a short letter to the Bedford Liberal Association. He is puzzled, he says, in relation to the Afghanistan portion of the speech, to know why, if an invasion of India from the...

THE event of the week appears to be time receipt in London of 1 a telegram from Livadia, dated November 9th, and signed by M. de Giers, the Under-Secretary in charge of the...

Viceroy descends from his eyrie at Simla on the 19th, and settles himself for the winter at Lahore, in order to be nearer the scene of operations, which commence, according to a...

was neither so important as was expected, nor so amusing as was desired. The anticipation of it by a " Clairvoyant," in the Echo of the same day, was indeed much the more lively...

stopped in I'esth and Vienna to confer with the Emperor and Count Andrassy. The rumours consequently are endless. The Austrian Government is asked by Russia to join in a new...

any case.

to his constituents at Chester on Thursday. He pointed out that Mr. Lowe, in bis five Budgets, had remitted taxes beyond what he had imposed to the amount of £12,951,000, while...

Afghan question is Lord Northbrook's speech at the corporation dinner at Winchester on Monday night. It is a speech of the weight of which only a careful perusal can give an...

latest letters left Pietermaritzburg, in Natal, war with the Zulus was evidently expected ; and according to a telegram from Cape Town, dated October 22nd, a British detachment...

foundland Fishery quarrel, was published on Tuesday, and is a very temperate and reasonable document. He brings out one important point, of which we were not aware when we wrote...

more virulent Home-rulers, and a pretty quarrel it seems likely to be. Mr. Butt thinks that Mr. Parnell and his friends wish to exclude him from Parliament, which Mr. Parnell...

that Lord Northbrook has misrepresented his views as to the obliga- tions of justice in our dealings with Asiatic States. He declares that he holds justice to be the very...

to the Senatorial electors appeared on Wednesday. It is a weak paper, and shows that the Conservatives are at a loss for a rallying-cry. They charge the Liberals with intending...

and including many Members of Parliament, to protest against a declaration of war with Afghanistan, before Parliament has been consulted. This Committee, which sits at the...

newest improvements to his private wire between London and Norwich (a distance of 115 miles), that even on a day of great electric dis- turbance, a telephonic conversation was...

was the speaker, and was very amusing indeed, though on party poli- tics he was not very strong. To show how difficult it was to abstain from politics, he told a story of an...

S. L. Gooch, of Benacre Hall, Suffolk, prosecutes his wife, Lady Gooch, and a nurse named Ann Walker, at the Bow Street Police-court, for conspiring to palm off on him a...

Institution last week, made some rather just observations on the unfortunate effect produced by the growing pressure of news on the usefulness of newspapers, and congratulated...

of the Royal Academy, —a choice which is of good omen for the future of English Art, and a credit to the body who made it. The Royal Academicians have for once preferred un-...

a gentleman who, for seven years, has been almost Dictator of -Geneva. A man of high character and literary tastes, he regarded Ultramontanes much as our forefathers regarded...

best of it, so far at least as the amu.singness of the chief speaker went. Lord Carlingford, who was the Liberal spokesman of the -day, was sensible, but not very exciting. He...

LORD BEACONSFIELD ON AFGHANISTAN. I all human probability, before our next issue appears 1 England will be at war. Wednesday next is the date fixed by Lord Lytton for the...

L ORD BEACONSFIELD, when at the Guildhall, is always on tiptoe. He feels thai the citizens of London expect from him a dignity that is at full stretch, and accordingly, even...

S IR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE'S speech at the Mansion House on Saturday is generally taken to mean that he thought a dissolution next year quite within the limits of political...

I T is to be hoped that Lord Justice Christian's retirement from the Bench does not mean his complete retirement from public life. It will be surely possible to find some post...

instance of its ability to discern moles in the eyes of its brethren. On Wednesday, it solemnly took mankind to task for its unjust usage of Mr. Gladstone. " When it is known,"...

I F but a twentieth part be true of the crimes charged against the Russian Army in the proasverbaux of the Rhodope Com- mission, and adopted in the Report of some of its...

D R. MARTINEAU'S fine lecture on "Ideal Substitutes for God," gives us, as Dr. Martineau's writings on these sub- jects are apt to do, an exceedingly able statement, not only of...

E are not about, of course, to remark on the extremely disagreeable case which begins to fill the columns of the daily papers, and threatens to attain the proportions of a...

TAXATION IN ITALY. [TO TUE EDITOR OF TILE "SPECTATOR: . ] Sun,—In an excellent account of the vintage in Tuscany which lately appeared in your columns, I observe that the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —Your correspondent, " W. F. B.," must surely have been misinformed as to the political opinions of those who, for con- venience' sake...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.-] SIR, —If I may be allowed another word on this subject, I would say that a specific statute is not to be set aside even to convict a poacher....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article on " The Ecclesiastical Fracas," you/ remark, " All that the more reasonable or the more indifferent public of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It is, perhaps, an ungracious task to meet the appeal made to our girls in the Spectator of the 9th inst. with opposition, its aim...

QUESTION AND ANSWER. A.—What is the good and what is the bad ? Where is the perfectly true ? What is the end you live for, my lad ? And what, may I ask, are you ? Unproven,...

