29 JUNE 1867

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The inquiry into the Sheffield outrages has continued all the

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week, and every day makes the fact more clear that the " Execu- tives " of the Unions in the steel trade and brickrnaking trade either wink at or sanction all manner of...

Precisely similar was the drift of the debate on the

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proposal to extinguish freemen as a class, now that by far the greater number of them will be included under the household-rating Suffrage. Mr. Hardcastle proposed on Monday to...

Lord Eversley, Mr. Russell Gurney the Recorder of London, Sir

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Francis Crossley, Sir J. Duckworth, and Mr. Walter, are in- serted in the Reform Bill as the new Boundary Comrhis loners, to the general satisfaction of all parties.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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mHE Pope delivered an allocution t&400 Bishops on the 26th inst., in which he expressed his hope that he might, at thefitting time, summon a General Connell. We have explained...

The House of Commons passed the last clause of the

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Reform Bill on Thursday, but there remain some clauses Reposed by private members, and the schedules. The private, clauses have little chance, but there will be much debate oh...

There was a curious battle in the House last night,

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caused by Mr. Disraeli's having taken an engagement with Mr. Denman, M.P. for Taunton, to introduce a certain clause, and then afterwards, on finding a changed temper in the...

Colonel Wilson Patten has joined the Government as Chan- cellor

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of the Duchy of Lancaster. This is a great gain for the Government. Colonel Wilson Patten is a perfect type of the respectable, business Conservative, of judicious mind, and has...

Mr. Fawcett on Thursday made a gallant fight for his

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proposal authorizing candidates with less than two thousand a year to stand for Parliament. Re called it, of course, a proposal to throw the returning officer's expenses on the...

Mr. Bright made an acute observation yesterday week, in criticizing

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the constitution of the Boundary Commission as it was first proposed to the House, on the relative strength of party ties in talking members and silent members. Mr. Disraeli had...

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Mr. Lowe's claim to represent the University of London has

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been formally put forward since our last issue by a number of graduates, chiefly medical, who affect to make light of Mr. Lowe's not being a London University man. By a letter...

Lord Russell made a good speech against the Irish Church

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Establishment on Monday, moving for a Commission to inquire into the amount of property and revenues of the Established Church of Ireland, "with a view to their more productive...

The Master Tailors have taken a fresh and very unusual

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step against the men. They have indicted the leading members of the men's Executive Committee for a conspiracy to restrain them in their business, and the accused have been...

The Day has been this week in the Bankruptcy Court,

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and it appears that the paper was really started by leading Adullamites. Lord Grosvenor, Lord EU°, and Lord Lichfield subscribed 3,000/. to start it, to be repaid in a year if...

The delegates of the Trades' Unions assembled in London have

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passed resolutions denouncing the crimes committed at Sheffield, declaring that every Union implicated must be reconstructed, putting them in Coventry till this be done, and...

it is asserted that all the stories of the Archduke

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Maximilian's escape or banishment from Mexico are inventions, that nobody yet knows what his fate is to be, and that Mr. Seward finds the greatest difficulty in opening...

Lord Cairns, in reply, made a speech unworthy of his

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high reputation, being a mere repetition of the stock arguments. The Irish Church, he argued, was an unbroken Church, having become Protestant when the English Church did, and...

Mr. Grant Duff made on Friday se'nnight a very excellent

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though somewhat lengthy speech in favour of a plan for the more thorough education of Scotland. He would leave the parochial and denominational schools untouched, establish a...

Stephen J. Meaney, a Fenian, whose arrest was described by

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the Irish Secretary as most important, has been sentenced to 15 years' penal servitude. He made a singularly eloquent speech in his own defence, declaring that Lord Naas's...

The Globe has a curious and, we think, an intelligent

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sugges- tion for the reform of the House of Lords. It would postpone a Peer's majority as far as his seat is, concerned to thirty-one, leaving him ten years in which to strive...

