A suspicion long entertained by the Italian Government that I the brigands in Sicily were aided by men of much hig-her rank has recently been confirmed. An informer betrayed...

I The Times, anxious to prove that Air. Disraeli's sneers at news- paper information are inaccurate, publishes the text of the famous Berlin Note, to which the British...

Mr. Sclater-looth on Tuesday introduced the first national I budget of local taxation. It appears that while the United Kingdom owes £750,000,000, or ten years' revenue, the...

The Government declared on Wednesday, through Lord Saudon, their intention to support the Recorder of London's Bill for enabling the Medical Corporations and the Universities,...

The Militarv Committee of the French Senate has paid a high compliment to Ml. de Freycinet, Ml. Gambetta's War Minister at I Tours and Bordeaux. Al. de Freycinet has been...

The Sioux tribe of Indians would appear to be in considerable danger. That tribe claims the Black-Hills country, the mineral region which the United States Government has been...

The French Ministry and the Left are quarrelling over the I Municipal Bill, the Left wanting that all Mayors, except in I Paris, should be elected by the Councils, and the...

The fall in silver threatens to become still more severe. Thue Government bills on India were sold this week at Is. 6. the rupee, and exchange lhas fallen to 1s. (;tjd., while...

TIHE POETS IN LITIGATION. THE public, or at least the London part of it, have declared that they found Mr. Buchanan's action for libel against the Examiner...

MR. HARWVOOD ON A NATIONAL CHURCH.+ AT the Church Congress at Bath, in 1874, no little attention and curiosity was roused by a speech made by a young man, who seemed to be...

CURRENT LITERATURE. The Portfolio,for July. c I (Seeley and Co.)-By far the most charmlinlg I illustration in the Port//lio this month, indeed, for some months, is, in our...

]liionfl aind Science, teui Re,-lations to eatc other att the P'resent Do1. I By Stanley Gibson, B.D. (Longinnans.)-Tbe author of this work .sows Ii a tenderncss to the...

Fire J1'ek-s in Greece. By Jamos Foster Young. (Sampson Low and Co.)-An author writing about Greece who disclaims the idea that his book contains anything of ' original...

'f/ate I'I~ilospla] of Lo . n(otes of Lectures deliver e(d dur(Iiing Tar entythreo Years in tho Inner Templo Hall.) By hlerbert Broom, LL.D. (Alaxwell and Son.)-Almiost every...

IL/i? A.ssimss II(lLdlooI:. Edited by Gcorge (Jfilyori. (!,tEfllugham Wilson)-It is not vory creditable to our reputation for thrift as a nation, that out of a p opulation of...

I c.Yrfi',. /ie [ S7/q! ,"jri( t / fer hi> Prelrze',toiu a/ ( to/f1 (a A"imuls awl the (.iiiiti ali 1i I er.)-Th'I3ii it a voui e lpublished by the Soc iety, for tho lpirlso...

Probably the most remarkable speech of the night was Mir. Grant I)uffs, who maintained that the chief fault of the present system of education at Oxford was that it wan too...

Prince Nikita, whose character was so nearly slandered away by the telegraphic bulletins, declared war on the 2nd inst., in a proclamation, in which he alleges that he had...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. . PRINCE MILANO, of Servia, declared war on July 1, in a long | proclamation, in which lie states that the situation has become intolerable, that the Turks...

The lying on all sides is stupendous, and we offer the following I only as a statement reconcilable with the principal alleged facts On the 3rd inst., a Servian column,...

Tie house of Coommons discussed and carried the second reading of the University of Cambridge Bill on Thursday night, when, by previous arrangement, it was agree(l that Members...

\Ir. I. .Jeikins made a grIeat effort on Monday to induce the Government to explain its Turlish polic, anld ianaged to coImmence an irregular debate. \lm. D)isracli declared...

THIE SOBRIETY OF ANCIEINT ATHElNS. [TO THE EDITOR OF TiE , "SPECTATOR."I SIR,-Does the Spectator feel sufficiently for the character of the Athenians of classical times to be...

