out of the scrape of a doubtful Presidential election is most likely by this time law. On Wednesday night the Senate debated the scheme all night, and at seven o'clock on...

it confirmatory of the account we gave last week. Pro- fessor Monier Williams, who writes from Madura, gives a painful account of the starving crowds in Madras (city), where...

but in his Wednesday's speech he did say that though the Government had been taunted with encouraging " permissive " legislation, he thought that what was referred to should be...

A LULL has occurred, as we expected, in the Eastern Question. The Conference has broken up, the Turkish Delegates not even taking the trouble to attend the last sitting, and the...

and Thursday, on the most important element of Which—the criticism on the Eastern Question—we have else- where commented at length. His tone was submissive. He regretted that...

Liberal Association, which had presented him with an address, in which he stated that although Lord Salisbury had done his best, the Tory party had not yet vindicated the claims...

desired to begin war at once, has been defeated, and that Turkey has recommenced private negotiations. That may be true, and yet Turkey may commence the war. The pressure on the...

case.

Calcutta correspondent to intend a tour through the North-West, has returned to his post in Madras.

thinks of Turkish affairs, and as he is a very good specimen of the average country Tory, his speech is interesting. He is not prepared, he says, to go to war for the Turks, and...

speech on Thursday week at the Colston Hall, Bristol, in which he argued that the policy of Establishment might be consistently carried out on either of two hypotheses, namely,...

that, though he utterly repudiates the right of Lord Penzance to regulate what ceremonies he shall or shall not observe as an Anglican priest, he really does think it right to...

famous Purchaa judgment, which put down the eucharistic- vestments, and declared the Eastward position in the prayer of consecration unlawful—came on on Tuesday, before the...

entirely of Members of the Left, and includes no less than twenty selected by the Ultras. It is considered certain that M. Gambetta will be re-elected President. The effect of...

by sending Lord Harlington a very uncivil letter, intimating that he does not want circulars from him con- cerning the meeting of Parliament, as if an Irish Home- ruler could in...

Sir Bartle Frere, just appointed to the government of the Cape. He has always pleased his official superiors, but he did not govern Bom- bay well, being completely taken in by...

cerning the disadvantages of granting "occasional licences" to people who use them only for special race-occasions, Mr. Serjeant Lox told a good story of some card-sharpers who...

Bourne- mouth in defence of Missions, disfigured by one omission. He argued quite justly that the duty of converting the heathen must rest on all who believed Christianity, and...

bilt was the richest American, and probably the richest man in the world. His heirs will, it is believed, pay legacy-duty on six- teen millions sterling, most of it invested to...

has overruled the view taken by the Petty Sessions of Sittingbourne, Kent, that the cruel practice of cutting cocks' combs does not come within the scope of the Act punishing...

the British Embassy's supposed refutation of Dr. Liddon's and Mr. MacColl's story of the impalement which they saw on the banks of the Save, but the replies published by Dr....

the importation of meat. The people would not eat the overcooked Australian meat, but they like the Canadian and American joints brought over in vats, kept at a temperature just...

editor of the most influential periodical in France, or indeed in Europe, the Revue des Deux Mendes. M. Buloz was a Genevese, partially educated, and to the end of his life very...

S ER STAFFORD NORTHCOTE has many qualities which will make him a popular leader of the House of Commons, but none which will be more useful to him— if he does not let it run to...

WHAT WILL PARLIAMENT DO? DARLIAMENT meets on Thursday week, and everybody is 1 asking what Parliament will do, while the answers show an unusual amount of hesitation. Here and...

T HOSE Englishmen, and there are many, who still believe that Russia will retreat before the Turks, should study the account which Mr. Mackenzie Wallace has given in his remark-...

T HE American people have this great quality—and have it, we think, in an even higher degree than the English— the quality of being sobered by the very presence of danger. There...

A SIDE-CONTROVERSY of some interest has arisen out Of 11. the discussions to which Mr. Tooth's contumacy and im- prisonment have given occasion. The High-Church party are now...

