T HE extraordinary extent to which the German Emperor carries his disposition to concern himself with everything, has received a new illustration. His Majesty has addressed a...

Government and Newfoundland. The French are pushing their fishing rights under the Treaty of Utrecht with *inch energy, that the Newfoundlanders fear the loss of their lobster...

of a statement made to him by Prince Napoleon as to a conversation held by the Prince with Count Bismarck in 1866. The Prince declares that the Prussian Foreign Minister, as he...

specula- tion whether the result is due chiefly to local or to general causes. It proves beyond question that Birmingham and its neighbourhood is more heartily Unionist than '...

declared late on the evening of yesterday week, struck the front Opposition Bench a heavy blow. The Gladstonians had not any substantial hope of a victory, but they did hope to...

case,

had his eye injured by the violence of the opposite faction. At least, that is his own account of the matter. He was at the Victoria Hotel, Cork, in connection with the trial...

in the Scotland Division of Liverpool on Wednesday, which, at least in its calm and businesslike tone, forms a remarkable contrast to the speeches of both Parnellites and...

and aims in Africa. Broadly speaking, she claims Abyssinia and the Somali country down to Witu as her share ; and on the 24th inst. Marquis Rudini and the Marquis of Dufferin...

the spread of ether-drinking in the North-East of Ireland. We do not exactly see how it can profess to know the precise number of ether-drinkers in so many•counties, unless it...

can judge, the Parnellite candidate, Alderman Dillon, has even less chance than the Parnellite candidate had in Kilkenny, and will be beaten by a larger majority. Mr. Healy, in...

Memoirs are authentic. The Duo de Broglie, who edits them, is incapable either of forging or condoning a, forgery; but he did not receive the manuscripts from M. de Talleyrand'a...

published his Budget on Friday, March 20th. It is entirely satisfactory, except upon a single point. India is now one of the greatest financial States in the world, and the...

Italian language and literature ought or ought not to be included as one of the subjects in which candidates for the Indian Civil. Service may be examined. On the one side, it...

Friday week on the old proposal to open the British Museum and other galleries of Science and Art to the public on Sunday ; but nothing new was said upon the subject. The First...

Bedford College for Women in Baker Street on Tuesday, and was evidently well pleased to add distinction to a ceremony which promises to one of the earliest, most active, and...

of the situation in Chili, but it has not quite succeeded yet. On Saturday, it published an account of the origin of the Revolu- tion, from which it would appear that the...

New Consols (21) were on Thursday 961 to 96i.

English crowds, and it is pleasant to notice how bravely men of the same race behave if they have but a little discipline. It is evident from all the accounts, private as well...

out in the United States, and is almost as deadly as the cholera. In Chicago the deaths have risen to 150 a day, while 10,000 cases are reported from Pittsburg, and 2,000 from...

ASTON MANOR. W ILL Mr. Gladstone enlarge on the significance of the election at Aston Manor as he has enlarged on the significance of those by-elections at which the Glad-...

T HE rumour that Prince " Napoleon (Jerome)," as he usually signed himself, had deprived his son Victor not only of much of his pecuniary inheritance, but of his right to the...

to show that the strange spectacle which Irish politics have exhi- bited during the last four months, has at last worked itself well into the minds of the English working class,...

NOTHING demoralises like a long-standing grievance. its ts influence, communities, no less than in- dividuals, become truculent, suspicious, and unreasonable. To those...

W E wonder if the English people, - which thinks itself so democratic, will ever be induced to believe in the first principles of democracy. One of these certainly is, that...

honestly think the sale of alcohol immoral—are attributing far too much importance to the decision of the Lords in " Sharp v. Wakefield." That decision is no doubt important,...

Archbishop of York has begun his work early, and begun it well. The two days that followed upon his enthronement were given up to receiving deputations and addressing meetings,...

W E must leave the great lawyers to dispute with each other as to the legal accuracy of the decision in the Clitheroe case. They are by no means unanimous, we are told, a good...

T HE Daily News has been reproaching the English this week with their stinginess in buying books, and contrasting us in that way very unfavourably with the French. But is there...

S UPERSTITION is literally—as the dictionary would say —that which survives, the relic of what is dead or de- parted,—the skeleton of a religion, when its life and spirit...

