26 SEPTEMBER 1874

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The Coroner's inquest on the Norwich, or rather the Thorpe

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railway accident has ended in a verdict of manslaughter against both the night-inspector, Mr. Cooper, and the telegraph-clerk, Mr. Robson. That verdict was, indeed, inevitable,...

We regret to hear that Mr. Disraeli's visit to Ireland

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has been postponed, and we still more regret the cause,—a sharp attack of bronchitis, caught during his visit to Scotland, which has led his physician to forbid his making any...

The only important rumours of the week have concerned the

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relations of Russia to Germany and Denmark. The Tagespresse, of Vienna—which has been already contradicted from Copenhagen, where the rumour of any proposal to merge Denmark in...

We notice elsewhere Lord Dufferin's very remarkable speech at Toronto,

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a speech distinguished not only by an eloquence of singular brilliancy and compass, but by the racy good-sense of its statesmanship, its humour both subtle and homely, and its...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE newspapers have continued to appear during the week, but they have not contained news, unless letters on Indian Archmo- logy, the reports of meetings of Associated Chambers...

V' The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

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Profellor Fawcett, in a letter to the morning papers of

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last Tuesday, asserted that in Wiltshire the farmers had decided among themselves to lower the wages of their labourers from 12s. to lls, a week, on the strength of the good...

The Emperor of Germany has been well received at Kiel,

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where he has been present at the ceremony of christening a new iron- clad, and has given it the name of Frederick the Great.' The Emperor must have a larger faith in the power...

The second ballot for the vacancy in the Department of

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the Maine-et-Loire is to take place to-morrow,—not last Sunday, as was wrongly stated,—and the Republicans are very san- guine of success, notwithstanding the fact that the...

We are assured by a letter] in Monday's Times that

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a large school of 150 boys has been officially inspected, under the Con- joint Universities' Scheme, for no larger a sum than £37,—i.e., at a cost of about 5s. a head,—and we...

Midhurst has returned as its Member, without opposition, Sir Henry

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Thurston Holland, the eldest son of the late eminent traveller and physician, Sir Henry Holland. The new Member is, of course, a Conservative, but evidently one of those...

The Berlin Correspondent of the Times, who must be, as

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Arch- bishop Manning declares, "a wag," published in Monday's issue a confession of faith which, according to him, Augustus II., Elector of Saxony, was persuaded to sign on July...

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The Pall Mall Gazette of Wednesday evening publishes an animated,

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but not, we venture to think, quite well founded or reasoned, attack on the financial administration of New Zealand, by a gentleman who has been for the last six years resi-...

As we ventured to anticipate some weeks ago, it is

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now obvious that both the Castalia ' and the ' Bessemer ' will be too late, even if they succeed, to save any considerable num- ber of the tourists of the present season from...

Sir Stafford Northcote made a sensible speech on Wednesday, in

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distributing the prizes of the Devon County School. He enlarged on the difficulty of doing any good in a work like education by mere legislation, without the active help of...

A correspondent of more than one of the morning papers,

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Mr. E. F. Flower, has been descanting with great force and good- sense on the absurdity of bearing-reins, a part of the harness which has no effect on the horse except an...

On Wednesday, Mr. E. W. Pugin was convicted by a

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jury—who found their verdict after deliberating for two minutes in the box —of a series of "false, scandalous, and malicious" libels on the character of a man whose name is not...

The new charges against Mr. Beecher brought by the last

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snail from New York are still more revolting than any of which we had as yet heard, and the details of some of them at least, —especially those which accuse him of silencing Mr....

There has been a controversy going on for some time

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whether the Alpine flower Edelweiss grows exclusively in " dangerous " places. We ourselves can settle it, because the present writer is not an Alpine Clubinan, and never went-...

Consols were on Friday 921-92f.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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LORD DCIThRIN ON THE DOMINION AND THE EMPIRE. T ORD DUFFERIN delivered at Toronto, on the 2nd JL,1 September, after his return from an excursion into Western Canada, a speech...

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THE EUROPEAN ATTITUDE OF GERMANY.

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THE statement of the Tagespresse, of Vienna, that over- 1 tures had been made to Denmark with a view to her absorption into the German Empire,—the bribe offered being the...

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CARLLST RETROSPECTS AND CARLIST PROSPECTS.

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D ON CARLOS and his friends are very proud of their exploits during the last thirty- months, but they have still much to accomplish before their successes rival even those...

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A 'WEEK'S " CUL.UUE-KAMPF " IN PRUSSIA.

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F 111±1 " Combat of Culture" is the modestly self-appreciative I_ designation which the powers-that-be in Prussia, from Prime - Ministers to policemen, are wont to employ to...

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THE CONDITION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES.

