M GAMBETTA has fallen. The great debate on Revision • came off on Thursday, and with the exception of M. Gam- betta's own speech, proved a very dull one. The Premier himself,...

attack upon the Prussian Rescript, which called up Prince Bismarck, who, in a speech of extraordinary vigour and violence, reiterated all the ideas of that document. We have...

sufficiently noticed. Prince Bismarck spoke, as usual, of the necessity of Royal power in a kingdom like Prussia, hemmed in on all sides by first-class armies ; and Herr von...

will scarcely terminate his power, and his journal calmly asks how long the next Ministry will last, and how long this Chamber itself will be permitted to endure. President...

case.

Lord Zetland's and Admiral Chaloner's defection, with the Duke of Cleveland's malevolent neutrality, and Lord de Grey's indifference to the Liberal cause in the absence of Lord...

Burton on Saturday, in which he twitted the Conservatives with the excessive personality of their harangues. They resem- bled, he said, rough cricketers who lose their temper,...

he spoke of the quantity of blank-cartridge fired off by Conservative speakers, "from the heavy ordnance of Hatfield, down to the popguns and peashooters of Woodstock."...

the Liverpool City Reform Club on Parliamentary procedure, in which, to our thinking,—though we speak without having heard all that may be said for the proposal,—he ac- corded...

in answer to a recent criticism of Lord Henry Lennox's, on the present state of the British Navy. Accord- ing to Lord Henry Lennox, the British Navy at present con- tains 236...

the new public library of St. Alban's, a speech which contrasts very pleasantly with the extraordinary farrago of personal virulence and twisted history which he polished up...

constituents that in 1880 Lord Grey had commented on the very alarming state of Ireland after six years of Con- servative rule, though Lord Grey took care to say that he feared...

Tuesday, discussed the assertion that the situation in Ire- land was all due to the advent of the Liberals to office. In 1874, when the Tories came into power, there were but...

a verdict of guilty. The case was one of the simplest character, nobody questioning the fact of murder, and the only dispute being as to the prisoner's sanity ; but it has...

re- ported by Wednesday's Times, appears to have shown that the crustaceans care for light as light, much as we do, but do not show more preference for one colour than another,...

rumour that preparations for insurrection have been discovered in county Clare, and that the Government believes the move- ment to be very wide-spread. Beyond the despatch of...

but nothing can be accurately known till the end of next week. If, on the settlement which then takes place, the great broking corporations, for they are not mere brokers in the...

from Vienna, but the despatch of troops to the south-east still continues, and officers of the highest grade, never employed unless armies are moving, are rapidly leaving the...

Dr. Abrath and Michael AlacMann for conspiring to defraud them, by trumping up a false assertion of injury inflicted on the latter by means of a railway accident. Their case...

THE FALL OF M. GAMBETTA. W E are not strong partisans of M. Gambetta, but we con- fess to a certain sense of dismay at his fall from power. The occurrence betrays the strength...

W E have read the Quarterly article attributed to Lord Salisbury's inspiration with much more sadness than annoyance. To us it is a rather new thing, and a very depressing...

B ELIEVING the ultimate triumph of Liberalism to be as certain as the victory of good over evil, we are never concerned to deny or extenuate temporary disasters, and we think...

T HE extraordinarily dramatic scene in the German Reichstag on Tuesday leaves the situation in Germany, if that be possible, more inexplicable than before. Prince Bismarck,...

T HE letter from Mr. Albert Dicey which we print else- where gives some pertinent advice to Liberals. They are "deeply concerned," he says, to "protest in every possible manner...

T HE most extraordinary fact about speculative manias is that they ruin so many prudent people. Take the mania now in process of collapse in France. There is strong reason to...

W E sometimes doubt whether the world's belief in Science is quite so genuine as it seems. Here is Mr. Proctor, whose astronomical authority and ability nobody doubts, has told...

