N� R. DISRAELI'S great speech on Thursday night in moving the rejection of the Irish Church Bill was judged with curious divergency of view by different sections of his...

■■■-•41,■■■•■• MR. DIST? AELFS SPEECH. A S a literary man Mr. Disraeli surpassed himself on Thursday night. His speech was a miracle of political artfulness and literary...

T HERE has been no revolution in Spain as yet,—only a successful insurrection. The Army, with the consent of the country, rose, expelled an unpopular dynasty, installed an...

S IR ROUNDELL PALMER is one of the ornaments of the House of Commons, and no man in that assembly, as we believe, carries a higher religious spirit into his political life. He...

VOT one in five, perhaps, of English newspaper readers will Zr study the little debate of Tuesday, on the Irish Party Processions' Act, but it may turn out to have been one . of...

I F Mr. Baines and his friends of the provincial journals do not take care, they will succeed in destroying the freedom of the Press. The way to do that is to make much of the...

T HE masterly speech in which the Vice-President of the Council moved, on Monday, the second reading of the Endowed Schools' Bill more than supports the estimate which we...

T FIE Trades' Unions' Commissioners have issued their " Eleventh and Final Report." The trumpet, however, gives out but an uncertain sound. There is division in the camp. A...

ju - R. FORSTER in his speech of Monday on the second reading 131. of the Endowed Charities' Bill, mentioned, as a proof of the badness of many middle-class schools, the number...

T HE Boat-Race between the Universities seems to have taken a stronger hold upon the popular imagination than even the Derby. The interest, if less intense, is probably more...

XC V.—LLNC 0 LNSHIR E. GEOGRAPHY. L LNCOLNSHIRE is in so many respects an isolated county, that it seems proper to treat of it separately. It is in size the second county of...

AGRICULTURAL CO-OPERATION IN GERMANY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In consequence of the general interest excited by your article on the Great Assington...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,-It may not be uninteresting to read what Whately says concerning the subject which has occupied several letters in your valuable paper....

uro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPIH:TATOR.1 Snt,—Your correspondent " L. B.," in enumerating the safeguards by which orphan paupers hoarded in families are protected from the dangers...

---4— THE LATE MR. WEIINERT. WITH a becoming sense of the brotherhood that should bind artists together, the Institute of Painters in Water-Colours have opened an exhibition at...

PHINEAS FINN.* Phineas Finn contains some of Mr. Trollope's best work, but it is not, as a whole, one of his very best tales. While far superior to the lower level of his...

to master the whole system of the London and North-Western Railway. Ile has now devoted four days and three-eighths to an examination of the Royal Engineer Establishment at...

MR. BICKMORE has written a large book on a very interesting subject. Perhaps no region of the world, after having been studied, in whole or in part, by such competent...

the public by his first story of Love or Marriage 1—which might be described with sufficient truth as "a Novel on the danger of applying Destructive Criti • la &a Attire'. A...

Tins is a striking little essay. It is an attempt to show that something like the philosophy of the Christian Gospel would be forced upon us by the facts of our spiritual...

WE have long thought that everything is possible in translation, as indeed in most human affairs, to labour. The question is, how is this labour to be furnished ? Short pieces...

Annals of St. Pacts Cathedral. By H. H. Milman, D.D. (Murray.) —Dr. Milman did not find so good a subject ready to his hand as did his brother the Dean of Westminster. It was an...