marriage-bells. M. Dufaure was recalled and his terms absolutely agreed to, and the list of colleagues submitted by him accepted. M. Dufaure himself, it is said, takes the...

through a great many phases of hope and fear, appears to be at an end at last. On Saturday it appeared that M. Dufaure, after receiving satisfactory written assurances from the...

ease.

a splendid ceremonial, with a speech from the throne of the usual kind. Turkey had been compelled to defend herself from aggres- sion, and had defended herself so as to call...

T HE war has entered into a new phase, for Osman Pasha has sur- rendered. According to an account by the correspondent of the - Times with the Russian head-quarters,the Turkish...

accu- rately known. The telegram-makers at once forwarded assurances that Turkey would fight on to the death, and it is possible that the Sultan, the Pashas, and the "...

of peace which the Russians would accept, but the most vraisemblantes rumours point to the independence of Roumania, increased by the Dobruclscha ; the independence of Servia,...

for it releases 120,000 men for further operations, but the numbers in Plevna were found to be unexpectedly small. Osman Pasha had originally, by all accounts, 30,000 Regulars,...

in his , first great effort at Civil-Service reform. He had removed the- Collector and Naval Officer of New York for interfering in elec- tions, and encouraging their officers...

trade, and with it the rents of the owners of land. The Special Committee appointed to inquire into the prevalence of cattle plague and other similar diseases has reported in...

Edinburgh on Tuesday and Wednesday,—the former at a banquet given to inaugurate the Scottish Conservative Club, and the latter at a Conservative Working-men's Asso- ciation....

1 master-General, was even more bellicose in his oratory than the Secretary for War in the Scotch capital. Ile attacked the pro-Russian or anti-Turkish Press,—whichever it...

famines and Indian misgovernment. He was in favour of pre- venting famines, which, as he showed, destroy every ten years five millions of people, besides enormous numbers of...

in Tur- key, and is about, we believe, to occupy Bosnia and the Herze- govina. We have given elsewhere Count Andrassy's explanation of her policy, and have only to add here that...

described, indeed, his unexpected and unsanctioned proposal and rejection for the Lord Rectorship of St. Andrew's as the freak of boys, who were fond of having what they called...

letter, published on Tuesday, the 11th inst., states that the weak- ness of the Prussian Parliament is due to three causes. In the first place, Ministers are rarely taken from...

case to decide yesterday week, and decided it in a curious way. A publican named Wheatley, living at Saxilby, was charged with having chained up his wife—with about a yard's...

leave their money to Charities take a little more pains to think of adapting those charities to the newer wants of the world. In America they do seem to do this. We have not...

Arts in favour of the Association for befriending the girls sent out to service from pauper schools, who, if not befriended and looked after for the first few years, are almost...

yesterday week, on occasion of the distribution of the prizes, in which he declared that if boys were only taught modern Greek first,—which he had learnt in six weeks,—they...

seems to substantiate Mr. E. J. Reed's criticism on the question- ably stability of that ship under trying circumstances. At least the Committee, in spite of their sanguine...

was requested by the Conservators of the Thames to report upon the changes in the river since the completion of the new .drainage works, and his Report is not nice reading. He...

a new departure? In a speech to a meeting at Castlebar on Satur- day, he said, in words which the Times professes to give textually, "Let no man lightly define the measure of...

PLEVNA. O SMAN PASHA has brought a gallant defence to a splendid end. We have no sympathy with his cause, which is not the defence of a country, or even of a creed, but only of...

W HAT was a false hope last week is a verified fact this. The Marshal has submitted at last, and M. Pouyer- Quertier appears to have had thecredit of doing what the eloquence of...

speeches of Mr. Gathorne Hardy and Lord John Manners on the war will be read by all English politi- cians with anxiety, and by many with a displeasure which is only not dismay...

pro-Turkish /Arty in this country has this week been dispelled. They have hoped against hope that Austria, however reluctant she might seem, would ultimately range herself in...

