We have discussed the indemnity elsewhere, but must remark here that, according to all accounts, immense efforts will be made to pay it rapidly, and so get rid of the Germans....

great a triumph, and by Frenchmen so bitter a humiliation, came off on the 1st of March. The regular " Uhlan " galloped into Paris by the Arc de Triomphe, followed first by 25...

sense not far from unanimous, for the 107 noes will be found to have been gleaned from very much more specially biassed localities than the -516 ayes. Thirty-two of them came...

DEA.CE has been made at last, though on terms which reduce it merely to a truee. M. Thiers, after a contest with Count Bis- marck which was prolonged for days, yielded at last,...

a - vote of 546 to 107, after a debate of which we have scarcely -even a telegraphic summary. It is said that MM. Louis Blanc and Victor Hugo made powerful speeches against...

case.

that any congratulations had been sent by the Queen and Prince of Wales to the German head-quarters on the German victories ; the private messages sent were mere congratulations...

since the elections of 1868; he always is when he begins to see a chance of teazing with political effect, and he evidently sees that chance now. Yesterday week he " drew the...

Assembly may sit at some distance from Paris. That idea is. always mooted after a Revolution, and is never carried out, and it will not be this time. History cannot be recalled,...

hour,—as the House fills after dinner, and when the members of it are just full of good cheer,—followed in Mr. Disraeli's steps by making of his speech a clever and coarse...

debating Lord Hartington's motion for a Select Committee to inquire into the secret societies of Westmeath and the neighbour- ing counties. Lord Hartington himself proposed this...

some regrets that the money taken is not more. There will be this reduc- tion, and that reduction. The Berliners perhaps will not be so re- joiced when they find that they have...

in pacifying Ireland we have described elsewhere. "On the recommendation of Mr. Gladstone," said Mr. Disraeli, amidst great cheering, "we have legalized confiscation, we have...

he is always over-subtle too ;—some minds heat into taking imaginary distinctions. When he had disburdened himself of a portion of his indignation, he went on to give a most...

re- organization of the Army, and it is reported from Bordeaux that M. Thiers advises very radical measures,—the disbandment of the entire Army, promotion by examination alone,...

Czar Alexander, and the Czar has published it, with his reply. The- telegram, which is dated 27th February, states the terms of peace, and concludes : "We have thus arrived at...

IL Peel recently attacked the Duchy of Lancaster, so the Chan- cellor defended its management, which he says is very good, though he only proved his case by showing that it was...

on Monday by a majority of 62 (211-149). The Times proposes that only distinctively Christian services shall be allowed in the -churchyards of our national Churches. Why ? Are...

on Tuesday -between the economists and the agriculturists. Sir Massey Lopes made his annual speech, averring that land ought not to bear all the rates ; and Mr. Goschen answered...

rob Mesars.Ryder's assistant of £2,500 in diamonds, has been acquitted. 'The Recorder laid it down that if the wife acted under the coercion of her husband, she was innocent ;...

warning to fathers. Mr. Cleveland is a clergyman near Barnard Castle, Durham, with a living worth £700 a year, and with ten children, who had allowed his daughter, Miss...

of Mr. Bryce to the Professorship of Civil Law at Oxford. We -already witness the effects of appointing a young and singularly able lawyer to this important post. Mr. Bryce's...

Voysey Judgment has been misinterpreted to mean that we supposed it to be the duty of Ecclesiastical judges in construing the Articles of the Church to be swayed and biassed by...

dull one, carried on by a House which never exceeded twenty-five members, and was latterly reduced to twelve. Mr. Grant Duff, though he always forgets when making statistical...

Norgate) his son's letters to himself concerning the proceedings in relation to the Marathon captives and their murder, and the subsequent attempts to fasten a charge upon him...

THE TERMS OF TRUCE. T HE Germans have shown themselves hard masters, and, like most hard masters, very near-sighted statesmen. They have acted like the First Napoleon,—with the...

C OUNT BISMARCK objects to freedom of debate in the British House of Commons. In his own official organ, the Correspondent, the German Chancellor declares not only that "England...

duels e b b e a t w t e e s e i n n t t h h e e t H w o o u f s r e o n o f t b C e o n m e h m e o s as , Arar "are beco msays ing that —and certainly this last week may be...

victors, and physically incapable of any enduring effort, would resist the entry, and perish fighting in the streets rather than suffer what seemed to them a desecration. To...