A CURIOUS and instructive debate occurred recently in the Birmingham School Board, on a motion in favour of adopting, in regard to religious teaching, the plan which had been...

N OTHING can be more annoying than the news from the Cape, but there is an obvious tendency to panic in some of the accounts received which should be steadily resisted. The...

N OTHING is more difficult, at least for men who have to depend upon reading instead of observation, than to make up one's mind whether the Russian is essentially an Asiatic or...

A REMARKABLE paper in the new number of the Quarterly Review introduces to its readers a French criticism of Milton, which will go a great way towards teaching Englishmen to...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.9 have to thank Professor Clifford for his kind consideration in using "short words," in order to help me "to see his meaning." Unfortunately,...

HO USE -BUILDIN G. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sra,—Some seven or eight years ago you permitted me to give you an account of a small house which I had recently built...

TWO SONNETS. Au. love-adepts, all faithful hearts who wear In love's sweet prime—his hour of blossoming— The full, harmonious colours of his spring, 0 think not when they...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THIS " SPECTATOR.1 &u,—I should like to be allowed to ask a question of Dr. Little- dale, or of any other member of that "E. C. U.," under whose condemnation...

[TO TH1 EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—From a letter in last week's Spectator, signed "A. H. B.," and entitled "A Sun in Flames," I extract the following :— " If a 'day'...

usrsomexos:1 trust you will grant me room for the following illustration of the all-pervading despotism which now weighs down the Catholics of Prussia. Few Englishmen, I...

[Horace, Book L, last Ode, beginning, "Perigees odi."1 To feast in high state Like a Persian, I hate ; Wreaths of linden I care not to braid. Then cease, boy, to look Through...

THE LIFE OF TITIAN.* (FIRST NOTICE.) Tins year is the four-hundredth since Titian's birth, and so the story of his life appears at a fitting time. As we look back through the...

How veterans love "to fight their battles o'er again" we have learned from My Uncle Toby, Oliver Goldsmith, and others, and that the actors in the mimic war of field-sports find...

admirable illustration in this costly and elaborate volume. The photograph-plates bring the old historic scenes vividly before us. Mr. Parker, as is well known, is an enthusiast...

thy:PER an attractive title Captain Horier has compiled an account of all the considerable invasions which have been effected or threatened since the first landing of Julius...

M. Guillemin proposed to give an account,. easy of comprehension to all, of the natural phenomena known as gravity, heat, light, magnetism, and electricity. In the present...

The Sources and Development of Christianity. By Thomas Lamisden Strange. (Thibner and Co.)—Mr. Strange seems to have made some "preceding efforts" before the publication of this...

Illustrated by Arthur B. Frost. (Ward, Lock, and Tyler.)—This is a book with some good fun in it. Take, for instance, the way in which the author works out the old joke, rather...

the very able lecture which he delivered when entering on his duties at Oxford as the deputy of Professor Max Mallen It is noteworthy, as showing of bow much service Mr. Sayoe's...

Leitch. (Cassell, Petter, and Galpin.)—We believe it is the usual practice in schools for the pupil to go direct to water-colour painting, after a course of sepia, taken in...

and Co.)—This elaborate work is an expansion of a prize-essay. The adjudi- cators must have found it somewhat hard reading, though as Scotchmen they were no doubt thoroughly...

cheapest of all the publishing societies, giving, as a rule, four volumes yearly for a sub- scription of half-a-guinea ; and that its honorary secretary is Mr. J. H Nodal, of...

prepared to meet the requirements of students preparing for the examinations of the Science and Art Departments. The syllabus of subjects has been accordingly taken to foina the...

no reason why the facts of science should not be used "to point a moral or adorn a tale," provided they are not squeezed to distortion in the endeavour to extract all the juice...

of St. Paul's. (Henry S. King and Co.)—Mr. Griffith is careful to dis- claim any attempt at writing a "life" of Jesus, yet though he himself calla these studies "fragmentary,"...

(Cam- bridge University Press.)—This seems a carefully prepared edition, and will, we have no doubt, be the means of introducing into schools one of the loss-read plays of...