T HERE is one point in the present situation in the East, otherwise satisfactory, which we regard with considerable apprehension. We hold—in common, we believe, with most...

certain number of speeches during the autumn from Ministers and ex-Ministers has often been denounced as a waste of time and strength. That is not our opinion of it. Everything...

THE interest excited by the " Dimsdale Case" is easily to be accounted for. Prima facie it is a very ordinary case, an accusation against an attorney of raising money on...

O 1? course all educated people believe themselves to be free from the superstition of attaching importance to Omens. We doubt, however, very much whether many of us are wholly...

R ATHER more than twenty years ago, the news went abroad that the estimate of the Sun's distance which had then been accepted for more than half-a-century must be replaced by a...

THE OPENING OF THE STRAITS OF THE DARDANELLES AND BOSPHORUS. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—The necessity for keeping closed the Straits of the Darda- oelles to...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Having had some correspondence with Mr. Goldwin Smith on the subject of his letter to you prior to its appearance, I did not wish to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —The Spectator, of the 1st inst., says that within six months after the fall of Richmond "there was not a Confederate left in...

SIR,—The papers of November 26 contained a little piece of intelligence which I fully expected the Spectator to notice, as it affords curious information about the point of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTA.TOR.1 see from your report of the deputation to Lord Derby what I had not noticed in the daily newspapers, that Mr. Maltman , Barry claimed to...

to the article in the last Spectator on the case of " Williamson v. Barbour," I have to ask you to admit a few comments from one who is himself engaged in the Manchester trade....

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.—THE ENGLISH SCHOOL. fIrlEST NOTICE,] Tura collection may be roughly described as illustrating the first hundred years of water-colour painting, and if...

A SUMMER EVENING. I. THE summer sun is setting, The sky is red in the west, And over all hangs silence, And a feeling of peace and rest. It. The sultry day is over, The...

• THE LIFE OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.* THE reading of this third volume has deepened in our minds the regret that it should have been published at this moment. We cannot but fear...

IN spite of its too modest title, this is very much more indeed than an equivalent, in relation to Homer, for such a book as " Lamb's Tales " in relation to Shakespeare. It...

Mn. JENNINGS has come within an ace of writing a classic, or some- thing very like it. Without putting it on the same level as White's Selborne, or Mr. Dudley Warner's Summer in...

Burnaby has contributed to the still accumulating mass of transient and valueless literature to which the Russo-Turkish war has given existence, is less deserving of serious...

method of editorship on which question might be raised, but he Makes his principles * The Poetical It of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Edited by Harry Buxton Forman. iu 4 vole....

CHRISTMAS BOOKS. Hector &wradac. By Jules Verne. Translated by Ellen C. Trower. (Sampson Low and Co.) Hector Sorvadac, captain in the army of Algiers, is transferred, together...

change in the tone of thought when the heroine of a tale which belongs to the class commonly called " religious" is introduced to us just as she is returning from her first...

of Lindsay-Street Chapel, Dundee. (W. Kidd, Dundee.)—The friends of Mr. Wallace have done well in publishing this selection from the ser- mons which ho left behind him. The...

—This work is, to the best of knowledge, the only thorough and scien- tific treatise on fires And fire-protection over published. It contains. full descriptions and drawings...

tion by W. E. Bolland, and Short Essays by A. Lang. (Longmans.)— We incline to think that this translation of an author much studied and peculiarly difficult, well and...

Flute Tutor. (Howard and Co.)—The elementary portion, including notation, time, keys, marks of expression, &c., in this work, are admir- ably explained. The fingering of the...

—It is a reason for thankfulness that we have English composers capable of producing more acceptable three-part vocal writing than the work before us. The divisions of time...

the ,‘ Handy English Word-Book." By the Rev. James Stormonth.- Here we have a number of quite useless words (if combinations of syllables which are never used are to be called...

appears to be, as usual, corrected up to time for all its mighty store of addrosses. One street which was newly numbered as late as October has the new (and sow correct) numbers...