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SUPPLEMENT TO THE SPECTATOR] January 19, 1684. INDE X.-1883. TOPICS OF THE DAY. — — Defeat of the Government on ... 563 44 A DU TELFAN "—Herr Raabe ... ... 414 Affirmation...

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The Council of the Church Association have openly .06n= demned

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the Bishop of London for his share in the arrangement which has transferred Mr. Mackonochie to St. Peter's, London Docks, and Mr. Suckling to St. Alban's, Holborn, and by...

The Times assures the world that Lord Granville has ad-.

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dressed a Circular to the Powers recapitulating what has been done in Egypt, but not asking permission to do anything, and not expressing any distinct view of the future. The...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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M GAMBETTA expired on Sunday, the last day of the old • year, a few minutes before midnight. He was aware that there was no hone, and before death unconsciousness had...

The new Archbishop (Designate) of Canterbury has taken farewell of

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his Truro diocese, in a letter which is, to our minds, rather wanting in simplicity :—" I believe you think it was right," he says, "to accept this call to the Primacy. I could...

t * * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

The effect of the event in foreign countries cannot as

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yet be fully seen, because the papers are fettered by useful conven- tional rules, but we believe the following will be fotind to be near the truth. In England, there is...

We have said enough of M. Gambetta's character elsewhere, and

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have here only to consider the effect of his disappearance. In France, this has not as yet been so great as was expected, though the Government has ordered a State funeral, and...

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Mr. Herbert Gladstone on Saturday made a speech at Peebles,

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in which he stated that the condition of Ireland was improving. There were but 65 agrarian offences in October, 1882, against 21.6 in October, 1881; 90,622 applications had been...

The Standard has renewed its statements about negotiations with the

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Vatican, and even quoted despatches alleged to have passed between Cardinal Maccabe and Cardinal Jacobini. Cardinal Maccabe, however, denies their authenticity, while the...

Hounslow has been the scene this week of a sort

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of mild insur- rection. A practitioner there, Dr. Edwardes, purchased of the local inedical officer, Dr. Whitmarsh, a share of his practice, for 21,800. Dr. Edwardes was not...

Count Wimpffen, Austrian Ambassador in Paris, shot him- self in

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a by-street on the 30th ult. Sings never kill them- selves—unless, indeed, Nicholas of Russia, as was rumoured at the time, died with his own consent—and Ambassadors so rarely,...

A good commencement has already been made towards this decentralisation.

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It is stated that Mr. Forster's division of Ireland into Five Districts, each under a " Special Resident Magistrate," who aots as a Royal Commissioner, and is within his...

Sir Charles Dilke has been making a series of speeches

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in Chelsea, in which it seems to have been his object to sustain the part of President of the Local Government Board with something of that superfluity of thoroughness displayed...

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Complaints of the unauthorised publication of Bishop Wilber- force's very

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flimsy and rather unscrupulous gossip multiply daily. In our own columns, Mrs. Oliphant gives reasons for not believing in the accuracy of a report of a supposed conversation...

The rumours from Zululand are hardly intelligible. It is -.stated,

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more especially in the Daily News, that though Cetewayo is about to be restored, he will receive only a third of his kingdom, that he is to obey in all things a British...

Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice has been appointed Under-Secre- tary for Foreign

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Affairs, in the place of Sir Charles Dilke; while Lord Enfield, who, since Lord Kimberley, the new Indian Secretary, is in the House of Lords, cannot any longer hold the -office...

The Lord Chancellor has been raised from a Baron to

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an Earl, and is now to be styled Earl of Selborne,—a perfectly ideal title, if the United Kingdom can furnish an ideal title. at all.

Sir W. Harcourt is blamed for saying that cremation ought

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not to be sanctioned, except under the authority of an Act of Parliament. But it is a matter of some moment, in a time when poisoning is so frequent, thatr the means of...

We see with pleasure that the Education Department have censured

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the managers of a school at Worleston, in Cheshire, for making a short Church service part of the religious in- struction given to the children of an elementary school. The...

Do all the Dukes get the Garter, as a matter

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of course P We -observe that the vacant Garter has been conferred on the Duke of Grafton, of whom we only know that he saw service in the -Crimea, and is Equerry to the Queen....

Lord Elcho, after a very long experience as a Commoner—

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he has sat for forty years in the House of Commons—has sue- -ceeded to the Peerage, through the death of his father, the Earl of Wemyss and March, in his eighty-seventh year....

