T HE Protocol is published at last. It is a very short and toler- ably clear document, and registers formally the opinion of the Six Powers which sign it upon the means...

at Conservative banquets on Wednesday, the one at Gloucester and the other at Peterborough, and both of them very bad ones. Sir Michael Beach took credit to England for...

Turkish ad- hesion to these terms. The Times' own correspondent at Cettinge telegraphs on April 5, that Prince Nicholas had on that day ordered his representatives at...

on the Order-Book of the House of Commons notices of his intention to move the rejection of the Prisons (Scotland) Bill, the Public Health (Ireland) Bill, the Valuation of...

the ground of ill-health, really, it is believed, because he thinks the Emperor favours " particularism " too much, and will not give him enough control over other Imperial...

Parliament. It appears to be hardly yet at work. A tribune has been erected, French fashion, for the speakers, but only one man, the Member for Brussa, a Ulema accustomed to...

any case.

Tuesday, through the breaking of a rope,—a scene which ought to compel the public to reconsider the needless risk of such scenes, and the absolute necessity for an executioner...

Bills for decentralisation being brought before the Legislative Council to explain his "foreign policy." He is disinclined to leave the small States beyond the border alone,...

new series of massacres may be in preparation there. The last massacres occurred in May, and the villagers dread a recur- rence of them next month. The old threats have...

Nepaul is now the last remaining State in India which is thoroughly Hindoo, even Travancore having been in some par- ticulars demoralised, and being governed by a family which...

North London. The proprietor of the Welsh Harp, Hendon, either permitted or engaged a diver named Tatham to let off a new torpedo in the great reservoir at Kingsbury, and two...

of the National Church by the Dean of St. Paul's, Canon Gregory, Mr. T. T. Carter (Rector of Clewer), the Warden of Keble Col- lege, the Provost of Eton, and something like...

an accurate account of the Pope's health. A few days ago, after he bad complained for some time of weakness, his Holiness was seized with pain in the right leg, sharp enough to...

" H. Gatke," states that on that little rock at all events, and as the writer believes elsewhere in climates-colder than England, the sparrow is a partially migratory bird ; and...

of course writes to the Times. His account, published on Wednesday, reveals a curious scene. The President of the Republic, who, strange to say, is a clergyman, the Rev. F....

has pointed out in a long letter to Wednesday's Times how utterly ineffectual Mr. Ward Hunt's new proposals are for giving a higher status and a better income to the Engineers...

Brighton) and Mr. Gladstone, on the subject of a hint in a speech of the former, delivered at Brighton on the 30th of January, that the Ex-Premier had profited so largely by the...

be very questionable blessings to distinguished personages, in a country so domestic and so fond of homely felicitations as• Germany. We are assured by the Times' correspondent...

against the Italian Bill on "Clerical Abuses," which puts the Catholic objections to it very fairly. It points out that the proposed Bill, by forbidding the clergy to criticise...

about preaching, struck a heavy blow at written sermons, and the Satur- day Review, remarking thereon, has said that the practice of reading written discourses prevails in no...

THE PROTOCOL. T HE mouse is born, and a very little one it is. The Protocol laid before Parliament on Thursday, on which all the Diplomatists of Europe have been labouring for...

T HE resignation of Prince Bismarck, whether it be real or only a scene in high political comedy, is an event of European importance. If it be real, one great security for the...

I T is difficult, no doubt, to do justice to both sides of any political question, but on a question of ecclesiastical politics the exercise of common fairness seems all but...

T HE execution of " Bishop " John D. Lee marks, we imagine, a turning-point in the history of the Mormon Church,- that strangest and in some respects most interesting product of...

T HE valuable paper in Blackwood on the French Army of 1877, which is evidently written by a very competent and careful military critic, and probably by one of the ablest...

THA T Lord Penzance should resign—if he has resigned,—the Office of Judge of the Provincial Courts of Canterbury and York, is less surprising than that he should ever have...

T HERE can be no doubt that it is even more incumbent on people who profess a strong religious conviction to realise what they believe, and not to use vague and unmeaning...

