T HE in extronis Ministry of Marshal MacMahon, as it has been called,—a Ministry not one member of which belongs to either Chamber,—'was gazetted yesterday week. The President...

at length con- sented to accept a Ministry from the Left Centre, M. Dufaure apparently being the head, and M. Waddington, M. de Marcere, and M. Leon Say some of its members, on...

importance. Nothing has been accomplished in Asia, where General Loris Melikoff is awaiting before Erzeroum the arrival of his reinforcements from Kars ; but it is mentioned by...

consisting of persons individually of no importance, but representing the more violent sections of the more violent pro-Turkish party, waited on him at the Foreign Office to...

case.

'were at once challenged in the Chamber of Deputies by M. de Marcere—formerly a Home Secretary of the Marshal's—who, praising the Ministers as worthy men out of their natural...

speech from the Throne contains a paragraph intimating the firm belief of the Prince "that the independence of Roumania will be recognised by all Europe," which will perceive...

the statement of the Judges of the Queen's Bench that the Public Worship Act created a new jurisdiction, and that the judgments under that Act are not ordinary judgments of the...

Con- servative Association on Thursday, and made a speech in which, after expressing his surprise to find himself there as a Cabinet Minister, and declaring that taxation had...

Court, terminated on Wednesday, Sir George Jessel deciding in favour of the plaintiffs. Messrs. Williamson and Co., Calcutta merchants, sought to reopen the accounts between...

health are acquiring great consistence. He still continues occa- sionally to see a few visitors, but he is always carried in his chair, and each ceremonial leaves him weaker. He...

the Liverpool Institute, which no one will read, because the reporter has headed it "Mr. Goschen on Education." It was not a speech on education at all, but a most powerful...

in- difference displayed by Mr. Mackonochie in his correspondence with the Bishop of London to the obligation of his vow of canonical obedience, but we must in fairness to him...

made a speech, in which he said he wished he could feel as confident about the great war in the East as he did about the little war upon the Kei. He thought England was looking...

Treaty that the peoples of the United States and of Canada should have the right of fishing in each other's waters for twelve years. As the rights were of different value, it...

of kis speech on the Burials Bill. We quoted last week his words concerning the Quakers' burial-grounds,—" They have not been—what do they call it 7—consecrated," as an instance...

that he left quite £20,000,000 worth of property behind him, and accumulated £19,000,000 of it on his eldest son, of whom in his life he spoke with grimly humorous contempt,—a...

'of all the other Scotch Universities in electing a Liberal Lord Rector. The contest was between Lord Selborne and Mr. Grathorne Hardy, Lord Selborne obtaining 79 votes against...

contri- buted a valuable letter to the Times on the discussion which he aptly terms " University Colonies,"—his object being to advocate the further extension of the plan...

the subject of Russians, Turks, and Bulgarians, which is not one of his happiest efforts. Its facts were new to his audience, but they are hardly new enough to deserve to be...

of a University still goes on, and Professor Holland, who suggested that it might be given a charter enabling it to grant degrees in medicine and science, delaying a similar...

making the humane treatment of animals a subject of direct teach- ing in the classes of its various schools. The truth certainly is that much, if not most, of the cruelty...

LORD DERBY ON HIS FOREIGN POLICY. I T ispretty evident that Lord Derby was pleased on Wed- nesday to have an opportunity of publicly expressing his - views upon the existing...

IN appointing a Ministry not a single member of which is in 1. either House of the French Parliament, Marshal Mac- Mahon acted strictly within his legal powers ; but it is very...

NI R, LOWE'S rejoinder to Mr. Gladstone in the December number of the Fortnightly has more astuteness than ability. He makes much of Mr. Gladstone's admission that he was not...

THAT the pro-Turkish journals should assert with mono- tonous regularity that the country is with them, and eager to see the Ministry adopt a "decided " emilte, is only...

fA ERCHANTS in the North of England have been waiting with almost breathless interest for the decision of the Master of the Rolls in the case of "Williamson v. Barbour." It...

T HE Clerical party in Rome have come out of their shell. They have gone to the poll in the elections for the Municipal Council, and they have won nine out of sixteen seats. The...

T HE correspondence published on Monday between Mr. Mac- konochie and his Bishop is very curious, but, at least on one point of great interest, Mr. Mackonochie evidently thinks...

M R. GOLDWIN SMITH, in his recent essay upon the resem- blance between the positions of the Southern slaveowners and the Ottoman Turks, remarked that the same people in England...

