5th September, in which Lord Derby pointed out how humiliating it might be for the British Government, if they were called uponto fulfil treaty obligations to Turkey while the...

have yet received of the attitude of the Government towards the Treaties of 1856. "I hold," he said, "that to the end of the Conference we were bound by the Treaty under which...

T HE Government is still pursuing a waiting policy, endeavour- ing, it is said, to induce Russia to allow Turkey one or two years in which to reform herself, a proposal which...

be two English Cardinals, the Pope having announced to Monsignor Howard that he will receive the " hat " on the 12th of next month. Mgr. Howard is a member of the Norfolk...

Government, and the Prince of Montenegro have gained strength all the week, and as regards Servia may be true. Safvet Pasha appears willing to treat upon the basis of the status...

as yet nothing startling has occurred. It has been said that the Sultan is ill, that he is mad, that he has been poisoned, that he is about to fly, that the Softas are demanding...

any case.

"go behind the returns" sent up from the different States, and has therefore accepted the votes thrown by Louisiana and Florida for Mr. Hayes. This would seat Mr. Hayes, but...

with a Government which had been so frank, openly confessed that the fear of Russia was the only motive- power of the Conference ; and avowed his belief that the rumour as to...

of the Session on the Eastern Question, on Tuesday night, pointing out with great force how perverted the policy of the Government had been before the Bulgarian massacres, and...

without a division, and with as little unfavourable criticism as a Government measure ever undergoes. Mr. Lowe, of course, repeated his attack on the Universities,—the...

number of its graduates to pass on such very easy terms has called forth a letter from Mr. Fowler, of Lincoln College, ad- dressed to Thursday's Times, which shows how obsolete...

Gladstone and Mr. Chaplin, and need only add here that earlier in the evening, before Mr. Chaplin's " torpedo " was exploded, Mr. P. J. Smyth, the Member for Westmeath, made...

the same time, most unhistorical of his speeches, re- pudiated the sneer against Russia; found excuses, which turn out to be quite imaginary, for the incredulity and bad...

favourable to confederation. The Zulu King has not moved, but an independent tribe has entered the Transvaal, and driven the settlers in one district into precipitate flight....

by the War Office to report upon the best method of improving the Brigade Depot system have decided in favour of the total abolition of the present system of regimental nomen-...

satisfac- tory. Owing to the want of employment, to the increase of pay, and to the growing liking for the short-service en- listment, no less than 24,000 recruits offered...

was in every way a fine performance. Pro- bably neither the part of Polonius nor that of Osric has ever been better or so well given on the stage. With regard to Polonius, he...

to the complete satisfaction of all parties, unless, it may be, a few who loved to dream that the age of martyrs was returning. As the curate deputed to take the services at St....

in a speech which revealed very little. "Germany," he repeated, "is has threatened by the Eastern crisis than the other great Powers." He regretted the failure of the...

the Associated Chambers of Commerce on Wednesday, and after telling them that in India taxes a thousand times condemned were often saved by some new and terrible deficit, he...

of Cleve- land, who has been robbed of some four or five thousand pounds. The thieves entered the gardens of Battle Abbey while the Duke's family were at dinner, ascended by a...

THE HOUSE OF OTHMAN. T HERE is something, from one point of view, almost pathetic about the present position of the Ottoman Monarchy, dying, as it were, under the European...

I T is by this time pretty clear that if the policy of Eng- land in Turkey is to become what it ought to be, the English people must speak out in a way to strengthen the weak...

is something a little strange, and perhaps a little pathetic, in the different destinies which the two great Parliamentary chiefs who have so long faced each other in the Lower...

M R. LOWE'S renewed attack upon the proposals of the Government with regard to the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge had reference chiefly to the things which the Bill does...

T HE decision of the Tribunal in the Oregon case has still to be awaited, and it is just possible that it may be given in favour of the Governor's action as Returning Officer ;...

T HE meaning of the two elections which occurred this week, so far as they have a meaning, seems to be that neither the Government nor the Opposition have yet secured many votes...

T HE paper by Sir John Lubbock in the March number of the Fortnightly Review, on the habits of ants, is as fascinating as the best of novels, without having anything in it of...

