A rather remarkable speech was made by Canon Furse at the Central Council of Diocesan Conferences on AWednesday, in favour of a liberal view being taken by the Chiurch of all...

Mr. Balfour obtained leave to bring in his Irish Drainage I Bills and his Light Railways Bill for Ireland on Monday, whereupon Mr. Parnell made a very remarkable speech, in...

The Lord Chief Justice agreed in this part of Baron Pollock's opinion, but decided against the Bishop's use of his discretion, on the ground that the reasons he had riven for...

The Court of Queen's Bench gave judgment this day week I on the application for a mandamus to direct the Bishop of London to rehear the complaint against the new reredos at St....

Mr. Chaplin made a remarkably lucid speech on the thorny I question of Bimetallism on Tuesday night, explaining how, in the opinion of the bimetallists, the virtual abolition...

The Awakening of Mary Fenwick. By Beatrice Whitby. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)-Miss Whitby opens her story with the picture of a "semi-attached couple "-bride and...

Pen and Ink. By Brander Matthews. (Longmans.)-Some of these papers are excellent. That on " Ethics of Plagiarism " exposes very smartly some silly and spiteful nonsense that...

Lives of the Fathers. By Frederic WV. Farrar, D.D. 2 vols. (A. I and C. Black.)-" The reader will find in the following pages," writes Archdeacon Farrar in his preface, " some...

N NEW EDITIoNs.-Metaphysica, Nova et Vetusta. By Scot-Ls I Novanticus. (Williams and Norgate.) In "The Ancient and Modern Library of Theological Literature" (Griffith and...

The June number of Cassell's Family Magazinie is a rather poor | one. Of the miscellaneous articles, only two, Mr. Munro's on I " The Working of the Telephone," and " Your...

The Journal of Education keeps up its reputation. There are some excellent papers in the June number, notably " Some Unsatisfactory Features of Women's Colleges," and "...

The June number of Scrilmer's Magazine is an exceptionally strong one. Mr. Stevenson's story, " The Master of Ballautrae," steadily improves, in spite of the melancholy which...

The Colonial Office has accepted the resignation of Sir Hercules Robinson, Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner in South Africa. Lordj Knutsford on Monday, in announcing...

Mr. Balfour made a brilliant speech on Wednesday in Bar- I - -- - ; -1I - 1 _ rard's Amphitheatre. Portsmouth, at a crowded meeting under the presidency of Lord Northbrook, who...

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times reports that during the inquest on the murder of Dr. Cronin, some of the witnesses have made a definite charge against Mr. Alexander...

The "' Plan of Campaign " is evidently breaking down. Lord Massareene, after offering most liberal terms, found that the " Plan of Campaign" had been applied to his estate on...

The peoples of the Balkan have been thrown into a fever of expectation by an incident reported from St. Petcrsburg. The Prince of Montenegro has been visiting the Czar; one of...

Mr. Balfour also gave a vivid sketch of the character of the Irish agitators to whom Mr. Morley had proposed, in a speech at Portsmouth, to transfer the Irish government in...

ART. P 0 THE ROYAL ACADEMY. I c [THIRD NOTICE.] a ON entering Gallery VII., the visitor can hardly fail to notice I Mr. Sargent's sketch-portrait of )1r. Irving (63S)....

A RUSTIC SUPERSTITION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-The following instance of a curious belief held by -country folk may interest some of your readers. An old man...

POE T R Y. "LINES WRITTEN IN DEJECTION" AMONG THE I CIJMBRIAN MOUNTAINS. 'Go, climb the dark brow of the mighty Helvellyn; Ignite profane pipe upon Catchedecam; Swill, guzzle...

THE SCOTTISH CHURCHES. THE Ecclesiastical Parliaments of Scotland, which have T -now ended their brief yearly sittings, are of kin to the Einglish Houses of Convocation, but do...

Al. NAQUET'S DEFENCE OF BOULANGISM. . HE defence of Boulangism by M. Naquet, with which "TMessrs. Longmans commence their audacious speculation, the Neiv Review, deserves a...

SIR JULIUS VOGEL ON A.D. 2000.* WE do not know whether this is Sir Julius Vogel's first effort in the purely literary line, but we hope it will not be his last. With all its...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. A GREAT calamity is reported from Pennsylvania. It had been raining terribly on the Alleghanies for some days, and all the rivers running eastwards were...

