MIIE latest intelli g ence from the seats of war, both in Europe and Asia, is hi g hly favourable to the Russians. Accordin g to an official Russian despatch, dated October 25,...

have thrown a good deal of li g ht on the meanin g of Ministerial pressure in France. Writing from Toulouse, in the Haute Garonne, he describes how first a new prefect was...

Govern- ment putting out " feelers " to see how public opinion regards the various courses still open to it. Thus the Constitutionnel states that on the meeting of the Chambers...

Thursday morning, later than any other correspondent, states that the Russians have crossed the So g hanli Da g h in g reat force, and have reached Khorassan on their way to...

case.

telegram of Saturday concerning the recent French Elections The Times' correspondent g ave us some interesting facts in his telegram of Saturday concerning the recent French...

Friday rather distinguished itself for early information, states that the Russians on Wednesday attacked Kadikoi in great force, but Asaf Pasha's Division, strengthened by four...

meeting held at Chateau Chinon, Nievre, to promote the candidature of a Republican (M. Gudin) at the second ballot to-morrow, the chief interest of which is its moderation as to...

an oratorical poet, is also something of a poetical orator, and at Brighton on Monday, in addressing the "Conservative and Con- stitutional Association " of that place, he...

and pervaded by a scarcely intelligible vein of satire, tells us that under the treaty of Chefoo we have now a right to establish ail Embassy at Lhassa, and publishes a quantity...

will help on Federation. Krell, chief of the Galekas, in the Transkei, is offended about something or other, and has sanctioned two at- tacks on Europeans. In one, on the 24th...

in accordance with some etiquette about the territorial distribution of office, or for some other reason, to give the London Legation to a politician from Pennsylvania, and Mr....

Russia is raising all sorts of dangers to British India in Afghanistan, and who on that hypothesis fights ably and temperately enough against the policy of inaction in Central...

of the Civilat Cattolica, has, it is stated, been expelled the Order. He had, it is said, recommended that the Pope should 'assume the position of a spiritual chief only,...

of the reform of Convocation, one speaker wishing to deny the laity any voice in respect of doctrine, even in the Church body of the future. This resolution, however, was...

innkeepers would do well to provide milk, barley-water, draught lemonade, tea, coffee, and other non-intoxicating beverages, as well as beer and wine, for those of their...

the Bishop of Peterborough delivered an address, in which he denied any burials' grievance to Dissenters, but admitted .cordially a burials' grief, for which he advised the...

of hydrophobia lately, and there is at present certainly no known remedy, or even supposed remedy for that awful disease, it is worth mentioning that Mr. Laporte writes to...

Ote, near Glasgow, belonging to Messrs. William Dixon and Co. (Limited). There are three pits, in connection with each other, so free from fire-damp, that at 6 a.m. on Monday an...

Friday. Dr. Baxter Langley and William Swindlehurst, Consols were on Friday 961 tb Sq. directors of the Artisans' Dwellings Company, were accused of conspiring with Edward...

the Bristol Cathedral on Thursday, on the present danger of the Church of England, and again at Cirencester yesterday, on the more special subject of Confession. He contrasted...

Wednes- day an amusing account of the habits of the badger, which he has managed to domesticate near his house, and to render com- paratively at ease in the neighbourhood of...

THE ' CONSERVATIVES' IN FRANCE. T HE word " Conservative " has often been misapplied, but never misapplied so grossly and perversely as to the present Government of France. It...

S IR WILFRID LAWSON has more than once called him- self a' fanatic,' though his . admirers chiefly insist upon his merits as a maker of political jests. Indeed, these have now...

W E attempted some weeks since to explain some of the causes of Russian failures, and pointed out as the chief of them the semi-divine position allowed to the Russian Royal...

A LONG and melancholy history of wrong ended last month. 23. The Rod Indians of the Black Hills country finally sur- rendered their lands, their independence, and their dream of...

is stated, to take up the freedom presented to him by the City of Glasgow, and it appears to be generally believed in Scotland that he will take advantage of the occasion to...

QEVERAL national types of commercial fraud have been brought before the public this week. Germany, America, and England have each exhibited samples of what it can do in...

A N ‘' arbitration " seldom ends as satisfactorily as a suit, and Dr. Barnardo's case is no exception to the rule. The Arbitrators, Canon Miller, Mr. J. B. Maule, and Mr. W....

