had consisted of working-men, but of that there was no sign. The last of Mr. Coningsby's able and instructive letters on " The Working- Classes in the United States"—which we...

been able to drive once at least through the boulevards of Paris ; but it is pretty certain, from the Lancet's report on the malady from which he has been suffering, that it is...

W HEN we say that there seems to be grave fears of a war be- tween Spain and the United States in relation to Cuba, we repeat what looks very like a moral impossibility, but is...

It has rejected the proposition to have ex officio members in the Con- stituent Church body by a large majority—by 107 to 29 ;—and still better, it has rejected a resolution of...

outbreak of a Protection fever in the very birthplace and home of Free Trade, —Manchester. It is denied, indeed, that the movement is Pro- tectionist, as it professes at present...

case.

a good proportion of the whole English Epgeopate. The Bishop of Exeter has resigned at last, but is so ill that it is doubtful if he will be able to oomplete the formalities of...

recent article on " Railway Investments" we had taken the figures for the first half-year, which is always the worst half. This is quite true, but practically it does not make...

have said, as he himself explains himself in a letter to the Times— and so far he said wisely—that the relations between landlord and tenant in England and Ireland, were, on the...

in the eighty-third year of her age. She was, when Countess Cowper, one of the first six patronesses of Almack's, and a great leader in the fashionable world, in the political...

of the country in a most thorough and praiseworthy manner, as we notice at length elsewhere, disputes the financial success of the large agricultural system in Ireland. He...

by the report of t he speech of Mr. Crawford, M.P., Governor of the Bauk of Eng- land, at the Bank's half-yearly meeting on Thursday last, that that excellent man is reconciled...

Warwickshire, made political speeches in the market at Coventry on Tuesday,—Mr. Newdegate coining out exceedingly strong in his favourite character of the plain, ostentatiously...

for discussing any question whatever which seems familiar to them because it happens just to touch their sphere, on false data, by false principles, in a prolix method, and of...

but we must really decline to consider it even a respectable authority on the subject of dining. In its impression of yesterday it says, " We have certainly improved in London...

Poplar on Monday. A shipwright, named Jonathan Judge, and who had been a long time out of employment, conspired, apparently with his wife, to put himself, her, and their two...

either by its discussions or its decisions. The former, indeed, have not been so reported in this country as to give us any clear conception of them. But as some gauge of the...

men of distinguished sense, to say nothing of their anti-Catholic bias. The Roman Catholic Chaplain, the Rev. Alfred White, whom they have never paid for his services, though...

THE AMNESTY AGITATION. T HE Government would make a very fatal mistake in grant- ing at the present moment an amnesty to the Fenian prisoners,—the fatal mistake of leading the...

I S the reform of the Land Tenure in Ireland to be effected without an argument in defence of the present system ? 'During the last few weeks, the preoccupation of the public...

C YNICS have described it as the principal function of an English Bishop to effect a working compromise between , the Church and the world ; and if this be taken as the ideal of...

W HILE people in England seem to have nothing else to do with the approaching (Ecumenical Council than to laugh at Dr. Cumming's assertion that an exhortation to Pro- testants...

W E wonder whether Lord Granville, or Mr. Monsell, or Sir F. Rogers will read the pamphlet* just put forth by Mr. Sewell on the colonial policy of the future as illustrated by...

LIVERY ONE must have noticed the marked delight taken by 11 our age in asserting pertinaciously its humble realities in the very face and presence as it were of the grander and...

T HE Pall Mall Gazelle of Tuesday, in one of its lucid, mascu- line, positive-thonghted articles on the negative side of religious subjects, asserts, as we understand it, that...

No. V. V ERY young children are employed in many factories in the United States. It is illegal, but very widely done. There is a fine of 50 dols., but it is seldom inflicted. I...

TT is an old remark that men are, like sheep, ready to follow where 1. they are led, but very slow to start in a new line of their own accord ; but I begin to think the saying a...

cxw.—THE WELSH MARCH :—CHESHIRE.--GENERAL HIS- TORY SINCE THE SAXON CONQUEST. T HE Saxons, or rather the confederated Mercians, probably estab- lished themselves in Cheshire...

THE IRISH CATHOLIC BISHOPS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Mr. Murphy writes to you that it may be difficult for Eng- lishmen to understand a state of things in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR, —My attention having been recently directed to the following statement in your number of the 4th inst., " What is a policy- holder for...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE '`SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As, however merited may be the severity of your notice of my poor novel Only an Earl in general, there is one point ou which it seems...

REHEARSAL OF THE " RHEINGOLD." THE light of the chandelier far over our heads falls dimly on the full parterre and on the long circles of empty seats above, in the midst of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—No one can more heartily concur than I do in the conculsion expressed in your article of last week, that the remedy for corrup- tion in...

SIR THOMAS BRANSTON. , Tuis is as powerful as any of Mr. Gilbert's characteristic tales, indeed, we doubt whether he has ever before written a story of so continuous and intense...

Tars will prove virtually a new book to the present generation of readers, though it is old enough, and many of the stories told in it have become classical. It was first...

AN intelligent lad rising from a conscientious perusal of the book named in the foot-note as his first study of natural history, would probably do so with an overwhelming sense...

IT is not always by the main tasks of authors that their readers profit most. No principal subject can be discussed thoroughly without extensive inquiries that only assist the...

Planchette: the Despair of Science. (Roberts: Boston, U.S.)—Da oar readers know what this is that makes science despair? "Blanchette '” is the name given to an ingeniously...