terms of the Treaty now being negotiated between England and Persia. Under its provisions, he says, Herat will be occu- pied by a mixed garrison of Persian and British troops,...

polled upwards of 3,000 more votes than the winning candidate had ever polled before, Mr. Whitley, the Conservative candidate, was returned for Liverpool yesterday week, by a...

in the Crimea, has been describing the later incidents of the war in the Transvaal for the Telegraph. He was shocked to see evidences of indiscipline in the Army there, and...

Irish policy,—on the question whether the distress in Ireland had been adequately dealt with by the Government, and on the relative responsibility of the Tories and Liberals for...

fr iti news of the week is a proposed transfer of Herat to Persia. The British Government intend, it is believed, to cancel the clause of the Treaty of 1857 under which the Shah...

case.

Count Stolberg, reading the Emperor's speech. It was unusually long, and explained that, although the Govern- ment felt bound, in view of the strength acquired by neighbour- ing...

responsibility for the expense of the present Afghan war, in the shape of an amendment to the Address. He maintained that the war was always described as a "great Imperial...

E. Forster, in the course of an apology for the Govern- ment's Irish proceedings, elicited that though the Government had given power to the Local Government to relax, for the...

the question of the Conservative origin of the Home-rule move- ment in Ireland, and shows not only that it was genuinely Conservative, but that the Conservative Members held...

method of settling the concessions to be made to Greece is about to be adopted. The Turks will do nothing, and the Greeks can do nothing, and the French Government, therefore,...

Asso- ciation of Croydon, in which he criticised the foreign policy of the Government, which had resulted, he said, in alienating a great number of the Powers of Europe. Russia...

gentlemen have addressed a memorial to Lord Beaconsfield,. praying him to inquire into the truth of the accounts received of executions in Afghanistan. To this the Premier...

faggot-votes have been created in Midlothian by the Tories, solely to keep out Mr. Gladstone, it will be necessary to remodel the law about non-resident votes. The names of all...

the Registrar-General's report for the week ending February 7th. The deaths in London were 3,376, or 1,657 more than they ought - to have been, the death-rate having risen from...

resisting M. Louis Blanc's Bill for a plenary amnesty of the political criminals of the Commune. He not only defeated the Bill by the large majority of 198 (313 to 115), but he...

Rev. R. W. Dale's, delivered at the Union Chapel, Islington, last Tuesday, on "The Rise of Evangelical Nonconformity ; " and, on taking the chair, Mr. Bright made a speech, in...

a very sharp contest, by a majority of 96, Lord Lymington polling 817 votes, against 721 given for Sir Robert Carden, the Conservative candidate. This. - was a very high poll,...

process, - which keeps the air round the meat at a low temperature, have been brought to London from Australia in the Strathleven,' and landed in excellent condition. A...

THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW PROJECT. T HE Government, it would appear probable, is about to take another most serious step behind the back of Parlia- ment. On Tuesday, the Times...

1%TR. ADAM is quite right in saying that it is of no use to in talk of moral victories, where we have had political defeats. And we certainly concur with Mr. Rathbone in the...

W R fear that a morbid feeling is rising in the minds of certain Liberals on the subject of the Home - rule agitation, a morbid feeling which is not only dangerous to the unity...

T HE essence of Mr. Grant Duff's new pamphlet, on "Foreign Policy," the best thing, we think, on the whole, that he has ever published, is that England is now governed, for good...

T HE Times has lost, we fancy, a good deal of its old power of catching the drift of English opinion. Its con- ductors, besides lacking the sympathy felt by some of their...

T HE one solid criticism that can be passed upon the debate on Irish Distress is that contributed by Lord Hartington. The whole discussion was premature. This does not mean, of...

M R. BRIGHT never showed that deep imaginativeness which lends all the fire to his oratory more curiously than in that hypothesis which he calmly suggested to his audience at...

I T is impossible to feel much sympathy with the clamorous crowd who attempted to punish Mr. Bancroft for abolishing the Pit at the Haymarket Theatre, by interrupting the...

TN the Nineteenth Centztry for February, Mr. Watts has published a paper, entitled " The Present Conditions of Art," which must be peculiarly interesting to all who have ever...

THE ALLIANCE WITH THE HOME-RULERS. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOB.1 SIR,—As a humble Liberal voter, I crave leave to express a hope that, before it is too late, we shall...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sut,—The Liverpool election, compared with the general elec- tion of 1874, shows very clearly that a strong Liberal reaction has set in,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SI11, - Of the various qualities which contribute to render the present Prime Minister the most phenomenal specimen of suc- cessful public...

QUESTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—I have read, in the Waterford Citizen, of the 6th inst., an article from your paper commenting on Mr. Bright's speech on the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] am glad to see that you intend to notice Mr. Watts's masterly and inspiriting article in the last Nineteenth, Century, on " The Present...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIB,—Allow me, as a teacher, to thank you for your article on " Writing." I rejoiced to find even a side-blow struck at that potent power...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your review of " The Higher Life in Art," on the 31st. ult., you say, " There has been no creed ever held by any number of people...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.] Sur.,—Eight hundred feet above the sea, among the granite• hills of Aberdeenshire, I saw, for the first time in Scotland, an ox at plough. I...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—About a week ago, Mr. Godley, Secretary to the Irish Church Commissioners, wrote to a Dublin paper (the Irish Times) to say that out...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] 'SIR,—Are there, or are there not, two Mrs. Oliphants ? Or is "A Beleaguered City" written by the accomplished authoress of the " Chronicles...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—The following extract from a letter of Professor James Elliot, of Goldielands, will probably interest many of your readers. The...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] course it is not your practice to take notice of replies to reviews of books appearing in your columns, but there is one statement of the...

RUSSIA BEFORE THE WAR.* THE author of this book is entitled to the praise of being an able and a cultivated writer, and of possessing a knowledge of his subject,—which,...

which the world holds the literature of ser- mons is, at least in great measure, due to the point of view of pure ignorance. For our own parts, we know nothing more remarkable...

have before us the life of the man whose name is as a household word to the Anglo- Indians who between 1830 and 1870 made India what she is. There are men amongst us, specially...

DOROTHY PATTISON, better known in the Black Country as Sister Dora," was one of the younger children of Mr. Mark Pattison, a Yorkshire clergyman. She was born in 1832, and early...

year's numbers of the child's monthly magazine, Peepshow, published by the firm. It makes a handsome volume of between seven and eight hundred pages, and its binding has some...

The New Quarterly Magazine. January. (C. Began Paul and Co.) —This number contains many interesting articles, the most important of which is probably the review of " Italian...

Charles Cox. (Bem- rose.)—Mr. Cox has fully proved his competence as a guide in this matter, by his admirable "Notes on the Churches of Derbyshire," as well as in other ways....

By W. Wakefield, M.D. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Kashmir is not so familiar to English readers but that they will welcome Dr. Wakefield's volume. It contains nothing very striking or...

told story this of the Venetian struggle for independence in 1848. A young Piedmontese noble visits a Venetian family, to make acquaint. ance with his betrothed. He falls in...

volume of the Expositor, edited by the Rev. Samuel Cox. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The editor continues his analysis of the Book of Job, carrying it down to the end of the...

Agnes Giberne. With a Preface by the Rev. C. Pritchard. (Seeley.)—Professor Pritchard gives a hearty recommendation to this volume, a recom- mendation quite justified, we think,...

Thompson. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—When we consider the enormous field for the study of chest diseases that the physicians of the Brompton Hospital are afforded, it becomes a...

Dr. M. M. Fischel. (Triibner.) —Dr. Fischel, who is known to many students of German as the author of a concise and useful German grammar and reading-book, has now published a...

By Arthur Hill Hassall, M.D. (Longmans.)—By the " Western Riviera" is meant the coast of the Mediterranean between Nice and Genoa. Any one meditating a visit to any part of the...

Harwood Holmden. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The most interesting of these "portraits " are those in which the writer makes us acquainted with the internal history of French...

have a collection of thoughts, aphorisms, comments on men and things, showing a shrewd, somewhat cynical, spirit, often expressed with much vigour and point. We should think...

Kegan and Co.)—The " children " should find these tales entertaining, though possibly, especially in the case of the last of the three, the " Tale of Ruggiero and Bradamante," a...

ak • (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is not the most successful of the many attempts which have been made to satirise a hostile philosophy, by imagining a community in which its...

ship in the Midland Districts. By Goodeve Mabbs. (Bemrose.)— The compiler of this volume states the population and the church accommodation of the various parishes, urban and...

Miller. (Triibner.)—Dr. Blakey affords an instance of extraordinary energy, perseverance, and success in the acquisition of knowledge. Never was a man of whom it may be more...

G. F. Browne, M.A. (S.P.C.K.)—Mr. Browne begins by bringing out very clearly the circumstances which make Bede so remarkable a man. We scarcely attach enough weight to the...

M.A. (Thacker, Spink, and Co., Calcutta ; Triibner, London.)—Mr. Sherring continues his valuable work, in a volume the scope of which may be learned from the following extract...

By Frederick Boyle. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a volume of very striking stories and sketches. Now and then there is a touch in them of Nathaniel Hawthorne, more frequently one...