C ONFERENCE, it is said, meets to-day in Paris to discuss the Turkish ultimatum, and possibly other things, though these are strictly forbidden, and Aemil Pasha threatens to...

THE NEW MOVEMENT IN IRELAND. A GREAT and entirely unexpected change appears to be passing over politics in Ireland. When Mr. Gladstone's proposals were first brought forward,...

1VI ANY Ritualists, and many who are not Ritualists, who are genuine Liberals, seem to feel that there is something thoroughly inconsistent with Liberal views in either...

and Paraguay seems at last to brighten. When the heroic Dictator, compelled to abandon his position on the Tebiquari, retreated behind the fortifications of his last artificial...

A N able correspondent in another column answers very completely a rather foolish and ignorant article in the Saturday Review of a fortnight ago on the London University's...

T HE Annual Budget of the United States has for Europe not only a financial, but an intellectual interest. The Bourses want, of course, to know, and to know from official...

new taxes, and all manner of measures not yet passed, and simply ask whether, judged by European standards, that is or is not a good Treasury Budget. Those are the bare facts of...

T HE curious, though by no means unexampled case of George Nickern, a German, of New .Orleans, who, after being all but killed by a fall from a platform some months ago, and for...

A N essayist, in the number of the Westminster Review published this week, asks a question which, though purely speculative, has an interest for the students of English...

French Empire may well be described as "a vast and laborious operation." It is a task which was imposed upon a Special Commission appointed by the Imperial Government, in a...

LXXXVL—CENTRAL ENGLAND: RUTLAND, LEICESTERSHIRE, AND NOTTINGHAMSHIRE :—(Concluded.) N EWARK, or as it is called by way of distinction, Newarknpon-Trent, is situated twenty miles...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE `. SPECTATOH.1 SIR,—Considering the marked and rapid success which the University of London has attained I venture to think that any well considered plan...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —It is a fact, though perhaps a paradoxical one, that only confirmed sufferers can perceive the bright side of their afflictions. The...

Ef0 TIIE EDITOR OF TI1E "SPECTATOR...) much question the propriety of discussing theology in a newspaper, but as your article last Saturday, "The Double Bearing of the St....

Stmt,—In your article on the Privy Council judgment you assert that " the latter [i.e., the Evangelicals] must even turn their backs to the people during the consecration." Is...

'DIE child from rest of heart shouts out its song, And smiles the grateful smile of summer flowers ; Our rest is marred by toil, our right by wrong, Our hearts are joyless in...

MISS COBBE'S TELEOLOGY.* THE difficulty we feel in reviewing Miss Cobbe's survey of the theological tendencies of the day consists chiefly in this, —that while we fully...

To the generation born since the first Reform Bill Lord Liverpool has ever been a mogul nominis umbra. With these three ponderous volumes tied round his neck, he will not be...

IN the year 1856 a young English chemist, experimenting with some of the products derived from coal tar, discovered a new dye of unexampled brilliancy and beauty. Though the...

AVE noticed last week the best paper in the Fortnightly, and the remainder of the number is a trifle dull. We notice, however, that the editor either by accident or design, is...

EvERLASTINO PUNDMIdIetT.—The Kingdom of God; or, What is the Gospel. By Henry Dann. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.) The Word! or, Universal Redemption and Salvation. By George Mann...