in the English papers is very noteworthy. We are told that the situation there is very serious. The grecit Pashas are fighting each other, being virtually ranged in two parties,...

of Commons. At the very end of Wednesday's debate on the O'Conor Don's Irish University Bill, after the Attorney-General for Ireland had spoken against the Bill on behalf of...

11H Powers have shown themselves more determined, and I E smail Pasha more timorous, than we expected. The Khedive refused at first to abdicate, and placed himself in the hands...

had, nevertheless, some remarkable features. Dr. Playfair, in a curiously candid and curiously prejudiced speech, maintained that Ireland needs more Universities; that the...

same day, and Tewfik was quietly proclaimed, and received the 'Consular representatives. Ismail Pasha receives an annuity from Egypt of 250,000 a year, and from his son one of...

House of Commons, in which nearly everybody except Lord Hartington put himself in the wrong. Mr. Lowther put himself in the wrong by the flippancy and bad tone of his answer to...

of the Gaulois, has apparently intinik l d that Prince Jerome must now be regarded as the represent,i ve of the Napoleonic tradition, unless he himself abdicates thqeadership ;...

Imperial have been received, except that it is certain he was attached to General Newdigate's column, and not to General, now Sir Evelyn, Wood's. On Monday, however, the Duke of...

Lord Northbrook in the chair. Lord Northbrook has been bitterly attacked for not sticking to the common-places of Free- trade, instead of venturing to indicate what Cobden, had...

to prove that the results of Prince Louis's death will eventually promote their own interests. Even the Im- perialists have ventured to maintain that the startling death of...

is of little interest or importance. Lord Chelms- ford was still organising the advance on Ulundi, which was to commence on June 2nd, if he considered his trans- port and...

turned up at Durban, has been lecturing on his travels at Lisbon. In his address, which is translated in the Standard, he testifies distinctly to the existence of a white race...

years in Chicago, and has engaged in a great variety of businesses, sends a letter to the Times on the prosperity of Illinois, and its chief city, Chicago. The area of Illinois...

Canon Liddon on the new B.N.S. (Bachelor of Natural Science) Degree at Oxford, made good, we think, one of his points, though he did not succeed in proving that there should be...

Cyprus, made a very telling speech on the inaccuracy of the information given by the Government as to the state of Cyprus, and the faults of the island administration itself....

the House of Lords to allow more time for its debates, and so give the younger Peers a chance of intervening. The Lords will dine at eight, and do not care to return, and he...

very clever little instrument, called a tell-tale compass, by which the captain or master of a ship, when down in his cabin, may know whether or not the ship is sailing her...

relation to the Disestablishment of the Scotch Church, is a very prudent one. No one, however ingenious, would be able to elicit from it more than has long been known concerning...

interview with Prince Vogorides, Governor-General of East Roumelia, which appears in our correspondence columns. We can vouch for the writer's good-faith, and the accuracy of...

I T is always a mistake to suppose that a great historical party can be literally extinguished by a merely external blow. If the death of the young Prince Louis proves to be the...

EGYPT. T HE Government has still to explain what "British in- terest" has induced it to depart from the old and well- understood policy of Great Britain in Egypt. Such an...

T M, extraordinary avowal made by the Government, at so late a moment in the debate of Wednesday afternoon, that, after all, they were prepared to produce an Irish Uni- versity...

TT is quite natural, and rather laudable, that the English people should be annoyed, as well as grieved, at the unhappy fate of the Prince Imperial. He was in a sense the guest...

W E are not generally much interested in accounts of the "marvellous growth" of western cities in America, or of northern cities in England. The new "cities" in the Union are...

W E hear a good deal, at times, of the pride of intellect ; but the pride of intellect, which is no doubt a real enough state of mental passion, is a minute element in civilised...

T HE despatch in which the Secretary of State for the Colonies conveys to the Governor of Victoria the con- clusion at which the Home Government have arrived in regard to the...

T HE public laughs at the evidence which the tradesmen are giving before the Committee of Inquiry into the Store system, and it must be owned not without some reason. There is...

POOR. A N interesting and a very instructive Report has lately been presented to the Board of Guardians of St. George's Union, London, by the medical officer of the Infirmary,...

