nesday, on the most important points of which we have com- mented elsewhere. In addition to what we have there said, we may remark that with relation to Ireland he condemned...

been formally given up in Paris. It appears that Napoleon accepts a situation he did not intend, for on 16th October S. Nigra saw M. Rouher, and told him that if French troops...

appealed, in " conclusive proof " of the vitality of the English nation, to the number of really considerable poets in the last fifty years,—a phenomenon which he considered...

T HE topic of the week has been the gigantic crime which we were just able to mention in our last issue, the massacre in Clerkenwell. The history of the affair is not clear to...

of a circular from the Directors of the Midland demanding five millions sterling. Their capital is already 25,000,0001., debts and shares together, but they are building a line...

of the Home Secretary for special constables has been instantly answered, the whole population is alert, and all classes, Irish Catholics included, are determined to put the...

December. Before that date King Theodore had destroyed Debra Tabor by fire, and was marching through bands of native insurgents on Magdala, while the advanced brigade of the...

A. S. Herring, Incumbent of St. Paul's, Clerkenwell, in the ex- citement produced by the suffering in Clerkenwell, appealed to the public through the Times, and obtained a large...

a speech mainly consisting of a spirited history of the Reform Bill of 1867. He accepted the result of that Bill most cordially as "an enormous advance in the political growth...

tion is costly. M. Hausamaun's Budget for 1868 has just been published, and it appears that the expenditure for that year, " ordinary," " extraordinary," " supplemental," and "...

an education measure more or less founded on Mr. Austin Bruce's Bill of last session, with necessary extensions and enlargements. He was entirely in favour of retaining all the...

Prussian Envoys will speedilybe recalled, to be replaced by Envoys from the North German Confederation. They will, of course, be usually the same men, and will always be...

Mr. Gladstone referred rather to the future. The report of this speech, received by telegraph, is execrably bad, in places quite unintel- ligible, but Mr. Gladstone made Ireland...

elapsed, Mr. M'Culloch estimates as follows :— REVENUE. £ ENTENDITUBE. x Customs 32,676,000 Civil Service 10,080,000 Lands 197,000 Pensions & Indiana 6,496,000 Direct Tax...

estimate of the Revenue and Expenditure of the United States for the financial year ended 30th June last, and the actual amounts realized. We assume five dollars—the nominal...

fire, which had raged from 7 a.m., and had not been got tinder at 11. It commenced at a ship chandler's, and the destruc- tion of property was immense. Take this with Tuesday's...

Episcopal Synod have explained that the reports of committees on which we commented last week, recommending all sorts of revolutionary and silly proceedings, were not adopted by...

Duke of Buckingham—Sir Charles Darling would have his 20,0001., for serving the Parliament of Victoria better than Her Majesty's Government, after all. The new Governor has...

glycerine near Newcastle. This most explosive of all blasting -substances had been for some months, it seems, kept in the cellars of a public-house at Newcastle, without any of...

has consented to accept a seat at their new Board. Is he to be Chairman, or only a Director? In either case he would be the most valuable acquisition, next perhaps to Mr. Lowe,...

of the 18th November at about twenty minutes to three. The earthquake only lasted about two minutes, but the shock to the town was frightful, many houses being half ruined by...

Great Western Lancashire and Yorkshire ... London and Brighton ... London and North-Western London and South-Western London, Chatham, and Dover Metropolitan ... North-Eastern,...

at 92f, f, for money, and 92k, f, for the account ; Reduced and New Three per Cents., 926, I ; Exchequer Bills, 25s. to 28s. prem. ; India Bonds, 53a. to 58s. pram. ; and India...

off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, DoR 13. Mexican... 144 Spanish Passives 23( Do. CertiIicates 19 Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858 62( , 1862 ... 62( United States 3.20's...

THE FENIAN - OUTRAGE. T HERE is one compensation for this Clerkenwell outrage. It has reunited the British people, and rebraced the nerves of authority. A feeling had begun to...

T HERE was a striking sort of scornful article in Thursday's Pall Mall Gazette on the melancholy nature of the neces- sity for such speeches as Mr. Gladstone delivered at Oldham...

