some im- portance, and like all he says, terse and weighty. He referred to M. Thiers' persistent advocacy of the Monarchy, to his strong desire to transplant into France the...

T HE war, except on the side of Montenegro, has produced little result this week, and that little at great cost. At Plevna, on Tuesday, after four days of bombardment, came a...

case.

la Chaise, and was indeed made the occasion for a magnificent demonstration of the unanimity and discipline of the Repub- licans of Paris. The day was one of cold and...

struggle are the first to win the fruits of victory. It is clear that the great demand for reinforcements for the Turkish armies in Bul- garia has begun to tell heavily on the...

Tribunal of Paris, to pay a fine of 2,000 francs. (80), and to be imprisoned for three months, for the publication of his Lille speech in the Republique Francais°. It was...

mayor of that city, who is a Republican, delivered a most skilful address. In the presence of the Chief Magistrate of the Republic, he observed, all disagreement disappears....

the Gothic style by Mr. Waterhouse, and said to be the grandest Hate' de Ville in existence, was opened on Thursday with a banquet, at which Mr. Bright made the principal...

Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs has instructed Senor Galvez, the Peruvian representative in this country, to obtain from England "a prompt and easy reparation, which will...

adequately formed on the point at issue between Mr. Butt and Mr. Biggar. The Free- man's Journal is hesitating,—supports Mr. Butt on the whole, but is disposed to think his...

gives very cogent reasons for crossing the Danube, and interven- tion with all his might. For three months after war was declared by the Chambers, he confined himself to the...

the Camberlazd and Westmoreland Agricultural Society, said it was easy to keep off party politics just now, because there really were no strict party questions on which the...

Street Police Court in the Detectives' case. On Saturday a warrant was issued for the immediate apprehension of Chief Inspector Clarke, who has been in the detective service for...

Marshal which, while intended to give him the sanction of the Pope, was also intended to assure France that there was no intention of trying to make the Government the tool of...

barristers, Mr. W. A. Lewis and Mr. Noel Paterson, and their guides, the three brothers Knubel. They left the Riffel Hotel in the afternoon of the 6th, and they ought to have...

difficult moral problem. Dean McManus, of Clifden, a dignitary of the Roman Catholic Church, made an application with a view to be appointed guardian of a child, and to restrain...

United Presbyterian Church in Scotland, is on his trial for heterodoxy before the Presbytery of Glasgow, and the Glasgow Presbytery are probing him with questions of their own...

because the delegates talked a little nonsense, but because their nonsense was not good nonsense, There was some unfruit- ful, fiery talk about "tyranny of capital" and...

an apparently very remarkable anticipation of the dis- covery just made as to the satellites of Mars. In "The voyage to Laputa " is a passage stating that the Laputan astron-...

which has led to the loss of two ships and more than a hundred lives. The 'Avalanche,' an iron clipper ship, bound to Wellington, New Zealand, being on the port tack off...

W. Young, has not been appointed his successor and President of the community ; contrary to expectation and the Prophet's wishes, that 'office has been given, at a secret...

MR. BRIGHT AND THE NEW ZEALANDER. A T Manchester on Thursday night, Mr. Bright was not as optimistic as he usually is, when he is reckoning up the great past results, and...

A T every fresh step in the contest which it has challenged, the French Government dwindles. Even the Judges of the Correctional Tribunal instinctively feel that a small and...

GREVY seems to be the coming man, now that M. Thiers .1.11 • is dead. Public opinion distinctly points to him as the future President of a Conservative Republic. It is a pity...

on Monday a very interesting account of the present position of the Prussian Evangelical Church. A certain measure of self- government has been conceded to the Synods, mainly at...

T HE organisation of a Working-Men ' s Party in the United States has caused wide-spread alarm among the capitalist classes, and. has thrown the political managers, both Repub-...

AFL WENTWORTH ERCK, writing to Monday's Times 11'1 from the Observatory of Sherrington Bray, in the county of Wicklow, calculates the diameter of the outer satellite of Mars at...

T HE literature which has sprung up in the track of the gold- finding events of the last twenty years has so much in common with the life whioh inspired it, that it is both...

