the names of a small number of politicians to Her Majesty for peerages. Mr. Cardwell; of course, stands first, both in rank and claims, the only puzzle being to understand why,...

present at least, retire from the leadership of the Liberal party. He has long been in need of rest, and the opportunity is new before him. Of course he will speak on the...

Cabinet, most of which appear to us to' be almost certainly correct. The only great office left' unfilled is the Home Secretaryship, about which there may have been recent...

and Cornwall,—the mining counties, and even in East Cornwall, we have since lost again the seat which in 1868 we won back,—there are very feweeats which the Liberals have won by...

W E calculate the exact result of the elections, now complete, to be as follows :— ENGLAND. Liberals. Conservatives. Counties 27 145 'Universities 1 4 Boroughs 145 137...

for Wexford county, in which Sir George Bowyer and the Chevalier Keyes O'Clery were elected in the Home-rule interest. The Chevalier is an example of quite a new class of "...

Dr. Jex-Blake, now Principal of Cheltenham College, to the Head Mastership vacant by the dismissal of Dr. Hayman. Mr. Percival, of Clifton College, was, we imagine, passed over...

disheartening. The 'Viceroy sends little information whatever, but it appears from his telegram and other sources that exportation has stopped, and that little grain reaches...

Ireland, like Prince Schwartzenberg, may boast that it has astonished Europe by its ingratitude. That the same county which in election after election enthusiastically returned...

some Bonapartist movement, but they appear to be based on nothing more solid than a letter -from M. .Rouher, stating that he sup- ports the Septennat provisionally, but will...

Bill reduces the time of service in-the German Army from three years to two, thus allowing the reform against which the King- of Prussia fought so fiercely up. to 1866. The...

to the Czar, the first since the " sublime ingratitude " of 1854, when Austria turned against Russia in the Crimean war. It is affirmed on all hands that the fate of Turkey was...

in a hurried paragraph on Friday we had anticipated. The building was erected in 1830, had gradually increased, and was supposed to be fire-proof, the principle of its...

confirm-our impression that promises to vote one way have been - very largely succeeded by votes given the other way, if given at all. Too many promise according to their...

the London School Board, has received, through Mr. Gladstone, the offer (which he has declared his intention to accept) of knighthood, for his great services on the School...

to have for a particular English school of spiritual enthusiasts is one of those difficult problems which will hardly ever be completely solved. It must, as we suggested in a...

great literary position, and is full of instructive and interest- ing matter, published yesterday an interesting letter on the sub- ject of Dr. Livingstone's death, from the...

a very interesting discussion at Liverpool last week on the proper mode of- carrying out Mr. Plimsoll's views concerning unseaworthy ships. Mr. Rathbone maintained that Mr....

in any sense of political propriety. He made a congratulatory speech to his supporters on Monday, of which these were the three points,—that Mr. Gladstone is a political...

P ERIIAPS the most delicious drop in the cup of Mr.. Disraeli's exultation is due to the condition in which his great triumph finds the leadership of Opposition. Mr. Gladstone...

THE TORY CABINET. C ABINET-MAKING is not pleasant work ; there are so many of the old men wanting power, such a cry for new men to be brought in, so many jealousies to appease,...

T HERE seems to be no duty more fascinating than the writing of political epitaphs, but the reading of them is a different matter, especially as hardly a single reader exactly...

W HEN Prince Bismarck is not happy, the world is not at rest, and we can scarcely wonder that Prince Bismarck is not happy. With all his real defects, and all the evil qualities...

I T is useless, we know, to argue with the public, which is unable to rid its mind of the hatred of the Gold-Coast tribes created by Sir Garnet Wolseley's despatches, officers'...

PTO estimate has yet been formed of the losses in the great fire 1: 1 1 which destroyed the Pantechnicon, nor is it at all probable that an accurate one will speedily be...

M R. FITZJAMES STEPHEN has added a preface to the second edition of his "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,"* in answer to some criticisms passed upon his work by Mr. Morley and Mr....

