on Monday a pathetic picture of the consequences of annexa- tion to that city. There are 3,000 empty homes, and the value of property has fallen from 90,000,000 marks to...

or disarms, to attack France has grown stronger all the week. We have shown elsewhere some reasons for distrusting it, but may add here that it is possible the military party in...

for giving municipalities power to compel the sale to them, on fair compensations, of the retail liquor-businesses within their jurisdiction, was a marked Parliamentary success....

that it will never give us speeches from Berlin in extmo. Prince Bismarck has evidently been groaning again over his worries, a symptom which with him always means that he is...

be signified that he would not yield, and it is hinted, that Senator Cameron might have a European Mission, but should not keep his son in the War Department, and the opposition...

in Bosnia has assumed larger proportions, and the incessant out- rages on the population are exciting them to madness. The tax-gatherers visit the villages followed by...

T HE Government has replied to the latest Russian proposal by cepting it "in principle," and rejecting it in fact. General Ign4eff, according to the best accounts, asked that...

case.

affairs which the Liberal leaders have maintained, and which we cannot but think with him they have carried too far. He there- fore on Friday gave notice of the following adroit...

be put on the Married Women's Property Act, was decided by Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Melina on Tuesday. A farmer near Halifax, of the name of Thomas Outram, engaged as...

accounts fcr 1875-76 show a revenue of £52,515,789, and an expenditure of £55,117,536, thus leaving a deficit of £2,601,747. The nearly-closed accounts for 1876-77 show a...

Mr. Pope Hennessy had stated in a public meeting at Cork that "he had never been in a community where there was such deliberate oppression of the masses as in the community of...

out to have little or nothing to do with the grievances of the Dissenters. It is rather like a game of cross-questions and con- trary answers; the Dissenters asked for equality...

a Conservative magistrate, Sir J. Kennaway (M.P. for East Devon), and was opposed by Sir H. Selwin-Ibbetson, the Under-Secretary for the Home Department, on the not very suffi-...

men into California has reported that the influx is injurious. The Chinese are declared to be foully immoral, to avoid inter- marriage, to herd together in separate quarters, in...

Cemetery, an immense crowd attending his remains to the grave. The usual Church of England service was read over his body by the chaplain of the cemetery, after which e7oges...

markable exploit achieved off Cherbourg, on the part of a little torpedo-craft called the Thorneyeroft.' Of the Thorneyeroft' very little is visible above water ; on the surface...

Naval Engineers, when moving the Navy Estimates on Monday night, seems to be of the nature of a homceopathic reform. He proposes to increase their number by nineteen, on 1,218...

can do in the way of reforming the national spelling, and have defeated by 26 to 5 a very sensible resolution proposed by Mr. Firth, which would have had the effect of shelving...

Dean Elliot in the chair, to hear a lecture from Mr. B. Douglas, the secretary to the "Society for the Protection of Animals Liable to Vivisection,"—a meeting much interrupted...

in the Rdinkergh Royal Institution last Monday week, Professor Rutherford presented the results of a new series of those cruel and protracted experiments made on the bile-ducts...

THE NEGOTIATIONS. I F the proposals now under discussion are sincere, and are intended to mean what the public understand them to mean—both which propositions we still...

W E have some reason to fear that the English people, like most other peoples, has more of sensibility than of tenacity and constancy of feeling in relation to a subject that...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S very remarkable speech on Tues- day in moving the resolution giving municipal corpora- tions "the right to acquire compulsorily, on payment of fair...

W E wonder if the country gentlemen understand what their favourite Government did for them on Friday week. Mr. Read's proposal, as we shall shortly show, was that the entire...

is p once with Slav feeling, intended to make some private agreement faintest provocation, in order to meet a danger which is con- with Turkey, the result of which would be...

should be done on the same day. The case which has lately been tried at such length at the Central Criminal Court is a conspicuous illustration of this. There are no startling...

