called to reject the proposals of Conference has also been published. In it the members, including the heads of the Christian Churches, who are appointed by the Porte, and as...

on all the week, Dr. Stephens and Mr. Shaw having replied at length to Sir James Stephen and Mr. Arthur Charles, and attempted to show that both "the Injunctions" and "the...

Pre- sidential Election, passed the House of Representatives, as we expected, last Friday, and passed by 191 votes against 86,-32 Republicans voting for it, and 68 against it;...

T HE lull in the Eastern Question still continues, broken only by a proposal to Servia and Montenegro to arrange a peace, a proposal which, as we have tried to show elsewhere,...

Saturday, at the Taunton Railway Station, where he had been waylaid by a deputation of Taunton electors. He declared that we owed obligations to the Turkish Christians, both on...

any case.

formal Conference has at last been published. It does not add much to our knowledge, the most interesting fact being that Safvet Pasha distinctly affirmed that the "Bulgarian...

amusing speeches at Toronto, on which we have commented elsewhere. We may mention here, however, that his Lordship evidently considers that the constitutional king of a great...

Justice for Ireland has ended in the selection of the Attorney-General, Mr. May, a nomination which inspires little general satisfaction. Mr. May has practised chiefly at the...

an impression last Session by his masterly speech on the Royal Titles Bill, after Mr. Disraeli's grotesque intimation that the title of "Empress" was meant as a weapon with...

O'Connell " rent " on behalf of Mr. Butt, who sacrifices a large professional income and all chance of rising in his profession to his leadership of their party. There is no...

pleases to make education gratuitous, and charge the ex- pense thus incurred upon the Communal rates. The Commune will also be authorised to borrow money for educational...

study of the subject, was Mr. Cowen's Tuesday's speech on the Eastern Ques- tion. He maintained that by the Treaty of Paris of 1856, Russia did not surrender the protectorate of...

Ritualists in the Communion Service, expressed his inability to give an adequate definition or etymology of the word "wafer ;" but a correspondent of the Times says that it is...

appointed Governor-General of Bulgaria, and thinks if that appointment were made the Turks would have given the Bul- garians all necessary guarantees. It would have given none...

structor of the Navy, in another long letter, addressed to Wed- nesday's Times, presses further his charge that the"scientific or engineering staff in the Navy are kept down,...

ants in a lecture delivered at the Royal Institution, from which we gather that modern ants are not very fall of resouree, —whatever the ants were which first constructed the...

very successful, it is now proposed to employ " gentlemen-helps " for out-door work. It is argued by correspondents of the Times that many gentlemen are very poor, and would...

145 Cheapside, continued to support Mr. Tooth, and to talk of Disestablishment as the alternative for the repeal of the Public Worship Regulation Act. For our own parts, we do...

Monday, quashed the conviction of Mr. Slade, the "spirit-medium," by Mr. Flowers, on the legal ground that the Vagrancy Act, under which he was convicted, was not ade- quately...

Monday at Edinburgh on the Permissive Bill. He described the Home Secretary as being busily engaged in hanging the men who had got drunk in the public-houses which he had opened...

THE DEBATERS OF THE COMMONS. L ORD BEACONSFIELD'S accession to the ranks of his party in the Lords will hardly prove much of a compensation for the loss to his party in the...

T HE situation in the East has not seriously changed. The publication of the protocol of the proceedings in Con- ference and of the debate in the Grand Council adds nothing to...

T HERE is something almost comic in the indecision of the Turkish journals as to the strength of Russia. They cannot make up their minds whether it would best help Lord Derby to...

THE Standard has just republished three interesting letters of Lord Macaulay's, written in 1857 and 1859, in which he prophesies the worst results from "democratic...

W HAT is it in the climate of Ireland that affects the brains of her statesmen ? Man after man rises to notoriety, gets into some mad political scrape, is pronounced by the en-...

I S the Treaty of Paris still binding on the contracting parties ? This is not a matter that can long remain in uncertainty. If the Treaty of Paris is still in force, England is...

