delivery and re- pulse of a great Russian attack on Plevna on Tuesday week (25th September) was fully justified. No such attack was made, and therefore no such repulse was...

the Pengo case, partly due to a third statement of Clara Brown's, published in Monday's Daily Telegraph, which makes much stronger state- ments,—especially against Patrick...

fixed for October 14, that the Cabinet remains outwardly united, that the Bishops are delivering charges imploring the faith- ful to vote for the Conservative factions, and that...

coming coup d'etat. The latest report is that Marshal MacMahon has re- solved not to endure defeat at the polls, that the Government has determined on using military force, and...

case.

Tuesday a grand effort to recover his position in Armenia. The army, commanded by General Loris Melikoff, attacked the Turkish forces before Kars, and after seizing the heights...

warm debate arose on the subject of Confession, a "rider" being moved to a resolution in favour of the connexion between Church and State, which made that connexion conditional...

T HE Pashas at Constantinople are evidently not so contented with the progress of the war as their admirers in London. They -consider that Mehemet Ali should have attacked the...

Naples—who died this day week, in his sixty-seventh year—Rome has lost probably the best candidate whom the Conclave could have chosen, if they had intended to try the...

day, upon the Eastern Question, in which he stated that England was bound by treaty to maintain the integrity of the Ottoman Empire ; that "Russian atrocities" were as bad as...

to a meeting of Odd Fellows upon thrift, in the course of which, while defending the Poor-law as a defence against revolution, he sug- gested that means might yet be found by...

to injure the Russians. A body of Szeklers, a Magyar nationality on the Roumanian frontier, are said to have been bribed with English sovereigns, "supplied by to Members of...

in the papers of yesterday week, that we were unable to notice it in our last impression. Indeed, it was hardly re- ported at all till Saturday. It was eloquent enough, but in...

the management of the Famine, entrusting absolute control to the Duke of Buckingham personally, aided, or rather guided, by General Kennedy, an officer who has dealt...

a very grave and well-considered manner a dreadful charge against the Turks. He says the higher officers positively refuse to allow amputations, holding it better that their own...

Mechanics' Institute, on Tuesday, defended the study of history, intelligently taught, as a discipline for children, against even the intelligent teaching of science, but...

address to the Birmingham Midland Institute, the chief -subject of which,—physical and moral necessity,—we have sufficiently discussed elsewhere. Professor Tyndall began,...

the greatest artist, both as singer and actress, of her time. No decline of her unequalled powers had taken place; she never sang more superbly or acted more grandly than on the...

and it is probable that what with the gradual revival of business and the great expenditure going on in the East, the day of excessively cheap money is over for some time.

Moriarty, Bishop of Kerry, died at his palace at Tralee on Monday last, in the sixty-seventh year of his age, after an episco- pate of twenty-one years. He was at once the most...

New York. He states, among other facto, that he repeatedly bought legislative assistance with the money plundered from the City, -and on one occasion carried a Charter Act by an...

in the theatre of the London Institution, and it has been attended by about 150 representatives, the great German librarians being, however, mostly conspicuous by their absence....

little to boast of as to fraud. A report was recently circulated that the Midland Railway had been victimised by a series of "gigantic frauds," and though this is an...

THE CHANCES OF RUSSIAN SUCCESS. T HERE is one point in this Eastern campaign which those who are so certain of Russian defeat do not appear to us fully to realise, and that is,...

French Elections will come off, and as yet nothing, or only one thing, has occurred to affect the Liberal anticipations of their result. The Government has made no step in...

T O any one who is really anxious to explain the tendencies in English public opinion on the War, the last week or two must have offered new symptoms of considerable moment. It...

I N the new number of the Fortnightly 1?eview we find the first instalment of a series of conversations between Thiers and the late Mr. Senior, held in 1852 after the coup...

murder case has called forth an extraordinary amount of criticism. The circumstances that four persons have been condemned to death, that all of them are young, and that two of...

P ROFESSOR TYNDALL is a great populariser, and we can- not doubt that his attempt at the Midland Institute on Monday to reason from the principle that the quantity of physical...

I T is of little use, we fear, to write upon the subject which in India is called the " Presidency " question. The majority of English politicians will not attend to it, and the...

" MAKE care how you step," says a courteous official, who has 1. preceded the visitor up a staircase in one of the houses in Scotland Yard, and opened a door on an upper floor ;...

G AMBLING is generally considered by modern Europe to be a vice. But as to what gambling is, probably scarcely two people's opinions entirely coincide. No definition of it is...

[TO TIDI EDITOR OF Tlla "SPEOTATOR."] Srn, — In the columns of one of your contemporaries, I observe ei brief notice of a sermon lately preached on a Sunday to an enor- mous...

A LESSON FROM THE PENGE MURDER. [TO TIM EDITOR OF THE “SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—In commenting on the horrible story of poor Harriet Staunton, the Times of the 27th ult. made the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " srsonzon."] Sin,—The Oxford University Commissioners have struck their first blow, a blow which more resembles a random essay of strength than a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTE.TOR,'] !SIR,—The death of the wretched mammal which was brought to the Aquarium at 1Vestininster has supplied a text for much gush- ing composition....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTITOR,"] Ern,—It was with great satisfaction that I read the letter from the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke in the Spectator of September 15th, for until...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 4 TRII "SPEOTATOR1 trust you may consider the following experiment worthy of record in your paper, because it differs from cases of abnormal slate-writing of...

CHURCH AND BRODR1BB'S "TACITUS." W1iEN Lamennais was engaged on his translation of Dante, a literary friend wrote to dissuade him from his arduous under- TI.e Complete Ilrurka...

GATHERED It OSES. ONLY a bee made prisoner, Caught in a gathered rose ! Was he not 'ware, a flower so fair For the first gatherer grows ? Only a heart made prisoner, Going...

EDGES of stormy dawn and murky night, Trespassing harshly on his mellow hours, October plucks the present while it flowers, And revels as a splendid Sybarite. What tho' his...

been said that Queen Anne was, from an historic point of view, the name rather of a period than of a person, and more or less that is certainly true. Yet Anne was a sovereign...

that the Camden Society have, on the whole, judged rightly in deciding to publish these documents relating to the character and career of one of the most singular persons of...

CAN any one who read Malcolm have forgotten it ? We think not. The types of character pourtrayed in it were too distinct and individual, were, moreover, altogether of too...

BY far the most interesting paper in the magazines of this month is Mr. Gladstone's singular essay upon the Colour-sense, in the Nineteenth Century. Mr. Gladstone is under the...

this time. Accordingly we have The Blue - Goat Boys ; or, School Lift in Christ's Hospital, with a short history of the foundation, by William Harnett Blanch (C. W. Allen); and...

Essentials of English Grammar. By W. D. Whitney. (Henry S. king and Co.)—The author's book on the life and growth of language is n guarantee for his ability to treat tho...

of Horace's special charms is that he tolls us BO much about him- self, and his tastes and sentiments, with the most delightful frankness. Of all the authors of antiquity, he...

tho science of law, is is subject which, for some reason or other, ban not boon systematically treated by many English lawyers. Bentham and the late Mr. Austin are, of course,...

By G. F, Rod- well. (Marcus Ward.)—Mr. Rodwell makes, it is evident, good use of his holidays. Travel is not always a neoftil way of employing them. It may, unless discreetly...

"Dowerless Damsel" goes oat to Alexandria as governess to a Pasha's daughter, goes thence to study art in Rome, and finally takes leave of her readers in Venice with a hint...