armies, both in Asia and Europe. The English correspondents have not arrived, or are not permitted to speak, and no other reporters can be safely trusted for a minute. Telegrams...

they all point one way. The Russians, in three columns, are steadily advancing eastward. One column has seized Bayezid, on the Persian frontier, on its way to Erzeroum ; a...

Glad- stone's resolution, to which—if we may trust the Standard—the Cabinet is collectively at least RA much opposed as to the original resolutions. He proposes to the House to...

case.

proclamation of neutrality, and her warnings to her sub- jects not to engage on either side in the war between Russia and Turkey. It was at once noticed, however, and...

R. GLADSTONE has at last taken up a line of his own on the jN Eastern Question, and we have to record with deep regret, and something like indignation, that on that line he is...

that its acuteness has been to some extent damaged by the violence of its emotions. On Tuesday it copied a blunder from the Times' correspondent at Vienna,—a statement, namely,...

The Sultan has asked him for more troops, and he has accordingly called together the Committee of Egyptian Notables, which, when he pleases, he consults on public affairs. He...

trial was demanded in such loud tones by Lord Derby, had been appointed instead to a military command upon the Danube. The 'Turkish Government was asked whether this was true,...

remaining that the German Parliament will adopt a Pro- tective law, and abandon the Free-trade system. In a debate held on April 28, Baron Varnbuler contended that Germany was...

allowed itself to sanction a grave act of injustice. Mr. Butt pro- posed, with the assent of the Home-rule Members, that Mr. Biggar, Member for Cavan County, should be placed...

losing nothing in the process. On Monday, an attempt made on Clause 13 to get rid of the restriction that the Commissioners are not to have power to make any statute affect- ing...

of the grant made in Ceylon to the Established Church. He showed that the population of the bland was 2,405,287, of whom only 60,000 were Protestants, and only 10,379 members...

are interesting themselves keenly in a religious debate. The Ultramontane Bishops have recently delivered very fiery Charges about the Temporal Power, have declared that the...

vented by a Russian ex-officer, M. Paul Jablochkoff, now in Paris. This gentleman uses a " candle " of some compound which is his secret, but into which "kaolin," the clay from...

Westminster Palace Hotel in aid of Mr. bit's Bill, which abso- lutely prohibited all painful vivisection,—a meeting at which Miss Cobbe made a speech full of true and even...

has acknowledged the great services done to science by Pundit Nain Singh, the one Hindoo of our day who has made posi- tive additions to human knowledge. This brave man has for...

Claughton, translated from Rochester, and the new Bishop of Rochester is to be the Rev. Anthony Wilson Thorold, now Vicar of St. Pancras, and Canon Residentiary of York...

Bill, which the Government opposed, on the ground that what they had done last year had really removed all abuses in this country, and that Mr. bolt's Bill goes too far,—as we...

a paper cannot be borrowed for a new enterprise with the mere ad- dition of the word "New" before it. Thus the Era was granted an injunction against a proprietor who proposed to...

of a certain mild interest to Convocation, and was discussed at the last session of the Province of Canterbury, both in the Upper and Lower Ilouse,—in the Upper House, in...

Edward Fry,—and no better appointment could have been made. Mr. Fry is a very accomplished lawyer in the literary and theoretical sense, as well as a barrister of very large...

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE IN ASIA. T HE friends of Turkey in England evidently think they can make much of the Russian advance in Asia. They are nearly hopeless of their case in...

s ra JOHN LUBBOCK, and the miscalled leaders of Oppo- sition—call them rather obstructors of Opposition—who are giving him their support, are making a fatal mistake in moving...

TilE RE is one difficulty abcut the Reform of Convocation which every one who studies the subject must feel to be formidable, and that is that the only body which can really set...

MBE first bad consequence of war, a rise in the price of Bread, has already fallen upon this country ; but its effect will not, Fe believe, be so serious as some of our...

