The Vice-Governor of Elizabetpol had made himself notorious by the severity of his dealings with the Armenian Church, and on Sunday last, in broad day- light and in a crowded...

A VERY grave situation has suddenly arisen in regard to our relations with Russia. Two Russian cruisers, the ' Peterburg ' and the Smolensk,' passed out of the Dardanelles as...

Morocco. He describes fanaticism as in- creasing, while the tribes are becoming more anarchical, and are ravaging closer to Tangier. That important port is practically...

the news given by a Moscow paper and pub- lished in London on Friday to the effect that; the Japanese have driven in the Russian left flank, and got between it and Mukden —but...

and demanded the immediate release of the vessel. The two points in our contention are the irregular position of the Peterburg,' and the unjustifiable nature of the seizure. The...

Russia, but the German Government, through its usual POSTAGE ADRO lD 1n. organ, the Post, treats the affair very lightly. It is disposed to consider the stoppage of the ' Prinz...

case.

sitting of the House of Commons, or rather its continuous sitting-of nearly twenty-six hours' duration, which began at the usual hour on Tuesday—i.$., 2 o'clock—and lasted till...

portant announcement that the Government had decided to grant representative institutions to the Transvaal, though not at present full self-government. That is a wise step ; but...

at the Guildhall the freedom of the City, and made in acknowledgment a singularly eloquent and stirring speech, which it is almost as impossible to condense as to condense a...

adjournment of the House to call attention to his conduct. In very temperate and reasonable speeches they called upon the Government to use their influence to prevent further...

vital to the safety and welfare of the nation, the action of the Government thereon would be extremely funny. Nine dayi ago Mr. Arnold-Forster introduced his scheme with...

news is to the effect that our troops were last Monday only ninety-two miles from Lhasa. On that day we carried the Karo-la Pass with little or no difficulty. This is the...

Toronto, which before its close developed into a political demonstration. In the piesence of over six thousand people he repeated his attacks upon the Canadian Govern- ment, and...

field by the Duke of Devonshire, in which he points out that Mr. Chamberlain has become President of the new Liberal Unionist Council, that the Vice-Presidents and Executive...

of Mr. F. Kent Loomis, Envoy from America to Abyssinia, who dis- appeared as the steamer arrived at Plymouth on June 20th. His body has been recovered at Kingsbridge, Devon ;...

into the condition of our trade and industries, and to suggest a tariff to remedy our alleged commercial evils—a body, it may be remembered, which, though with no official...

very remarkable story. He says that on the night of July 10th he suffered from a painful nightmare, and while still half conscious, dreamed that a favourite retriever was dying,...

Thursday to a gathering of Tariff Reformers was only note- worthy for the references to Mr. Balfour. These references are a complete endorsement of what we have repeatedly said...

dumping " is, of course, a tariff, or, rather, three tariffs :— (1) A general tariff, which is to be a low scale of duties on im- ports from foreign countries which admit...

Cathedral at Liverpool. After twenty years of waitiug, the second city in England is about to have a religious edifice worthy of its size and importance. The building is to...

Consols (21 per cent.) were on Friday 881.

THE CASE OF THE MALACCA.' T HE seizure of the P. and 0. steamer ' Malacca' by a Russian cruiser of doubtful status on the ground that she contained contraband of war, the...

all that concerns the Militia and the Volunteers it is founded altogether on wrong principles, and if carried out must result in the destruction of those forces. Mr. Arnold-...

11 small, of human beings, be they large or small, passing or permanent, tend to assume a character of their own. The character of a Committee, of a town, of a party, is...

Papacy and a Roman Catholic Power. The civil authority even in France, where it is spoken of as if it were semi- divine, is too well aware of the inconveniences which such a...

with a portion of the British public, that we retain for the Czar a strong feeling of compassion. He is paying an awful price for an involuntary fault,—inadequacy to fill a...

issue of the Spectator will appeal directly to a very large number of readers who have never seen Ullswater. The opportunity of purchasing and saving to the country for ever a...

not our courage as a nation is decreasing, and finds himself compelled to give a pessimistic answer. We want, he thinks, to get all the advantages of power and honour without...

two decades beyond our allotted term of life, is . a fund of curious information touching manners and morals at the beginning of last century. He is a handsome old man crowned...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—There are a. few points in the new Army scheme re- lating to Volunteers which seem to call for comment beyond that which they have...

1901 to bring before your readers the scheme for securing for the people of England permanent possession of a tract of land on Derwentwater giving them access to lake shore, to...

The Report contains a destructive concrete reply to the criticism which Sir Wilfrid Lawson's letter in the Spectator of July 16th " The trade is very large, I should say Lx per...

the " nicking " of the Militia Garrison Artillery with the word " redundant" In your article last week you state that Mr. Arnold-Forster condemns the Garrison Artillery branch...

Sin,,—I venture the following suggestions for insertion in your paper, having the experience of six years-1872-1878- in the ranks of a Volunteer regiment. During that period one...

weight. Mr. Arnold-Forster's speech was made on Thursday night, and your paper came out on Saturday morning. I venture to hope, therefore, that your criticism of the 16th inst....

heading of " Our Inadequate Defences," a letter from a correspondent which expressed the view that we might before long expect an attack by Germany, in view of the rapid...

Horsfall's Report on housing conditions in Manchester leads me to describe one aspect of the conditions in Birmingham. A member of the Birmingham City Council Housing...

about the opposition which some of us offered to the Aliens Bill in the Grand Committee on Law. I do not write to discuss the matter, but merely to point out that Mr....

more rigorous kind, which must be impressed upon them from without. The terrible difficulty of early life—the use of pastors and masters—really is, that they compel boys to a...

criticism by acetic acid and scepticism. It is now quite a considerable time since science has settled that the nature of life is, for every vital function, a ferment. That is...

(see Spectator, July 16th) that, regarded at any rate as a statement of fact, Sir Oliver Lodge is right in saying that a sense of sin oppresses the ordinary man far less than it...

parts of the Empire cannot be expected to make sacrifices to maintain British naval supremacy, which, whether they are regarded as separate entities or as component parts of a...

who died to-day. Yet this was he whose little realm so late Our utmost power defied : The country clown who matched his peasant State Against an Empire's pride. Ah ! let the...

most interesting political figure in the world. He is one of the protagonists in what is certainly the foremost of constitutional combats; but he is also the inaugurator of a...

new ? Practically to ignore sin as a fact, and consequently to deaden the sense of it in the individual, and thereby to make repentance a superfluity,—this surely is a doctrine...

takes us back to prehistoric man, not to the earliest times, indeed, though it might be argued that technical education began when a Neolithic father showed his son how to...

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