The Times' correspondent states that the address forwarded by two hundred Members of Parliament to M. Carnot, protesting against the absence of Lord Lytton from the opening of...

The French Government is inclined, it would se en, to raise once more the question of the evacuation of Egypt. M. Spuller, now Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated on Tuesday in...

The catastrophe exceeds in magnitude any sudden European disaster of our time, even the destruction of Szegedin in 1879, though, of course, it does not approach the Irish...

Mr. Gladstone left London on the Derby Day for a tour in the South-West, chiefly by yacht, and received and acknowledged on Wednesday afternoon addresses from the Liberals of...

MR. GLADSTONE'S TOUR. 7 ,[R. GLADSTONE has started on his summer I IL\ campaign of holiday work with an evident inten-e tion of heartily enjoying himself, as well as doing all...

THE RESIGNATION OF SIR H. ROBINSON. THE Governrnent has been right in accepting the resignation of Sir Hercules Robinson. It is clear from his speech of April 27th, before his...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE GREAT CALAMITY IN PENNSYLVANA. W57E suppose, though it is not a matter to be dogmatic AV about, that it is a certain similarity in their physical...

THE PENALTIES OF ROYALTY.* MR. BURDETT, who, if not a man of letters, is evidently a very loyal subject, once took a journey to Russia, where he seems to have satisfied himself...

PIECEMEAL SOCIALISM. TIIE protest made by Lord Bramwell and his colleagues T of the Libertv and Property Defence League against the Public Bills infringing the principles of...

THE SUPPOSED IDOLATRY AT ST. PAUL'S. L ORD COLERIDGE is not himself afraid of idolatry at St. Paul's. "iPersonally," he says, 'I have no objection whatever to the crucifix, nor...

EXPLORING THE ATLAS.* As Morocco seems likely at no distant day to become inore or less a " question," and as all solid information (onceriling the land and people is welcome,...

THE MAGAZINES. THE magazines are not of startling interest this month, perhaps the best paper being Mr. A. G. Bradley's account in M1acmillan of " The Poor Whites of the...

THE NEW HABIT OF LAUDATION. IT is a relief to read the answer which Lord George Hamilton made to Mr. W. Corbet on Monday evening. Captain Kane, of the 'Calliope,' as our...

THE MYSTERY OF THE MOORS. U NTIL M. Pasteur or some other scientific investigator _U shall have studied it, grouse-disease, it is probable, will remain a mystery. There are...

MAKING A START IN CANADA.t ONE or two of these letters have appeared in our own columns, but not enough of them to give our ra':ders any adequate conception of the...

THE RECENT DEBATE ON VIVISECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. 1 SiB,-With reference to the brain experiments instanced by Miss Cobbe in her letter printed in your last...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. LORD BEACONSFIELD AND THE PRIMROSE. JTo Tiir EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."'] SiR,-O wigl, to mv absence from London, which my health, now (D.V.) nearlvy...

THE RATIONALE OF THE IMMORALITY OP GAMBLING. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-You again maintain, in the Spectator of May 15th, that gambling-staking money in games of...

OAK-APPLE DAY. [TO TIlE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.."] SIR,-Yesterday was " Oak-Apple Day," and to my surprise I came on a large station in this county where it seems to be'...

DEATE. BrCKLER.-On the 31st ult., at Tenterden, Henry Peach Buckler, formerly of WarminsP r and London, in his 93rd year. Will friends please accept this intimration ?

CURRENT LITERATURE. East and West is the title of a new sixpunny ma-azine, publislied by Messrs. Ward and Downey. It would br imllpo.ssil>le to say, however, from the first...

BO OK S. . LETTERS ON ARTILLERY.* ANY one who wishes to understand why it was that in 1870 the German Army crushed the resistance of France in a few weeks, will do well to...

THE STATE TRIALS: NEW SERIES.* IT is difficult to assign a reason why the Reports of the State Trials, which had been published steadily from 1719 onwards, should have been...

MR. BALFOUR'S WARNING. fR. BALFOUR'S very powerful delineation of the AI1 habits and methods of the Irish agitator should be a warning to Irish agitators,-but we fear that thev...