was held at Willis's Rooms, on Thursday, to express the feeling of the public against lending any support, material or moral, to the Turkish Government. The meeting was...

T HERE is no improvement in the character of the telegrams from the seat of war. Most of them are false, and the remainder are contradictory. It would appear certain that...

threatens, at the present rate, to last till Christmas. Up to Friday evening, however, nothing of great moment had been elicited, except the fact mentioned last week, that Dr....

the Education Bill, Lord Sandon having eagerly assented last week to an amendment of Mr. Pell's (the Member for South Leicestershire) enabling the body which creates a School...

the unfairness as regards "school-treats," under which the children of Dissenters often have to suffer, and in both speeches insisted on the necessity of having an organising...

depressed tone in all accounts from Constantinople. The Sultan is evidently very ill, suffering, according to rumour, Irons delirium tremens,—indeed the latest telegram from...

vacant by the death of Sir P. Burrell. The Rev. J. Goring says he quite believes in the indelibility of Orders, and therefore cannot take steps to release himself from them ;...

Lords the Extradition correspondence with the United States, and made it pretty evident that neither our Government nor the Government of the United States had understood the...

of Lords on the wickedness of those clergy who privately confess and absolve their penitents before giving them the Sacrament. But all he could do was to move for the paper in...

the Act of last year which constituted the "mixed juries" to confer degrees, and reserving all judgment on the academical qualifications of candidates for the State, was...

little fight. on Monday with Mr. Disraeli. Mr. Jenkins, wishing, we should. fancy, to accentuate the reported divergence of opinion between the Premier and the Foreign...

the drift of Lord Sandon's speeches, for at a Mansion-House dinner given to them by the Lord Mayor on Wednesday, the drift of Lord Sandon's remarks was referred to as...

own country, and will reside, it is expected, at Seville, where she will be an important ally of the reactionary party. It is stated that she wishes to arrange a marriage...

on the 12th August, but no date has yet been fixed. Mr. Disraeli has determined to pass the Education Bill, and a strong party within the House, headed by Mr. Russell Gurney,...

and with- -drew on Wednesday his motion for the second reading of the Burial-Grounds Bill, for enabling the vote of a minority of the ratepayers,—a minority as low as...

Kaye, for fifteen years permanent head of the Political Department in the India Office. Originally an artillery officer, Sir J. W. Kaye -quitted the Army for literature in 1841,...

affairs, writing to the Times of this day week, comments very much to the point on Mr. Disraeli's wonderful assertion in the House of Commons that the Circassians transplanted...

on Thursday by some parishioners of Woodchurch, near Birkenhead, to the practice of putting up texts of Scripture in the church and chancel, a practice which the parishioners...

to visit the Prince of Wales caused such an official fuss in India the other day—was on Tuesday presented with the freedom of the City, an honour justly voted him, for his...

be able to deal with the Vivisection Bill, though Mr. Cross appears to have indulged a hope, when replying to a deputation yesterday week, that he should be able to settle the...

LORD DERBY'S THOUGHTS ON TURKEY. IT is not often easy to gather the true sentiments of a Government, even a British Government, from its pub- lished despatches. Until war is...

THE Parliamentary week has been spent in the hottest and most fatiguing of debates concerning the mine which Mr. Pell, the Member for Leicestershire, unexpectedly favoured by...

MHE partiality of the existing Ministry for the Turks, and 1. their dislike to see Russia in movement, even on the right side, may have important results during the Recess. It...

G OOD Christians ought not to derive satisfaction from the discovery that their neighbours are no better than them- selves ; but after all that has lately been said, and said...

-"VI R. ASHLEY did a public service on Wednesday, in moving the second reading of his Bill for allowing accused per- sons and their wives to tender evidence in criminal cases....

W E wonder if it would be possible to induce Sir Salar Jung, the Nizam's Vizier, now in England endeavouring to obtain the restoration of some pawned districts of Berar, to de-...

