18 AUGUST 1877

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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IIE news from Bulgaria is still doubtful. On the one hand, it 1 is evident that the Turks are unable to move and take advantage of their victories ; and on the other, there is a...

The first election which has occurred in Ireland since the

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memorable Wednesday has not been favourable to the hopes of the Obstructionists. The seat for Clare, vacant by the death of Sir Colman O'Loghlen, was contested by the O'Gorman...

It is clear that the Russians south of the Balkans

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have re- treated, leaving the unhappy Bulgarians who, aided them to be .exterminated by the Turks, who wish to strike terror in anticipation of any future advance ; but the...

The severity of the Madras Famine is acknowledged in the

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Queen's Speech, and we publish elsewhere some comments on the frightful statements made by the Duke of Buckingham, Governor of the Presidency, on the 9th inst. They signify that...

Ninety-six Peers have signed a letter to the Archbishop of

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Canterbury protesting against the use of " The Priest in Abso- lution," and declaring that the practice of auricular confession on the principles set forth in that book "will...

The dullest, least useful, and in many respects most melancholy

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Session of our time closed on the 14th inst. The Royal Message alludes to the War as one in which Great Britain intends to pre- serve an attitude of neutrality, so long as the...

** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

There was another discussion on Friday week on the policy

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of the Government in the Eastern Question, but it came, as usual, to nothing. Mr. Monk wanted to know if Great Britain would allow Constantinople to be tem- porarily occupied,...

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The Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the

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management of Christ's Hospital has been published, and we have animadverted elsewhere on its unexpected toler- ance for corporal punishment. We may, however, mention here that'...

The British Association met this year at Plymouth on Wednes-

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day, and hitherto the proceedings have been unusually dull. The President, Dr. Allen Thomson, delivered an address, which was really a lecture on embryology, and far too...

The Home Office has appointed a Committee to inquire into

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the state of the London Detective Force. The Committee, as origin- ally composed, consisted of Sir IL Selwyn-Ibbetson, Colonel Fielding, Mr. Massie, QC., and Mr. Overend, Q.C. ;...

We must notice the formation of a new political party

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in America, because it may become important, though we do not think it will. This is the Union of Working-men which has been established in the West, with branches in New York...

Marshal MacMahou is starring in the North-West, accompanied by the

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Due do Broglie, making speeches and receiving addresses. Some of the latter are tolerably plain-spoken. At Evreux, for example, the Mayor-adjoint told the President that the...

A most significant letter has been addressed by M. Foray,

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Senator, and founder of the Left-Centre party in 1871, to the Minister of the Interior. Ile is Mayor of Eesonnes, and has been dismissed for refusing to placard certain portions...

Mr. Layard appears to have become as pro-Turk as Sir

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Henry Elliot. In s a despatch to the Foreign Office, dated May 30, and of course eagerly welcomed by the Mahommedan Press, he not only declares that the Bulgarian atrocities of...

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Prince Albert Victor, the next heir to the Crown 'after

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the Prince of Wales, lies still in a dangerous condition. From the 5th to the 11th inst. he was, the Lancet says, decidedly better, but on the 11th he had a sharp relapse of...

A valued correspondent sends us the following note. The matter

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seems to us of no importance, but the blunder frets anti- quarians :—Tho Times announces that " Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has, by her own desire, been elected a...

We are afraid that another blot in the Washington Treaty

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'has been discovered. A Fishery Commission is sitting at Halifax, to carry out the terms of that Treaty with respect to the disputes between the Americans and Canadians. There...

The stream of reports of Russian atrocities flowing from Con-

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stantinople does not gain in precision, and diminishes in volume. There is a limit to all things, even to Pera romances. Still, we cannot acquit the Bulgarians of showing at...

The fight between the small Russian steamer ' Vesta' and

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'the Turkish ironclad which she beat off in the Black Sea teems to have been as interesting an affair as that between the Huascar ' and the ' Shah.' The ' Vesta,' a converted...

Kesanlik, the centre of the district in which General G-ourko

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has been operating, is the centre also of the great rose-field of Turkey, from which most of the " atta of rose " used in Europe is ob- tained. That used in Asia comes...

Consols were on Friday 94-94.

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Who is responsible for a failure to discover the existence

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of the important Commercial Treaty between Spain and Germany, by which the goods of the latter are admitted at rates thirty or fifty per oent lower than those paid by...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PERSONAGES OF THE SESSION. T HE personal gains of the Session have been few, but then the losses have not been many. No Tory has much advanced but then no Tory, unless it be...

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THE CONSEQUENCES OF A RUSSIAN DEFEAT.

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W E wonder if any of those Englishmen who talk so glibly and with such a gratified maliciousness of a possible Russian defeat, have ever thought out what the consequences of...

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THE LEEDS LIBERALS.

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HE Leeds Liberals are very naturally and properly troubled JL by the disunion which has virtually deprived them of the representation of the borough. The Executive Committee of...

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THE NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ELECTION. THOSE clergymen who believe or profess

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to believe that the worship of intellect is spreading in this country should read the report of the proceedings at the election for North Northamptonshire, which terminated on...

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OUR POLICE.

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1V ER, CROSS has again shown the prompt good-sense which makes an excellent Home Secretary. Everybody vaguely felt that an official inquiry must be held with respect to the...

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THE NECESSITY OF AID TO MADRAS.

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P ARLIAMENT should not have separated without a serious discussion in the House of Commons upon the best method of meeting the new Indian Famine. There can be no longer any...

