to be extremely serious. A Consular party was riding on Thursday outside the town, which included the British and Russian Consuls, the British Vice-Consul (an Arab gentleman),...

has this week visited Alexandria, and has been received I y the Khedive with every kind of official honour, his Highness himself going on board the ships. Two thousand men from...

A Times' telegram from Kobe announces that the Japanese people are seriously irritated by the conduct of their Government in abandoning the Liau-tang Peninsula ; that the...

case.

speech to a meeting of the National Union of Conserva- tive Associations, held at Westminster. After alluding to Mr. Haldane's declaration that the Government's present...

the Unionist candidate (Mr. Maclver) by a majority of 708 (for Mr. Maclver, 3,783; for the Master of Elibank, 3,075), or 196 more than that which Lord Wolmer gained over Mr. T....

on the Unionist position, of which we have given some of the most pungent points in another column. He commented on the great reluctance of the Government to face a Dissolution,...

the Derby day instead of visiting the racecourse, as some of the evening papers ironically suggested that he had done, or remaining in the House of Commons to give his approval...

on June 19th will be one of the grandest maritime spectacles ever witnessed. Great Britain is sending a regular fleet, four gigantic battle-ships, three cruisers, two torpedo-...

on May 25th, is a long one, but of no unusual interest. There are no peerages or promotions in the peerage, greatly to the delight of those who already enjoy the dignity, and...

of two distinct and, superficially at least, rather inconsistent prophe- cies, the first being that the Welsh Disestablishment Bill and the Irish Land Bill would pass the House...

The Municipal Cotmoil has elected the leader of the party Burgomaster of the city, and the mob attacks members known to be friendly to Jewish liberties. The Liberal party in the...

Hall on Tuesday night. He remarked that there had been, century after century, frequent demands, "not entirely of a voluntary character," made on the Companies resources, but no...

Prosecutor, it is stated, is about to proceed against a number of politicians, including, according to the Figaro, MM. Rouvier, Deloncle, Magnier, Jules Roche, Yves Gayot, and a...

resulted in the victory of Lord Rosebery's horse, Sir Visto.' It is a great event for any man to win the Derby twice. To win it twice running is almost a miracle. Against any...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday, 106k.

themselves, and the ideas of the two parties as to the currency are becoming clear. The silver men want silver in unlimited amounts to be made legal tender at a ratio of 16 to...

ended, as it was expected to end, in a large majority for the Government, which secures 326 seats out of 508; while Signor Crispi was returned for no less than nine electoral...

a Bill allowing Colonial Judges to be appointed as members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council,— that wonderful final Court of Appeal for the Empire, in which the...

poets, which he leads off with Lord Macaulay's ballads and some of his other pieces, making up a very stirring pennyworth of patriotic verse. Call it what you will,—and to us...

G. H. Reid, Premier of New South Wales, cabled on Tuesday to Sir Saul Samuel, the Agent-General, in the fol- lowing terms :—" The Governorship of New South Wales is too...

in the Albert Hall, a very large and enthusiastic meeting in favour of Sir William Harcourt's Bill. It is said that ten thousand persons were present, the Hall being filled to...

DROPPING TO PIECES. W E are not seeking a speedy Dissolution for party purposes. Our strong impression is that time is working for the Unionists ; that a process of disenchant-...

I T is quite right that the English people should receive Nasirullah Khan, Shahzada of Afghanistan, with cordiality and respect. We should, we confess, were we in Parliament,...

M R. MORLEY'S speech at Newcastle on Wednesday has done the Unionist cause more good than any speech which the Unionist leaders could have uttered. First, he has definitely...

would give something to know precisely the thought in the German Kaiser's mind, which induced him to summon the navies of Europe to send. representative squadrons to Kiel, to...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN is now the main quarry of the Radical huntsman. We sometimes think that no greater misfortune could befall the Westminster Gazette than Mr. Chamberlain's...

Egypt last winter, and who took the trouble and had the patience to read the Journal Egyptien, may remember that one of the mare's-nests compounded of English perfidy, daily...

an Established Church. Both are compatible with a genuine zeal for its maintenance, and a real interest in its welfare. But as they start from opposite principles they lead in...

M DAUDET, in the interview which he accorded to the • representative of the Daily Chronicle last week, and which was published in its issue of yesterday week, seems to have...

W E do not often feel tempted to criticise a list of Birthday Honours ; but this year the chorus of applause at Lord Rosebery's discrimination is a little too provoking, and...

