INDEX. 1st TO DECEMBER 30th, 1893, INCLUSIVE, FROM JULY TOPIOS OF TEE DL. A CHIEVEMENT, the Government ' s ... 932 Adams, F., on the Hunt for Hap„ i neas ... 831 Africa...

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there are daily deaths from it ; and in Mecca, its usual Asiatic head-quarters, the scene now going on must be a frightful one. The deaths there have risen to a daily average of...

M R. GLADSTONE must be longing for a Dissolution. His Cabinet, as is evident from the proceedings reported below, though itself fairly moderate, except about Home-rule, is -...

about a visit of three weeks which the young Khedive is about to pay to Constantinople. It is thought that he may make some secret agreement with the Sultan, or may arrange with...

conflicting; but it is acknowledged on all hands that the Emperor has won his Military Bills; that the victory is due to North Germany, South Germany voting the other way ; that...

pre- judice against Lord Dufferin and Ave, and never leave off libelling him. He is accused of special hostility to France— a country which he is believed specially to like—and...

question has at last appeared. It is almost start. lingly bold. Pressed by the yearly increasing losses by ex- change, by the discontent of all its Services, and by fears as to...

ease.

ironclad Victoria do but confirm the account which we mentioned briefly last week. The 'Victoria' on Thursday week was struck by the Camperdown ' while engaged in an exercise...

the use of the political guillotine in relation to the Irish Home-rule Bill, intentions which are supposed to be the upshot of very sharp debates in the Cabinet, in which Mr....

in consequence of an accidental falling-off in the attendance of Gladstonian Members, on a trifling amendment of no real importance, which Mr. Gladstone at first resisted, bat...

from giving privileges to Irish officials, such as the French officials have acquired under the droit administratif, was defeated by a majority of 42 (272 to 230), after a sharp...

that a Siamese officer on the Mekong treacherously murdered a party of Frenchmen to whom he had apparently surrendered ; and the French squadron in Asia is concentrating off the...

the Home-rule Bill discussions in four separate compartments was taken on Thursday, when the Prime Minister, and the Prime Minister alone, spoke far his motion,. alleging that...

by the narrow majority of 32,—Mr. T. W. Nussey receiving 1,191 votes, against 1,159 given for Mr. Elliott Lees, the Conservative. For ourselves, we bad ex- pected this result...

Home-rule for Scotland, which was seconded by Mr. Reid. The resolution was supported by Sir George Trevelyan in his private capacity, though he declared that the Government...

Lord Hersehell, the present Lord Chancellor, to be Chancellor of the University of London, in succession to the late Earl of Derby. Lord Herschell is the first Chancellor who...

—a daily increasing number, as we gladly acknowledge,— should attend next Wednesday afternoon the exhibition of the work of the girls who have been brought up in these schools...

the opium agitation. The writer, " Abdalla Meer All Dharamsi," a Mahommodan solicitor of Bombay, a Fellow of the Universityand a Justice of the Peace, gives his experience of...

fetter liberty of speech on a measure which creates a new Constitution for both Ireland and Great Britain, and affects prejudicially every subject of the Queen in these realms ;...

a very happy point by saying that Mr. 'Gladatone's new financial resolutions would condemn Ireland to penal,—he meant, he said, "financial,"—servitude for six .years. This is,...

New 'Consols (2!) were on Friday 984-.

THE INDIAN SILVER DECREE. T HE English often talk like irresolute peddlers, but in action they do big things. Most of the public dis- cussion on the Silver crisis has been...

M R. G-LADSTONE has completely transformed his Bill. From being a Home-rule Bill for Ireland, it has now become a . Bill for preparing the way for Home- rule in Ireland six...

W E always have been, and still are, convinced that when a democracy has made up its mind definitely on any great subject, it ought to be able to rid itself of the petty...

P ENDING the arrival and publication of the full report by Admiral Markham, on the ramming of the ' Victoria ' by the Camperdown,' judgment will be sus- pended as to those...

to the German Executive than the first ; and it is now certain that the Emperor will have a majority for his Military Bills, varying from 11 to 33. The discrepancy arises from...

the National Society are an excellent indication of . the official view of the state and prospects of denominational schools. The Archbishop of Canterbury is in the chair, there...

TF the accounts of the sinking of the 'Victoria' are correct, which we see no reason to question—dispute being con- Suad to the causes, and not the facts, of the catastrophe— he...

