The meaning of the Turkish urgency for English taxpayers' I money is this. The Sultan's Government either does not receive the revenue of the provinces-which is, we imagine,...

The Oxford Druids met, as usual, on New Year's Day, but the speeches were not political, and were therefore dull. Even Sir William Harcourt cannot give life to a speech on the...

The Employers' Association in the Engineering trade has apparently determined to recommence the struggle for longer hours, which in 1 -71 ended in their defeat. The present...

The growth of Protectionism, and of Protectionism of a silly kind, is alarming. For instance, the Times on Tuesday published a letter from Mr. E. S. Cayley, intimating that the...

The Senatorial elections of to-morrow will, it is to be hoped, put the seal to the Republican Constitution of France. Eightytwo seats are vacant,-seventy-five by the operation...

The correspondence between Lord Salisbury and Sir Austin I Layard, ending 4th December, on the "regeneration" of Asia Minor, appeared on Wednesday. It is of little importance,...

Prince Bismarck's reactionary letter in favour of Protection is said to find great favour with the Bundesrath of the Empire. The element in it which they most favour is the...

The Revenue Returns for the year are neither so bad as might have been expected, nor so good as the Chancellor of the Exchequer must have hoped when he brought forward his...

Sir William Havter. so lonz one of the most skilful of Parlia- I mentary Whips, and Lord Palmerston's right-hand man in that ,capacity, died by drowning on the morning after...

The prejudice against the Irish Members caused by the action I of a certain member of the Home-rule party has recently been so great, that even when an Irish Member speaks or...

I An " Old-fashioned Vicar," in search of a curate, writes to Monday's Times to complain of the mode in which the candidates for his curacy catechise him. One of them expresses...

IMrs. Grote, the widow of the historian of Greece. died on Sunday at a great age. She was a lively and shrewd writer, who, if she had written a social chronicle of her time,...

I The fox-hunters have not been warned by the decision against their assumed right to ride over private land in pursuit of the fox, and in a recent case have gone so far as to...

Wire notice the death of Sir James Matheson, remarkable as I the second largest landed proprietor in the British Isles. and as a man who struggled to the top against...

A dreadful accident is reported on II.I.S. ' Thunderer.' a sister-ship to the ' Devastation,' of 4,400 tons, and now lying at Ismid. The crew were practising, on Thursday, with...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE POSITION IN AFGHANISTAN. THE very little intelligence which the Government allows to: ooze out from Afghanistan is not of a satisfactory kind. We have...

THE ASSERTED ROMANISM OF MR. GLADSTONE. I ONE of the so-called Liberal leaders in Midlothian, Sir John 0 Don Wauchope, published on Christmas Day, as his contribution to the...

LORD DERBY ON THE HOUR. LORD DERBY, as usual, brings to the criticism of the causes of the present Distress a mind as completely free from any bias towards any particular...

A WORD OF COMFORT FOR FIXED INCOMES. WE do not suppose the holders of Consols, Railway DebenW tures, Municipal Bonds, and other safe Securities, the life annuitants, and the...

THE IRISH CATHOLICS AND THEIR UNIVERSITY PROPOSALS. A N Address from certain students and ex-students of the Catholic University of Ireland to the Roman Catholic Archbishops...

I PRINCE BISMARCK AND GERMAN PROTECTIONISTS. PRINCE BISMARCK, as we showed last week, has cast in his lot with the Protectionists. It is quite possible, however, that the...

MR. TROLLOPE ON THE MORAL EFFECT OF NOVELREADING. JR. TROLLOPE writes an essay in the new number of the Mtl Aineteenth Cent ury to show how good the moral teaching of our most...

TIE " CONTEMPORARY REVIEW" ON ALCOHOL. THIE discussion on Alcohol, started by the managers of the Coittemporary, has been tedious to read when published in snippets through...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. CALCULATING POWER. rTO TOrf: EDITOR OF TiiE SPEcrA F':.C Sirs,-With reference to your account of Mr. Bidder's wonderful powers of mental calculation,...

VIVID MIEMIORY. [TO TIlE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.J] SIR,-The interesting letters of Professor Elliot and ',r. G. i Bidder, together with your own article, incline me to offer...

