made with rather unusual pomp, that the Sultan had requested the British Government to approach the Czar with a view to negotiations for peace, and that the Government had...

to protest against any interference by England in the war between Turkey and Russia, and while Member after Member boldly avows to his constituents that he holds such...

to whittle away the meaning of his words. He is declared to have spoken for himself alone, to have been most imprudent, and to have pursued a separate policy ; while the...

case.

to a state- ment that General Gourko, with great labour and difficulty, arising mainly from the state of the weather, is forcing his way through the Etropol Balkan to Sofia. On...

Galekas, who were believed to be defeated, have returned to their lands, the Gaikas under Sandilli are unquiet, and the Pondos require watchfulness. All these tribes lie between...

T HE event of the week has been a speech by Lord Carnarvon on the Eastern Question. The Colonial Secretary took advantage on Wednesday of a deputation on Cape affairs, to say...

of the Ministry in a letter to the Secretary of the Sheffield Liberal Association, dated December 24. He says that " all races in the Empire are, in his belief, resolutely...

of Spain and her son's Government in Madrid. The Queen objected to her son's betrothal to a daughter of the Duke de Montpensier, and finding remonstrances useless, began to...

described by the Philadelphia correspondent of the Times. The House of Representatives has passed a Bill making silver, which is now worth 11 per cent. less than gold, legal...

a collapse of the coal trade, which has fallen off at Cardiff alone by 100,000 tons a month, and the resulting poverty is deplorable, both as a fact and as evidence of the impro...

the last day of the old year by delivering to the heads of his Department a moat useful and valuable lecture on the principles which ought to guide them in the discharge of...

during the ephemeral " Ministry of Affairs," has resumed the command of the Bordeaux Division, and taken advantage of a visit from the Mayor of Bordeaux to disavow in the...

Day was, this year, not political. Mr. Hall, the Conservative Member, was absent, owing to an attack of influenza ; and Sir William Harcourt, who was present, and apparently in...

addition to its buildings begun in 1876 and finished last year, is again full to overflowing, and in need of new accommodation. Forty girls are now in residence, and of these...

which he had once told a young preacher that any one who was worth his salt ought to be able to preach for a twelve- month. He illustrated his theme with all sorts of candles...

letter just received from a French lady in Paris, shows us what might now be going on in London, but for Mr. Cross's Vivisection Act:- " The Sorbonne is opposite my apartment,...

The Times' correspondent at Alexandria says Egypt is - very ranch divided - in-sympathy about this war. The common people know nothing about it, and the middle-classes are...

the Westminster and Pimlico Working-Classes Industrial Exhibition this day week, availed himself of the fact that the day on which he was speaking was Mr. Gladstone's birthday...

as we mentioned last week, was effected at Geneva a fort- night ago by M. Raoul Pictet, has been almost immediately fol- lowed by the liquefaction of hydrogen and nitrogen gas...

Fellowship. It was this College in which, as a young man, he held a scholarship, and which he only left when elected to fi Fellowship in OrieL It is creditable to Trinity...

THE NEGOTIATIONS. T HE step announced by the Government on Saturday last is significant, even after Lord Carnarvon's speech, as showing the bias of those at the head of affairs,...

MR . FORSTER is to speak to-night at Bradford, and Sir William Harcourt is to speak next week at Oxford, and we hope that others of the Liberal leaders will make an occa- sion...

A MYSTERIOUS announcement has been made during the week to the effect that a Roman Catholic Hierarchy is ; after all, not to be at once established in Scotland. It is said that...

M R. COWEN has turned the annual dinner of a Com- mercial Travellers' Association to useful account, by stating his theory of the causes of the present distress. It has been...

in the history of the past year than the evidence it affords of the decay of the Monarchical principle in Europe. That the principle of Legiti- macy, of a divine right to govern...

O N Tuesday week, the 15th January, the Graduates of the University of London will have the opportunity of ac- cepting a new supplemental charter, opening all the degrees of...

annexed a moment too soon. The defeats suffered by the Boers from Secocceni have obviously inflamed the imagination of all the natives of South Africa, and the Cape and Natal...

of much vigour, freshness, and not a little learning, " The Natural History of Atheism," just published by. Professor Blackie,* the veteran Edinburgh teacher, who, un- like many...

AT E. of science are deeply, and with good resaon, interested at present in the Telephone, the most remarkable in some respects of the many remarkable developments of...

14 R. KNOWLES has done the benevolent public a service. He has hit upon an object for charity such as they are always seeking, one to which they can give much or little, as...

WIFE-BEATING. [TO THB EDITOE OF THE n SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Permit me to remind your courteous correspondent " F."" that his proposed remedy for wife-atrocities,—namely, " to with-...

of your correspondent " F." on " Wife- Beating " may serve to mislead some whose knowledge of the condition of women in our lower-class homes is as slight as his own appears to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—An Association has lately been founded, in memory of Mrs. Nassau Senior, for extending to children of a rather higher grade the system...

[TO THB EDITOR OF THB" SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—At the present conjuncture of military affairs, many news- paper readers are watching with keen interest to see whether the Danube will...

A POET'S PROEM. IF on the great world's wide and shifting sand I scrawl my meagre alphabet of song, What profit have I, think you ? Not for long The pride of its enduring....

[TO TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] Sin,—In an article upon this subject in your issue of last week, I observe a quotation from Herr von Studnitz, viz.:—" That all gold and...

THE INSTITUTE OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS THERE is no doubt that this gallery is rapidly losing its import-. ance as a representative one of Water-colour Art. There was a time,...

THE BROAD STONE OF HONOUR.* IF we might venture on so bold a comparison, we should liken this work to a magnificent and ancient cathedral, wherein are many things grotesque and...

[SECOND NOTICE.] AMONGST the many documents of interest in the present volume, a confidential letter, written in April, 1824, by Gentz to Baron Ottenfels, then Austrian...

WE hope the publication of these two books in England may bo taken as a sign that the spirit which inspired the Anti-slavery Society, and led our fathers and mothers—many of...

" 0 MY juvenile friends !" says Mr. Chadband, in Bleak House, "if the master of this house was to go forth into the city and there see an eel, and was to come back and say, I...

THE number of the Nineteenth Century for January is an exceedingly readable one. We have noticed before at consider- able length the first paper, Sir Garnet Wolseley's account...

Examples of Contemporary Art. Edited by J. Comyns Carr. (Chatto and Windns.)—This is a sumptuous work. It contains fourteen high- class etchings from the works of living English...