I T is a curious proof of the bitterness of international jealousies that we are all surprised to find a French re- porter, sent to Egypt to report on the results of British...

where, exploit everything, come out of every quarrel with our hands full, and then if anybody else does anything, even a beneficial thing, we stand and swear at large. Teheran...

ing of Irish Anti-Parnellite wrath with the Government, which is beginning to boil. The first signs of it occurred yesterday week in the discussion of Mr. Byrne's amendment to...

busi- ness in Dahomey. Against the advice of General Dodds, it refused to make an arrangement with King Behanzin, and that monarch is again upon the war-path. He has defeated a...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, .Tune 24th, will be issued, L/ratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

any case.

avoided while every clause involves a remaking of the Constitution, greatly irritates the extreme Radicals. They do not care about the Bill, but about the measures to follow it,...

minute examination of the working of the Canadian Constitution, in order to prove that the statutory safeguards intended to protect minorities in the Provinces of the Dominion...

deprive the Irish Parliament of the power to deal with "criminal conspiracy and combination," on the ground that several of the men who would wield the power of the Irish Legis-...

" dis- cussion, raised by Mr. Chamberlain, on the admittedly fictitious report of Thursday week's proceedings in Monday's Daily News, intended as it was to give the impression...

portant, but the Government accepted an amendment from Sir Henry James, excluding negotiations for the extradition of criminals from the functions of the Irish Legislature, and...

Brodrick's proposal to prevent the Irish Parlia- ment from legislating in regard to aliens. If they were allowed to deal with this subject, there was, he argued, serious risk of...

words which prevent the Irish Legislature from imposing Customs duties, on the ground that if they created a Par- liament in Dublin, they would be "irresistibly drawn into...

Legislature from dealing with bounties. Mr. Gladstone's answer was ingenious. The Congested Dis- trict Board has power to grant premiums to encourage various industries in the...

the electors, and intended to tell at the elec- tions i important, September. None that we have seen contain much i that is mportant, except that of M. Constans, who"is a can-...

°taken before our next issue appears ; but the result will still be in doubt, as a second ballot will be necessary in an immense number of contests. This is most unfortunate for...

Richmond and Gordon moved a resolution against the recommendation passed by the House of Commons to select County Magis- trates without consulting the Lord-Lieutenant, in the...

on Wednesday, which dealt partly with his own two Bills, one of which provides that no great department shall be put under any head who is not in the House of Commons, while the...

the British East Africa Company, and have looked carefully at the arguments adduced on their behalf at the meeting on May 29th. It seems to us that they mistake their position,...

usual shower of honours. Five gentlemen obtained peerages, —Sir H. Hussey Vivian, Sir Thomas Henry Farrer, Mr. J. Campbell-White, Mr. C. S. Savile Foljambe, and Lord Drum....

New Consols (2!) were on Friday 99.

IRISH HOME-RULE AND IRISH JACOBINISM. I T is evident that the Times' correspondent in Rome entirely agrees with the Duke of Norfolk and his English Catholic co-signatories, on...

T HERE is a feeling among a certain portion of the Unionist Party that amendments such as were moved on Tuesday night, when it was sought, for example, to take away from the...

R. GLADSTONE has followed a bad precedent set by Lord Salisbury, and has made it worse. The Unionist Premier gave, we believe, four decorations, two baroneteies and two...

W E wonder if it be really true that democracy, in the true sense, abhors a joke as Nature is said to abhor a vacuum. Of course, those who think of Athens as a democracy,...

I N " A Leap in the Dark," the powerful pamphlet full of argument, epigram, and historical learning, which the Oxford Professor of English Law has just published against...

German Chancellor and the Austro-Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs describe the Euro- pean situation in very different tones. Count von Caprivi and Count Kalnoky alike speak...

Thursday week, with its consequences in the Daily News of last Monday, certainly looks as if political grudges were obtaining a very great influence amongst us. We have...

W E do not quite understand why vegetarians are so triumphant at the result of the pedestrian contest just completed between Berlin and Vienna. They have established a point,...