UNLIMITED LIABILITY OF BANK SIHAREHOLDERS. | - - [TO THIE EDITOR OF TILE ': SPECTATOR."] Sii;,-I have carefully read and reread your article of December 21st, on " The...

THlE LONDONDELI-RY ELECTION-. [To THiE EITFOR OF THE " SPECTATOirt. Sip,-'No doubt the numbers of votes recorded on the two sides at the late Londonderry election, when...

THE TEACHING OF THE DEAF. [TO THrE EDITOR OF THIE L SPECTATOR.'] SiR,-In your issue of December 14th, there appeared an article, written with great skill and candour, on " The...

TIHE REMEDY FOR DISCREDIT. LTO Tll EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."1 SIn,-It is gratifying, in these times, when everything, even trade, is dull, to find the Spectator maintaining...

A R T. THE ART OF EUROPE.-YI. (FRAN CE.)-Conclhsion. | I HAVE now only to speak of the French pictures, to conclude my review of European Art, as exhibited at Paris in the...

CINDERELLA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sir,-It may interest some of your readers to know that throughout West Somerset the weasel (mustela vulgaris) is known as the...

BO OK S. Al. ABOUT'S NOVELS.* ArL ABOUT is one of those writers who have never done themselves justice, and will never do so, we fear. George Sand said of him, that he was...

ETERNAL PUNISHMIENTS.2 AIR. OXEN-IsAM has considerably enlarged and revised this essay in preparing his second edition, and has thus made it as complete a representation of the...

AN OLD-FASHIONED " SALT."* TIIis book is likely, we should think, to prove very attractive reading to those who, like ourselves, were bred up on Marryat's novels. At any rate,...

CYRIL TOURNEURt'S "PLAYS AND POEMS."* I IF " WMi Waterproof " was right in his estimate of " literary leeches " and " ana," Cyril Tourneur, Tournour, or Turner was a lucky man....

MR. STEDMIAN'S OXFORD.* We do not pretend, though we had thought ourselves fairly familiar, at least by reputation, with most of the more eminent members of the University of...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Handbucls der Archdologie der Kwinst. Von Professor B. Stark. (En- l gelmann, Leipzig.)-It cannot be said that a work of this kind is not wanted. The only...

I Pomeroy Abbey. By Mrs. Henry Wood. 3 vols. (Bentloy.)-Mre. Wood has certainly an art of novel-writing which no rival possesses in the same degree and kind. She tells her...

I The Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft of Shake'peare. By the Rev. H. NIf. Ellacombe, M.A. (Pollard, Exeter.)-However much it may be a matter of surprise that so interesting a...

Social Problems : an E'nquiry into tme Law of Influences. By J. Turnbull Thomson. (C. Kegan Paul and Co.)-If one does not look | for familiarity with the highest culture of...

I We welcome the first volume of a useful periodical, Social Notes, I edited by S. C. Hall. (16 Southampton Streot, Strand.)-Social Notes concerns ; Social Reforms, Social...

The Homiletic iQuarterly, Vol. II. (Dickenson), is a collection of materials for preaching. differing, of course, very widely in value, but containing much that is useful and...

I Adventurous Lives. By Bernard Henry Becker. 2 vols. (Bentlev.) -These are two very entertaining volumes, which we may confidently recommend to readers who want to be...

I NEV EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.-The History of the Conqest of Peri, b by William H. Prescott. Edited by John Foster Kent. (Bickers.) This is a volume of the series entitled "...

A letter from the Pope to the Archbishop of Cologne was pub- lished on the 2nd inst., which is considered of importance. Leo XIII., after lamenting the loss of the influence of...

The Russian officials have apparently commenced another of their foolish and oppressive crusades against University students. The idea of the political police seems to be that...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. ; TAKOOB KHAN has not submitted, or proposed to submit. The positive assertion that be had come in to Jellalabad. though forwarded to the '1imes and...

Sir Michael Hicks-Beach delivered a speech to the Gloucester Conservative Association on Thursday, which was very well received. There was, however, very little in it, and that...

Both in the KIhbber and the Koorum, the mismanagement is described by the correspondents as extreme. Tlhere are hints of conflicts between the military and political...