2 JUNE 1877

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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A RISE of the Danube, caused by the melting of the snows, has checked the Russian advance, and the delay has increased the circulation of all kinds of rumours of peace. It is...

The great demonstration at Birmingham on Thursday seems to have

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been a most wonderful and unique affair. Fifty thousand people followed Mr. Gladstone through the streets, and half that number, at the very least, were crowded together to hear...

Mr. Gladstone's speech was not, as a speech, by any

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means the equal of his recent speech in the House of Commons, though it contained one image at least as fine as anything we can recall in the greatest speeches of Mr. Bright....

The Derby was run as usual on Wednesday, the 30th

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ult., and was won by Silvio, a horse belonging to Lord Falmouth, a horse not very high in the betting. The race was not marked by any incident, but is said to have been an...

Nothing of importance has been reported this week from Asia.

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The Turkish Government, alarmed at the impression created in the capital by the fall of Ardahan, has circulated a report of its recapture ; but it rested at first on the...

• * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in

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any case.

The Greek people are getting impatient of the timidity of

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their Government. On May 28, the Chamber, by a vote of 71 to 42, elected a war candidate to the Speakership, and a great crowd of Athenians assembling in the square before the...

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The Government of the United States appears determined to put

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an end to the Mexican raids which for months past have harassed the residents in the border districts of Texas. The marauders ride into Texan territory, steal horses, plunder...

The Vicar of Folkestone, Mr. Ridsdale, has made up his

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mind to defy the Court of Appeal which gave judgment against him, and on Sunday celebrated Communion with the vestments, the mixed chalice, and lights, explaining in his...

Mr. Douglas W. Freshfield publishes a letter in the Times

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de- scribing the condition of the Russian districts in the Caucasus. It is too long and too minute to condense, but its substance is that the Circassian power in the mountains...

The Duc de Broglie, as Minister of Justice, on May

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29 published a Circular to the Procureurs-Generaux, telling them that the President" has made a legal use of his constitutional prerogative." He "has intervened in the march of...

We regret to notice the death of Mr. J. L.

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Motley, for some time United States Minister here,—a post in which he was not entirely successful, owing to a certain irritability of intellectual temperament, due to over-study...

The Moniteiti., which is now defending Marshal MacMahon, says he

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will not resign, even if he is defeated in the elections. This statement is probably intended to convince all malcontents that they have nothing to hope from a change of...

Lord Houghton is very unfavourable to the extension of the

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Episcopate, and in a striking letter to Thursday's Times descants on the advantages of the old type of Bishop,—the dignified, otiose scholar, not too zealous, not too much given...

On the reassembling of Parliament on Thursday, Mr. Sandford, the

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Member for Malden, made a strong attempt to " draw " Mr. Bourke, making a long speech about the probable terms of peace, about the English position, and about Lord Salisbury's...

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The Judge-Advocate-General, Mr. Cavendish Bentinck, is per- haps the best

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extant representative of the fierce Tory wrath against Mr. Gladstone. At a Poole meeting on Monday night, he declared that the only party which had any confidence in Mr....

Mr. Brassey, who, having just returned from a yachting tour

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round the world, had seen at Aden the gunboats built by Sir William Armstrong for the Chinese Government, urges on our Admiralty, in a letter to Wednesday's Times, the great...

The Free Church of Scotland has done a very foolish

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thing in suspending one of the most orthodox of Biblical scholars, Professor Robertson Smith, who is, we believe on the Re- vision Committee of the Old Testament,—from his...

The first great achievement with torpedoes was accomplished on Saturday

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morning last (May 26), by two Russian officers and a Roumanian, near Ibraila. A party of Russian boats had sur- rounded a small Turkish monitor at Matchin before the morn- ing...

At the Conference on Spelling at the Society of Arts,

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on Tuesday, a letter was read from Mr. Lowe advising the addition of fifteen lettere to the alphabet, and remarking that if that had been done, boys who had passed in the sixth...

The Court Circular of Saturday last contains the following announcement:

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" Balmoral Castle, May 25.—Yesterday being the anniversary of the Queen's Birthday, the Crathie choir came to the Castle in the morning, and sang the following selection of...

