21 APRIL 1877

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Lord Hartington brought on his motion for papers yesterday week,

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in a speech, in which he insisted that the Powers had com- mitted themselves to an important step when they declared that they had undertaken "the pacification of the East," and...

All England has been moved during the week by the

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accounts of the fate of five miners shut up, by an inundation, in a stall of the deep coal-mine Troedyrhiw, at Pontypridd, in Glamorgan- shire. The men are protected by the...

We distrust exceedingly all the accounts of the strength of

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the armies on either side of the Danube. The Russians try hard to maintain a strict secrecy, and Turkish accounts of numbers are always vagud, it being an object to conceal the...

• #* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in

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any case.

Sir William Harcourt made a vigorous comment on this gospel

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of selfishness proclaimed by Mr. Hardy, and pointed out that while the Government bad made peace their main object, they had failed to secure it; while they had insisted, next,...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HERE has been no change in the aspect of affairs during the week. The hope of peace has been given up, but the formal declaration of war is still delayed, apparently because...

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On Monday Lord Granville drew attention to the Protocol, asked

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why no guarantees were included in it, when the Govern- ment had admitted that guarantees were essential, and wanted to know why Lord Derby had separated England from the other...

The effort of the Liberals to rescue Salford from the

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Tories has been defeated, Colonel Walker, the Tory candidate, having on Thursday polled 8,642 votes, against 8,372 given to his op- ponent, Mr. J. Kay. It is believed that Mr....

Earl Granville gave notice that he would yesterday press the

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Liberal view of the Burials question on the House of Lords. We shall not know before we go to press what the result has been, but of course, in such an assembly as the House of...

The Constantinople correspondent of the Times recently tele- graphed that

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the Turkish Government had sentenced a military student, named Ali Nasmi, to be bastinadoed for having written a letter to the Vakil, pleading for the recall of Midhat, which...

Lord Derby, in the course of a debate raised on

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Thursday night by Lord Stratheden and Campbell, stated that he had long ago informed Turkey she had no material assistance to expect from Great Britain, and that he did not...

Mr. Dillwyn urged his objections on Monday, in considering the

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report of Supply, to a proceeding which touches a matter not intrinsically very important, but still one of principle, and one which deserves more attention than it receives. He...

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It seems, from an official paper just published, that Hobart

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Pasha is still an officer in the British Service. He was removed from it by the Admiralty in 1868, on complaint from the Greek Minister, through Lord Stanley, then, as now,...

At the Engineers dinner on Wednesday, Lord Carnarvon made a

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speech which cannot have been pleasant reading for some of his colleagues. Lord Derby says he signed the Protocol in the interests of peace alone, and Mr. Hardy says the single...

Another " demonstration " in favour of Arthur Orton was

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arranged for Tuesday, and attracted some attention, its leader, Mr. De Morgan, having threatened to march 100,000 men to the House of Commons to claim the right of petition. No...

Consols were on Friday 954--i.

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We are to have a visit very shortly, it seems,

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from the fascinating young gorilla who has stirred so much interest in Berlin, and who is exciting even a greater furore there than our first hippopotamus excited in London. The...

Mr. Brandram's recital of " The Merchant of Venice "

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on Tues- day, at Willis's Rooms, was very successful. His rendering of the minor characters and of Shylock is more striking than his render- ing of Portia. His Lancelot Gobbo,...

Mr. Reed, late Chief Naval Constructor, holds out a pleasing

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prospect, nothing less than that of another reconstruction of the Navy. In a lecture on Wednesday to the Society of Arts, he declared that the problem of defence against...

The return of licences granted under the Vivisection Act of

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last year shows that only four licences have been granted, which make the licensee free from inspection in any experiments he may perform, i.e., which name no place where they...

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TOPICS OF . THE DAY.

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THE GOVERNMENT'S CHANGE OF FRONT. T HE Government are going backwards with steady and well-marked steps. Compare the policy of Lord Salis- bury at the Conference, and even the...

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THE SALFORD ELECTION.

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T HE result of the Salford Election is a great blow to the Liberal party. There is no use in concealing that, or any other disagreeable fact in politics. They had hoped that the...

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THE LATEST LONDON EMEUTE.

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IT is fortunate for the Empire that it is so difficult to get up a riot in London, for a riot in London might be more fatal than an emeute in any other capital in Europe. The...

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THE IGNORANCE OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE.

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N OTHING has struck us throughout the recent negotiations so much as the ignorance exhibited by her Majesty's Government. It rises at times to the height intended by Catholic...

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MR. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN'S MOTION. we hope, be effected. The advantages which

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would have fol- lowed from a partial revision of the duty are less than those which would follow from its total repeal, while, if the duty had undergone revision, the Government...

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CHURCH AFFAIRS IN SCOTLAND.

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I T is a trite remark that the Scottish mind cherishes a pecu- liar attachment to a well-marked type of ecclesiastical sympathies and activities. In Scotland, questions about...

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MB. LOWE'S ECCENTRTOITIES.

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. LOWE must always be a man of high political mark. It is something at least never to speak without convey- ing a meaning, though we are not sure that in a statesman of high...

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THE RECENT MINE ACCIDENT.

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I T is, perhaps, well for men not to be too much worried with the fear of preventible accidents. There are so many that are not preventible, security of any kind is held by so...

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PROFESSOR WACE ON BELIEF.

