19 MAY 1877

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The division on Mr. Gladstone's Resolutions was taken on Mon-

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day, after five nights of debate, during which the utterances of the dominant party, and especially of the representatives of the Government, became daily more moderate and...

No news of importance has been received this week from

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the seat of war in Europt. The Russian Commander-in-Chief has admitted newspaper correspondents into the Army, but any state- ment as to the routes by which the troops will...

4P i p The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

We deeply regret to announce that the Queen has taken

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her departure for Balmoral. With a great war raging in Europe, with a revolution possibly imminent in France, and with serious debates constantly occurring in her own...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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I N spite of the war, the most serious event of the week is the dis- missal of the Jules Simon Ministry in France. On Wednesday the Marshal sent for M. Simon, and reproaching...

Paris was almost stnpified by news so unexpected, and the

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wildest reports became current. France was about to attack Italy and re-establish the Temporal Power. General Cialdini called upon M. Simon, and so strong became the feeling...

The Turks have had a success, to begin with. According

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to a correspondent of the Telegraph, who says he was an eye-witness, the Russian forces attacked the heights above Batonm on the 12th inst. The Turkish Bashi-Bazonks posted upon...

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Upon Monday, the Duke of Argyll, who has been ill

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an& absent, made a remarkable speech in the Lords. The facts he- stated are now historical, but they are of importance to a fair comprehension of the conduct of the Foreign...

Lord Hartingtoa's speech was in parts unusually vigorous and effective.

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He showed that the Government had traded on the menaces of Russia as a means of coercing Turkey, and then had I turned round on Russia for doing what they had all along known...

Mr. Walter, on Friday, made a noteworthy speech in defence

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of the Resolutions, or rather of the policy of coercing Turkey, which he justified by the precedent set by England and France in forcibly separating Belgium from Holland. He...

The speeches on Friday and Monday, on the Government side,

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with the exception of Sir Stafford Northcote's, were compara- tively of minor importance. Mr. Bourke spoke of the idea that her Majesty's Government would abandon neutrality,...

Mr. Gladstone, in summing up the debate, exerted himself to

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show that England had repeatedly interfered with independent countries in order to produce results acceptable to the world, his principal instances being Belgium in 1832 and...

The Burials question will, it is now clear, soon be

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settled, pro- bably this Session. On Thursday night, on the Bill going into Committe in the Lords, Lord Granville withdrew his amendment in favour of one drawn up by Lord...

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One of those odd cases of title to landed property

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which novel- ists are so fond of, but which seldom appear in Court, came before the Appellate Court on Wednesday. One F. H. Barker, in 1813, sixty-four years ago, owned the...

The Judicial Committee of Privy Council gave judgment in the

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Ridsdale case on Saturday, the Judges present being the Lord Chancellor, Lord Selborne, Sir J. W. Colvile, the Lord Chief Baron, Sir R. Phillimore, Lord Justice James, Sir...

Consols were on Friday 94-4-.

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A great meeting of agricultural labourers' delegates was held on

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Wednesday in Exeter Hall, to support the extension of household suffrage to the counties, and listened to a speech from Mr. Bright. The meeting, which was to a remarkable degree...

Mr. Bright's speech to the labourers was not, perhaps, one

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of the best be has ever delivered, but it was singularly effective and vigorous. He attributed the great advance of this country in the past forty-five years mainly to the...

A correspondent of the Times, writing from Alexandria, informs the

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public that Captain Burton, the African traveller, has made a "find " of unusual interest. At the request of the Khedive, he il/t8 visited the "land of Midian," the desolate...

Two elections have been decided during the past week. In

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one, Mr. Gray, the Horne-ruler, carried Tipperary against Mr. Casey, the Nationalist, by 3,852 to 1,344, a result attributed in great part to the influence of the priesthood. In...

Lord Carnarvon on Monday read to the Upper House a

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telegraphic despatch from Sir Bartle Frere on the annexation of the Transvaal, from which it appears that the new province will continue to enjoy a separate, though subordinate...

Roumania has not declared war on Turkey, but Roumania is

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at war with Turkey,—which, we are told, is different. On the 12th inst. the Assembly accepted a resolution declaring that Turkey had committed acts of war against Roumania, and...

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THE END OF THE DEBATE.

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T HE Division on Monday shows just this,—that a clear majority of the present House of Commons is willing to support the Government, in spite of its acknowledged failures in...

TOPICS OF TIIE DAY.

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THE WAR. T HE slowness of the Russian advance, both in Europe and Asia—a slowness in part only apparent, but in part also real—though unfavourable in some degree to her...

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THE CRISIS IN FRANCE.

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O NCE more Constitutional Government in France has been assailed from above. M. Jules Simon, the head of a moderately Liberal Ministry in full possession of a majority, has been...

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THE RIDSDALE JUDGMENT.

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I T is greatly to be regretted, in the interests of peace and charity, that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council should have thought themselves obliged to reaffirm the...

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THE SPECTRE IN THE SPIKE-HELMET.

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T HE Tory Press in London, baffled in its desire to defend Turkey by force of arms and show how Lord Beacons- ;field could manage a great war, is - endeavoming, to keep up alarm...

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THE INCOME OF THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

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T HE Liberation Society in 1875 requested Mr. Frederick Martin, the compiler of the "Statesman's Year-Book," to make as accurate an estimate as possible "of the extent, nature,...

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'THE PRO-RUSSIAN DEMONSTRATION AT AGRAM.

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HE great popular demonstration which met the Archduke Albrecht in the capital of Austrian Croatia, is well cal- culated to open the eyes even of the most obstinate of those...

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THE "FIND" IN THE LAND OF MIDIAN.

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I T is now more than six years since, writing about an effort then being made to recover a galleon wrecked off the coast of Venezuela, we pointed out the improbability that the...

