very unexpectedly this day week ; for though he was in his eighty-sixth year, he had been in fairly good health and spirits till within a very few days of his death. He was a...

inst., probably from dysentery, though, as usual in the East, there are suspicions of poison. He was sixty-three years old, and a man of considerable ability, who had formed a...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, Tune 30th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

the age of seventy-four. He was not a great lawyer, but was a man of remarkably dignified presence, whose lucid and persuasive speech had a delicate literary flavour which no...

Wednesday, was a little pessimist, declaring that although the mighty armaments of Europe were in them- selves a guarantee of peace, they were too like that awful engine of war,...

any case.

T HE plague, the true plague of Constantinople and Cairo, with its swellings and its speedy death, appears to have broken out in Canton and Hong-Kong. The deaths in Canton are...

public' meeting of May 20th was arranged on May 16th, "for the purpose of taking notice of the action of Mr. Thomas.' Mr. Morley replied that Mr. Russell's question referred to...

a great recrudescence of Nihilism in Russia or whether recent events have deepened the Czar's conviction that he is the object of incessant attempts at assassination. Perhaps...

its devilish cruelty surpasses anything yet recorded, even of that crime. A negro of that State was accused of having assaulted a young white girl, and was seized by the white...

St. James's Hall this day week to the Conservative and Unionist candidates for the next General Election. He insisted that the new principle of equalising the Death-duties on...

by a whole series of legal promotions. It appears to be understood that Lord Russell of Sillowen (Sir Charles Russell) will suc- ceed Lord Coleridge, and that Sir John Rigby...

Russell and Mr. Morley engaged in a passage of arms which can hardly be said to have redounded to the credit of the Irish Secretary. Mr. Russell asked whether Mr. Morley's...

citizens of Buxton, to whom he has helped to give a park, upon the effect of the new Budget on great estates. It would, ha said, compel his successor to revise all the relations...

Association, Lord Salisbury made a strong speech against Disestablishment. Why, he asked, would not the Welsh Nonconformists consent to a religious census ? "They are very...

dinner of the London Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday, when the president of the Chamber, Sir Albert Rollit, M.P. for South Islington, proposed the toast of her Majesty's...

attended with terrible loss of life. A hooker loaded with 110 men and girls seeking harvest-work left the island of Achill on Thursday for Westport. The boat was much over-...

on Friday, 101 Ar-

of Lond n to terms. Both were tired of the struggle, agreed to accept Mr. A splith's "mediation," and after a long haggle arrived within a shilling a day of each other. Mr....

Liberal Associations of this country, will meet at Leeds, next Wednes- day, to consider the House of Lords question, and will be advised to agree on a resolution that its veto...

Observations " on the law relating to Trade-Unions and Employers' Associations, drawn up by the chairman of the Labour Commission (the Duke of Devonshire) and signed 'by him and...

MOROCCO. T HE death of Muley Hassan, Sultan of Morocco, is important to Europe for two reasons. One is that the jealousies between England, France, and Spain as to the reversion...

M R. GLADSTONE produced one great change for the better in our political morality in his earlier political career, and has since produced one great change for the worse. Before...

his speech at the London Chamber of Commerce, on Wednesday, ven- tured to say that, in spite of the so-called "ruin" of trade, ‘. if trade really means,—what, indeed, it does...

remarkable instance of the occasional irony of fate. Of all the counties of the Kingdom, it is the one in which it would seem to an a priori reasoner, that agriculture ought to...

J T is greatly to be hoped that the men who control the Trade-Unions will give a full and fair consideration to the "Observations on the law relating to Trade-Unions and...

O UR readers should study the little speech of the Duke of Devonshire at Buxton, for it will bring before them a side of the ultimate question raised by the new Budget which...

mHE Anti-Gambling League is confronted by the common difficulty of all associations which set out with a general desire to improve humanity,—the difficulty that before humanity...

I T was a very good saying of Miss Willard's at Lady Henry Somerset's meeting this day week, that if they could bring over "the average woman" to their side of the women's...

A WELL-INFORMED writer in the Times of Tuesday tells a story which, to all who know India, is of high intellectual interest. For ages past, the Hindoos, while con- ceding to the...

O NE of the greatest tributes to the beauty of the New Forest is the interest which its preservation arouses in the minds of every one who has seen and known it. It in- spires a...

POLITICIANS AND THE TURF. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] &R,—Lord Palmerston had one advantage as regards his con- nection with the turf, which, for the present, is...

[TO THE ED/TOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] SIEjIt is a little difficult for some of us of the rank and file to follow our leaders, either in their complacent regard for the above Bill...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."J SIB,—As I generally agree with the views you express on political subjects, it is with much regret that I have observed the line you have...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The professing Liberals of the present day constantly appeal to the results of the Liberalism of the pastas a guarantee for the future....

[To rim EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sie,—The accomplished writer whose interesting letter, under the above quotation, appeared in the Spectator of June 9th,. errs, with many...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A biography of the late Dr. John Rae, F.R.S., the Arctic traveller, being in course of preparation, Mrs. Rae will be- obliged by the loan of any...

regret I have only my memory to trust to as to the terms of the decree, and after the letter of Mr. J. Noyes, I suppose I must have made an error in stating that the Papal...

THE HAW.A_RDEN HOR.A.CE. AD ARISTIDEN OBFUSCATIIM. IF clear be your conscience, my Morley, No bullet-proof coat you'll re- quire, Though often dispirited sorely By Erin's...

I . THE mountains, and the forests, and the seas, Oldest of mourners with pathetic tone, Have each a natural music, all their own, Set in accord with human destinies, Sad,...

LORD AUGTJSTUS LOFT1JS'S DIPLOMATIC REMINISCENCES.* " JE connais trente imbeciles qui feraient d'excellens Am- bassadeurs," wrote Chiteaubriand, when Minister of Foreign...

[CONCLUDING NOTICE.] ABOUT twenty-five years after Teresa had entered the convent of the Encarnacion, a sort of family party, so to speak, held in her cell, was the occasion of...

SOMETHING of the " extravagant verbosity" which a hostile statesman attributed to Mr. Gladstone's oratory is certainly to be found in Mr. Swinburne's verse. As time goes on, and...

latest work affords a farther example of the zeal and discrimination already displayed by him in the treatment of social problems. Nor is the reticence of the author less...

IN Mark Rutherford's earlier works, the author seems to be his own subject, and more or less consciously sets before his readers the struggle of a soul in an anguish of doubt...

Venetian palaces, the art went two ways,—to a court in Spain and to a middle-class dwelling among the Dutch. The genius of Velasquez received it at Madrid, the genius of...

In the Natural History of Plants, by Kerner and Oliver, now being published by Messrs. Blackie and Sou in half-crown monthly parts, we have natural science made beautiful if not...

English illustrated monthlies, reveals certain changes_ The Portfolio, as already announced, has altered its form, and has given up competing with the three other magazines,...

the contents of the new number of the Idler is "Some Literary Critics," giving in a condensed form the results of a series of interviews with certain English reviewers,...

of the Month, is quite up to date. Matters of general historico-ecclesiastical interest are adequately treated in the new number,—in such papers as Mr. Nathaniel Hone's...

of good epigram, in Mr. Price Collier's "Home Life : English and American," which is one of the most readable papers of an excel- lent number of the Forum. It starts with the...