IIE news from Bulgaria is still doubtful. On the one hand, it 1 is evident that the Turks are unable to move and take advantage of their victories ; and on the other, there is a...

memorable Wednesday has not been favourable to the hopes of the Obstructionists. The seat for Clare, vacant by the death of Sir Colman O'Loghlen, was contested by the O'Gorman...

have re- treated, leaving the unhappy Bulgarians who, aided them to be .exterminated by the Turks, who wish to strike terror in anticipation of any future advance ; but the...

Queen's Speech, and we publish elsewhere some comments on the frightful statements made by the Duke of Buckingham, Governor of the Presidency, on the 9th inst. They signify that...

Canterbury protesting against the use of " The Priest in Abso- lution," and declaring that the practice of auricular confession on the principles set forth in that book "will...

Session of our time closed on the 14th inst. The Royal Message alludes to the War as one in which Great Britain intends to pre- serve an attitude of neutrality, so long as the...

case.

of the Government in the Eastern Question, but it came, as usual, to nothing. Mr. Monk wanted to know if Great Britain would allow Constantinople to be tem- porarily occupied,...

management of Christ's Hospital has been published, and we have animadverted elsewhere on its unexpected toler- ance for corporal punishment. We may, however, mention here that'...

day, and hitherto the proceedings have been unusually dull. The President, Dr. Allen Thomson, delivered an address, which was really a lecture on embryology, and far too...

the state of the London Detective Force. The Committee, as origin- ally composed, consisted of Sir IL Selwyn-Ibbetson, Colonel Fielding, Mr. Massie, QC., and Mr. Overend, Q.C. ;...

in America, because it may become important, though we do not think it will. This is the Union of Working-men which has been established in the West, with branches in New York...

Due do Broglie, making speeches and receiving addresses. Some of the latter are tolerably plain-spoken. At Evreux, for example, the Mayor-adjoint told the President that the...

Senator, and founder of the Left-Centre party in 1871, to the Minister of the Interior. Ile is Mayor of Eesonnes, and has been dismissed for refusing to placard certain portions...

Henry Elliot. In s a despatch to the Foreign Office, dated May 30, and of course eagerly welcomed by the Mahommedan Press, he not only declares that the Bulgarian atrocities of...

the Prince of Wales, lies still in a dangerous condition. From the 5th to the 11th inst. he was, the Lancet says, decidedly better, but on the 11th he had a sharp relapse of...

seems to us of no importance, but the blunder frets anti- quarians :—Tho Times announces that " Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales has, by her own desire, been elected a...

'has been discovered. A Fishery Commission is sitting at Halifax, to carry out the terms of that Treaty with respect to the disputes between the Americans and Canadians. There...

stantinople does not gain in precision, and diminishes in volume. There is a limit to all things, even to Pera romances. Still, we cannot acquit the Bulgarians of showing at...

'the Turkish ironclad which she beat off in the Black Sea teems to have been as interesting an affair as that between the Huascar ' and the ' Shah.' The ' Vesta,' a converted...

has been operating, is the centre also of the great rose-field of Turkey, from which most of the " atta of rose " used in Europe is ob- tained. That used in Asia comes...

of the important Commercial Treaty between Spain and Germany, by which the goods of the latter are admitted at rates thirty or fifty per oent lower than those paid by...

THE PERSONAGES OF THE SESSION. T HE personal gains of the Session have been few, but then the losses have not been many. No Tory has much advanced but then no Tory, unless it be...

W E wonder if any of those Englishmen who talk so glibly and with such a gratified maliciousness of a possible Russian defeat, have ever thought out what the consequences of...

HE Leeds Liberals are very naturally and properly troubled JL by the disunion which has virtually deprived them of the representation of the borough. The Executive Committee of...

to believe that the worship of intellect is spreading in this country should read the report of the proceedings at the election for North Northamptonshire, which terminated on...

1V ER, CROSS has again shown the prompt good-sense which makes an excellent Home Secretary. Everybody vaguely felt that an official inquiry must be held with respect to the...

