would not appear that the real wishes of the nation are likely to be carried out. The Times' correspondent at Jeddah reports on Wednesday the escape of a Nubian slave from...

stantinople and the result of the elections to the German Parlia- ment? The final result of these elections will not be known till noon to-morrow (Sunday), but it is ascertained...

Southern India is assuming grave proportions. It is stated that it extends from sea to sea, right across the Deccan ; that a million of persona are employed on the relief works...

last week, the Government of Prince Charles under- stood certain clauses of the Turkish " Constitution " to interfere with the virtual independence of Roumania, and demanded an...

Tril RE is still no answer from Constantinople. The meeting f the diplomatists on Wednesday, which was to have been final, was postponed to Thursday, and when it came off,...

vouch, that the Porte, in its eagerness for money, has offered to sell the Hereditary Pashalic of the Holy Land to any candidate accepted by the Jews, in return for a loan. The...

by a new incident. Prince Bismarck is weary alike of the delays and the concessions to Turkey, and has instructed Baron Werther to inform the Conference that in the opinion of...

his course by overflowing his banks, under the influence of these protracted and heavy rains. At Lambeth the distress is general, and at Kingston, Shepperton, Staines, Datchet,...

case.

Republicans claim the State, and their Governor, Mr. Packard, has occupied the State House, and garrisoned it with the negro militia. The Democrats, on the other hand, say their...

a speech which he no doubt considered a model of dis- cretion. He declared that at no time had her Majesty's Govern- ment thought of an alliance with Turkey, and that its...

his belief that the proximate reason why there is so little holly- berry this year is the same as the proximate reason why there is so little seed of the red clover,—and this...

he should see to it that Lord Derby does not leave British subjects who have suffered grievous injustice from foreign Governments without any redress. We have before drawn...

Carlisle on Wednesday night, in which he declared that though there was said to be but one man in Europe who under- stood the Schleswig-Holstein question, and he was a Professor...

for the enlargement of a Conservative Club this day week at Preston, was exceedingly severe on those " ill-disposed and deceiving" people, as he called them,who represented that...

Question. In addressing his constituents at Chelsea on Monday, he was as anti-Turkish in tone as Mr. Gladstone himself, though of course much more anti-Russian. Indeed, he...

ptain Tyler's report upon it. At 2.40 on December 23, the hey signalman had given the signal, "line clear" to Cad- 11, the next station up the line, so that any down train was...

the money paid under the Geneva Award. They have paid up all claims, and the ' Alabama' Commission ceased to exist at the end of the year, but there is a surplus of /1,800,000...

gress of recruiting. Owing to the expiration of the ser- vice of the men enlisted for long terms during the Crimean war, the operation of the Short-Service Rule, the increase of...

temperate accounts of the Russian army in Bessarabia. It consists of about 140,000 men, 12,000 of them cavalry, well clad, well armed, and well mounted, and deficient only in...

steps for the erection of a monument to Lord Falkland, —one of the most constitutional of the Royalists in 1641-43, who fell at the battle of Newbury on the 20th of September,...

for 1877. He expects a total revenue of £109,000,000, and an ex- penditure fractionally in excess of that sum. This enormous sum represents a taxation of £3 a head, or £15 a...

of Art, on Wednesday, expressed his strong disagreement with the Rev. Mark Pattison's views as to the degeneration of English taste in relation to Art. He admitted that there...

THE FAMINE IN SOUTHERN INDIA. T HE famine which is now certain in Southern India is a very grave misfortune for the Empress's Government there, but it is not as yet one which...

his position of calm and irresponsible neutrality. Yet neither could Lord Salisbury take up the only true policy in the fitting and appropriate manner. It is clear enough that...

I T is a great pity that Sir William Harcourt ever writes, He talks so very much better. His written arguments on questions of international law, though often valuable, are...

T HE Conference drags on wearily, making no real step in advance, until one-half the world believes its proceedings to be a comedy, played to gain time, and the other half re-...

rpHE correspondence columns of the Guardian newspaper I furnish us with a sort of ecclesiastical barometer,.from which we can always tell whether storms are brewing in the...

W ITHIN the last six years, a great deal has been done in the way of sanitary legislation. Parliament began by creating what was in effect a new department of the public...

L ORD CARNARVON'S eloquent speech at Newbury on Tues- day was certainly better in its positive doctrine than in its applicability to the subject which served him as a text. Lord...

IlENIMORE COOPER, the American novelist, a man who of all the successful writers that ever lived had perhaps least sense of humour, became possessed in his later years of a...

PUBLICANS OR CORPORATIONS? [FBOIt A CORRESPONDENT.] THE agitation, now going on in Birmingham, to introduce into this country an adaptation of what is known as " The Gothenburg...

CHINA AND GREAT BRITAIN. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—The Standard informs us :— " The year has seen the settlement of the very serious difficulty with China...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—Difficult as it is for we at present to give much attention to the question of Ritualism, I am tempted to make one more attempt to get...

Mr. MacColl is a moderate High Churchman, and in your article of this week you do not fairly re- present the position held by at least a large number of the mode- rate...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEOTATOR.1 Szn,—Whilst agreeing with the general purport of Mrs. Darwin's letter in your paper of yesterday on the trapping of vermin, I demur—having...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—In your issue of January 6 you draw attention to the change which has since the Mutiny been effected in our action towards the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your issue of October 28—received hereon November 29 —an allusion is made to a letter by "Ignoramus," in which he describes a...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I ask what is the difference betwe en credulity and incredulity, in the typical case of the shipowner adduced by Pro- fessor...

A CLOSED BOOK. I READ it long ago, and as I read, A world of wonder rose before my eyes And widened into vastness, dimly spread 'Neath solemn skies. Beyond the page my...

