all the dismissed Republican mayors and the victims of official pro- secution have been returned with large majorities by the people. M, Gambetta received a far higher vote than...

largest vote which universal suffrage in France has yet polled, and went off without the slightest breach of order in any part of the country. The results are, of course,...

T HE first decisive victory of the war has been achieved by the Russians. The Emperor has steadily though quietly reinforced his armies in Armenia, and on the 15th inst. it was...

case. He consulted Mr. Justice Hawkins and other Judges, and cross-ex- amined Clara Brown, but it would appear from the wording of his circular to the Press that he was mainly...

great 'battle had about 60,000 men, and the Turks about 40,000, and that the attack was marked by great ability and energy. It is not, however, known to whom the credit of the...

case.

India of disturbances expected beyond the frontier. Its correspondent from Simla telegraphs that the Khan of Khelat is seriously annoyed by the occupation of Quettah, and that...

it more than it was worth. On Sunday, the 14th inst., the ' Olga' steamer was towing the obelisk, inclosed in the quaint iron box devised by Mr. Dixon for carrying it—a box...

the week as to the justice of the Oxford Commission in withdrawing two of the All Souls' Fellowships from competition, and Mr. A. J. Butler, of Winchester, writes us a long...

missioner, Mr. Rothery, on the results of the long inquiry into the causes of the collision between the ' Avalanche' and the ' Forest' on the 11th of September, off Portland,...

future policy. He retains his Cabinet, and has given a sort of semi-official hint that he means to retain it till after the second ballots on the 28th October and the elections...

Irishmen settled in Great Britain, who are much more violent than Irishmen at home—probably because, if they can secure- Home-rule, they will not have to live under it—are to...

speeches, this time to the Icelanders settled on the shore of Lake Winnipeg. There are some 1,400 of them, most orderly and con- tented settlers, with a small library in every...

supplies, and Mr. Hayes, in his Message, says that he shall 'postpone all other business of interest till the regular meeting. It is probable, however, that the Session will be...

it contains very little. The Postmaster-General is not surprised at Turkish victories, because Lord Poneonby once told him that he dreaded nothing so much for Turkey as the help...

the wheat crop of 1877 produced in this country will not exceed 10,000,000 quarters, leaving as much as 13,000,000 quarters to be imported, unless the high price of wheat should...

Russian officers in this campaign, and we have been told that the 'Turks had in consequence even been instructed by their superiors never to fire on a Russian General, lest he...

the Church Congress occurred. It was caused by Canon Curteis's attack on the Dissenters for their claim to the freedom of the Churchyards, and when Mr. Thomas Hughes rebuked his...

constituents on Wednesday, dilated in his accustomed strain on the wickedness of taking any part in any war at all, and said he should have been shamed and humiliated if Great...

ball dedicated to George Stephenson at Chesterfield, and made one of those speeches in honour of material improve- ment to which Ministers who like to say pleasant things and...

THE TURN OF THE TIDE. T HE destruction of the Turkish army under Mukhtar Pasha marks, in all probability, the turn of the tide in this cam- paign, and even as an isolated event,...

the Elections in France, the more reason we have to be satisfied with them. It is perfectly true that M. Gambetta's prophecy of the return of 400 Republicans has, as yet, been...

T HE Archbishop of Canterbury closed the Church Congress on .Friday weekwith a speech as optimistic as that with which he had opened it. He completely fulfilled the Apostolic...

T HE decision of the Home Secretary in the Ponge case will greatly increase the willingness of politicians to estab- lish a Court of Criminal Review. The first necessity of a...

T 11E intelligence from the Indian frontier published in the Times of Friday, is of some importance not because the facts related are menacing to the peace of India, but because...

1TR. LYTTELTON asks us a question in the letter which we 111 publish to-day that deserves a careful answer. He aaks why it is that if an argument resting on the authority of...

W E discussed last week some of the phenomena of Forget- fulness, but the writer designedly omitted the best known and in some respects perhaps the most puzzling of them...

L ORD DERBY said the other day at Liverpool that if We are not an artistic people, we have never had the chance of being such. He thought that our smoky atmosphere and our ugly...

