Mr. Stopford Brooke at St. James's, York Street, but he was pre- vented from doing so by a virtual, though not formal, inhibition of the Bishop of London's. Dr. Jackson did what...

Secretary to the American Legation, on his appointment as American Minister at Lisbon, but the congratulation will not be sincere. Mr. Moran's withdrawal from London, where for...

in the action were read in Court, the exceptions being letters apparently referring to the next vacancy in the Papacy. The general drift of these documents is given elsewhere,...

the pleadings and evidence have ended, but judgment will not be delivered until 4 p.m. to-clq, the 19th inst. The Count has announced that if the sentence is adverse he will...

P RINCE BISMARCK has been resigning again. The Courts arrested Herr Majuncke, Member of the Reichstag and Editor of the Germania, the Ultramontane organ, who is under sentence...

the despatch of business. It usually meets on Tuesday or Thursday, and the Session, therefore, ought, according to the sailors, to be an unlucky one for Government. Perhaps Lord...

been telegraphed, and only one in extenso. In this one, the Count warns the Emperor to keep up his Army, whatever the Reichstag may say, as France hates Germany, and whichever...

case.

amongst the Episcopate than even the lad in the German tale who carried a golden goose possessing the property of drawing after it all who touched its owner, including priests...

by appointing Dr. Ball, who takes a peerage, with, it is said, the title of "Lord Merton." Dr. Ball will make a fair Lord Chancellor, and we doubt if he will be a loss to the...

Hanover- Square Rooms, Sir Robert Anstruther, in the chair. The chairman declared that no other public cause had advanced with such rapid strides since Mr. John Stuart Mill...

Fenelon does not show quite his usual candour. The sting of that charge lay in two words. Lord Acton wrote, in reference to Fenelon's mode of treating the Pope's condemnation,...

taking with him forces which bring the Republican Army on paper up to 50,000 men and 100 guns. He has raised £500,000 too, and expects to obtain more. It was believed in Madrid...

College in their town to be affiliated to the University of St. Andrew. A large sum (£130,000), it is said, has been promised for this object, and the only serious dispute is...

himself " C. J. G.," gives some curious practical evidence of what on scientific grounds must, we take it, be regarded as certain,—that there are in this world numbers of sounds...

Daily Review as to the decrease of English Missionaries in India turn out to be official, and the correspondents who impugned them are in the wrong. They have, no doubt...

undergoing a very painful trial of their faith. It seems that these persons, who hold curious views as to the immorality of selling their own pro- ducts to the world, though...

jewels, china, and all kinds of portable property, has stolen Lady Dudley's travelling jewel-case, with about £25,000 in stones within it. Miss Scott, one of her ladyship's...

people as the week ending 5th December. The average for that week in London rose 33 per cent, and half the excess is attributed to bronchitis, which killed 455 people, against...

hitherto established on a very small scale in Seymour Place, Edgware Road, is about to be enlarged. Two very good houses, 222 and 224 Marylebone Road, were purchased during the...

R. B.," makes a timely suggestion to the poor who keenly feel the cold just now, and who cannot afford additional blankets. It is that they should sleep with a Times' supplement...

service to the public. He must sanction the next estimate sent up from the British Museum. Before he does so, let him insist on the thorough ventilation of the building, and...

PRINCE BISMARCK AND HIS EMPEROR. N OTHING can exceed the interest of the documents which Prince Bismarck has allowed to be published during the progress of the Arnim Trial....

MR DISR ATILT'S repeated returns of ill-health have caused his party to be visited by great searchings of heart. What are they to do, supposing he should be too unwell to hold...

S ILENCE is sometimes the first duty of statesmen, but the business of journalists is publicity, and the Times is perfectly right in calling the attention of the country to the...

have shown in another paper that a great Medical statistician in the United States and another in Germany regard the Clergy of all denominations as leading the kind of life...

T HE only reason which can be imagined for respiting the three men just condemned to death at Liverpool, the motiveless- ness of the crime, is the best reason for not...

D R. BEARD, of New York, whose interesting paper on the rela- tive ereative power of Youth and Age respectively we noticed in our issue of the 21st March, has just written...

I F any considerable medical man wants to bring his name before the public, let him publish in the Times, or any journal of great general circulation, a series of sound rules...

A LREADY we are in possession of sufficient information., respecting the observations made on Venus in transit, to be assured that science has achieved a noteworthy triumph. We...

THE DOUBLE CHAMBER IN VICTORIA. (To ram EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") Sui,—Curiously enough, on the very day that the letter from "A Colonist" appeared in your columns, speaking...

"FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD."• No one who reads this very original and amusing story will doubt for a moment that it is the production of a very high order of ability and...

"SPECTATOR. ") Sin,—Canon Trevor's letter is full of good sense, but I think he fails to see how the question is affected by the recent and promised (or threatened)...

has long been known to students of historical science, and is mentioned by Mr. Freeman, in his pre- face to his History of the Norman Conquest, as the person to whom he most...

THESE Essays possess admirable qualities, that upon the theology of Homer and one or two others being masterly, and not one of the eleven valueless, whether in respect of...

the literature of the last century than the frequent complaints made by poetasters or by their critics, that poetical genius had no longer a free field for its development, and...

A DISAGREEABLE novel is bad enough, but a disagreeable novel that is also unnatural has no plea for existence at all. We cannot deny the wisdom of selecting painful subjects for...

volume has appeared again, and apparently with all the latest changes that could possibly have been incorporated in it. Mr. Brand indeed still appears in the " Parliamentary...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Flemish and French Pictures : with Notes concerning the Painters and their Works. By F. G. Stephens. (Sampson Low and Co.) This is a most meritorious work,...

Year Round. The stories woven together in this little tale are united by a some- what novel expedient,—the assumption that a clairvoyante, by taking the opal ring into her band...

Christmas Story. By Lyulph. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.)—This is a clever and ingenious story, by a writer who has already contributed two which were worth remembering to the fast...

: Samuel Tinsley.)—This is a novel in which, while it displays a good deal of cleverness, we regret to recognise the hand of a lady, as easily to be detected in its merits as in...

Dis- loyalty nor the Surrender of Mental and Moral Freedom. By Herbert, Bishop of Salford. (Burns and Oates.)—Bishop Vaughan is always able and downright, and we have never been...

London have prepared a really fine work to be issued to their subscribers,—a line-engraving of great size from Mr. Maclise's wall-painting in the Palace of Westminster, "The...