once more broken. On 19th March, S. Figuerola in- troduced a Bill enabling him to conclude an agreement for a new loan of 110,000,000, which the Unionists en masse opposed. Prim...

the amendment by giving a very vague pledge, the exact drift of which it is not very easy to interpret. Ile admitted that the "conscience-clause" had proved a very...

non Harcourt, in a speech of considerable acerbity on the secularist side, asserting that the "bed of nettles," referred to by Mr. Lowe in his speech of last week, as exercising...

any case.

the Bonaparte trial. As far as we can judge, from a patient perusal of all the evidence, the assailants weaken their case by absurd violence, but the evidence points to three...

to Mr. Forster, stating that he is " sorry " to see Mr. Forster's great Bill for national education has met with opposition on the second reading ; but we rather fear, from the...

tf ROUHER has been intriguing to induce the Senate to thwart In. the Ministry by objecting to all their reforming Bills as un- constitutional, the Senate being by law "guardian...

the rejection of the Bill, and 427 (including the tellers) on the other side. The only Englishman who voted against the Bill was Alderman Carter, the so-called working-class...

of being bullied about his commutations of capital punishment. The last instance was that of Jacob Spinasa, who was respited, we imagine, on account of a doubt whether his act,...

we have given an extract from Sir Philip Wodehouse's speech to the Legislature of the Cape Colony on the subject of the process of separation which is going on in different...

reduce the two years' imprisonment to which persons are liable for carrying arms without licence to one year, but was defeated by 302 to 31; and another amendment, removing the...

keep deputations within reasonable limit under pain of death. The floors of rooms in the older public buildings were, he informed the House, only intended to bear a reasonable...

a Solicitor-General, even though Irish, to furnish the House with its best fun is quite a new function of a law officer of the Crown. In replying to Colonel Wilson Patten on...

and eloquent appeal in the Times against the Press clauses of the Coercion Bill. His great points are that the Bill enables the Crown to ruin the printing-office from which a...

friends that she wears high dresses of an evening, and expects the ladies who visit- her to do the same. In other words, the Empress, who has. hitherto been dictatrix in all...

Bill and on the clauses as discussed in Committee have been, in general, unreal and very dreary. On Monday, Mr. G. H. Moore, M.P. for Mayo, moved its rejection in a vehement...

was tried at Taunton on Tuesday. Mr. Perry, house agent of Weston- super-Mare, aged 69, asked Harriet Baker, aged 50, to marry him, but insisted all through the correspondence...

(Monseigneur Simor, Archbishop of Gran), in concert with four other Magyar prelates, has finally decided in favour of the definition of Papal Infallibility, and that the...

a good many Directors of Companies. Certain persons, among whom were Mr. Albert Grant, Mr. Harrison, Mr. Warner, Colonel James Holland, Mr. S. Stopford, Sir J. M'Kenna, Mr....

his denial that in a letter to Bishop Ullathorne he had 'characterized a certain combination bent on pushing forward the Infallibility definition as "an insolent and aggressive...

criminal system than the long preliminary imprisonments to which untried persons, and very often persons who ought never even to have been committed for trial, are subjected,...

not surprised to find. That he is without that practical sagacity which knows where to seek good advice even on a technical sub- ject, we are somewhat surprised and extremely...

to put the local celebrity far above the other two in the poll, to put the Metropolitan celebrity, Mr. Kirkman Hodgson, Ex-Governor of the Bank of England, second, and Mr....

up a scheme for the government of the whole Metropolitan District such as they could agree to and support. This scheme will be submitted to the Committee, which is to report on...

THE EMPEROR'S LETTER. T HE Emperor of the French has accepted Constitutional Government. After his letter of the 21st inst., addressed to M. 011ivier, it is impossible for him...

L ORD GRANVILLE'S Colonial policy would be, whether a wise policy or not, at least a boldly-conceived and most important policy, if he would be more frank with Parliament and...

T HE Liberal party have made a good deal of rather effective use from time to time during the discussion on Irish policy, and especially during the discussion on the Irish...