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W E drew attention rather more than three months ago (January 6) to a striking but very misleading essay of Professor Clifford's in the Fortnightly Review on the sin of Cre-...

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IRISH LAND TENURE. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "EPBOTATOR-1 SIR,—Mr.

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Bence Jones, in his letter published in the Spectator of March 31, has most successfully maintained that Ireland needs its landlords ; that it would be destroying a valuable...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.")

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Sin,—In a large fishing community in the north-east of Scotland, where I exercise my ministry, a custom prevails which seems to corroborate Mr. M'Lennan's theory about the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR. ")

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Sin,—In Mr. Bence Jones's letter he relinquishes the discussion of the "practical difficulties" suggested in his first letter, and relies upon the more hackneyed, but less...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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SIR HENRY MAINE AND MR. M'LENNAN. go THE EDITOR OF THE "SFROTATOR.1 Sin,—The reviewer in the Spectator of Mr. M'Lennan's "Studies in Ancient History " appears to agree with Mr....

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EPIGRAMS.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have just seen in the Spectator for March 31 some lines -attributed to the Khaliph Radhi Billah, who died A.D. 951. Will you allow me...

POETRY.

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A LOST. DARLING. WHEN the snowdrop pierced the snow, And mezereon 'gun to blow, When the branches bare and stark Felt the life within the bark, In the midst of February, Came a...

THE SPARROW IN THE UNITED STATES.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR.") SIR,—Whatever may be the political opinions of the English sparrows now living in the United States, it is certainly a great mistake to say...

PARLIAMENT AND THE CHURCH.

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[To TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In several of the Australian colonies, commencing with Victoria, about twenty years ago, the local Legislatures have passed Enabling...

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EPHEMERA.

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[44 Miss Martineau asks what it can signify whether we, with our in- dividual consciousness, live again ; and says that ' the real and justifi- able subject of interest to human...

ART.

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THE GREAT ARTISTIC WANT OF ENGLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") San,—Having had the good-fortune in my youth to hear the lectures and enjoy the conversation of...

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BOOK S.

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FREDERIC OZANAM.* Miss O'MEARA has given us in this volume a very graphic sketch of the life of the chief founder of the modern Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the great...

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ASYLUM CHRISTI.* WRITTEN from a liberal point of view, the

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story bearing the above title deals with the dangers and persecutions which, during the latter part of the seventeenth century, environed the Huguenots of France, and by...

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MYTHOLOGY AMONG THE HEBREWS.* THIS learned work, applying to the

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Bible certain modern methods of myth-interpretation, takes in hand the Old Testament Patri- archs, and reduces them one after another to personifications of the powers of...

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MR. PALGRAVE ON DUTCH GUIANA.* MR. PALGRAVE looks back with

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pathetic regret to old days in the East. Those who recollect—and who that has once read does not recollect ?—his book on Arabia will share that regret. Nor does this mean any...

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FLOTSAM AND JETSAM..*

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Mu. DoMErr's shorter poems resemble his long and striking New Zealand poem in this, that they are always graphic, often brilliant, and generally full of force. What, with one or...

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Physical and Religious Knowledge. By James Bixby. (Appleton and Co.,

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New York.)—The object of this book is to reconcile science and religion, by showing that they both really rest on a common ground, and have to appeal to the same mental...

What Old Father Thames Said. A Novel. 3 vols. By

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Coutts Nelson. (Samuel Tinsley.)—In this novel all the personages, scenery, and " effects" of the transpontine drama make their reappearance. We have the wicked baronet, the...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Sport in Many Lands. By H. A. L., " The Old Shekarry." 2 vols. (Chapman and Hal.1)—These volumes may, we suppose, be described as the last fruit from an old tree. Since their...

Modern Physical Fatalism and the Doctrine of Evolution. By T.

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R. Birks, M.A., Professor of Moral Philosophy, Cambridge. (Macmillan and Co.)—The title of this book has special reference to Mr. Herbert Spencer. Physical fatalism and...

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Mignon. By Mrs. Forrester. 3 vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—Mrs. Forrester

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has bad the courage to follow the maxim which it is easy for critics to proclaim, but not easy for writers to carry out, that the chief interest of a woman's life is most...

The Heritage of Langdale. By Mrs. Alexander. 3 vols. (Bentley.)—

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We must confess to having felt a slight sinking of the spirits when we read the first sentence of this novel,—" A dull November afternoon was lowering over the wild open country...

A Long Madness. By Elizabeth J. Lysaght. 3 vols. (Charing

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Cross Publishing Company.)—Honor Deverill, the heroine of this story, is a woman who has aims beyond the common conceptions of duty. She has the command of wealth, and she finds...

Lorenzo de' Medici, Me Magnificent. By Alfred Von Reumont. Translated

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from the German by Robert Harrison. 2 vols. (Smith and Elder.)—The translator says, and doubtless with perfect truth, that the author's " extraordinary talent for research seems...

Mr. Charlton. By the Author of "Anne Dysart." 3 vole.

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(Hurst and Blackett.)—This is a story of an ordinary kind, such as one fancies oneself to have read many times before, and yet is not wearied in reading, told as it is with a...

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On the Genders of French Substan'ives. By Benjamin Dawson, B.A.,

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and Danby P. Fry, is an enlargement of papers road by the former author before the Philological Society. The book is intended to show how the gender of French substantives has...