Palliser, as to the policy of retreating from Cabal, in the face of the disaster at Candahar. He has replied that the step was adopted on the strong recommendation of Sir D....

as to the intended Naval demonstration against Turkey, but did not take much by his motion. Lord Granville's reply told him nothing, except that our disaster in Afghanistan...

succeed Sir Bartle Frere at the Cape of Good Hope ; and Sir Arthur Gordon is to succeed Sir Hercules Robinson in New Zealand. We believe both appointments to be good, the latter...

"Corti compromise," or have made over the town and territory of Dulcigno, and this Turkey is at last making every prepara- tion to cede. At the same time, she is hoping against...

Mr. A. Balfour on Monday, that all the Powers of Europe have at lust withdrawn their objections to the mobilisation of the Greek Army, England having been the last to give way....

T HE news from. Afghanistan this week is decidedly favourable. Ayoub Khan has followed the example of Mabommed Jan, in not pushing his success. As late as August 8th, Khelat-i-...

of Greece, the attitude of Turkey is even more dubious. That the con- cession made to Montenegro at the Congress of Berlin was absolutely made, even Turkey does not dispute ;...

case.

sharp duels between Lord Elcho and Sir William Harcourt, Lord Eleho suggesting that possibly the tenants would put guns into their labourers' hands, which would be used in the...

—as it is aupposed,—at Passage, near Cork. On Wednesday night, a Norwegian ship, which was lying at Passage West Docks, Cork, for repairs, was boarded by forty men in six boats,...

commercial travellers on Monday night, when he referred to the attitude of France towards her Army in the following words :- "Grand reparation may issue from right. W e or our...

in the House of Commons by an enormous majority,-258, against 79. We regret to say that Mr. Osborne Morgan, in his able speech on moving the second reading, did not propose any...

Mr. Charles Daniel Boyd, the son of Mr. Boyd, who is agent toMr. Tottenham and also Crown Solicitor, was killed by a ball fired at him on Sunday, when in company with his...

Com- mittee, the landlords having reserved for that gofer stage of the Bill the opposition which they did not venture to give to.itseeeond reading. The heroes of the obstruction...

the occasion of the visit of the three Presidents,—President Gr4vy, President Leon Say, and President Gambetta, to the great Naval port. Various difficulties had to be overcome...

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, the eminent scholar and jurist, who was a man of the most thorough learning, of the most modest scholarship, and of the most severe...

found guilty of manslaughter for the neglect of Mrs. Morgan in the bath, was three months' imprisonment, without hard labour. We believe she deserved either a severer sentence,...

Mr. Roberts was not legally returned, and that corrupt practices prevailed generally at the election. The election was declared void on account of the lavish hiring of...

by a majority of 1,901, the numbers being, for Lord Cland, 21,019 votes, against 19,118 given for Mr. Plimsoll. The majority is actually less, but relatively rather greater than...

Times of last Saturday that Sir William Gull, in his evidence in the Guy's Hospital case, " has cast what I consider an unwarrantable aspersion upon my professional capacity." '...

day the " Flying Scotchman," coming south, became a wreck within three miles of Berwick,—from causes not yet explained, but probably due to coming round a sharp curve at too...

Beres- ford Hope, who contemplated the probability of women per- forming the burial service, and pictured to himself the feeling of a clergyman on seeing "perched on a tombstone...

we heard that the steamer Jeddah,' of Singapore, bound for Jeddah, with 953 pilgrims on board, foundered off Cape Gnardafui on the 8th inst. " All on board perished," it was...

T "plan just adopted in Afghanistan strikes us as singu- larly bold and able. If it is Lord Ripon's, Englishmen need not doubt that he will keep India safe ; and if it is Sir...

MR. BRIGHT. IF the present Session had done nothing else for us, it would have done much in illustrating to the youngest of our politicians the great stature and extraordinary...

T HE pro-Turkish newspapers are jubilant over the tone of the French Press with regard to Greece. They observe with delight the indications of French coolness towards the policy...

I T is the fashion in certain quarters to deride Mr. Gladstone's ignorance of and indifference to foreign politics. He is credited by these critics with classic sympathies for...