THE OLD MASTERS AT BURLINGTON HOUSE. Tars is the eighth exhibition of this kind that has been held at. Burlington House, and there seems to be no lack of interesting works, nor...

LIFE OF CHARLES KINGSLEY.s' [FIRST NOTICE.] ON the question concerning the interval which should elapse between a man's death and his biography, as upon most other questions...

Tins is a provokingly unequal novel, and had very nearly remained unnoticed by us. Following his invariable rule in such cases, the present reviewer dipped into the second...

You, Phillis, who have never learned to read, are the mistress of MOST people (at least in England) will read this large and fully- your own mind,—keep it clear,—get...

A GOOD story bears repeating, and though some of the main incidents of Lieutenant Payer's work are already known to the public, no one who has had the pleasure of hearing him...

study of languages are of more im- portance or of greater interest than those which were first observed on any large scale by the Dane Rasmus Bask, and which are grouped...

the Sunday Magazine, and the January numbers present the ordinary obstacles. The contents of both are perfectly unexceptionable, " always good alike," in fact, and the...

lishers (Chatto and Winans), and the new number is an improvement upon its predecessors, but it hardly now rivals many of its competitors, still less does it fill the place of...

Professor Colvin commences a series of articles upon " Albert Diirer," illustrated by a new process. There is a portrait (etching) by M. Legros of Mr. Poynter, which is perhaps...

in London as well as in " Philid'a " (which seems to be the correct abridg- ment of "Philadelphia)," but we have looked in vain for the announce- ment of it on the " prospectus...

to its pages a striking address upon "Theological Thought among Congre- gationalists,' to which we may take another opportunity of referring. The papers, speaking generally, are...

The Victoria Magazine suffers from the faults of all magazines with a purpose. It seems "like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side." It has a curious paper by "Maria Mitchell,...

Society," and has, therefore, the same radical defect as the Victoria. We all know what Professor Amos, Mr. P. A. Taylor, Mr. Holyoake, and "the Hono- rary Secretary " have to...

remember it before), comes unheralded and undefined. The little story, "The Artist of Piccadilly Pavement," is quaint, and reads like truth. An article from the Daily Telegraph...

J. Charlesworth. With an Introduction, by C. H. Spurgeon. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—We are sorry to say that this volume has disappointed us. It seems that the best stories,...

a still less definite sort than ever. The new story here, " Prometha," is highly extravagant, and has passages of very questionable taste. We find nothing else to remark upon.

work which takes in the large range of subjects described in the words " from the earliest period to the death of Louis XIV." necessarily shows to a certain disadvantage by the...

have thought., an obsolete one. It must be one which is easily satisfied, at all events.

be satis- factory to its subscribers, but we find nothing to recommend very specially to outsiders.

By Frederick Boyle. (Chapman and Hall.)—Mr. Boyle is an indefatigable wanderer. The Diamond-Fields of South Africa, Nicaragua, the Gold Coast, Sarawak, are among the scenes of...

and Blackett).—There is something in Anne Warwick which reminds one of Mrs. Oliphant's " Rose in June." Not that Anne at all resembles the Rose. She is a young woman with a...

—Miss Healy's latest novel is a very good one of its kind. It presents a sketch of manners rather than a study of character, and its personages are therefore somewhat...

Frothing- ham. (Putnam, New York.)—We have in this little volume a repro- duction of the views of Mr. Theodore Parker, of whom, no doubt, the author is a hearty admirer. He...

and cheap ; we lately noticed favourably the yearly volume, but this number is hardly up to the mark. Its aim, however, to be "literary, religions, and scientific," is beyond...

With an Account of the Suez Canal. By J. L. Stephens. (Marcus Ward.)— These "Notes of Travel," are, in fact, a portion of a work that was very popular some five-and-thirty...

piece is below the average of the author's previous compositions of dance-music, many of which are deservedly well known. Thire is a want of originality in this schottische.

Fleur de Lys. By E. Renville. (Simpson and Co.)—We can find nothing to admire in this piece, for it is devoid of anything likely to advance music in its purest form. There...

noticed. The Daisy Root, by Mrs. Herbert Martin (Sunday-School Association), is a simple, pathetic little story of how two children were rescued from the misery and want of...

Bishop of Newfoundland. By the Rev. H. W. Tucker. (W. Wells Gardner.)— Edward Feild, after a successful career at Oxford, where he united the duties of a college lecturer (he...

and Co.)—Mr. Macfarren's piece is extremely elegant in style, and will prove to be very useful as a lesson to players of moderate ability. We cannot account for his...

is a laboured and unsatisfactory effort. There is an absence of melody in it. The symphony is meaningless; it suggests a spirited march, rather than the sentiment of the words...

Co.)—The only thing in this novel distinguishing it from countless others which describe love-making, successful or unsuccessful, is the alarming sug- gestion of a society in...

and Hall.) —Here we have the old problem of whether a man should marry into a family where there is a taint of hereditary insanity. We are introduced in the first chapter to...

Beale. (Simpson and Co.)—This is a well-written though simple song, and is within the limits of voices of ordinary compass. There is, perhaps, a little too much...

and Co.)—This song should find favour with vocalists, as it is pleasing and well written. We think that the continual F sharps and Ws will be found trying to singers who do...

and Sons.)—If not a very effective song we observe a great improvement in the absence of chromatic , intervals, which the author used so frequently in many of his vocal...

—With the exception of No.1, only one strain is allotted to each waltz. The transition of key from C to D (Nos. 3 and 4) is unusual, and con- trary to rule. There is a lack of...

the ordinary type of pianoforte pieces, containing sixteen bars of fairly pleasing melody, followed by an arpeggio variation, and an intermezzo of two or three lines in the...