tant or may be all-important, comes both from Vienna and Con- stantinople. It is affirmed, apparently with full authority, that Suleiman Pasha, whose absence from the front on a...

not remove the objections of those who hold her bound by the submission of last year. There is no manliness about the docu- ment at all. Instead of saying boldly that Servia...

drift of all received is that the Russians are organising an advance on Sofia, in which 90,000 men will be employed under General Gourko, and that the interest of the war will...

in state, received an address at Wycombe, lunched at Hughenden, and returned after an absence of four hours to Windsor. Such a visit is so unusual, and the honour is considered,...

T HE Queen has been advised to call Parliament together "for the despatch of business" on January 17, that is, three weeks earlier than usual. Of course the whole kingdom is in...

to ask for mediation. In a circular to the Powers it professes its entire innocence of having in any way provoked the war, suggests that the military honour of both nations is...

was voted at once, and two-twelfths of the indirect taxes and expenditure for the coming year. The right of out-door sale has been restored at once to the Republican journals....

of " , The Life of O'Connell," has just added a chapter containing Mr. Gladstone's personal recollections of that remarkable man. Mr. Gladstone's opinion, shortly summarised by...

one of those who did his best to draw the teeth of Mr. Glad- stone's Resolutions last Session, he does not disguise his own sympathy with Russia in the cause she is...

week, upon one part of which,—thatwhich deals with the relation of household franchise to the relative strength of the two parties,— we have said a good deal in another column....

which was read in the former assembly by the Prime Minister, M. Dnfaure, and in the latter by the Minister of the Interior, M. de Marchre, was a complete and frank " submission...

that no Russian or Roumanian prisoners were foued in Plevna. That means, of course, that all the wounded were butchered on the field of battle in the manner indicated by Mr....

in an odd and almost comical way in tampering with tele- grams,—that is, in allowing the contents of private telegrams to be published as official news, and, on a vote of...

for quoting the late Mr. Mill as saying that the Tory party was "a stupid party." What Mr. Mill did say, Mr. Arnold remarks, was some- thing very much less loose, namely, that...

in a new character. On Thursday week, however, Mr. Cross made a speech to the students of the Metropolitan Drawing Classes at Cannon Street Hotel, in which he pleaded strongly...

at the annual Sheriffs' dinner at Stationers' Hall, a very note- worthy speech. The Alderman is a typical Conservative, and the City is supposed to be pro-Turkish, but he...

column, makes the inefficiency of the law against cruel wife-beat- ing,—a crime which is certainly rather on the increase than the decrease,—a strong argument for women's...

more than once been raised in our columns as to the Christian doctrine of retribution and its continuance, has now been revived. by Canon Farrar's striking sermons, in the pages...

Osman Pasha, and on Monday the Telegraph furnished its readers with the details. He had been informed by the surgeons that amputation of one leg was necessary, and having a box...

correspondent who consulted him as to the propriety of having a metal label issued with every dog-licence, which the dog should wear on its collar, as evidence that the tax has...

THE EARLY MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. T HE stars in their courses fight against Turkey. She has been beaten in the field, but only after a struggle which might have induced the...

MHE victory in France is complete, and it is as new as it is complete. The parliamentary principle is vindicated ; the political prosecutions are stopped ; the newspapers are...

I T is impossible to defend the action of Servia in declaring war. Technically, we suppose, her rulers are guiltless, for technically they are only insurgents, and nobody has...

admission of almost all experts, for this country to occupy Egypt, and that consequently it is necessary for this country to defend Constantinople, or if that is too difficult,...

IN his speech yesterday week at Galashiels, Mr. Trevelyan I touched a very important point in connection with Mr. Lowe's charge against Household Suffrage, and a point whieli it...

DUFAURE has been longer before the world than all 1.11 • other public men in France, and yet we doubt whether any of them is so little known as he is, both at home and abroad....

E are sorry that Mr. Goldwin Smith should have made up his mind to go back to Canada. There are many points upon which we differ from him, but the Liberal cause is not so rich...

W E wonder what is the source of the mixture of sympathy, not to say approbation, with which pepperiness, as dis- tinguished from bad temper, is generally treated by the world,...

W E have often been asked why the Government makes so little effort to establish a cheaper Telegraphic system, and at last we are able to make some sort of a reply. It is not a...

AN INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF SIR H. PEEL. - [TO TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPINTATOR.1 Sin,—In any question of opinion relating to a social incident, I might be inclined to defer to...

ASIA 1 aha! 0 woes on woes I Again the bitter toil of faithful seer My whirling brain cloth vex with first-born bode. See ye those young ones seated at the house,— Such...

THE SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS. LOVERS of water-colours are likely to do well this winter, if we may judge from the quality of the exhibitions opened for their...

me a word or two of reply to Mr. Goldwin Smith's letter of last week in reference to a passage in my biography of Lord Beaconsfield? As Mr. Smith says, the Quarterly Review is...

'Stn,—May I beg of you to reprint the following short paragraph from the Times of to-day (December 18th) ' WIFE-BHATERS.—Michaal Scully was brought before the magistrates at...

THE HOUSE OF RAVENSBURG.* Teen conception of this drama is a very fine one, and is tragic in , the truest sense ; but the finer the conception, the more difficult,....

THERE are two great varieties of artistic success which must be carefully discriminated, if we would form a sound judgment of any artist's work,—the success which attends some...

PROFESSOR LARGE, of Zurich, and latterly of Marburg, died in 1875, at the comparatively early age of forty-seven, after play- ing, as many of our readers know, no small part in...

FOR most people, the name of Turner is associated with the painter of dreams, and visions, and landscapes, whose forms are considered to have a very conventional sublimity,...

published,—to one of which we have already given some brief notice—uniform in size and general appearance, with the view of bringing some of the works of two of our greatest...

CHRISTMAS AND NEW-YEAR'S BOOKS. The Mediterranean. (Nelson and Sous.) This is a bold, yet not un- successful attempt to treat of the principal places of interest on the shores...

old collection, bound in morocco in pocket-book form, and intended for lovers of the poet to carry constantly with them. There is nothing now to be said about the collection,...

for 1878 which we have received, none that we have seen are prettier than Messrs. Marcus Ward's, their distinguish- ing charaeteristio being that the diaries are divided into...