P ARLIAMENT should not have separated without a serious discussion in the House of Commons upon the best method of meeting the new Indian Famine. There can be no longer any...

in English society about the proper punishments for boys at school, and about their claims to ordinary justice, receive a typical illustration in the Re- port of the...

T HERE is a terrace on the high ground of Oullins, below Lyons, whence one sees the confluence of the Rhone and the Saone, and marks the distinctness of their several colours,...

A DAM SMITH somewhere observes that the Post Office is perhaps the only mercantile project which has been suc- cessfully managed by every sort of Government. His remark does not...

THE MATHEMATICAL ANSWER TO MR. GREG. [TO THO EDITOR OF MR SPEOTATOR.1 Sin,—Mr. Greg's objection to a future state for man is founded, I am sure, on mere imagination, I might,...

[To TER EDITOR OF TER “SPEOTATOR.1 SIR, —The sad fate of poor Gibbs has led to a discussion of the monitorial system in public schools. This discussion, however, is a mere...

[To 71311 EDITOR OF TER "SPROTATOR:] Sin,—Indulging in the pernicious habit of reading in bed, I last night perused with profound interest Mr. Greg's letter in your current...

[TO TDB EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] your last issue of August 11, a letter from Major- General Shaw draws attention to a subject of considerable interest in its connection...

FRENCH ART: A COMPARATIVE SKETCH. WE have had several exhibitions of French pictures during the season in London, and we have heard a great deal about the- Salon and the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. ") SIR,—The sudden and disastrous outbreak in America excites profound attention, and compels careful consideration on both sides of the...

A STATESMAN OF THE REFORMATION EPOCH.* MAJOR STONEY has given us too, much of a history, and not

Em men Guiana, one of the five portions of territory which form the northern part of South America, lies within the torrid zone, and is generally known as Demerara, and...

Art able and intelligent Prussian official, who is not unknown to those who take an interest in education, as well in this country as in Germany, has, after a lapse of a quarter...

Philadelphia Centenary Exhibition, it was suggested that a handbook should ' 0 South Australia, its History, Resources, find Productions. Edited by W. Harcus, With Maps....

UNronTUNATELY the contents of this handsome drawing-room volume hardly support the assurance given us by the preface, that it is " notably interesting as a thoroughly...

(Macmillan.)—Here we have a very happy idea, thoroughly worked out,. by an editor who possesses every qualification for his task. He has- read widely, being familiar, it is...

Second Edition, with an introduction by Lieutenant 13eynen. The first edition of this work was issued by the Hakluyt Society, and produced in 1853, under the editorship of the...

Mason, M.A. (Deighton and Bell ; Boll and Sons.)—This is one of the most striking and original contributions to ecclesiastical history which has come under our notice for some...

Holy Bible. Edited, with various Renderings and Readings from the Best Authorities. (Eyre and Spottiewoode.)—This volume, the result of long and careful research on the part of...

Author of 11 Sketches of Australian Life and Scenery." (Sampson Low and Co.)— There does not seem to have been any particular reason why the his- tory of Frank Carey should have...

and Sons.)—" Dieudounde," the first and longest of these stories, is a tale of the Franco-Prussian war. Tho little girl by whqse name it is called, struck with a sudden horror...

accompanied with Notes. By Samuel Sharpe. (J. Russell Smith.)—Most thoughtful readers of Isaiah will have felt that some arrangement other than the confused order, if it may be...

Brothers,)—The "great gulf" is, we suppose, the difference between rich and poor, and the author's purpose is to show what love can and cannot do to bridge it over. Novels...

Persian, by Arthur W. Wollaston. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—The " Lights of Canopus" are described as being an adaptation of the " Fables of Bfdpilf," a semi-mythical personage, of...

to do more than recom- mend it very emphatically to such as have not seen it. Professor Mahaffy has views on some matters connected with classical life and literature with which...

boy" is an orphan, whom Maud, when a young girl, rescues from misery, and who, years afterwards, repays her love and care by saving her only child from death by drowning. It is...

. pretty, pathetic story of French life. Still we cannot but think that probabilities are somewhat violated by the plot. Surely a French mother would scarcely allow her daughter...