an end in consequence of the action of England. What we lament most of all, however, is that the coup de grace has been given by a statesman who has proved himself so hearty a...

Stafford Northeote stated the point on which negotiations as to the Con- gress had been broken off. England had demanded that the com- munication of the Treaty between Russia...

' Eurydice,' a 26-gun wooden sailing-frigate, of 921 tons dis- placement, was passing Dunnose, in the Isle of Wight, on Sunday afternoon, at half-past four. She was on her way...

" the Queen had lost the services of one of her ablest counsellors ; those onlywho had served with him could fully appreciate his capacity for affairs, the penetrating power of...

case.

T HE scene has changed once more, and this time it seems as if a catastrophe were immediately at hand. On Thursday evening the House of Lords was startled by a report that Lord...

the Greenwich Five Hundred, and one to a deputation from Leeds. Both were received with enthusiasm. The points of both were that the war had been one acceptable to Providence,...

relation to the unsatisfactory state of maritime law in relation to the rights of belligerents, for the purpose of raising a discussion on the point for which the United States...

week, to justify, or rather to make a feeble attempt to justify, the wholesale Press prosecutions by which his Government was distin- guished. The Press Offences Amnesty Bill...

the President intends to recommend payment of the sum (£110,000) given under the award of the Halifax Fishery Commis- sion, and that the Senate will accept the recommendation,...

at a dinner given by the Metropolitan Board, of little interest in itself—though he remarked en passant that valour was sometimes the better part of discretion—but which...

ment nor by the House had the question been really thought out in the ten years since it was last discussed. Sir William Harcourt delivered a very able speech, showing that...

Liverpool, severed from the diocese of Chester, and to be subsidised by revenues from the Bishopric of Sodor and Man ; the Bishopric of Newcastle-on-Tyne, to be assisted in the...

Fenian con- vict McCarthy, who died suddenly from heart complaint im- mediately after his release from prison, and whose death has been attributed to the severity of his...

for the war-fever which appears to be common to Zulus and Lon- doners. On the advice of persons learned in natural magic, he ordered up all his regiments, and administered an...

the proposed memorial to M. Claude Bernard, of attributing to that celebrated French physiologist an experiment described at some length in the evidence before the recent Royal...

against those who steal only jewels, and that the mere possession of them is an invitation to burglars. At a great wedding some months ago, the presents, chiefly jewels, were...

scene " in the House of Commons on Monday, in denouncing the address of Mr. Justice Keogh to the Grand Jury of Londonderry, on March 18. Mr. Justice Keogh was reported to have...

day. The borough has usually been Liberal, and at the last election Mr. A. C. Sherriff beat the highest Tory (Mr. J. D. Allcroft) by 2,284 to 1,958, and the second Liberal was...

LORD DERBY'S RESIGNATION. L ORD DERBY'S resignation is a catastrophe. We have never been able either to admire or to support his foreign policy, which has seemed to us feeble...

point of view, we might fairly say, all genuine Conservatives,—will deplore the loss of Lord Derby. He was the last mainstay of a prudent and patriotic policy, and now that he...

T HE French Senate has lately been the theatre of a per- manent quarrel and a momentary truce. The quarrel - is the outcome of the long-standing difference between the Right and...

keen insight into the worldly side of ecclesiastical life, and on the whole,— we think we may say so without any injustice to him,—rather prefers it, we will not say exactly to...

in this country should just now be very angry with Austria is not at all unnatural. They often mistake Hungarian expressions of feeling for Austrian expressions, and have...

W E wish it were possible to bring home to the proprietors of English journals the responsibility now falling on them for the selection and guidance of their foreign Corre-...

T HERE is reason for sorrow at the loss of the Eurydice,' the beautiful ship, and the trained officers, and the 300 men or more, so young and so hopeful, for the loss is as...

TN the remarkable account which the Times published last week of the Atheism of Berlin, one feature was very pro- minent,—the tendency to substitute the vox populi for the vox...

THE EFFECTS OF SHORT-SIGHT. [TO THB EDITOR OF THE " SPZOTA.TOR.1 Sin,—Twice, within a few months, allusion has been made in the columns of the Spectator to a paper written by...

C OMPARED to a cat, a dog is a very simple and transparent creature. Sometimes, indeed, he is guilty of acts of decep- tion and hypocrisy, but they are crude and ingenuous...

AT THE THEATRE. ON the stage an acted horror, A King crime-haunted to death ; Around me glitter and glare, And fans that harry an air That stifles me breath by breath ; And...

[TO ME EDITOR OF MR " SPECTATOR:1 Sim,—Mr. Harper says, in the Spectator of the 16th, that " the national churchyards and the national churches built upon them must go...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " EPROTATOR.1 SIR,—No good cause ever gains by being overstated. Your correspondent, Mr. E. S. Roscoe, has not, I think, taken quite sufficient care to...

THE TURNER DRAWINGS. [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] " THE Sixth Group, 'Meditation, England Passing Away,' "—it is thus that Mr. Ruskin heads his sixth group of Turner drawings, the one...

MR. GALLENGA ON THE EASTERN QUESTION.t THESE interesting volumes were published six months ago, but it is by no means too late to call attention to them now. On the contrary,...

THE interesting analysis by Mr. Froude, in the February number - of Fraser's Magazine, of the argument of Celsus against Christi- anity, answered by Origen, deserves a fuller...

IN days when the wishes of "the pious founder" are not regarded with any superstitious respect, it is, we suppose, natural that the wishes of the poetic letter-writer should be...

WE often hear it said, in these days of great armies and of con- tinuous improvements in military organisation, that Europe has been turned into a vast camp. From a perusal of...

THE struggle of the human will against the power of some inherited doom has at all times been a favourite theme of tragedy - and romance. In darker ages, the belief in prophecy...

The Wise Alen of Greece, in a Series of Dramatic Dialogues. By John Stuart Blackie. (Macmillan.)—" I have attempted," says Pro- fessor Blackie, in his preface, " to give the...

(Marcus Ward.)—Undoubtedly this work, especially that part of it which is devoted to carving, will be of great help to the professional carver, but to the amateur the examples...

Mrs. Caddy. 3 vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—Elma Deane is a young lady of strong artistic tastes, which seem, before their work is subjected to practical tests, to amount to genius....

novel might have been called " Thomas Brown's Will and Tudor Brown's Bill,". and so acquired the attraction of rhyme. More than seven hundred pages of somewhat close print are...

and Co.)—This is a very interesting and valuable monograph on what the author rightly describes as an "important epoch in the early history of the Reforma- tion." Servotus was a...

on Various Occasions, by the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, M.A. (Henry S. King and Co.)—The Story of Christianity, by the Rev. Andrew Reed, B.A. (Hamilton and Adams.) Mr. Reed seeks...