18 SEPTEMBER 1880

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE storm is gathering in the East. The Sultan, up to Friday, had not been convinced that he must yield Dulcigno to the Montenegrins under the Treaty of Berlin ; and though be...

London has been startled by an attempt at crime hitherto

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without precedent in England. Some person or persons not yet detected endeavoured on Sunday night to blow up an express train on the London and North-Western line with dynamite....

The Turkish Ministry has been again upset, and Said Pasha

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is once more Grand Vizier. It is believed in Constantinople that Kadri fell because he and the Ministry were inclined to yield about Montenegro, and that Said excited the...

A kind of sketch of the instructions to the Admirals

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at Ragusa has been published, but it does not amount to much. Admiral Seymour, as senior Admiral, is appointed Commander.in-Chief ; 'but whenever action is intended, he does not...

No intelligence of any moment has been received from India

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this week, and Indian society appears to be solely occupied with discussions on the propriety of retaining Candahar. Accord- ing to the correspondent of the Times, opinion is...

A storm is evidently raging in the French Ministry. M.

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de Freycinet wishes to abstain from carrying out the decrees against the unauthorised religious societies, and to introduce next Session a general law, to which they say they...

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The Trades Union Congress met this year on Monday, at

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Dublin, no less than 130 delegates from various parts of the kingdom being present. The discussions were of the most tem- perate kind, and the speeches of the delegates would...

Prince Bismarck and Baron Haymerle, the Chancellor of the Austrian

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Empire, have been in conference at Friedrichsruhe, and the whole Continent is agog to know what they have been saying to each other. The most popular report is that they have...

It is greatly to be hoped that Sir Bartle Frere,

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who quitted the Cape on the 16th inst., has not left another native war be- hind him. The Basutos, the great tribe whom even the Zulus could not defeat, and who have prospered...

Mr. Courtney has made the first long speech of the

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Recess. Speaking at a dinner given by the Liverpool Junior Reform Club, he described the unparalleled difficulties amidst which the Ministry had acceded to power, and the way...

After a trial of twenty-six days before a court-martial, Ser-

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jeant Marshman has been acquitted of the charge of taking bribes to falsify the markings at Wimbledon. The length of the trial, which is due to the antiquated mode of procedure...

The Queen of Spain has given birth to a child,

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a girl, now according to the law under which Queen Isabella succeeded, the heiress to the monarchy. Great disappointment is felt at the child's sex, the palace having made sure...

Perhaps the most original passage in Mr. Courtney's speech was

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one in which he advocated a reform in the system of municipal elections. The present system, he thought, failed to represent the varieties of English thought, and should be...

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A case which has greatly interested all travellers by the

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Metropolitan Railway was concluded on Wednesday, with a somewhat sensational scene. Clarence Lewis, a lad of eighteen, was habitually employed by a firm of tea-dealers to carry...

It is announced that the Reverend Stopford Brooke, the author

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of the "Life of Robertson," Incumbent of Bedford Chapel, and one of the most popular and effective preachers of our day, has quitted the Church of England, and will either...

The Nihilists are becoming visible again in Russia. A plot,

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not very real-looking, has been reported to blow up the Czar on his way to Livadia ; and a secret journal, called the Will of the People, has been largely circulated through the...

Consols were on Friday 97: to 97;.

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Herr von Varnbiihler, formerly Minister in Wiirtemberg, and now Member

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of the German Parliament, delivered on the 5th inst. a speech in which he declared that just before the conclusion of Prince Bismarck's agreement with Austria, Germany was in...

Mr. Sharman Crawford sends a long letter to the Times,

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pointing out once more the substantial distinction between an Irish and an English landlord. An English landlord provides the raw material, the land, and the fixed plant,...

Another considerable strike is at hand in Lancashire. The cotton

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weavers contend that trade is improving, and that they are entitled to an advance of 10 per cent. on their wages. The masters, who are strictly associated, reply that the im-...

Major-General Fielden, who at the general election earned much ridicule

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by a speech from the hustings, in which he de.. dared, that the thing he was most certain of was that he was. Major-General Fielden, and that his father was a much better man...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE PROSPECTS OF SOCIALISM IN IRELAND. T HE exaggerated alarm which prevails in many quarters at present as to the state of Irish feeling and its possi- ble issues, and which...

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THE EUROPEAN DEMONSTRATION.

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T HE crisis has evidently arrived, and the entire future of Eastern Europe now depends upon the firmness of Lord Granville and Mr. Gladstone during the next three weeks. If they...

CANDAHAR AND BELOOCHISTAN.

