25 AUGUST 1877

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The Government of India appears to be stretching every nerve

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to save the people, but the destruction will be awful. The Times, which animadverts on the conduct of Government in not buying grain, misses the true point, which is not...

The German Government is behaving very well. Being care- fully

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informed by its military attachds, it is aware that the Otto- man accounts of Russian atrocities are for the most part inven- tions, intended to cancel the effect of the...

*** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

M. Brunet, the French Minister of Public Instruction, made a

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speech at Tulle on the 19th inst., which seems to have been revised by the Cabinet, for it was not published till the 22nd. Ile reaffirmed emphatically that the Marshal would...

Subscriptions for the Indian Famine are pouring in to the

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Man- sion House, but the aid required is a grant from the National Treasury. There is no time to wait when a letter like this can be written, by Mr. W. E. James, of the Mysore...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Turks are moving at last, but up to Friday evening nothing decisive had been reported. Suleiman Pasha, with forty bat- talions, attacked the Shipka Pass from the south, on...

The Russian Government has evidently relaxed its control over the

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journals in regard to the war, and desires to let the truth be fully known. The Daily News' correspondent telegraphs that the Chief of the Staff has sent his very frank account...

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It is still uncertain whether any large section of the

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Irish in Ireland approve the course of the Obstructionists, but a certain number of them clearly do. A meeting in their h onour was held in the Rotunda, Dublin, on Tuesday, and...

Mr. Bramwell, the well-known civil engineer, put before the British

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Association a scheme for supplying London with water, for which his scientific ability and practical shrewdness must get attention. His advice to the ratepayers is to have...

We publish elsewhere some comments upon the new " plank

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" which the Republicans of Ohio, in order to attract the workmen, have introduced into their "platform." Their candidate for the Governorship of the State, Judge W. H. West,...

A correspondent of the Times, writing from Athens, states that

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the whole Greek people is becoming eager for war with Turkey. In Beeotia, the Thebans have raised a " Sacred Band," 1;000 strong, of men who intend to devote themselves to the...

Excursionists from Manchester and other places in Lancashire have been

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visiting Hawarden Castle. Mr. Gladstone did not cut down a tree for them, but he has of course been compelled to talk to them. He took occasion to tell his visitors from Man-...

The arrangements for reporting the British Association this year seem

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to have broken down altogether, in London at all events. It is simply impossible to comprehend Mr. Preece's account of the telephone, said to have been an admirable one, from...

The meeting of the British Association at Plymouth ter- minated

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on Wednesday. It has been the dullest ever held. The scientific men have " sat upon" the half-scien- tific men with ponderous energy, the reporters have either been bored into...

The Canadian Dominion has a grave Indian question on its

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hands. The control of the Indians belongs to the central Government, but the control of the public lands belongs to the Provinces. In British Columbia, where there are fifty...

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The population of Antwerp has been celebrating the tercentenary of

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Rubens's birth with three days of high-jinks, more or less artisti- cally arranged. The only failure was in the processions, which seem, with their allegorical cars, to have...

Two satellites to Mars have been discovered by Professor Asaph

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Hall, of the Naval Observatory of Washington. Of course, savants will be peculiarly interested in and delighted by this discovery. They have hitherto until recently supposed...

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Captain Webb's feat has been repeated. Between Tuesday and Wednesday

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morning Mr. Frederick Cavill swam in twelve hours and forty-five minutes from the Calais side of Cape Grisnez to within twenty-five yards of the Dover coast. Both wind and tide...

Mr. Lowe has, of course, the better in argument of

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Mr. Ruskin, in a letter which the latter prints in his Fors Clavigera. Mr. Ruskin has been abusing, in his grand, random way, a poor infatuated lady who " dresses herself and...

The Khedive has signed a new Convention with the British

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'Government, under which he pledges himself once more to abolish the slave-trade ; and Colonel Gordon, in his recent letters, believes him to be sincere. Nevertheless he fears...

Colonel Henderson, in his Report on the Metropolitan Police, calls

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attention to a very grave fact. Assaults on the police are decidedly on the increase. Putting aside merely trivial assaults, he tells us that no fewer than two thousand nine...

The Bishop of London, replying to some communicants who complain

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that a lay tribunal has suppressed the ritual they approve, and who threaten, therefore, to favour disestablishment, complains that while Judges are never attacked for their...

Consols were on Friday 94-951.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE POSSIBILITY or A SECOND CAMPAIGN. T HAT the Russians will avoid a second campaign, if they can, is certain, just as certain as that a prize-lighter will, if he can, win his...

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THE HARVEST AND THE PRICE OF BREAD.

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F EW domestic questions are just now more important than the Price of Bread. The average price of wheat is at the present time more than forty per cent. higher than it was this...

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TEN THOUSAND MILES OF RAILWAY FOR MADRAS.

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THE prevention of famines in Southern India, though immensely difficult, is not so difficult as it looks,—that is to say, it is possible, and possible without sacrificing every...

