is shortly to be published officially, but meanwhile the Paris Cor- respondent of the Times forwards a sketch which he believes be exactly accurate. Prince Gortachakoff states...

of £15,000,000, nominal, at 5 per cent., has been taken on the Continent, certain bankers thinking that as the external Debt of Russia, the only one of which the interest must...

a rather important interview between Marshal MacMahon and some Legitimist delegates, who waited upon him to find out whethertheabsenceof any Legitimista from his new Cabinet...

T ab apparent lull still continues. No effort to cross the Danube has yet been made, and though attempts to storm Kars are reported from Asia, no trfistworthy information of the...

from "a person of rank " in Constantinople, which reads as if it were true, and explains the position of affairs there a fortnight ago very clearly. The writer says that the...

House of Lords and one at Merchant Taylors' School, in which he severely satirised the recent outbreak of Russophobia, the de- mand "to declare war against a nightmare." His...

Mr. P. A. Taylor, on the old question of opening museums, exhibitions of pictures, and other places of instruction and amusement on Sundays, when the Secretary to the Treasury,...

certainly very unsatisfactory discussion in the House of Commons on capital punishment, by moving a resolution that "it is de- sirable to consider - whether the laws under which...

lay representation in Conference have agreed without dis- cussion that the numbers should be esual, 240 laymen and 246 ministers constituting the governing body. It has also...

ating incidents of occasional inequality and horror in the execu- tion of the law,—but his only strong argument was this,—that if experience does not show that the abolition of...

tection for the monitors in the Danube against the torpedo-boats which were so successful on their first attack. On Saturday night, some Russian launches in the Kilia month of...

read a paper on "Modern War Fleets," in which he made some interesting remarks on the appliances for destroy- ing the enemy's ships without the use of what are technically...

inst., which contained one important statement. He has no desire to see the agitation among Liberals directed against the Senate. "I have always said I believe it to be...

chief product of the Public Worship Act. Not only is it clear that in many of the ecclesiastical suits we have had, the aggrieved parishioner hardly existed, and had to be...

the sister of Dr. Carpenter, and one of the beat known of English philanthropists. Her special care was reformatory management, to which she had devoted years of disinterested...

of Lords to a work called "The Priest in Absolution," printed by a society calling themselves "the Society of the Holy Cross," of which Mr. A. H. Mackonochie is Master, and...

of life from life or from matter which is not living, Dr. Bastian has naturally taken advantage of Professor Tyndall's change of view as to the dif- ficulty of destroying living...

and interesting letter, giving a bird's-eye view of Southern India, from the Nerbudda to Colombo,—its geography, people, creeds, and social condition. We have notioed it at...

as to the employment of Secret-service money. Mr. Parnell and several other Irish Members suspected that some of this money was spent in paying spies in Ireland, and wanted to...

LORD SALISBURY ON POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. I T is a great pity that there are not more Peers like Lord de Manley in the Upper House. A Peer who is as ignorant as the majority, but...

of punishment at In point of fact, we believe that the educational effect of all, but only detain a criminal in confinement as little our penal laws on the mind of the people is...

Liberals in France is a very strong, but also a very delicate one. That they have a great majority, not merely in the Chamber of Deputies, but in the country, no one doubts ;...

T HOSE who, living in England, care to understand, or at all events to appreciate India, should read the admirable letter from Professor Monier Williams, the Sanscrit scholar,...

T HE opposition which Mr. Trevelyan's Bill for equalising the franchise may expect to encounter is of two kinds. There is the general Conservative dislike to change,—a dislike...

surprised the public is, we imagine, nearly over, and within the next few days im- portant tidings may be expected from the Danube, from Armenia, and from Constantinople. The...

footpads of Blackheath must, we think, rest satisfied with T i the striking success they have already achieved, and not fancy that they can revive the ancient glories of the...

T HE Ridsdale Judgment has taken a comic turn,—which shows how wrong it is to put any absolute confidence in the vaunted principle of the uniformity of nature. Certainly the...

THE RIDSDALE JUDGMENT. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Mr. Davies asks me,-1. "How would I have decided the Ridsdale appeal myself?" 2. What do I mean by "autonomy"...

find my name occurring so frequently in your columns in connection with this subject, that I think I may offer, without being considered obtrusive, a few remarks. Mr....

Si,—In his "brief and succinct restatement," " J. S. P." tells us that "the Ornaments Rubric quotes and confirms the then exist.. log law, laid down in sec. 25 of 1 EliZ., cap....

who with respect to the University Bills of the present and past Session have felt more in unison with many Liberal speakers than with the leaders of the party to which I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—It appears to be taken for granted that opinion on this subject is divided between those who think that women ought to be represented,...

JUNE. AN English wife, whose passage o'er the line That severs maid from matron leaves its trace In wiser innocence and chastened grace ; With queenly eyes, love-loyal, frank,...

rro THE EDITOR OF THE ssaarsroa."3 Sra,—In an article on "The Magazines," in your last number, you make an implied " point " against art critics, by quoting -certain remarks...

THE EARTH AS MODIFIED BY HUMAN ACTION* SOME three years ago the book now before us was published in America, and also in London, but it has received in this country much less...

large portion of its interest to its translator. The work of Lampadius, although that of a warm admirer and personal friend of the great composer, is singularly curt and dry,...

" LES institutions charitables d'un peuple ne sont que le rad de sea institutions sociales et politiques," says M. D'Haussonville, in his admirable paper on "Hospital...

are becoming numerous, and though they are for the most part of an unreal kind, they are undeniably interesting. The quarrels of married people are more serious than those of...

MR. TarLEn published a volume bearing this title in 1851. The volume before us consists, for the most part, of sermons written after that date. They represent, says the editor,...

vols. (Hurst and Blackett).—In a previous work Mr. Loftns gave the world a narra- tive of his adventures by sea. In this he presents himself to us in the character, first, of an...

.Some Difficulties of Belief. By the Rev. Teignmouth Shore. (Cassell and Co.)—This is a volume of sermons, for the publication of which no apology is needed. They are earnest,...

and Windus.)—Whatever interest this story possesses does not lie in that part which is more properly described by the title. We all know by this time what will be the course of...

—Mr. Greenwood is well known to have certain necessary qualifica- tions of the novelist. He has great powers of description, and he is not without imagination. But nevertheless...

—The author thinks, and it would seem, not without good reason, that amidst all the labour so abundantly bestowed on the history, antiquities, and geography of Rome, the Tiber...

Isbister.)—Mr. Gilbert has a formidable case against the "Great Unreformed Corpora- tions" and the subordinate corporations, the Livery Companies, great and small, which...

Aspects. The Sixth Series of the Cunningham Lectures. By A. B. Bruce, D.D. (T. and T. Clark.)—It is impossible to do justice in a short notice to a book so learned, and we may...

is described as "a novel for girls about to marry." It struck us, as we read it, that it might be turned to a very different use for girls not out of the school-room. If any...

—Dr. Parker, we need hardly say, is a representative man, and the volume before us reflects, no doubt, not only the theology of the City Temple, but a good deal of Nonconformist...

So numerous are the books on this subject, that one might despair of ever finding any novelty in a new one. Mr. Hunter, however, has managed to obtain this, in the difference of...

(Samuel Tinsley.)—There is always a certain satisfaction, a sense, as it were, of a definite stage in one's literary journey being accomplished, when unhesitatingly and firmly...

I. and II. (Cassell and Co.)—The first volume carries the history from the planting of the first settlements in North America down to the victory won by Wolfe on the heights of...