that a Government was bound to prosecute such attacks, and the British Government had the power to do so. He appeared to consider that Germany had asked nothing extraordinary,...

to propose his motion for a Royal Commission or Select Com- mittee to inquire into the complaints which be had to bring against the conduct of the Tichborne trial at Bar. This...

lug of the Burials Bill,—from which he had this year eliminated those elaborate guarantees against any abuse by Dissenters of the privilege of conducting their own services in...

silly position in which Mr. Disraeli had placed it in regard to the publication of M. Herran's letter. The Foreign Loans Committee on Monday sent in a special report,...

something at least of the ecstacy of their mutual admiration. Sir William attacked Mr. Disraeli very sharply yesterday week for his inconsistency in first inducing the House to...

S OME question, we have reason to believe, has recently arisen between Germany and France of a very grave character; but the danger has blown over, and the Belgian question,...

calculation, which has some marks of " inspiration " about it, to show that the Assembly can get through its work by the last week of August, that the elections to the Senate...

the Army - on Tuesday night. It was introduced - by Lord Ekho, who. advocates balloting for the Militia, and maintained that - we had not 31,000 infantry in the Islands or...

burghs on Tuesday, by a majority of 1,811 - to 1,171, the vote thrown including more than three-fourths of the names on the register. The large number of votes - for - his...

clared in the debate of April 16th, on the revision of the Prussian Charter, that the Pope "hands over heretics, including the great majority of the Prussians, to eternal...

was- discussing the education of the Army, and said that it was in- creasing every year, and that although bad characters no doubt got in, even they were becoming more amenable...

system of actions for breach of promise of marriage. In July, 1870, Miss Nightingale met Captain Perry, of H.M.'s Navy, at an evening party, in a boarding-house in Harley...

appointed. Colonel Egerton Leigh cut jokes against the Bill, rather in the style of Dickens's jokes at the expense of Mr. Mould, though, of course, much poorer, and described...

dressed to the Rev. R. E. Hooppell, intimates his fixed belief in that " unscanned and inscrutable" power spoken of by 'Wordsworth which rolls through all things' which he first...

assembled in great force, chatted over the details of the Tenant -right Bill very amicably and with a good deal of knowledge, and swept it with one clause reserved, the...

:131g to the Madrid correspondent of the Times, the revenue, which in 1871 was £23,000,000, is now not above £16,000,000, while the Debt has reached £530,000,000, at 3 per...

'Chaplains to the ships of the Arctic Expedition, and the Pall Mall seems to be as angry at the appointment, on the ground that the ships have been deprived of...

The Rev. Arthur Holmes, of Clare College, the Dean, and one of the Senior Fellows of the College, cut his throat in a fit of extreme depression, no doubt due to an overtaxed...

aeronauts, M. Tissandier, M. Croce-Spinelli, and M. Sivel, who ascended on Thursday in last week in the balloon called the Zenith, from the gas-works of La Villette. It appears...

GERMANY AND BELGIUM. T HERE is very little probability, indeed we may say there is no probability whatever, that Germany has any design against the independence or the...

T HE Conservatives are beginning to show signs of grace on the Church question. On Wednesday afternoon, in spite of the opposition of the Government, and in a very full House,...

T HE importance of this Orton-Kenealy affair is, I think, exaggerated in the public mind. A similar agitation has occurred before, and assumed a much more dangerous form. There...

T HE alarming side of this agitation, however, has yet to be represented. I cannot admit that even as regards the moral side of it, it is without menace. No doubt the public...

T HE evidence of Mr. Hawkins before the Committee on Election Petitions is of exceptional interest, because he is the first witness who has approached the subject from the...

T HE revival of " The Merchant of Venice" at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, in spite of one very glaring and vexatious fault,— a fault of the first magnitude,—is one calculated...

T HIS Orton delusion is psychologically so curious, that almost any hint which may serve to explain it becomes interesting, and a reporter of the Daily News supplies one. He has...

T HE article on the above subject in this month's Fraser, which may be safely ascribed to the pen of Mr. Carlyle, will, we believe, be most justly apprehended if regarded as a...

BISHOP BAINES ON INFALLIBILITY. (TO TER EDITOR OF TER SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am sorry to be obliged to make any further claim on your space. I shall take care to avoid doing so...

I happen to be a regular reader of nearly all the ecclesi- astical journals published in the metropolis, I read with pain, as well as surprise, the following passage in your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,---Permit me to say a word on the subject of the Athanasian Creed, alluded to in your article on the Church, with most of which I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I saw an anecdote in your paper the other week illustrative of the sagacity of a dog. Kindly allow me to place upon record, as a kind of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPBOTATOR.1 noticed in a recent issue of the Spectator an article in - reference to Dr. Brown-Sequard's theory of the construction of the brain, which you...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sia,—As a native of the Forest of Dean "born and bred," who has taken a lively interest and an active part in all its affairs during the...

MR. PERCY GREG'S POEMS.* Mn. PERCY GREG'S verses are good or indifferent almost pre- cisely in proportion to the strain and tension of the sense of battle upon him while he was...

CLEOPATRA'S REPLY. I HA.VE a thousand slaves, 'tis true, Who somehow do their duty, And all the service left for you Is, to report my beauty. But 'tis a service which, to me...

'WHEN a few months since we called attention to Mrs. Senior's able report on the condition of pauper children, neither we ner our readers could have imagined the tempest that...

[SECOND NOME.] Is this great German commentary on our national poet, casual expressions (and to do Professor Gervinus justice, he always seems to have the play at his fingers'...

TDB Saskatchewan, or as we have heard it called, "the river with the unpronounceable name" — the name, we believe, signifies "the river that turns"—is so little visited, that an...

IT is impossible within the narrow limits of a review to con- vey any adequate notion of the wealth of knowledge, the copiousness of illustration, the discriminating estimate of...

Arthur Helps who, in his quietly paradoxical way, asserts that it is easier to praise those at a distance than those near at hand? " What ! prefer strangers to our own flesh and...

WE have always felt very strongly that no branch of English education has been so neglected, so ill-treated, and so misunder- stood as that of the really kindred subjects of...

—We cannot congratulate the writer on a successful effort. The sorrows. of one Get-trade Maskelyne are her theme, but how strangely does she contrive that these sorrows should...

The Great Army : Sketches of Life and Character in a Thames-side District. By the "River-side Visitor." 2 vols. (Daldy and Isbister.) —Some readers vill probably smile when we...

Davis describes his journey as "a visit to some of the ancient ruined cities of Carla, Phrygia, Lyda, and Pisidia." And it is true that he gives 501110 noteworthy details of...

poets" scarcely obtain that proportionate share in these columns which their numbers, if not their deserts, might claim. In truth, they are very difficult to criticise, except,...

—To review a history of England which includes the period "from the death of the Prince Consort to the Geneva Convention" would be to enter upon an almost unlimited number of...