to secure justice to the Turkish Christians, which induced Lord Derby to give the House of Lords the " latest information" about the negotiations. After complaining that the...

T ORD DERBY has not purchased an escape even by throwing the children to the wolves. On Monday, peace was assured. On Tuesday, peace was certain. On Wednesday, peace had been...

to go back to Constantinople, an arrangement which would have convinced the Turks that we still intended to support them. Mr. Forster, however, having asked questions on the...

of Imperial affairs. A Court of Appeal is to be created for the whole of Germany, and Prince Bismarck proposed in the Federal Council that it should be located in Berlin. He...

a Royal Commission into the "origin, uses, objects, present con- stitution, customs, and usages of the Stock Exchange;" and "whether such usages, &c., are in accordance with the...

of March, the Sultan, "leaning on his sword "—the only Turkish sceptre—listened to the reading of the first " speech from the throne." The idea of the speech was that Sultan...

case.

House of Commons yesterday week to the state of primary education in Ireland, and moved a resolution to the effect that steps should be taken to press on education there,...

is quite evident that the Zulu King has not lost his awe of Great Britain, for he has denied any intention of commencing hostilities. Secocoeni has accordingly made peace with...

and fully reported in Monday's Times, is much the most effective address he has made since the occupation of Rome by the Italian Government. And for this there is a good...

certain autonomy to Alsace-Lorraine. A Bill has been introduced allowing the provincial Parliament to legislate for the province, and taking it out of the hands of the general...

on the relations between Capital and Labour, in reply to Mr. Leone Levi's lectures on the same subject, but we regret to observe that they are not reported by the general Press...

was strongly marked in a case tried on Thursday before the Middlesex Sessions. Lord Marcus Beresford had dealings with a solicitor, a Mr. Tidy, from whom he borrowed money at 30...

printed, and is, of course, exactly what the speech in which it was introduced gave us reason to expect. It consolidates a good many Acts to which Dissenters object ; and offers...

Mr. Crabb Robinson mid of himself, for the literary friends whom he made and whom he endeared to him, than for - any literary work achieved by himself,—Charles Cowden Clarke,...

requirements- Of the new Code, - concerning which they - were unanimously - of -opinion that the - standards - suggested are far too bigh, - with apparently one - exeeption,that...

on Thursday, gave remarkable sketches of three great preachers or Speakers whom he hadimown,—Dr. Newman, Dr. Chalmers, and Mr: Shell,—all of whom had great faults of manner,...

and Steel Institute, and a great authority on Coal, -gave us, in his inaugural lecture -on Wednesday, an opinion which Will be pleasant to housewives. He thinks we are probably...

Rectorial term, a farewell address to the students of St. Andrew's University, which was chiefly devoted to the progressive char- acter of theology. He declared that this...

Justice Brett is Kontributimgsomething to the democratising of the Bench. At the -Huntingdonshire Assizes, says our contemporary, Sir Balliol Brett sentenced a man to amonth's...

W E do not exactly see why the Government disliked the idea of appointing a Royal Commission to inquire into the management of the Stock Exchange so much. They sub- mitted to...

THE FAILURE OF THE NEGOTIATION. T HE emancipation of the Eastern Christians still depends upon the decision of an Emperor who cannot make up his mind, but to all appearance,...

T HE English Press is still childishly afraid of saying anything that appears to favour a Catholic cause, how- ever clear may be the justice of that cause. Miss Harriet...

L ORD CHARLES BEEESFOBD'S interesting speech of Monday on the use of 'Torpedoes, coming as it does so soon after those remarkable achievements of•the - French torpedo the...

A GREAT part of Prince Bismarck's speech on the Official Organisation of the German Empire deals with matters which have no interest for, and indeed, are scarcely intelligible...

MBROUGHOUT the long and most interesting discussions JL upon Mr. Gladstone's Irish Land Law, we maintained that the single defect of that law was that it did not go far enough,...

I N a very pleasant little book just published, a biography of the marine painter, J. C. Schetky, an artist of whom we are ashamed never to have heard before, the author has...

Martineau's autobiography without • being struck with the bitterness of the majority - of her personal judgments. There • is hardly a period of her - life - without some...

[COMMUNICATED.] A paper of considerable interest with this title was read by Sir Douglas Forsyth at the Indian Section of the Society of Arts last week, and the discussion that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The writer of the article on " Compulsory Courtesies " takes far too superficial a view, to do justice either to the school- master,...

