Liberal candidate,' Dar. H. B. Samuelson, by a majority of 93 over his opponent, Sir James Fergusson. Mr. Samuelson polled 661 votes, against 568 given for Sir J. Fergusson....

if they occurred in Europe, would be remembered for generations, but occurring in Asia, are forgotten within weeks. On the night of October 81, a terrible cyclone in the...

the correspondents, is a strangely Oriental incident. It is said that the Khedive had been warned that his Minister of Finance, Ismail Sadyk, his foster-brother and richest...

here that they were given on the 2nd, that they were in England on the 4th, and that they must have been in Lord Beaconsfield's recollection when he uttered his speech at the...

TURKEY has accepted the Conference since our last issue, and Lord Salisbury has started for Constantinople, but the event of the week has been the publication in the London...

has started for Constantinople, via Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and Rome, and will not arrive at his destination before December. In Paris he had a long interview with the Due...

week in Birmingham, and trying to revive there the somewhat dejected hopes of the _Conservative electors. If a somewhat Liberal- Conservative be the beat kind of Conservative...

case.

junior Member for Birmingham, is not the gentlest of de- baters, but while assisting in the reception of the Home Secretary he became perfectly genial, complimented him most...

a meeting convened to hear a lecture on International Arbitration, which he attended at Llandudno. He dwelt with his usual pathos on the suffering and grief caused by war, and...

all Christian ministers of religion in all Churches to impress on the people, and bring clearly to the minds of statesmen, the truth that modern European States are not in the...

field) made a speech, on the occasion of the inauguration of a Liberal Club at Longwood, in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, in which be charged Lord Derby with having, during...

a meeting under the presidency of Lord Shaftesbury, to watch the progress of events in Turkey, have held an im- portant meeting at Canada Buildings, King Street, West- minster....

but sometimes rather enervating characteristic of Conservatism, that in their legislation Conservatives avoid treading on the corns of their fellow-citizens. That is all very...

hope to see a Board elected not inferior in vigour to the last, and containing, if possible, even more promise for the future. We should like to see a Board including a fair...

seven days by a rumour that Lord Beaconsfield had resigned. The rumour was first spread on Saturday, and on Thursday it became so strong that the Times of Friday inserted in a...

son, delivered yesterday week a sharp ironical attack on the de- generation of English artistic taste, in distributing at Oxford the prizes won by the students in the Schools of...

Division of the High Court of Judicature on Monday. Dr. Devine, the health officer at Harrogate, having ventured to read a paper at York on the 26th April on the "Sanitary State...

cently in Servia, writes a long letter to the Times, urging that Britain has now one more opportunity of redeeming her mistake in not intervening on behalf of the Slavic...

has oecupied all the Southern Railways in the transport of troops, that torpedoes have been fixed in the ports of the Black Sea, and that an internal loan has been negotiated of...

Pekin appears to have been finally settled by the convention arranged at Chefoo between Sir Thomas Wade and the great Chinese mandarin Li Hung-chang. It has been agreed that no...

according to the latest reports, the Returning Boards of North Carolina, Louisiana, and Florida will all declare a majority for Mr. Hayes, who thus obtains a majority of one...

THE RUSSIAN ASSURANCES. T HE Russian Government certainly sticks to its text. The Emperor himself has now not only stated his own view of his own purposes to the British...

ATARSHAL MACMAHON'S meeting at Sevres with M. .01 Gambetta has already led to various speculations on the possibility of M. Gambetta's jnining the Government. Of course, there...

T ORD SALISBURY'S wander through Europe will pro- 4 bably do him much good, but we question if any great benefit will accrue from it to those who, desire that Turkish misrule...

I T is quite possible to exaggerate the danger of the present crisis in the United States, but some of the ablest and most moderate Americans in London admit that it is very...

W E need hardly say how cordially we agree with Mr. Bright, that any proposal to plunge this country into war for the sake of re.establishing the power of Turkey over her...

M R. CROSS'S two first speeches at Birmingham may serve as a warning to non-party politicians who go out of their way to speak in a party sense. When we call Mr. Cross a...

T HE Rev. Mark Pattiaon's clever diatribe at Oxford yesterday week against the modern carpets, coal-boxes, and out-glass, shows that he understands how to take down the conceit...

MAGINE Lincolnshire swept, without warning and at midnight, by a column of water twenty feet deep, perhaps fifty miles broad, and moving at the rate of thirty miles an hour, and...

T HE almost tragic catastrophe which awaits each occupant in turn of the office of Lord Mayor of London has often been dwelt upon and bewailed. For the space of a year he stands...

