the Thirty began on Thursday, and threatened to become a regular debate on the advantages of Monarchy and Republicanism. The Marquis de Castellane, a new speaker and a Royalist,...

must be, since the very just acquittal of the Bishop of Clonfert, following as it did on the unfortunate failure to find a verdict against Father Loftus ; but it seems from an...

to have lost their power in the House of Commons. It is not many days since the temporary Chairman of the London and North-Western denounced Mr. C. Fortescue for "listening to...

T HE prospects of the Irish University Bill are not for the moment very cheering, at least if Parliament is not prepared to force on Ireland a remedy which Irish Protestants and...

not very favourable to order. The greatest difficulty in the way of the Republicans has apparently disappeared. The privates in the Army have pronounced in their favour, hoping...

or - The Army has shown itself Federalist as well as Republican, the Government has been obliged to distribute 180,000 Remington rifles to the citizens, and the mob of Madrid is...

case.

sketched out the type of the French Constitution which he would most approve. As we have described and criticised it fully else- where, we need not here go into its details, but...

out in the Ukraine, Podolia, and Volhynia, most of old Poland in fact. The insurgents have beaten the troops, and are murdering, burning, and plundering in all directions. This...

difficulty of ascertaining the daily price of coals. An expert informs us that we may always rely on the little quotation given in the Times of Tuesdays, Thursdays, and...

part of our Alabama indemnity to the public purse, though it was alto- gether awarded as equivalent for private losses. A Bill which pro- poses not to indemnify the Insurance...

strongly opposed that the members of the minority have forgotten. all decent respect for the law, and that, too, on a matter which, by their own confession, the leaders do not...

Company (Limited), writes to the Times to confirm Lord Rosebery's views as to the scarcity of horses in England. His Company have bought 22,024 horses in twelve years, and the...

helped the Attorney-General to draw up his Jury Bill, appears, from a long and able letter which he has sent to the Times, dis- posed to accept a compromise. Be would abandon...

the aid of the Government Bill in his just pub- lished report upon the condition of his College during the ses- sions 1870-71 and 1871-72,—the more so that he gives this assist-...

ment have no intention of amending the Irish Land Act by ex- tending the limit of rental under which a tenant is not allowed to contract himself out of the benefit of the Act,...

of those discussions about its own business of which it has so many, but which so seldom advance business ODR step. Mr. C. Forster wanted Parliament to meet in the last week of...

a very successful, though slightly discursive speech. We have analysed it elsewhere, but wish to give here the force we get for our fourteen an I a half millions, not counting...

fuel, if it be true, as stated in a letter to Tuesday's Tinteq, that in consequence of the high price of coat the Directors of the Great Western Railway have cut off the fires...

his first speech at Northwich on Monday. It was full of smart sayings, such as that he objected to the "conscription of voters" hitherto practised in the county ; that he...

of that great province to exceed sixty millions, reveals some curious facts as to the occupation of the adult males. There are, excluding Assam, 11,692,000 males engaged in...

Parliament this Session, went down to the House on Tuesday to support the unimportant amendments against the adjourn- ment to a later hour on Ash-Wednesday than the customary...

THE OPPOSITION TO THE IRISH UNIVERSITY BILL. I T seems clear that both the Liberal and the Roman Catholic opposition to the Irish University Bill is becoming, in a certain...

T HE origin of the Spanish Republic and its dangers are alike becoming more clear. King Amadeo did not leave Spain absolutely without arrangements for her future government. His...

T HE form of Constitution for France, which a correspondent of the New York Herald ascribes at all events to M. Gambetta, and the conversation in which he is said to have...

AIR. CARDWELL'S speech of Monday on introducing the 111 Military Estimates was warmly received by the House, and will, we believe, give great satisfaction in the country.. The...

W E hear a good deal of the unsatisfactory working of our Courts of Appeal and Appellate jurisdiction generally. Their slowness and costliness, with many other defects of action...

R. MILVERTON, who is, we suppose, the special spokesman .0.1. of the author of "Friends in Council," remarks in the course of the earnest, lively, and often humorous...

L ORD HOUGHTON had rather more of a case, when on Friday week he raised the question of the right of English- men to wear Foreign Decorations, than the public appears quite...

W INTER, among the crop of complaints which it always brings, raises one question that ought, one might suppose, to have been settled long ago. Months of rain accustom us to...

S INCE we dealt with this subject in our number for February 8, it has attracted much more attention than had formerly been accorded to it. Everyone is asking whether it is...

TELE IRISH CATHOLIC VIEW OF THE UNIVERSITY BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sirs—As a very "constant reader" of your journal, I appreciate- its fairness and the...

SIR,—It is odd that men whose thought is mainly an outcome of modern science should fail to apply what is, perhaps, the most striking conception of modern science—that of titne...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SpEcreroV1 SIR,—Your correspondent "Protagoras " is in an amusing state of bewilderment and delusion. The idea that incurable "syphilitic,"...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—Allow me very briefly to reply to the wholesale charges of falsehood that were brought against me by an aggrieved farmer -of Tydd St....

correspondence on the subject of Euthanasia, I think one consideration has been omitted. Would. not many an illness that in former times was considered incurable still remain...

SIR,—I do not know if it occurs to the readers of the discussion in your pages respecting suicide, and taking life in cases of hope- less disease, that the question really...

SIR,—The letters upon Suicide in your last number are certain to have aroused keen discussion wherever the Spectator is read. Such discussion is, however, almost useless between...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra.,--In your review of Mr. Arnold's "Literature and Dogma" I observe that you quote a passage which you describe as placing " the...

you afford me a little space—I shall not require much —to answer one objection you and " Protagoras" bring forward , against "Euthanasia"? When you urge that "such practice, if...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In a notice of my "Biographical and Critical Essays," of which I have certainly little reason to complain, you cite, as an example of "a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The "maiming of the degrees" in the proposed Irish University will not approve itself to scholastic associations. Experience in Oxford...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Silt, —One cannot but admire the earnestness with which Mr. McColl and others fight for the Athanasian Creed, and their un- willingness to...

MR. GLADSTONE AND THE OLD WATER-COLOUlt. SOCIETY. AT a certain Royal Academy dinner, if we recollect rightly, when Mr. Disraeli as Chancellor of the Exchequer was the hero and...

MR. ARNOLD ON CHRISTIANITY" [SECOND NOTICE.] WE gave last weeek our reasons for feeling profoundly bewildered with Mr. Arnold's simplification of the religious teaching of the...

WHATEVER error there may be in the charges brought by Mr. Plimsoll against individual shipowners for reckless overloading and criminal disregard of seamen's lives, the state of...

reading this book from an apprehen- sion of finding it tainted with the indecency that we have all learned to connect with the so-called "religious" vagaries of America. The...

from common-place in its conception, though there are crude elements in the plot. We may safely predict concerning it, that few who read the first chapter will care to lay the...

vols. (Tinsley.)—The fashion of Mr. Harrison Ainsworth's historical novels is by this time sufficiently familiar; nor does Boscobe/ differ materially from its predecessors. Mr....

a story of crime and its detection. ingeniously constructed. and told with spirit, which readers who like such stories—and most of us have now and then a mood in which we like...

Blackstone Economized, being a Compendium of the Laws of England to the Present Tints. By David Mitchell Aird. (Longmans.)—This is by no means the first abridgment of...

Current Literature" which stench at the heed of these columns is made sufficiently inclusive, and is attached to meny works to which it can hardly be said properly to belong....