IGNORING THE BIBLE IN RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY. [To Till EDITOR OF Tun “EPEOTATOR.1 SIR,—You take as the title of an article in last Saturday's Spectator St. Paul's words, in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THU " SPEOTALTOR.1 Sse,—This is the third visit which I have made to the United States since the close of the great civil war, and it is with great pleasure...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sre,—In a passage of your last number, referring to the pro- ceedings of a late Diocesan Conference at Oxford, you report some observations...

(To THE nDIT011 OF THE "Seemiroa.1 Sin,—Yon have quoted as a very sufficient reply" to my former letter an answer written to the Times by Mr. Roberts,— will you allow me to...

THE " SPEOTATOR.") Si,—In your paper of last Saturday you have inserted a letter from" G. S. B.," from which I take the following words :—" You might have reminded your readers...

A BALLAD OF THE " THUNER-SEE." Soirr on the lake's soft bosom we twain, Float in the haze of a dim delight, While the wavelets cradle the sleepless brain, And the eyes are glad...

THOREAU, HIS LIFE AND AIMS.* 'Tins is a biographical study, founded on the sketch to which we called the attention of our readers some time since. It has, besides * Thoreau, Su...

(To TRH EDITOR OF TEE l 'ElFEOUTOn."1 Snt,—Perhaps you will allow me, as a subscriber to the , , Speciator, and as one who attended the recent Church Congress -at Croydon, to...

slaughter of the Janissaries, tried to reorganise his army, he turned, in 1835, to Berlin, and Briqfe Nun. Asian* und Begebenheilen in der Tdrkei nue den Juhren 1835 Ida 1830 ....

We have delayed to notice the pleasant and suggestive address. of Professor Veiteh too long, but as he is on the eve of publishing a longer and more important work, our...

justified in looking warily upon any fresh book of travels about Norway. The country seems to have been done and overdone, by men, by women, by unprotected females, by donkeys,...

MRS. OLIPHANT is becoming a very voluminous writer. Novel suc- ceeds novel with groat rapidity, nor are more serious works absent from the lengthening catalogue of her writings....

?Lipson. (Bentley and Sons.)—When we noticed Dr. Phipson's last production, we had no idea of the versatility of his genius, From the "Mysteries of Science" to an account of...

The Orthodox Doctrine of the Church of England. By the Rev. Thomas Isaac Ball. (Rivingtons.)—Mr. Ball having conceived the idea of ex- plaining the orthodox doctrine of the...

well, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—Three names seem to stand prominently out of the eleven to whom the authorship of the "Do Imitatione " has been assigned, Johannes Gerson, Abbot of...

is at her best in this book. It has much of the , racy simplicity of her "Susan Fielding," and of the quiet humour - which we have missed in her later works. The reader knows at...

By F. A, Binney. (E. W. Allen.)—We cannot say that Mr. Binney seems to us properly qualified to write either upon the "Religion of Jesus" or "The Christianity of To-day," his...

(Macmillan,)—Tliere can be no doubt that what Mr. Wilkie undertakes he will do in a scholarly and accurate manner, and that from the height of his knowledge he can descend to...

herself, with difli- eult relatives, and a dangerous fixture in the shape of a nurse determined that the young stepmother shall not have fair-play. Mrs. Victor Domarcay's...

the "Loyal and True." (Tinsley Brothers.)—It would be unreasonable to expect that every lady who writes a novel should understand the French and Italian languages, at least well...

George Bartle. (Published by the Author.)—Dr. Bartle thinks it likely that the title of his volume will cause "dissatisfaction and uneasiness" in the minds of his friends. After...

F. Lowder, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—Thare is much in this volume with which we feel no sympathy, much from which, did the occasion demand, we should express a most deoided dissent....

Is a very marvollens story indeed. A city grows up where a smarsh has been, and the question is,—To whom does this city belong ? 'An army of claimants springs up. AS they have...

and Observation during Two Wars. 1861-1865 ; 1870-1871. By Wickham Hoffman. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Hoffman served in the United States Army at New Orleans, and tolls us what...

York ; John W. Burke, Macon, Georgia.)—A volume that has reached "a fourth edition "(as we learn of Our Children from the title-page) hardly needs any commendation from us. The...

M.P. (William Mullen and Son.)—Mr. Helms states his ease with moderation. It amounts to a demand for the repeal of the teaduty. Taxes on alcoholie . drinks and tobacco being, by...