M R. CARDWELL'S Bill for the Reorganization of the Army brings into strong relief the worst defect in the present method of governing by public meeting,—the re- luctance of the...

S OMEBODY with plenty of time and free access to the records of the Registrar-General's Office has been writing a very amusing paper in the Cornitill about English Christian...

T HE recent elections to the Provincial Deputations of Spain have greatly alarmed the new Government, and seem to indicate that the leading hope of the friends of Spain after...

M R. BROWNING'S new ballad in the Conthill is a gain of at least a quarter of an hour's vivid life for some hundreds of thousands of our half-alive people. Not that we put any...

O NE of the most striking features in the study of comparative religion is the recurrence of certain marked spiritual phenomena in communities separated from each other by so...

HE VOYSEY CASE: ORIGINAL SIN, THE PUNISH- MENT OF CHRIST, AND CLERICAL PRIVATE JUDGMENT. (ro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sia,—The Lord Chancellor has added three new...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent "F. F. B." has strangely misunder- stood the drift of the debates in Convocation a fortnight ago, if they have led...

you will allow me to call your attention and that of your correspondents to a plain fact, which shows at once how much more correct than theirs is your estimate of the results...

"SPZOTATOR.1 Sin,—Your correspondent signing "Nil Desperandum " says that "to deny, on the authority of the Gospel of St. Matthew, that the Mosaic command to hate one's enemy is...

SLR, —Allow me to correct an accidental error which makes nonsense of one sentence in a letter from me, published in your current number. Instead of "pro their ipsissitna...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you kindly permit me to state that the Belgian Minister, to whom the above book was dedicated, had not read one line of it before...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Szu,—I trust you will permit me to say a few words about the agrarian outrages in the county of Westmeath. The subject is a painful one to...

[TO TDB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I am requested to protest against an unauthorized assump- tion of a well-established nom de plume. Miss Manning has for - several years...

[The writer of the following letter, who for many years resided in England, was made Prefect of his own department in September last, and resigned with Gambetta. Its tone is, of...

THE ROSE OF LIBERTY.* Do roses bloom, roses bloom In lost Bazeilles, Where shrilled a terrible human wail In the blasting blaze of a living tomb ? 'There they bloom, In lost...

MR. WICKHAM'S MEMOIRS.* [SECOND NOTICE.] AFTER all, we progress. England has not perhaps done all that she might have done to aid France in her late agony. But she has not...

chief interest now attaching to the question of the original responsibility for the war lies in the light it throws on the great statesman of the great power which has proved so...

[SECOND NOTICE.] WE consider that Sir John Lubbock pays a very heavy penalty for his refusal to meet the irrepressible question, " What does religion mean ?" The penalty is...

No doubt it is extremely wrong to regret that a good and true man should have laboured so long in a sad and painful calling as to have grown reconciled, nay, even happy, to...

of our readers are aware that during the three first months of that awful war which has absorbed and strained the mind of Europe, an economic international exhibition was held...

Fraser, amid many other good papers, has two distinctive essays on Chinese subjects, which may attract even ordinary readers. One, said to be written by a Chinese literate, and...

Life of Ambrose Bonwicke. Edited by John E. B. Mayor. (Daighton and Boll ; Bell and Daldy.)—Ambrose Bonwicke was a young student of St. John's College, Cambridge. The name will...

who has the misfortune of being a Saseenach is inclined to regard with suspicion the work of a lady who describes herself by the second title of " Ysgafoll." This suspicion, we...

Erans.)—Mr. Robinson was special correspondent of the Manchester Guardian, and contrived, not without very considerable difficulty, in getting himself shut up in Metz. He was an...

of an admirable series of guide-books, which it is quite superfluous- to praise. The volume before us is peculiarly full of information, in- cluding, as it does, some of the...

(Kent.)—"Enquire Within" is a work which has achieved a vast success —half a million of copies sold in this country alone, and in the United States, probably with more credit...

Rust's object is to prove "that the stone circles of Britain were Druidical temples." This he seeks to effect by bringing forward copious etymological proof, proof which,...

(Spiers.)—The subject, familiar and almost trite as it is, is treated with much freshness and ingenuity. Miss Brayley draws out her analogies 'with taste and skill, always, we...

to America. (Sampson Low.)—These " words " consist of a letter which was written by General Washington to Sir George Sinclair, in 1196. Mr. Burritt supplements them with the...

M. Lyell (Murray), is a book of which the value and utility are sufficiently declared by the title. Every cosmopolitan collector of ferns should have it at hand as a book of...