5 MAY 1877

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A haze still hangs over the movements of the Russian

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armies, both in Asia and Europe. The English correspondents have not arrived, or are not permitted to speak, and no other reporters can be safely trusted for a minute. Telegrams...

We have as yet nothing but rumours from Asia, but

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they all point one way. The Russians, in three columns, are steadily advancing eastward. One column has seized Bayezid, on the Persian frontier, on its way to Erzeroum ; a...

Lord Elcho has given notice of an amendment to Mr.

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Glad- stone's resolution, to which—if we may trust the Standard—the Cabinet is collectively at least RA much opposed as to the original resolutions. He proposes to the House to...

II * * The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

On Monday night a London Gazette appeared containing the Queen's

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proclamation of neutrality, and her warnings to her sub- jects not to engage on either side in the war between Russia and Turkey. It was at once noticed, however, and...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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R. GLADSTONE has at last taken up a line of his own on the jN Eastern Question, and we have to record with deep regret, and something like indignation, that on that line he is...

The Pall Mall Gazette has been so angry this week,

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that its acuteness has been to some extent damaged by the violence of its emotions. On Tuesday it copied a blunder from the Times' correspondent at Vienna,—a statement, namely,...

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The Khedive of Egypt must be delighted with the war.

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The Sultan has asked him for more troops, and he has accordingly called together the Committee of Egyptian Notables, which, when he pleases, he consults on public affairs. He...

Our readers will remember a report that Chefket Pasha, whose

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trial was demanded in such loud tones by Lord Derby, had been appointed instead to a military command upon the Danube. The 'Turkish Government was asked whether this was true,...

The Times' Berlin correspondent believes that there is little doubt

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remaining that the German Parliament will adopt a Pro- tective law, and abandon the Free-trade system. In a debate held on April 28, Baron Varnbuler contended that Germany was...

The House of Commons, on Tuesday, lost its temper, and

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allowed itself to sanction a grave act of injustice. Mr. Butt pro- posed, with the assent of the Home-rule Members, that Mr. Biggar, Member for Cavan County, should be placed...

The Universities Bill goes slowly through Committee, gaining nothing and

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losing nothing in the process. On Monday, an attempt made on Clause 13 to get rid of the restriction that the Commissioners are not to have power to make any statute affect- ing...

Mr. McArthur on Tuesday moved a resolution censuring the continuance

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of the grant made in Ceylon to the Established Church. He showed that the population of the bland was 2,405,287, of whom only 60,000 were Protestants, and only 10,379 members...

The French, being determined not to intervene in Turkish affairs,

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are interesting themselves keenly in a religious debate. The Ultramontane Bishops have recently delivered very fiery Charges about the Temporal Power, have declared that the...

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The Times publishes an account of an "electric candle," in-

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vented by a Russian ex-officer, M. Paul Jablochkoff, now in Paris. This gentleman uses a " candle " of some compound which is his secret, but into which "kaolin," the clay from...

A very enthusiastic meeting was held yesterday week at the

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Westminster Palace Hotel in aid of Mr. bit's Bill, which abso- lutely prohibited all painful vivisection,—a meeting at which Miss Cobbe made a speech full of true and even...

We are happy to perceive that the Royal Geographical Society

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has acknowledged the great services done to science by Pundit Nain Singh, the one Hindoo of our day who has made posi- tive additions to human knowledge. This brave man has for...

Consols were on Friday 931 to 93i.

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The new Bishop of St. Albans is to be Bishop

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Claughton, translated from Rochester, and the new Bishop of Rochester is to be the Rev. Anthony Wilson Thorold, now Vicar of St. Pancras, and Canon Residentiary of York...

On Wednesday Mr. Holt moved the second reading of his

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Bill, which the Government opposed, on the ground that what they had done last year had really removed all abuses in this country, and that Mr. bolt's Bill goes too far,—as we...

Vice-Chancellor Bacon held this day week that the name of

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a paper cannot be borrowed for a new enterprise with the mere ad- dition of the word "New" before it. Thus the Era was granted an injunction against a proprietor who proposed to...

The reform of Convocation has at last become a subject

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of a certain mild interest to Convocation, and was discussed at the last session of the Province of Canterbury, both in the Upper and Lower Ilouse,—in the Upper House, in...

The new Chancery Judge is Mr. Edward Fry, Q.C.—now Sir

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Edward Fry,—and no better appointment could have been made. Mr. Fry is a very accomplished lawyer in the literary and theoretical sense, as well as a barrister of very large...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN ASIA. T HE friends of Turkey in England evidently think they can make much of the Russian advance in Asia. They are nearly hopeless of their case in...

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MR. GLADSTONE AND THE LIBERALS.

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s ra JOHN LUBBOCK, and the miscalled leaders of Oppo- sition—call them rather obstructors of Opposition—who are giving him their support, are making a fatal mistake in moving...

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THE REFORM OF CONVOCATION.

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TilE RE is one difficulty abcut the Reform of Convocation which every one who studies the subject must feel to be formidable, and that is that the only body which can really set...

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itthl PRICE OF BREAD.

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MBE first bad consequence of war, a rise in the price of Bread, has already fallen upon this country ; but its effect will not, Fe believe, be so serious as some of our...

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THE CEYLON CHAPLAINCIES.