T HE wife of the Vicar of Boston Spa, near Leeds, is, we doubt not, a little astonished, and a good deal "aggravated," at the commotion she has raised throughout Yorkshire, and...

S INGULAR news has recently been received from an Austra- lian observatory respecting the largest and most massive of the Planets. We have from time to time called the attention...

111HE Americans have not bought the beautiful samples of Art 1 Needlework which were sent to the Centennial Celebration at Philadelphia, and which we should have thought some of...

exciting so much interest in England, where two of our most pressing needs just now are cheaper meat and outlets for our boys, that any authentic information about it is of...

"DECORA'11VE ART." tTo ?NB Emma os TEN " Bracuros.i Sin,—The current number of the Spectator contains an article on "Popular Art" which is calculated to mislead the innocent...

NOT YET. Nov yet, not yet, the light ; Underground, out of sight, Like moles, we blindly toil. On,—though we know not where ; Some day the upper air, The sun, and all things...

[TO THE EJHTOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Si,-.-The late discussions on the Tooth case raise anew a ques- tion that has long troubled the heads of the Church, and indeed all who...

(To TIM EDITOR OF FHB "SPEOTATOR.1 should not have thought of troubling you with any re- marks on your review of my article on "Reasonable Faith," ex- cept to ask you to...

POPULAR ART.—H. DECORATIVE FURNISHING. HAVING made last week some general remarks upon the ignorant character of a great deal of the design which is at present held up to the...

HARRIET MARTINEAU.* [SECOND NOTICE.] THERE can be no doubt that this autobiography is an exceedingly frank book, written by an exceedingly able and courageous woman ; but...

THE interest and importance so often attaching to the papers published at the present day in the form of contributions to re- views and magazines and other so-called ephemeral...

DB. MAHAN has written a book which shows how dangerous it may be to neglect, during a war, the plans of one who has "made the science of war a subject of careful study from his...

MR. CARLYLE, in one of his "Essays," makes some strong and not altogether unjust observations on the whole class of " Apolo- gies," so numerous in these days. "Instead of heroic...

IF one may speak confidently on such a matter from one's own experience, it must be a rare thing for a critic to put down a novel, having read every word of it, and find himself...

Glencairn is a painful story, not without talent, but certainly not written with that commanding power which is especially necessary f r tales which must succeed by extorting...

Shakespeare Manual. By F. G. Fleay. (Macmillan.)—Mr. Fleay supplies the student of Shakespeare with a variety of information, which has been carefully gathered, and is...

Hole in the Eastern Wall, a feeble imitation of "Dame Europa's School." The only noticeable thing about it is the quarter from which it comes. It main- tains the principle that...

(Bentley.)—The first half of the first volume of this novel gives a pro- mise which the remainder of it does not fulfil. It is not that the power of the writer fails, or that...

box of ex- quisitely drawn and coloured Easter Cards. If Easter cards be institu- tions which conduce in any way to the feelings appropriate to the time of year,—which we...

—Normandy is, so to speak, Miss Julia Kavanagh's "native heath ;" she is nowhere else so much at home, and we have always reason to be glad when she returns from it. The "Two...

and Bogne.)—The substance of the first part of this book was delivered in the form of lectures at the South Kensington Museum, where a ' splendid collection of illustrations was...

and Co.)—This handbook treats principally of the comparative anatomy of the different genera and species, and a student would derive ne profit from it who is not tolerably well...

(Tinsley Brothers.)—It was Mr. Welper's intention to present his readers with a simple narrative, quite free from any sensational element. We cannot say that he has quite...

and Blackett.)—On the one hundred-and-seventy-eighth page of the third volume of this book we find a chapter, entitled," Beginning of my Golden Summer." Surely this is trifling...

(Stanford.)—Mr. Rowan speaks plainly to the young gentlemen who fancy that belonging to a good family, riding and shooting well, and having a taste for country pursuits, are...

been able to judge by experience, are of the most successful school-books of the present day, is the In- troduction to Greek Prose Composition, with Exercises, by A. Sidgwick...