T HE event of the week has been the publication on Monday of Lord Salisbury's brilliantly written but most dangerous circular on the Eastern Question, which we have discussed at...

the Reserves. On Monday a Message from the Queen, announcing the intention, was read in both Houses, and on Tuesday the Proclamation was formally issued. In the M essage it is...

to remain unchanged, and no " extraordinary" votes to be sanctioned,—were as follows :— ESTIMATED REVENUE FOR 1878 - 9. ESTIMATED EXPENDITURE FOR 1878 - 9. Customs £19,750,000...

are simple. He adds 2d. to the Income-tax, which ought, he says, to produce about £3,000,000 within the year, and £600,000 more in the next financial year ; and puts 4d. extra...

cerning the Congress, that there is about a month's blank in the story of the negotiations,—between the end of the first week in February, and the end of the first week in...

night. In relation to the past year, had it not been for the expenditure on the vote of credit, it would not have been un- favourable. Deducting that expenditure, there would...

case.

and more than 100 towns, waited on Wednesday on Lord Granville and Lord Hartington, to impress on them the- necessity of action in the present crisis. Their views were em-...

a wealthy Peer, noted for the sternness with which he governed his tenantry—who sat, however, at low rents—and for his hatred of the Irish Land Act, was on Tuesday morn- ing...

be some consolation to the •Constitutionalists in the Senate for the sacrifices which they have made to bring about practical harmony between the two Chambers. The three...

the India Office and a Peerage before the end of the Ses- sion, and Mr. F. Stanley accepts the Secretaryship for War. There is, therefore, only one new member of the Cabinet,...

was Sir Stafford Northcote's complaint of the rapid growth of the system of borrowing from the Government for local purposes at a low rate of interest, a system which has...

Granville, in a speech we have described elsewhere, showed how impossible it was for an Opposition to stop a Government resolved on war ; and Lord Harlington, though he...

Thursday publishes a shocking account of the atrocities perpetrated on some insurgents near Volo, in Thessaly, on the slopes of Mount Pelion, written by its own correspondent,...

J. Strachey's last Budget, condemning the increase in the duties on salt in Bombay and Madras, in order to equalise them over India, when they might have been equalised by...

it, and one half-night of it this week, over the Irish Sunday Closing Act ; and the " Obstructives " in this case were by no means exclusively Irishmen, many English Members...

anything. The whole of that story about Lady Rosebery's jewels, though minutely given in the Times of Friday week and other papers, was untrue. Burglars, between one and three...

Continent is almost unanimous in praising England for threatening Russia, no Continental Power has as yet shown any willingness to take serious part in a war with that country....

landing on the coast of Glamorganshire. A Cardiff house-decorator, Alfred John, took one last Sunday, which had been observed by his wife on a potato, to the police-station, and...

con- cerning the opening of certain popular places of amusement—like parts of the British Museum and the Zoological Gardens—to the people on Sunday, was more liberal and...

the crops excite very little interest, but they are by no means pleasant reading. The Madras correspondent of the Times, writing on March 2, says there are still 280,000 people...

THE BUDGET. T HE Budget is a timid affair. If the Government really expect war,—which, however, we must do Sir Stafford Northcote the justice of saying that he himself does not...

T HE Pall Mall Gazette of Tuesday adopted Lord Salisbury's Despatch as one of its own leading articles, whence we may infer that in the opinion of that journal the Government...

L ORD BEACONSFIELD has displayed his usual tact in re- organising his Ministry. It was essential to him, when Lord Derby seceded—avowedly because the measures accepted by the...

T HE meeting at the Westminster Palace Hotel on Wednes- day between 330 representative Liberals and the Liberal leaders will not, we fear, greatly strengthen the Opposition. The...

T HE first thought probably of every one on hearing that Mr. Hardy is to go to the House of Lords was,—What will the Oxford electors do to fill his place ? The Conservative...

M R. ANTHONY TROLLOPE is not a statesman, and does not profess, that we know of, to have mastered politics, but he occasionally gives the world valuable political infor- mation....

who will probably push to the front, as the older men drop off, is the Earl of Rosebery. A Radical, though not of a very Red colour, active to feverish- ness, and a very fair...

T HE three murders in Donegal are most disastrous events for Ireland, for one of them was prompted by agrarian hatred, and they rouse once more the fierce animosities of caste,...

TILE most remarkable paper in the new number of the n ht ly is that of Mr. Lyall,—that most vigilant and sardonic critic of Oriental religions, and indirectly of all...

SIR,—I would not seek to trespass upon the Spectator's great, I have sometimes ventured to think excessive, readiness to allow its own conclusions to be controverted in its own...

