rule yet suggested can stop a sufficient minority from paralysing Parlia- mentary government. If the Irishmen had only numbered twenty, they could could have gone on speaking to...

T HE haze is lifting in Bulgaria, and displays the Russians in a most dangerous position. The Grand Duke is making the mistake made in Armenia,—using regiments like shells to...

case.

head on Tuesday, while the Bill permitting the Confederation of South Africa was passing through Committee. The leaders of both parties, alarmed for the declining character of...

Bucharest, published in the Times, the Russians, drawing fresh men from Tirnova, have again attacked and routed Osman Pasha, but this statement requires confirmation. The time...

distancing every other English journal. On Friday it published a telegram of nearly six columns, forwarded by its correspondent from Ploredin, before Plevna, with a complete...

believed, be brought about by the action of the obstructionists. Mr. Butt has called a meeting of the party for next Monday, de- manding either that the new faction should be...

make the miserable war between the Khedive and King John a drawn battle. The old frontiers are to be restored, and the Bogos country will be given to Egypt ; and on the other...

it is feared, be a terrible one. Lord Salisbury, in a speech on Friday week at the Engineers' College on Cooper's Hill, spoke in a tone which, considering his responsibility,...

Northcote whether the Treasury would ask for any vote to defray the expense of the increase in the Mediterranean garrisons ; and whether he would, before the close of the...

new and serious one has been begun by the Pennsylvanian colliers, who have occupied Scranton, nearly killing the Mayor, have seized the Lehigh Valley Road, and attempted to...

week, but it comes to very little. He declared that he wished to "maintain peace I" to "protect the men of order of all parties, not only against subversive passions, but...

north of the Balkans, to mobilise 90,000 men, and has borrowed 23,000,000 for the purpose. It is anxiously explained, however, that this movement is not intended as a menace to...

the Admiralty, at Homburg, was announced in London on Monday. He had long been seriously ill from a complication of diseases, of which gout was the least dangerous, and though...

and out of it of Lord Salisbury's action in regard to the Metropolitan Streets Bill. A new street running from Charing Cross to Tot- tenham Court Road is much wanted for the...

the charges against the three detectives, much the same kind of interest as was shown in the Balham Case. They are writing a 'multitude -of letters to Sir James Ingham, the...

ago, regulating promotion and retirement in the Army, is visible in the Supplementary Estimates, where £60,000 figure as the first instalment of expenditure due to the proposed...

ninety-six. The newspapers have felt themselves obliged to notice his death, and write about him ; but there is a general impression that the hero of the Newport riot, whose...

analysis of the evidence upon which the charges of " atrocities " against Turks and Russians rest, and it shows as, we think, con- clusively that as yet English evidence from...

Mr. Chapman, has been carried by Mr. Watkin, son of Sir E. Watkin, the Railway Chairman. Mr. Watkin, though a Liberal, defeated Mr. Seddon, the Conservative candidate, by 1,699...

out of 750 clergymen in his diocese, not five were extreme Ritualists, and intimated that although he would enforce the Public Worship Act where it was his clear duty to do so,...

THE MUTINY IN THE COMMONS. T HE House of Commons has acted sensibly at last in regard to the Obstructionists, and we hope effectually,—but that still remains to be seen. From...

A NY view seriously advanced by Mr. Gladstone on a burning political question is deserving of respectful attention, but we confess to be sadly disappointed by the essay in which...

Hunt's death consists mainly in the difficulty of replacing him. The deceased Minister was a most excellent man, with hosts of warm per- sonal friends, but he was not a great...

ET no man, however ambitious, envy the Marquis of Salisbury his official position. The approaching famine in Southern India, a misfortune to all men and to the sufferers a...

T HERE is a prospect of a discussion in the House of Com- mons being raised, at the instance of Sir Henry Wolff, on the bearings of the war on the custodianship of the Bosphorus...

T HE Railway Strike in the United States has been rapidly and energetically suppressed, and the momentary panic into which American society was thrown has had time to sub- side....

W HEN referring last week to the necessity for some suspense of judgment respecting the charges of bar- barity brought against the Russians, until further evidence and careful...

E observe by a report of certain proceedings the other day in connection with the Dedication Festival of St. Mary Magdalene, Paddington, that the Rev. Berdmore Compton and...

O NLY those to whom the natives of every land on the far side of the Red Sea are merely " blacks " will fail to recognise in King John of Ethiopia, whose game of ambition our...

111HE following notes of one or two days' sight-seeing within the Arctic Circle may perhaps be interesting to some of your readers. What I saw made a strong impression upon me,...