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MR. GLADSTONE ON CERAMIC ART.

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P ROFESSOR RUDLER, F.G.S., delivered, on Saturday last, before the Cymmodorion Society, at the London Institution, a lecture upon "The History of the Potter's Art in Britain,"...

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SIR W. HARCOURT ON CRITICS.

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W E forget who it was—it sounds like Mr. Disraeli—but is not, we think, his epigram,—who said of Sir Robert Peel that so wedded was he to the ordinary and the accustomed, "that...

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ANIMAL INSTINCT.

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(TO THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR.") Sut,—As I am sure your sympathies are not confined to dogs,. though at present they only have appeared in your paper, I anl. going to ask...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE DISESTABLISHED CHURCH OF IRELAND AND ITS THEOLOGY. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sirt,—No doubt Mr. Murphy ' s statement, "That the revision of the Prayer-Book,...

posal for a reform in English spelling. Sir John Cheke

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is popu- larly known chiefly by the well-known lines in Milton ' s sonnet:— " Thy age, like ours, 0 soul of Sir John Choke, Hated not learning worse than toad or asp, When thou...

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CLERICAL RESTRICTIONS UPON COLLEGE OFFICES.

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(To THE EDITOR 07 THE SPECTATOR:1 beg you will permit me to express th3 regret with which I read, in your issue of the 12th, in a paragraph touching "clerical restrictions upon...

ART.

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[FIRST NOTICE.] WE do not purpose to detain our readers with a long description .of the furnishing and architecture of this Gallery,—they are pro- tably familiar with all such...

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BOOKS.

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THE CAMDEN SOCIETY PUBLICATIONS.* THE autobiography of Lady Anne Halkett (born Murray) is that of a faithful and pious Royalist, who contributed to the escape of the young Duke...

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M. JACQUEMART ON FURNITURE.*

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OLD furniture has an interest for everybody, though everybody -cannot be a collector of "fine art" specimens of antiquity, or a -connoisseur in " bijouterie and virtu." We can...

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TYERMAN'S LIFE OF WHITEFIELD.*

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MR. TYERAIAN'S knowledge of Methodism and Methodists is alike extensive and accurate. Ile is fully acquainted with the literature of the subject, and his sympathy with the good...

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A SURREY MILITIA REGIMF,NT.*

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A MILITIAMAN is "made a little lower" than a soldier, and intended to raise himself to that condition, by dint of sympathy and imitation, as a mortal hopes to rise when he has...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Pozrnr.—Songs Now and Then. By T. Ashe. (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Ashe does not seem to advance. He made a place for himself some years ago, in what may be called the "remove" of the...

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Domestic Economy for Girls. Edited by the Rev. E. T.

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Stevens, M.A. Book L Food and Clothing. Book IL Furniture and Appliances of the House. (Longmana, Green, and Co.)—These books have been compiled to most the requirements of the...

The Evil Eye, and other Stories. By Katharine S. Macquoid.

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(Chatto and Windus.)—These are short stories of French life and manners, some sad, some cheerful, the writer's leaning being rather to , the first kind, in which her gifts as a...

Eismet. By Mrs. Newton Sears. 2 vols. (Remington.)—This story relates

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the doings of Va.vasour St. Lawrence, who certainly, but for the fact that he was really married already, is somewhat badly treated by the young lady who had promised to marry...

The Witness of Art. By Wyke Bayliss. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—

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The legend of "Beauty and the Beast" has been turned to good account as an allegory of the power Which art has awakened and exer- cises in the human mind. The ethics of...

First Platform of International Law. By Sir E. S. Creasy.

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(John Van Voorst.)—This is a book which every student of history and polities (the two can hardly be distinguished) will do well to read. It is as might be expected from the...

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77th Woman That Shall Be Praised. By Hilda Reay. (Samuel

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Tinsley.) .—An heiress who comes by her own after her inheritance has been usurped by some extremely vulgar and disagreeable people, and a lady who is rewarded for being very...

Sermons for the Christian Year. Trarslated from the German of

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the late Richard Rotho, D.D. With a preface by W. R. Clark, M.A. (T. and J. Clark, Edinburgh.)—In this selection from Dr. Rothe's Sermons all are not of equal merit, but some...

Enylish History for the Use of Public Schools. By the

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Rev. J. Franck Bright, M.A. Period I. Medimval Monarchy, from the Departure of the Romans to Edward III., with Maps and Plans. (Rivingtons.)—This is one of those manuals of...

Messianic Prophecy. By Dr. Edward Riehm, Professor of Theology, Halle.

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Translated by the Rev. John Jefferson. (T. and T. Clark.)— Dr. Riebm points out, in tho introduction to this valuable treatise, that the meaning first ginp to prophecy, when...

Historic Cluiteaux : Blois, Fontainebleau, Vincennes. By A. Baillie Cochrane,

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M.P. (Hurst and Blackott.)—The subjects of these throe sketches are three historic murders, perpetrated at the three châteaux named on the title-page. In the first is related...

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The Psalms, with Introductions and Critical Notes. By Rev. A.

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C. Jennings and Rev. W. H. Lowe. (Macmillan and Co.)—This little volume completes a work on the Psalms which we recommend to all Biblical students. It embraces the last...

The Prophets of Christendom. Sketches of Eminent Preachers. By the

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Rev. W. Boyd Carpenter, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—These sketches of fifteen eminent preachers, from John Chrysostom to Dean Kirwan, an Irish clergyman, celebrated for his...

Sermons. By the late Rev. David Leiden, Sheffield. (Hodder and

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Stoughton.)—These sermons, dedicated to he members of Mr.Loxton's congregation at Sheffield, will no doubt be valued by them as a memorial of their late minister, but will also...