is reported that the Sultan, being informed of his programme, was so offended that he delayed his public reception, demanding that the words to be addressed to him should be...

in the Standard, the Burmese insurgents who recently crossed the frontier on their march to Mandalay have been defeated by King Theeban's troops, and have fled into British...

T HE death of the Empress of Russia, which occurred suddenly on the 3rd inst., may prove an important event. Her Majesty, born a Princess of Hesse Darmstadt, had passed through...

printed form we do not see any power given to the friends of the deceased, except when they give notice that they wish to have some other form of service used than that of the...

Mr. Whitbread, Sir J. biker, Mr. Bright, Lord H. Lennox, Mr. Massey, Mr. Staveley Hill, Sir H. Jackson, the Attorney-General and the Solicitor-General, Sir G. Goldney, Mr....

Com- mittee to consider the oath of allegiance tendered by Mr. Bradlangh were singularly sharp, considering the nature of the question, which was only as to the constitution of...

case.

Indian muddle. It is useless to go into details until the Par- liamentary statement has been made, but Lord Cranbrook distinctly admits that the " error " in the estimates is at...

on Thursday by a majority of 25, 126 voting in favour of it, and 101 against it. The debate was in one sense a good one,—i.e., the two Archbishops and Lord Derby made admir-...

nesday, on the subject of capital punishments, Mr. Bright, who presided, delivered a speech which seems to us to point out the extreme hardship of all unjust convictions, but to...

mons . on Thursday night on the Government Employers' Liability Bill, introduced by Mr. Dodson. The question is one . of the very greatest importance,—as to the sustaining or...

of 223,000 for Secret-Service money, and vehemently attacked some of the Radical Members who had voted against this grant last year under the Tory Government, and who voted in...

the important question of the Indian deficit with the pettier question whether the late Government concealed that deficit during the elections. It is evident, however, from the...

Charles Adderley, brought on in the House of Lords on Monday a motion for a Select Committee on the action of the Education Department, in encouraging higher studies in the...

Laws ended on Saturday in a reference of the Bill to a Select Commit- tee of twenty-one. This proposal was carried by a junction of the Right, the Centre, and the Poles, and...

able commercial " operation " said to be now going on. An Anglo-American Syndicate, controlling very large funds, is pur- chasing all the medicinal opium in the world.. About...

on Wednesday, without a contest, in place of Mr. Lowe, who has become Lord Sherbrooke ; and in returning thanks for his election, he made a wise and very thoughtful speech. He...

remarkable letter to the Bombay journals, telegraphed in .setenso to the Standard, Colonel Gordon declares that "God has blessed India and England in giving Lord Ripon the...

for the Presidency was opened at Chicago on Thursday, and it is understood that General Grant's prospects are not bright. His opponents have compelled his friends to give way as...

Theological Halls in Oxford and Cambridge, for the education of "resident members of the University who are candidates for Holy Orders in the principles of the Reformed...

on the appointment of the Committee on Merchant Shipping. The Committee nominated contained 23 members, of whom 12 were Liberals, 9 Conservatives, and 2 Home-rulers. Mr. A....

MR. GOSCHEN'S MISSION. T HE first great test, not, indeed, of the character, but of the capacity, and especially of the force, of the present Ministry, will be their success at...

B OTH the debate and the majority gained by the Govern- ment for Lord Selborne's Burials Bill in the Lords are satisfactory, and seem to promise that in spite of the opposi-...

petty boroughs, and not the reduction of the franchise, is the reform required ; with many other arguments adapted to debate, but the inner meaning of them all will be what we...

T HE course of the new Government in respect to Cyprus, as described by Mr. Gladstone and Sir Charles Dilke in the debate of Tuesday, is thoroughly satisfactory. It is, briefly,...

% J[ EDMOND SCHERER is always listened to by English .111 • critics with respect, but the paper in the Contemporary Review for June, in which he endeavours to justify the recent...

T HIS celebrated case has now terminated, and the conclusion to which it has come is such as to deserve more than passing notice. The issues raised have been debated long and...

I T is to be hoped that it will not become a practice to intro- duce some mention of Mr. Bradlaugh into every debate which touches upon Ecclesiastical questions. The comparison...

mind, but while that which he sees he sees very clearly indeed, he is very apt to leave out of his field of view very much which is quite essential to the correct formation even...