SACERDOT 17 D SCIENCE. c (1 , 0 THIO EDAIT0.--BISOFM AN D SPACITLTOL1 Stu,—If the Sacerdotalists are turning the worship of God into the worship of an idol, and the parish...

VICTORIAN AFFAIRS. AleMotme, June 10, 1877. I no not know whether the catastrophe which has happened in our public affairs will make itaelf heard in London, where...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF TIER " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Allow me to say one parting word on the discussion of Mr.. Maurice's attitude towards Ritualism. I never intended to imply that which...

Sin,—Allow me to refer your readers to two letters of Mr. Maurice's, published in the Spectator for April 1 and 15, 1871, and lately reprinted (in part) by the Women's Printing...

tTo nut EDITOR OF THIS "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As one writing in the double capacity- of squire's son and town curate, perhaps you will allow me to make a few remarks in reply to Sir...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—" It is a most striking and extraordinary fact that the life and teaching of Jesus have scarcely a place in the teaching of Paul. Had...

(TO THE EDITOR OF Tau "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I have no wish to enter into controversy with "A. C. P." as to the merits or demerits of any particular school. The general aspect of...

SONNET. A moriaNT past, the whole of this fair scene Was wrapt by clouds that now are rolling fast Up yonder mountain. See now, where the last Has left its top, the landscape...

[TO THE EDITOR OF Tan "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Pray permit me to correct two misprints in my letter which you were good enough to publish last week :—For " Bd- elarch" read "Bedard,"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIB, —In confirmation of a passage in my letter published in the Spectator of the 28th ult., in which I wrote, "It does not follow from the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sur,—With reference to your article on the decline in the rental of land, I believe the explanation to be a very simple one. Up to a period...

PROVERBS IN PORCELAIN.* LC is too bad. Mr. Dobson can give us something better than; this. The man who has once shown he can entertain his friends , should scarcely ask them...

her husband, and one that will be dear to readers who, like the writer of this notice, met him occasionally amidst the stir of literary life in London. Years ago, his burly...

the mysteries of our literature, that although no figure in modern European history has so fascinated the imagination as that of the Great Charles, no worthy biography of him,...

de Musset, his brother— an author himself of some reputation—has given the world an Biographic fl'Altrect de Massa is Vic et ses (Enures. Par Paul de Mussel. Paris ; G....

Notes and Sketches of an Architect. From the French of Felix Narjoux. (Sampson Low and Co.)--The author has given us a descrip- tion of his journey through Holland, North-West...

The Soldier's Farewell. By Stephen Holler. (Ashdown and Parry.) —A piece of little importance, and one with less crude writing would undoubtedly prove quite as acceptable to the...

Deephaven is a New England fishing-village, somewhat decayed,—they are beginning to have decayed things over there. Thither go one summer Kate Lancaster (whose mother has...

story, which leaves a distinct and pleasing impression of itself upon the mind. Daisy is a very fresh, unsophisticated country girl, of gentle birth ; tho Earl a somewhat blase...

Parry.)--A very effective transcription, thoughtfully arranged and well deserving of popularity. Messrs. Ashdown and Parry are to be complimented upon the clearness of the type...

R. Harrison. (Henry S. King.)—We cannot better notice this little volume than by saying that it weighs a little more than two ounces, that its dimensions are 5 in. by 81. in. by...

the last few years this form of composition has gained groat favour, with many composers who take the old masters for their model. The construction in too many oases presents so...

R.N. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Thore are several claimants to the honour of relating the story of the ' Challenger's ' voyage. The tale is, indeed, one that will bear being told...

and Goldsmith," who, on occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the introduction of printing, and in honour of William Caxton, gratuitously circulates Some Rules for the...

arranged and altogether brilliant piece of music, of its class. To - the lovers of operatic music arranged for the pianoforte this will prove to be a piece well worthy of a...

be generally acknowledged that this familiar air has now been worn threadbare. We must confess that Mr. Smith's very extensive arpeggio chords and variations might find another...

M.A. (Bagster and Sons.)—We have hero a translation, with a commeLtary, of the Epistle of St. James. The translation does not seem much of an improve- Ment on the Authorised...

the Frozen Sea." (Sooloys.)—This is a readable little volume, pleasantly put together, though it is not of equal merit throughout. The chapter on the lake-dwellings is the...

Skeet.)— There are many things in these volumes to remind us of Jane Eyre. 'There is a young woman, short and plain, with a gift of clever speech and much courage in saying...

and Co.)—In this song Miss Martineau has successfully adapted her words to music. The accent is carefully considered throughout, which is more than can be said for many...