action of foreign Powers in view of the changes in France, but there is little authentic information. It is stated that the garrison of Alsace- Lorraine is to be increased, that...

T HE Russians appear to be succeeding in Asia. They attacked Ardahan on 17th May, stormed it, and drove out the Turks, who fled, leaving eighty-one guns, many of them, it is...

announcing that he has been compelled to dispense with M. Jules Simon, and to prorogue the Assembly for a month. His motive, he repeats, is a fear lest M. Jules Simon having...

in Government circles. The Softas, who have recently been purchasing arms, especially revolvers, sent a deputation to the Chamber on May 23, and afterwards visited the Palace....

the Senate and Chamber of Deputies by a nearly unanimous vote, and declared by Prince Charles on the 23rd, in a speech in which he expressed his confidence that the Great Powers...

been made to cross the Danube,—the river has risen greatly, and the arrival of the Czar at Bucharest, which was to have been the signal for active operations, is postponed to...

Government Burials Bill shows that the Archbishop of Canter- bury, the Bishop of Exeter, and the Bishop of Oxford voted for Lord Harrowby's amendment, while eleven bishops voted...

case.

has been, oddly enough, the secession of an Evangelical. The Rev. Dr. Gregg, Vicar of East Harborne, who gave his parish- ioners to know some years ago that he was unhappy at...

the duty of Ritualist clergymen in relation to the Ridsdale Judgment, and his reply so far shows embarrassment, that he is evidently in- clined, but rather ashamed, to say that...

been accomplished very easily. Sir T. Shepstone, after issuing his pro- clamation, appointed himself, under authority from the Queen, Administrator of the State, abolished the...

Court of Allahabad for not punishing the magistrate, Mr. Leeds, who inflicted so light a sentence on Mr. Fuller for striking his groom a blow which was followed by, though it...

the first and almost only speech of his life in the slightest degree favourable to war, as he did at Birmingham not so many months ago, on the Eastern Question, he is now so...

on the property of the Church of England. He estimated it at £90,000,000, which she would carry away with her if disestablished according to the plan followed with regard to the...

becoming very tiresome. The speakers never suggest anything new, and seldom point out any possible improvement in methods. Even Lord Coleridge's eloquence fails to make the...

reed an interesting paPer in connexion with the sub- ject of spontaneous generation, in which he showed that repeated heatings for a short time destroy the living germs from...

ad- vantage, the Oxford Professorship of Poetry with Principal Shairp, of St. Andrew's, namely, Mr. Palgrave, the accomplished poet, editor, and critic, and Mr. Courthorpe,...

may probably think him subject to strange delusions, died at Nice last week, and as far as we know, no English paper has yet made men- tion of his death. Every one knows how for...

the insects of the State of Missouri contains new and rather alarming news of that uncommonly formidable little emigrant, the Colorado beetle, whose qualities as an invader Sir...

a French coup d'jtat, that the Dim Decazes has consented to remain in the Cabinet. Though not a Liberal in the French sense, he is as Liberal as an average English Tory, and...

not to the ship striking a rock, but to a rock striking the ship, yet this is what seems to have happened in the case of the iron screw steamer Knight Templar,' which, on...

the confidence with which Lord Beaconsfield is credited in some quarters with one of the chief shares in that beneficent Factory legis- lation in which Mr. Fielden's father took...

THE PROGRESS OF THE CRISIS IN FRANCE. attitude of Marshal MacMahon towards France and to- .1 the great parties is gradually becoming more clear. His own Message to the...

TT may seem that the point taken up by the Duke of Argyll in the House of Lords on Monday week, and again in the Times of Monday last, and the presumably semi-official reply...

T HE declaration of independence just issued by Roumania may prove to be of considerable practical importance. The announcement will not, it is true, make Russia any stronger or...

W E do not expect any very serious discussion about the " annexation " of the Transvaal, either in Parliament or out of it. British electors, as a body, have no "earth-hunger,"...

TUDGMENTS in Ecclesiastical controversies differ from most other judgments, in that their history is not at an end when they have been delivered. This promises to be true in a...

