intending to murder Prince Bismarck, really did write to the Archbishop of Paris, offering to kill the Chancellor for £2,400, and that there is no law to,punish him. The Belgian...

comes from a correspondent of the Indian Dally News, Calcutta, and shows that the King is amicable, that he denies all share in the attack on Colonel Browne's expedition, and...

of their Savings-banks Bill. It was read a second time by consent without a division before Whitsuntide. But on Thursday Mr. Fawcett moved, as an amendment on the motion for...

?THERE has been much talk of another crisis in France, but it is improbable that it will come to anything. The Cabinet desire to supersede election by departments by election...

Majesty's Government have advised Her Majesty to make any representation to the Govern- ments of France and Germany on the subject of the relations existing between those...

the Govern- ment in the shape of an amendment to Sir S. Northcote's Public Works Loan Act Amendment Bill, declaring that the Government had not redeemed its pledges about local...

case.

has never returned a Liberal. At the last election, Mr. W. Fuller Maitland received 1,036 votes, and the Hon. G. C. Morgan, Tory, 1,594; but this time Mr. Fuller-Maitland...

telegram to the Pall Mall Gazelle, he has issued an order dissolving the Press Bureau, out of displeasure at its indiscretions during the recent war panic. He is right. A...

Government were prepared to remedy the grievance of the Bengal Civil Service described elsewhere. Lord G. Hamilton, in reply, stated that the Government admitted a hardship, but...

friend on the Revivalist - movement of Mr. Moody, which is very just in its appreciation of Mr. Moody's aims, but a little too mild and cautious in its guarded treatment of his...

late Gnicowar of Baroda has been allowed to select the eldest of three of his sons, Gopal Rao by name, to be the new Guicowar. The statement is not very intelligible—though the...

Monday he gave the Prime Minister a very effective rap by beg- ging the right hon. gentleman to inform the House "whether he had had time to make up his mind as to whether he...

discussion in the House of Commons on the desirableness of having the Com- merce and Agriculture of the country attended to by a principal Secretary of State, who should always...

ask him to bring in a Bill modifying the law under which the Brighton Aquarium Company was fined for keeping open the Aquarium on Sunday. It was stated that under the same...

quite insensible to the wisdom of the proverb about persons who live in glass houses. Yesterday week, at Stoke, he made a speech in favour of terrorising the Press ; he...

Keogh, have decided that the late John Mitchel was dis- qualified to sit in Parliament as an alien under the Naturalisation Act, which provides that "any British subject who...

the promotion of Working Men's Clubs, called "The Working Men's Club and Institute Union," has just founded a journal as the most efficient means of enabling all these clubs to...

yesterday, entering the sea in his life-preserving suit at Cape Grisnez, near Boulogne, at nine minutes past 8 a.m. on Friday morning, and reaching the mid-channel at about...

Mall Gazelle of yesterday shows that he has lived and learnt, which is not what we usually expect from people who hold dogmas so very independent of anything like plausible...

and Galopin, a horse belonging to Prince Batthyany, won. The race seems to have been a dull one, the result was generally expected, and the scene was more like an overgrown fair...

Home Secretary, Mr. Assheton Cross, stated that it was intended to appoint a small Royal Commission on the subject of Vivi- section, in order that Parliament might have full...

elephants in Ceylon, where the beasts are being rapidly ex- terminated. No more elephants are to be killed except for Government purposes for some time to come, though -"rogue"...

MR. FAWCETT'S AMENDMENT. T HAT Mr. Fawcett's amendment should be defeated on Monday night was of course inevitable. He moved that Sir Stafford Northcote's Bill on local...

IV IR. DISRAELI'S reply to Lord Hartington on Monday night authenticates the rumour which we mentioned last week as generally accepted both abroad and at home, that England did...

TB! recent discussion between Germany and Belgium is about have for its result in Belgium an addition to the list of Crimes. The Belgian Government has announced that it will...

T ' great importance attached in France to this dispute about the scrutin de liste is not at first sight intern- uible to English readers, but it is not, when examined, more...

