in another column, but may mention here that no speech made a greater impression on...

debate, when Mr. Hubbard (junior), M.P. for Buckingham, brandishing a large and highly gilt Prayer-book, as if it were a sort of enchanter's wand with which to appease the...

House had read' the Bill a second time without a division, and so intimtited its firm intention of passing the Bill, he thought it most proper to withdraw his Resolutions,...

case.

in- more than five hundred schools the new principle would take effect, and that in the interests of the Church itself nothing could be more foolish and dangerous than to...

old grammar-schools for the Church of England, and for com- mitting the supervision of their regeneration to the Charity Commission, was carried through its second reading on...

property of the Established Churclt in Seotland to a Presbyterian. Sect, without reserving any control over it to the Govern- ment of the country, was carried on Monday night by...

minster, with costs, and with, we presume, the usual disqualifica- tion, though this is not mentioned in any synopsis of the judg- ment yet published. It appears that in 1865...

the revenue, between Mr. Childers and Sir Stafford Northcote, Mr. C hilders giving reasons to think that the revenue would fall very short of the Chancellor of the Exchequer's...

Assembly has a deficit of £2,600,000 to meet, and he proposed to meet it by one of two alternative schemes,—a tax on salt, or an addition of half a decime to all existing taxes....

Earl of Derby in Parliament Square this day week by the Prime Minister was a ceremonial of no little interest, and marked by . something like classical taste and terseness. Only...

and say the reporter of the Telegraph invented it to blacken the character of their town. Mr. Greenwood, the reporter in question, adheres, however, to his statement, and the...

the last week in the Northern sky, and on the highly eccentric orbit of which we publish speculations elsewhere, was described by Mr. Norman Lockyer in a very interesting letter...

in London occurred in the great thunderstorm of this day week, when in parts near Hackney omnibuses had to cease running for a time from the floods,—horses being breast-high in...

from a balloon, which ascended from Cremorne Gardens. His A Belgian named Groof has been trying to fly dawn from a balloon, which ascended from Cremorne Gardens. His machinery...

which it was necessary for the soldiers to fire. It appears that the peasantry are displeased with the measure of local self-govern- ment recently passed, which they say...

of 1872, has greatly reduced adulteration, which is now 80 managed as to cheat the consumer, rather than to poison him. Alcohol, no doubt, is " adulterated " with water, and...

for expressing our belief that the assertions of Professor Schiff, of Florence, and his assistant, M. Herzen, that their vivisections are Always performed under chloroform and...

THE SECOND READING OF THE PUBLIC WORSHIP REGULATION BILL. Tr HE event of Thursday afternoon is certainly one of the quaintest, and not, we imagine, one of the most fortunate,...

I S it Destiny, or is it Mr. Disraeli ? It is a fact, at all events, that the Tory Parliament of 1874, which was to have been BO somnolent and comfortable, to have harassed...

are more alarmed by the Report of the • Constitutional Committee than we have been by any document recently published at Versailles. It is difficult to .believe that the...

OTHING could appear to be more dreary than the IN present condition of Spain. So bad is it, that most observers, with the ex-King Amadeo at their head, pronounce it nearly...

T ORD SANDON has brought forward the Bill on which we JLI commented last week, for effecting a counter-revolution in our Education system, with a flourish of trumpets that suf-...

T HE "Albert Medal of the Second Class," given on July 10 to Mr. David Webster, second mate of the collier Arracan,' of Greenock, has .been singularly well bestowed. Not only is...

VOTHING is more remarkable in the democratic tendency of 11 the age than the deterioration it has brought about in the manners and breeding of Ghosts. The ghosts of a century,...

O F all the objects with which astronomers have to deal, Comets are the most mysterious. Their eccentric paths, their marvellous dimensions, the strange changes to which they...

THE BENGAL FAMINE. Entom era SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] North Behar, Tune 13, 1874. THROUGHOUT the last week heavy rain has fallen continuously. It has been general throughout...

IRISH TRAINING-SCHOOLS. go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...3 SIR, 7 -If an Englishman's sympathies and antipathies are stronger than his sense of justice, he must be for...

Spectator of the 11th, urges com- pulsory education as the most necessary of all educational reforms in Ireland. We must, of course, look to this coming in time, but it would be...

Srs,—Your advocacy of common fair-play as between sect anew sect in Scotland over this unlucky. Bill deserves the thanks of all Scotchmen. It deserves them, but nevertheless....

.HrEarAron.1 SIR,—I wish to say a few words in your columns on the great question of the day in Victoria,—a proposal by Mr. Francis, the actual Premier, that in case a Bill...

[To TER EDTTOR OF THE "EPECTATOR.1 Sra,—In your leading article on the Hanley brutality, you give currency to the popular idea that the turning the thumb down- ward was the...

ON READING DORA WORDSWORTH'S RECOLLECTIONS OF A. JOURNEY IN SCOTLAND IN 1803, WITH HER BROTHER AND COLERIDGE. I CLOSE the book, I shut my eyes, I see the Three before me...

MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.* SOME years have elapsed since Mr. Hosack published the first volume of his masterly defence of Mary Queen of Scots. The patient labour bestowed upon that...

[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE " spy:rums:1 ,Sin,—Though having no pretensions to be a Hebrew scholar, I know that the preposition used in the Ninth Commandment has a great variety of...

WR have given some of the reasons why we cannot agree with Dr. Carpenter in identifying so nearly as he does the physiological con- ditions of thought with the mental changes...

Mns. BRAY has a knack of choosing historical characters that are always welcome, and of investing them with an individuality that her pen alone can furnish ; whilst, as old...

Anour one in every twenty of our English population is a pauper. The bare fact may be a key to ranch that is passing under our eyes in the agricultural districts, and it is not...

WITH the exception of the ninth chapter, which the author calls "An Apology for Plain-speaking," the contents of the present volume are reproductions, with more or less...

THE present is, in many respects, notably in the literature of fiction, a day of small (and many) things. The general reader does not probably attempt to realise the number of...

The New Quarterly Magazine. July. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.)— This is the best number of the New Quarterly that we have seen, but it wants an addition of strength before it can...

AMIDST schemes of emigration for the city mechanic and the -country labourer, the gentleman emigrant is apt to be lost. - People are rather too prone to forget that the poor...

most of the old-fashioned materials of romance, in- trigue, and crime, with the modern facilities for locomotion, inter-com- munication, and the general business of life ; it...

(Longmans.)—This is a text-book provided for the use of students preparing for the Cambridge Local Examination, and is certainly a very good specimen of its kind. The notes are...

"Reminis- cences of the Lows." (Bickers.)—" Sixty-one" is so very genuine and honest a sportsman, that we feel sorry not to be able to say that his new book is as good as his...

(Chapman and Hall.)—The worst part of this book is to be found in the sentence with which the writer has seen fit to commence his intro- ductory chapter. "It would be useless...

Obscure Life." (Sampson Low and Co.)—These are reminiscences of past life, by one who introduces herself by saying, "I have lost my hus- band, and my children, and my health. I...

and Blackett.)—Mr. Herbert Jerningham, having gone to Athens in a diplomatic capacity, made sundry excursions among the Isles of Greece, with two companions, and afterwards...

and Tyler.)—The best way in which we can convey to our readers a notion of what they will find in this book is by copying for their lbenefit the statement made on the...

in Africa. By Henry M. Stanley. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Why Magdala? we ask, with as strong a sense of the unnecessary and the Incongruous as that which moved David Copperfield's...

1873. (George Bell and Sons.)—This is a charming book, of the kind which it is least easy to describe ; the intimate, the un- studied, which does not aim at producing novel...