T HE plain truth has never yet been spoken upon the case as it stands between shorthand writers and public speakers. But in the meanwhile, sufferers like "P. C. W.," who wrote...

LORD LYTTON'S CHARACTER OF MR. JUSTICE O'HAGA.N. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—We have not all been to Calcutta of late years, and so many may not recognise the...

or THE "sprcremoR.1 SIR,—At last, and not a day too soon, a meeting has been con- vened to protest against the monstrous cruelties and, still more, monstrous injustice...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The attitude which the Spectator has for some time past taken concerning the Jews seems to have reached a culminating point in last...

SIR,—" An Irish Barrister" challenges me to produce one solitary instance of the sale of fee-simple land in the Irish Landed Estates Court at so low a price as ten years'...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The prices obtained in the open market for Irish estates may easily be ascertained from the returns published as Par- liamentary...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stu,—Your review of the Life of Mr. Lowder contains a reference to the legend that during the East-London outbreak of cholera in 1866 some of...

SIR, — While I seem to see that Father Clarke's and your own apparently opposed thoughts are both essential to any true con- ception of the glory of God, may I venture to...

significant comment upon the subject of which Father Clarke has written so eloquently, in the apprecia- tive article on the life and work of Mr. Charles Lowder con- tained in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have no wish to embark on a religious controversy in the columns of the Spectator, but I hope you will allow me to state, as briefly...

"'ET(IIIIMEYTE." WE walked among the woods in spring, When earth was fair to see, With bluebell and with cherry bloom And white anemone. Then one of us, I think, forgot The...

[To THE Eraron OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—In a letter with the above head, signed "C. W. Gibraltar," in your number of the 14th inst., I see the following sentence "The only...

MR. WATTS'S PAINTINGS.* [SECOND NOTICE.] THE larger works of Mr. Watts in this gallery suffer from the- comparative perfection of the smaller ones. There are eight or tem...

SIR,—lt may be of interest to quote one of the most recent utterance of M. Renan, with reference to the connection of Christianity with Judaism. The matter of fact does not...

MR. KINGSLEY AS A NOVELIST.* THERE will doubtless be many readers of these well-known and well-loved novels. Contemporaries of Mr. Kingsley, who applauded him or abused him as...

these interest- ing lectures which may serve as the thread for what we have to say of the few detached criticisms which we desire to signalise in Mr. Shairp's lectures,—which...

[FIRST NOTICE.] Tins is a most valuable collection, not only to musicians, but to all lovers of ballad poetry likewise, since many good national songs are rescued from oblivion...

WE shall watch the result of Messrs. Longmans' speculation in this book with great interest. They have resolved to try whether the old method of publishing novels is compatible...

"THERE are certainly a deuced number of Englishmen still left in London," is the paradoxical remark which opens an interest- ing pamphlet on the condition of what may be called...

THIS generation has not proved so wise, even in education, as it was once disposed to think itself. The old methods, which trusted a good deal to the memory, and gave the...

The Expositor. Edited by the Rev. Samuel Cox. Second Series. Vol. II. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The contents of this volume are as interesting as usual. Dean Plumptre contributes...

(C. Kegan Paul and Co.)—The greater part of Hiss Naden's verse is of the serious kind. It shows occasional eloquence, good-taste, fair metrical skill, but hardly melody in any...

Blackett.)—The first of the three volumes is certainly not the best, though it gives promise of the very considerable excel- lence which the latter part of the tale developes....

Verse, for Unprepared Translation. Arranged by the Rev. P. J. F. Gantillon. (James Thornton, Oxford.)—This is likely to be a very useful book. The passages cover a wide range of...

James Spedding. With a Prefatory Notice by G. S. Venables. (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Spedding wrote this work, which is a detailed examination of Lord Macaulay's famous...

Paul and Co.)—Mr. Crozier hopes, by the aid of the suggestions thrown out in this book, with its rather ambitions title, to "unite religious thinkers of all classes in a common...