it is variously termed, by those who decry and those who sup- port it, has continued all the week, Mr. Forster having accepted two amendments of sonic importance. One was a...

week, Mr. A. M. Sullivan actually accused the tools There were several outbreaks of temper during the debate Yesterday week, Mr. A. M. Sullivan actually accused the tools of the...

ease.

T HE last Session of the German Parliament was opened on Tuesday, in a speech of some importance. The " Socialist " promises of Prince Bismarck arc all confirmed. The Emperor...

policy by forcing reductions of taxation through the Prus- sian Parliament. He had proposed that direct taxes estimated to yield £700,000 a year, and pressing immediately on the...

of Wednesday's, deliberately wasted on a discussion of the sort of treatment in prison to which the st68pe;ts arrested under the. Coercion Act are to be subjected. The...

come to an end, if he did not propose some mode of fixing a term to the debate, brought forward on Thursday the following new proposals for that purpose :—" That on a motion...

nor warlike. The initiative of negotiation is left to the German Ambassador, Count Hatzfeld, and his instractions are appar- ently to regard the decision of the Conference of...

the last few weeks, but on none more than in parading to all the world his sympathy with M. Rochefort and M. Victor Hugo, and his hostility to any French statesman who, like...

men. In it he declares that the "movement in America, which is capable of immense development," depends upon the stand. made in Ireland, and urges the farmers to remain firm,...

asked the question on Monday, and practically admitted the fact, by a reply showing that the power was given him by the 1st Victoria, cap. 36, section 25, and by declining to...

and already affairs look brighter. After a rapid and painful journey from Durbau, Sir Evelyn caught up a column of reinforcements of all arms on the 15th inst., urged them...

issued a manifesto to his electors, in the shape of a letter to the Bishop of Cloyno. It is an outspoken document. In it he declares that the managers of the" Irish party "have...

Pro- vince of Canterbury last week on the proposal to ask for a Com- mission to inquire into the laws and Courts governing Eccle- siastical causes, and again, on the proposal of...

Warden ; it has elected the Hon. George Brodrick to that post, and it would be difficult to imagine a better choice. In Uni- versity politics, it is true, Mr. Brodrick is, to...

to the Cambridge degree examinations, and to grant them certi- ficates of the manner in which they pass those examinations, is to be discussed next week in the Cambridge Senate,...

held on Thursday week, and presided over by the Duke of Connaught, at which Prince Leopold was also one of the speakers, the American Minister (Mr. James •Russell Lowell) paid a...

L. Roper, R.E., a young officer of high character and promise, left the mess in Chatham Barracks shortly after 8.25 p.m., and went to his quarters. Immediately after, Mrs....

of University College, London, on Wednesday, to a number of gentlemen distinguished in Literature, Science, and Art, at which Lord Sherbrooke delivered some acute remarks on the...

THE SPEAKER'S LAST RULES. T HERE are signs that certain sections of the House of Commons are already shrinking back from the position it assumed, when a fortnight ago, it...

A T home, Prince Bismarck is anxious, even intensely anxious, to secure a clear majority at the General Election, which comes off in May or June, and is openly asking the...

T HE character and temper of the debate on Mr. Porter's Bill have done great credit to the Speaker, the Chair- man of Committees, and to the Government, and have cer- tainly...

1 T is quite impossible to doubt that Sir Frederick Roberts 1 delivered his eloquent speech at the Mansion House on Tuesday out of the fullness of his bead, and with a strong...

W E have said little about Vice-Chancellor Hall's judg- ment in the Huddersfield Chapel case, because we were un- able to see that it possessed any peculiar interest. The law on...

T HE arrival of Sir Evelyn Wood and the reinforcements in Natal has greatly improved, the military position. That active General at once perceived that, with Sir G. Colley shut...

I T is pretty clear, we suppose, from his answers, that the Home Secretary has been opening certain Irish letters, and quite clear that the news of his doing so has been...

I N the striking paper on George Eliot contributed to the February number of the Contemporary Review, the writer, who knew George Eliot personally, though not, it would ap-...

pROM the reports of recent discussions at Cambridge on the subject of the admission of Women to University Examina- tions, we learn that this question is at length regarded by...

"TURKEY AND GREECE." [To TILE EDITOR OF TIM " EPROTATOR.1 Sin,—What is to come of the promise of deliverance which the Great Powers of Europe made to certain parts of enslaved...

SrxenkTou,"j SIR,—As an appreciative reader for nearly a quarter of a cen- tury, I know the Spectator would. not be guilty of unveracity or unfairness; but there is a reference...

(To rue EDITOR Or TITS " SCROTATOR."J SIR,—Mr. Robinson not improbably represents the feelings of a good many " zealots," in his desire to turn the Ritualists out of the...

OD THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sca,—You express an opinion that the Vicar of Prestbury may eventually be the only victim of the recent persecution. But there is another case in the same...

[TO TUB EDITOR OF THDI SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—I have been much astonished at the brief you have lately held for Ritualism, when our civil and religious liberties have been the...

SPECTATOR:1 Sm,—You naturally dislike prolonging the dispute between " X. " and myself, for the conflicting assertions of two anony- mous correspondents can scarcely affect the...

[To THE EDITOR OF Till' " SPECTATOR"] Sm„ — An almost unpardonable but really surprising ignorance exists in the English mind respecting the actual feelings of the Irish people...

SPBOTATOR.1 Ont, — In the review of my book on Spinoza contained in your last two numbers, there are misconceptions, or statements tend- ing to produce misconception, the more...

(To TIM EDITOR OF THE " EPROTATOR.") IS ili, — After a careful perusal of the Indian papers, I cannot help thinking that on the question of the expediency of retain- ing or...

Sin, — It ia needless to assume any special affinity between Non- conformity and mathematical capacity. A Wranglership means unusual natural powers, with, or (in the old days...

PROVENCAL IDYLLS.* EVERY year the influence of reviews has less to do with the circulation or the failure of a book. The public maw enlarges itself, and must he fed with printed...

MISS FITZGIBBON commences her agreeable narrative at the moment of embarking on board the good ship 'Manitoba,' which was to carry her up Lake Huron to Saulte St. Marie, on the...

of the management of the Coatham Sisterhood, and that a breach her self-sacrificing career." The criticisms of a more or less distinct kind arose between them. We have with...

WE have some hesitation in recommending this novel to our readers. We can easily conceive that it will strike a good many of them as a little dull, a little fine-drawn, and a...

of novel, each one of which finds a class of readers who greatly prefer it to any other style, that the reviewer feels a certain hesitation about recommending the public to...

at illustrating the influence of Horace upon three centuries of English poets and scholars." No writer of a later date than Leigh Hunt is represented in it. Horace undoubtedly...

The Exporiitor for February contains a very interesting paper, by Rev. Samuel Cox, tho editor, on the First Psalm, discussing theproba- bitity that Solomon prefixed it as a kind...

Compiled by the Rev. R. H. Haddon, M.A. (Hatchards.) —St. George's-in-the-East presents little opportunity for antiquarian research. As a parish, it dates from 1729, when it was...

first sermon of Mr. Dale's volume should be read in connection with the very able and interesting address to the students of Airedale Theological College, which concludes the...

readers will, we fear, pronounce Greek wit to have been but a poor affair ; nor will they be satisfied with Mr. Paley's explanation that we admire wit, while we laugh at "fun...

Christ (Elliot Stock) presents the result produced upon the writer's thought and argument by the criticism which it has received in various quarters. That this criticism, even...

(which is now published in London by Messrs. Warne and Co.), and the American Wide Awake (published in London by Messre. Clark and Co.), two capital illustrated magazines for...