Derby took occasion to make his first deliverance' on the Suez-Canal affair. He minimised it to the last degree. He was quite pre- pared to defend the purchase in Parliament,...

little importance. The Turkish Government is appointing Councils of varions. kinds to carry out its promised reforms, which the insurgents only ridicule, and is straining every...

praised endowments for research, which he wished to see multiplied, and insisted on the right' of the State to recast the conditions under which charitable endowments are placed...

Edinburgh yesterday week, his chief theme being the advan- tages of culture, in that it sets a man free from the danger of attaching too much value to his own thoughts, or even...

Tt lections by the Assembly for the French Senate concluded Tuesday, and the result is almost exactly as we stated last e week. General de Cissey, M. Wallon, and General...

is still uncertain. As we understand the telegrams' froin the special correspondent of the Times and Sir W. Jervois, dated the 18th inst., General Colborne moved up the Perak...

case.

moored off Grays, in Essex, had on Wednesday 393 workhouse boys on board, all under trainin g for a seafarin g life, when she was discovered to be on fire. A paraffin lamp had...

justice on th ere Continent, that we must q uote the opinion of the Opinione ortA the recent action of this country in E g ypt. It considers that action evidence that En g land...

ironfounders and their men at Erith, has another strong article in favour of piecework, which is remarkable for this—that the- writer answers, and answers well, every argument...

the hi g h conditions imposed on schools by the London School' Board have practically broken up the Ra gg ed Schools of London, which used to account for some 80,000 street...

approachin g Calcutta, where a hu g e company of Chiefs and Princes awaits him, including Scindia, Holkar, the Maharajah of Travancore, and unless there is a mistake in the...

effort to terminate the Carlist war. General Jovellar, the Minister of War, has been sent into honourable exile as Cap- tain-General of Cuba, and is succeeded by General...

Leominster was taken from him, Ipswich would have none of him, and now Huntin g don is more than doubtful, Viscount Iiinchin g brook having preferred his own claim to the seat....

of Finance, believes the revenue this year will exceed £100,000,000 sterlin g , and be nearly £4,000,000 in excess of the estimates. Unfortunately the expenditure has risen in a...

that the President made the proposal to tax ecclesiastical property like all other property, partly on the ground that if left untaxed its amount might tempt the people to se q...

on the purchase of the Suez Canal, and he is in many ways a representa- tive man. He, on the whole, approved it. He raised the old point about the number of votes conferred by...

previously lodged in the hands of the Governor of Newgate a written statement, in which he acknowledged the justice of the punishment, and said he deserved it, though he did not...

resigned his seat for Huntingdon, owing to the blindness which caused his previous resignation of office, and we see with satisfaction the suggestion that he should be made a...

foreman, and the chief agent in discovering the murder and in causing the apprehension of the prisoner, was published in Monday's papers. On its conventional moral exhortations...

—a borough which be formerly represented in Parliament,—on Education, but, of course, he did not succeed in saying anything impressive on that exhausted subject. He revived for...

churchyards has been going on in the Times this week, and amongst the letters written has been a very admirable one by Mr. Llewelyn Davies, who argues very justly that it is not...

Wednesday by asserting that it was very doubtful whether, under the German law, the assassin Thomas, alias Alexander, the author of the Bremerhaven explosion, could have been...

LORD DERBY. C OULD we but really know it, it would be curious to com- pare Lord Derby's estimate of himself with the estimate of him formed by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. It...

Palmerston suffered for half his life on that account, and it was not until England wanted a man who would do too much, rather than too little, that she fully recognised the...

T HERE is hardly anything so puzzling in French politics as the panic into which Conservative Frenchmen fall on hearing certain propositions. Here, for instance, is M. Naquet's...

THOSE who saw from the beginning what would be the real 1 result of the last Reform Act have been waiting ever since tor some evidence that this result has not been a mere...

T ORD CARNARVON'S project for the Confederation of the J British Colonies, and if possible, of the Dutch Free States in South Africa, has taken a considerable step in advance....

W E are very much inclined to suppose that the letter which has appeared from Alfred Philip Stokes to his former employer, the murderer Wainwright, is not entirely his own...

TrniumE are no English Jews, properly so called. That is to say, there are no Jews in England—less than a hundred families possibly excepted—who have been here long enough to...