THE INADEQUACY OF LORD DERBY'S OUTLINE OF . REFORMS. (TO THE Berme OF THE "SPECTAT011.1 SI11,—There is probably by this time a general agreement that the people of Bosnia...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TER " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The mistaken notions of many Englishmen as regards our position in India are astonishing, when we hear it publicly stated that our...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The writer of the article on "Army Promotion and Re- tirement" in this month's Blackwood, referring to letters which you did me the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—In your article on "Mr. Arnold as a Moral and Religious Teacher" you (justly, as it seems to me) object to him for co- ordinating—to...

[TO THIS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] am inclined to think that Mr. Morris's account of the young swallows hibernating is authentic. Only recently, on fine days, I have observed...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR.'] have read with pleasure your qualified approval of my sug- gestion that in case of war between Russia and Turkey we should offer to purchase...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sue, — As you are pre-eminently the champion of the noble side -of humanity, I would bring before your notice an unequalled act of...

A SONG OF THE PERIOD. DON'T tell me of the pauper brood, Who daily cry for a crust of food; The badly-clothed or the evil-shoed, Or the bare, blue toes of the...

[TO TER EDITOR OF TUN EPROTATOR.1 SIR,—In your last week's number you suggest that there may have been some error in the recorded pressure resulting from the lath storm in...

LORD SHELBURNE.* [FIRST NOTICE.] IN our notice of the first volume of this work eighteen months' ago (May 15th, 1875) we had to guard ourselves against prema- ture...

singularly undogmatic, without being in any sense rationalistic. If there be any deficiency in them, it is that conceding so freely as they do the justice of some of the...

IT IS all true that the reviewers say about Miss Braddon's last story,—that there is tawdriness in the descriptions, and forced humour in the sketches of society, and...

THE second work in which M. Henri Havard has recorded the incidents of his travels in Holland does not quite equal in interest his Dead Cities of the Znyder Zee, one of the most...

be more painful to earnest men, men who can see the grandeur in Roman Catholi- cism, than to read a record of the religious feeling wasted on the trivial and feeble...

is, to put the matter plainly, directed against the Poor Laws. The improvident should not, he thinks, have a secure provision against want. From a purely economical point of...

author describes his work with modest vagueness. His tragedy is " taken " from 2Eschylus. In the effort to make the original an intelligible reality to the modern reader, "I...

Fictile Ivories in the South Kensington Museum. By J. A. Westward, M.A., F.L.S. (Chapman and Hall.)—This forms the supplement to Mr. Maskell's handbook, which we have already...

Lytton, (Biokers).—The most remarkable thing in this volume is to be found in the "Two Ghost Stories." The author relates them, we take it for granted, in good-faith, as they...

Hall.) —The raison d'être of these volumes is manifestly tho story of the filibuster Walker, whose daring efforts to conquer Central America, and not unmerited fate,...

H. G. Robinson, M.A., Prebendary of York. (Macmillan and Co.)—The chief merit of these sermons is one not found so often as might be wished in sermons whose tone is liberal...

vols. (Bentley and Son.)—There is a certain novelty about the idea of this tale. An old lady reads or allows to be read, for the amusement of certain young friends, a packet...

This book is for the most part an exposition and examination of the most important doctrines of the Christian creed, written by a man who is unmistakably both thoughtful and...

Norwich. (Rivingtons.)— These sermons will be acceptable to those who like Bible lessons in a highly diluted form,—a taste, however, which is not common among children. In...

J. Stracey, M.A. (Rivingtons.)— Some account is generally given in these sermons of the authorship of the Psalm commented upon, and of the circumstances under which it was...

nothing else in this novel that could be noticed besides the Character of Mrs. Carey, this alone would suffice to put it above the average of such books. She is a really...

vols. (Chatto and Windus.)—There are seventeen stories in these three volumes. We presume that they have been published before, and that they may, therefore, be dismissed with...

Brothers.)—We think that a story is best told by the writer, not by one of the characters ; but that there should be two lines of narrative, given by two characters, is a...

F. Philippoteaux, and translated from the French by Ellen R. Frewer. {Sampson Low and Co.)—Captain Mago is a Phcenician mariner, who makes an expedition to Tartessus, is blown...

Plaise Cranch. (Osgood, Boston, U.S.; Triibner, London.) — The principal poem in this volume is an energetic attack on the Church of Rome. A stanza may serve to show the...

tell how two pairs of lovers were at cross-purposes, and how things came right in the end, is an object which many writers of novels have set before them, and Mr. Massingberd...

Collected by Edward Salmon. (Longmans.)—These two volumes can- not be said to oonstitate a harmony, as the writer views his subject from a point of view quite different from...

and Hall.)—The author has gathered his shooting ex- periences from a field of considerable extent—"England, France, Alsace, Belgium, Holland, and Bavaria" are the countries...

F. G. Lee. (Quaritch.)—Mr. Lee's volume contains a great amount of curious information, and will be useful as a book of reference. It is, as may be supposed, untrustworthy on...