Harrison has contributed I to the Nineteenth Century on " The Soul and Future Life," and in his reply to the many criticisms whom those papers drew down upon him, there is...

MR. J. S. MILL ON IMMORTALITY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE ssrsorsres."] Sts, — As regards Mill's " Essays on Religion," I venture to differ from your correspondents, " W. T....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE" SFEOTATOE."] SIR,—As you have indicated your opinion that Mr. Butler's letter contains its own answer, and as, since he wrote, but before his letter...

[To Tun EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATO11,1 Srn,—Having read with interest the article in the Spectator on " Art in Hospitals," I have thought that it might interest other readers to...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTA.TOR."1 SIR, —Will you permit me to suggest, as an addition to your demand for a Court of Review of capital sentences, that such a Court should...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") .SIR, —In the note affixed to Mr. Lyttelton's letter, you speak of the tenet that some men will "absolutely die, while others win .eternal...

go THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] conceive that there is a text which is itself an authority against the arbitrary authority of texts. The " word of prophecy " is treated by...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") not P4're. yoZp crI in co Kwv xecx . 6v crry paapyveta, " Love of money is the root of all that is bad," very much the same as " Quid non...

[These spirited linos, written four and twenty years ago, are in many respects so applicable to the events of last Session, that we think they may interest our readors.—ED....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Among the numerous sites which have been suggested as a final resting-place for Cleopatra's Needle, should that interesting relic ever...

[Y0 THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—May I say that though I feel sure you desire to be strictly fair, you are scarcely so to those who object to throw open the Churchyards...

MR. SYMONDS'S RENAISSANCE IN ITALY.* (FIRST NOTICE.] Wm gave an account of the first volume of this learned and thoughtful book when it appeared two years since. Mr. Symonds...

EVERYBODY now-a-days admires, or professes:to admire, Shake- speare. Whether the zeal of the worshippers is always according to knowledge is quite another matter, but of the...

interest and its lessons-, and it is natural for survivors who have been themselves A Layman's Legacy, in Prose and Veme, Selections from the Papers of Samuel. Ong; and a Brief...

IT is as good as it is pleasant sometimes to contemplate the andel rclgime from its other side, the side which the literature of the great French Revolution, and the current of...

TIII8 small volume invites notice rather for collateral reasons than from any special novelty in its contents. It is one of those pub- lications which hardly ever fail to appear...

Myers's poems are remarkable. If the form rather than the thought strike the reader as admirable, it is rather because the poet has not found a subject calling forth the higher...

Notes on Fish and Fishing. By J. J. Manley, M.A. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Manley has the groat qualification, for a writer on angling, of largo tastes. Some authors aro so...

(Griffith and Farran.)—It is as difficult to review a fairy-tale as to criticise a pantomime. Judging these tales and legends by a very practical test, we may pronounce them all...

from the German .of Caroline Pichler. 3 vole. (Samuel Tinsley.)—The "siege of Vienna" does not commence till we get to the third volume, nor is it then made as interesting as...

and Hall.)—We have looked through this volume, in the hope of discovering some indioation of wit or wisdom which might juatify its publication, and we are bound to add that wo...

M. Craik ; and A True Man, by M. C. Stirling. 3 vole. (Hurst and Blackett.)— /lot/tory Seifert, Q.C. By John 011ive. 8 vols. (Chapman and Hall.) —The authors of these tales have...

M. Notley. (Tinsley Brothers.)—The title-pages and backs of these volumes give the name as we have written it,—they have, however, another," Love has eyes," on every page. But...

introduction bespeaks at once the reader's favourable atten- tion. It is evident that he knows his subject well, and that any one wishing to keep birds (and this means also...

tale, which is not redeemed from the fault of inanity by the one or two sensational incidents which are introduced into it. Harold Hardman is nothing but a stupid farmer, though...

Shunker Singh and Pandit Shri Gunanand. With an introductory sketch of the country and people of Nepal, by the Editor, Daniel Wright, M.A. (The University Press, Cambridge.)—It...

from the Danish by Nina Francis. (Samuel Tinsley.) Roervig is a small and nearly uninhabited fishing village on the coast of Zealand, the Bride whose story we have here is Marie...

farce, however clever and amusing, can scarcely be endured when it is extended to the full limits of a three-volume novel. Here we have the materials which would have made a...