day, after five nights of debate, during which the utterances of the dominant party, and especially of the representatives of the Government, became daily more moderate and...

the seat of war in Europt. The Russian Commander-in-Chief has admitted newspaper correspondents into the Army, but any state- ment as to the routes by which the troops will...

case.

her departure for Balmoral. With a great war raging in Europe, with a revolution possibly imminent in France, and with serious debates constantly occurring in her own...

I N spite of the war, the most serious event of the week is the dis- missal of the Jules Simon Ministry in France. On Wednesday the Marshal sent for M. Simon, and reproaching...

wildest reports became current. France was about to attack Italy and re-establish the Temporal Power. General Cialdini called upon M. Simon, and so strong became the feeling...

to a correspondent of the Telegraph, who says he was an eye-witness, the Russian forces attacked the heights above Batonm on the 12th inst. The Turkish Bashi-Bazonks posted upon...

an& absent, made a remarkable speech in the Lords. The facts he- stated are now historical, but they are of importance to a fair comprehension of the conduct of the Foreign...

He showed that the Government had traded on the menaces of Russia as a means of coercing Turkey, and then had I turned round on Russia for doing what they had all along known...

of the Resolutions, or rather of the policy of coercing Turkey, which he justified by the precedent set by England and France in forcibly separating Belgium from Holland. He...

with the exception of Sir Stafford Northcote's, were compara- tively of minor importance. Mr. Bourke spoke of the idea that her Majesty's Government would abandon neutrality,...

show that England had repeatedly interfered with independent countries in order to produce results acceptable to the world, his principal instances being Belgium in 1832 and...

settled, pro- bably this Session. On Thursday night, on the Bill going into Committe in the Lords, Lord Granville withdrew his amendment in favour of one drawn up by Lord...

which novel- ists are so fond of, but which seldom appear in Court, came before the Appellate Court on Wednesday. One F. H. Barker, in 1813, sixty-four years ago, owned the...

Ridsdale case on Saturday, the Judges present being the Lord Chancellor, Lord Selborne, Sir J. W. Colvile, the Lord Chief Baron, Sir R. Phillimore, Lord Justice James, Sir...

Wednesday in Exeter Hall, to support the extension of household suffrage to the counties, and listened to a speech from Mr. Bright. The meeting, which was to a remarkable degree...

of the best be has ever delivered, but it was singularly effective and vigorous. He attributed the great advance of this country in the past forty-five years mainly to the...

public that Captain Burton, the African traveller, has made a "find " of unusual interest. At the request of the Khedive, he il/t8 visited the "land of Midian," the desolate...

one, Mr. Gray, the Horne-ruler, carried Tipperary against Mr. Casey, the Nationalist, by 3,852 to 1,344, a result attributed in great part to the influence of the priesthood. In...

telegraphic despatch from Sir Bartle Frere on the annexation of the Transvaal, from which it appears that the new province will continue to enjoy a separate, though subordinate...

at war with Turkey,—which, we are told, is different. On the 12th inst. the Assembly accepted a resolution declaring that Turkey had committed acts of war against Roumania, and...

T HE Division on Monday shows just this,—that a clear majority of the present House of Commons is willing to support the Government, in spite of its acknowledged failures in...

THE WAR. T HE slowness of the Russian advance, both in Europe and Asia—a slowness in part only apparent, but in part also real—though unfavourable in some degree to her...

O NCE more Constitutional Government in France has been assailed from above. M. Jules Simon, the head of a moderately Liberal Ministry in full possession of a majority, has been...

I T is greatly to be regretted, in the interests of peace and charity, that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should have thought themselves obliged to reaffirm the...

T HE Tory Press in London, baffled in its desire to defend Turkey by force of arms and show how Lord Beacons- ;field could manage a great war, is - endeavoming, to keep up alarm...

T HE Liberation Society in 1875 requested Mr. Frederick Martin, the compiler of the "Statesman's Year-Book," to make as accurate an estimate as possible "of the extent, nature,...

HE great popular demonstration which met the Archduke Albrecht in the capital of Austrian Croatia, is well cal- culated to open the eyes even of the most obstinate of those...

I T is now more than six years since, writing about an effort then being made to recover a galleon wrecked off the coast of Venezuela, we pointed out the improbability that the...

