from Vienna. Count Andrassy has obtained his six millions from the Delegations of the two Parliaments, by speeches which, as reported, are hardly intelligible. He says...

the Eastern Question. Lord Derby is inclined to press the claims of the Greeks to extension of territory, and has formally requested that a Greek representative may be admitted...

of Victoria between the Council and the Assembly, nominally about the payment of Members, but really about the right of the popular House to override the nominated one on money...

the subject of Mr. Layard's improper action in the matter of the correspondence between Mr. Gladstone and M. Negroponte- appeared a fresh despatch of Mr. Layard's on the...

case.

7IHE difficulty of the hour is the settlement of the preliminaries to the Congress. The English War party is unwilling to enter Congress at all, holding that its proceedings...

the Vernacular Press. On the 14th inst. the Viceroy's Council, declaring that this Press included seditious, extortionate, and scandalous journals, passed a law enabling any...

selection of Lord Lyons as the British Representative. He made a wild and discursive speech, declaring that Lord Lyons did not know English opinion, and held private opinions...

ever for Mr. Evelyn Ashley to bring on his motion expressing the " regret " of the House at the part taken by her Majesty's Ambas- sador at Constantinople in the Negroponte...

for the next election, Mr. Gladstone has given them notice that though he has no intention of resigning his seat, so as to cause all the trouble of a bye-election, yet he feels...

Capital Punishment Abolition Bill, which was refused, by a majority of 199 (263 against 64), or more than four to one. The Attorney-General did not deny that some modifications...

feeling which is, we believe, very prevalent in this country, and may heavily weight the Greeks in their advance towards a reasonable amount of territory. He broke out furiously...

in the case of " Combe v. Edwards," took occasion to deal with the false idea that a new and independent Court was created by the Public Worship Act for cases arising under it,...

the Royal Society on "Experimental Researches on the Temperature of the Head," in which the writer, Dr. Lombard, showed that mental activity will at once raise the temperature...

London School of Medicine for Women by the late Mrs. Oakes, of Sydney, Australia. The success of the movement for the Medical Educa- tion of Women in this country may be...

of Lords, for an address to her Majesty praying her to issue a Royal Commission "to inquire into the law and existing prac- tice as to the patronage, sale, exchange and...

House of Commons in favour of Mr. Hare's scheme for the representation of minorities, on behalf of which Mr. Courtney and others spoke very ably ; while Mr. Edward Jenkins...

the award of the Fishery Commissioners, giving England a lump sum for the surrender of her exclusive claims to fishing on the Canadian codfish banks. They say their fishermen...

ing Cirencester on behalf of the Liberals,. for he must have been well aware that there was hut little chance of his success. - There was no contest in 1874, and. even in 1868...

Cape was carried out by Sir Bartle Frere on grave constitutional grounds. The Premier, Mr. Molteno, demanded that Sir A. Cunynghame, though appointed to the chief command of all...

THE CONGRESS. T HE political temper of the moment in reference to the meeting of the Congress, or Conference, at Berlin, is a very gloomy one. It is supposed that Russia has so...

M R. FAWCETT will, we trust, at once call the earnest atten- tion of Parliament to the amazing law just passed by the Legislative Council in India in restriction of the Native...

J S not all this unanimity premature, or at all events a little sudden ? It is only yesterday that we were all contending about the Eastern Question and its proper solution, and...

T HE debate of Tuesday night will not conduce to Mr. Layard's credit, or to his repute at Constantinople. His friends admit, though they palliate, his "indiscretion." His...

the War party in this country which are, if not mutually self-destructive, at least contradictory, but which seem to be immovable. One is, that there exists a secret league of...

for £14 remainin g due on a locket which she had undertaken to pay for by instalments out of her separate estate, they reckoned without her husband. They had supposed or had...

T HE common notion about China that it is a country whose inhabitants are so strictly utilitarian that no room is left for the action of the fancy or the imagination, will...

