week that a humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying her Majesty graciously to .grant a free pardon to Edmund Galley. The Edmund Galley here referred to was found...

yesterday week, on the proposal et the loan of £2,000,000 to India without interest, though many of the Liberals who voted with him, did not agree with him in wishing to take...

case.

O N Thursday, Sir Stafford Northcote made his second state- ment for this year as to the probable coat of the Zulu war. He reckoned that since the beginning of the financial...

grow even more rapidly on Sir Michael Hicks-Beach. His despatch of June 18th, acknowledging receipt of the telegram notifying Sir Garnet Wolsoley's appointment and advent, is a...

stantinople, is a very important event. For the second time, a Grand Vizier, backed with more or less earnestness by all the European Embassies, has attempted to limit the...

a very great scheme. An Arab and a Tunisian, he had an idea, it is said, of sacrificing the European dominions of the Sultan, and compensating him by reviving his authority over...

throats. The Petit Owporal is fiercely anti-Jeromist ; the Ordre (M. Rouher's organ) supports Prince Jerome ; and the Pays (M. Paul de Cassagnac's paper) denounces " the...

power to bring the administration of Cyprus into full publicity, but, we must say, we doubt their wisdom in running down the acquisition itself. After all that can be said...

Tuesday on the vote of £26,000 for Cyprus police. It appears that this vote is really an equivalent for a military vote,—that the. police to be raised under it are to do...

Anglo-Jewish Association, and headed by Baron Henry de- Worms, waited upon Lord Salisbury at the Foreign Office te urge that the 44th Article of the Treaty of Berlin, which...

Ferry's Education Bill this Session. Indeed, the Bureau on that Bill has reported against it as a whole. During the discussions of the week, M. Bertauld, a barrister, spoke on...

at which Mr. Chamberlain, M.P., made a speech, that, in his be- lief, the Tory Government are likely to put off the Dissolution till next autumn,—almost the latest moment at...

in polities, has for once condescended to such an intervention on behalf of the Irish Catholics in relation to the University ques- tion ; and his intervention, in a letter in...

late Canon Beadon,—who died the other day at the groat age of 102, and who was the last person living who could remember the Lord George Gordon riots, having been held up as a...

settling the constitutional struggle in the colony itself, or, if that be impossible, for convincing the Home Government that its intervention with the Legislative Council will...

moderate and very sensible series of recommendations. The recommendation which appears, the first in import- :anoe, is that " arrangements should be made for the inde- pendent...

of the Rue do la Sorbonne, against M. Paul Bert, the celebrated physiologist and vivisectionist,--who spoke, as we observed the other day, with so much horror in the Assembly of...

and certificates awarded to pupils in schools at the Midsummer examinations held by the College of Preceptors, indicated clearly enough his own opinion that, at present at...

bare victory, for the Home-rule candidate, Mr. Parnell's candidate, Mr. Finegan. Mr. Finegan received 83 votes ; Mr. O'Brien, Q.C. (the candidate of the Roman Catholic priests),...

THE SOUTH-AFRICAN PROSPECT. W E should hardly have called Sir Stafford Northcote a sanguine politician, and yet we have as yet had no more sanguine politician,—no politician so...

M R. GLADSTONE'S attack on the Government in the August number of the Nineteenth Century is the material for a singularly powerful and eloquent speech. But we believe that a...

T HE Bill which Mr. Hope has introduced into the Legislative Council to relieve the indebted peasantry of the Deccan is very creditable to the Government of India, and to Sir...

I V Englishmen could ever be unprejudiced in a matter which concerns the Roman Catholic Church, the Irish Univer- sity difficulty might very soon be settled. Unhappily, this...

P ROGRESS at Constantinople is apt to be of the downward kind, and during the last fortnight, progress of that kind has been steady and rather rapid. Ever since we heard of the...

T HE simplification of the title to land and the mode of transferring it, is not a subject which will suffer from want of consideration. Two Royal Commissions have already dealt...