I S it very wrong to be a sedentary person ? The Muscular Christians, when they governed opinion, and before their ideas had been so much discredited by the approval and exagge-...

THE JAPANESE NEW YEAR. Yeclo, January 9, 1877. IT may not be generally known in England that of the many and great changes which the influx of Western civilisation into Japan...

RUSSIA AND THE HERZEGOVINIAN INSURRECTION. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOB.] SIR,—In the speech of Lord Derby, replying to the Duke of Argyle (Feb. 20), there occurs the...

(TO THE EDITOR OF TUB "SPECTATOR.') SIR,—The question whether the art of teaching can be taught, and whether it is possible to provide anything worth calling a " training "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 STR,—Your correspondent "J. E. S." assumes that Professor Clifford is wrong in supposing that our Lord spoke Greek. That Greek was the...

ON THE HEIGHTS. As one who climbs unto the mountain's brow Finds the strong head which served him on the plain Dizzy and blind, the heart whose pulse was low Now throbbing...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:"] Snt,—Allow me to thank you for the insertion of my letter of the 20th ult., which sought to account for the climatic conditions under...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPHOTAT011.1 Sut,—Your correspondent "J. E. S." has obviously never heard of my book, "Discussions on the Gospels," in the first part of which I...

E. S." has dug for himself two rather unnecessary pitfalls Nobody quoted "from the Greek to prove that our Lord's words were not 'short.'" (1.) Our Lord's words were not in...

PROPER'IlUS.* Mn. CRANSTOUN'S workmanship in this volume shows a satis- factory advance over his previous performances, creditable as these were to his scholarship, command of...

This History of England would have had a better chance of suc- cess, if it had been published before what Miss Cooper magnani- mously calls Mr. Green's "learned and valuable...

To be really entertaining in one volume is a great merit, and more especially is it a merit when an author is not only entertaining in small compass, but able to present us with...

with romantic ideas on the subject of Indians, this book will be a disappointment. To the reader, however, who may desire to learn the real nature of these savage tribes, their...

Principal Tulloch touches upon all that is most important—all that is vital and essential—in Christian faith, worship, and life. "Religion and Theology," "The Divine...

The Age of Science, a Newspaper of the Twentieth Century. By Merlin Nostradamus. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.)—This is a clever and amusing jeu d'esprit. A century hence, the "Age...

Not Live. From Bombay. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The author of these sketches is quite right in thinking that English people know very little about the ordinary life led by such...

volume contains a copious account of the personnel of the Supreme Court of Judicature, and of the other Courts of Justice in this country, the names of the Judges, with details...

be too much to say that the well-known author of this book has contributed anything very new or original to the Etruscan problem, but he has given us a few interesting facts, in...

King and Co.)— The contents of this volume are remarkable not so much for anything of marked power or originality that they possess, as for the fact that they were spoken from...

are inclined to think that the motive which makea Leona Evans employ the strangest devices, and sends her over the world on the strangest adventures, is not one which in real...

By Major Sir Rose Lambert Price, Bart. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The author visited the New World in search of sport, keeping to the seaboard of the southern continent, and...

Pro- vinces of India. By Captain J. H. Baldwin. (Henry S. King and Co.) —Captain Baldwin unites the charaoters of sportsman and naturalist. He seems to have shot or shot at...

is a modest little novelette,—without doubt a young authoress's first attempt. If there is not much originality nor much power, there is, at least, refinement and good English...

Elder.)—The story of Maude Maynard is fairly interesting. It has touches of pathos, though pathos is very easily attained by describing such scenes as the death-bed of a...

a speculative turn, that was destined to do more good to others Menlo himself. He obtained from James I. a charter which made him hereditary governor of a new colony which he...

Blaokett.) —Had we in this instance followed the adviee recently given to novel- reviewers, and read the last volume first, we should perchance have formed a more favourable...

Rev. Mr. Ball, who thinks that the Eucharist is nothing else than a mesmeric circle, and Mrs. Pugsby, who finds herself trans- ported from lodgings at Camden Town to a villa...