T HE increase of the London birds more than keeps pace with the increase in the number and size of London trees. Some years ago it seemed probable that only a few...

F OREIGNERS may say what they like of London and its vast unwieldy size, and may contrast it with the slim elegance of Paris ; but those who love their London as Charles Lamb,...

HOW THE IRISH LAND BILL AFFECTS THE LAW AS TO TENANTS' IMPROVEMENTS. Six,—Perhaps the best way to test the character of the Irish Land Bill is to consider how it would affect...

THE LIBERAL REMEDY FOR AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTLIOR."] SIR, —Your article, " The Liberal Remedy for Agricultural Distress," in the Spectator of May...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As an example of overcoming disadvantageous environ- ment, the following is, I think, worth recording. The round pond in Kensington...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE 4' SPECTATOR.'"] SIR,—Perhaps you will allow me to add another to your interesting list of dog-stories. In a house where I once boarded there was a large...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—As the summer holidays are approaching, and we shall soon all be in the country, I enclose two or three local pro- verbs, hoping that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I was much interested in your article in the Spectator of May 11th on " Brotherless Women," and thank you for it. My observation...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As a statement appears in the Spectator of May 18th that the poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, was slipshod about his children, I inclose...

THE MINUET-DANCER. So, my enchantress in the flowered brocade, You call an elder fashion to your aid, Step forth from Gainsborough's canvas and advance,. A powdered Galatea,...

THE ACADEMY.—IV. PICTURES. AFTER a lengthy survey of confused ideas we may deal with a few scenes, portraits, and landscapes which are in the picture vein. Mr. Clausen used...

MR. ESCOTT ON LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL.* MR. ESCOTT'S monograph will not greatly improve the estimate formed of Lord Randolph Churchill as a states. man by those who, like the...

fascinate Englishmen, per- petually reminding them that small States give great men their best chance, and that it is by great individuals that history is moulded. The other...

Two Americans have attempted for chess what Jomini did for strategy. There had always existed, thought Jomini, certain principles upon which rest all the good combinations of...

THE two books before us are intended to supply the materials for a cool historical estimate, at this distance of time, of the rights and wrongs, the blunders and the...

THIS work contains a large number of passages from such Roman and Hellenic writers as have given any important • Ancient Writers on Greek Sculpture. By H. Stuart Jones, M.A....

Ma.. PICKARD has done his work very well. True, his two volumes may seem a little long to English readers. There is a good deal about American politics that does not much...

(Kogan Paul and Ce.)—The Italian stands high among European lan- guages for its purity, sweetness, tenderness, and clearness, to which may be added the facility with which it...

'Tween Gloamin' and the Mirk. By Sir Hugh Gilzean-Reid. (Alexander Gardner.)—Most of the sketches in this volume, its author tells us, were written more than a quarter of a...

Foster.)—Here we have a stout, substantial, essentially common- place story, with a good old-fashioned, mildly melodramatic plot. A mysterious peasant, or half-peasant, a wicked...

(Clarendon Press, Oxford )—The most important point connected with this treatise of the learned and philosophic Jew of Alexandria, is the question of its genuineness, which the...

Sons.)— " The Lone Inn," and another tale, "Professor Brankers Secret," which helps to make up the volume, are, we think, too much of the hard conundrum kind to be generally...

very little to be said about this story which it would be at all worth while to say. Mrs. or Miss Perks is evidently a cultivated and refined woman, and these are days in which...

we may briefly notice the following. In the series of " Shakespeare : Select Plays " (Clarendon Press), Much Ado About Nothing, edited by William Aldis Wright, M.A. The...

and graphic volume is the sequel to a careful study of a Fifeshire seaport and mining village, which its author published some time ago under the title of "Barncraig." Some,...

and Sons.)—This book is intended to be "a guide to the mother in the rearing of her children, especially in their earlier years, and also a general family referee in...

Downey.)—Though this novel is very slight and not particularly well written, we have an impression that we might have found it pleasantly entertaining had we read it ten years...

By Mrs. Alec Tweedie. (Hutchinson.) —Mrs. Tweedie gives her readers a mixture of love and sport. There is nothing beyond the common- place in her descriptions of either; on the...

was not only a good soldier, but an industrious observer of the habits and history of the native tribes among whom for many years he lived. The Yoruba tribes inhabit the British...