ous and injudicious speech at Newton Abbott. He accused the Government of plunging Great Britain into a war without the previous consent and support of Parliament. Sir Stafford...

up currency for its own purposes, till the "tightness" of money brought down many firms who had been " financing " new Rail- roads till their own resources' were expended, and...

of M. (le Chambord,—that he dislikes the idea of reigning ; but it can hardly be correct, as in that case he has nothing to do but yield, Accept his summons, and abdicate in...

• B Y the latest telegrams, it would appear as if. the Chambord negotiation had again fallen through. It was reported, on authority, in the beginning of the week that the...

an English landlord would, we suppose, apart from his personal graciousness of character, be quite ready to hang up Mr. Arch, or Mr. Mitchell, or anybody else who proposed to...

by Sir G. Jessel's promotion. lie is an eloquent man, with great weight in the House, because he talks carefully down to it, and has a large practice at the Bar. lie is, of...

case.

of the Economic Section (to one part of which, that on the proposed league of capitalists, we have elsewhere referred at some length), remarked that the Economic Section ought...

crew of the Deerhound have been released, though not, apparently, the vessel itself; and the Murillo (which ran down the Northfleet) has been sent back into British waters, and...

have- been one of unusual interest. One of the ablest of the Presi- dential addresses was that of Professor H. J. S. Smith, the- Professor of Mathematics at Oxford, who presided...

the Pacific Railway Scandal in Canada. Sir Hugh Allan " admitted in his evidence paying an aggregate amount of $180,000 [say, £36,000] to the Ministers and their supporters for...

doubt but what the defeat is a signal one. It is true that in 1868 a Con- servative, Major Dickson, headed the poll with 1,461 votes to Mr. Jessel's 1,435 ; and that when Mr....

on the express invitation of Me, W. J. O'Neile Daunt, the President of the Home Rule Association, has written a letter (by no means for the first time) in favour of Home Rule,...

but it involves in appearance several very serious complications. The President, who has released the Deerhound and sent back the Murillo, and implores English aid against...

performed by a Captain of a man-of-war on his own quarter-deck was legal, and it may turn out to be so yet. Her Majesty's law .officers, however, having informed the Admiralty...

the "Thames Murder," the murder in which the remains of a woman have been found cut up distributed along the river. It is sug- gested that from the hellish ferocity displayed,...

dorsed a most dangerous letter on Indian finance. The Colonel, whose opinion is important in philology, but who has had no great experience in finance, says the Indian...

they are 'entering on a somewhat new phase. President Castelar is at last alone and absolute, the Cortes having departed, and all Spain having been declared in a state of siege....

meeting was held there under Lord Houghton's presidency to promote the higher education of women, at which the most admirable views were elaborated, but whether with the result...

and Sir Garnet Wolseley will shortly be on the spot with his staff, when matters will probably look a little less alarming, all force being concentrated for the one great...

two passengers, Messrs. Mount and Morris, who were on board the kidnapping vessel Karl, and had been sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude,—and who were certainly Murray's...

THE PROSPECTS OF THE MINISTRY. W E are not going to trouble ourselves to analyse the meaning of the Dover election. Mr. Barnett, a Tory, just now in Venezuela, a man of some...

T HE Restoration in France is certainly a little more possible this week than it appeared last, but it is very little. The situation, by the latest previous accounts, was of...

T HE necessity for the Ashantee War seems to be at last generally admitted, though for reasons which are almost farcical in their ineptitude. The King of Ashantee, a singularly...

natural that the wild attempts sometimes made to treat the whole labouring class as bound together in such a solidarity of interests as would justify the various Trades' Unions...

A PART from the extraordinary picturesqueness of the event—which, as it were, ends an Italian cycle, stretching from the day when the King of Piedmont swore to avenge his father...

O NE of the most carious survivals in modern jurisprudence is the power of imprisonment for Civil Debt, of which a small fragment is still legalised in this country. It is un-...

C ANON KINGSLEY preached last Sunday at Westminster Abbey on a part of the subject which seems to have agitated so much the Presbyterians of Dundee, —the right we have to expect...

T HE discussion on Tuesday, on the great Servant question, by the British Association, was very natural and very amusing, but did not tend, we fear, greatly to edification. It...

