T HE political situation is threatening. Despite a concession made on Tueslay to the Conservatives, in the adoption of the Duke of Abercorn's amendment requiring the Land...

wing of the Seaforth Highlanders left Aden on Thursday for Suez ; so the Indian contingent is fairly on its way, and General Macpherson, who is to command it, has already...

week, by the temporary withdrawal of M. Onou, the Russian representative, who declared that he needed fresh instructions. But he has since returned to the Conference,—at the...

that the punctual ease with which it is rolling away, complete cap-dlie in all arms, to its destination, and also the settlement of its commands, are unprecedented in English...

the proclamation of Arabi as a rebel, for the Sultan is well aware of the rising enthusiasm in the Mahomedan party for the adventurer who seems to have taken up the gage...

anycase.

the influ , once of the House of Peers in this country,—indeed, we may say, a nail in the coffin of the Constitution, as it was understood and worked by the Duke of Wellington....

curious little debate on an amendment of Lord Limerick's and another of Lord Kilmorey's, in which the question turned onLord Brabourne's attack, delivered a fortnight ago, on...

for the protection of the Suez Canal having been rejected on Saturday by the immense majority of 450 to 75. The circumstances were very odd, M. Gambetta and many of those who...

the Arrears Dill, when Lord Salisbury proposed, and carried by a majority of 71 (169 to 98), against the weighty protest of Lord Derby and Lord Lansdowne, the amendment making...

the Arrears Bill, Lord Salisbury made a most extraordinary and, as w e think, for his own policy, a most suicidal admission "There is no doubt," he said, "that an offer of 10s....

it is a matter of common morality for England to pay the whole , expense of the Egyptian Expedition, and for this it argues on the ground that, for the most part, all the pleas...

for leave to apply the revenues of India to the Indian portion of the Egyptian Expedition, which was ultimately granted by a majority of 117 (140 to 23). The debate was one- iu...

some of the newspaper correspondents as to a panic by which some of the soldiers of the 60th Rifles had been seized, when on Tuesday night some of Arabi's horsemen drove in the...

- week on the utility of ponring oil on troubled waters, a dis- cussion which had no reference to Lord Salisbury's troubling of the waters, or to any Episcopal attempt to pour...

Commons on the Spanish financial proposals for shutting us altogether out of the benefit of the recent reductions of duty on Spanish imports, unless we make a special commercial...

well-marked genius,—whose Chair of Animal Morpho- logy at Cambridge was, we believe, almost constituted because he was the man who of all others would best fill it,—in an...

he protests against our article of last week, on the too greet leniency of the House of Commons to his offences. He writes,—" Just when I was most relevant, I was informed by...

this day week one of the boldest experiments ever made in warfare,—it had, however, been anticipated in the American Civil War,—an experiment which, though it did not carry out...

THE LORDS AND THE ARREARS BILL. -L ORD SALISBURY has passed, by his usual great majori- ties, two amendments to the Arrears Bill, either of which is so fatal to the utility of...

T HE Tories are delighted with what they call the threaten- ing attitude of Europe towards England, and it is pretty clear that no success of Mr. Gladstone's policy in Egypt...

T HE new feature of the situation in Egypt is the increasing danger of our having to deal there with Turkish allies on whom it will be impossible to count for help,—and not to...

of their companions, ceased to be Irishmen. He accuses us, too, of adopting a condescending manner towards Americans also, which appears to have been a great crime in his eyes....

W E recommend the small knot of English enthusiasts who still believe in Arabi Pasha as a kind of Egyptian Garibaldi, to read the last published batch (No. 13) of official...

T HE prolonged conversation about Public Expenditure which occupied the House of Commons on the afternoon of yesterday week, was more polemical in form than it was in substance....

I P Mr. Lowell has any spare time, between the kindness of his English friends and the abuse of his Irish compatriots, he can hardly devote it to a better purpose than to write...

„ R L. S." completes this month his former comment on. • "Talk and Talkers" in the Cornhill,—a comment which he admits to have been, as we held it to be, too much con- cerned...

rAF animals whose place in Nature and association with the needs of man render them especially attractive to the imagination, the camel, the reindeer, and the Esquimciux dog...

"SPECTATOR."] Sut,—In an article in your issue of July 29th, on the evidence required for the belief of events beyond the ordinary experience of the senses, you refer to the...

" SPROTATOR."1 80,-1 have not hitherto taken notice of the wholesale mis- :statements which appear in your columns in reference to the Irish Members. If I depart from this rule...

