asters. Great efforts have been made to avert a crash, and it is possible that it may be postponed. The fall of the Union G6n6rale has, however, inflicted great losses upon all...

Notables has been asked by Arabi Bey to refuse all compromise on the Budget, and as the Notables depend upon military sup- port, they have complied. They have demanded...

Raikes, an ex-Chairman of Committees, will be a formidable opponent in relation to the reform of procedure, we are not at all sorry that he has been returned, first, because we...

ltil GREVY has succeeded in forming anotker Cabinet. M. • de Freycinet was sent for, and at once accepted the task ; And after three days of negotiations, chiefly occupied in...

journals obviously more or less inspired, the British Govern- ment has decided on a policy of prudent vigour. It holds that the hour for armed intervention has not struck, as...

'Tuesday. After affirming that France—like all other places, ex- -cept Heaven—" needs liberty and progress," he promises to post- - ,ponethe revision of the Constitution until...

ease.

day, and his popularity with his immense constituency was so great that even the few Irish malcontents did not succeed in interrupting him, though one of them did succeid in...

Saturday, in which, of course, he attacked the Government bitterly for their Irish policy. We should like to know, however, how Mr. Cowen proves the assertion, with which he...

MacColl, published in Wednesday's Daily News, complains of the Spectator- for saying that various representatives of Jewish opinion were disposed to attenuate and excuse the...

against the outrages upon the Jews in Russia was a consider- able success. It was largely attended by important persons of both parties and all denominations, and the speakers...

constituents on Tuesday, after the police had suppressed a din. graceful Irish attempt to break up the meeting by violence. We have reviewed the main points of the speech...

to the Delegat,, a credit of 2800,000 for the force now concentrating .- govina. According to the Vienna correspondent of the Tin.. who is well informed, though abnormally...

held at the rooms of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, for the purpose of improving the methods of the slaughter-houses of the United Kingdom, by...

a simple education franchise, every man able to read and write being an elector, has now passed both Houses, though it has not yet received the Royal assent. The Ministry are...

ad- 'dressed his Westminster constituents on Monday, and attacked the Government for its want of economy, comparing the Civil Service Estimates under the two Governments, and...

moderate of the Conservatives, spoke at Lechlade on Tuesday, and said all that a reasonable Opposition orator is expected to 'say in the way of mildly disagreeable criticism....

Belgrade describing at great length the condition of native feeling in Austria-Herzegovina. He says the Austrians are hated. They were originally resisted by the peasants out of...

Treaty was answered by Lord Granville in November —date not given—the telegraphic summary of which shows that the Foreign Secretary, in his mildest manner, "relied with...

long held the Chair of Political Economy and Juris- prudence at the Queen's College, Belfast. It is too soon to form an estimate of the permanent impression which he has made on...

A LIST WORD BEFORE IT BEGINS. T HE Session of Parliament begins so soon, that it may seem useless to say even a last word upon what will be its great subject, the Closure. The...

S IR CHARLES DILKE'S speech at Chelsea on Tuesday ought to convince reasonable politicians of every shade, how very little there is to fear of the nature of what is called...

W E suppose we must begin to treat Lord Lytton as desiring at least to be reckoned a serious politician. It seems clear that he is preparing himself to take a substantial part...

I T is time the public should make up its mind about the project for a Tunnel across the Channel. The recent speech of Sir Edward Watkin shows that the proposal has become...

meeting on Wednesday, Lord i Shaftesbury stated that the narrative of the persecu- tion of the Jews in Russia has been "supported by every testimony that could possibly be...

M R. BLAINE, lately Secretary of State at Washington, has fallen from power, and his plans having been pub- lished, and repudiated by the people, are no longer of im- portance;...

M R. WILFRID WARD, in an extremely thoughtful and able dialogue on "The Wish to Believe," which appears in the new number of the Nineteenth Century, maintains that it is very...

T HE rush of the Continental Aristocracy to speculate on the Bourse revealed in the history of the Union Generale, is a very curious feature in modern social history. It is not...

S IR JAMES HANNEN has had before him a case in which a man, marrying a woman under circumstances which gave him some power over her, though not the power which he supposed,...

T HAT Mr. Herman liferivale's clever play would make a capital novel, was one of the impressions made by witnessing the performance of The Cynic upon the mind of the present...

THE PERSECUTION OF THE JEWS. [To THE EDITOR OF TIIR " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—While I cordially agree with my friend, Mr. Dicey, in desiring a national protest against Russian and...

go THE Barron OP THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In the biography of Charles Lowder, a statement is made, according to your reviewer, which, by its inaccuracy, must necessarily mislead...

- [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." . ] SIR,—The Church and Chapel census has drawn attention to a fact long patent in East London. The people do not worship. A large...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Father Clarke, in his letter which appeared in your last issue, speaks of "your writer" as one "who is rather seeking to .find his way...

a little contribution from Browning to. the question, so ably and interestingly argued in your recent numbers, as to whether God's accidental glory exists for him,. or only for...

THE DIFFUSION OF ORGANISMS IN THE AIR.* SURPRISE was expressed in many quarters, when it became' known, a few years ago, that Professor Tyndall, neglecting for a - while the...

Lro THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,--Will you use your influence to induce publishers to let us have books in less heavy bindings than the present fashion seems to insist...

Miss FEaarra's work in fiction is already in some external re- spects so thoroughly "old-fashioned," and has been so generally though so nndeservedly neglected by novel-readers...

THE title of this charming little book is even too modest. The little lyrics it contains may, indeed, be called "songs in minor keys," and very simple and charming songs too,...

To make a heroine out of the sort of person who is generally represented in fiction as eminently prosaic and perhaps ludi- crous, and who has no thought of love-making or...

HERE Dr. Stirling supplies what his well-known important book the Secret of Hegel promised, namely, an interpretative account, on similar lines, of that great antecedent...

In these volumes, and especially in those entitled" Songs of Scandinavia" and "of Eastern Europe," we hoped to find a comparatively unknown collection of ballad songs, and we...

The Art Journal. (Virtue and Co.)—This magazine improves- under the new management. The dull, old, line engravings are being gradually discontinued, and in their place are...

and Co.)—This little handbook will prove of great use to those who make a study of Saints and their symbols, as expressed in Art. It supplies a real want, as it is small enough...

Archer's William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries. (Blackie and Son.)—The volume contains the history of fourteen years (1840- 1854), the most important event of the...