T HERE are certain watering-places which belong to particular towns, or to particular groups of population. Within the memory of living man, Bournemouth belonged thus to the...

OF THB " SPECTATOR. "] "But,—The courteous tone of the article in your number of the 13th inst., " The Roman Catholics on their Defence," emboldens me to 'beg to be allowed a...

ARCHBISHOP MANNING AND "THE SACRED HEART." ere THE EDITOR OF THB"SPECTATOR. "] • have just read your comments and those of the Guardian newspaper upon a statement made by me oh...

"SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—In your article on the "Religious Captiousness of the Day," . you add some new charges to the indictment the Spectator never seems to weary in drawing up...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—You will not refuse, I hope, to let me take exception to one passage in your article, " The Roman Catholics on their Defence," which...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The formation of School Boards in country districts, in' order to bring men of all creeds and classes to discuss and settle the best...

or ten farmers who rent the parish ; and lastly, the agricultural labourers and others who occupy a similar position to them. (Hundreds of parishes would, I believe, come under...

[TO TER EDITOR OF THS "SPECTATOR:1 thank you for giving me the credit which I claim of • being a sincere Liberal, and I feel honoured by the labour which :you have bestowed on...

Tory Parson" in his desire that the Clergy should give their support and sympathy to the "Agricul- tural Union," but do not see the necessity of a distinct missionary order of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SREOTILTOR.1 SIR,-Mr. Gairdner's letter in the Spectator of the 13th appearsr a little unreasonable. I have explained, in my letter in the Spectator of...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-It is no doubt extremely painful to an admirer of the Jesuits to find them twitted with an egregious blunder and a good deal of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In reproaching me with occasionally falling, in "Madonna's Child," into a confusion of metaphors, I am sure you had no intention to...

SARA COLERIDGE'S LETTERS.* THESE volumes, containing extracts from the correspondence of Coleridge's only daughter, who alone had the learning and the power to edit her father's...

a is not easy to say whether, if the brilliant author of Firmilian had lived till now, he would have read the Curse of immortality with pleasure. It would have gratified him,...

volume attains the dignity of a history, we can say that it is interesting for its matter, and its style full of life and humour. Every page is full of personages and events,...

WHATEVER complaints Ireland may have to make as to the attention paid her by British legislators, she has no complaint to make as to the attention paid her by British...

IN the month of August, 1866, the Hon. J. A. Kurson, at that time Chairman of a Committee of the American House of Repre- sentatives on Coinage, Weights, and Measures, addressed...

had been reduced to one, and that one had been severely revised, everything which does not relate to Africa rejected,.and all that does arranged with some- thing like system,...

it May Chaplet. By Kenelm Digby Baste, Priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Nori. (Washbourne.)—The interest of this volume, which consists in the main of translations from a...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—The biography of a man who has been for some years an admired preacher in a large town will always find a sufficiently numerous circle of readers. These...

Latin. By Cantab. (Partridge.)—" Cantab's " idea is a good one. Boys who have the groat object before them, so great, and, alas ! so difficult, of writing good Latin prose, may...

works which, as is the case with Life's Tapestry, announce themselves as " second editions." The words would seem to imply such an amount of success as makes praise or blame...

Baring-Gould. (Hodges.)—It is a somewhat singular fate that has allotted to Mr. Baring-Gould this task of compiling the Lives of the Saints. It is a work which makes a...

M.A. (Triibner.)—Mr. Palmer has hero reprinted in an abridged form, with "corrections and appendices," the translation of "The Travels of the Patriarch Macarius," published for...

H. Lee Warner. (Clarendon Press.)—We are unwilling to let this ex- cellent little volume pass without a special notice in the multitude of school-books which, so difficult is it...

1860-1872. By James Russell Woodford, D.D. (Masters.) —This volume derives a special interest from the promotion which has come to the author since its publication. Dr. Woodford...

King and Co.)—If but little known to the world at large, the authoress of this volume occupied a position of very considerable distinction in Penzance and its neighbourhood. It...

has been commended to our notice by the statement that it is the work of a domestic servant. Wo cannot honestly say that it shows genius, or oven ability'; but it is written in...

account of the different expeditions sent out to the Holy Land by the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund " since 1865, when the fund was established. Au introductory...