Mr. Clarke, M.P., speaking at Plymouth on Wednesday even- ing,

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made the regular conventional Conservative speech of the present time, assailing the Government for everything they had done, except the Bill for permitting the issue of Reply...

Bank Rate, 5 per cent.

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Consols were on Friday 1011 to 1011 ex, div.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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M. GAMBETTA. T HAT strange continuousness in the destiny of individuals which is so often noticeable in history marked the career of Gambetta to the end. His death was but the...

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COUNTY FRANCHISE AND REDISTRIBUTION.

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S IR CHARLES DILKE has alarmed some of our Liberal contemporaries, both in the provinces and in London, by saying that the Government have not yet made up their minds whether to...

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THE GREAT INDIAN DANGER.

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1p14 . XTERNALLY, everything in India is at peace just now. Lord Ripon is governing sensibly and well, with unusual appreciation from native's, and with little criticism, except...

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MR. RAIKES ON OPPOSITION.

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M R. RAIKES'S article, in the Nineteenth Century, on the duties of Opposition, is interesting chiefly as betraying how curiously deep the Tories' belief still is that by highly...

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THE BRITISH PROPOSAL FOR THE SUEZ CANAL. T HE Times of

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Friday makes an announcement which, if true, is of great importance. The British Government, after a deliberation almost needlessly long, has agreed to pro- pose to the Powers...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN ON LOCAL TAXATION.

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M OST people have at one time or another been stopped on their way from a foreign station to their hotel by the officers of the Octroi, and many of them, perhaps, have thought...

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MONEYED WIVES.

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I T is only necessary to read the " Instructions " about Deposits issued by the Postmaster-General on January 1st, to see the extent of the change which will be effected by the...

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M. RENAN ON THE " AMUSINGNESS " OF THE AGE.

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M RENAN, in the striking autobiographical study which • be has recently contributed to the Bevue des Deux Mendes,—a sketch of himself which well deserves separate...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE BISHOP OF MANCHESTER AND MILES PL.A.TTENG. [To THE Burros or rum "SrscrAroa."] Sra,—Unlike my old friend, Mr. Hughes, I feel very grateful to the Spectator for the line...

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1

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SIR,—I have read with deep regret your remarks on the refusal of the Bishop of Manchester to institute Mr. Cowgill to the living of St. John's, Miles Platting. I agree with Mr....

SIR JOHN LUBBOCK AND THE FINANCE OF 1881-2.

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[To TEN EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] do not often see the Spectator when out of town, but the number for December 23rd I got because I wanted to read a friend's article on...

r TO TECO EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Not wishing

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other than the right shoulders to bear the responsibility Of holding an opinion with which Mr. Thomas Hughes disagrees, I write to say that the view that a Bishop "goes beyond...

rTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1

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Sra,—Is there not a fair defence of the Bishop of Manchester upon the charge of truce-breaking which you bring against him P There are two benefices now in exactly the same...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." I

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SIR,—Permit me to say that your article on the Bishop of Manchester's refusal to institute Mr. Cowgill to St. John's, Miles Platting, is not characterised by that fairness which...

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MRS. OLIPHANT AND BISHOP WILBERFORCE. LTO THE EDITOR OF "Tin

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SPECTATOR."] SIB,--S0 many people have been alarmed and dismayed by Mr. Wilberforce's indiscreet publication, that you will, perhaps, permit me to ask whether one should not...

THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNALS IN EGYPT. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE

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" SPECIATOR.1 your note upon Egyptian affairs, in the last number of the Spectator, you allude to the difficulty, in regard to law re- form, caused by the existing...

HARINGTON ANTIQUITIES.

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Me ma EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—As the antiquities of my family seem to possess a greater interest for your readers than I should have supposed would attach to co...

THE WIT AND WISDOM OF LORD LYTTON.

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LTO THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR.1 Sla,—In your notice of "The Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton," you ask, with reference to myself, " Why did- he not remind its—though it be...

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PROFESSOR ROSCOE ON THE EXPERIMENTAL INOCULATION OF MADNESS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF SHE " SPECTATOR: 3 ] SM — With reference to your strongly-worded paragraph re- specting Pasteur's experiments on rabies, I would venture to remark that your...

ART.

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ROSSETTI AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. THE Royal Academicians, in their Academic capacity, can hardly have had a very merry Christmas-time. Scarcely had the last revels of Boxing Day...

POETRY.