T HE complaint of the Bengal Civil Service, or rather of that section of it which governs the Punjab, Oude, and Hin- dostan Proper, which Mr. Lowe is to bring on Monday before...

T HE debate of Thursday night, on the Savings-bank Bill, will turn out to be a somewhat serious administrative defeat to the Government. It was so clear that their own...

T HE correspondence on the subject of the trade in lithographed Sermons has produced a very early crop of the kind of com- ments and criticisms on the subject of Preaching which...

S IR HENRY MAINE, in his very striking lecture delivered at Cambridge on Saturday, on the possible value of the study of "India "—that is, its history, manners, and...

IT was particularly pleasant to go to Portsmouth while all the world was at Epsom, and to visit the Arctic ships when visitors were not expected, and there was no crowd. The...

CIVIL-SERVICE APPOINTMENTS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TUN "SPEOTATOR.1 seems that the Report of the Civil-Service Inquiry Com- mission requires a deal of explanation. We have already...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I can hardly hope to interest any considerable number of your readers in so technical and difficult a subject as Examination- marks,...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It seems to be generally supposed in this country by people- who interest themselves in the present controversy about vivisec- tion, that chloroform and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As a junior half-way down the list, I may, perhaps, be trusted to present a more uncoloured view of Civil-Service reform that than of...

"SPECTATOR.') SIR,—I am greatly interested by your article upon "The lEsthetic Modifications of Dissent," though I cannot endorse your conclu- sions. No doubt Dissenters have...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Would you permit a scientific student, whose experiments are confined to inanimate nature, and who, as regards the battle now raging on...

[TO THZ EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—May I be permitted to suggest that the tone of raillery in which you last week referred to Mr. Seymour Haden's letter to the Times of...

[TO TUR EDITOR OF THR SPECTATOR:1 do not see that it matters much whether the couplet about the bridge was Mr. Richard's or your own. The fact remains that he amused Parliament...

"TO HONOUR THEE, SWEET MAY !"—Woanswousn. How fares it with thee, heart, to-day, When all around thee blooms the May ? This year of grace, this "seventy-five ;" Say, does it...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 4 ] Sre,—In your review of "The Italians" you speak of "the very great improbability that this novel should make its way in Italy beyond the...

AUSTRALIAN EXPLORATION.* THE records of Australian exploration are full of deeds of heroism.. For long the interior of that vast continent baffled all attempts to penetrate its...

Mits. CAMERON'S photographic studies are well known for the rare skill with which she has contrived to give something of the effect of fine artistic design and purpose to...

WREN we take up a novel by Mr. Mortimer Collins, we are at least pretty sure of one thing,—it will not be insipid. We may find it wild and strange, or we may quarrel with the...

ANYTHING written by Professor Cairnes on political economy is sure to command the attention of all who are interested in the development of a science which with every advance...

Majora which is generally more important and national than we have found the commencements of this work (see Spectator, September 14, 1872), Mr. Luard speaks of the old editions...

Charles Street, London.)—This handsomely-printed edition of Verdi's famous "Requiem Mass" in honour of Manzoni was produced in England in time to give the lovers of music an...

Pilgrimage of John Bunyan. By James Copner, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Mr. Copuer is Vicar of the parish of Elstow, and his little book, which in any ease would be welcome,...

Spanish Reformers of Two Centuries from 1520. By E. Boehmer, after B. B. Wiffen. (Triibner.)—Mr. Wiffen was a member of the Society of Friends ; he travelled into Spain, with...

By the Rev. -Lail Behan Day. 2 vols. (Macmillan.)—Unfortunately for the literary success of this book, the hero of the tale is not the real hero. We have, indeed, the whole of...

There is no great harm about this work, but it has the great fault of being without any discernible purpose or meaning. Hugh Haslip, the son of a wealthy farmer, wants to rise...

Gibb of Gushetneuk." (Edmonston and Douglas, Edinburgh.)— There are four little tales in this book, and all of them are interesting. The author is well-known in the North of...

Jenkinson. (Stanford.)—This book has been now for some time on our shelves, but we have delayed the notice of it till what seemed a convenient time. Every one can enjoy, in...