16 JUNE 1877

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Some information as to the Russian Message to Lord Derby

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is shortly to be published officially, but meanwhile the Paris Cor- respondent of the Times forwards a sketch which he believes be exactly accurate. Prince Gortachakoff states...

The Russian Government is endeavouring to raise money. A loan

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of £15,000,000, nominal, at 5 per cent., has been taken on the Continent, certain bankers thinking that as the external Debt of Russia, the only one of which the interest must...

The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any case.

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The Paris correspondent of the Times reported in Tuesday's paper

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a rather important interview between Marshal MacMahon and some Legitimist delegates, who waited upon him to find out whethertheabsenceof any Legitimista from his new Cabinet...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T ab apparent lull still continues. No effort to cross the Danube has yet been made, and though attempts to storm Kars are reported from Asia, no trfistworthy information of the...

The Times of Friday publishes a letter, dated May 29,

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from "a person of rank " in Constantinople, which reads as if it were true, and explains the position of affairs there a fortnight ago very clearly. The writer says that the...

Lord Salisbury on Monday delivered two speeches, one in the

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House of Lords and one at Merchant Taylors' School, in which he severely satirised the recent outbreak of Russophobia, the de- mand "to declare war against a nightmare." His...

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There was a debate yesterday week, raised, as usual, by

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Mr. P. A. Taylor, on the old question of opening museums, exhibitions of pictures, and other places of instruction and amusement on Sundays, when the Secretary to the Treasury,...

On Tuesday Sir Eardley Wilmot raised a somewhat poor and

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certainly very unsatisfactory discussion in the House of Commons on capital punishment, by moving a resolution that "it is de- sirable to consider - whether the laws under which...

The Committee of Wesleyans appointed to arrange the details of

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lay representation in Conference have agreed without dis- cussion that the numbers should be esual, 240 laymen and 246 ministers constituting the governing body. It has also...

Mr. Bright's speech was, of course, eloquent, especially in deline-

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ating incidents of occasional inequality and horror in the execu- tion of the law,—but his only strong argument was this,—that if experience does not show that the abolition of...

The Turks appear to have devised a tolerably effective pro-

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tection for the monitors in the Danube against the torpedo-boats which were so successful on their first attack. On Saturday night, some Russian launches in the Kilia month of...

At the Royal United Service Institution yesterday week, Mr.. Scott-Russell

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read a paper on "Modern War Fleets," in which he made some interesting remarks on the appliances for destroy- ing the enemy's ships without the use of what are technically...

M. Gambetta made a speech at Abbeville on the 10th

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inst., which contained one important statement. He has no desire to see the agitation among Liberals directed against the Senate. "I have always said I believe it to be...

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• The religious " informer " seems to be the

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chief product of the Public Worship Act. Not only is it clear that in many of the ecclesiastical suits we have had, the aggrieved parishioner hardly existed, and had to be...

We regret to notice the death of Miss Mary Carpenter,

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the sister of Dr. Carpenter, and one of the beat known of English philanthropists. Her special care was reformatory management, to which she had devoted years of disinterested...

Lord Redesdale drew attention on Thursday evening in the House

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of Lords to a work called "The Priest in Absolution," printed by a society calling themselves "the Society of the Holy Cross," of which Mr. A. H. Mackonochie is Master, and...

In relation to the scientific discussion as to the origin

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of life from life or from matter which is not living, Dr. Bastian has naturally taken advantage of Professor Tyndall's change of view as to the dif- ficulty of destroying living...

Professor Monier Williams publishes in Monday's Times a most able

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and interesting letter, giving a bird's-eye view of Southern India, from the Nerbudda to Colombo,—its geography, people, creeds, and social condition. We have notioed it at...

A novel discussion was raised on Monday in the Commons

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as to the employment of Secret-service money. Mr. Parnell and several other Irish Members suspected that some of this money was spent in paying spies in Ireland, and wanted to...

Consols were on Friday 94-94t ex. div.

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TOPICS OF DIE DAY

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LORD SALISBURY ON POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY. I T is a great pity that there are not more Peers like Lord de Manley in the Upper House. A Peer who is as ignorant as the majority, but...

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say that if you do not punish for the sake

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of punishment at In point of fact, we believe that the educational effect of all, but only detain a criminal in confinement as little our penal laws on the mind of the people is...

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THE FRENCH CONSIITUI1ON AND 111±, LEFT. T HE position of the

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Liberals in France is a very strong, but also a very delicate one. That they have a great majority, not merely in the Chamber of Deputies, but in the country, no one doubts ;...

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MONIER WILLIAMS ON SOUTHERN INDIA.

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T HOSE who, living in England, care to understand, or at all events to appreciate India, should read the admirable letter from Professor Monier Williams, the Sanscrit scholar,...

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THE COUNTY FRANCHISE BILL.

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T HE opposition which Mr. Trevelyan's Bill for equalising the franchise may expect to encounter is of two kinds. There is the general Conservative dislike to change,—a dislike...

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THE SITUATION IN CONSTANTINOPLE. T HE delay which has so long

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surprised the public is, we imagine, nearly over, and within the next few days im- portant tidings may be expected from the Danube, from Armenia, and from Constantinople. The...

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THE BLACKHEATH "BANDITS BOLD."

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footpads of Blackheath must, we think, rest satisfied with T i the striking success they have already achieved, and not fancy that they can revive the ancient glories of the...