MR. RUSSELL AND THE CRIMES PREVENTION (IRELAND) BILL. [To TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] [To TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE, — Permit me to make a brief rejoinder to...

[To THE EDITOR OP TRE " SPEGTATos.."] SIR,—" A. S." has found in Petrarch a passage which he thinks suggested Tennyson's reference to,- " Him who sings To one clear harp in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."1 SIR, — Your correspondent, Mr. Addy, suggests that the test of a severe examination should constitute the solicitor. I say that a solicitor...

(To THM EDITOR OF TEGI " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your article, last week, on Dr. O'Dea's work on the above subject, you express your surprise that Switzerland should stand so high...

" 0 GIVE my Sons," the Grecian mother cried, "Whose pious arms have dragged thy heavy car From yonder town to this thy shrine afar, Thy last best gift, to mortals most denied...

THE FORAY OF QUEEN MEAVE.* "1 aONFESS," says Mr. Godkin, in the August number of the Nineteenth Century, "I have until recently under-estimated the strength and permanence of...

or for any restricted pur- pose such as lease or mortgage, are, in most civilised countries, except our own, effected by means of acts done before some public officer, who makes...

THERE are many ways of writing a biography, and one which seems to be growing in favour with authors and the public, is to allow the subject in great measure to tell his own...

Ix was a happy idea that suggested the author of John Ingle- sane as the sponsor of this little reprint of George Herbert's Temple. Whatever opinion may be held in regard to the...

ABOUT the time of the opening of the Suez Canal, when Khedive Ismail was at the height of his prosperity, rich with borrowed money and ambitious of military renown, he engaged a...

not be strong enough to compel the perusal of Shakespeare's sonnets, Words- worth smote George Stevens on the right cheek, and Coleridge smote him on the left. The unfortunate...

ONE of the most interesting and suggestive articles in this • month's Contemporary Review is that which contains the three papers of "General" Booth, Miss Cobb, and Mr. Randall...

British Quarterly Itevieiv. July. (Redder and Stoughton.)—The first article in this number tells the story of reform in Japan. The writer has more belief in the genuineness and...

Discourses and Addresses on Leading 'ild of Religion and Thilosoplvy. I3y the Rev. J. H. Rigg, D.D. (Wesleyan Conference Office.)—It would be quite impossible in Ei short notice...

is a very unequal, but in great part an admirable little book. The stories founded on criminal causes cdiebres are very grim, and of the highest interest as illustrating the...

"King's evidence," and revealed the tricks and impos- tures which he helped to practise in times past. This kind of evid- ence is sometimes very useful, even indispensable, but...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—This is one of the queerest books of the sancta simplicitas order that ever were written. Mr. Donnelly has manifestly dipped into all sorts of writers,...

Halford 'aughan. Volume II. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Vaughan takes in this volame Henry V. and the Three Parts of Henry VI. The three latter he thinks to have been "if...

By B. K. Kennedy, D.D. (University Press, Cambridge.) —In this edition the text is followed (it might better have been ac- companied) by a verse translation, with foot-notos. An...

D.D. (Cassell, Potter, Galpin, and Co.)—It has been commonly supposed that our Lord and his Apostles spoke a Hebrew which was a sort of patois made up of a mixture of Syriac and...

(Sirnpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—An introductory note to this novel states that "the main facts of the story have occurred in [?] the personal knowledge of the author," and though,...

and Soul Dublin ; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London.)—A young clerical tutor wins the heart of a fair pupil; her mother objeets to the mar- r iage, and suppresses and forges...

la Rue and Co.)—For some time past, a wholesome change has come over the spirit in which the Anglo-Indian as well as the insular Briton have regarded the subject populations of...

Howard- Yyse, (Hatchards.)—These extracts from a diary kept by Mrs. Hovvard-Vyse during her stay in Tangier are so far successful, that they bring vividly before the reader...

and Blackett.)—There have been complaints, usually from those prosaic creatures, men, of the almost universal limitation of novels to the single emotion of love; and perhaps,...

ten lectures which wore delivered in Edinburgh in the winter before last, and are now published in this convenient form. Whore all is good, it is difficult to indicate a...

Ebers. Translated from the German by Mary I. Safford. (W. S. Gottsberger, New York.)—Herr Ebers has interpreted in words a picture by Alma Tadema. Xanthe, the daughter of...