to allow municipal reform to be extended to the great cities, where there are no country gentlemen to direct the electors, and compelled his colleagues in the Prussian...

joined Mukhtar Pasha, with 40 battalions of Kurds—that is, pro- bably 12,000 men—and the two are posted on a low range in front of Erzeroum. The Russians, however, have reached...

think it may be believed that Kreli's movement will not be formidable. His men do not fight well, and are afraid of artillery. The worst of a war of this kind is the way it...

with further resistance to the will of the nation ; and it is believed that the entire Ministry will follow him, on November 6th,—that is, when the elections for the Consells-...

yet been made up. Mr. Hayes has not appointed Mr. Simon Cameron to the London Mission, but has nominated Mr. John Welch, the Chairman of the Philadelphia Exhibition, and a...

to the Conservatives and four to the Republicans, being nearly the number we expected when a fortnight ago we anticipated that ten seats on the second ballot would be gained by...

case.

curious sketch of the Cardinals likely to be of consequence at the next Papal election. The most influential are said to be Di Pietro, a Roman noble of 72, noted for...

T HE drift of the news from the two seats of war is favourable, but there is not a great deal of it. In Europe, the Russians in seizing Dubnik and Teliche appear to have...

ever in relation to the Burials question, and unfortunately they carry with them a great number of those ecclesiastically-minded laymen whom the present very loose electoral...

not let white men flog yellow men any more than black men in peace and comfort. He had been directed to inquire into prison dis- cipline in Hong Kong, where punishments for...

treatment of the subject of "The Living Voice of the Church." True, he came to a conclusion which we should regard as a very strong , 00nolusion for a Bishop to face, if he had...

an article in the Nineteenth Century, states positively that "he has himself seen great clumps of mutilated Russian dead on battle-fields," and "has watched without the need of...

a Radical Club and Association for Southwark, had the courage to say a good word for the direct representation of Labour in Parliament,—the suggestion on which Mr. Bright always...

three more addresses to his clergy this week, in one of which he has dealt very ably indeed with the historical side of the question of the Royal Supremacy ; while in another he...

a pessimist, but this funny little bit of prophecy, if rightly reported, would seem to suggest that he is the most gloomy of both. He 'did not think, he said, at Winchester, in...

been expelled the Order of Jesus was a broad one. He recommended the Pope, in a letter addressed personally to his Holiness, to reconcile him- self with Italy, on condition that...

was, according to the statement, cured by the use of that terrible drug, curare, which paralyses the motor nerves, though without affecting the sensitive nerves, and so stops...

most flagrant sen- tence passed on a child of eleven,—one, indeed, asserted by the mother of the child to be only ten, and so small that he was hardly seen above the dock,—by...

been published,—with the additional statement, which he denies baying made, though not with absolute confidence, and which in any case he disapproves, that he pronounced it an "...

that Mr. Gladstone is the son of a Bulgarian pig-dealer named Trozadin, and that he himself was a pig-dealer in early life, and ran away to Servia at the age of sixteen, wh ence...

amount of fun and point, has this week one of the most admirable cartoons which even Tenniel's genius has ever produced. It is the Marshal, with dull fury in his eyes, but with...

Rhodes a free pardon, and to commute the sentence of death on the other Penge prisoners to penal servitude for life,—treating it, that is, as a manslaughter marked by very cruel...

THE NEW LORD JUSTICE. W E do not much sympathise with the most common objec- tion to Mr. Thesiger's appointment to the vacant Lord Justiceship, that he is too young. It is a...

M R.GLADSTONE and Mr. Lowe have now both stated, and stated very strongly, their view as to the county franchise, and as our readers are well aware, our own judgment as well as...

M R. LOWE is occasionally not only provoking, but perverse. If 'there was one false idea which more than another tended from 1871 to 1874 to dissolve the Liberal majority, it...

T HE air in Paris is a little clearer, but it is not clear yet. The fear of a coup cre'tatwhich for sonic days dominated the situation may, we hope finally, but certainly for...

O NE of the strangest features of the present situa- tion in the East is the inability of the European public to get rid of the belief that the result of the war will be...

A GOOD deal of discussion has arisen this week in relation to the aspiration of Owens College to become an independent University, and a very interesting letter in Wednesday's...

W E wish the Dean of Westminster would take an oppor- tunity some day to add a supplement to the very eloquent address which he delivered last Saturday at Bristol on " Educa-...

T I-'E Church Quarterly Review is one conducted with both learning and taste, but its defect seems to us a conventional kind of Churchiness, due to an exceedingly confined...

S INECURES are not necessarily evil things, and for ourselves, we could only wish that England had a good many to be- stow upon those who have toiled long and ably for the...

THE INDIAN FAMINE. [To TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—When the letters were written in India on which your article in the last copy of the S'peciator that has reached us...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTITOR.1 Sin,—I do not question Mr. Mill's good-faith and high sense of honour, and certainly never meant to imply that in any instance- he ever...

" SPEaTATOR:1 SIR,—I much regret that Mr. Edward White, in expounding his own creed, has felt himself at liberty, quite uncalled, to offer an erroneous exposition of mine. Ile...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] your review (Oct. 20) of Moltke's Letters on Turkey, you speak of" the ludicrous mistakes made by English journalists, and even military...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] -Sin,—Lord Hartington comes down to Scotland next week for a more important purpose than you seem to wet of. His errand is not merely, or...

ADRIFT. DRIFT, let it drift ; the cords are snapped that curbed it ; The rigid anchor holds that bark no more ; Thl impatient sails whose fluttering so disturbed it No longer...

MISS CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS-WYNN. * THE kind of pleasure which this volume of letters gives us is very much akin to that of a fine piece of sculpture. There is no par- ticular "...

has been largely directed of late to disinterring historical records out of public and family archives. The mass of documents thus being heaped up acquires dimensions. that may...

Mn. SYMONDS'S last volume had the merits of accurate acquaint- ance with the Latin and Greek authors whose works were re- discovered and brought to life as well as light in the...

Welsh of " The Llyfr Cloch o Hergest " (" Thal:tad Book of 'largest"), In the Library of Jeans College, Oxford. Translated, with "Totes, by Lady Obarlotto Guest. Londoa :...

a book about Competitive Examinations, written by one well acquainted with their working. We have had forty years' experience of them at Universities—we count from the...

and Houghton, New York ; Traner, London.)—We like Mr. Burroughs better when he is talking about birds (some of our readers may have as pleasant a remembrance of a previous work,...

The Life and Teachings of Theodore Parker. By Peter Doan. (Williams and Norgate.)—This is a remarkably interesting book. So. much, indeed, considering the nature of its subject,...

L. E. 'Bergeron. Edited by D. A. Mid. (F. Offen, 8 York Street, Covent Oarden.)—If the editor is enabled to carry out what ho has undertaken, this work, which is published...

Hackett, D.D. (Hamilton and Adams.) — In this work the author has embodied the substance of lectures given to successive classes of thoological students. Ho seems to have spared...

Burns), has reached a second edition. Mr. Vasey also publishes A Critical Essay on Critics and Criticism, forming a Supplement to " The Philosophy of Laughter and Smiling," in...