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MR. RIDSDALE AND ARCHBISHOP TAIT.

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T HE Ridsdale Judgment has taken a comic turn,—which shows how wrong it is to put any absolute confidence in the vaunted principle of the uniformity of nature. Certainly the...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE RIDSDALE JUDGMENT. (TO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Mr. Davies asks me,-1. "How would I have decided the Ridsdale appeal myself?" 2. What do I mean by "autonomy"...

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(TO THZ EDITOR OF THZ SPECTATOR:1

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find my name occurring so frequently in your columns in connection with this subject, that I think I may offer, without being considered obtrusive, a few remarks. Mr....

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."]

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Si,—In his "brief and succinct restatement," " J. S. P." tells us that "the Ornaments Rubric quotes and confirms the then exist.. log law, laid down in sec. 25 of 1 EliZ., cap....

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"IDLE FELLOWSHIPS." [To THB EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As one

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who with respect to the University Bills of the present and past Session have felt more in unison with many Liberal speakers than with the leaders of the party to which I...

FEMALE SUFFRAGE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—It appears to be taken for granted that opinion on this subject is divided between those who think that women ought to be represented,...

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POETRY.

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JUNE. AN English wife, whose passage o'er the line That severs maid from matron leaves its trace In wiser innocence and chastened grace ; With queenly eyes, love-loyal, frank,...

"ART CRITICS."

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rro THE EDITOR OF THE ssaarsroa."3 Sra,—In an article on "The Magazines," in your last number, you make an implied " point " against art critics, by quoting -certain remarks...

BOOKS.

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THE EARTH AS MODIFIED BY HUMAN ACTION* SOME three years ago the book now before us was published in America, and also in London, but it has received in this country much less...

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LIFE OF FELIX DIENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY.* Tuts life of Mendelssohn owes a

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large portion of its interest to its translator. The work of Lampadius, although that of a warm admirer and personal friend of the great composer, is singularly curt and dry,...

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HOSPITAL ORGANISATION.*

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" LES institutions charitables d'un peuple ne sont que le rad de sea institutions sociales et politiques," says M. D'Haussonville, in his admirable paper on "Hospital...

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PHYLLIS.* NOVELS illustrative of the sentimental side of married life

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are becoming numerous, and though they are for the most part of an unreal kind, they are undeniably interesting. The quarrels of married people are more serious than those of...

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J. J. TAYLER'S POSTHUMOUS SERMONS.*

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MR. TarLEn published a volume bearing this title in 1851. The volume before us consists, for the most part, of sermons written after that date. They represent, says the editor,...

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My Life, from 1815 to 1849. By Charles Loftus. 2

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vols. (Hurst and Blackett).—In a previous work Mr. Loftns gave the world a narra- tive of his adventures by sea. In this he presents himself to us in the character, first, of an...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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.Some Difficulties of Belief. By the Rev. Teignmouth Shore. (Cassell and Co.)—This is a volume of sermons, for the publication of which no apology is needed. They are earnest,...

Juliet's Guardian. By Mrs. H. Lovett Cameron. 3 vols. (Ghetto

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and Windus.)—Whatever interest this story possesses does not lie in that part which is more properly described by the title. We all know by this time what will be the course of...

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Dick Temple. By James Greenwood. 3 vols. (Ghetto and Windup.)

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—Mr. Greenwood is well known to have certain necessary qualifica- tions of the novelist. He has great powers of description, and he is not without imagination. But nevertheless...

The Tiber and its Tributaries. By Strother A. Smith. (Longmans.)

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—The author thinks, and it would seem, not without good reason, that amidst all the labour so abundantly bestowed on the history, antiquities, and geography of Rome, the Tiber...

The City : an Inquiry. By W. Gilbert. (Daidy and

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Isbister.)—Mr. Gilbert has a formidable case against the "Great Unreformed Corpora- tions" and the subordinate corporations, the Livery Companies, great and small, which...

The Humiliation of Christ, in its Physical, Ethical, and Official

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Aspects. The Sixth Series of the Cunningham Lectures. By A. B. Bruce, D.D. (T. and T. Clark.)—It is impossible to do justice in a short notice to a book so learned, and we may...

Marriage and Married Life. By Isha. 2 vols. (Remington.)— This

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is described as "a novel for girls about to marry." It struck us, as we read it, that it might be turned to a very different use for girls not out of the school-room. If any...

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The Priesthood of Christ. By Joseph Parker, D.D. (R. Dickinson.)

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—Dr. Parker, we need hardly say, is a representative man, and the volume before us reflects, no doubt, not only the theology of the City Temple, but a good deal of Nonconformist...

_Roman Law. By William A. Hunter, MA. (Maxwell and Sons.)—

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So numerous are the books on this subject, that one might despair of ever finding any novelty in a new one. Mr. Hunter, however, has managed to obtain this, in the difference of...

Clara Ponsonby ; or, Wheels within Wheels. By R. Beveridge_

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(Samuel Tinsley.)—There is always a certain satisfaction, a sense, as it were, of a definite stage in one's literary journey being accomplished, when unhesitatingly and firmly...

Cassell's History of the United States. By Edmund Oilier. Vols.

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I. and II. (Cassell and Co.)—The first volume carries the history from the planting of the first settlements in North America down to the victory won by Wolfe on the heights of...