T HERE is nothing quainter than the sort of indignation which the Tories seem to feel at the Liberals doing any- thing that shall supplant them in the counties. They seem to...

I T is certainly significant that a case of such common occur- rence as the replacement of an incumbent of decided views in one direction by an incumbent of equally decided...

TAR. CARPENTER, in a letter published three weeks ago, .1.5 on the 24th of July, maintained with much vigour that "every believer's God is neither more nor less than his own...

T HE public are entitled to some compensation for the pain which the thought of Dr. Tanner's self-inflicted miseries has caused. Many an invalid, during sleepless midnight...

THE two comedies that have been given at the New Sadler's Wells Theatre, with a success which speaks well for the taste of the unfashionable public, afford great opportunity for...

GUY'S HOSPITAL. [TO ins EDITOR OF TSR "SPECTATOR.") Srit,—Your last article on the controversy at Guy's Hospital obliges me to trouble you with the following reply. As to the....

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") S1R,—I cannot read the letter of my friend, Mr. Oakley, in this week's Spectator, without feeling that such a movement as that he desires to...

Sla,—I believe I speak the mind of many plain, unbiassed on- lookers in expressing a hope that the attempt now being made to drive the Sisters out of the Hospitals will not be...

Sfa,—Your editorial note appended to my letter on this subject, in which you object that the extract on which I commented is given by me "between inverted commas, but it ought...

"SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Mr. Murphy asks, with reference to my letter of July 22nd, "Is the child's father nothing more to the child than the child's own idea of his father!" There...

MR. BROWNING'S NEW IDYLS.* THERE is nothing in this series of Dramatic Idyls so striking as " Ivan Ivimovitch," in the series published last year, and hardly anything, we think,...

(TO THE EDITOR OF "SPECTATOR. ") Sin, The friends of Greece have got to stand by her now, or she will hue rather than gain by their recent diplomatic support. allude, more...

(TO THE EDITOR OR THE "SPECTATOR. "] 81H, — Will you allow me to point out that in your admirable article on Wordsworth in last week's issue, you do the Brothers Smith an...

THESE Essays have appeared before in the form of articles, which have, uo doubt, been widely read. However, many additions have been made to them in the present volume, and in...

comes into the world of literature a really good book,—not one of those of which laudatory notices are specially written, nor one which by its rapid sale makes the fortune of...

Deik, is a straightforward and sensible account of a straightforward and sensible man. It is brief, an excellent thing in a memoir, and it is not written to catch the ears of...

THIS is not the first time that an effort has been made to adapt the Comedies of Terence in mum pueroram. The learned Jesuit Joseph Jouvency, a French scholar whose life nearly...

has dealt with the subject of cosmogony in previous works, and has, we believe, provoked a good deal of ridicule. It appears that he rejects the nebular hypothesis of Laplace,...

Chambers, F.R.A.S. Second edition. (E. Stanford.)—We are glad to welcome a new edition of Mr. Chambers's serviceable guide. It contains much matter within a small compass, and...

de Beriot is one of the least deserving young women with whom novel-readers have been called upon to sympa- thise of late. She is even more utterly devoid of delicacy, of prin-...

English and Latin, the account by one Peter Johnson of the burning of the steeple of old St. Paul's in 1561. It is interesting to observe that the plumbers, who doubtless are...

Election Speeches in 1879 and 1880. With an Address to the Electors of North-East Lancashire. By the Right Hon. the Marquis of Hartington, M.P. (C. Regan Paul and Co.)—The...

is difficult to believe that any writer can have continued to be in a rage during all the time that must have been consumed in the pro- duction of a novel in three volumes. But...

Colville. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is as pleasant and entertaining a book of travel as we have seen for a long time. Captain Colville puts his serious topics into appendices,...

has murdered a man, and that there is a fascinating Polish Count who is aware of the fact, may be regarded as awkward, to say the least of it. When the fascinating Polish Count,...

By C. Hoare (Aston and Mander.)—We protest against this book being described as " a poem." It is not so much as versification. If it was, wo should say (as Pope, we believe,...

Century. Translated from the French of Jules Verne. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is the second volunie of the series in which M. Verne has undertaken the task of telling the...