II R. CLIFFE LESLIE has written a paper in the current li.1. number of the Fortnightly to prove these three things :— " (1.) That the real burden imposed on the working-classes...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Silt,—The sympathy you always show with those we are pleased to call the " lower animals " induces me to apply to you in a diffi- culty that...

AFRICA AND AFRICA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THIS " SPECTATOR.1 ZIE,—Sir Bartle Frere, in delivering his inaugural address recently at the Society of Arts, deplored "the inferior...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The Times' Calcutta telegram of the 18th inst. confirms what all well-informed persons have dreaded : — " Prices are steadily rising....

[TO THE EDTTOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Richard Crashaw, as Canon of Loretto, would have to recite the hymn of the Roman Breviary for the feast of the Epiphany, in which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Six,—Your pen has slipped again, in the matter of Mr. Perry Watlington. He is not, and never was, Member for West Essex;. he sat for South...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your article of the 14th on " The Irish Vote," you say :— " The Conservative working-man has in Belfast, as in other big borough...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR, —Your correspondent, " An Income-taxpayer," is in error. Our fathers did not pay to free the slaves, they borrowed, and left us to...

MR. BUCHANAN'S " MASTER-SPIRITS." MR. ROBERT BUCHANAN is a prolific writer in prose as well as- verse. His range is wide, his knowledge extensive, his power of expression such...

A QUAINT fiction is connected with the trip to the Arctic Seas which Captain Markham, R N., made on board the Arctic,' of Dundee, whose commander enjoys a reputation for " dash...

THE disappointment we feel in reading this book is not wholly to be laid to the charge of its author, for the subject ought not to have raised in us very high expectations, and...

PROFESSOR MASSON, in that part of his Life and Times of Milton, in which he takes a comprehensive survey of British poetry when Milton began to write, devoted three pages,...

THE first volume of this Calendar contains two of the most important sections of the Carew Manuscripts,—namely, the " Book of Howth " and Bray's " Conquest of Ireland." The...

Tills is a volume containing ten political essays. With the excep- tion of the first two, on "The Parliament of 1811 and the Defence of the Corn Laws," they deal with subjects...

which might perhaps be regarded as some sort of guarantee for correct writing, Mr. Adams treats his mother-tongue in a very careless fashion. Sometimes we search in vain for a...

the origin who really and truly make a home in the country of their &dep. assigned to these reminiscences—which we are inclined to believe there is not as the anecdotes have...

Brothers.)—In this novel Mr. Griffith approaches more nearly than he has done before to the remarkable excellences of "Victory Deane." The plot is open, as indeed it was in the...

Missionary Enterprise in the East. By Rev. R. Collins. (Henry S. King and Co.)—Mr. Collins was formerly Principal of the Syrian College, at Cottayam, near Travancore, and the...

Susan Coblodge (the former published by Messrs. Warne, the latter by Messrs. Roberts, of Boston, U.S.), are two volumes which tell very prettily the story of a certain Katy....

Collins having conquered one world, sighs for and finds another. The most remarkable thing about his hero is that he dies at the end of the first volume. Most novelists, if...

Co.)— After an introduction, in which he treats of various principles connected with his subject, as well as the nature and construction of the locomotory organs in animals, Dr....

feeling the need of a comprehension of the past of the land they live in, and a key to the significance of their surroundings. We learn from his preface that he has been in...

Africa. By Henry M. Stanley. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a speci- men of Mr. Stanley's skill in utilising the material which he picks up in his erratic and adventurous life....

Surgeon's Secret" was Mr. Mostyn's last and, for all that we know, first novel, and was of no small merit. In some respects, Kitty's Rival is.not inferior to its predecessor. It...

and Descriptive Notes by W. W. Wood. (Seeleys.)—Mr. Chattock's etchings are, for the most part, very pleasing, "The College from the River " being one of the best ; and...

(Sampson Low.)—Mr. Tinno is a young graduate of Oxford, who, having had the good sense to spend some time in New-Zealand travel, has obliged his fellow-countrymen by giving a...

(Chapman and Hall.) — There are two things remarkable in this perfectly harmless and lady-like tale ; one is the sudden change—when three-quarters of the book is past—from...