South Africa has been announced this week in a telegram from Sir Theophilus Shepatone, and the Government, though without official verification of the news, have declared their...

very hostile to Russia, and very apologetic on behalf of Turkey. He points out to Prince Gortschakoff that the Pro- tocol signed at London was not urged upon Turkey, and her ad-...

of the House, and something like half-an-hour's explanations out of Mr. Gladstone,—which exhausted the attention of Members, and protracted the preliminaries up to the usual...

case.

NEWS OF THE WEEK B OTH in Europe and in Asia, military operations have been going on steadily, without as yet producing any impressive re- sult more than gunboat duels with...

tions, which commenced on Monday night, was greatly injured by the little farce and wrangle, which lasted for a gout hour and a half, before it began. Mr. Trevelyan, who...

vigorous speech, a speech of grasp as well as humour, of which, as well as of Mr. Forster's, we have given a short sketch elsewhere. Mr. Chaplin made one of his Turkish...

House declines "to entertain any resolution which may embarrass the Government in maintaining peace and protecting British interests, without indicating any alternative policy,"...

alternations of hot and cold fits, the playing-off of the representative of one policy against the representative of another, the preliminary warnings to the Turks that if they...

attack on the reply of Lord Derby to Prince GortachakofPs Circular, a, few hours before his brother, Lord John Manners, spoke in de- fenee of the Government in the House of...

commenced it, made a good point in showing how enthusiastically Mr. Cross was cheered by his party when he said anything on behalf of Turkey, and how blankly that party sat and...

only in the House of Commons, but to the members of a Provident Fund whom he met at Sheffield, and whom he exhorted to imitate the sobriety of the Turks. "We are surrounded," he...

Sir Francis Grant or Lord Beaconsfield, who were both ill. But Sir Gilbert Scott discharged very well the official functions of Sir Francis, and Sir Stafford Northcote the...

.eloquent, bat very dangerous speech in favour of a repressive policy against clericalism not unlike that so fortunately defeated in Italy. There should be the less need for...

an alarm as to the rumour that " our miraculous Premier" was contemplating a feat in the East,—apparently sending the Fleet to Constantinople,—which would force " not Russia...

presentation of degrees, referred with fine taste and character- istic delicacy to the great loss of the University in the death of one of its Foraminers in Political Economy,...

and were rather curiously in conflict with each other. Mr. Glad- stone, in answering for "Literature," remarked that Art teaches that no disproportionate development of the...

Pundit, the great Hindoo explorer,'was not rs. 7 (14s.) a month, as stated by us, but rs. 70 (£7). In addition to his pension of £50, the Pundit received from the Indian...

University of London last Tuesday to discuss the admission of women to medical degrees, was a very noisy one, the medical graduates mustering very strong, and according a fair...

thirty of the weightiest names in the University of Oxford, has been sent to the House of Commons praying for an amendment in the Universities Bill, directing the Commis-...

THE GREAT DEBATE. T HE great debate of the week will have closed before these lines are in our readers' hands, but we can only review that part of it which ended on Thursday...

L ORD HARTINGTON'S " tactics" seem to us to tend much more directly to a break-up of the Liberal party than Mr. Gladstone's. If he and his colleagues on the front bench are...

Italian Senate has shown that even a newly-created I Tff Second Chamber, with no customary or historical chpr- acter attaching to it, can yet render a very great service to its...

Ts' the excitement of the great debate, there is - too much reason to believe that Lord Derby's answer to Prince Gortscledroffs despatch will not receive all the attention it...

THE addition of a territory as large as Italy to the domi- nions of the British Crown is an event which cannot be passed over without notice. A former generation would have...

I N the very stormy debate on Medical Degrees last Tuesday in the Convocation of the University of London, Sir William Jenner warmly repudiated on the part of the pro- fession...

AI R. GLADSTONE, in replying for ' the interests of Litera- ture' at the Royal Academy on Saturday, intimated that we must not expect to see soon again so great a literary...

MEDICAL DEGREES FOR WOMEN, AND THE LONDON UNIVERSITY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR, —Thirty years ago—I must commence by giving this date, lest I libel the present...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR. " ) SIR,—Perhaps the following will interest your readers :—On Saturday last, the memorial-stone of the cemetery chapel was laid, by the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SF ECTATOR.1 SIR,—I want to own that in a fit of forgetfulness I attributed to his Master the words of St. John the Baptist, and I should like to deny...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TH " SPECTATOR:1 SI " I love a ballad in print a' my life," cries Mopsa, in the " Winter's Talc," "for then we are sure they are true." In the above little...

[To TRH EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:I Sin,—Pray allow me to disown the protest you have attributed to me, perhaps by mistake for Canon Tristram. I am not a member of Convocation,...

[To THIS EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOIC] have seen several stories about dogs lately in the news- papers, which makes me think I might tell a story of a dog we once had. Two of my...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [SECOND NOTICE] WE shall endeavour in this second notice to point out the most notable of the figure-subjects in the second, third, and fourth rooms, leaving...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECITATOR.1 Sin,—In the Spectator of March 31 there was a letter from an " Ex- Divinity Student," dated from Trinity College, Dublin, and com- plaining...

BARRY CORNWALL.* THE great interest of this book lies not so much in the account which it gives of the production of poems which have, it is to be feared, almost ceased to be...

[TO TER EDITOR OP THE ' , srscrevoit.1 ;S in,—In two letters printed under this title in your issues of April 21 and May 5, Mr. Perry has called attention in just and forcible...

name of note in the history of the world. It has an interest not only for scholars ; every one, we suppose, has pictured to himself the scene of tumult and uproar which the city...

Tins volume comprises a selection of the most attractive pictures which have appeared in the Graphic during the last two or three years, each picture having a short explanatory...

1r is quite clear that lawyers like Sir James Stephen, who believe in the value of codification, and-take the trouble not only to talk about it, but to show something of its...

Edited by John come there, it would damn her soul." Morris, Priest of the Society or Jesus. London: Burns and Oates. But it may be asked, did Englishmen in the days of...

a New Version of an Old Story." (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a romantic story of the fortunes of a young lady who begins life by being left in a basket at the door of a kind...

Grote. Edited by J. B. Mayor. (Doighton and Bell, Cambridge.)—In this volume, which Mr.. Mayor, as he tells us in his preface, has been able to give us with the help of the...

The Iliad of Homer, Homometrically Translate& By C. B. Cayley. (Longmans.)—This work shows considerable cleverness and ingenuity, —whether well applied, is, we think, a...

and Letters of Lord Macaulay, by G. 0. Trevelyan (Longmans), has appeared. In his preface to this second edition Mr. Trevelyan speaks of the " almost microscopic care with which...