resignation was not accepted, and he remains Chancellor, with certain additional authority over all other Ministers except the War Minister. He obtains also an indefinite leave...

Budget to the House of Commons. It was an original one in its way, because it proposed no change at all in the taxes, neither remissions nor additions. A statuesque budget is...

afloat. It is said that Prince Nicholas of Montenegro will recommence hostilities on the 24th, and this is probably true, unkess he sends aid to the Miridites, who have already...

adopted by the British Government. The most definite account is that Lord Derby has written to the Porte, stating that it has no aid to expect from London ; but this is denied,...

T HE hopes, or fears, of peace are nearly over. The Turkish Government has sent a Circular to its agents which is en- tirely in the old tone of easy contempt for Europe and...

mates were as follows :— Total Revenue for 1877-78 £79,020,000 —showing a surplus of about £226,000 (more exactly, £225,956). The very large miscellaneous revenue includes...

Society with the long name,—" The Society for the Libera- tion of Religion from State Patronage and Control,"—was got together at the Westminster Palace Hotel on the Govern-...

Wednesday. DUring a discussion on a Newspaper Registration Bill, brought forward'hy Mr. Waddy, which provides that the proprie- tors of every newspaper shall be registered, Dr....

cated the property of his Finance Minister, Ismail Sadyk, who was banished to Upper Egypt, and died either there or on his route. His property included some 300 female slaves,...

the Exchequer had scarcely assigned sufficient importance to the growing causes of commercial depression, Mr. Childers insisting that the falling-off of revenue had been a...

troops from Charleston, and Mr. Chamberlain has surrendered the government of South Carolina without resistance to Mr. Wade Hampton, the Democratic candidate. A similar order is...

inquiry into the condition and revenues of the Eighty-nine Compa. nies in the City of London. His case was that these Companies enjoyed revenues of unknown amount, with which...

by the death of Mr. Cawley will probably be a sharp one. The Liberal candi- date chosen is Mr. Kay, Q.C., who is ill, and cannot canvass for himself, though Sir William Jenner...

in a six days' walk,—Weston (the American) having walked in the eix days 510 miles, and O'Leary 520. O'Leary, a native of Cork, and now a naturalised citizen of the United...

the Home Secretary stated that his attention had been called to the frightful mishap in the execution at Leede,—when the rope broke, and ten minutes of suspense intervened...

convinced that the Church was being persecuted by the State, but he is now evidently on the verge of the conviction that in the nature of things the Church ought to prevail...

ging in the Navy, and defended his position that flogging was quite unnecessary, and might be made an instrument of oppres- sion by a tyrannical officer, in a very able speech....

has rejected the offer of confederation, and according to Sir T. Shepstone, quoted by Mr. Lowther on Monday, the Republic is in a state of complete anarchy. It is believed that...

by the Dean of St. Paul's and the other moderate High- Churchmen, to which we called attention last week, ma letter which fights shy of the representations that memorial...

Bosnia from a correspondent unusually acquainted with the affairs of the province, and Mr. Jenkins asked in the House if they were true. Mr. Bourke said he would inquire, and on...

THE COMING WAR. I T is difficult, as we watch the situation in the East, not to receive the impression that the world is on the eve of one of those great movements which alter...

T HE sigh of relief with which elderly members of the London Clubs received the information that the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer had made no change at all in the taxation of...

S IR HARDINGE GIFFARD is in Parliament at last, and his maiden speech is considered by all Tories fully to justify the obstinacy with which the Government adhered to their...

I N the Protocol and its annexes, the Loodicean foreign policy of Lord Derby attains to something like its culminating point, and,—let us hope,—also its euthanasia. Whatsoever...

CHAMI3ERLAIN'S very interesting and straightforward speech to the Birmingham Liberal Association begins with a string of congratulations which are hardly borne out by the facts...

/1110RIES and Liberals alike begin to doubt whether the new Leader of the House of Commons is strong enough for that place. Sir Stafford Northcote has, as yet, had nothing like...

comment on the recklessness of the humanitarianism that does not shrink even from war in the interest of a number of fearfully oppressed races, win of course an easy though a...

O NE of the most childlike and in its way amusing paragraphs in Mr. Ruskin's anticipatory will, on which we commented last week, is the one in which he announces that he intends...

W HEN Mr. Charles Dickens and Mr. Wilkie Collins went on their "Lazy Tour" in their ironically-assumed character of "Two Idle Apprentices," they halted for a time at Lancaster,...

A LAYMAN'S DOUBTS.—H. MO THE EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR.") Sm,—It is related of Coleridge, I think, that having expressed a desire for a reasonable faith to his tutor, the latter...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—Allow me as an earnest Churchman to thank you heartily for your admirable leader on the High-Church Memorial. As one of the late...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your criticism of "A Critical History of the Late American War" you professedly convict me of an essential error in respect to an...

[To THIS EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Mr. T. G. MacCarthy is a M.P. and Home Ruler, but his answer to my letter in your paper of March 31 is quite contrary to the facts. The...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—I beg the favour of a small space to say a few words in reference to the Society mentioned in your article of last week, on "The late...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Allow me to correct an error of fact in your review of the " Epigrammatists," in the Spectator of March 31. The reviewer states:—" No...

THE LATE MRS. NASSAU SENIOR'S WORK. [" Her unreserved self-devotion to the care of all to whom she could minister was inspired by an absolutely single-minded longing for their...

VICTOR HUGO'S NEW POEM.* THE mere publication of M. Victor Hugo's new work is a note- worthy fact in literary history. Many centuries hence, the Athenmus or Isaac Disraeli of...

[SECOND NOTICE.] 4 THE earliest human groups," says Mr. M'Lennan, "can have had no idea of kinship." There is something almost startling about this proposition when heard for...

WALES, land of mists and mountains, of harp and song, is the home of Glan-Alarch, an ancient bard, who in his poem sings the glories of his chieftain, Eurien,— " Lord of lands...

a hundred and fifty pages will be found much matter entertaining and instructive alike to many readers besides holders of Peruvian Bonds. Although of Mr. Duffield's some- what...

THIS is a pamphlet of 500 pages, rather than a book, but it is an invaluable pamphlet. A strong sympathy with the Christians of the East, so oppressed for ages, has induced Mr....

The British Quarterly Review. April. (Hodder and Stoughton.)— The essay entitled " Reform in Turkey and Coercion" is an able resume" e the recent history and present condition...

Fowler, MA., F.R.G.S., F.S.A. (Sampson Low and Co.) — The modest dimensions of Mr. Fowler's book are a sufficient indication of the author's intention in writing it, namely, not...

Boston, U.S.; Triibner, London.)—We have seen before some of Mr. Warner's notes and impressions of travel, and have found in them the charm of vivacity and humour. This volume...

(Charing Cross Publishing Company.)—This is an exceedingly odd book. The writer has taken great pains to interest us in the personages of his story, and although the details of...

Climate. Compiled by John Crounabie Brown, LL.D. (Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.)—It would be impossible in these columns to do justice to this compilation," as Dr. Brown modestly...