THE cloud in the East does not disperse. The official papers continue to assert that the Imperial Powers are in cordial agreement, but it would be more true to say that Austria...

action of England and France in Egypt. One day, the French Government has resolved to sanction a loan of £10,000,000 to the Khedive, and another, Lord Derby and the Dnc Decazes...

in the French Chamber is assuming towards Conserva- tives, Bonapartists, and Clericals, but may mention here that Cardinal Guibert, the Archbishop of Paris, has not obeyed the...

tile petition of the great majority of the Assistant-Masters of the seven Public Schools against the thir- teenth clause of the Public Schools Act of 1868, which renders them...

8th inst., the crews having the advantage of a day such as is seldom seen in England,—a perfect summer's day, without heat, on • which it was pleasant merely to be alive. The...

case.

Indian Finance Minister, stated that the Government at home would this year raise a loan of £2,700,000. Nevertheless, the Government here has invited tenders for a loan of...

in Supply to bring up the question of the Suez Canal once more. He objected to certain arrangements said to have been made between Colonel Stokes and M. de Lesseps, and wanted...

to the Geographical Commission of Russia a remarkable report upon the Caspian and Black Seas. Mr. Spalding maintains that the Caspian is drying up, and will slowly become a...

despatches have been published in Rome showing that in 1870 Count Andrassy expected war between Austria and Russia on the Eastern question, and told Khalil Bey that if war broke...

he must shortly be called, took the oaths in Calcutta on the 12th of April, and made a speech,—which is an innovation. He said that he had " become the inheritor of a great...

singularly feeble in his reply to Mr. Knatchbull-Hugessen, and elaborately missed the points at issue, and Sir R. Anstruther was not very fair in his attack on the same...

the ' Alberta' came off on Monday night, Mr. Anderson making an injudicious and too violent speech on behalf of the motion he submitted, which practically came to this, that as...

' Franconia' for manslaughter, for first running down on Feb- ruary 17 last the Strathclyde' by unskilful seamanship, and then abandoning her to her fate, and making no adequate...

a man in a Bayswater omnibus by a thief, who mistook it for a roll of silver, is knocking about London somewhere, and may spring sudden destruction upon some of us, where and...

admis- sibility of an inscription placed on the tombstone of one John Hilton, by his sons, who seem to have been anxious that their father should testify to his Agnosticism even...

over the project of confederation, and declare that the 11 Governor is trying to force it on the island, in spite of his re- peated assurance that this is not the intention of...

cer- tain resident teachers and Fellows of the University of Cambridge, pointing out that three years ago a large number of active Cambridge men had addressed Mr. Gladstone,...

States has finally been vetoed by the Senate, on pretences in- credibly petty, which Mr. Smalley, the able London corre- spondent of the New York Tribune, exposed in a vigorous...

followed Dr. Newman into the Roman Catholic Church, and also into the Order of St. Philip Neri, the Rev. J. B. Dalgairns, died last week, of an ill- ness which has now lasted...

to Lord Northbrook, expressing the "sincere pleasure and deep interest with which he has visited that great and wonderful country." His expectations have been more than...

THE DANGEROUS BLANKS IN THE WISHES OF A DEMOCRACY. W E said last week that we held it to be still doubtful what view the vast majority of the electors take, or whether-they...

T "gossips of Vienna are probably too much alarmed by the aspect of the Eastern question, but affairs there, depending, as they do, on the will of one sickly man, are cer-...

THE French Republicans are unwise in appearing so intolerant. I Part of their intolerance is, no doubt, appearance merely, the more moderate Republicans, with M. Gambetta at...

TT is not very pleasant to-see the Stock Exchange, the very - 1. centre of British monetary transactions, turned into a gambling-booth, but the causes of the lamentable scenes...

TT is unfortunate that the attack upon the Admiralty in the matter of the 'Alberta' and the 'Mistletoe' should have fallen into the hands of Mr. Anderson. It is unfortunate...

M R. motion of yesterday week was clearly one for which the House of Commons, and probably the public, are not yet,—even if they ever are to be,—prepared. But it was a moderate...

- r N the very interesting paper on " Conscience in Animals," I contributed by Mr. G. J. Romanes to the April number of Mr. Crookes's Quarterly Journal of Science, we...