PRINCE VOGORIDES AND THE PORTE. maim A CORSESPONDZAT.3 Philippopolis, June- 12th, 1879. CONSIDERABLE excitement was caused the other day in Philip- popolis by news, which spread...

THE UNIVERSITY OF ST. PATRICK. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In your impression of June 21st, Mr. Bence Jones com- ments on my letter in your preceding...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPBOTATOR.1 SIR,—Your very instructive article of June 14th thus concludes : —" It is in peasant-proprietors, and not in dragoons, that we must seek...

(TO ma EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—In a paragraph of your "Topics of the Day," as an ex- treme instance of the implicit obedience of the Viceroys of India to an order...

EtrEgreFoR.1 Sur,—In your article on "Religious Indifference in East London," you ask how it is that the population in those parts never show any appetite for such a thing...

[To THE EDITOR OF TES " SPECTATOR-1 SIR,—Can nothing be done to strengthen the hands of Mr. Forster and Mr. Leatham, and to support their statesman- like and truly liberal...

My heart in youth leaped high ; When poets sang of Love's young dream, What dreams of Love had I! 'Tis over now, the fever-heat, 'Tis past, the passion's hour; My feet have...

AMBROSIUS STUB.* THERE is nothing more characteristic of our generation than the zeal with which it goes about to resuscitate forgotten worthies. Whether among poets or...

has been a considerable demand for this book. The fact may be taken as a proof that the public are very anxious to have a good biography of so emphatically "noble a fellow" as...

WERE it not for the sad contrast. with the present time at the seat of war in Africa which this book is continually suggesting, it would have given us unmixed pleasure. We have...

THAT acknowledged father of the English novel, Fielding, writing in the middle of the last century, Once glanced aside to bestow a sharp, contemptuous cut on, to quote his own...

COLONEL MAcGmuoa's original intention was to ride through Afghanistan to Herat and Meshed, and then to pass on to the Caspian, at Astrabad. The Government of India, however,...

POETELY.-21. Century of Emblems. By G. S. Cautley. (Macmillan and Co.) — This quiet book, with its Queen-Anne garb and its lovely little tail-pieces, is just the thing to lay...

Major. General W. G. Hawley. 2 vols. (Blackwood.)—Captain du Lys meets a maiden of low degree, and receives an impression which, if not actually that which 18 commonly...

Crattfurd. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)—Mr. Craufurd belongs to the liberal section of Christian thinkers, and his book is a not unwelcome addition to the theological literature of...

Devonshire and Wiltshire stories," as the title-page describes them—told in halting verse (but made to halt, it would seem, with a purpose), and with just that mixture of the...

Pascoe. (Hardwicke and Begue.)—Mr. Pascoe gives us, we may venture to say, all the available information which is to be got on the subject of his book. We have a list of...

inquire, from the record before us, into what God taught the first man,—to see, if we can, the form and extent of the earliest revela- tion Then, on and on, through the...

Blois. Translated by Lady Levet. (Burns and Oates.)—This is the history of one of those saintly men, earnest and devout, yet humble and self-sacrificing, to whom the Church of...

and Hall, London ; Hancock and Son, Worcester.)—Several works have lately been published on china-painting, but we have not seen any that will be as useful to the amateur...

; England's Inheritance in her Church, by the Rev. William Webb, B.A. (Seeleys.)—In these two volumes we have pretty nearly every argument that can be advanced in favour of an...

(Black- wood and Sons.) —This book is intended, we presume, for a cram-book, and it is quite uninteresting enough to be ranked as one. In point of accuracy, however, it cannot...

Fluctuations. By Samuel Davidson, D.D. (C. Began Paul and Co.)—Dr. Davidson puts into a brief and convenient form his conclusions about the Canon. The plan of the book...

of the omnibuses that run on the various routes,—information of great value to foreigners, visitors from the country, and short-sighted persons.

Barrister. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This new edition of a useful handbook contains nearly 500 statements and explanations of the law, including new sections devoted to the...

essay it contains being on "The Theses of Erastus and the Scottish Establishment," and the latest, "The Sixteenth Century Arraigned before the Nineteenth," reprinted from the...