The new Libel Bill has passed through Committee in the

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Com- mons, and will, we suppose, become law without further resistance. It will, we venture to say, be denounced within five years as the most dangerous relaxation ever made in...

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There was a curious instance of Irish jealousy and of

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Minis- terial timidity in the debate in the House of Lords on Tuesday on the Brown Trust. Mr. Brown, who was a lover of animals, left some time ago to the London University...

At the last meeting of the Council of the London

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Working Men's Club and Institute Union, the Secretary, the Rev. Henry Say, who is, in fact, admitted to be the chief originator of these Working Men's Clubs which have done so...

Mr. Leo Schuster has published his reply to the Report

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of the Committee of Investigation appointed by. the London, Brighton, and South-Coast Railway, who charged him with bad manage- ment and self-seeking. We have analyzed it at...

In the Stock Market during the week the prevailing character

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has been one of extreme dullness; even Home Securities have shared in the general depression, and business in every department has been much restricted. Consols on Monday were...

Mr. Disraeli was entertained at the Trinity House this day

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week, and in reply to the toast of Her Majesty's Ministers, congratulated Lord Stanley for about the sixth time in public on his Luxemburg guarantee treaty. He said that Lord...

Lord Houghton expressed yesterday week the embarrass- ment which a

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great many people, both Germans and Eng- lish, feel at the view taken by the Government of the nullity of the guarantee of neutrality given by us to Lux- -emburg, in case any...

The closing prices of the leading Foreign Securities yesterday and

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on Friday week are subjoined :— Mexican • • .. 17 Spanish Passives .. 24 Do. Certificates .. 14t Turkish S par Cents., 1358 .. .. so „ 18t2 • • .. 60 Uniie ' d...

Yesterday and on Friday week the leading British Railways left

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off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, -Tune 21. FrIdar, Jane IS. Great Eastern . .. Great Northern .. Great Western.. .. Lancashire and Yorkshire .. London and Brighton...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE APPROACHING EVENT IN ROME. I T is more than probable, it is almost certain, that one of the strangest scenes of an age fertile in strange scenes is about to transact itself...

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THE LORDS ON THE IRISH CHURCH.

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HE Lords are supposed to be anxious to justify their constitutional position, and the debate of Monday on the Irish Church is the sign they give of their political vitality....

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01JB RURAL RAILWAYS.

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I F Mr. Leo Schuster has failed in his management of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, it has cer- tainly not been for want either of courage or ability. The year...

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THE GODFATHER OF THE REFORM BILL.

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V ERY few people out of Parliament know how very large a share Mr. Henley has had in the production and the final shaping of the present Reform. Bill. Mr. Disraeli, clever...

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LIBERAL FAINT-HEARTEDNESS.

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T HE Daily News of Thursday, in a thoughtful but strangely timorous article, announces that it dreads the effect of Mr. Disraeli's Reform Bill. So do we, but we dread very much...

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BROADHEAD.

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IATE do not wonder at the interest with which men, and more especially men of cultivation, study the character of this man Broadhead, return to him again and again, analyze him,...

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MAID-SERVANTS' PARASOLS.

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MHERE is something rather striking, not to say pathetic, to our minds, in the satisfaction with which you see stout eountry lasses, who would no more think of shading their eyes...

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THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND.

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—C omits nen. Huntingfield, De Gatten, Be Challesfield, De Bramshott, De Bourne, Trussell, Apelderfield, Be Northwood (again), De Morton, De Cobham, De Consenton, Le Bland,...

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ART.

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• THE FRENCH PLAYS AT ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. T HE Freiich plays, which began according to promise on Mon- day night, opened with no small e'clat. The pretty little theatre was...

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LONDON "ROUGHS."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The late daring proceedings of part of the criminal popu- lation of London, which remind those old enough to have lived at the time of...

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B OOKS.

