T HE French Legislature was opened on Monday by the Emperor in person in a long speech of the regular Napoleonic kind, very frank in form and very reserved in spirit. " It is...

of his clergy, has made another effort to obtain from D. Temple a repudiation of the general doctrine of Essays and Reviews, urging the rather inconclusive consideration that he...

gazetted as Minister next week. In spite of the desertion of some thirty-six of the old one hundred and sixteen, who found him too Imperialist, he has formed a party, having...

is not instructive. He says everybody is friendly, and we may be proud of our century ; for "America has suppressed slavery," Russia " has liberated her serfs," England "is...

Bir- mingham League has, we are happy to see, urged immediate legis- lation in relation to primary education. We had feared there were signs of a strong wish on the part of the...

the Ministry intend to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act in Ireland. They fear lest the impunity with which treason is disseminated in several counties may tempt the ignorant...

case.

New Zealand announces everything tranquil, and asks whether this does not vindicate Lord Granville's conduct from the charges of cruelty and imprudence attributed to it....

in its way, an able letter to the Times, in which he asserts that England has never done justice to Ireland except under pressure of fear, that the twenty years of "...

submit the annual budget to Constantinople and to contract no more loans. In a very submissive but very untrustworthy note he has objected to the demand as inconsistent with...

but Mr. Coningsby, an able man, not long ago a con- tributor to our own columns in the shape of some letters on the working-classes in America, has come forward, very...

Street Hotel on Wednesday last, when loud complaints were made from all quarters of the superciliousness, and little knowledge of Colonial affairs shown at the Colonial Office....

Act. At a meeting called by Earl Dacie, and attended by the Bishop and representatives of nearly all the endowed grammar schools of the county, it was agreed to form a com-...

reply to Mr. Goschen's minute. Either they must give fall relief, thus causing an enormous augmentation of rates, or their clients must be helped by the Charities,— a confusion...

understood here. We believe the general outline of the facts to be as follows. The late Ministry fell partly because it transpired that one of the Ministers had been trying to...

the appearance of a new illustrated weekly of the first class, called the Graphic. It is full of drawings which seem to us very good, especially a sketch of the Pope in Council,...

by a stonemason, now working for Mr. Cornell, the founder of the University of that name in Western New York. The letters are full of unconscious touches, which will, we think,...

is to be opened next October, is not to be for any special class of students, —not exclusively for " poor " students, —but that it will take mem- bers from all classes and fit...

candid and outspoken defence of his position as a clergyman of the Church of England, before the Chancellor of the Diocese of York, maintaining that his only obligation as a...

been attacked, but we feel no doubt at all that every word of it will be strictly substantiated. Mr. Hayman has been chosen in a spirit of reaction from Dr. Temple's Liberalism...

against Mr. Voysey to proof, seems to have laid down a very narrow construction of the Articles touching the Atonement, and one which, if it were to be supported, ought to drive...

THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH. T HERE is some dignity and much literary ability in the speech of the Emperor of the French, but very little evidence of power to control, or even to...

S INCE Lord Derby's retirement, there has been a chronic weakness in the brain of the Conservative party,—not amounting to softening, but unquestionably to congestion of the...

A FFAIRS in Ireland look very serious, so serious that if Mr. Gladstone summons Parliament and proposes to suspend the Habeas Corpus Act, he will, we believe, obtain the support...

rejoice, then, that at the meeting of Monday last the Cambridge Liberals,—Liberals at least on this point,. for the Master of St. John's is said to be a hearty Conservative in...

T aE Free Church of Ireland is striking the bar, and it is not certain that she will get off. The latest news of her progress received from Dublin disappoints, even though it...

VER. TROLLOPE'S answer to Mr. Freeman does not strike in us as conclusive. The historian argued in the Fortnightly Review that fox-hunting is essentially immoral, inasmuch as it...

A N unusual number of Englishmen have visited the United States in the present year, and those of them who have been in the South have returned with gloomy views as to the...

M EN have ever been strangely charmed by the unknown and the seemingly inaccessible. The astronomer exhibits the influence of this charm as he constructs larger and larger...

THE WORKING-MAN IN AMERICA.—II. [TO TRH EDITOR OF TIM "SPECTATOR.''] Sin,—An ugly prospect looms before us. The winter season, it is said, commences here about the latter end...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I write to you in the faint hope that something practical may be done in the coming Session of Parliament towards the education of...

Catholic correspondent on " Janus" is probably a fair specimen of the kind of ' refutation ' it is likely to receive at Catholic hands. If so, its credit will remain un- shaken....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Your correspondent, " A Catholic Reader," has pointed out what is certainly an inaccuracy in the reference to Auxilius in "Janus." It is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"] Sta,—Your article on the "Twelve Days' Mission and the Broad Churchmen" touches a question which I think must have occurred to many of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —Will you allow me space for a few questions which your correspondent " C. Elliott's " letter, and the mournful comment of your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "EPECTATOR.1 Six,—The practical lesson of the Tipperary Election is very simple. We must have vote by ballot. I hate vote by ballot ; but it is a hateful...

MISS MITFORD'S LIFE.* THE interest of these volumes is twofold,—personal and literary. Miss Mitford's life, as mournful as it was beautiful, is more deserving of remembrance...

John Lubbock has added to his most valuable book a good deal of fresh matter, and condensed much of the old, so as to make it a still more perfect record of the general facts...

MR. SECCOMBE has shown himself, in his illustrations of this best and most characteristic of Hood's poems, not only a rare artist, but a fine critic. The best artists we have...

So much has been said in these columns of the excessive luxury of the children's books written for the rising generation, that it is something to find a whole mass of stories...

Tun Cornhill is very good. We have not seen anything better in its way than the story "Against Time," with its sketch of 1863-66, and the way in which grand fortunes were made...

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Messrs. Macmillan and Co. publish in a splendid volume Twelve Parables of our Lord, illustrated and illuminated. The illustrations are sketches taken in the...

affected title and an inflated preface give the reader a prejudice against a volume of some merit. Mr. Coyle was a young Independent minister at Forfar ; a self-taught man who...