lock- out, in the Building Trade. The carpenters and joiners want 9d. an hour, instead of Bid., and the masters refuse it absolutely now, and refuse it even in March, 1874,...

• the Shah, who, however, will probably be happier at Trentham than anywhere else, and at Brussels took the Burgomaster a gallop across country, straight over everything, to his...

advantage of the army and of the country above politics, by appointing General Chanzy Governor-General and Captain- General of Algeria. The Government did not venture to object,...

it has lately been. It seems clear that Pi y Margall has driven Figueras out of Spain, and intends to be Dictator without being formally crowned such. His plan is to reduce...

Centre - ,either deserted altogether or took part in favour of the prosecution of M. Ran; has consented to that prosecution by a majority of 250 (450 against 200),—and this in...

after refusing to sign the Slave-trade Treaty, issued a proclamation to his subjects to do as they hal always done, and thought himself quite a hero. He forgot, however, that he...

T HE event of the week has been the arrival of the Shah, who landed on Wednesday from Ostend. Mr. Goschen had been singularly successful in his arrangements, the day was calm,...

case.

the - rule for a criminal information for libel against Mr. Plimsoll, applied for by Mr. Norwood ; but they have indicated their- opinion that Mr. Plimsoll is liable to • some...

gigantic failure, but with fuller accounts it has become tolerably certain that it will be a disappointing but yet passable success, —that is, that it will contribute a very...

to us very feeble. His first answer was that this measure would touch so very small a part of the expense of elections,—at the last election, for instance, only £90,000 out of...

an amend- ment to Mr. Forster's Education Bill (1873), " That in the opinion of this House, no amendment to the Education Act could be- regarded as satisfactory which did not...

Bill for throwing the " necessary " expenses of elections on the rates in a very able speech, showing that in all probability the charge on every elector holding a ten-pound...

a very exaggerated spirit against Mr. Forster's Education Act Amendment Bill, asserting that it will make matters worse instead of better as regards the fees to denomina- tional...

or were overborne by the Middle Templars, who did not like to stick to the shabby policy of no collections on so great an occa- sion. A correspondence which appeared between the...

Church of Scotland was brought up in both Houses. Lord Airlie argued that patronage had been the cause of every secession in the Church of Scotland, pointed out that it had no...

makes pretty fair progress, but is impeded at every turn by de- mands for exemption. On Friday se'nniglit he obtained a sort of consensus of the House that if personal property...

nearly what we suspected it to be. It provides what whenever the First Lord of the Treasury, and Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Governor of the Bank, and Deputy-Governor of...

the scaffold rather than swear against his conscience, wrote in -prison this fable respecting " over-scritpuloustiess of conscience :"— -" A poor ass after his shrift, when he...

honorary degree of D.C.L., whereupon the Margaret Professor of Divinity, Dr. Heurtley, lodged a kind of protest, in which he said that he did not object to a Mohammedan...

the Lords, but it brought up Mr. Gladstone, who pleaded for a Parlia- mentary Committee to investigate the subject, and particularly to ascertain the feeling of the people of...

of a Select Committee having been accepted, Mr. Lowe made stout battle for his contract, but made nothing of it, the plain fact being that he had, under a fanciful notion of...

BARON REUTER'S BARGAIN. F AS anybody a nice little planet anywhere for sale ? 1 Because if he has, Baron Reuter will make him a fair bid for all the sulphur or mines it may...

T HE result of the Assembly's debate on the prosecution of M. Ranc is not a little strange and unsatisfactory. The Left. Centre appears either to have abstained from voting, or...

H ER MAJESTY'S Government have accepted Mr. Bouverie's proposal for a select Committee on the Zanzibar Con- tract, but not without a scene on Thursday which must have been very...

T HE managers of the Birmingham Education League would do well to define to themselves rather more clearly than they have hitherto done, the relative value they attach to the...

L ORD DERBY has given a serious blow to a hope which has brought his party many friends,—a hope that the State, by absorbing the Railways, may find means to make them more...

p ENDING the investigation of the Royal Commission now employed in inquiring into the revenues of Oxford and Cambridge, various schemes of University extension and re-...

No one can read the abstracts which have been published of the sermons preached on this occasion without feeling that the Clergy feel a charity sermon of this kind a real...

T HE official Census of Bengal just completed by the Registrar- General is a really wonderful undertaking, which has not hitherto received the attention it deserved. It is one...

O UR readers will learn with interest, we believe, that at the recent Visitation of the Royal Observatory, it was proposed by Professor Adams (co-discoverer with Leverrier of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' SIR, —Will you allow me to reply to the two letters under the titles above written, which appeared in your paper last week in answer to me ?...

MR. FORSTER'S " EDUCATION AMENDMENT BILL." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—It was with very great regret that I found that Mr. Forster's "Amendment Bill " did not...

[TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...) Sin,—The evidence I received during my recent inquiry in the United States as to the condition of women and children employed in factory...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Would you allow me to express the pleasure and satisfaction with which I read your most admirable article in last Saturday's Spectator...

the Spirit is described in the 11th Isaiah, v. ii., and in an " Institutio Christiana Antverpite, 1591." The " Dona " are given from the Vulgate thus :—" Sapientia, Intellectus,...

editor of Macmillan's Magazine will hardly accept your interpretation of Sacrum Septenarium in the above hymn. These words are generally understood by Catholics to refer to the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Might I suggest, that the " Seven-fold Grace," which you say "of course has a direct reference to the Seven Sacraments of the Roman...

BRESSANT.* HERE is a case for Mr. Galton. That Mr. Julian Hawthorne has inherited something of his father's peculiar genius, no one who reads. Bressant can feel much doubt....

multitude that have been written about colonial life, made people in England understand it so well as Lady Barker's Station Life in New Zealand. It told them exactly the things...

shall satisfy living admirers, and yet not exhaust the patience of readers in after times—still more, delight them—is immeasurably increased when the subject of it is not only...

the title of the third of a series of works in which Mr. Spencer is developing his system of philosophy. It will certainly not diminish his reputation as a philosophical writer....

MR. BAGE110T'S book is not a history of Lombard Street, as we- rather hoped it would have been, but a descriptive account of the present system of Credit, of which Lombard...

Wanderings in Scripture Lands. By Thomas Robinson, D.D. (Dickinson.)—Dr. Robinson ha; wo conjecture, a congregation who Wanderings in Scripture Lands. By Thomas Robinson, D.D....

is concerned, it is about as good as an etching could be. And the curio sity of the matter is, that it is the very first work of the kind which the artist ever did. So happy a...

of the scones described, though the incidents and characters appear to be real, the conversations and details must be imaginary. Such a mode of treating family history is no...

By Brooke Foss Westcott, D.D. (Macmillan.)—Professor Westcott has collected in this volume some sermons and papers, preached before the University of Cambridge or read at Church...

Carl Both. (Tritbner.)—Some time ago a treatise was written to prove that salt was the "forbidden fruit." Dr. Carl Both seems to believe that it is the "fruit of the tree of...