THE ARMY AND THE CRISIS. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Paris, November 28. IN my letter of the other day / qualified, but not with sufficient force, my statement that the Marshal...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE uSPEOTATOR."1 Srn,—In an article in your last number you speak of " the. marked success" of Lord Hartington's recent visit to Scotland, and of the...

AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF SIR ROBERT PEEL. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SI11,—In a life of Mr. Disraeli which is being published by Messrs. Goubaud, there is an...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE 4' SPEOTATOR."] tSin,—The case against the Judicial Committee is worse than Dr. Littledale describes, as the following brief summary will show " On...

EPEOTATOE,1 Sin,—In your last number you state that when the degree of LL.D. was conferred on Mr. Darwin by the University of Cam- bridge, " ' The missing link '—an ape-like...

MR. FROUDE ON THOMAS A. BECKE'T.* WE confess that we have read the account Mr. Fronde has lately written of the "Life and Times " of Becket with considerable disappointment....

FONS BANDUSLIE.—(llor. iii., 11) 0 BABBLING Spring! than glass more clear, Worthy of wine, and wreath not sere, To-morrow shall a kid be thine With swelled and sprouting brows...

WE loved of yore, in warfare bold Nor laurelless. Now all must go ; Let this left wall of Venus show The arms, the tuneless lyre of old. Here let them bang, the torches cold,...

It is not only penetrated by varied wisdom and calm insight into motives, but it rises, by the most natural stages, to the height of tragic purpose. The characters are the...

Mn. WEDMORE has judged it expedient to explain his reasons for the abandonment of the beaten track of modern English novelists —that of the portraiture of the life of...

THE reason of the constant changes and agitations which have marked the course of French affairs since 1789 Hillebrand ascribes not to institutions or to laws, but "to one great...

Tun author of Carrots has a singularly delicate touch in dealing with children's stories,—showing both the genuine playfulness * rho Cuckoo-Clark. By Ennis Gratin m, author of "...

The Wreck of' the Grosvenor.' (Sampson Low and Co.)—We do not undertake to answer for the accuracy of the nautical details of this extraordinarily interesting story, our own...

Tinsloy.)—Titis is a very unequal performance, and is, partly on that account, a difficult one to review. We find unquestionably elements of dramatic power in some of the scenes...

lady who, in pursuit of an escaped bullfinch, clambers over the , leads of half a street of London houses, and finds herself confronting another young lady, who is a vision of...

the modest title, claiming no special brilliancy or value, which Mr. Philpot gives to his apophthegms, reflections, and moralisings, his book is one which excites expectations...

S. King and Co.) — It does not do to skim this novel, which is equivalent to saying that it is something different from the mass of contemporary fiction. The author writes well...

in this novel a readable but somewhat puzzling book. She has made hor plot unisecessarilY and indeed wearisomely compli- cated, so that its ramifications are difficult to follow...

(Hurst and Blacket+.)—One cannot help asking in some wonderment, after reading a novel of this kind, whether the people whom Mrs. Fraser depicts are such as she has ever mot...

League. By Henry Ashworth. (Cassell and Co.)—During a recent illness, Mr. Ashworth, member of a well-known Lancashire family, engaged in manufactures, conceived, as he tells us,...

History. By A. W. Hughes, F.R.G.S. (George Bell and Sons,)-- The author of this exhaustive and well-written volume modestly de- scribes it as a compilation rather than an...

Edinburgh.)—How we are to spell, divide our words by syllables, compare our adjectives, punctuate our sentences, use long and out of- the-way words with some approach to...

times. In an admirable introduction, Dr. Wagner, whose capabilities for work of this kind have already boon amply shown in his edition of Marlowe's " Edward traces the growth of...

(Tinsley Brothers.) —The readers of this novel will find themselves the unwilling victims of an unique experiment. It is a common trick of novelists to engage our interest in...

By Thomas Brassey, M.P. (Long:mans, Green, and Co.)— Mr. Brassey is indefatigable. Surely ho is the model of the modern UP. of the period, who, not content with travelling round...

Cards from Messrs. de la Rue and Co., among which we may especially mention those descriptive of fairy-life, which will bo a source of amusement to others besides the children....

for 1878, have reached us as usual, and as usual, are carefully prepared, and the pocket books very neatly and richly bound ; indeed, it may be said of the ladies' pocket-books,...