E NGLISH housewives are, for the moment, quite happy. They have a standing quarrel with the butchers, and now they think they are going to win it. They have a fixed idea,...

D R. MOZLEY has just given us a remarkable successor to the very remarkable volume of University sermons to which we called attention last summer. It is a volume on " The Ruling...

D EAN MILMAN'S tragedy, Fazio, or the Italian Wife, is an old-fashioned play, and a poor one as well, disfigured by a good deal of turgidity, and by the great blot that its hero...

THE RITUALISTS AND THE LAW. [To ma Eorroa OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, —The extreme High-Church party have at least brought matters to an intelligible issue. Their case, as I have...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,-1 am deeply gratified to learn from his last letter that your correspondent, "P. C. W., " has such a perception and practical hold of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The article in your last issue on the Birmingham Religious Education Society gives such a singularly inaccurate representa- tion of its...

your article on the blatcham case last week, you state that ,the Archbishop of Canterbury "went down " to institute Mr. Gorham, after the final decision had been given against...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sra,—Mr. Harper agrees with many members of the E.C.U. that a Court has been " erected " under the Public Worship Act. Allow me to point out...

[TO THB EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR."] &n,—A night or two ago I awoke with the following line dis- tinctly before me, as if I had read it somewhere :— " Moat busy when least I...

THE DUDLEY GALLERY. THE usual spring exhibition of water-colours at the Egyptian Hall, which opened on Monday last, may be considered to be the first artistic event of the new...

COMMANDER CAMERON'S WALK ACROSS AFRICA.* [FIRST NOTICE.] NOTHING is so like an African savage as another African savage, nevertheless the endless variety which is nature's law...

IT seems probable that to many of our readers the name of this poem will carry butlittle significance, or at least awaken but a vague remembrance of some old Norse legend ; but...

THE art of Titian probably reached the utmost technical per- fection attainable in painting. In his work, with absolute mastery of unison, the three great principles of Form and...

POLITICAL economy has never been a popular science. Partly from the nature of its subject-matter, partly from the ungenial tone of some of its professors, it has succeeded in...

(Chapman and HalL)—Mr. Hawley Smart has written two short stories, which, like most other stories, are about love-making, and finding it con- venient to publish them together,...

M. Fair- bairn. (Strahan and Co.)—Two of these " studies " have already appeared in the Contemporary Review. Mr. Fairbairn modestly de- scribes them as "tentative." We think he...

an Introduction by the Very Rev. J. S. Howson, D.D. (Macmillan.) —The only complaint that we have to make about this book is that there is not enough of it. It is a good-sized...

The Races of Man, and their Geographical Distribution. From the German of Oscar Peschel. (Henry S. King and Co.)—" The proper study of mankind is man" has become proverbial, but...

by Charles Eyre Pascoe. (Sampson Low and Co.)—A very useful little volume. It gives an account of more than forty schools, the selec- tion having been made with care, and it...

By S. R. Whitehead. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—There is much merit in these stories, which are serious and humorous by turns. Perhaps the best, though the subject is not by any...

be desired. The conclusion at which Mr. Birch arrives—and it has a cer- tain importance, as connected with the antiquity and authority of the Athanasian Creed—is that it cannot...

First Half of the Third C'entwy. By John Ignatius Von Dollinger. Translated, with Introduction, Notes, and Appendices, by Alfred Plummer. (T. and T. Clark.)—Dr. Dollinger's book...

Life. By C. H. Berners. (Hunt and Co.)—Mr. Berners wrote letters to friends at home describing his journeyings. They did not show a very judicious gratitude when they asked him...

Rev. J. G. Wood. (Virtue and Co.)—This is a handsome volume, the tasteful binding of which suits the contents. Twenty-one steel plates, executed by skilful engravers after...

Brough Smyth, F.L.S., F.G.S. (Triibner and Co.)—Government reports are not usually very interesting literary productions. Mr. Smyth, however, has managed to write a report which...

is Com- posed of By Professor Roscoe. (Macmillan and Co.)—The working- class of Manchester are highly favoured. In the winter months they can go and hear a course of popular...