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MIND-STUFF. SYSTEM DES THANSCENDENTALEN IDEALISM:1B. "Awl coxcombs vanquish Berkeley with a grin." You said that life was Lyric,— Or Epic, was it, you said P Your words are...

SIR NOEL PATON'S "DESIGNS FROM SHELLEY AND SHAKESPEARE."

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rTo THY fiDITOZ OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit, — As it is a matter that somewhat concerns my character for good-taste, and, indeed, for common-sense, will you kindly allow me to...

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BOOKS.-

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LIVING ENGLISH POETS.* THE editors of this volume of selections from living English poets lay great stress on the principle they have adopted of presenting, "in chronological...

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THE FRIENDSHIPS OF MARY RUSSELL MITFORD.* ABOUT thirteen years ago,

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Mr. L'Estrange published in three volumes a Life of Miss Mitford, "related in a selection of letters to her friends." The book, as we said at the time, abounds with delightful...

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MISS BURNEY'S CECILIA.* IN his Diary written in London in

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1826, Sir Walter Scott records an interview with Madame d'Arblay. The passage is worth quoting, for the author of Evelina describing the triumph of her youth presents a...

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TWO WORKS ON KANT.*" IT is a remarkable fact that,

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until quite recently, we have had no biography of Kant in the English language. The great ii.s\ sthil German metaphysician has exercised a most powerful influence on English...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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MESSRS. BLACKWOOD are probably not delighted at the slur cast on them by the proposal to establish a new Conserva- tive magazine, and Blackwood for January contains quite a...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Corneille and Racine. By Henry M. Trollope. La Fontaine, and other French Fabulists. By the Rev. W. Lucas Collins, M.A. (Blackwood.)—In the first of these two volumes of...

The Fourth Book of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus.

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By Hastings Crossley, M.A., Professor of Greek in Queen's College, Belfast. (Macmillan.)—Seven years ago, Mr. Crossley tells us that he "conceived the idea of producing such an...

With the publication of Ferdinand's Adventure (Routledge), we are glad

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to welcome back Lord Brabonme to his old seat on the back of the nursery hobby-horse. He should never have left it for party politics, the Channel Tunnel, and a peerage that...

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Abu Telfan ; or, the Return from the Mountains of

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the Moon, a novel, by Wilhelm Raabe, translated from the German by Sofia Delffs (Chapman and Hall), is introduced with a considerable flourish of trumpets by the translator as...

Mr. Aloodc, the author of "The Spanish Brothers," has just

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pub- lished two works—The Czar (Nelsen) and The Roman Students (Unwin)—which, from their peculiar character—their bringing history to the aid of Evangelical religion—should make...

An Englishman's Views on Questions of the Day in Victoria,

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by C. J. Rowe (Triibner and Co.), may be thoroughly recommended as a compact little handbook of the various questions that at present press for solution in our leading...

In Stories of Old Renown (Blackie and Son), we have

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that now veteran literary caterer for the young, Mr. Ascott R. Hope, retelling such old tales as "Ogler the Dane," "Patient Griselda," "Guy of Warwick," and " Genevave of...

The Steam-engine and its Inventors. By R. L. Galloway. (Mac-

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millan and Co.)—Here we have the story of the steam-engine ones more told, and told carefully and clearly. Mr. Galloway does not take us back beyond the seventeenth century, but...

The Larch : a Practical Treatise on its Culture and

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General Manage- ment. By C. Y. Miohie. (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—This is a really valuable book, and an interesting one also. It is clearly the outcome of much practical...

Mises PosTRY.—The Legend of St. Olaf's Kirk. By George Hough-

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ton. (Houghton and Co., Boston ; Triibner and Co., London.)—In this booklet we have a narrative in verse, founded on a Scandinavian legend. The author names "Prior's Ancient...

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The Acclimatisation of the Salmonichr at the Antipodes. By Arthur

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Nichols. (Sampson Low.)—The di.Lculties which have been at last successfully met in the introduction of our salmon into Australasia are faithfully described in this volume.

Light : a Course of Experimental Optics. By Lewis Wright.

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(Macmillan and Co.)—The main characteristic of this well-written and amply illustrated handbook is its practicalness. Science teachers who are determined to teach optics as they...

NEW NOVELS. — Royal Angus. By Lord James Douglas. (Bentley and Son.)

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—If Lord James Douglas's picture of the life, the aspirations, the conduct, and the conversation of young men of the class to which he himself belongs, is to be accepted by...