UNIVERSITY REFORM LEGISLATION. HENEVER any measure of University Reform is before 1W Parliament, a petition bearing the common seal of Oxford is sure to be presented against...

"'THE REAL PRESENCE." rro THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-L am much obliged by your insertion of my letter in this day's impression, and I should have been more thankful...

LORD ROMILLY. [To THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-In last week's impression of the Solicitors Joutrld are contained some remarks upon our former letter to you. Now, as...

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HISTORY OF NAPOLEON I.* M. NICOLAS BATJIN, " istoriographer," gives three reasons why the life of Napoleon I. ought to be written at the present time, and no other; and one why...

CURRENT LITrERATURE. The North British Review. June. (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas.)-It seems somewhat late in the day to re-open the discussion on Mr. Darwin's " Origin...

I Sinie Hlabits and Customns of the W-orkinig Classes. By a Journeyman I Engineer. (Tinsley.)-We believe this Journeyman Engineer to be what he professes himself, and his...

I Tt Contemporary Reviewv. June. (Strahan.)-The most striking paper in the present number of the soutemlporary,-which, taken all in all, is far above the average,-is tihe Dean...

i e Irish People and the Irish Land. A Letter to Lord Lifford. By I Ihaac Batt. (Ridgway.)-In a former work, Mr. Batt proposed that all Irish landlords should be required to...

The King of Prussia arrived in Paris on W1'ednesday, and was I received by the population even more coldly than the Czar. There was no cheering and very little curiosity,...

West London was given up on Tuesday to brigands. The City of London Militia were out, and the thieves, seeing an opportunity, organized a foray through the streets. Bands of...

A A report has been circulated this week that the Queeni intended to establish a convalescent hospital in connection with St. Bartholoinew's, at a cost of half a million. The...

The Times has been quite earnest aud eloquent in favour of I cumulative voting in cases where there arc three seats. On Thursday it quoted all the cases in which sonic plan of...

| The evil star of the I-louse of IHapsburg seems to be fairly in the ascendant. Thc Archduke Maximilian is in the hands of Juarez, and has perhaps been shot in revenge for...

Air. Serjeant Gaselee's motion to disfranchise absolutely boroughs I with a population beneath 5,000 came on for discussion on Monday, and was defeated by a majority of 52,-217...

O One of the most spirited little debates of the sesioa took pOaec yesterday week in the House of Commulons, oln the question of the Irish Catholic University an(1 thc Queen's...

NEWTS OF THE WEEK. THIE Czar is not enjoying himself in Paris. The Parisians have a strong feeling about Poland, and wherever the Emperor Alexander goes he is sure to hear...

Paris Universal Exhibition 0/ 1867. Catalo!/ue of the British Section. (Spottiswoode and Co.)-This gigantic volume is certainly a marvel of cheapness, for it contains 1,150...

.iAn Inquiiy into the AlijeIt RoutetS betireen Itgly (l~ (;aul; withi an lxatmilination of the Theory of lIalnlibaI's Passage of the Alps by the I Little St. Bernard. By Robert...

The Six Cushions. By the Author of The Heir of RJedclyff'e. (J. and I 'C. Mozley.)-The opening of this story is somewhat unpropitious, and gave rise from the first to scoffing...

A Hunter's Experiences in t1te Southern States of America. By Cap- i tain Flack, " the Ranger." (Longmans.)-The scenes to which Captaiu I Flack introduces us are wild and...

A WVife axd Not a 1'i f. A Novel. By Cyrus Redding. Three vyo. I (Saunders, Otley, and Co.) -The less said of this novel the better. The title and the opening chapters seem...

I sAn Outline ot Logic. By tho Rev. Francis Garden. (Rivingtons.)- Logic, which i3 intended to mako all things clear, is constantly taught and discussed in such a way as to...

I Olur S c1hools and Colleqes. By Herbert Fry. First annual edition. (Hardwicke.)-This work is meant as a guide to pareuts and guardians in the despairing search for a school...

It seems the " milk of commerce " is not pure milk, but milk I with one-third of water, coloured with annotta, or some such beastly ingredient. T. Rogers, milkman, of...