T HE carnal mind, alike in religious as in lit erary England, has always had a singular delight in Bishop-baiting. The professedly religious world,—which is generally a little...

THE CLAIM OF THE RUSSIAN SICK AND WOUNDED) [TO THE EDITOR OF ma " OFECTATOR.1 Snt,—As one of the Secretaries of the "Russian Sick and Wounded Fund," 1 feel almost sure that...

" HPEOTATO11.1 Sus,—Lord Derby's last speech upon public affairs contained the obvious declaration that the present is not a favourable time for attempting to mediate between...

difference of opinion about the value of Monitorial authority in schools which exists between such earnest men as have conducted the argument in your pages, may perhaps arise in...

Sit at my table, welcome guest, and sing The olden song, with young, unpractised throat ; I hold my breath to hear the perfect note Thy tender organs cannot yet make ring. Sing...

EDGAR QUINET'S LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER.* Tim two first volumes of Edgar Quinet's Letters (which have already reached a second edition) continue, with some overlap- ping, that...

BESIDE the waves that lap the Langland shore I linger, or with gentle effort stray Up the steep foot-tracks winding round the bay, And hearken to the solemn billows' roar....

his letter to you of last week on the "Monitorial System," strikes at the root of the matter when he says, "The opponents of the system should be prepared to tell us what to put...

TWO SONNETS, I.—TO A FLEDGLING ROBIN. ROBIN, thou art too young as yet to wear The badge of robinhood in full confeet- The burning breastplate on the conscious breast— And hast...

Mr. Quick, does not perceive that his argument assumes far more than his opponents can admit. We do not allow that any substitute is required for a " machinery " which, in spite...

MANY of the novel-writers of the present time have adopted a system of morals and a genre in art, so called, which may be described in a very few words. They give us as little...

UNQUESTIONABLY Mr. de Vere is a true poet. Not only so, but his ideal is extremely high. He holds that poetry should ever be the handmaid of truth,—the highest truth ; that she...

THIS is a very curious and interesting book, not merely for the professed antiquarian, but for the student of law, of logic, or of psychology. It is a new edition, with an...

conspicuous figure amid the group of really notable men under whose leadership there was waged that protracted struggle with the Courts of Law and with Parliament which...

Garth. By Julian Hawthorne. 8 vols. (Bentley.)—It must not be taken as n depreciation of Mr. Hawthorne's novel, when we say that it reminds us more distinctly than anything that...

" narrative " is an ingenious and not an unattractive representation of the advantages of Swedenborgianism. The narrator tells us how an old friend, George Gordon by name, whom...

Appleton gives much more of his book to what he thought than to what he saw. The problems of belief, of revelation, of the relations between the Divine nature and man, occupied...

a sentence quoted from Nathaniel Hawthorne, which speaks of "the want of love and reverence for tho human soul, which makes a man pry into its mysterious depths, not with a hope...

the German: (T. and T. Clarke, Edinburgh.)—The title of this book is rather obscure, so, too, are frequently the contents, which quite betoken a German original. A. Biblical...

Preston. (Roberts, Boston, U.S.)—Miss Preston is known to readers on both sides of the Atlantic for her admirable translation of " Mirbio," the great poem of Frdthirie Mistral,...

My aim," says the writer in his preface, "has been to carry the reader through the experiences and adventures of a couple of speculative amateurs, in their struggle to become...

(Mao- millan.)—In this little volume, which has been expanded from a Hulsean prize-essay, the author gives us a very interesting discussion on the data and authenticity of the...

Good Living. A trans- lation of the " Physiologic) du GoAt " of Brillat Savarin. By R. L. Anderson. ( Matto and Wind us. ) —We wore prepared to find M. Brillat Saverin...

is a very mild mixture of reli g ion and love. If it is not exactly what we expect to find under these crimson covers, which so often m cover much ore stimulating food, we have...

and to be for its size as useful and complete a work as could be desired. The rapidity with which it can be brou g ht out is, of course, a g reat advanta g e. Monster...