AIR. GLADSTONE introduced his great Irish Church measure in on Monday in a speech of marvellous art, in which he spread out a mass of detail enough to have crushed any other...

THE MINISTERIAL MEASURE. I T is well not to holloa till you are out of the wood, and it would be folly to begin that never very remunerative process on the very morrow of...

W E trust the country will not allow itself, in its admiration of Mr. Gladstone's speech on the Irish Church, to forget the moral grandeur of the occasion on which it was...

M R. BRUCE'S Bill for the prevention of crime—for though. introduced in the Peers by Lord Kimberley, it is• Mr. Bruce's bill—is a very efficient and yet very moderate measure....

m a SYKES obtained leave last week to bring in a Bill for the preservation of sea-gulls and other sea-birds from wanton destruction, by making the slaughter of them during the...

T HERE is a task before the Spanish Cortes heavier than the election of a monarch, or even than the construction of an orderly republic, and that is the radical re-organization...

I T is now some five hundred and sixty-five years since King Edward I. and his Parliament made (1304) an "ordinance and final definition of conspirators." They reckoned four...

1V I a. ROTTEN has done the present generations of children and of elders alike, a very great service in reproducing an exquisite facsimile* of the greatest of Cruikahank's...

T HERE is one point in the Catholic system of " religious " life which has always been something of a puzzle to us, and that is the physical compulsion which the Church,...

[FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRF:SPONDENT.] New York, February 19, 1869. ABOUT the time when this letter will have a chance of being laid before the readers of the Spectator they will...

ITO THE EDITOR OF TOE "SPEVTATOR:1 Sin,—Your comments on the Liverpool suicide last week make the following extracts interesting. They are taken from a Melbourne paper,...

[To roe EDITOR Or rue "SPECTATOR •.] Sin,—Allow me to add a very few words to those of your correspondent "J. IL," in reference to your other correspondent " K V. N." To any...

SIR,-1 think the frequent argument, again brought forward by " J. R." in your last number, that in the utterance of the above words Christ must be understood in the same sense...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I willingly concede to your correspondent "J. R." that is may be used for signifies, and that it is so used in the passages referred...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] SIR, —The important mental phenomena recently discussed in your journal under the perhaps somewhat questionable title of " BrainWaves" are in...

(TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR:1 Sm,—To prevent any misunderstanding, and to allow a most respected clergyman to receive the approbation which his noble deed deserves,...

SIR J. T. COLERIDGE'S MEMOIR OF KEBLE.* rum is a fascinating book, because it is a book written from the heart, and concerning one whose great qualities,---and they were very...

properly of a critic who called one of his essays an elegant jeremiad,—the compositions of Jeremiah being those among the Hebrew prophets to which he is least attracted, which...

So many American writers have placed on record in recent years their impressions of English character and society, that there seems hardly a place left for the lively critic who...

THERE is one little mistake in Mr. Smith's opening sentences. He expects an attack from captious critics on the ground that too much has been written about the East already, and...

Tait Fortnightly is the best of the magazines this month, or at least the most readable, and its most interesting paper is one by Professor Beesly on " The Future of the Working...

The Witness of the Old Testament to Christ. The Boyle Lectures for 1868. By the Rev. Stanley Leathes, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—We Soul ourselves in accord with the writer rather in...