• coast, on Wednesday night. The Northfleet, an emigrant ship, bound to Hobart Town, carrying chiefly navvies for the con- struction of railways in Tasmania, was lying. off...

the Thirty has resulted in a compromise to be proposed by M. Broet. The President is to have the right of " taking part in those Inter- pellations which have for their object a...

on his way at Berlin, where it is said he has declared him- self quite satisfied with the result of his negotiations. It is evidently his cue to say this, and it is also...

when the address will be moved in the Commons by the Hon. C. J. Lyttelton (M.P. for East Worcestershire), and seconded by Mr. Stone, M.P. for Portsmouth. If we may judge by a...

frHE Imperialist party assembled at Chislehurst have made a virtue of necessity, and as we predicted last week, agreed on a policy of delay. The programme put forth of course...

Lord Lytton, the novelist, dramatist, orator, and poet, died at Torquay, after a brief illness, aged sixty-seven. He is buried to-day in Westminster Abbey, an honour deserved by...

case.

have lately been stumping the country on behalf of the Claimant, were on Tuesday brought before the Court of Queen's Bench for contempt. They were charged with having at public...

held at Leeds on Friday week, was marked by an important in- cident. A distinct proposal was made to federate all the Trades' Unions in England—including, it was said, about...

might he called, by an analogy taken from. Luther's no less popular treatise De Servo Arbitrio) are much stronger than we knew last week. The most important of them,—the effect...

strike " district of South Wales have not been removed, and re- monstrates against what he thinks our harsh opinion of the masters, who, he says, are still giving medical...

the week,— that of the Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel, chiefly distinguished for the noble conscientiousness which induced him to give up his living in the Church of England and...

suddenly at the Euston Hotel on Saturday morning. He had been dining with the Duke of Sutherland on the previous night, and returned late, apparently quite well ; but about 3...

Arches andthe Admiralty Court, died on Monday morning, in his ninety- second year, at his seat near Oakham. He was born seven years before the great French Revolution, and only...

about wages if the men will consent to the double-shift system, that is, to let the work be done by relays of seven hours each. This would make the out-turn so large that the...

Dr. Gottfried Hessel, the chaplain of the German emigrant ship Wangerland, stationed of Ramsgate, is in custody on the charge, evidently a completely mistaken one. The...

Queen's Bench on Thursday that the Parks' Act passed last Session gives the Commissioner of Works power to issue any regulations he pleases upon any subject within the Parka,...

dress to his Tavistock constituents on Wednesday evening, in which he made some admirable remarks on the danger of subventions to local burdens out of the central taxation of...

a meeting of the Farmers' Club and Chamber of Agriculture of Lancashire on Saturday, a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Scotson, of A igburth, for a lecture in which he...

among other property Turkish bonds worth £4,500 in the hands of a servant named Ann Pasco. She said he had given them her for herself and children, and intricate as her story...

six Communists from the fortress of Port Louis, between Brest and La Rochelle. The writer says that he and five companions discovered a way from their dormitory to a cellar...

late case of tunding, have come to no particular result. They have, however, written a minute to say that the particular victim of this case ought not to have been tunded, that...

THE NEW PRUSSIAN STATE RELIGION. 1T E trust that English and Scotch Nonconformists will carefully study the astounding provisions of the new religious legislation of Prussia....

T HE " scene " at the Birmingham School Board, to which we referred very briefly last week,—the cross-examina- tion of candidates on the subject of their intended religious...

T HE Tory party and the House of Commons have sustained a great loss in the death of Mr. S. R. Graves, the senior Member for Liverpool. He was perhaps the very best speci- men...

rill4ERE is a new article of commerce in the market, and it 1 is a very odd one. According to a telegram from New York, which appears to be true, a company of American...

T HERE is a stumbling-block in the way of all land reforms whatever, and indeed all reforms affecting the law of property, over which, we can see quite well, a great many...

T HE terrible event off Dungeness by which over 300 people lost their lives is even the more terrible, because it happened through the deliberate and culpable neglect of some...

'4' D E mortals nil nisi bonum" is a good-natured, if not very sound rule, but we seem juat at present to be pushing good- nature rather far. It may be wise to be kindly to a...

I T is seldom that an appointment to a Scotch Theological Professorship can be of any interest to a non-Scottish public. The several sects into which Presbyterianism in Scotland...

THE EDUCATION LEAGUE AND THE " TWENTY- FIFTH CLAUSE." (To THE EDITOR OF THB "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—To establish a charge of inconsistency against the chief means of education then...

[TO THE Emma OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 aSin,—All classes, from the peer to the peasant, have good cause to thank you for your distinct utterance upon land-law reform. The --subject...

on " The Radicals and the Land," in the number of the 11th inst., you state one of the aims of the Radicals to be to establish free-trade in land, and to make it saleable as...

"SPECTATOR.") SIR, —In your paper of last week you have made a mistake which I should be glad to correct. You express dissent from the pro- position which was moved at the Leeds...

[TO THE EDIT9It OF THE SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Will you permit me to add to your notice of Bishop Bekynton's life one fact, which is, I think, of some present interest and...

THE LATE MR. CHARLES BUXTON.* • Notes of Thought by the late Charke Buxton, M.P. Preceded by a Biographical Sketch, by Bev. J. Llewelyn Davies, M.A. London : John Murray....

HERE is the ideal book of travel in Spain ; the book which exactly anticipates the requirements of everybody who is for- tunate enough to be going to that enchanted land ; the...

of Algernon Sydney and his brave and digni- fied demeanour at the trial and on the scaffold have secured for him an immortal name. It is in no grudging disparagement of his...

THOSE fortunate book-hunters whom visions of rare Elzevirs and dainty Amsterdam classics have drawn down the Paris quays, from powerful manifestations passionless and cruel. The...

2 vols (S. Tinsley.)--The artistic defect of this tale is the number of threads which the author weaves together for his plot. Again and again he begins at some fresh place,...

the impressions formed by her Majesty's Secretaries of Legations abroad of the countries in which they reside. Useful, though dry, contributions to Blue- 4books, in the shape of...