THE GOVERNMENT OF M. TRIERS.• [SECOND NOTICE.] WITH that marvellous activity which constituted so conspicuous a feature in his nature, M. Thiers started from Bordeaux the very...

[Air,—" The Foggy Dew."] On ! a wan cloud was drawn .O'er the dim, weeping dawn, As to Shannon's side I returned at last; And the heart in my breast For the girl I loved best...

Ireland and its people, and who, while regretting ignorance on the subject, com- plain that the history of the country is unreadable, we would recommend the book before us, as...

its appearance in England just as the archery season is over, when archers are fresh from recent successes, their bows and arrows carefully stowed away in cosy aschams for the...

WE observe with regret that Dr. Ward and Mr. Cashel Hoey retire from the editorship of this review after the present number. In their hands the Dublin has always been a real and...

Michelle, and Little Jack. By Frances Martin. (Hurst and Blackett.) —Both of these are, in their way, striking and powerful stories. But while we admire Michelle very much, we...

and Alexander J. Schem. (Steiger, New York.)—This book is a sort of educa- tional dictionary. Articles on all kinds of topics connected with the main subject are arranged in...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a handsome volume, which has all the external advantages that could be desired, and which the writer has exerted himself very creditably to make...

exhaustive treatise by an experienced engineer on this modern and yet undeveloped mode of locomotion. In it will be found full information respecting the construction, cost, and...

Low, London.)—In discussing the abstruse subject of the growth of intelligence, now brought into prominence by the speculations of Darwin and the evolutionary theory of the...

—The author of this work is fond of apt quotation, but he has not thought fit to inscribe on the title-page as a motto two well-known lines which wo venture to think would be...

Kean Paul and Co.)—This twenty-third volume of tho " International Scientific Sol ins " is an aide account by a competent authority of the newest branch of chemical science. No...

by the Author. (Samuel Tinsley.)—This story is, in its way, a rehabilitation of King Christian II. of Denmark. Posterity has given him the name of "the Wicked," but the author...

Paterson,. Edinburgh.)—We have in this volume the poet's letters down to the year 1787. Of these a considerable number are now, either wholly or in part, published for the first...

(Partridge and Co.)—Mr. Gayer states and marshals witk considerable skill and power of arrangement the usual arguments against Papal Supremacy and Infallibility. Probably he...

Cincinnati.)—Miss McLaughlin's book, which is nicely illus- trated, gives in a condensed form useful instructions to beginners in china-painting as to what materials are wanted...

Captain Henry Toynbee. (Her Majesty's Stationery Office.)—We have a volume of charts which display the observations, taken by nearly three hundred ships, of the gale which raged...

Marshall.)—This volume consists of letters reprinted from the Man- chester Examiner. It must be allowed that they are very amusing and effective, though the writer does not "...

(Chatto and Windns.)—Mr. Gay, who has received two Turkish decorations, speaks up for his friends. His description of the Sultan, of whom he seems to have seen a good deal, is...

Note - Book. By an Eton Boy, Author of "A Day of My Life at Eton." (Sampson Low and Co.)—This is a sufficiently amusing little book. It makes fun of a good many things which are...

1828 - 78. (James Nisbet and Co.)—This small volume cannot be recommended as well timed or in good taste, but if any reader has occasion for a repertoire from which to select...

Brothers.)—We fear that the judicious friend is not so commonly found as he should be ; that when he is found, he often lacks courage ; and that when he is at hand, and speaks...

By the Rev. Philip Tocque, A.M. (Sampson Low and Co.; J. B. Maguire, Toronto.)—The author complains that Newfoundland, "the oldest colony of the British Empire," only 1,650...

from the German of Caroline Helm, by Rhoda E. Colborne. (Kolek- mann.) — This is an unpretending little story, which, without much plot, or any subtle study of character, yet...

is needless to spend much time in examining Mrs. Hope's little book from our point of view. But it is curious to contrast her state of mind with that of intelligent persona of...

F. G. Lee, D.C.L. (Pickering.)—This is a collection of fifty-four original poems by a number of authors, living and dead, among whom may be mentioned, as some of the more...

which is edited by John 31. Ross, LL.D., and published by T. C. Jack, of Edinburgh. We believe the work will be completed in six volumes. It is well got up, the maps are new,...

Stock.)—Here we have a brief biography of Mr. Holmes, and an account, which is rather descriptive than critical, of his works. These contem- porary biographies are not always...

Vincent. (Meson and Co.)—This is the sixteenth edition of this useful and valuable book of reference, or as the editor has gradu- ally succeeded in making it, a dated cyelopdia,...

this year with their Christmas and Now Year's Cards. They send us a considerable variety of cards, some Scriptural, some poetical, some purely orna- mental, and also a few texts...

(Black- wood and Sons.)—This is scarcely as good a story as we should have expected from General Hamley's pen. Doubtless, it is really founded on fact, though, indeed, it does...

Blakiston was a clergyman before he became a physician, and at the end of this volume of lectures he prints a visitation sermon which was preached by him in tho year 1832,...