all this week, but they have taken no intelligible form. The idea at Pesth is that the Government is mobilising an army to resist Russia in certain eventualities, but that idea...

Liberal feeling in the Peers shows itself in a visible and sometimes even in an energetic form, just for the same reason for which it happens that when the monarch is...

of prorogation, when the Due de Broglie at once read in the Senate a message from the Marshal, stating that France, like him- self, desires to maintain " intact the institutions...

crossed, though the rumours of an immediate attempt have become lively, but the Russians have gained an important success on the Asiatic side. On the 15th inst. they attacked a...

that Government intended to ask Parliament for 15,000,000, to place the Army and Navy in readiness for any eventualities. The rumour was first circulated by the English...

very exciting. M. Paul de Cassagnac and M. Mitehell were most violent and furious in their interruptions of the Republican speakers, the former, it is said, having interrupted...

a terrible calamity. A fire broke out in it at 2.30 on Wednesday, and burnt all through the evening and night, till half the town was destroyed, and 15,000 people made homeless....

case.

Northbrook and Lawrence, on Friday week gave expression to a sense of uneasiness strongly felt by all Anglo-Indians. He wanted to know what was doing up there on the North-West...

in which he stated that the Famine had converted what would have been a surplus of £624,000 into a deficit of £1,858,158. The revenue for the year ending 31st March, 1877, was...

of Canterbury and the three Bishops of Exeter, Oxford, and St. Asaph on the aide of Lord Harrowby's resolution, while eight Bishops (those, namely, of Bangor, Carlisle,...

recently punished for selling a book containing advice in favour of the restriction of population by physical means. Mr. C. Bradlaugh and Mrs. Besant, who apparently believe...

great ornament, while every man and woman, whether learned in the law or not, will feel that the death of one who seems to have struggled throughout his professional life with...

Press, was transferred to the House of Commons. It concerned the stability of the 'Inflexible,' and Fillips like her,—i.e., ships with a plated " citadel " and unarmoured...

neaday against the policy of delay which was proposed by the opponents of medical degrees for women, by a majority of 16 against 11. The debate turned chiefly on the...

friend in Pennsylvania, Mr. G. W. Childs, expressing his plea- sure at the cordial welcome he has met with in England, where he says the cities have overwhelmed him with invita-...

the sporting world more attention than the death of a great politician would. Admiral Rous was a most gallant and successful sailor, but piqued by some formal censure from the...

of keeping Indian accounts. Public Works Extra- ordinary, that is, works intended to be remunerative, are in future to be treated separately, to have a Debt of their own, and...

Pigott, to the head of the Stationery Office, from which Mr. W. R. Greg has just retired in consequence of failing health, has broken through, apparently without any adequate...

the Times, what appears to us to be an admirable and practical suggestion as to the beat method of ascertaining the various improvements in arts and manufactures brought to...

Houle of Com- mons as the House of Commons has of Mr. Parnell. Like M. de Fourtou addressing the French Chamber, he says virtually, in a lecture on the House of Commons, which...

T HE "Majority of the 18th June,"—as the French teach us to call it,—in the House of Lords, may, if it is followed up, prove almost as important an event to the Constitution of...

l'ELPI WAR. rE RE is one lesson to be drawn from the history of this war as far as it has yet gone, which should be gratifying to Englishmen. It is becoming clear that for...

French Chambers met again on Saturday, and by the T .:I: Time these lines are in the hands of our readers, the dissolution will, in all probability, have been accorded by the...

debate in the Lords on Friday week on the Frontier policy of the Indian Government was very important and: instructive, but it was, for good and substantial reasons not, quite...

T HE present House of Commons has a fellow-feeling for the stupid boy of the family. It is conscious, perhaps, that if there could be a competitive examination of Parliaments,...

A N adroit effort has lately been made to endanger the safety of the New Forest, although the Government and the House of Commons are agreed that it should be preserved. The...

W E sincerely trust that when Mr. Trevelyan takes his division on County Suffrage, which will probably be next Friday night, all the Liberal leaders will be found voting on his...

I Harriet Martineau's very vivid autobiography we receive 1 an impression which is no doubt very much, and very naturally, in advance of the truth, of the effect produced by her...

W E do not exactly know why everybody is pleased with the conclusion of the Walrond case. To.us it seems eminently unsatisfactory, as one more example of the mischief produced...