A NUMBER of ladies, under the editorship of Miss M. E. Townsend, have given us short studies of what they call "Great Characters of Fiction,"* though very few of the characters...

r is said that more people go mad from failure as weather-prophets than from any other form of intel- lectual break-down. As long as the effort was confined to exercise in the...

worst of their unknown neighbours, and in either case it is not without a little shook of unpleasant surprise that the neighbour learns under what grievous suspicion be has been...

IN THE AVENUE. TURNING out of the broad courtyard of the chateau, where the sun burns all day in spite of the large old walnut-trees laden with fruit, the acacia and paulownia...

IRELAND NOT A COLONY. [To THE EDITOIE OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR.—With the exception of your own masterly articles, there has been strange inappreciation in criticism of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOTE."] SIR,—May I point out what is really the burden which wants removing from the clergy before we even think of curates,— " rates and taxes"?...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Some years ago, when the Channel Fleet came to Kings- town, I was taken on board one of the ships, I think it was the Achilles.' I was...

THE DEW'S GIFT. THE spider works with wit and will, She frames her wheel and she is sped ; But 'tie the dew's gift, not her skill, That hangs with diamonds every thread.- With...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—The death of Mr. Edmund Sturge, In his eighty-fifth , year, on June 28th, removes, probably, the last link of that small anti-slavery...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] is a bird-story from Switzerland. An old peasant from the Prittigau who was dining with us to-night gave us an amusing account of a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' Mr. Rooks tell us how he proposes to deal with a general tithe, when collected for charitable purposes ? According to his own showing, the...

OF nu: "SPECTATOR."] Six,—The following story may, perhaps, interest some of your readers :—'Willie is a small, rough-haired terrier, a truculent and aggressive character, the...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR,"] Sin,—Sir Wilfrid Lawson, in the Spectator of June 24th, tells us, among other things, that Shakespeare says : "Men put an enemy into their...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—My experience of cockroaches has been " extensive and peculiar." One remedy I have never found to fail during an. experience of...

THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEA-POWER UPON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.* " IF, " says Captain Mahan, "as may fairly be claimed, it is to the maritime power of Great Britain that Europe owes...

time, and the greater devastation due to the modern builder, there are still plenty of signs and traces of bygone generations of London citizens, though, as it requires no...

volume of very thoughtful and acute detached essays on subjects which have been forced upon men's atten- tion by the modern discoveries concerning evolution, and by the...

few more in- teresting subjects for contemplation than the effect produced upon the generous enthusiasm for ideals of impetuous youth by coming in contact with life as it is,—an...

THERE are few articles in the magazines of this month on Irish subjects, but there are two of considerable value. In the Contemporary Review, Mr. T. Sinclair exposes the mis-...

even notable effort of a quiet kind in literary history and. criticism. Its author is, we observe, Professor of English in a Welsh College ; and the character of its contents...

and Co., Boaton.)—Of course, the most important type of horse to the American is the trotting-horse, and it is the one distinct typo which the Americans have produced. The chief...

James Lonsdalc : a Memoir. By Russell Duckworth, B.A. (Lou gmans.) — Mr. Lonsclale was one of the few who have no belief in the " gosp e l of getting on." A brilliant scholar —...

(James Parker.)—It is impossible not to think as one roads the Archdeacon of Taunton's "Supplement," of the Scotch lady who found none faithful but herself and her husband, and...

H. Allen and Co.)—The story of crime which fills the larger part of this volume makes a very effective picture. The enemies of Rudra Gowda, the headman of a village, bring upon...

E. Shipley, M.A.. (Adam and Charles Black.)—This work does not profess to go beyond the modest limits announced on the title-page, the author having almost confined himself to...

Power. 3 vols. (Ward and Downey.)—This is a tale of the old-fashioned kind which used to please the unsophisticated zi ovel- readers before such subtleties as character-drawing...

narrative is published as a supplementary volume to "The Rulers of India" series ; and the author states that since it is largely drawn from personal recollections, and gives...

(Methuen.)—Teaching of any sort that renders the assimilation of sanitary knowledge easier to the majority is to be welcomed, we suppose. It is remarkable, however, that our...

few people have any notion as to what constitutes Classicism, or Medirovalism, or Renaissance, or Balance, or Symmetry, that we can well imagine their finding a mine of...