majority which shows a very great Liberal reaction in the borough. In 1869 Mr. Hibbert was at the head of the poll, but by so narrow a majority that he was only 24 in advance of...

Tuesday, the Times, in a second edition, published a message from an "Occa- sional Correspondent" at St. Petersburg, affirming that the Czar had held a Council, attended by...

very much in reply, and no one succeeds better than Lord Derby, when he so pleases, in economising superfluous declarations. And then the Duke of Argyll rose, to repudiate the...

ir HAYES has been elected President of the United States, and Mr. Wheeler Vice-President. After the Oregon vote had been admitted by Congress, the Extreme Democrats, - whose...

the Turkish Question have elicited on the Liberal side of the House of Lords has been awakened apparently in the heart of Lord Stratheden and Campbell, who argued, on Monday,...

agreed to on both sides are the restoration of the status quo, the elevation of the Turkish flag in Belgrade, a general amnesty, and the departure of the Turkish troops within...

ability by his want of the sense of humour, asked on Thursday why the title of "Empress" had been translated by the " German " word "Kaiser," and why a Persian form—"-i-Hind...

given by persons interested in South Africa, and the dinner was at- tended by Lord Carnarvon, Lord Salisbury, Lord Kimberley, Mr. Goschen, and a host of Indian and Colonial...

friends of "religious equality," held at the Cannon-Street Hotel on Tuesday, and spoke with justice of the Nonconformists as "if not the majority, at least the most trusted wing...

Pasha has asked the Austrian Government to explain the recent con- centration of its troops in Dalmatia. The demand is even said to have created "profound emotion" at Pesth. The...

died suddenly while hunting in the Nepaulese Terai on the 25th ult. The event will probably lead to anarchy in Nepaul, as he had no claim to govern except his personal...

of the medium through which all rumours of Russian intrigue in the East have been regarded in this country, even by official eyes, than Lord Derby's statement, in the debate of...

denials of all facts which it is convenient to them to deny, to cease ? Mr. Stillman, who has seen a great deal of the Turks, gives instances of this almost imbecile credulity...

distance, so that even the tone of a familiar voice can be recognised, and a tune heard, many many miles away, was tried with great success between Boston (Massachusetts) and...

suggests a new danger in the practice of taking lodgings. Some respectable ladies,—the Misses Gaisford, —who took lodgings not long ago at Brighton, and managed to offend their...

con- troversy about the Oxford pass examination, in letters published in Monday's and Tuesday's Times, and Mr. Fowler has again got very much the better of his opponent, who is...

Confucius, the only hereditary noble in China, or rather, we should say, the only hereditary noble according to European ideas. The editor of the "Almanach de Gotha" ought to...

Colonial Marriages Bill against the Government by A vote of 192 to 141. His object was the complete legali- eation of Colonial marriages with a deceased wife's sister. Those...

be true that here and there a case has occurred where men have deemed it easier to get a low class in a secondary school than a pass in classios,—though, of course, the...

Bishop Temple,--and as it seems, a Liberal incumbent in Tavistock, has found the true solution of the practical problem,—not, of course, of the legal problem, which only the...

stopped a great crime. He asked Mr. Bourke if a petition to the British Government, signed by a great many in- habitants of Bulgaria, had been forwarded to the British Chargd...

S ERVIA has been compelled to give up the struggle, and the great Skuptschina which has been called to ratify the con- ditions of peace accepted them without demur, and with, at...

I T would, of course, be absurd to predict the action on which a hypochondriac Czar, who ascended the throne just after a defeat, who was startled and dismayed by the rise of...

as well, as on the other hand, the abolition of all political distinctions between the householder and hie son or brother of full age who resides with him without claiming as a...

"L"1 ART, GREY has established a right, something like that . 11/ of the Chorus in a Greek play to censure freely the deeds and motives of the actors, to criticise with a...

T HE decision of the Court of Appeal in the Sombrero Phos- phate case is of extreme importance to a particular class of Companies,—the Companies formed to carry on businesses...

A N early addition to the strength of the Bench is now almost a moral certainty. The Attorney-General told the House of Commons last week that the Government were considering...

real value of Competitive Examination as a test of quali- fications for the public service was not discovered by those who urged and obtained the adoption of them. There is no...

I N the opening article of the Nineteenth Century, Mr. Glad- stone discusses a question which has probably a closer con- nection with the peculiarities of the nineteenth century...

TT is not very easy to explain the attractiveness which un- doubtedly belongs to worldly-wise aphorisms. People, as a rule, are a little impatient of being taught worldly wisdom...

TURKISH "INFORMATION." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—There is a needless difficulty put in the way of understanding what goes on in the Turkish Empire, in consequence...

[TO THR EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to the election for Halifax mentioned in a leader of your issue of last week, will you allow me to state that it is not a...

[TO TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There really seems to be no end of the misunderstandings which Professor Clifford's "short words" have led on into. The Professor was...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THIS SPECTATOR.") Sim,—I have said in my letter on Mr. Lowe that we are all, more or less, liable to be imposed upon by the "Rip Van Winkle" fallacy. I trust...

DEMOSTHENES.* Tars is one of the supplementary volumes of the series of Ancient Classics for English Readers, and if, as the success of Mr. Collins's enterprise seems to show,...

LORD GARVAGH is a member of the Alpine Club, and his courage. and love of enterprise, two very estimable qualities, are amply exhibited in this volume. Every man who visits a...

ALEXANDER HAMILTON was so remarkable a man, whether viewed simply as a politician or studied as an individual, and played so noteworthy a part in the independence of the United...

our intention, in examining Dr. Ferrier's new work on the Functions of the Brain, to attempt some practical estimate of the actual scientific value and importance of the...

MR. INcanom is well known to lovers of English art as a painter of Nature in her poetical aspects, but this is, we believe, the first time that his love of beauty and his...

"By the waters of the Vistula we sat down and talked of the historical wrongs of Poland." This is the first sentence of Mr. Arnold's work, and it will be inferred that it tells...

(Sampson Low and (Jo.)—This is, in fact, a terribly tragic story of the thirteenth century, and no more a "legend," in the ordinary acceptation of the term, than any novel of...

The Year-Book of Facts in and the Arts for 1876, by James Mason (Ward, Look, and Tyler), is an annual publication of which we have before spoken in terms of well-deserved...

of shame and pity, we are often called to look upon. Two girls are the " heroines " of the story, if we are to use the word where there is nothing heroic. They are two quite...

Grove, F.R.G.S. (Macmillan and Co.)—There is no better test of the advance of learning and sound knowledge in the present day, than the increasing superiority of the elementary...

intended to be an answer to Canon Liddon's " Bampton Lectures," which the author regards as an injudicious advocacy of our Lord's divinity." We cannot say that we regard his...

in Egypt, Palestine, and Syria. By William Young Martin. (Tinsley Brothers.) —In reading this book what principally strikes one is the perfect ease and safety with which a tour...