AN IRISH MAIL-CAR DRIVER. FROM REAL LIFE. WE travelled lately through a portion of a Southern Irish county, as yet untapped by a railway, on a mail-car. The fare was...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — Your review, in the Spectator of March 21st, of " The Golden Bough : a Study in Comparative Religion," greatly interested me. In...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—So recently as the year 1874, a protessiouat gentleman in the South of Ireland made a will some extracts from which are hero given....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] 4 Stn.,—As one of " that unhappy, unfortunate, ill-starred abortion of a party, which is called the party of the Liberal Unionists," may...

THE JUDICIAL DILEMMA. [To THE EDITOR OF THE „ SPECTATOR. "] Sin, I regret that, in consequence of my time being much occupied, I did not see your interesting article on what...

A CHILD'S HAIR. A LETTER from abroad. I tear Its sheathing open, unaware What treasure gleams within ; and there— Like bird from cage— Flutters a curl of golden hair Out...

[To TRH EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR. " I SIR,—Will you allow me, through your columns, to draw attention to the advertisement which appeared in the Times of the 20th inst., of...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR," Sin,—Your reviewer (p. 420) of Canon Rawlinson's "Isaac and Jacob" has a strange idea of uncompromising Calvinism." He finds it in the...

THE OXFORD MOVEMENT.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THOSE who did not know the late Dean of St. Paul's, perhaps the ripest scholar among our Oxford divines, certainly the most accomplished...

KILIMANJARO, the highest summit in Africa, has long been an object of the highest interest to men of science and to mountain-climbers. The first European to see it, as far at...

(1.) April's Lady. By Mrs. Hungerford. 8 vols. London: F. V. White and Co.---I2.) A Bolt from the Blue. By Scott Graham. 3 vols. London : Sampan: Low and Co.—(3.) Glonenonwo....

and the philosophical couplets and quatrains and songs of that creation of his brain, "Mirza Schaffy," are familiar to the lips of all Germans ; and his translations and studies...

Bishop of Southwell" before 1884, when the diocese of Lincoln, once reaching over some half- dozen counties, was finally reduced, by the separation of Not- tinghamshire, to the...

THE Australian poet, Adam Lindsay Gordon, was unknown to the world during his life, and was recognised as a poet only a short time before his death. Under more favourable cir-...

Long.) —The style of this one-volume novel, which seems to be a first attempt, is simple and unpretentious ; its narrative substance is mildly melodramatic, and not a little...

Thai Fiddler Fellow. By Horace G. Hutchinson. (Edward .Arnold,)—The scene of Mr. Hutchinson's clever and well-written story is laid at St. Andrews, the metropolis of golf,—a...

V. White and Co.)—It is a pity that Mrs. Edward Kennard, who is really capable of doing something better, should have thought it worth while to spend months of time in writing...

of the excellent series of "The Fathers for English Readers." Mr. Eales begins with a graphically written chapter on " The States of Western Europe." The revival of learning and...

Stacey Gold ; Hamilton, Adams, and Co.) — Dr. Montgomery, formerly Vicar of Kennington, and now Bishop of Tasmania, put together, in such leisure as his pastoral work allowed...

(Black- wood and Sons.)—These chapters, the editor tells us, "have been taken from the notes of the self-taught naturalist, the author of ' Woodland, Moor, and Stream." Tho...

Co.)—Mr. Clement Scott, having seen and enjoyed many delightful places—having, as he confesses in his preface, helped to make them less delightful by writing about...

Press.)—Mr. Jerome seems to have attained the happy position of the favourite comedian who cannot move without exciting roars of laughter. We must own that to us his fun is...

the subject on which he writes thoroughly well. He has given a special attention to the history of the French dominion in India. In this history, Dupleix is the central, or at...

by Arthur M. Reeves. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a curious picture of Icelandic life, and, consequently, not with. out interest. From a literary point of view,...

Marston, and Co.)—Mr. Fotheringham, who is agent to the African Lakes Company, describes his book as a record of " a two years' struggle with Arab slave-dealers in Central...

Training the Mental Faculty. By Francis Warner, M.D. (Cambridge University Pross.)—Dr. Warner examines various educational problems from the medical point, of view. He...

was a happy inspiration in the Council of University College, London, that led them to appoint Dr. Moore to the Barlow Lectureship. Here we have another valuable pro- duct of...