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THE sudden extinction of the White Revolt in Louisiana has extricated the Federal Government from a perplexing dilemma. To have suppressed the insurrection by force would have...

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THE "PALL MALL" ON EVOLUTION.

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T HERE is a certain writer in the Pall Mall Gazette who would compare well with the most powerful of the so-called "giants" of the old days,—to use Macautay's expression,—in the...

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M. GUIZOT AND THE FAILURE OF FRENCH PROTESTANTISM.

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TT would be interesting to hear what M. Thiers, M. Renan, 1 and M. Taine thought of M. Guizot's fervent Protestantism. His great political rival had the best of grounds for...

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THE ORIENTALISTS' CONGRESS.

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T HE Congress of Orientalists has been a successful example of the International meetings now coming into vogue. These gatherings do not act upon the multitude on the huge scale...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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A HOLIDAY IN YORKSHIRE.—I. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,-I know you are from of old a believer in the value of complete change, and think a foreign holiday a truer...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE OLD CATHOLICS. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:] Sis,—May I be allowed to make two or three remarks on your article relative to the Old-Catholic Conference at Bonn ? 1....

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THE IRTSH CHURCH BODY. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

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Sra,—I did not see the Spectator of the 12th till some days after publication. "J. S. G." speaks of the "so-called Representative Body of the Church of Ireland." The formation...

SONNET.

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[To THE BLIND ARCHITECT OF THE CITY OF LIFE, WHOSE RUMBLE HONES ARE THE CREATURES OF EARTH, WATER, AND AIR, AND WHOSE NIETTNO-HOUSI" IS MAN.) How true thy work, blind Builder...

INSPECTION OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I regret that my letter last week, which you kindly in- serted, was partly based on a misconception as to the scope of the "Oxford and...

A CORRECTION CORRECTED.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 5111, —In reply to "A. R. W.," I beg leave to say that I have stated nothing in my letters as fact that rested on rumour. In speaking of...

GRATI'AN'S PROPHECY.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—In your last week's summary you allude to Grattan's prophecy to the effect that Ireland would yet send a hundred rascals into the House...

How soon Man's ray of science spent Dead in the

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circling darkness falls ',— As the pale light to prisons lent Expires upon their murky walls. The captive's lamp, that flickering shows His cell's dim vault and dusky floor,...

ERRATUM.—ID last week's Spectator, in the linos headed, " Numori

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Loge Soluti," tho seventh line from the end should have read," And all sorts of delicate joukery-pawkery."

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THE BEST OF HUSBANDS.*

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THE hitherto anonymous author of Lost Sir Massingberd is one of our most prolific novelists, but he is free from the commonly. besetting Bin of facile and frequent writers,—he...

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SCOTCH BALLADS AND SCOTCH CHARACTER.* DR. MURRAY, who is Professor

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of Mental and Moral Philosophy in McGill College, Montreal, states that this prize essay represents the fruit of studies in which he has been accustomed to find • relief from...

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N EU-JUDAISM.*

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IF the author of Judaism Surveyed be indeed, as he apparently claims to be, a representative of any considerable section of the Jewish people, it must be said that his...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Portfolio. September. (Seeloys.)-- The frontispiece of the Portfolio for this month is a fine etching of one of Gainsborough's very best portraits, "Orpin, Parish Clerk of...

The Story of the Plebiscite, told by One of the

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Seven Million Five Hundred Thousand who voted "Yes." From the French of MM. Erck- mann-Chatrian. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—This is a tolerable, but not an excellent translation of...

Old-Fashioned Stories. By Thomas Cooper. (Hodder and Stoughton). The best

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and most characteristic of these stories are those which, as the author says in his preface, describe the "old Lincolnshire" of forty or fifty years ago. The tale of "The...

The Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, with a Memoir of

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the Author, a Collection of An7, and Ten Chalk Drawings. Edited by F. Stainforth. (Chau° and Windus.)—When we have said that this is a convenient-sized book and well-printed,...

The Englishman's Illustrated Guide-book to the United States one Canada.

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(Longmans.)—It will very seldom be within the power of a reviewer to criticise a guide-book effectively. At the most, he can but test a very limited portion. We shall content...

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Notes on Surgical Nursing. By J. H. Barnes. (Churchill.)—This invaluable

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book is a condensation from a short 'course of lectures delivered at the Training School for Nurses in connection with the Liverpool Workhouse, an institution thus briefly...

Barbara. By Louise Clarisso Reynolds. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.) —There

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is a fashion in plots, as in other things. Tale-writers, of late, have been inclined to a combination of this kind :—A. young ward and a middle-aged guardian cherish for each...

"B," an Autobiography. By E. Dyne Fenton. 3 vols. (Sampson

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Low and Co.)—We cannot say much either for the good-taste or the ability of this book. B," the supposed author of the autobiography, does not contrive to tell us much about...