THE INDIAN FAMINE. [TO THE Fames OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Having now spent ten days in what may be called the heart of the famine districts of the Bombay Presidency, I think...

POPULAR ART.—III. POTTERY AND PORCELAIN Ix my last article on " Popular Art," I gave some few leading prin- ciples by which the choice of furniture and its arrangement should be...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:'] you allow me to supplement your reference to Sir William Thomson's condemnation of Dr. Rutherford's experi- ments, devised and carried out,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—I have no sympathy whatever with Professor Beesly's suspicions of the grounds of your coldness towards my friend, Mr. Odger, but I...

"QUID, SI MUNDUS EVOLVATUR ?" Is there no Pilot's hand that guides Yon gallant ship to thread her way From Thames or Hudson to Cathay, Though tossed the seeming sport of winds...

HARRIET MARTINEAU'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY.• [THIRD NOTICE.] Miss MARTINEAU'S most earnest admirers, and those who are least able to share in that admiration, will probably agree that...

measure the source of Elliott's poetical power. The wrongs of mankind, or rather of a special class, in- spired his verse ; he seldom writes what deserves to rank above...

TOWARDS the middle of the sixteenth century, Reginald Wolfe (afterwards printer to Queen Elizabeth) conceived the idea of publishing a Universall Cosmographie of the Whole...

ON April the 23rd, 1873, . there died at Stuttgart a man well known and also much abused in German literature. Tolerance • Denkanirdigkeiten. Reransgegeben on dem Bohn, Conrad...

as her style would lead the reader to suppose, but a wife, the wife of a baronet who addresses people in the second person singular ; says "aside," when he ob- serves her...

(T. and T. Clarke, Edinburgh.)—This is a book for Biblical students, and we think it will be of service to them. The different varieties of quotation are classified and...

, is not attractive to those who remember the "Idylls of the King," but the Vivien of the story is not the heroine who gives it a name, but a certain Countess de Verdreuil,...

A. Paley. (Deighton, Bell, and Co., Cambridge.)—We have here- two of Euripides' most familiar plays, edited, with brief notes, for-settee} - use by Mr. Paley. The Hecuba and...

The Poetical Birthday Book. Edited by the Countess of Portsmouth. (Hatchards.)—This is a very dainty little book, a collection of morceaus from the poets which illustrate the...

Murray.)—These seven lectures are all on subjects of general interest, and will, we are sure, be acceptable to a wide circle of readers. The first is on that now much-read and...

edited by Robert H. Mair (Dean), is, we are told, "personally revised by Members of Parliament and the Judges." It is a complete and useful book of its kind, A brief sketch of...

-by-Dr. Vaughan. (Macmillan and Co.)—Dr. Vaughan has done good service in republishing these charges. They are evidently the utter- ances of a man who in every branch of his...

'We felt inclined to wish, en getting to the end of this novel, that it had been cut short at the conclusion of the first volume. For that volume is eery-good. The laird, his...

and are now republished, with additions. His descriptions are curious and entertaining, and readers who care for these subjects, as, indeed, most readers do, more or loss, will...

(Len- mans.)—This book is worthy of its subject. Many volumes have been written about the Nile, since Herodotus, first of the million of travellers who have looked on the...

by the Roving Englishman. (Routledge.)—The papers of which the volume is in part composed were published in Household Words, and were re- printed with additions about...

Hook Society.)—This is a good story of how a family, reduced by an adverse turn of trade to poverty, learned to dispense with the luxury and ease to which they had been used. It...

M.A. (W. Hunt and Co.)—This volume consists of sermons on the eleventh chapter of 'the Epistle to the Hebrews, which Mr. Bell persists in con- sidering the work of St. Paul. In...

English lady, reduced to great difficulties by the death of her father, takes by special recommendation of a mutual friend the management of the household of a certain German...

the Miracles. By Mrs. Carry Brock. (Seeley.)—We can but expect that a tale in which the Old and New Testament miracles are illustrated by the history of a few months in the...

M.D. (Effingham Wilson.)—This is a sensibly-written little book, and the gouty would do well to follow its precepts. That they will do so of their own accord, without pressure...

P. T. Barnum. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The exciting nature of the adven- tures of which Lion Jack is the hero is only equalled by their impro- bability. The whole book might be...