by indignation at the Irish obstructionists. The Members for Meath, Cavan, and Dungarvan, supported more or less by three other Home-rulers, have been availing themselves of the...

is important, but not distinct. The Russians are strengthening their force below the Balkans, and are reported to have defeated Suleiman Pasha, the invader of Montenegro, at...

L ONDON was startled on Monday by hearing that troops were at once to be sent to the Mediterranean. The report was true, for although constant orders and counter-orders show...

United States. The Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- road recently reduced the wages of their servants 10 per cent, and demanded a longer day's work—two hours more, it...

Sultan has dismissed the Sheik-ul-Islam, and a report comes. from Vienna that he has summoned Midhat Pasha to his assist- ance; and the " ex-Vizier is on his way to...

case.

action of the strikers, but the audacity which the roughs displayed in grasping their opportunity. They have been in great distress for some time, they all carry arms, they have...

the elections, but it is understood that it will be the 14th October. Intermediately the union of the Conservative parties, which was essential to the success of the Cabinet,...

idea, and on Thursday he placed on the table resolutions to be formally debated on Friday night. They provide that the procedure in Committee shall, as respects formal motions,...

A million and a quarter of people are receiving relief, and the mortality has risen to a height which, if it were to continue for twelve months, would sweep the whole of the...

the movement of the House of Commons is indefensible, and their proceedings must be arrested, but we do not see what is gained by the vituperation hailed upon them. Their...

reform of the American Civil Service. He has issued a circular to all holders of office, in which he informs them that "No officer should be required or permitted to take part...

Druscovieh, Palmer, and Meiklejohn, on the charge of aiding and abetting the escape of the five men convicted of swindling Madame de Goncourt out of 210,000, has much increased....

rescinding the vote of censure on Lord Beaconsfield. There was no other course to be pursued after the Premier's statement, as Mr. Holms, who brought forward the original...

recommending distinctly Protectionist legislation. They would prohibit the importation of cattle from Russia, Germany, and Belgium absolutely, kill all other cattle at the port...

of Mr. J. Langton Sanford, the historian, who so long contributed to our own columns. An indefatigable student, possessed of a cool judgment, a great desire for truth, and the...

in the new Parliamentary paper compiled by the Foreign Office are not made to order, it is a pity Safvet Pasha does not send a scrap of evidence in support of them. The Russian...

two of them in his best manner, on the occasion of unveiling a monument of Cobden. He told Cobden's life as it had never been told before, in a speech which will be the classic...

Saturday, the Marquis of Hartington in the chair. The speeches were of little interest, but we are sorry to note a remark by Mr. Forster, which explains a good deal of the...

alive to Europe, has arrived at the Westminster Acparium. The creature is not yet four years old, and has not yet entered on the period of teething, but it is 3 ft. /. in. high,...

SHALL WE DEFEND CONSTANTINOPLE ? A RE we about to fight Russia, in order to prevent the tem- porary occupation of Constantinople until a European Congress has decided upon the...

have this week attracted an almost national attention—Mr. Parnell, a young squire, from Wicklow ; Mr. O'Donnell, a Catholic litte'rateur, with a curious knowledge of the less...

D ISMAY and shame, mingled with utter astonishment, have been the prevailing feeling among Americans in England, during the present week. It was not only that the news of the...

tion that even on these terms, which seem to landlords revolu- tionary, there is no choice of tenants to be had. Only in the West, where farms are still comparatively small, and...

I T is becoming apparent that all the charges of barbarity brought against the Cossacks and Bulgarians are not mere Turkish inventions. True, it is not even yet easy to...

N OTHING- can be more unlike than English and French Electioneering. A smart agent in the confidence of his party who had pulled a candidate through a brisk borough contest...

unexpected friend on Monday in Sir Walter Barttelot. Except for his speech, the debate might have been as unanimous as the division. It would have been too much, perhaps, to...

S ilt GARNET WOLSELEY, who has just, we see, come out as a novelist, complained on Tuesday, in a little speech delivered to the Corporation of the Trinity House, at a dinner...

U NTIL within little more than ten years ago, an " Ethiop " on his native soil desirous of wearing a fair jewel in his ear would have had to import the bauble ; and at a much...

SACERDOTALISM IN THE COUNTRY. (TO THE EDITOR OF TIM " SPEOTATOLI Sin,—Yon have allowed me to protest against the substitution of Idolatry for worship by the Sacerdotalists. By...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] Slit,—Your correspondent, " A Victorian Colonist," makes certain assertions, as, for instance, that the M'Culloch Ministry "held their...

[TO TRH EDITOR OF TEE "SPROTAT011.1 STR,—Often the best guarantee for the vitality of a custom is that no one has anything to urge in its defence. For whilst some in-...

[TO THE EDITOR OP Tun "EIPXOTATOVI Sru,—Seeing in your columns a letter calling attention to the "monitorial bullying" at Charterhouse, I think it only right to say that whilst...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TILE SPICOTATOR.1 Sin,—It would really seem as if Vivisection were not a good educational process, in more ways than one. Professor Herzen has been for many...

Sin,—Ail in the parable which teaches school-boys their first lesson at once in largeness of heart and in the laws of evidence, your correspondents, in discussing this question,...

A BURIAL AT HIGHCATE.—Juix 23. In Memoriam L. Y. P., Twin - Sister of Mrs. Adios Miro, ob. July 17, 1877.] TRUE twin in heart of that pure soul, True sharer in that saintly...

the open gates of Paradise ; And he, the listener, saw through her clear eyes Life's loveliness. The warm light downward stole Through golden hair that made an aureole For her...

THE STRUGGLE FOR PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT.* So long did the career of Royalist historians remain unchecked, and their statements unquestioned, that it was certain the reaction,...

TIM purport of this book, partly expressed in the title, is fully stated in the introduction. Dr. Abbott thinks that the young people of our day who reject the faith of Christ...

COUNT GOBLET VALVIELLA belongs to the number of those, whom we are accustomed to describe, with impertinent conde- scension, as "intelligent foreigners." His Sahara and Lapland...

"I DOleT see anything in that," said one who watched Turner as he painted. "Don't you," growled the artist in reply, " don't you wish you could though ?" And this, perhaps,...

The Satan of Scripture. By a Clergyman. (Smith and Elder.)—The author writes with evident earnestness of conviction, and is impressed with the belief that to doubt or to...

and Stoughton.)—.We do not find it easy to say what is the precise drift of this volume, or for what sort of readers it is specially intended. The title does not scorn to na...

Adolphus Trollope. (Chad° and Windus.)—Mr. Trollope does not love the ecclesiastical authorities of Rome. We must, it is to be presumed, take his observa- tions cum grano. On...

Fisheries. By Archibald Young, (Stanford.)—Mr. Holds worth describes the various kinds of movable nets which are employed in sea-fiehing, and the manner of using them,...

the Cambridge University Prose. By Charles Taylor. (Cambridge Uni- versity Press.)—Without attempting to estimate the critical value of this work—and Mr. Taylor's reputation...

novel of a very ordinary kind. The characters are conventional, the incidents well worn by use. Of course, we know that the child who has been reared by the hospitable farmer...

Co.) —This novel gives the filling-up of an outline which was pablished some little time ago in the New Quarterly Magazine. It seems to have called forth some criticism from the...

0o., Chicago; Trilbner, London.)—We cannot pretend to say whether this story is true to the life which it describes, but its power and interest are beyond question. A waif...