THE more one hears of Alexander, as the man Thomas or- Thomaasen, who intended to have destroyed the 'Mosel' on her passage to the United States, appears originally to have been...

THE SCOTCH UNIVERSITIES. LTO THE EDrfOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—As you have made a direct personal challenge to me in your article on the Scottish Universities, I trust you...

"There is a land of pure delight." — Wsrrs's Hymns, Bk. 2, Horn 66._ PULCHRA terra, pura terra Plena gaudiorum, Ubi coalitum paratur Regimen piorum Infiuita Lux avertit Noctem...

[TO THB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Some of your readers have doubtless noticed a curious trial at the late Warwick assizes, where a man was charged with the murder of an...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—Allow me to inform Mr. Whitman's admirer that " a pang of despair" (the words he imputes to me), and "a pang as of despair" (the words...

CHRISTMAS. UNDER green boughs our Christmas keeping, Bright berries fall, loved ones are sleeping, Dark shadows on our hearth come creeping ; Christ bids us smile, but we are...

THE HOUSE OF STAIR.* AsfoNO the great Houses- of Scotland, there are few which have so marked• and distinctive a character as the Dalrymples of Stair. In point of antiquity, as...

THERE are many painful chapters in the Annals of Mankind, but none is more so than the chapter which deals with belief in witchcraft, and the trials of those unfortunate...

Mr. Marshall's essay that there is much in it that is new, or even that the real student of Shakespeare, with Coleridge and Goethe on one hand, and the Variorum Notes on the...

MR. ROBERTS'S translations from English into French verse have a curious interest, apart from their unquestionable merits. An unusually ripe scholar himself, for whom Pinder has...

WE have read nothing by the Author of Mrs. Jerningham's Journal, though we believe we have read all her various lively stories, which seems to us so good as this. It is not that...

subject which offers more varied material for investigation than the cur- rency. " In money," says Monunsen, " four great forces con- verge,—the State, commerce, art, and...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. English Painters of the Georgian Era. (Sampson Low. Marston, and Co.)—It is a deplorable fact that the lives. development, and par- ticular merits of the great...

the Rev. C. Gray. 2 vols. (Rivingtons.)—We do not propose to do more than briefly notice the appearance of this book. To deal with it in detail would be to discuss some of the...

his- best, though he does not succeed when he wishes to be comic. But the first and last pieces of his volume, the "Border- . Raid," in which he visits the homes and haunts of...

Chester. (Mac- millan.)—The question of the celebrant's position probably does not admit of a complete solution, any more than does the problem of the quadrature of the circle....

Co.)—This is a novel of more than average merit. It is to be highly praised for the moderation, the truly artistic moderation, with which both character and incident are...

Household Edition. With Fifty-nine Illustrations by F. Barnard. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a good edition, in double columns, but in very largo, clear type, of one of Dickens's...

Press has issued a very clearly-printed and strongly-bound reference Bible, in an unusually solid binding, with clasps. It contains both Old and New Testaments, is fitted with...

' (Mackie.) —This handsome volume of more than five hundred pages somewhat resembles in plan the " Aikin's British Poets" of our youth. The authors included are, however, more...

The author has three young ladies to provide for, and finds them suit- able husbands, and what is more, contrives that his readers should care a little about the finding of such...

Character Davies makes "his fine old English gentleman" the occasion of some fine new English writing, which wo do not by any means admire. His opening sentence, which begins...

book, which goes over part of the same ground as the " Shake- speare Library," contains such Plutarch's Lives (as translated by North) as illustrate Shakespeare's plays. These...

J. Browne. (Arthur Hall.)—" While the clergy," says Mr. Browne in his preface, "preach what they believe, I state what I know." This wo find to be spiritualism, the revelations...

heard. many good jokes and good stories, as well as many bad and dull ones, in his life. Unhappily ha does not seem to see the difference between them. Hence a•book which, since...

of Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875. By Sir Patrick Colquhonn. (Clayton.) In this volume we have the Acts themselves, the orders and rules of Court, for which the editor...

(Longmans), is the second edition of a careful and complete work which seems to have met with some, at least, of the success which it deserves. Mr. Picton's first volume is "...

account of the principal antique and medians' remains of ivory-carving, by the editor of the series. These are principally Consular diptyche, whioh, by a little alteration,...

—This is a new edition of a volume which appeared a few years ago in the series of the Catena Classicorum. The introduction has been enlarged by a section in which the difficult...

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