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THE SEVEN WEEKS' WAR" MR. HOZIER, whose letters to the Times from the head-quartets of the Prussian Army earned him such deserved reputation, has wrought up the loose material...

GREEK WINES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I should not presume to reply to the remarks of your critic respecting my little pamphlet on "Wine and its Adulterations," if those...

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BISHOP :PERCY'S FOLIO MANUSCRIPT.*

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THE new edition of the older part of Bishop Percy's Reliques of ' Ancient English Poetry will take all but a few students by sur- prise. It would ill become us to be...

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INGRES.*

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THERE are some strange delusions current about the relative position of French and English Art. The French have been roundly abusing the show of English pictures at the...

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THE PEACE OF AltISTOPHANES.* Anisrornsanzs is a phenomenon unique in

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literature. He com- bined real poetic inspiration with keen art and extravagant humour more fully than perhaps any other comedian, and he possessed also great satirical power,...

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Our Father's Business. By Thomas Gathrie, D.D. (Strahan.)—In those discourses

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Dr. Guthrie holds up our Lord to our constant imita- tion, and teaches us how we may ho truly engaged on our Father's business. The spirit of the work is practical, and the...

The Mystery of Growth, and other Discourses. By the Rev.

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Edward White. (Elliot Stock.)—Although Mr. White says that the discourses in this volume are not wholly disconnected from each other, there is no very evident link of unity...

Rig - Veda Sanhita. A Collection of Ancient Hindu Hymns, constituting? the

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Fifth Book of the Rig - Veda. Translated by the late H. H. Wilson, M.A., F.R.S. Edited by E. B. Cowell, M.A. (Trtibner.)—This is the fourth volume of the late Professor Hayman...

More than a Match. A Novel. By the anther of

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Recommended to Mercy. Three vols. (Tinsley.)—We are willing enough to recommend this novel to mercy, but we cannot give it a more favourable verdict. It is very loose and...

The Crown Peerage for 1867. Compiled by Edward Walford, M.A.

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(Hardwicke.)—Of making many peerages there is no end, and much study of them is weariness of the spirit. But Mr. Walford's compact little book is extremely useful, as it gives...

The Sermon . on the Mount. By the Rev. Walter C.

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Smith, M.A. (Edinburgh : Edmond= and Douglas.)—Of the contents of this volume Mr. Smith says modestly, "They are simply ordinary congregational lectures, which have had the...

The Resurrection and the Sabbath ; or, the Rest of

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the Seventh Day. (Westerten.)—The most remarkable thing about this book is that the- author should have kept it more than twelve years in manuscript. It is one of those strange...

A System of Biblical Psychology. By Franz Delitzsch, D.D. Trans-

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lated from the German, by the Rev. Robert Ernest Wallis, Ph.D.. (Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark).—In making this translation, Mr. Wallis has had to contend with peculiar...

Liter Librorum: its Structure, Limitations, and Purpose. A Friendly Communication

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to a Reluctant Sceptic. (Longman.) — This new vindica- tion of the Bible is written from the point of view of liberal Chris- tianity, which neither abandons all that is...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill. With a memoir by James Hannay. (Bell and Daldy.)—Messrs. Bell and Daldy are reissuing the "Aldine Edition of the British Poets," with,...

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A Supplement to the Old Testament ; or, an Endeavour

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towards the Recovery of the Book of Alm. By Alex. Vance. (Printed for private circulation for the author, by George Phipps.)—As Mr. Vance has done us the compliment of sending...

The Pill Book; or, Pills, Boluses, Globules, Grains and Granules,

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Phannacopoeial, Hospital, and Magistral; their Preparations, Formulas, Doses, Leading Uses and Synonyms, including Quack Medicines. By Arnold J. Cooley. (Hardwioke.)—Wo think it...

The Common Sense of English Orthography. By E. Jones. (Pitman.)

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—Like many other critics and teachers, Mr. Jones has been scandalized and embarrassed by the anomalies of the English language. He comes forward boldly with a short...