Consols were on Friday 941-94i- ex. div.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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MR. GLADSTONE AT BIRMINGHAM. I T is melancholy to observe how those who, so long as they flattered Mr. Gladstone, would have exaggerated to the last degree the import of such a...

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THE PROGRESS OF THE FRENCH CRISIS.

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T HE weakness of the new Government of France is chiefly manifested in its efforts to seem strong. To all outward appearance, especially when we read facts as Conservatives...

THE RUMOURS OF PEACE.

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T HE rumours of a premature peace are so persistent and are received by the friends of Turkey with so much pleasure, that they are worth, at all events, a momentary...

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THE SITUATION IN CONSTANTINOPLE.

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T HERE are, and always have been, three effective powers in Constantinople,—the Sultan, the soldiers, and the Mussulman mob ; and to judge from all the reports which reach...

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THE TORPEDOES AND BLOCKADES.

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T HE disappearance into the air of the first Turkish monitor under the blow of a torpedo, last Saturday, will probably be a memorable epoch in naval war. Not that the torpedo in...

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THE ULTIMATE RESULTS OF THE RIDSDALE .TUDGMENT.

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gave last week the reasons which lead us to believe that the Ritualists will not obey the Judgment of the Judicial Committee in the Ridsdale case. In that event, it becomes an...

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QUEEN VICTORIA.

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T O-DAY is officially the Queen's birthday, and forty-three separate Governments—counting only one for the Canadian Dominion, but four for India—ruling peoples distinct from one...

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WHAT IS POSSIBLE AND IMPOSSIBLE IN SPELLING REFORM.

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T HE Conference of Tuesday on Spelling Reform brought out several suggestions that were reasonable and useful, and some that were as wild as the most disordered dreams. Let us...

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—Will you let

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me say something about the epithets you apply, in a note on Mr. Lee-Warner's conciliatory letter, to the use of vestments ? Those epithets are "childish, indecorous, and...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE RIDSDALE JUDGMENT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The letter of my friend, Mr. Oakley, suggests to me two or three questions which I should like to ask him. What...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 4` SFECIATOR SIR,—You Unily gave

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me E0 much space last u ee' - , that I must only ask you for a few lines to-day, by way of explanation. 1. May I venture to remind you of your own words on May 19 ? You then...

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THE INCOME OF THE CHURCH.

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ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:I Sin,—In correcting Mr. Martin, Canon Browne has himself fallen into error, when he tells us, " Deans, Canons, &c., have no lands ; their...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

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Sut,-1 venture to think that the Rev. J. Lee-Warner carries with him but a very small minority of the Broad Church, in his protest against the tone of the Spectator's articles...

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HAZAEL.

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[TO TSB EDITOR OF THE u SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Among the notices of "Current Literature" in your issue of the 19th ult., in reference to the first effort of a lady novelist, your...

POETRY.

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A HOPE. I. SLOWLY we gather and with pain From many toils a scanty gain ; We strive to know, but scant our powers, And short the time and strait the bounds,. And...

DISSENTING BURIALS IN CHURCHYARDS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR. " ]

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SIR,—In your comment on the last Burials discussion in the Lords, you say, " It is obviously fair enough that, as the clergymen of the Established Church are limited to specific...

ART.

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THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] 13LMEDIATELY above the small landscape of Mr. Poynter's with• the mention of which we concluded our last week's article, hangs- a...

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BOOKS.

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TERRES VIERGES.* RUSSIA is a land of contrasts and contradictions, not only so far as its physical characteristics are concerned, but also as regards its inner life. Passing,...

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THE PHYSIOLOGICAL THEORY OF BEAUTY. 0 [FIRST NOTICE.] Mn. GRANT ALLEN,

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who appears to be an admiring and cer- tainly an able disciple of Mr. Herbert Spencer, traces back all the conceptions of beauty and ugliness to the secondary pleasures and...

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NATURE'S 'TEACHINGS.*

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6 6 NATURAL philosophy is the mother of the Sciences," said Francis Bacon, and it is but this thought in another form and abundantly illustrated that Mr. Wood presents to Us in...

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CULTIVATED PLANTS

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ALTHOUGH popular books upon gardening are so numerous, that it might be supposed there was scarcely room for any more, the present volume, differing as it does essentially from...