Ir debate the Ceylon Chaplaincies, which occupied a part te of Tuesday evening, is interesting rather from its relation to the general theory of religious establishments, than...

S IR RICHARD MALINS has created some amusement this week by the apparent innocence of his remarks upon the case of" Clark v. Clark." It appears from his judgment that in 1872 a...

T HE Trades-Union feeling against women Doctors is making a hard fight in the University of London. Not many weeks ago, the Senate of that University decided by a majority of...

D OWN in Scotland there has arisen a new disturbance among the Bishops. Considering that the mass of the people there reject and contemn these venerable functionaries, it is...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE] IF we had to characterise this Exhibition by one word, we should call it "respectable," and feel that we had acquitted ourselves with...

TRUST AND TRU'rHFULNESS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SYBOTATOR.1 Sur,—As a schoolmaster, I entirely adopt the principle that "the beat way to evoke truthfulness in boys is uniformly...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TH1 SPECITATOB.1 Sin,—The statement that General von Werder accompanies the head-quarters of the Russian army, alluded to in an article of your last number as...

[SECOND LETTER) [TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPICTATOR."] Sllt,—In a former letter I endeavoured to show the great advan- tages which would accrue from the formation of such a Museum...

DR. ASA GRAY ON DARWINISM.* PROFESSOR GRAY has, in the volume under notice, presented nu , with a compilation of extremely thoughtful and erudite essays,. collected from the...

SOMETHING more than ordinary praise is due to a story which has a leading idea of its own, and works it out steadily, yet without wearying the reader with excessive iteration or...

IT is impossible not to feel very vividly how inadequate to the vast industry and learning of which this volume is the expression must be the brief and cursory notice which we...

author of Songs of Two Worlds adds to that Epic of Hades which we noticed last year, two fresh parts, one depicting the pains of Tartarus, and one the perfect life of Olympus,...

THE Fortnightly opens with a very strong and clear paper from Mr. Courtney upon "Our Eastern Policy," the drift of which is that British policy of late in the matter has been...

The Church Quarterly Review. April, 1877.—This is a good number of a Review which is evidently written and edited by men of great scholarship. The original paper on "Justin...

James Vaughan. (Longmans.)—This volume, which contains much interest- ing matter, and is written, we think, with fairness and candour, is a review of the religious history of...

Bell ; Bell and Sons.)—It is almost a surprise—so are things changed since the year of grace 1800 —to find a Bishop editing a Greek classic. And indeed Bishop Words- worth is...

suburbs is already a difficult art. Many of its inhabitants know little of it. To strangers, it is utterly perplexing. The neat little volume before as will be a welcome help....

Co.)— This novel has the great merit of attracting and keeping the interest of the reader without the help of a plot, we might almost say without the help of incident. After the...

Brothers.)—It is friendship, as the French proverb tells us, that is "love without wings," and the object of this story is to show how durable and powerful a thing it may be. It...

This work is more particularly a history of Russian "policy," and although we have a sketch of leading events down to the reign of Peter the Great, the latter and Ivan the...

is a cer- tain originality about Mr. Wills's sermons. The first begins thus :— "Perhaps this saying, What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own...

By W. H. Russell With Illustrations by Sydney P. Hall. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Tbe delay which has taken place, necessarily, it would seem, in bringing out this magnificent volume...

Professors Cassel and Karcher, contains a series of facts, anecdotes, sad for the senior course, of literary extracts, likely to prove of in- terest to the student, in giving...

to such a book as this is that if the selection is a good one, it is pretty sure to consist, for the most part, of things with which one is already quite familiar. Mr. Leigh's...

of "John Halifax, Gentleman." (Daldy, Isbister, and Co.)—The accom- plished author is always at home in a love-story. She enjoys the subject, and she treats it with all the...

1877 (C. and E. Layton), a volume which is described as a "statistical and historical year-book, showing the capital, dividends, and prices " of all kinds of funds, debts,...