Tre- velyan, came off on Friday week, and presented many points of interest. In the first place, the Liberals have accepted the redistribu- tion which mutt follow household...

24, makes a remarkable statement. He says the smaller plateaus of the Balkan range are inhabited by Bulgarian refugees, who, from age to age, have fled from the tyranny of the...

in one direction. The Russians have been obliged, after repeated assaults and heavy losses, differently represented in every account, to abandon their attack on the heights...

success that it is difficult to understand that they are moving at all. According to the Times' correspondent, who writes from Bucharest, they have crossed over 120,000 men of...

best to make legislation impossible. They resist every vote taken after 12.30, and move incessant adjournments, necessitating a division on each. Seventeen divisions were ac-...

According to the more probable one, Suleiman Pasha, with forty battalions, had fought his way to such a position that he could occupy Cettinge after the next engagement. He had,...

T HE British Fleet has again been sent to Besika Bay. Ac- cording to accounts which are credited on the Continent, but remain without confirmation at home, the Premier proposed...

case.

more than Geneva, has come to be reckoned the Mecca or Jerusalem of the sect. Over three hundred delegates, from about forty different Churches, all observing the Presbyterian...

dis- satisfied with Mr. Hayes's policy in the South. They say that in admitting the right of the Southern States to govern themselves, he has made them masters of the Union, and...

House of Convocation on Wednesday, in which he explained— rather questionably, we think,—his conduct in granting Mr. Ridsdale a dispensation from his fancied obligation to obey...

children boarded out with them by the Nantwich Guar- dians we referred to last week, were convicted on Tuesday, before the Cheshire Quarter-Sessions. Richard Sudlow was sen- ....

last Sunday, which, especially as interpreted by the Conserva- tive Press, and as illustrated by a subsequent circular of the Minister of the Interior, M. de Fourtou, to the...

is noteworthy. The Tories had an excellent candidate, Lord Mandeville, eldest son of the Duke of Man- chester, and he defeated his opponent, the Hon. H. W. Fitz- william, by...

delivered by Mr. Justice Mellor and Mr. Justice Lush, on the question raised against Hertford College, Oxford, by a Dis- senter, Mr. Tillyard, who had claimed the right to be...

year or two ago when in this country, from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, urging him to use his influence to put an end to the horrors of the vivisection...

road before the Royal Horticultural Society ou Tuesday, that the Colorado beetle has already changed its principal diet once, having been known up to 1858 only as feeding on the...

a Bible, so far as regards the printing, folding, binding, and lettering, in about sixteen hours, by the Oxford University Press. Of course, the stereotyped plates of type were...

Lieutenant Haynes, of H.M.S. Osborne,' of the sea-monster which the officers of that vessel saw off the coast of Sicily on June 2. The first sketch is merely of a long row of...

South Kensington, and delivered a very interesting and characteristic speech on the part taken by Caxton in promoting the art of printing, and introducing it into England. Mr....

churches of Worcestershire, has published a long letter on the impropriety of granting to Government a supplementary vote of £2,000,000 or more. He entirely demurs to that...

I T isquite clear, in spite of some manifest exaggerations in the accounts, most of which, it should be remembered, are derived from pro-Turkish sources, that the Russians have...

MARSHAL MACMAIION'S GENERAL ORDER. T HE President of the French Republic ,has made another step in the wrong direction, another step which seems to indicate how little he cares...

TT is difficult to conceive of any theory on which the Govern- 1 ment can be justified in sending the British Fleet to Besika Bay. The order does not strengthen its hands in the...

I T courage and conscientiousness were sufficient 'substitutes for argument, Mr. Gosehen's speech on the County Fran- chise would have been unanswerable. It takes courage of the...

1 HERE is one great defect in the declaration of the Bishops on Confession adopted in 1873, and only this week somewhat doubtfully endorsed by the Lower House of Con- vocation,...

go further than it went on Tuesday morning. To keep the House sitting till 7 a.m., and to keep it sitting for nothing, is a feat that even Mr. Parnell will find it hard to beat....

M R. FREDERIC HARRISON is one of the most eloquent writers of the day. In reading his essays, we are pro- foundly struck with the brilliancy of his language, and the para-...

T HE verdict of " Guilty " delivered by the Austrian jury in the case of Do Tourvillo, the Franco-English barrister accused of murdering his wife and throwing her over a...

THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN VICTORIA. [TO VIE EDITOB Or THE " SPEOTATOR.1 think a short account of the political situation in Victoria, written from the Liberal point of view,...