T HE prophets of commercial evil were never busier in England than they are at this moment. According to them, the teruntry has lost within a few years one-half of its...

THE LEGITIMATE SPHERE OF AGNOSTICISM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Among the many hindrances to clearness of faith in these days, there is one which does not appear...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—" J. C. W." will, I hope, allow me to thank him for his excellent exemplification supplied so aptly to my argument. My argument was...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?') SIR,—Anti-Turk as I am in my sympathies, I cannot agree with those who would wish England to join in the partition of the "Sick Man's"...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.-] SIE,—In your article on "The Peace," you allude to what you 'describe as "the grand weakness of democracy, its terrible lia- bility to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."' Sin,—In your impression of last week you say, referring to the introduction of the telephone in China, "the telegraph being useless, as they...

"THOSE TURNER DRAWINGS." [FIRST NOTICE.] AT the Fine-Art Society's Galleries, 148 New Bond Street, may now be seen daily a collection of pictures chiefly referred to in -...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") Sin, —May I venture to tell two very slight incidents which may touch others as they have touched me, and may perhaps through you reach some...

IRISH SONG. [Suggested by four lines in Banting's collection,—to the air of "The Rejected Lover."] ON Innisfallen's fairy isle, Amid the blooming bushes, We leant upon the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In your article on Lord Midleton's motion in the House of Lords last week respecting the change of time of the meeting of the House,...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Mr. Willis Nevins pleads with English Catholics for 268 clergymen of the Hungarian branch of their communion, who have embraced...

MOORE'S LITERARY REMAINS.* WE have not much liking for the industry which drags to light "suppressed passages," unearths work which an author deliber- ately doomed to oblivion,...

Classics for English Readers," has for its immediate successors an account of Voltaire, by the well-known author of Lady Lee's Widowhood, and an account of Pascal, by Principal...

WHILE Mr. Forbes's work, as a thoughtful and well-arranged -statement of a branch of the law on which no text-book pre- viously existed, will earn him reputation as a lawyer, it...

"WATCHMAN, what of the night ?" was the cry of the ancient seer, as dimly through the darkness his eye caught the first faint indications of the coming day. "Watchman, what of...

IT is to be regretted that the Royal Academy did not think fit to send a representative of England to the Rubens tercentenary * Art, Revue Hebdomadaire Jilusfre. Troisreme...

Phelps has before this written so well, that it is a great disappoint- ment to find her sending out a book which is, in many places, as nearly unreadable as a really able writer...

G. H. Wratislaw, MA. (Bell and Sons.)—These interesting lecture; delivered at Oxford, on the lichester Foundation, will be read - with much pleasure. Mr. Wratislaw has both the...

It is enough," said Rasselas,—" you have convinced me that no man can be a poet." Professor Church's readers will be inclined to say to him, Yon have convinced us that no man...

A Sussex Idyl. By Clementine Black. (S. Tinsley.)—There is always a certain interest in the story of how a man marries or loves be- neath him, though it is a subject which...

of the Two Knaves and a Queen. By Frank Barrett. 3 vols. (Tinsley Prince, whoever he may be, will naturally be to make the supreme Brothers.)—This novel, like many others,...

Holme Lee's" novels. They are always carefully executed, for though she writes much, she does not so overtask her pen as to be obliged to hurry its work. And thoroughly...

the latter scenes are Laxton's Builders' Price - Book, 1878, 12mo tSlmpkin & Co.) 4/0 genuinely dramatic. The end of the " Two Knaves" is a scene skilfully conceived and...

is the "second annual publication" of a useful work, which, we are glad to find from the preface, has met with a favourable reception. To this edition has been added a brief...

C. Jack, Edinburgh).—The maps in this work are by Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnstone, and it will be completed in two more volumes, which are to be issued within the year.

Wilson. (Hamilton and Co.)—This is by no moans, as some might hastily suppose, a mere taking title for a volume of lectures or discourses, which was indeed our own supposition...