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Ir debate the Ceylon Chaplaincies, which occupied a part te of Tuesday evening, is interesting rather from its relation to the general theory of religious establishments, than...

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"CLARK v. CLARK."

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S IR RICHARD MALINS has created some amusement this week by the apparent innocence of his remarks upon the case of" Clark v. Clark." It appears from his judgment that in 1872 a...

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THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON AND MEDICAL WOMEN.

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T HE Trades-Union feeling against women Doctors is making a hard fight in the University of London. Not many weeks ago, the Senate of that University decided by a majority of...

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AN EPISCOPAL FRACAS.

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D OWN in Scotland there has arisen a new disturbance among the Bishops. Considering that the mass of the people there reject and contemn these venerable functionaries, it is...

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ART.

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THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE] IF we had to characterise this Exhibition by one word, we should call it "respectable," and feel that we had acquitted ourselves with...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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TRUST AND TRU'rHFULNESS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SYBOTATOR.1 Sur,—As a schoolmaster, I entirely adopt the principle that "the beat way to evoke truthfulness in boys is uniformly...

GENERAL VON WERDER.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF TH1 SPECITATOB.1 Sin,—The statement that General von Werder accompanies the head-quarters of the Russian army, alluded to in an article of your last number as...

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THE GREAT ARTISTIC WANT OF ENGLA.ND.

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[SECOND LETTER) [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPICTATOR."] Sllt,—In a former letter I endeavoured to show the great advan- tages which would accrue from the formation of such a Museum...

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BOOKS.

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DR. ASA GRAY ON DARWINISM.* PROFESSOR GRAY has, in the volume under notice, presented nu , with a compilation of extremely thoughtful and erudite essays,. collected from the...

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"A DISCORD." *

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SOMETHING more than ordinary praise is due to a story which has a leading idea of its own, and works it out steadily, yet without wearying the reader with excessive iteration or...

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MR. ROBINSON ELLIS'S " CATULLUS."*

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IT is impossible not to feel very vividly how inadequate to the vast industry and learning of which this volume is the expression must be the brief and cursory notice which we...

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THE EPIC OF HADES.* IN the parts now published, the

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author of Songs of Two Worlds adds to that Epic of Hades which we noticed last year, two fresh parts, one depicting the pains of Tartarus, and one the perfect life of Olympus,...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE Fortnightly opens with a very strong and clear paper from Mr. Courtney upon "Our Eastern Policy," the drift of which is that British policy of late in the matter has been...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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The Church Quarterly Review. April, 1877.—This is a good number of a Review which is evidently written and edited by men of great scholarship. The original paper on "Justin...

The Trident, Me Crescent, and the Cross. By the Rev.

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James Vaughan. (Longmans.)—This volume, which contains much interest- ing matter, and is written, we think, with fairness and candour, is a review of the religious history of...

Theocritus. Donut) recensuit Christophorus Wordsworth, S.T.P., Episcopus Lincolniensis. (Daighton and

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Bell ; Bell and Sons.)—It is almost a surprise—so are things changed since the year of grace 1800 —to find a Bishop editing a Greek classic. And indeed Bishop Words- worth is...

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Herbert's Metropolitan Handbook. (Herbert and Co.)—Travelliog- about London and its

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suburbs is already a difficult art. Many of its inhabitants know little of it. To strangers, it is utterly perplexing. The neat little volume before as will be a welcome help....

Aldyth. By Jessie Fothergill. 2 vols. (Henry S. King and

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Co.)— This novel has the great merit of attracting and keeping the interest of the reader without the help of a plot, we might almost say without the help of incident. After the...

Love Without Wings. By Mrs. Adolphe Smith. 8 vols. (Tinsley

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Brothers.)—It is friendship, as the French proverb tells us, that is "love without wings," and the object of this story is to show how durable and powerful a thing it may be. It...

Savage and Civilised Rassia. By "W. R." (Longmans and Co.)—

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This work is more particularly a history of Russian "policy," and although we have a sketch of leading events down to the reign of Peter the Great, the latter and Ivan the...

Sermons. By the Rev. F. C. Wills. (J. T. Hayes.)—There

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is a cer- tain originality about Mr. Wills's sermons. The first begins thus :— "Perhaps this saying, What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own...

The Prince of Wales's Tour : a Diary in India.

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By W. H. Russell With Illustrations by Sydney P. Hall. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Tbe delay which has taken place, necessarily, it would seem, in bringing out this magnificent volume...

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The Graduated Course of Translation front English into French, by

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Professors Cassel and Karcher, contains a series of facts, anecdotes, sad for the senior course, of literary extracts, likely to prove of in- terest to the student, in giving...

fear d'Esprit. By Henry S. Leigh. (Ghetto and liVindus.)—The drawback

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to such a book as this is that if the selection is a good one, it is pretty sure to consist, for the most part, of things with which one is already quite familiar. Mr. Leigh's...

The Laurel Bush : an Old - Fashioned Love - Story. By the Author

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of "John Halifax, Gentleman." (Daldy, Isbister, and Co.)—The accom- plished author is always at home in a love-story. She enjoys the subject, and she treats it with all the...

We have to notice The Financial Register and Stock - Exchange Manual,

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1877 (C. and E. Layton), a volume which is described as a "statistical and historical year-book, showing the capital, dividends, and prices " of all kinds of funds, debts,...