I F General Grant had come to this country before he became President of the Union, though after he had achieved his great victories as the Commander-in-Chief of the United...

THE Pall Mall Gazette is sorely exercised at "the perilously increasing influence of religion on politics," and finds in this phenomenon a satisfactory explanation of the...

T HE recent debates in the House of Commons on the Univer- sities Bill betrayed some very mischievous, and in our opinion, vulgar notions of what a University should be, and es-...

L ORD COLERIDGE may say what he likes, but the case is not so absolutely clear as he thinks. He told the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes on Wednesday that men now-a-...

to turn from the strenuous and successful efforts of some of your contemporaries not to understand the points involved in this litigation about Ritual, to your anxious, and on...

THE RIDSDALE JUDGMENT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the autumn of 1874 you specially commended a meeting of clergy and laity who met at Blandford, and carried a...

Sin,—Permit me, while thanking you for the tone of your article- on the Ridsdale judgment, to make one or two studiously brief remarks upon it. You say, and truly, that the...

[To THII EDITOR OF THB SPBOTATOR."1 8131,—I regret that any statement of mine should appear to Mr. Murphy capable of "being disproved by ficts, " and my regret is not made less...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sm,—There are so many curious analogies between the war now going on on the Danube, and that which was waged fifteen years ago on the...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I sincerely hope that Canon Trevor will be kind enough to answer the note which you append to his letter in the Spectator of May 12....

[TO TUB EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The Church of England must feel much obliged to you for your fair and impartial account of Mr. Martin's statistics respecting its...

[TO THE EDITOR OR THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some time ago I sent you my recollections of a dog who knew a halfpenny from a penny, and who could count up as far as two. I have been...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [SECOND NOTICE.] WE concluded our last week's notice of the pictures in this ex- hibition with the mention of the works of Mr. Burne Jones, and we will...

Sur,—You tell the agricultural labourers that in order to succeed, they must enlist the support of their brethren in the towns. Per- mit me to say that this is exactly what they...

THE FIRST LORD ABINGER.* LORD ABINGER was a famous lawyer in his day ; but this is a dull book, which has appeased out of due season. Thirty years ago, its motive would have...

WrxiritEn GLENDOWER is a young lady whose history has in- terested us a good deal more than the histories of fashionable maidens usually do. Her story is carefully told, and...

school" of poetry lost much of its reputa- tion at the beginning of this century, and by many critics was. treated with something like contempt. Wordsworth could find no...

THERE is perhaps in the whole range of history no one subject more attractive to the imaginative or speculative mind than the story of the vicissitudes of the Jewish race....

preface that this book is little more than a reprint, we readily agree with him that it was advisable that the " observations " which formed his first con- tribution to cosmical...

The Northern Barrier of India. By Frederic Drew. (Stanford.)— It is not often that a writer possesses such a combination of qualifica- tions of his task as we find united in Mr....

Potter, and Galpin.)—The argument in this book starts from the testimony borne by John Stuart Mill to the pre-eminent genius of Jesus of Nazareth and the moral grandeur of his...

Shootings of Scotland. May. Edited by J. Watson Lyall. (The Office, 52 Fleet Street.)—This is a useful guide, published monthly during the season, which many whose thoughts are...

R.E., F.R.S. ; "Kinematic Models," by Professor Kennedy, C.E. ; "Sound and Music," by Dr. W. H. Stone. (Macmillan and Co.) —Last year's loan exhibition in South Kensington has...

Tinsley:)—This novel seems to be a specimen of a French religious story. To read it certainly makes one more content with our own native products. Sibylle is a very wonderful...

Society. By Eugene Stock. (Seeleys.)—"Fuh-kien" or " Fo-kion " is a pro- vince of Eastern China, .about opposite the island of Formosa. It contains a population of about...

by James S. Reid. Part I., Latin. (Daldy, Isbister, and Co.) A Hand- book of Translation front the Latin, Greek, French, and German Lan- guages. (Stanford.)—Theee books have the...