O T.Tht wisest statesmen are probably beginning at last to. recognize that the greatest difficulty in dealing with Ireland consists in the absoluteness of our Parliamentary...

P ROPHETIC politics are rarely worthy even of the very slight attention they usually receive. So much depends on individual lives, on latent but irresistible popular opinions,...

T ' grand difference between the President's Message as reported by Reuter's agents, and the same Message as transmitted to Congress, seems to be this. The report, like all...

THE great Railway incident which has occurred this week reveals in the most perfect manner the gross imperfections of our Railway organization. On Monday last the shares of the...

T HE strange and marvellous performances do not give the Aissa-Ouahs the least pain, but is [sic] a pleasure and a delight to them." This statement, which is quoted verbatim...

Ar findouraIvesinaptonnotsupficially easy to define, a risen in t h columns and elsewhere with respect to the proposal to found a Free Christian Union, the basis of which shall...

T HE accession of the House of Lancaster was signalized in London by the public burning at the Standard in West Cheap, by command of the new King, of the blank grants or...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The readers of your powerful remarks on the injustice of the course recommended by the Committee of the Pan-Anglican Synod towards the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The statement made by the Bishop of Capetown at the meeting of the English Church Union, on the 13th inst., that " about two-thirds of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In writing to you on this movement, I am full of respect for the earnestness and good motives of its promoters. Only the con-...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I shall be much obliged to you if you will permit me to answer an article on my History of the Commonwealth of England, in the Spectator...

LIFE OF SIR PHILIP FRANCIS.* Sin Pcrtury FRANCIS came into contact, friendly or hostile, with many great men, and took a part in great events. A proof, stronger at least than...

ARISTOCRATIC crime is a telling subject for the novelist, and the Author of Lady _Maria, Lord Lynn's Wife, and Lord Ulswater wields the aristocratic element in guilt with a...

NOT long ago, in the pages of the Revue des Deux Mondes, M. Guizot gave to the French public the history of a friend's life. That friend was M. Prosper de Barante, for more than...

WE are grateful to any one who reminds us of the favourites of our boyhood. Yet gratitude must not disarm justice, and while the reader is pleased, the critic may be severe. The...

(Griffith and Farran.)—The two best stories in this book are the first and third, which tell us the history of a dog in search of its little master, and of a newly married...

Post- (Vice London Directory for 1868. Sixty-ninth annual publica- tion. (Kelly, London.)—This invaluable directory, consisting of about 2,700 of the most closely printed pages...

1868. (Stevens.) Punch's Pocket - Book for 1868. (Punch Office.) The Boy's Own Pocket - Book for 1868 (Routledge.)—Here is a choice of pocket-books for different readers—the...

(F. lVarne and Co.)—It is only necessary to give the name of this book in order to excite the curiosity of every boy who is old enough to plague his parents with visions of the...

and Sons.)—We expected to find in this story a translation of St. Gormain's charming story Pour une .Epingle. But it is quite an independent history, in fact, the auto-...

not only a book which every boy will want, but one which will teach every boy everything. It gives the rules of every game, and hints for succeeding in it ; an account of all...

the Countess de Gasparin. Authorized Translation. (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.)—A pleasant, often a picturesque, but not always a genuine record of Italian travel. What we...

pile of new books since our last clearance, we may mention the sixth edition of The History of the Microscope, by Jabez Hogg (Routledge), a sixpenny issue of Sterne's...

G. Blaikie, D.D. (Stralian.)—We can commend this book, but we cannot analyze it. Each separate chapter has its appropriate heading, and would claim to be criticized in turn....

for 1868, a large diary, with a good folio page for each week, and conveniently interleaved with blotting-paper, and containing also an almanack. Also, Partridge and Cooper's...

Alford (Dean), How to Study the New Testament. The Epistles, pt. 1 (Strahan) 8 Anderdon (W. H.), In the Snow, Tales of Mount St. Bernard, rep 8vo(Burns) 3 Anderson (G.), The...

.111. Jevtets—Tsmort—On the 19th, at Shaw's IAneChapel, Altrineham, by the Rev. A. Creery, B.A., W. Stanley Jevons, Esq., M.A., of Owens College, „Manchester, to Harriet Ann,...

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