THE "SPECTATOR.") SIRS I must confess that it is to me a matter of surprise that Lord Houghton should not have been more widely supported in his opposition to the Bill for the...

[TO THE FD1TOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I should like to make a few remarks, suggested by what you said on Saturday week about " crotcbetty " Liberals. 'Whenever I read a...

THE CI-11NA FAMINE. [To THD EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, In connection with your recent and admirable article on the awful famine in China, the following extract from a...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Srn,—Your interesting article on Cats in last week's issue prompts me to send you the following entertaining instance of affection between a...

EURYDICE. STILL lives on earth the weird Hellenic myth, How Orpheus sought the dwellings of the dead, And moved to ruth the stony kings of Hell, And won the freedom of...

FINLAY'S HISTORY OF GREECE.* NOTHING can be more opportune than the republication of Mr.. Finlay's works by the Delegates of the Clarendon Press. Those who take an interest in...

LONDON HOSPITALS. THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Stn, —If you will permit it, I would fain open up a fresh vein of the obliging contributors towards the stock of amusing...

MR. MERRY modestly says in his preface that he has " not ventured to increase the bulk of the present volume by any Pro- legomena." Of course, we know nothing of any...

as at home, the first volume of this ]tanned and satisfying book drew much regard from competent judges of its value, and was welcomed by them with great cordiality. Its suc-...

which answers most fairly to its title, but which, being in a great measure a record of the personal experience of its author, and owing a good deal of its value to this very...

Miss Ellice Hopkins was Hinton's personal friend, and was able, by virtue of thorough congeniality of disposition, to know what he knew, to feel what he felt, to get exactly...

Shaw.)—There is no little evidence of power in this book, interest in the story, and vigour in the delineation of character. The " Knight " is no common-place philanthropist....

—Mr. Trollope is, for what he attempts, one of the most observant and valuable of travellers. Ho is a traveller emphatically of the modern kind. The great discoverers belong to...

History of the Indian Navy, 1613-1643. By Charles Rathbone Low. 2 vols. (Bontley.)—Lientenant Low deserves well of his country for collecting in these two volumes the records of...

Brothers.)—Success is not easy in the department of the historical romance. A writer has to risk comparison with great masters who have gone before him, and is tried by a...

of Brighton. (Henry S. King and Co.)—These Notes on Genesis— sketches, more or less full, of lectures on Genesis delivered by Mr. Robertson—will bo welcomed by the many who have...

Tinsley.)—Aunt Deborah's whim is to adopt an orphan girl, whom chance has thrown in her way. She has herself been an orphan, the unhappy charge of selfish relatives. The memory...

Abbott. (Remington and Co.)—Mr. Abbott's title-page is misleading. The events he chronicles do not, except in a very few instances, concern himself at all ; they are events of a...

In that pleasantest of all pleasant bachelor retreats—the Albany— a young man, in a sumptuous blue-satin smoking suit, reclined in the soft depths of a luxurious arm-chair. The...

Revised and Corrected by the Rev. F. C. T. Bosanquet. (Bell and Sons.) —This is a useful addition to " Behn's Classical Library." Melmoth's translation is spirited and vigorous,...

volume of nearly eight hundred pages, we have a complete account of the great Ritual case. Tho volume begins with the articles of accusation brought by the three parishioners of...

Belloy. With fifty-one drawings on wood and six etchings by Lriopold Flamong. (Marcus Ward and Co.)—The narrative is bright and readable. It has nothing now to tell us about...

(Murray.)—This edition, published after an interval of nearly 30 years, is so much enlarged that it may almost be called a now book. Mr. Colquhoun has, indeed, incorporated with...

Sketchley. 2 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—Hero wo have a story, in no way remark- able, of two young people who fall in love with each other, marry in haste, and repent at leisure....

J. Davidson. (Simpkin and Marshall.)—This little volume is meant to be a sort of guide-book to a portion of the Bible, and a very useful one it will be found. It analyses and...

Elder, and Co.)—The plan of the book is a not uningeuious method of introducing three love-stories, wo may even say four, for the chaperon does a little business on her own...

Meta Orrod. (Chap- man and Hall.)—This is a bewildering book. The heroine has a month "that gave one a curious feeling of quietude and self-control," which seems an impossible...

—This story is founded, wo learn from the title-page, on " Anne Rose, a Domestic Story, from the Dutch of J. J. Cremes." We did not find it at all easy to read this novel,...

Mait- land. (Remington and Co.)—This is an unfortunately selected sample of N. About's works for translation into English. In the original, it is a heavy and laboured jeu...