O F all the qualities appertaining to men, and sometimes found even in great men, the one which is becoming moat rare in our days is childlikeness. We do not mean childishness,...

W E gave last week a brief notice of the late Mrs. Nassau Senior, and of her employment as Inspector of Work- houses ; but there are some aspects of that work on which it may be...

THE NEW ASCETICISM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] .VI,—While thanking you for your admirable and helpful estimate of Miss Martineau's character and creed, I cannot but...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Bence Jones's letter in the current Spectator is pleasant and useful. It is pleasant to find an Irish landlord discarding the absurd...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") S111, —I have not had an opportunity of reading Miss Mar- tineau's " Autobiography," but on my return to England, after a lengthened...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] an article headed " A Merchant's Faith," which appeared in the Spectator of March 10, you observe that " we should wel- come any occurrence...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—In your article on " Epigrams" you remark that it has been disputed how far a play upon words is permissible in an epigram, and within...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Young Oxford and young Cambridge athletes are now doubtless beginning to make plans for the "Long." With Dr. Schliemann's discoveries...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—There is a sentence in Miss Martineau's " Autobiography" which, however harshly expressed, throws some light on the in- creasing...

letter on land tenure in Ireland (Spectator, March 31), Mr. Bence Jones has alluded to the successful occupa- tion of small holdings in France and Belgium. It would add much to...

A BLACK-WALLED barn, with roof of sombre red ; Within, a dusty, sunlit granary-floor ; On either side a widely-opened door Let in broad sunlight on the thresher's head, And...

THE primrose-head is bowed with tears, The wood is rippling through with rain, Though now the heaven once more appears, And beams the bounteous sun again. From every blade and...

THE LIFE OF SIR WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN.• IT is a great pleasure to meet with a biography so modest, so compact, and in every way so worthy of praise as this. The chief duty Mr. Pole...

propounded a dozen years ago in Primitive Marriage, that work unquestionably formed a new departure in specula- tion as to the history of society, and now that it is reprinted...

MR. WALFOBD is well known as an industrious compiler of works on the history of our leading families, and any book from his pen is likely on this account to recommend itself to...

IT is not easy to produce within anything like reasonable compass a work descriptive of the whole of Italy, but the present volume, ambitious though it be, satisfies us about as...

THE " Symposium," in the Nineteenth Century, is, on the whole, a success. It is not a debate, still less a conversation, and tends every now and then to be a little tedious ;...

Loftie, F.S.A. (Mao. milieu -and •Co.)—We wonder what- new series for the benefit of the British masses will next be commenced. Here we have the initial volume of the" Art at...

M.A. Second Edition. (W. Skeffington and Son.)—The merits and demerits of these sermons may be discerned from a single example,—a sermon on the text, " Take the rod, and speak...

vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The " nettle " is, we suppose, Mrs. Blu'ster, a slanderous old woman of worse than doubtful antecedents, who rules the little sea-side place of...

—Singleton Trelawney, who reminds us somewhat, by the way, of James Hannay's " Singleton Fontenoy,"minna his fancy and scholarship, is cursed with a father, obstinate, selfish,...

incorrect interpretations of the Scripture phrase, " the kingdom of the heavens." That phrase, he insists, always refers to a human kingdom, which from the time of Adam had been...

(T. Richards, Sydney ; Triibner and Co., London.)—It is difficult in a narrow com- pass to give a fair idea of this work. The different industries of the colony are so manifold,...

of "Supernatural Religion" Refuted by Himself. By the Rev. M. F. Sadler, M.A., Rector of Honiton. (G. Bell and Sons.)—The title of this book shows that it is purely...

(Bentley.)— There is little to be said about these volumes. Some years ago it would have given them a special interest that they came from a lady's pen. There is nothing unusual...

Cox. (Chesterfield : Palmer and Edmunds. London : Bemrose.)—Mr. Cox continues, with a zeal that is beyond all praise, his labour of describing the Derbyshire churches, dealing...