been increasing all the week, their chief basis being a statement current in Berlin and Perth, and repeated with every kind of detail, that the Russians are concentrating an...

soon be the strongest claimant for the Afghan throne. He is the son of Afzul Khan, elder brother of Shere Ali, and, according to English ideas of primogeniture, natural...

the Turks. The Sultan handed him back Dr. Koller's manuscripts, the German Ambassador having taken up the Missionary's cause, but declined to dismiss Hafiz Pasha, alleging that...

case.

and that little is not very promising. It is reported demi-officially that Mahommed Jan, before his flight, informed General Roberts that he should continue the war until the...

— 4 ,— Til news from the Transvaal is disquieting. The Boers l - feld their mass-meeting on December 10th, at Doom n Kop, and it was attended by some 6,000 persons, who passed...

Thursday, at the opening of a new school for technical educa- tion, on the prospects of revival in trade. He showed that, as compared with 1870, England is getting richer, not...

Bourke, the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, in relation to the assertion of the latter, at Leeds, that Mr. Glad- stone had "sent an emissary to Russia, for the purpose of...

con- fined to three or four counties, increases, and as the Duchess of Marlborough's Fund does not draw rapidly, the Government intends, it is said, to take 2250,000 from the...

a matter in which it is possible to believe evil of Mr. Gladstone, they are incapable of discerning facts ; and on one of them, at least, even Mr. Alexander's refutation of the...

reprint of his Scotch speeches, states that he has received from the Chancellor of the Exchequer proof that the appointment of Lord Hampton to the Civil Service Commissionership...

power to help in pillaging the Egyptian peasantry in their interest, the Turkish bondholders thought they also might press the Foreign Secretary. On Tuesday,. therefore, the...

as an amusing speech to his Denbighshire constituents, in which he said that this Government had invented a new in- dustry,—the manufacture of dead-letters. They had not only...

the Finsbury Liberal Association last Monday, and made a speech -on the rapid change which Tory views of the election for Sheffield underwent during the day of the poll. Up to...

birds in England this winter. And no doubt some of them have fallen victims to the destructive agencies spread for them. The Rev. F. 0. Morris, writing in Thursday's Times,...

Birmingham, on Thursday evening. He expressed his belief that the country had at last found out the foreign policy of the Government, and asked scornfully, "Where is the peace...

Saint Wilier, had resigned his post in consequence of his din. inclination to serve under M. de Freycinet's Government, appears to have been a complete mistake. The Times'...

instructions from home, has agreed to place the Rules :about Special Correspondents in Afghanistan in abeyance. The correspondents are only to be "licensed," a proviso intended...

Tay-Bridge disaster has brought out nothing of any import- ance, except the fact that one of the officials on the south side of the bridge noticed sparks issuing from the train...

the moral cause of the disaster, has begun. Dr. Begg and his friends could not lose so great an opportunity. We think, however, it might be proved to even their satisfaction...

1879 will show that short service still continues highly - popular. The full number of men required presented them- selves, and indeed the recruiting-officers were able, through...

W E are unable to believe in the imminence, or even the probability, of a war between Germany and Russia. It may occur, as any other war may occur, when nations are armed, as at...

LORDDERBY ON MILITARISM AND COMMERCE. L ORD DERBY has struck a blow at the Government, which was all the heavier for its incidental, though strictly relevant character, in the...

J T is difficult to imagine news more unsatisfactory than that we receive from Afghanistan. So far from the Govern- ment of India regarding General Roberts's recent victory as...

laws are enforced or amended will naturally be different in different circumstances. Where a law is plainly unjust, or where disobedience to it is the result of something very...

S INCE we last wrote on the fascination of the Plaiscite for the people of Victoria, the Victorian "Hansard," con- taining the debates on the first and second readings of the...

be made sericrus, but we do not think it is very serious yet. It is evident from the resolutions passed at the Boers' mass-meeting of the 10th December, that a large proportion...

[We print this paper as one thoughtful and reasonable view of the Nihilist question, but it is not the one we agree with. Nihilism has, as we believe, a distinctly political...

Manner has just selected from his contributions* to Punch, exhibit, perhaps, a larger amount of insight into the various forms of conventionality in English society, than even...

A LDIOST any one who has ever lived on an English country- side, or has become well acquainted with the less intelli- gent classes of a country town, finds one mental...

P EOPLE now-a-days often deplore the extinction of the old type of servants. There are no such servants now as there used to be, we are told ; wages increase, but fidelity de-...

DR. HANCOCK ON IRELAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF TEl SPECTATOR:1 SIR,-Thirty years ago, when he was Professor of Political Economy in the University of Dublin, Dr. Hancock published...

IRISH LAMENTATION. COLD, dark, and dumb lies my boy on his bed ; Cold, dark, and silent the night dews are shed; Hot, swift, and fierce fall my tears for the dead ! His...

THE FAC-SIMILE OF THE CODEX ALEX.A.NDRINUS. * " Iv Fielding's Parson Adams were now alive, and not quite at - desperate grips with poverty, we may feel sure that he would, have...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SLa,—What is the practical remedy for the state of things described in Mr. Shepherd's letter, in your issue of December 27th? Not, I think,...

(TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sr,—In your last week's article on the change of Government in France, you tell us that "to say that M. de Freycinet's Government are the...

IT cannot be said of any one of Mr. James's stories, "This is his best," or, "This is his worst ; " because no one of them is all one thing; like human beings, they are partly...

probably with truth, that the public would be impatient of personal details in the life of a man only known to them as a politician ; but then, he should have called his book,...

HERE and there in the history of art we come across a name which suggests no idea but that of constant growth, the name of some supreme worker who, to the last hour of life,...

ably conducted, and to represent, for the most part, the predominant philosophy of the day,—the philosophy of the empirical and physiological school,—with great clearness and...

THE Fortnightly is, on the whole, the best of the Magazines this month. Mr. Morley gives us at least five interesting and four valuable papers. The one which is interesting, but...

Aunt Judy's Magazine, for December and January. (George Bell and Sons.)—Aunt Judy has only one serial story in her first new quarter, but it is one which opens with spirit, and...

Turkey. (Oliphant.)—Mrs. Wheeler is an American missionary, who has spent many years among the Armenians, and she makes a very readable little book out of her experiences. A...

Bonverie, and Co.)--This is a handy little book, which, so far as a layman can judge of it, is written with good sense, and no pretence of teaching non-professional persons to...

limits, but the list of royal writers is still limited. Hence, Charles XIL, by "Oscar Fredrik," translated from the original Swedish by George F. Apgeorge (Bentley), would have...

its Advocates. By George Jacob Holyoake. Vol. II.—The Constructive Period, 1845-1878. (Triibner.)—On one thing at least all readers of Mr. 1101p:fake's second volume will be...

Ethics. By Edward Byron Nicholson, MA. (C. Kogan Paul and Co.)—The public is lunch indebted to Mr. Nicholson for this able and manly essay. He goes back to first principles,...