intended to celebrate the eight-hundredth anniversary of the dynasty. The House of Wettin, which now reigns there, is supposed to have become sovereign in 1089, when its...

of asylum has suddenly grown warm. The Government of Berne, it will be remembered, expelled the German police agent, Wohlgemuth, for overstepping his duty, and a warm...

of England, Germany, and Turkey. Lord Salisbury, it is stated, proposed that Turkey should cede Crete to Eng- land, and the Sultan was willing to consent ; but the Emperor of...

House wished for an early prorogation, the Government would abandon the Sugar Convention Bill for the Session, and confine themselves practically to the Irish Drainage Bills and...

T HE war-scare of last week has been followed by a torrent of denials. It is denied that the Servian Regents have signed any military convention with Russia; that there is any...

case.

the Colonial Institute, on the Native Princes of India. He has great experience of them, and thinks they are loyal, as they know that in the absence of the British Government...

Mr. Balfour pointed out that it was only by ransacking history for exceptional cases that Mr. Gladstone proved his point. The history of France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Great...

and Scotland with Ireland, in a very striking speech at a dinner of the Constitutional Union in St. James's Hall, on Wednesday. He pointed out that it would obviously be...

yesterday week, to an audience of five thousand people, in the Drill Hall at Plymouth. In this speech Mr. Gladstone went over the old ground as to the mode by which the Act of...

complicity in the Cronin murder, on bail to the amount of .R4,000, and the Governor of New York has refused to surrender two other of the accused for trial in Chicago, alleging...

Duke of Argyll, on Mr. Gladstone's proposal to diminish the duration of Parliament from seven years to either five or four,—in other words, to diminish the maximum life of a...

Mr. Balfour, is any Imperial statesman content with its efficiency ?. Would we not all draw it much closer if we could ? Is it reasonable to suppose that Australia and New...

the publication of his early verses, and the sale of the manuscripts containing them, without his permission. In our opinion, no greater mischief can be done to a poet than the...

29 —a little more than half the Councillors being present—that " it is expedient that the Council shall have powers to regulate the use of Trafalgar Square and Hyde Park for the...

night, receiving on the whole very general support from the Scotch Members, who evidently intend that the Bill should pass, whether they get it as much amended in Committee as...

Teaching University for London is a very terse and business- like document, which turns out to be in favour of compromise; and compromise of a rather drastic kind. The...

to bring M. Ferry once more to the front, and on his speech of Monday night to the National Republican Associa- tion, in which he declared that France needed religious peace,...

the Home-rule policy is admirable after its kind, though we cannot help thinking that it proceeds quite as much from his heart as from his head. At Rochester, on Monday, he made...

of the Committee to promote a Father Damien Memorial Fund, in the Indian room at Marlborough House on Monday, and pro- posed in simple and manly terms the foundation of a fund...

New Consols (21-) were on Friday 97i to 97i x.d.

MR. BALFOUR'S ANSWER TO MR. GLADSTONE. W E observe that Mr. Gladstone, in his speech at Plymouth, appeared to be as deeply convinced that the Unionists bring no argumentative...

T O be the most unpopular man in a party—to be dis- liked, that is, by the greatest number either of those who are your opponents, or of those who ought to be your friends—is a...

W E heartily agree with the Duke of Argyll that the impatience which the people are encouraged to feel of any delay in the gratification of their desire for a change of leaders...

pr ARDLY any fact in the relations between Europe and Asia is more notable than the ignorance in which Europe is content to remain as to the characters,. histories, and policies...

LABOITCHERE'S utterances in Parliament have NI R. recently become important. There has been no change perceptible in his political character, and it is still a little difficult...

with the seven millions of Negroes who inhabit the Southern States of the Union, and who in Louisiana, Missistsippi, and South Carolina constitute a majority of the popula-...

talking, is a rather high-flown attempt to make men realise how grave a wrong it is to women to treat them as if they were mere toys made for men's pleasure, rather than for...

T HE accounts of the grand historic spectacles now delighting the people of Dresden remind us once more of a question which we have often asked,—but to which we have never...

of next month a meeting will be held at the Mansion House to help on a scheme for establishing a Pasteur Institute in this country, turns out not to be literally accurate. The...

