case.

the last French telegram from Washington, it appears to mean that the American Government is hedging on the subject of the intervention in Cuba. The American Government "has...

than his very clever and witty, and yet, on the whole, very wise address to the members of the Midland Institute on Monday evening,— the whole drift of which was to deprecate...

in one of his cold fits towards the Liberal movement which has puzzled him so much. He has given out, it seems, that the Chamber of Deputies shall not meet in October •at...

"S WEETNESS and light" have a new chance in the world. The Duke of Genoa, who is now a pupil at Harrow, and a resident in Mr. Matthew Arnold's household, is said to be the...

severity at an agricultural meeting at Lismore on Thursday week. The occasion was an anniversary meeting of a farmers' society founded forty years ago by his father, the Duke of...

seem to think that the Customs' duties have fallen off, but this is a blunder. They forget the remission of the corn duty. The in- crease, too, is in spite of the diminution due...

and a liberal Catholic, seems to have made every effort to prevent Pere Hyacinthe sending that letter of resignation, in which he, in effect, defied the Council, and appealed...

evening amidst the pauses of a terrific thunderstorm, which interrupted his speech. But, clearly, if he had been a peer, or such a peer, at least, as Lord Clarendon approves, he...

meeting of an Agricultural Association, and also in a generally Conserva- tive sense. He defended the House of Lords for its apathy, on the ground that it had an excellent habit...

Moncreiff, now Lord Advocate. It is supposed that Mr. Young, the Solicitor- General for Scotland, will become Lord Advocate, ankthat either Mr. A. Rutherford Clark or Mr....

Lord Justice Clerk, in place of the late Mr. Patton, the seat which he now holds, for the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen, will be vacated. An elector writing to the Star...

of St. Januarius has appeared in the Times, and another, apparently by the same writer, but with different touches, in the Pall Mall Gazette. It would seem from these narratives...

(the Right Hon. George Patton) was found in the Almond river on the afternoon of yesterday week, being drawn up by a creeper which had caught hold of the right hand. There was a...

on Wednesday before the Social Science Congress which has this -week been deliberating in that city, took a rather bold line before such an assembly by raising directly the...

had a bitter little correspondence in the Times as to an assertion of the latter that the late Bishop of Exeter had once said to him (apropos, we believe, of Catholic...

since last week. The murderer, who took the name of the son of the murdered woman (Madame Klock) for his own purpose, was really one Traupmanu, an artisan who had worked for...

-down in his opening address that the great social desideratum of the -day is to teach the English people to support and co-operate with Parliament and the Government, instead...

part of his vacation to active exercise on the velocipede or bicycle. It is a very characteristic amusement. The velocipede in an instrument of progress, and Mr. Lowe likes...

THE FORGOTTEN POINT IN THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. TSOLATED ministers, Lord Hartington, the Earl of Claren- don, Mr. Cardwell, have all been firing off speeches on the Irish Land...

COMIC? - TT is related of a tragedy-writer of the First French Empire —Lemercier, if we recollect aright—that when, although 'known to be opposed in politics to the Empire, he...

condition of the British agricultural labourer are in danger of becoming monotonous, but no chance should be lost for preventing any feeling of that kind by showing the urgency...

THERE is a report that Lord Westbury has been pressed to accept the vacant Lord Jasticeship of Appeal, that he has referred the matter to the Lord Chancellor, and that the Lord...

I T is almost a relief, not only to natural human feeling, but to political nerve, to find out that the man who butchered the Kinck family in this terrible Pantin business had...

D R. EWING, the thoughtful and spiritual Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, who seems to us to put more of a real Christian faith into his charges than any bishop of our Establish-...

TELBOURNE has taken a really happy revenge on the Duke IlL of Edinburgh for the slight put upon Victoria by the request for a Parliamentary vote in committee of supply for his...

W E earnestly hope that the Trustees of the British Museum will use the occasion furnished by the death of the late indefatigable Keeper of the Book Department, Mr. Watts, to...

T HE approach of one of the highest Tides which the combined attraction of the sun and moon can possibly raise, has made many of us look up our acquaintance with the laws of...

cxviii.—THE WELSH MARCIE :—CIIESHIRE. — (('ontinued.) N ANTIVICH, or Samptwich, formerly in importance ranking as the second town of this county, is placed in a low situation,...

PAPAL AND PROTESTANT INFALLIBILITY. (To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If, as you seem to assume in your able essay on the "Philo- sophy of Catholic Pere Hyacinthe cares...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE “SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—In your article thus headed it is assumed that the object of the League is a "uniform secular system of rate-built schools entirely...

you kindly allow me to point out in the fewest possible words the question which is really at issue in the present Educa- tional controversy, and which is conveniently and...

SIR,—If no more worthy representative of the National Educa- tion League claims your attention, will you allow me to say a word on the object of the League ? If that object were...

NORTHERN VICTORIES IN THE CIVIL WAR.* IN time, we suppose the strange illusion of Englishmen about the American Civil ‘Var—that the North won at last by sheer numbers, when the...

[TO THE EDIT013 OF THE "SPECTATOR:] Sin,—I think the Dean of Carlisle is a very unfit man to start a crusade against science, because he is so exceptionally ignorant of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The writer of "A Trip in a Trawler" in your last number speaks of fishing." baskets Called wrens " on board his Plymouth trawler. May I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I was much struck by your remark in the article on Ireland in your last issue, that "the more wealth Irelaudhas accumulated the more...

MR. LE Farm has written nothing nearly so clever as this since he wrote Uncle Silas. Indeed, this book has more of literary power, though less of melodramatic effect than that,...

Tun opening chapter of this work consists of a brief recapitula- tion of the Autobiography of a Seaman, by the late Earl of Dun- donald, whose death, occurring immediately after...

Ma. LANCASTE11 seems to have profited to some extent by the remarks made about his former novel. His characters now are more in drawing. They are still the merest caricatures,...

are absurd, without being really fanciful. Sometimes the " fairy " element is not assimilated at all with the tale in which it appears. In the first "record," for instance, we...

Mr. Deedes gives us here the impression made upon him by nearly a year's travel and residence in the United States. He appears to have gone with and to have retained strong...

compiled, we are told, by the "Amateur Authors' Club." The intro- duction is not particularly wise, but it makes one modest request which it is impossible to refuse. "You,...

A large circle of readers will welcome a Second Series of Sermons Preached in Manchester. By Alexander Maclaren. (Macmillan.)— These are very remarkable discourses, without any...