.1fulalilmerntal Chrisliayii/i. By John P. Lundy. (Noew York: J. I. Bouton.)-MNr. Lundy describes his subject as ' The Art and Symbolism of tho Primitive Church, as witnesses...

POETRY.-New Symbols. By Thomas Gordon Hake. (Chatto and Windus.)-We do not doubt that the twelve poems which make up Dr. Hake's volume are mutually connected, and have a...

The Government are at least adverse to permissive legislation i in the case of proposals for the increase of the Episcopate. On Wednesday, Mr. Cross declared his conviction...

Yeesterdav week the Archbishop of Canterbuiry mlad a very moderate speech in the Hlouse of Lords, ill mnoving, for a (Commiittee to inquire into the prevalence of habits of...

Yesterday week, during the discussion on Mr. Butt's Hom ne- I rule motion for ' a Select Committee to inquire into the nature and extent of the rounds of the demand ma(le by a...

It is romarkal k, as a holwi III lIot 1 re o, mIcill t ake to Fe(lctt e 1i a pairIjSs or- a certaiii f i 1e ; t ii, Ihuit if the I'Pt// bl/ I 6 i,'z1df bhe rigdit ly...

M\Ir. (Gla(dstonel, after delivering the prizts to the students of lKings ('ollege onl Thursday, uiiade a speech on0 thc contempt for initellectutal authority NN'lliilc was...

A Scotch deputation went up last veck to the First Commis- - sioner of Works (Lord Henry Lennox) to urge a euriwis slit. T1he First Commissioner las the control of Scotchs...

MAIRSHAL MACMAION AND THE LEFT. ENGLISTIIIEN-, apparently, cannot help exaggerating thec Parliamentary difficulties of France. In spite of the experience of three generations...

AIR. JIIXCIILIFF'S WVANDERINGS.*- MR. HIiNCHILIFF has very small occasion indeed for the apologies with whichl he introduces his interesting volume to the public. It is...

B OK S. I MR. WALLACE ON TILE DISTRIBUTION OF ANIAIALS.* [FIItST NOTICE.) ro do a work of this kind justice in an ordinary review is almost impossible, and to exhibit in a...

TriIZ [ L l'tl.I'T Y 0r O i C0 RN- ERLN-( .'" TlIE great interest felt by City men in the " Eupion Gas Casc ' is natural enouglh, for the decision shows a good many of them...

THE LATE HENRY MALDEN. ON the 4th July there died at Belsize Park, IHampstead, one of Lord Macaulay's fellow-students and personal friends at Cambridge, whose general...

A R T. WILLIAMi BLAKE,-" PICTOR IGNOTUS." SOMIE fifty years ago died, peacefully and comparatively unnoticed, one of the most noted figures in Art of the last century ;-we say...

All.. SYDNEY DOBELLIS THOUGHTS ON ARIT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIIm.-The writer of the review of ' Thoughts on Art, Philosophy, and Religion," which appeared in...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE NEWS FROM THE EAST. THE first shot has been fired in the East, but the Western T world knows as yet but little of the first result. The English and...

HOW PUBLIC OPINION IS FORMED ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS. OTHING is more difficult to judge of than how public. N opinion forms itself in England on foreign affairs, especially...

SOM1E CHILDRENS STORIES.* " I-N the dear old days of 'once upon a time,' there seemed to be less room in the world for children than is made now for them, and there were more...

TURKEYl IN TlE, MAGAZINES. T'I- Magazines are, as miglht be expected, full of Turkey, and some of them publish really valuable papers. The most important of these by far is the...

TIHE AMERICAN CENTENARY. HIE Hrhvmed hvnmns to the American Centenary are all bad T -Mr. Bayard Taylor's included, though it has some fine lines-and the prose hymns published...

MIEMORIALS OF A QUIET LIFE.' FAMILY affection is apt to take equivocal forms. In its primitive aspect, it is ouc of the most beautiful things in the world; but there are few...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. THIE PUBLIC-SCHOOL SYSTEM OF CHICAGO. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,-Being at Chicago in the latter part of April last, I visited the Board of...

THE FIST LOCAL BUDGET. NO subject that comes before Parliament is so certain of N being treated unsatisfactorily as local taxation. There are some questions which cannot be...