NTIPATHY, and not fear, is, according to Dr. Johnson, the basis of that horror to which most persons are willing to admit themselves subject in touching, or even seeing, the "...

the Spectator of June 3rd, the deck on whose breast the " spot-pattern " appears is described as the " harlequin- duck," instead of the " wood-duck," of Illinois. The mistake is...

N OW and again one may still meet with men who seem incapable of distinguishing symbols from the ideas for which they stand, and who express their loathing for the latter by...

S EEKING- the salt water, the spent salmon of the Dee were stopped at Chester. The drought had made the river so• low that the weir there blocked the way, Accordingly, the...

THE EAST AFRICA COMPANY. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 io,—Your article on " The British East Africa Company," in the Spectator of June 3rd, states that the Report just...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE ..sracTaron."1 Snt,--Let me at once express regret for even laying myself open to the suspicion of being wanting in courtesy to Sir C. Gavan Duffy, for...

[TO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am glad to find so distinguished a musical critic an Sir George Grove strongly supporting the view that Beethoven, like Shakespeare,...

[To THE EDITOE OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] do not think that, as a rule, the reviewers in the Spectator have " Vandal Popes" on the brain ; but surely the remarks on the above-named...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR,—You have allowed me at other times to plead in your columns the cause of this Society. The work of becoming friends to the young...

[To Tom EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your friendly review of Mr. Martin's "Life of Lord Sherbrooke" tempts me to add one or two anecdotes to those included in my "...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Yen will, perhaps, permit me to make a brief reply to the two salient points in Lord Norton's letter, with the catholic and devout...

[To THE EDITOR Of THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The old English name appears in Spenser's lines (quoted by Dr. Johnson) :- "The nightingale is sovereign of song, Before him sits the...

WORLEBURY. FROM the rock-crown of a long woodland hill, We watched the grandeur of the sunset blaze Along the deep horizon measureless, Where channel surges meet the Atlantic...

WILLIAM GEORGE WARD AND THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL.* [SECOND NOTICE.1 To those who feel any interest in the great story of the Catholic Church,—and the man must be singularly...

THE English newspapers have been somewhat unfair in com- plaining of the size of Mr. Pierce's biography of Sumner. Sumner, though not himself a great man, played a great part in...

THE minor poet has been receiving rather hard measure of late. It would appear, according to recent criticism, that the one unpardonable offence against literature and literary...

of Morwen- stow, Mr. Robert Stephen Hawker, for having caught and crystallised into stirring prose and verse many of those echoes. His Cornish Ballads are well known, especially...

the story of Stephen Remarx, but we cannot say he has thrown any new light upon them. Ever since the Sermon on the Mount, thoughtful minds have striven to harmonise its precepts...

splendid in every respect. The Pascal, of which the first volume only has appeared, is edited by M. Faugere, who knows more about the great author than any one else, and it...

Christ and Social Reform: an Appeal to Working Men. By James Adderley. (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.)—In a small pamphlet published by the Society for Promoting...

Andrew Lang, and others. (J. R. Osgood, Mcllvaine, and Co.)— Broadway, described by Mr. R. H. Davis, leads the way ; Mr. Davis moralises with tufficient moderation and good...

Collier. (Chapman and Hall.)—" Rachel and Maurice " is a tragical story. So, indeed, in a greater or less degree, are the other tales. "An Excursion in the Apennines" beguiles...

tale is a continuation of "Into the Unknown," of which fact the author carefully reminds us. Mr. Fletcher writes vigorously, and puts plenty of incident into his pages, but is...

has not just now an attractive sound to most readers. This ought not to prejudice them against Mr. Walpole's exhaustive work. He says everything that has to be said about the...

1660-90. By W. C. Sydney. (Ward and Downey.)—It is diffi- cult to understand some phases of that extraordinary carnival of morals and manners that followed the Restoration of...

Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mr. Douglas seems to have been in the habit of contributing to various Indian newspapers articles on local and historical subjects. These " stray papers,"...