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PERCY'S RELIQUES.• IT may be questioned whether any poetical work

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published during the last century has had so strong an influence on the literature of our own age as the Reliques of Bishop Percy. The book effected a revolution, and men of the...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Stray Papers. By John Ormsby. (Smith and Elder.)—These Stray Papers have, we suppose, appeared before, and have doubtless amused , many readers. We do not intend to disparage...

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Border Memories; or, Sketches of Prominent Men and Women of the Border. By the late Walter Riddell Carre. Edited by James Tait. (James Thin, Edinburgh ; Simpkin and Marshall,...

Spoken in Anger. 3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—A certain Lord Clowden

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Strafford is introduced to us in chapter i., as engaged to Marion Doolington. Chapter ii. introduces us to a lady who, with her little boy, makes her way to the neighbourhood...

Priesthood, in the Light of the New Testament. The Congregational

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Union Lecture for 187G. By G. Miller, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —The Church of England owes a debt of gratitude to Dr. Miller for showing, as he does in this volume, that the...

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The Life after Death, and the Things to Come. By

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the Rev. John Cullen, Vicar of Radoliffe-on-Trent. (Hatchards.)—Mr. Cullen's views on the subjects discussed in this volume are such as are founded on a too literal and narrow...

The Verity and Value of the Miracles of Christ. By

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Thomas Cooper. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This book is made up of addresses on the Christian evidences to the working-classes, "audiences," as Mr. Cooper describes them in his...

Notes on the Earlier Hebrew Scriptures. By Sir G. B.

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Airey, K.C.B. (Longmans.)—These notes are, the author tells us, the result of many years study of the subject, and they show some amount of acuteness and originality. On the...

Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, addressed to R. If. Horne.

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Edited by S. R. Townshond Mayer. 2 vols. (Bentley and Sons.)—It is almost needless to say that these volumes have a very great interest. Most of the letters were written during...

Reminiscences of Levi Coffin. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Levi Coffin was

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the principal manager of the "Underground Railway," which name the Southerners gave to the organisation by means of which fugitives from the Slave-States were assisted in their...

Loyal and True. 3 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—We should not be

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dis- posed to object to the hero and heroine of this tale any particular want of "loyalty and truth," but when we are challenged by a title which seems to proclaim them as...

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Nouvelles Asiatiques. Par le Comte de Gobineau. (Didier, Paris ;

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Nutt, London.)—As works of art, these novelettes cannot be too warmly recommended to those who are weary of the insipidity and feebleness of nine out of ten modern novels. There...

Kettner's Book of the Table. (Dulau.)—This volume is described as

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" a manual of cookery, practical, theoretical, historical." Of the theoretical part we may say without hesitation that it seems very reasonable, and of the historical, that it...

Sermons. By the late Alexander MacEwen, M.A., D.D, Minister of -

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Claremont Church, Glasgow. Edited by his Son, with a Memoir.. (Maclehose, Glasgow.)—The memoirprefixed to these sermons is a very interesting one, giving, as it does, a lifelike...

The Teaching of the Holy Catholic Church. By Richard Phayre,

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M.A. (W. Ridgway.)—Mr. Phayre is a very remarkable writer, for he constructs the longest sentences we have ever met with. Hooker's are really nothing to his. One, if we remember...

Joanna's Inheritance. By Emma Marshall. (Seeleys.) — We are introduced

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here to a household such as Miss Yonge delights to depict. The head of it is a widowed doctor, kind, sensible, but from overwork rather apt to let things go ; then , there is a...

Some Reasons of Our Christian Hope. The Hulsean Lectures for

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1875. By E. T. Vaughan, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—This little volume is of much more value than its very modest and unpretending preface would lead one to suppose. The "reasons...

Christ's Resurrection and Ours ; or, I. Corinthians XV. Expounded..

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By R. Govett. (Maclehose, Glasgow.)—This book is one proof more that the vice of literalness is as yet very far from being eradicated. In. a lengthened exegesis of L Cor. xv.,...

We have also received three Bibles, two printed by the

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Oxford University Press (Henry Frowde, London), and one printed for the Religious Tract Society (Eyre and Spottiswoode), and arranged in para- graphs and sentences according to...

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Lothbury Lectures. By Henry Melville, D.D. New edition. (Riving- tons.)—The

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still surviving fame of Dr. Melville has called for this new edition of his Lothbury Lectures.