T HE Cornhil/ for August contains a very interesting, and indeed very amusing, paper on " The Influence of the Mind on the Body," wherein are collected typical specimens of the...

" W 11EN wild in woods the noble savage ran," in lauds which it is difficult to picture to the imagination in any other than a minutely civilised and cultivated condition, there...

IN an interesting correspondence concerning the meaning of 1. cruelty, and the limits of our right to inflict suffering on the lower animals for the purpose of alleviating human...

A LAZY JOURNEY.—II. ABOUT sea-sickness, I think, there is nothing new or pleasant to be said. And if we would only believe that, unless our words be either new or pleasant it...

SLAVERY IN TURKEY. [TO TUN EDITOR OP THE I' SPECTATOR.") SI11,—On Monday evening Lord Salisbury, in replying to a speech made by Lord Shaftesbury, admitted that the slave-trade...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") you allow me to complete what I said in my letter last week iu regard to the " understanding" upon which the Lower House of the Convocation...

SIH,—Will you allow me to say a few words supplementary to Miss Wedgwood's excellent letter in your last number, on the alleged analogy between killing animals for food and...

THE BUSY "B's." [" tin journal do Loudres, le World , anuonce quo Mdlle. Sarah Bernhardt a recu In, commando d'un baste de Lord Benconsfield."— Figaro.] [Air; "The harp that...

LORD BACON.* " THE Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon, including all his Occasional Works, namely, Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices, and all...

HE1NB'S prose is as delicate and varied as that of any Euro- pean writer, though unfortunately the little of it that has hitherto been really known in this country is pretty...

English tongue has made a profound impression upon the author of this large, and in some respects, extraordinary volume. He considers that in the future English * Origin,...

THE genius of Tintorotto, the last and the most productive of the great Venetian painters, is the most complex and the least purely Venetian in its character. The influence of...

things in the world is to know what to believe of the various and conflicting accounts that one hears from different people as to the healthiness of foreign climates, and the...

Low and Co.)—This is a clever and sprightly story, in the biographical form, the latter part of which we like much—except the finish—and the first part of which is much spoiled...

Walford. (E. Stanford.)—Mr. Walfora deserves the praise of having chosen a most interesting subject, and of having collected materials for treating it with the most...

Within the Precincts. By Mrs. Oliphant. 3 vols. (Smith and Elder.)—We like this novel better than, to judge from some criticisms we have seen, the public does. It is not the...

the Index Society, by Messrs. Longman and Co.)—Mr. Gomme has drawn up this index from the Appendices to the First Report of the Municipal Committee of 1836. It is an interesting...

and Isbister.)—Mrs. Campbell describes iu vigorous (though sometimes faulty) verse, some of the closing scenes of the Scripture narrative ; and, having small regard to the...

1877 - 8. By William Saunders. (Cassell, Petter, and Calpin.)—The title of this book is not very happily chosen ; and were it the ,work of an American, would certainly have an...

and State in Italy. By A. Galleuga. 2 vols. (Samuel Tinsley.)—After a short introduc- tion on the relations in which the Popes have stood in past times to the national unity and...

Knots. By the Rev. Charles Rogers. (Printed for the Royal Historical Society.) --Dr. Rogers has performed with most satisfactory diligence a task which has evidently been a...

Joroveam, it should be explained, is ho who is more commonly known as Jeroboam. The writer gives her view of the journey to consult Ahijah about the sick child, and gives it...

(Mac- millan.)—It may seem ungracious to object to the bulk of a volume which shows throughout its contents signs of a mire and tender poetical feeling, or to wish away any of a...

Islands, by . Benjamin Clarke ; a second edition of Mr. Jonkinson's Prartiral Guide to the Isle of Wight ; and a fifth edition of his London Guide. All three are illustrated...

handy guide has been prepared, under the authority of the Great Eastern Railway Company, for the especial use of those seeking rest or recreation by the Harwich route to the...