health is decidedly worse. The message-senders, who are habitually optimist, admit in the reports of Thursday that his Majesty's sleep is continually broken by coughing. and...

Batten- berg marriage would be acceptable to the Czar, as Prince Alexander, when so close to the Prussian dynasty, would be debarred from returning to Bulgaria by the Treaty of...

case.

a vacancy in the Nord, the Lancashire of France, but his friends have also put him up for the Dor- dogne, a purely agricultural department far to the South. The election for...

between him and Parliamentarism, and his published utterances all express the same idea. In a letter declining the seat for the Dordogne, he declares that it is not a man that...

County Government Bill, and denied, for reasons stated at eloquent argument for Unionism, derived from the advantage selves, for open resistance.

T HE "Chancellor crisis," as it is called in Berlin, had not ended on Friday. Prince Bismarck, possibly for the reasons suggested elsewhere, possibly also for reasons which we...

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, May 5th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

years ago. To say they acted unwisely then is not sufficient. To justify their present attitude, they must say also that they acted wickedly. Sir W. Harcourt, in particular, now...

convey.

to its wants, when it is made clear that the people are pre- Mr. Balfour made a stinging reply to the defence of the pared to receive and work it in a spirit of loyalty to the...

he took the chair at the Devonshire Club to congratulate most of the counties sent up to Parliament Conserva- Mr. Chamberlain on his achievements in relation to the tive country...

their share of responsibility for the businesslike proceedings of Party." the House. But he attributed a great deal of the credit Mr. Chamberlain, in reply, lamented his own...

County Government Bill, which began on Thursday night, referred to details ; but Mr. Stansfeld's speech was im- portant. He sat in the last Cabinet of Mr. Gladstone, and if he...

one of the most successful financial operations of modern times. The Chancellor of the Exchequer stated on Thursday that up to Wednesday night £450,000,000 had been converted....

Thursday night in raising the question of the disturbances at Ennis on Sunday last. It was necessary to use the soldiers there; and whenever that is the case, it is right, if...

and we may say, almost of denunciation,—for the remarks we made last week on his correspondence with Miss Cobbe in the pages of the Weekly Dispatch. To this letter we have...

evidence as to the murderers of her father, and so procured their conviction and condemnation to death at the last Wicklow Assizes, is, with her mother and sisters, in great...

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LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL. ON TORY DEMOCRACY. W E have never read a speech of Lord Randolph Churchill's with which we could feel anything like so hearty a sympathy as with that...

only topic in France is still General Boulanger, and France has reason to select that subject of conversa- tion. That amazing country, which, as Sir James Stephen once wrote of...

P RIDE, or rather that mixture of pride and self- confidence which the Greeks called u,Spic, is un- doubtedly a dominant note in Prince Bismarck's complex character ; but to...

courses fight for Mr. Ritchie's great Bill. It had hardly been published before it was seen that the regular Opposition as a body could not hope to resist it, that it went far...

the charges preferred against him of divulging the secrets connected with the construction of our military bal- loons, will be received with a general feeling of satis- faction....

as similar debates so often do, a real flaw in our adminis- trative system. Long habit has created an impression that contentious legislation, and contentious legislation alone,...

I T is a little amusing, and not a little melancholy, to see a mere question of " position," position as it is understood by the more foolish leaders of " society," gravely...

at this moment is bio- graphy and autobiography. Nothing but the Lives of distinguished or notorious people, if possible written by them- selves, will now give satisfaction to...

M ORE than one attempt has been made in historic times to repair the mischief brought about by the builders of the Tower of Babel. But it has been reserved to this fortunate...

" IRELAND A NATION." [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—Among the many groundless assumptions which consti- tute the historical argument for Home-rule, there is none so...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ' ] Sin,—Mr. Ritchie's bold measure in the interests of demo- cracy is as statesmanlike as it is bold. It would have been more statesmanlike if...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sia.,—As a Liberal Unionist, I cannot agree with the view you have taken as to the position adopted by Government on this vezata...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—When sending my name to the Dean of Manchester as one to be added to the clerical address to Mr. Gladstone on Home-rule, I stated my...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your correspondent, " A Home-ruler," expresses, with remarkable naivete and self-complacency, the tone of thought which has driven into...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] ' SIR, — Your correspondent, Mr. Walter Phillimore, in his letter in your issue of April 7th, appears to me to have fallen into an error in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In commenting on statements which I have elsewhere published, in reply to erroneous and injurious assertions made by Miss Cobbe, you...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Being half a Welshwoman, I rejoice to say that, so far as my experience goes, there is no need at all for any special legislation to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIB,—The " famous question," or rather exclamation, " Le sang qui vient de couler etait-il done si pur which you father on Danton, was not...

[NoTE.—The original of this hymn is by S. Bernard of Clair- vaux. I have attempted to preserve something of its rhymes and rhythm. Regarding the rhythm, I may mention here that...

CANON LIDDON'S SERMONS.* THERE are few sermons in the rich and varied literature of the pulpit which would compare with these sermons of Canon Liddon's for eloquence of...

THE material fruits to England of the War of Succession were the Rock of Gibraltar and the Island of Minorca, which were captured in the name of " Charles and kept when Spain...

THE commendatory words of a man of genius and quick sensibility with which this story is introduced, can hardly fail to secure at least a friendly hearing for a work from the...

THE author of this bright and ably written book is Professor of Humanity at St. Andrews ; and the one great literary labour of his life has been, he tells us, " to convince the...

Messrs. Hachette et Cie. will no doubt make a success of their new series of studies on the chiefs of French literature. They have secured the best modern pens of France to...

Morley Punehon was one of the most popular preachers in England. Whether he preached in a Cornish village, or in London, his name brought together over- flowing audiences ; and...

and have less and less left for them to do for themselves. They have a number of we know not how many thousand thoughts to choose from, com- mentaries without number are at...

there are to be obtained, and how they are to be secured. The situations are divided into open competitions, ordinary and special (the ordinary being subdivided into periodical...

we have " Nancy's voice," then " Maud's voice." Maud, we may explain, is the mistress, and Nancy the maid. Nancy iuterests us most. She has not, indeed, much to tell ; but ebe...

Powles. (Crosby Lockwood and Son.)—Modern milling has made gigantic strides during the last century, and has been shown to be capable of a refinement in method and machinery...

Co.)—In this little book of something less than fifty pages, we have a compendious answer to a question which is being frequently asked, and often with a profound ignorance on...

a reply to Dr. Wallace's " Small-Pox Statistics and Vaccination," the work has been expanded into a review of the anti-vaccination literature of the day. As Dr. MacVail says,...

Co.)—Ingenious amateurs will gladly welcome the aid which M. Bottone furnishes them ; it supplies a want felt by even the cleverest of young philosophers. The number of tools...

as "incarnated intolerance ;" but find it or make it he does. In fact, Garrick is made a peg to hang many things upon that are but indirectly connected with him. As a Life, this...

Mozoomdar. (J. C. Thomas, Calcutta ; Triibner and Co., London.)—The most interesting chapter in this volume is the account of the "Cuch Behar Marriage," the disastrous event,...