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THE REPORT ON CHRIST'S HOSPITAL, T HE extraordinary ideas still current

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in English society about the proper punishments for boys at school, and about their claims to ordinary justice, receive a typical illustration in the Re- port of the...

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A LONELY BIT OF ENGLAND.

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T HERE is a terrace on the high ground of Oullins, below Lyons, whence one sees the confluence of the Rhone and the Saone, and marks the distinctness of their several colours,...

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MONEY-ORDERS.

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A DAM SMITH somewhere observes that the Post Office is perhaps the only mercantile project which has been suc- cessfully managed by every sort of Government. His remark does not...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE MATHEMATICAL ANSWER TO MR. GREG. [TO THO EDITOR OF MR SPEOTATOR.1 Sin,—Mr. Greg's objection to a future state for man is founded, I am sure, on mere imagination, I might,...

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MONITORS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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[To TER EDITOR OF TER “SPEOTATOR.1 SIR, —The sad fate of poor Gibbs has led to a discussion of the monitorial system in public schools. This discussion, however, is a mere...

THE FUTURE LIFE.

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[To 71311 EDITOR OF TER "SPROTATOR:] Sin,—Indulging in the pernicious habit of reading in bed, I last night perused with profound interest Mr. Greg's letter in your current...

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THE RECKLESS DESTRUCTION OF FORESTS.

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[TO TDB EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] your last issue of August 11, a letter from Major- General Shaw draws attention to a subject of considerable interest in its connection...

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ART.

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FRENCH ART: A COMPARATIVE SKETCH. WE have had several exhibitions of French pictures during the season in London, and we have heard a great deal about the- Salon and the...

THE UNITED STATES,—THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN CAPITAL AND LABOUR.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—The sudden and disastrous outbreak in America excites profound attention, and compels careful consideration on both sides of the...

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BOOKS.

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A STATESMAN OF THE REFORMATION EPOCH.* MAJOR STONEY has given us too, much of a history, and not

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BRITISH GUIANA.*

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Em men Guiana, one of the five portions of territory which form the northern part of South America, lies within the torrid zone, and is generally known as Demerara, and...

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DR. WIESE ON ENGLISH EDUCATION.*

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Art able and intelligent Prussian official, who is not unknown to those who take an interest in education, as well in this country as in Germany, has, after a lapse of a quarter...

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SOUTH AUSTRALIA.* WHEN South Australia sent her contributions to the

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Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition, it was suggested that a handbook should ' 0 South Australia, its History, Resources, find Productions. Edited by W. Harcus, With Maps....

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A ROYAL ACADEMY ALBUM.*

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UNronTUNATELY the contents of this handsome drawing-room volume hardly support the assurance given us by the preface, that it is " notably interesting as a thoroughly...

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Poems of Places. Edited by Henry W. Longfellow. 2 vols..

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(Macmillan.)—Here we have a very happy idea, thoroughly worked out,. by an editor who possesses every qualification for his task. He has- read widely, being familiar, it is...

Tie Three Voyages of William Barents to the Arctic Regions.

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Second Edition, with an introduction by Lieutenant 13eynen. The first edition of this work was issued by the Hakluyt Society, and produced in 1853, under the editorship of the...

The Persecution of Diocletian. A Historical Essay. By Arthur James

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Mason, M.A. (Deighton and Bell ; Boll and Sons.)—This is one of the most striking and original contributions to ecclesiastical history which has come under our notice for some...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Holy Bible. Edited, with various Renderings and Readings from the Best Authorities. (Eyre and Spottiewoode.)—This volume, the result of long and careful research on the part of...

Frank Carey : a Story of Victorian Life. By the

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Author of 11 Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery." (Sampson Low and Co.)— There does not seem to have been any particular reason why the his- tory of Frank Carey should have...

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Christmas Roses: Tales for ,Young People. By Geraldine Butt. (Blackwood.

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and Sons.)—" Dieudounde," the first and longest of these stories, is a tale of the Franco-Prussian war. Tho little girl by whqse name it is called, struck with a sudden horror...

The Book of Isaiah, Arranged Chronologically. A Revised Transla- tion,

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accompanied with Notes. By Samuel Sharpe. (J. Russell Smith.)—Most thoughtful readers of Isaiah will have felt that some arrangement other than the confused order, if it may be...

The Great Gulf Fired. By Gerald Grant. B vole. (Tinsley

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Brothers,)—The "great gulf" is, we suppose, the difference between rich and poor, and the author's purpose is to show what love can and cannot do to bridge it over. Novels...

The Anwer-i-Suhaili ; or, Lights of Canopus. Translated from the

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Persian, by Arthur W. Wollaston. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—The " Lights of Canopus" are described as being an adaptation of the " Fables of Bfdpilf," a semi-mythical personage, of...

or will it be necessary in this too tardy notice

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to do more than recom- mend it very emphatically to such as have not seen it. Professor Mahaffy has views on some matters connected with classical life and literature with which...

Mand's Boy, and other Stories. By Ina More. (Partridge.)—The ."

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boy" is an orphan, whom Maud, when a young girl, rescues from misery, and who, years afterwards, repays her love and care by saving her only child from death by drowning. It is...

Eugenie. By the Author of" Miss Molly." (Blackwood and Sons.)-

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. pretty, pathetic story of French life. Still we cannot but think that probabilities are somewhat violated by the plot. Surely a French mother would scarcely allow her daughter...