"well-founded fears" that " the balance of power in the Medi- terranean might be subverted," that "Russia might establish ports on the -Egean," and that " the restrictions on...

T HE debate on Lord Hartington's resolution closed in the early morning of this day week. Friday's debate was distinguished by a very powerful speech of Mr. Forster's, urging...

Secretary came off on Saturday at Guildhall. The City authori- ties had, with great discrimination, decorated the site of Temple Bar with two silvered griffins rampant, on...

case.

did the Liberal party obtain a majority. The Government profess to com- mand 351 votes, in a House of Commons of 652 Members,—so that, allowing for tellers, they had only 11...

his- tory of the acquisition of Cyprus as he has yet ventured to go. In the first place, he said the policy of the Government was many- sided, as any substantial policy must be...

very masterly speech, to the precedents of which we have else- where referred at some length ; and Mr. Gladstone said that the Conservatives of the present day seemed to have no...

determined, do not promise favourably for the Liberals. The Conservatives, it is said, are 112 strong in the new Parliament, against only 77 in the old. The Liberals are only...

is certainly strange that the Government anticipates so little in the way of expense from the novel and magnificent Oriental policy on which they have resolved. Sir Stafford...

House of Commons. Major O'Gorman—among Home-rulers, certainly the favourite of the House—was in a state of great excitement, due, it is said, to the refusal of the War...

to place under a Department which has never had the least experience in this kind of administration, the govern- ment of a large island like Cyprus, and Mr. Lowe expressed the...

—now Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, the Speaker of the Victoria House of Commons,—had ever been subjected to this awful process of being " named " by the Speaker. What happened was...

from a mere military parade. In Maglai they were well received, but hearing that resistance was being organised at Zepce, Captain Millinkovich marched on to subdue it ; was...

at Lord Penzance and his Ecclesiastical Court, but at the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. By a majority of two to one, —namely, the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice...

mendation of the Committee to allow to candidates for the Army marks for physical attainments, urging that it would turn the attention of boys at school from their proper work...

£2,149,000, Lord George Hamilton stated that last year the Voluntary subscriptions amounted to £786,000, the rates to £447,000, and the school pence to £1,138,000, so that,...

Government Mr. Mundella's warning that the masters of ele- mentary schools have far too much of their time occupied in compiling the very elaborate returns required by the...

one memorable comment on party discipline. Lord Melbourne, he said, "used to define a supporter as a man who would support him when he was wrong." He did not ask for so...

in which Sir Stafford Northeote, as the mere leader of the Commons, appears to hold a very subordinate place,—received on Tuesday, at the Foreign Office, an immense deputation,...

M.P. for Christchurch, is to be the British Commissioner on the European Commission for the reorganisation of Eastern Roumelia. It would be difficult, we imagine, to find in the...

THE CONSERVATIVE FINANCE. T HE financial policy of the Government is as cowardly as its foreign policy is grandiose. We are to have all the satisfactions of glory, with as...

I T was amusing to listen to Sir Stafford Northcote's very frank admission last Saturday morning that Sir Charles Dike's charge against the Government, as it was taken up and...

S lB STAFFORD NORTHCOTE is very skilful in resist- ing inconvenient proposals. He first admits that there is much to be said for it ; then depreciates that much till it seems...

T HE advance of the Austrians into Bosnia and Herzegovina has been no bloodless, holiday march, as it at first pro- mised to be. They have been deluded by the fine, fair...

W HEN the Roman Catholic Church opposes mixed marriages, and pleads the antiquated doctrine that it is hard for two to walk together except they be agreed, it is supposed to be...

IN a letter printed in another column, Mr. Murphy objects 1 with vigour to the main recommendation of Mr. Lefevre's Committee on the Bright Clauses of the Irish Land Act, de-...

M R. PATER,—the well-known writer on Art,—has written in the new number of Macmillan an imaginary portrait of a child, "Florian Deleal," which is intended as a contribution to...

M LSS MARTINEAU'S low estimate of her "Life in the Sick-room" strikes us as a curious (though in this case quite explicable) example of the inability of authors to judge the...

O UR anticipations respecting the results of the observations to be made during the Total Eclipse of July 29 last have been fulfilled with somewhat singular exactness,...

• SMALL LANDOWNERS IN IRELAND. [TO TOR EDITOR OF THR " EPROTATOR:1 SIR,-I have read with much interest your article of July 13th on "Small Landowners in Ireland," and think it...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] S1R,-I apprehend that Mr. Cox, L.L., Carlton Club, will not contribute very materially to the interests of his party by the inaccurate letter...

Mistress," says she is tempted to imagine "that 'S. L.,' on account of some opinion she has given, "cannot be a woman," and for the same reason I should be more than "tempted to...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin,—" A School-Board Mistress" writes in your columns that a woman's nature is too small for the work of judging. By the hypothesis,...

"A School-Board Mistress" is right in believing that women when in power "over their less elevated sisters" generally assume a "persistent, interfering, and overbearing manner,"...

"SPEOTATOR."J SIR,—Lord Beaconsfield has never been at much pains to conceal his estimate of the average intellect of the party whose support has raised him to his present...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECT5TOR:] SIR,—I confess that it has caused me some disappointment, that not one of the many busy bees who have been gathering know- ledge about Cyprus...

S.tn,—I have read with considerable interest and attention your article, "Our Young Masters," in last week's issue, but although the facts of the case cannot be disputed, I am...

QUINET'S LAST WORK.* THE critic has never a more difficult and delicate task before him, than when he has to deal with the work of a great writer, left un- finished at death. Is...

shown our appreciation of Mr. Bourdillon's delicacy of touch by publishing not a few speci- mens of his verse, we do not feel in any degree debarred from the right to judge his...

MB. HEATHCOTE STATHAM has done good service by calling attention to certain possibilities in the East End of London. Any one who knows the East End must agree with Mr. Statham...

IF Shelley, as Carlyle said he did, "filled the earth with inarticu- late wail, like the infinite, inarticulate grief and weeping of for- saken infants," the admirers of Shelley...

DIE Fortnightly Review deserves the first notice this month, because it gives especial prominence to the questions of the hour. Of ten papers, four—" The Convention with...

entirely to the Duke de Pomar, Mr. James Grant, and such like workers in the mine of startling and " society " fiction. Those who demand such ore are well supplied in Tinsley,...