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I T is almost useless to discuss farther the retention of Candahar. The decision now rests with the Cabinet, and it is not probable that the Cabinet, set free as it has been by...

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FRENCH AND ITALIANS AT TUNIS.

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T HE warmth of the dispute between the French and Italians at Tunis has calmed down for the moment The Bona- Guelma Railway Company and the Rubattino Navigation Company have...

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THE CLOSE OF THE ERA OF COLONISATION.

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T HE annexation of Tahiti by the French, formally announced on Tuesday in the Journal Wel, is not an important .event. The French may as well govern the island as " pro- tect "...

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THE PUNISHMENT OF CHILDREN.

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W E sincerely hope the discussion raised by the action of the Home Secretary in the case of the boy Dean will not die away without a result on opinion, for the matter is a very...

THE HARVEST.

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W ITH the exception of some late pieces of corn outstand- ing in the northern counties, Harvest is now over in England, while in Scotland and Ireland it is nearly finished....

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THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS AND EMPLOYERS'

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T HE Trades Union Congress now sitting in Dublin adds a new and striking instance to the already large body of evidence which shows the growing reasonableness of the...

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THECONTEMPLATED CRIME AT BUSHEY.

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T HERE seems no good reason to doubt that in the evening of Sunday last some persons, who had read or heard of the attempts on the life of the Emperor of Russia, who were...

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THE DUKE OF ARGYLL ON THE UNITY OF NATURE.

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W E give a hearty welcome to the first of the series of Essays which the Duke of Argyll is to issue in the pages of the Contemporary .Review. It would be read with interest, we...

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FEMALE CLERKS IN THE POST OFFICE.

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M R. FAW CETT has just sanctioned certain changes in the rules under which ladies are appointed to Clerkships in the Post Office, and upon these changes some angry people are...

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CORRESPONDENCE.

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And now for our journey down. We left Cincinnati early in the morning by the Cincinnati Southern Railway, a line built entirely by the city, and the cost of which will probably...

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CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT WORSHIP. [To THE EDITOR OF TRH "

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SPBCTATOR.") hardly like to admit that to me your remedy for grievances like that of the Bournemouth congregation seems "unnecessary," in the sense that there is no hardship...

LETTERS TO THE E D I TOR.

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JAPAN. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?) Sia,—Your review of the Japanese romance " Chnshingura" has called to my recollection an incident which might, perhaps, be...

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THE NEW IRISH UNIVERSITY.

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[TO TER EDITOR OF THE "E1'ECTATOR.1 Sia,—The Irish Bishops have recently issued a declaration upon the new phase which the University question has assumed in this country....

INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS ACT.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your review of the work done by the present House of Commons, you have omitted to notice one important Act, to which, if you will...

POETRY.

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"NAY, I'LL STAY WITH THE LAD." [In Hutton seam, No. 3, they saw two bodies, father and son, clasped together. One of the explorers knew the man, and knew that after the...

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BOOKS.

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JULES MOHL.* FROM the year 1840, when M. Mohl assumed the Secretaryship of the Societe Asiatique, until 1867, he f urnished the Society with an annual report on the books...

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SOME OF BRET HARTE'S PROSE.*

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THE key to the quality of Mr. Bret Harte's genius is, perhaps, to be found in the collection—not yet published in this edition —of his Condensed Novels. Nothing exactly like...

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M. GUIZOT AND HIS FAMILY *

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WHEN M. Guizot's Memoirs first came out, M. Renan wrote an article on them in the _Revue. M. Guizot was pleased with it, and describes it in a letter to his son as "very...

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ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA.* HEINE was wont to say, in

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his own satirical manner, when he heard of any great historical movement, that he should like to know something of the woman who lay concealed behind, touching the hidden...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Great English Churchmen. By W. H. Davenport Adams. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)—Mr. Adams traverses familiar ground, but it is ground with which there are always...

We are glad to mention a little book to which

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Mr. J. Llewelyn Davies has added a preface,—The Children of the Street ; Mary Carpenter's Work. By Mary H. Hart. (W. S. Sonnenschein and Allen.)—This is a brief account of part...

A Practical Treatise on Sea-Sickness. By George W. Beard, A.M.,

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M.D. (New York : E. B. Neat.)—Dr. Beard gives us in this little pamphlet the results of an extended personal experience. The remedies which he suggests are briefly these. To...

A Winter Tour through India, Burinah, and the Straits. By

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H. E. Falk. (Longmans.)—It is sufficient to say that Mr. Falk thinks that the Egyptian fellah had nothing to complain of under tho rule of the dispossessed Khedive, and cannot...