[To THZ EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Flowers have from the earliest period been regarded as the totems of men and parties, and it is often interesting to trace the way...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your number of June 8th, in a laudatory article on a document issued by the Liberty and Property Defence League, you give me the...

LIBERAL UNIONISTS AS A PARTY. [To TILT EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] 'Sxa,—The speeches of Mr. Gladstone in the West are full of encouragement to Liberal Unionists, and of...

[To TILE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — By last mail from England, I received your issue of April 6th, containing a review of Mr. Thomas Hughes's "David Livingstone," in...

FOGOLATRY : A VILLANELLE. [On Mr. Gladstone's homeward Journey from the West, fog-signals were- exploded on the line by way of a salute.—Vide daily Press of Tues.day, June...

THE Lily and the Rose and the bonny leddy Moon,— I ha'e lo'ed them a' my days, I ha'e lo'ed them late and stme ; Should I lo'e them use mair noo my heart lo'es abate The bonny...

ENGLISH HUMORISTS IN ART: THE YOUNGER HUMORISTS. THE original drawings by Thackeray, chiefly illustrations for his own books, are fortunately comic, in which line he was far...

[To TUE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to the letter in the Spectator of June 15th from Colonel H. F. Hutton, charging with ingratitude my late father, on...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. P 1 SIR,—Mr. Thomas Hughes is right, and Mr. E. S. Kennedy wrong. It is quite true that Charles took shelter in the Boscobel oak on September...

DR. LIDDON'S NEW SERMONS.* DR. LIDDON'S name will probably always be associated with the doctrine of the Incarnation, not only through the re- markable series of Hampton...

IT is with difficulty - that ordinary Englishmen can bring them- selves to feel any deep interest in the early history of the big American Republic. The stage seems to them a...

what may be collectively called the British Eastern Dominion, extending in breadth from the frontiers of Persia to the borders of China, and in depth from the- ocean to the...

and "Evening" hymns are household words in English ears, was a man of ascetic purity and brave conscientiousness. He was also a man of ardent beliefs and of considerable...

ANY book written by the author of _Records of a Girlhood must have a claim to the respectful attention of critics, and • Far Away and Long Ago. By Franeee Anne Kemble. London :...

accuracy, and unpretentiousness of this book—at once the most complete and the most popular History of the Pilgrim Republic that has yet been published, even in America—make one...

The Universal Review opens with a series of opinions, eight in number, upon General Boulanger's chances of attaining the Presidency of the French Republic. Most of them are...

and enlarged edition. Edited by H. H. F. Gatty and Eleanor Lloyd. With an Appendix on the Construction of Dials by W. Richardson. (George Bell and Sons.)—If it be a fact, as...

Richard W. Tree. (W. B. Whittingham.)—Orange Street Chapel (the Temple of Leicester Fields) was opened for worship for exiled Huguenots on April 15th, 1693. The congregation...

said that the war of the future is to be waged between men and women, and a French writer has declared the two sexes to be "eternal enemies." Mr. Randolph evidently entertains...

Murray.)— The early life of Sir W. Siemens was a somewhat harsh struggle with those difficulties that always beset inventors. But those troubles seemed to have disappeared on...

is one of the most romantic stories which Miss Swan has written, and we think, too, one of her best. If her style sometimes verges on the commonplace, she can always be...

—The six monthly numbers bound in this handsome cover have doubtless already attracted the notice of the lovers of Japanese art. It is hardly necessary to say much about the...

"this magnificent pile of conjectures," and points out that the advocates of glacial action had to bring in the Deluge after all. He himself has to bring in the ice, after his...

of Mount Omei. By the Rev. Virgil Hart. (Ticknor and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—This is a well-written and very interesting book. The author started from Hankow, and went by way of...

(J. S. Smith, Boston, U.S.A.)—We do not quite clearly see from Dr. Hale's preface whether this "study of practical Christianity applied in the manufacture of woollens" is...

P. Putn.am's Sons.)—This may be described, though the descrip- tion does not pretend to be exact, as a sort of cosmogony and universal history put into language that children...

of our readers will remember the startling intelligence that appeared last June in the papers to the effect that a White Pasha, with an all-conquering army, was said to be...