T HE most successful shopkeeper that ever lived died in New York on the 10th inst. Mr. A. T. Stewart, mercer, draper, and dry-goods warehouseman, whose death is telegraphed to...

MR. KNATCHBITLL-HUGESSEN AND THE ASSISTANT- MASTERS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As you have taken a fair and impartial line throughout upon the Public Schools...

F ORTUNE has not dealt hardly with Mr. Disraeli in the two years during which he has held office. Tory finance, Tory measures, and Tory administration have only just begun to...

ere THE EDITOR OP MR "SPECTATOR."] 'S$,—In your review of " Haydon's Correspondence," on the 1st inst., you appear to think that Haydon's "Macbeth" was, in its -enlarged state,...

[TO TES EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—The letter of your correspondent " E. G. T. F." reminds me of an incident which occurred to me many years ago, and now that the subject...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In your notice of Mr. Spedding's paper on " The Latest Theories about Bacon," you observe that I am " smashed " and made "slightly...

SIR,—In your paper for the 8th of the present month (p. 463), you draw attention to the early mortality of the new-ilorn , infants in the outlying island of St. Kilda: " On the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I hope that the justice of your charitable appeal on behalf of the people of St. Kilda will be promptly acknowledged, an& something done...

SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I do not write to question your opinion of my book, or to doubt the character of your infallible judgment of " my taste." From such a judgment, I am fully...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTAT011.1 SIR,—Mr. MacColl writes so confidently, that people who do not know better may be misled by his assertions. He may not know -of 'a single...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You may, perhaps, not be aware that all flogging in Bar- bados takes place under the direct sanction of her Majesty's Governor ; he has...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Perhaps you will allow one of your readers of many years' standing to send you a fact in illustration of the general apathy felt by the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR:'] SIR,—In your notice of "The Life of Lord Macaulay," on the 8th inst., you refer to Mr. Trevelyan's reticence in regard to Lord Macaulay's...

THE DILEMMA.* THE story of the Indian Mutiny, or at least an admirable sample of the indefinite number of individual stories, tragic, tragi-comic, dramatic, and pathetic, of...

AFTER THE IRISH SONG, " I ONCE LOVED A BOY." (PETRIE'S COLLECTION.) I ONCE loved a boy, and a bould Irish boy, Far away in the hills of the West ; Oh ! the love of that boy...

workmanship as charming as it is scarce. Amongst the most enduringly popular books on record are certain biographies. The vivid reproduction of a human character—though devoid...

HERE we have a ghinea quarto an inch thick, containing a mass of smooth and spotless paper, and therein embedded some frag- mentary sketches, graphic and autographic, by the...

THE formal prohibition of any biography of himself which was made by the late Thomas Binney in his will can scarcely be said. to be violated, either in the letter or the spirit,...

A CENTURY has passed since Warren Hastings, the first Governor- General of India, conceived the plan of opening friendly and com- mercial intercourse between the people over...

NOTHING shows more plainly the great strides made by practical science in the course of the century than the comparison of the present state of civil engineering with its...

IN this Review, Professor Croom Robertson is trying to supply a very great want in English literature. There is no good journal devoted to psychology and philosophy (i.e.,...

A Sketch of the History of Taxes in England, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day. By Stephen Dowell. Vol. I. To the Civil War, 1642. (Longmans.)—It is doubtful bow far a...

and George Noyes Miller. (Oneida : published by the Community.. London : Triibner.)—This volume contains discourses delivered by the chief of the Oneida Community, taken down...

man and Hall.)—The City " Promoter " is now becoming as frequently recurring a character in novels as the " Claimant " was in those of a year or so since. He is not however, at...

(Glasgow : Maclehose.)—In this volume we have a series of lectures delivered by the author, who is Principal of the Church of Scotland Normal School at Glasgow, to the students...

of " The Honeymoon." (Chapman and Hall.)—This is one of the biggest, and nearly the silliest, work of fiction we have ever read. The author is a young man, but he is old enough...

says in his dedication that his is " like a thousand other journals, full of trivial details, and without learning or eloquence." Our impression is that, if it has a fault, it...