P ROFESSOR RUDLER, F.G.S., delivered, on Saturday last, before the Cymmodorion Society, at the London Institution, a lecture upon "The History of the Potter's Art in Britain,"...

W E forget who it was—it sounds like Mr. Disraeli—but is not, we think, his epigram,—who said of Sir Robert Peel that so wedded was he to the ordinary and the accustomed, "that...

(TO THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR.") Sut,—As I am sure your sympathies are not confined to dogs,. though at present they only have appeared in your paper, I anl. going to ask...

THE DISESTABLISHED CHURCH OF IRELAND AND ITS THEOLOGY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sirt,—No doubt Mr. Murphy ' s statement, "That the revision of the Prayer-Book,...

is popu- larly known chiefly by the well-known lines in Milton ' s sonnet:— " Thy age, like ours, 0 soul of Sir John Choke, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou...

(To THE EDITOR 07 THE SPECTATOR:1 beg you will permit me to express th3 regret with which I read, in your issue of the 12th, in a paragraph touching "clerical restrictions upon...

[FIRST NOTICE.] WE do not purpose to detain our readers with a long description .of the furnishing and architecture of this Gallery,—they are pro- tably familiar with all such...

THE CAMDEN SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.* THE autobiography of Lady Anne Halkett (born Murray) is that of a faithful and pious Royalist, who contributed to the escape of the young Duke...

OLD furniture has an interest for everybody, though everybody -cannot be a collector of "fine art" specimens of antiquity, or a -connoisseur in " bijouterie and virtu." We can...

MR. TYERAIAN'S knowledge of Methodism and Methodists is alike extensive and accurate. Ile is fully acquainted with the literature of the subject, and his sympathy with the good...

A MILITIAMAN is "made a little lower" than a soldier, and intended to raise himself to that condition, by dint of sympathy and imitation, as a mortal hopes to rise when he has...

Pozrnr.—Songs Now and Then. By T. Ashe. (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Ashe does not seem to advance. He made a place for himself some years ago, in what may be called the "remove" of the...

Stevens, M.A. Book L Food and Clothing. Book IL Furniture and Appliances of the House. (Longmana, Green, and Co.)—These books have been compiled to most the requirements of the...

(Chatto and Windus.)—These are short stories of French life and manners, some sad, some cheerful, the writer's leaning being rather to , the first kind, in which her gifts as a...

the doings of Va.vasour St. Lawrence, who certainly, but for the fact that he was really married already, is somewhat badly treated by the young lady who had promised to marry...

The legend of "Beauty and the Beast" has been turned to good account as an allegory of the power Which art has awakened and exer- cises in the human mind. The ethics of...

(John Van Voorst.)—This is a book which every student of history and polities (the two can hardly be distinguished) will do well to read. It is as might be expected from the...

Tinsley.) .—An heiress who comes by her own after her inheritance has been usurped by some extremely vulgar and disagreeable people, and a lady who is rewarded for being very...

the late Richard Rotho, D.D. With a preface by W. R. Clark, M.A. (T. and J. Clark, Edinburgh.)—In this selection from Dr. Rothe's Sermons all are not of equal merit, but some...

Rev. J. Franck Bright, M.A. Period I. Medimval Monarchy, from the Departure of the Romans to Edward III., with Maps and Plans. (Rivingtons.)—This is one of those manuals of...

Translated by the Rev. John Jefferson. (T. and T. Clark.)— Dr. Riebm points out, in tho introduction to this valuable treatise, that the meaning first ginp to prophecy, when...

M.P. (Hurst and Blackott.)—The subjects of these throe sketches are three historic murders, perpetrated at the three châteaux named on the title-page. In the first is related...

C. Jennings and Rev. W. H. Lowe. (Macmillan and Co.)—This little volume completes a work on the Psalms which we recommend to all Biblical students. It embraces the last...

Rev. W. Boyd Carpenter, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—These sketches of fifteen eminent preachers, from John Chrysostom to Dean Kirwan, an Irish clergyman, celebrated for his...

Stoughton.)—These sermons, dedicated to he members of Mr.Loxton's congregation at Sheffield, will no doubt be valued by them as a memorial of their late minister, but will also...