I N the past fortnight we have had more than the usual evidence that the hold of Cricket on our people is at least as firm as ever. Besides the reports of matches which fill so...

MR. MAURICE AND ECCLESIASTICISM. [TO THE EDITOE 01 TEl "SPECTATOR-1 STH,—Mr. Oakley and Mr. Sarson, in whose eyes the Ritualists are a persecuted minority, representing...

[TO THB EDITOR 01 THE SPECTATOR.") am sanguine enough to hope that the second of the two letters you have done me the honour to insert will have made clear to most of your...

Srn,—The very gratifying notice of Cheyne Hospital in your article on " Hospital Organisations," in the Spectator for June 16, is likely to be so widely noticed, that I venture...

LORD JUSTICE MELLLSH. BRAVE Soul, who well the anguish didst endure Of thy life's scourge ; controlling more and more By patient will the taint, which baffled cure, Of fell...

" SPZOTAVOR."1 Sin,—Your observations on the poverty and narrowness of the late debate on Capital Punishment, as shown more especially in the omission of what is certainly a...

THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sra,—From an Elzevir in my possession, entitled " Turcici Imperil Status," and published in 1630, I have gleaned almost at random the following...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FINAL NOTICE.] Is our previous notices of this year's Exhibition, we have taken the pictures in the order in which they are arranged in the gallery, and...

THE LETTERS OF THOMAS ERSKINE.* ON May 24, 1831, and very early in the morning, Mr. John MacLeod Campbell was deposed by the General Assembly from the Ministry of the Kirk of...

A GRACEFUL and charming story, with just enough outline and colour for a beautiful sketch, and not so much detail of incident as to make the outline seem inadequate and the...

us that Bernardino Ochino's sermons on free-will were translated into English by the accomplished mother of the philosopher, adding that this fact is " the more curious, because...

A BOOK can scarcely fail to be valuable, if it be the mature out- come of years of reflection, discussion, and labour in connection with one subject. Such a book is this. It is...

familiar to all students of Greek philo- sophy. To such the volume before us will be particularly welcome. It deals with the prince of Greek philosophers. Dr. Zeller does his...

Professor Pietro Blaserna. (Henry S. King and Co.)—That there are only three perfect instruments of music in the world is now ahnest universally acknow- ledged. But why the...

Journal of a Residence at Vienna and Berlin in the Winter, 1805-6. By the late Henry Reeve, M.D. Published by his Son. (Longraans.)— Dr. Reeve was in Vienna just before...

2 vols. (Chap- man and HalL)—This is not equal to the tales which wo have seen before from the same hand. The story of Godfrey Duncombe's ruin is, perhaps, not exaggerated. It...

Hodder and Stoughton, London.)—This is very different from an Eng- lish story of University life. The difference strikes us at once. Here we should pronounce such an incident as...

wood and Sons.)—Mr. Allardyce sets before us here a picture of life in Bengal, a picture in which all the personages represented, with the exception of Mr. Eversley, the...

Seton. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—These select plays have been " selected" over and over again, till they have come to "All For Love," in which Dryden tells the story of Antcny...

we believe, few works which treat of those animals from which com- mercial products are derived, and Mr. Simmonds, by preparing this de- scriptive guide to the collection in the...

Arthur Wood. (Tinsley Brothers.)—We have not yet got over, and with the dismal length of the great Tichbot ne trial in our remembrance, shall not easily get over, a prejudice...

Blackett.) —The incidents on which this story is founded strike us as being about as improbable as any that we have seen out of a burlesque. Cecilia, the heroine, contrives to...

The Unrivalled Classical Atlas and The World Classical Atlas, which are the same Woke in a slightly different shape, the first being of a quarto, the second of a very large...

the Life of a Curate. By the Rev. Maberly Walker. (Remington and Co.)—To the question which forms the title of the first of these sketches, there is only one answer to be given,...

Churchill.)— At a time when so much discussion is going on as to the relative merits of large and small hospitals, it cannot but be satisfactory to notice the appearance of a...

the Organisation. By F. P. Dewees. (Lippincott and Co., Philadelphia and London.)—Opening this book in the middle, and reading a smartly- written account of the personal...

Carter (Rivington).—This little volume is from the French of Guil- lore, who, says Mr. Carter, " shared, with other spiritual writers of that period, the reproach of Quietism."...