of the Duchy of Lancaster at a Privy Council held last Tuesday at Balmoral, and the first Cabinet Council of the autumn was to have been held" yesterday afternoon. The topics to...

from their new masters is well displayed in the most recent incident. M. Gambetta, unquestionably the second man in France, delivered a speech at Perigueux on Saturday declaring...

Taunton with more prospect of success than Liberal candidates have lately had in boroughs of such doubtful antece- dents. He is actively supported, it is said, by both...

I T is reported and believed in Paris that the Monarchists have secured their majority for the Comte de Chambord, he having in a letter, criticised elsewhere, repudiated...

The insurgents returned on 24th September, and asked for £40,000. Sir Hastings Yelverton and the French Admiral again insisted on four days' delay, but on the remonstrance of...

is lost with the refusal of Mr. Clay-Ker-Seymer to stand, and with the appearance of a candidate, Mr. Pease, who, after a column of abuse of Mr. Gladstone, says he is, on the...

case.

master of Rugby, and we might almost say, of the founder of the Broad Church in that sense in which the Broad Church is not only distinct from, but almost opposed to, the...

have been mainly confined to a few banks which had made advances too readily to Western Railroads, and to some stock-jobbing houses. The excitement is described by the papers as...

clever speech, indeed a speech set in brilliants,—too many of them and too small,—on the so-called Conservative reaction, in which he refused to believe, on grounds we have...

their hearts. They are trying to put the screw on Sir Thomas. Acland, M.P. for North Devon, and either to compel him to abjure his votes on the Education question and go over to...

series of decrees restoring the rigour of military discipline by inflicting perpetual servitude or death for mutiny, suspending the Constitution, establishing universal...

of the Catholic University, to the Principalship of the Queen's College, Cork, is not very easy to understand from either , the point of view of the Government or that of the...

side,—Dr. Harold Browne, Bishop of Winchester. At his last Conference at Ely he told the clergy, in well-measured words, that he was afraid that in all Protestant countries, not...

except a most spirited defence of it from the Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen. We have analysed his argument elsewhere, but must add here that he...

Wednesday in a lengthy and over-discursive speech, which, however, had points in it. One, and perhaps the most important, was made it propos of the failure of the licensing...

Eng- lishmen should not fail not only to be grateful, but to let it be -visible that they are grateful. The Dean of Westminster, laving issued a circular proposing to place a...

on the :zeal which the male friends of female education express that women shall, at all events, learn to be good Cooks. The writer, who signs herself "An Old Housekeeper,"...

claims to be put on the Register, and the revising barrister is said to have admitted them all with the exception of about 73, to the great satisfaction of the miners, who hope...

day of the opening of the schools, made a remarkable statement about surgery. He said that he thought that the limit of surgery as an art—that is, the use of the knife—had been...

another questionable act of Dr. Hayman's to consider. The num- bers of the School are understood to have fallen so much that it was necessary to dismiss an Under-master, and Dr....

THE COMTE DE CHAMBORD'S MANIFESTO. T HERE is something very odd, quite separate and peculiar, about these utterances of the Comte de Chambord. Perhaps no such moral pressure...

T HE Duke of Argyll made a speech of great ability on Wednesday at Helensbargh, in favour of the principle of Church Establishments, and against that of a Regium Donum. His...

M R. LEATHAM has the gift of perpetual youth. As he himself remarks, he is, "though by no means an aged politician," still already a politician of some considerable Par-...

A4R. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN'S speech at Deal was It/ by far the most complete, and the only official answer to those who complain of the Ashantee War, a war forced on us by a...

S ENOR ECHEGARA.Y, who has been Minister of Public Works, we think, in more than one Cabinet since the Spanish Revolution, has recently delivered a lecture before the Socia6...

T HERE is only one fact connected with the preliminary Report issued by the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the alleged unseaworthiness of British registered ships...

A RATHER meagre selection of epitaphs by Mr. Fairley which has just been published by Mr. S. Tinsley, and which—for so small a collection—deals too much a great deal in those...

S TRA.USS, in his last destructive, though feeble and garrulous book, reveals his political theory, which coming from such a man, almost approaches the grotesque. He evidently...

%T i nhab i tants of our 'readers probably know Bridlington, or as its J and neighbours term it, Burlington,—probably the truer name, as shown by the witness not only of the...

SAXON-LES-BAINS : A STUDY IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF GAMBLING. (To Teil EDITOR Or MN "SPECTATOR] have always taken a strong psychological interest in the subject of gambling, but...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Ssa,—I am a clergyman in an agricultural pariah, and I wish to say a word for the agricultural labourers. I am not afraid of offending the...

to understand Rev. Mr. Guiron ' s dis- tinction between " facere Deum " and " facere Dei, " perhaps yotr will kindly insert three sentences of explanation :—(1.) The Arch-...

Stn,—Arolabishop Manning, in his letter to you, uses the following words :—" Every part of it [i.e., the sacred humanity,] partakes of the same Divine Worship that is paid to...

Archbishop Manning's letter on Saturday, 27th ult., favourably contrasts with the refusal of the Tablet to receive a communication of mine on the same sub- ject. Archbishop...

THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,— Until to-day I have been unable to see the note appended by you to my letter of last week. Your courtesy will, I am sure, find room for these few words...

SIR,—The letter of "A Country Parson " so completely represents the views of the vast majority of the clergy, that it is worthy of unusual notice, and if possible, of complete...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR,"] am unwilling to believe that it is your deliberate intention to be unjust ; nevertheless, you can be hardly be surprised if the persistent...

[TO THIS EDITOR OF THE "sracteroa.1 am a clergyman who has not often the opportunity of hearing any voice in a church but his own and those of his im- mediate fellow-labourers....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—As I should deeply regret that anyone should be led te suppose that I have the slightest intention of adopting the too , common but...

[To THE EDITOR OF THU "SPECTATOR,"] read with great interest the article on the above subject in- the Spectator of the 27th ult., and although it may be that in some instances...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR:] SIR,—In a recent speech Mr. Gladstone said, "There is no. legislative Union between England and Wales." " There is nothing about the Union...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In your article on "Mr. Forster on the Union of Capi- talists" you say :—" The truth is, that nothing can be more practically...

PROFESSOR MASSON'S "MILTON."* TfITS is the third instalment of what, if completed, will be an important and, in all that relates to the specific facts of Milton's life, a...

As long as men are stirred by the movements of physical plea- sure, as long as the eye finds rest in the greenness of foliage or the glow of a sunset, and the ear delight in the...

WE do not mean to disparage these lively papers when we say that they certainly are the very lightest reading we were ever entertained with. There is not, in the proper sense of...

Blacicwood is quite itself again ; "Scold, and clatter, and bang ; bang, and clatter, and scold," about the sayings and doings of the Recess, and spitefully dissatisfied with...

this kind reminds one forcibly of the marvellous improvement which the last thirty years have brought about in the apparatus of classical learning. Boys who were unlucky enough...

The Eternal Life: Sermons Preached during the last Twelve Years. By James Noble Bennie, LL.B., Rector of Glenfield. (Henry S. King and Co.)—We happen to know that the author of...

King and Co.)—If this volume comes directly from M. de Liefde's pen—and there is no mention of a translator on the title-page—it is in a purely literary point of view...

By C. B. Lewis. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Lewis tells us in his preface that he has long " felt deep interest in the character and history of Mr. Thomas." Such interest is perfectly...

and Elizabeth Bennett. (S. Harris.)-We have but one fault to find with this little volume. A "preliminary sketch of the history of the Jews" extends over about a sixth of its...