S OME hundred years or more ago, Johnson, at Chapel House, "expatiated" to Boswell " on the felicity of England in its taverns and inns, and triumphed over the French for not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR."} have some reluctance in appearing to controvert any part of Lord Colchester's able letter to you on the question of University reform. FeW...

en THE EDITOR OF THE SPEOTATOR.1 Slit,—Mr. Symes writes that " Mr. Davies will scarcely deny that the Ritualistic movement has done much to deepen the feel- ing of worship—a...

[TO TRH EDITOR 01? TIIR "SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Though you have brought the correspondence on the Ridsdale Judgment itself to a close, you may not be unwilling that I should offer a...

[A foreign lady, inviting a late eminent English physician to visit her at her country residence, adds to other inducements, that of his finding a pool close at hand full of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The Auxiliary New Church Missionary and Tract Society, at its meeting on Wednesiay evening, June 27, had under con- Zideratior the...

[TO THE EDITOR OS THE " STEOTATOR.1 Sin,—Your remarks on the case of the two Sudlows calls to mind an article in the Spectator of April 7 with reference to the work of the late...

"NANCY, THE PRIDE OF THE WEST." AN IRISH SONG. WE have dark, lovely looks on the shores where the Spanish From their gay ships came gallantly forth, And the sweet, shrinkin'...

JOSEPH VON GO1tRES.* [SECOND NOTICE.] THE religious ideas which had always preoccupied Gorres assumed a more distinct form, and became predominant in his mind. His judgment...

Twr second title of this book gives, in a measure, the key to its first. " Blue roses 1"—the impossible, an ideal, a dream of life too fair for the hard, prosaic facts which day...

THERE is no country in Europe, probably none in the world, that can rival Norway in the singular magnificence of its western mountainous coast and numerous deeply-cut fjords....

WREN Raphael went to Florence to see the work of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, he is said to have resolved to depart from the old familiar manner of his youth, as taught...

THE best political article in the Magazines of this month, perhaps the best article of any kind, is one by the Duke of Argyll, in the Contemporary, on " Morality in Politics."...

Seonee ; or, Camp Life on the Satpura Range. By Robert Armi- tage Sterndale. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Seonoe is a district, con- sisting mainly of hill country, somewhat less in...

this book wo have an excellent Idea, admirably car- ried out. No one who understands the Italian language well enough to read the celebrated epic of Tassel will ho deterred from...

flections on Life and Character. Selected and arranged by D. W. Mitchell. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)--This is an unusually good book of its kind. A good " mosaic " is not to be...

accord to this novel the merit of a good plot. There will be but few readers but will be surprised at tho way in which the mystery is cleared up. It would be possible, indeed,...

Epistle to the Hebrews. By C. J. Vaughan, D.D. (Macmillan and Co.)—Those lectures show the earnestness of spirit and thoroughness of work which characterise all Dr. Vaughan's...

and Co., Dimodin.)—This is a volume of short poems on a variety of themes, some of general, others of local interest, Several of these poems possess considerable intrinsic...

Mario Liech- tenstein. (Burns and Oates.)—Nora is not an uninteresting novel ; it is livelier and more attractive than most German stories of the :anti- mental order, and its...

Rev, W. R. W. Stephen. (Bentley.)—Loctures delivered in the Cathedral Church of Chichester can scarcely have but one dominant fooling. No one can doubt to which of the two...

of Whittington. (W. Wells Gardner.)—Mr. How thinks that public catechising is dull, for both children and listeners. Ho therefore substitutes for it short addresses,...

Sander; with Rishton's Continuation. Translated, with Intro- duction and Notes, by D. Lewis. (Burns and Oates.)—Mr.Lowis speaks of Sander's book as the " earliest and most...

(Remington.)—Miss Southern is a lively, easy writer, and wo should imagine remarkably young,—at any rate, her faults are the faults of youthful aspirants. Such little bits of...

With a Memoir by Walter Besant. (Bentley and Son.)—Mr. Drake's name is- well known in connection with the exploration of Palestine. To that work he gave up the best years of his...

Hall.) —Mr. Luxmooro is bound by the terms of his father's will to keep up his establishment of racing horses until he can win the Derby. The matter is further complicated by...

Marston, and Co.)—This is a very good example of a class of books becoming more and more common, in which the facts of Scrip- ture are heartily accepted, but no dogmas are...