W HAT is the ideal of the gentlemen who are perpetually asking Government to reform the Diplomatic Service, we mean of those who desire a radical change, but do not demand its...

O N Wednesday, as usual, the House of Commons resolved itself into a kind of Convocation. The question before it was the right of a Dissenter to be buried in the parish...

%TR ALFRED AUSTIN, a critic of some cleverness, who has in expressed in unmeasured terms a profound contempt for the present writer, terming him "an ignorant and presumptuous...

MOST people, were they asked to give a reason for their IU religious observance of the first day of the week, would answer, we suppose, that a divine commandment given to the...

[FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Tours, Indre et Loire, March 23, 1870. No large French town, at a time when party spirit runs high, is better circumstanced for a session of...

THE "RELIGIOUS DIFFICULTY" AND THE EDUCATION BILL. [TO THE Eorroa OF THE "SPECTATOR?] SIR,—The Government having expressed their willingness to place such restrictions upon...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR."] Anglicanus " inquires very courteously who is the mem- ber of the Broad-Church party described by me in a recent artide- in Fraser's...

Education Bill with regard to religious teaching seem to be based on the assumption that the (so-called) Conscience-Clause which it contains is a sufficient protection to the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Could you grant me the space of a very few words to state one or two points of secular misunderstanding in reference to the Education...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your article on the above subject contains an error which has also crept (in various degrees) into some other London papers, and which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have seen with much satisfaction your remark on the amwise Irish caricature in last week's Punch. A friend of mine, who knows Ireland well...

MR. ARMITAGE'S WALL-PICTURES. EVERYBODY who henceforth visits University Hall, in Gordon :Square, must feel obliged to Mr. Armitage for admission to one -of the most delightful...

LETTERS OF SIR G. C. LEWIS.* Tins volume will, we fear, give a severe blow to that cult us of Sir- George Cornewall Lewis which the Old Whigs have ever since his- death been...

A HOPE. "WHAT end bath Love,—Love that is Love indeed,— Greater than love of love or love's sweet aid ? If she be wounded, how her heart doth bleed! Would she not gladly...

the feeling is very much what it is after a long journey, in which the scenery was at first rugged and ugly, then for a time rich and beautiful, and then during the final and,...

describing the plan of this- " lecture," writes thus :— " After a while, without wish or contrivance of mine, friends provided that my lectures should be reported ; so, from...

critic, a careful observer, and, on the whole, an interesting writer. We give him this last title with some abatement, for a good deal of his work is unnecessarily dry, and his...

• A Memoir of the it Henry Hoare, Ke7., M.A., with a Sarratire of the Church Move- ments with which he was connected from 1945 to 1865, and more particularly of the Revival of...

Italian Painting as a University Study"). By Herman Grimm. (Berlin, printed by G. Reimer.)—These pages, extracted from the introduction to a forthcoming edition by the...

El Rashid further West." He makes acquaintance with the Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Augusta Webster, Dr. Horace Bushnell, Dr, Dyer, " Vampire " in the endeavour to avert a curse which...

in his preface that he is not aware that there is any Twelve Wonderful Tales told in Rhyme. By W. Knox Wigram. statement in these pages which will be called in question by any...

their current ideas of things in what Mr. Tainsh writes which command respect. He is the future —and in conversation with her niece, Aunt Winifred, patiently always manifestly...

England into ridding herself of them. Our surprise was if possible one is disposed to give to a tale which is not obviously of the first rank greater when we found the...

years hence whether or no ho is a "well-instructed student," the writer is disposed they may be inserted among the "Ingoldsby Legends," and puzzle all to call in question not a...

exhibited in the Academy of "Roman Ladies at a Gladiatorial Show "), brother, becomes the victim of alternate misplaced censure and con- showing two female heads of rare beauty,...

Low.) —These are posthumous papers by a very young man who was only twenty-three when he died, and though they show both taste and intel- ligence, they are not of much value;...

Edited by Students. (Maclehose, Glasgow.)—The "Glasgow Album" may very well bear comparison with any University periodical that we have seen of late. The papers are solid and...