MR. GLADSTONE'S RECENT SPEECHES.

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iur R. GLADSTONE has been making a couple of speeches at Hawarden which, we will frankly admit, he had better have left unspoken. It is the misfortune of an unapproachedi...

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THE NEW SUGGESTION FROM OHIO.

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A N armed insurrection of Labour against Capital in t h e United States is, we take it, in spite of some remark- able appearances, an impossibility. It is true that the Ameri-...

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THE MASONS' STRIKE.

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1 HE Masons' Strike in London shows no sign of ending. The conference of two sub-committees has done no good ; the representatives of the masters and men have been corre-...

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THE FUTURE OF ENGLAND.

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T HE Medical Examiner publishes the odd fancy—odd, that is, for a professional journal—that our sanitary laws, now becoming so complex and so troublesome, may one day be studied...

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THE COLORADO BEETLE.

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E NTOMOLOGISTS know him as Doryphora decemlineata, and fondly describe him as a beautiful being, whose ground- colour is Venetian red, with a double row of black spots orna-...

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IMPRESSIONS OF A MEETING-IIOUSE.

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IT is not necessary to mention the name or situation of the meeting-house, but you must know a little about its appear- ance. I saw at a glance that it was a somewhat more...

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THE FUTURE LIFE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Slim, — I fear my paper on the Great Enigma was not as clear as I fancied I had made it, since both your last week's corre- spondents appear...

THE WORKING-MEN'S CLUB AND INSTITUTE UNION.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In your article on this society last week, you say that "when it began its work fifteen years ago, there were fifty-four clubs in...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. •

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A DISCLAIMER. [To TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have read your article on Mr. Smith, in the Spectator of the 11th inst. Will you allow me, in justice to myself, to...

MONITORS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

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(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin,—Not the least able part of the able letter of your corre- spondent, " R. H. Q.," on " Monitors in Public Schools " is that in which he...

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"SEA OR MOUNTAIN ? "

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[To THE EDITOR or TIM "SPECTATOR:I Sin t —The first paragraph of Dr. Burney Yco's interesting paper on " Sea or Mountain F" in the last Fortnightly Review, contains a statement...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE °SPECTATOR:]

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Siu,—We are told by " It H. Q." that " the Monitorial system of our public schools is in no way affected by the inquiry now going on at Christ's Hospital." And the reason why we...

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BOOKS.

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MYTHS AND SONGS FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC.* Tins is an interesting book, and though unsatisfactory in some important respects, it may be regarded as a valuable addition to the...

OUR LOGICAL LAWS.

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[TO TILE EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR:] Stu, — The preamble of the Amended Public libraries Act just passed says :—" It has been found that in many eases a public meeting is a...

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF SIR J. BOWItING.* IT is a singular fact

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that although Sir John Bowring published between forty and fifty volumes, in every case, as he observes, with seine pecuniary profit, he has written nothing that is likely to...

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HABASH.* FEW events of modern history have been so soon

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forgotten as the Abyssinian Expedition, which gave us some trouble, rival M.P.'s a topic for debate, General Napier a peerage, and the Prince of Tigre a throne. The unknown...

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LADY SILVERDALE'S SWEETHEART.*

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Tun s work is a typical example of a practice that has grown into great favour with authors of late years, and for which the om- nivorous hunger of the readers of fiction is...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Kilcorran. By the Hon. Mrs. Fetherstenhaugh. 2 vols. (Bentley.) —The author of "Bound to Win " must look to it, if he does not wish to be beaten by a lady in his favourite...

Poems, 1111M07'0213 and Pathetic. By Thomas Hood the Younger, with

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a Memoir by his Sister, Frances F. Broderib. (Chatto and Windus.) —The "Memoir" is a simple and affectionate record, which it is no small pleas ire to read. Naturally it gives...

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Handbook of Rural Sanitary Science. By C. F. Gardner, W.

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Berry, C. N. Cresswell, and Thomas Bennett. Edited by Lay •Marsh, M.D. (Smith and Elder.)—Dr. Marsh two years ago offered a prize for the best essay on "Rural Sanitary Science."...

POETRY. — The Meda Maiden, and other Poems. By the Earl of

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Southesk, (Macmillan.) We cannot express much liking for Lord Southesk's subjects. The principal poem in the volume describes the mysterious processes by which an Indian girl...

.History of Painters of all Schools. By Louis Viardot and

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other Writers. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This handsome volume contains a brief history of painting and painters, from the early Greek school to the year 1840, and will form a...

Idols and Ideals. By 11. D. Conway. (Trubner.)—Mr. Conway rejects

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for himself the description of "Agnostic," not being willing to allow that any region of existence is unknowable, Ho wishes to retain the term " God," though he considers that...

The Puzzle of Life. By Arthur Nicole, F.R.G.S. (Longmans, Green,

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and Co.)—It is long since we read a book • which has pleased us so much. The story which geology and palaeontology toil is told in a charming manner, and with a simplicity that...