On1 Monday, Consols for money were first (lone at 9441, i ; yesterday, they closed at 94 to 94j, and for the account, 94k, ,. lReduced and New Three per Cents., 93J "; Bank...

Convocation has met again, and protested against any inter- ference of the Legislature in Church qluestioi s or ritual without the consent of the Church,-i.e., without the...

The Pall lAall Gazette is not usually petulant, but it seemns to have taken our verv natural criticism of last week, which almost -every one whom we have heard mention the...

The reconciliation between the Hapsburgs and Hungary appears to be at last complete, and the Kaiser is to be crowned with all the ancient ceremonial. The German Reichsrath...

At the recent annual meeting of the mebnliers of the London Library,-one of the most useful literary institultio13 of Loudon, and also, by the way, one of those whose...

The English " Coilmissioners " sent to the Exposition in Paris, I and more especially the Colonial Commissioners, complain bitterly of the neglect with which they are treated...

THE VILLAGE BOROUGHS. TEHE House of Commons has decided, after two wretched debates, in which nobody said a word worth hearing, that the village boroughs shall remain. The...

BARLOW ON SYM13OLISM.* TnItsE three essays appear to have been compiled from a comnmentary on somc miscellaneous specimens of ancient and medi~eval art, the illustrations and...

MR. DISRAELI'S MOD US OPER'Al D DI. 1HERE was a hymn to Mir. Disraeli in the Globe of last 1 Thursday week which we thought on the whole very just and candid, though perhaps...

OITGHT THE COUNTIES TO HAVE THE NEW SEATS ? iT is a great pity that Mr. Disraeli has not seen fit to let I the question of cumulative voting, in places where there may be three...

A REFORMI OF THE LORDS. THERE is one primary difficulty in the way of a Reform of the House of Lords. Any sound reform must strengthen it, and politicians are by no means...

DR. TYNDALL ON MIRACLES AND SCIENCE. D R. TYNDALL is the prophet of Physical Science. There is a Itmoral force and vividness of intellect about all he writes which fascinates...

I The P'eninsular and Orithetal Comipany-for tile first time, we believe, in their career-have failed to declare a dividend. They have lost 3Q,0001. on the operations of the...

L Lord Henry Gordon lives in Hampton Court, and got into debt, and a writ was issued to seize his goods. Ile pleaded the privilege of the Palace, and the question was argued...

I The Admiralty has been acting this week with somewhat rash humanity. It seems that a lad recently entered on board the IPho(be was seized by his brother middies and a broad...

There was a good debate onl Weduesday on Mr. Ewart's Bill for extending the influence of the two Universities by allowving persons " resident in the town, and not connected...

It is, it appears, a very grave thing to prescut a book to the 'Library of Convocation. It must not be improper, or untrue, or heretical, or, in fact, anything upon which...

Laite on Frilay wDel tlie l1Ituio of Commons outvoted the Ministry in the vote for thc University of London's new building, Mr. Layard moving and carrying by a majority of 6...

I rhe last Christian State which supports Slavery on a great scale has begun to contemplate the possibility of abolishing it. The Emperor of Brazil, who wants soldiers much to...

PARIS IN AX EXNILBITION WEEK. IT is very fall. That, we think, is the first impression a visitor to Paris now receives, anti it remains with him during his stay. The brilliant...

CATHAY, AND THE WAY THITHER.* JARRIC, the Jesuit historian, has stated his belief that '; if Plato were to rise from I-ades he would declare that his imnagined Republic was...

THE NEW INDUSTRIAL GOSPEL. TII ERE are signs about us on every side which seem to proclaim, more and more clearly every day, that the old fabric of trade and commerce, the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. TIHE LUXEMBURG PAPERS. THIE final papers on the Luxemburg affair, presented to Parliament this week, place four or five questions, which a month ago were of...

THE PROVINCIAL HISTORY OF ENGLAND. XXX.-KENT:-SAXON PERIOD. W E have already discussed so fully the questions connected with a the derivation and conquests of the so-called ,1...