" T HE DANITES " is an entirely novel experience to London playgoers ; seeing it, one is reminded of one's first introduction to the writings of Mr. Bret Harte. The drama is,...

AN ARAB WAR OF INDEPENDENCE. [TO THR EDITOR OF THR SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The first shots seem to have been fired. in the war of Arabian independence, a war of which I gave notice a...

(To THE EDITOR OP THE "Brscreaos."1 SIR,—No statement is too absurd to be believed by a large number of people, provided it be repeated often enough without serious...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR:) SIE,—Will you allow me to say that when speaking of the cumulative vote, I had not the slightest intention of alluding to Mr. Hare's proposed...

THE SPECTATOR-) Sra,—I do not quite understand the Liberalism revealed in Mr. Carvell Williams's letter. Neither justice nor generosity should be grudgingly accorded to the...

CLIFF ROSES. Pam little sister of rich red roses, Wild little sister of garden queens, Art thou content that thy flower uncloses Here where the land to the ocean leans P They,...

[THIRD NOTICE.] CONTINNING our classification on the lines laid down in our last. week's article, we have to consider, next to the historical designs,. the Portraiture of this...

THOMAS GRIFFITHS WALNEWRIGHT.* Tins volume is an addition to the curiosities rather than to the treasures of literature. Had Thomas Griffiths Wainewright not distinguished...

THE perversities of literary destiny are certainly strange. Charles Lamb spent the better part of his life upon the sum- mit of a lofty stool in a London office, copying words...

like these with eqnanimity, or to review it with equity. Some of the essays are -so good, and others are so much the reverse of good, that the Acritic ' s mind, to use an...

Ws should regret more than we do that we have delayed so long to notice this novel,—which is much above par, and in one way unique,—if we did not feel that it was not meant to...

Tics .ZsTineteenth Century is full of papers of various merit, none of them being of quite the first rank. The most valuable, perhaps, are the two on Indian finance,—one by Mr....

Christian Knowledge.)—Professor Douglas modestly dis- claims having written an exhaustive work on the subjects included in his title. The study required for such a work would be...

D.D. (Cambridge : the University Press.)—Canon Farrar has supplied students of the Gospel with an admirable manual in this volume. It has all that copious variety of...

author addresses to his readers, among whom critics may be included, an emphatic warning. "No part of this book should be read until all that precedes that part has been...

(Chapman and Hall.)—This interesting and useful little book has been prepared by Mr. Henry Tanner, for the purposes of illustrating, by a hypothetical example, the advantages of...

Personal Recollections of British Burmah. By the Right Rev. J. W. Titcomb, First Bishop of Itangoon. (Wells, Gardner, and Co., for the S.P.G.)—Bishop Titcomb tells, in a simple,...

of Lolland and releter, Denmark. Translated by Bev. J. S. Banks. (T. and T. Clarke, Edinburgh.)—This book, which is translated into good English, yet retains, after its double...

novel was originally published some years ago in the London Telma/. Under ordinary circumstances, it would have been scarcely worth while to reprint it—though, indeed, many in-...

the Wybeers. By Margaret A. Cartmell (W. Smith.)—This is story of a family doom, such as that which we find in Greek tragedy, accommodated to the conditions of modern life. In...

that Refer to this Island. With Vocabulary and Notes. By Thomas S. Geyser. (Griffith and Farran.)—There is a certain ingenuity in the idea of collecting the passages that, as...

W. Chetwynd. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Mrs. Chetwynd does not keep herself very Life in a German Village. By the Hon. Mrs. H. W. Chetwynd. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Mrs. Chetwynd does...

Series. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The "Border Counties" are those four which border on Wales, Cheshire, Shropshire, Herefordshire, and Monmouthshire. Mr. Salisbury thinks that...

Lichtenberger. (Newman and Co.)—There is something to be learnt from this book, which contains the observations and ex- periences of a practised teacher, who has been...

are glad to note ono great improvement in Mr. Time's Whisperings : Sonnets and Songs. By George Barlow. (B.emingtori.)—We are glad to note ono great improvement in Mr. Barlow's...

R. Mowbray.)—Mr. 011ivant has adopted the metre of "Hiawatha," perhaps a more perilous adventure than even the octosyllabic verse of Scott. He is fairly successful. More we...

American Journal of Philology, edited by Basil L. Gildersleeve. (The Editor, Baltimore ; Macmillan, London.)—This journal, like the American Journal of Mathematics, appears...