A VERY entertaining little volume of "Leading Cases done into English, by an Apprentice of Lincoln's Inn," has just been reprinted by Messrs. Macmillan from the Pall Mall...

T HERE can be no doubt that in some, perhaps in many, respects, "Daniel Deronda" is a much less powerful book than " Middlemarch," but in one respect certainly it is more so. To...

[TO T. EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sm,—A few years ago, I travelled in Syria, and had introductions to English residents well acquainted with that country. Among other things,...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] you kindly enable me to invite attention to a radical error underlying the otherwise fair and cordial recognitions of Sir Solar Jung's...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") BIR,—It would be difficult to overstate the strength of the feel- ing which exists against Vivisection. The truth is that the fact of its...

THE PRESS AND THE COUNTRY. [TO THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR.") &a,—Your allusion to the country newspapers as always the first to denote a change in popular feeling is the echo...

A WATER-LILY AT EVENING. SLEEP, lily on the lake, Without one troubled dream Thy hushed repose to break, Until the morning beam Shall open thy glad heart again, To live its...

BLACK AND WHITE. This is the fourth Exhibition of its kind that has been held at the Egyptian Hall, and we must confess with reluctance that it is also the least meritorious....

THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—It is very unfortunate for Mr. Haweis that he should so boldly claim a certain order of thought as "not Lord Amberley's, but mine." He may have reached it...

A STUDY OF HAWTHORNE.* MR. PARSONS LaTnnop is a son-in-law of Hawthorne, and writes with all the claim such a relationship gives. The book is not designed as a biography, but...

MR. SANDAY'S book is not meant to be a popular one, but it is a very important one for the critical side of the question as to the authenticity of the New Testament, and it is...

welcome volume of that " Culture- history " (as the Germans call it) of which he is so skilled a writer, whether Greece or Italy be his immediate subject. A scholar himself, and...

chooses as prudently as this writer has done the exact position which he means to defend, for that reason alone merits attention. Mr. Row says well that, "The person of Jesus...

TILE first effect produced by this book is to raise in our minds the questions,—What constitutes an artist, and where we are to draw the line, especially in the case of women,...

IT is to some extent a matter of wonder that no previous attempt has been made to give a popular account of Marine Insurance in this country, and of that great commercial body...

(Sampson Low end Co.)—The primary object of this series is to supply a handy book, with clear type for reading aloud. As it is an expos,- gated edition, it will be useful to put...

to say whether, in three-volume novels of this sort, it is more pro- voking or consolatory to find big print, much "fat," and a fresh para- graph for nearly every sentence. The...

(Edmonston and Douglas.)—Mr. Laing begins ab eve. "Prehistoric Times," "The Roman Invasion," "Celt and Teuton," "Pagan Re- ligions," dm., are discussed in successive chapters....

The Unseen World, and other Essays. By John Fiske, MA. (James Osgood and Co., Boston, U.S.)—According to the author of this work, the conflict between religion and science ought...

Co.).— We can forgive a poet for being most melancholy, if we also find him most musical. Adon is far from being musical ; he gives us plenty of storm and no sunshine ; his...

well in directing attention to the testimony borne by Mr. Mill in his " Autobiography " to the pre-eminent intellectual gifts of Mr. Maurice. It is curious to ebserve how, at...

Lennot. (Hurst and Blaoliett)—That, regard being had to the press of occupa- tion in those days, Lord William Lennox's reminiscences required this stout volume for their...

Low and Co.)—This is a book which will be sufficiently recommended by its title. Mr. Bidwell's facts we, of course, take for granted. They come, indeed, from official sources,...

by the Grampian Club.)—" The public," we read in the preface, " must determine whether the author of these Leaves has acted wisely in pro- ducing them." That some had better...

the daughter of an unhappy marriage, who is thrown on the cold charity of relatives to whom her existence is a continued trouble. Her relations with these people are described...