Judging by what English rule has done for Indian annexations, it was only reasonable for men to imagine that whoever lost by our taking the island out of the hands of Turkey,...

O N Thursday night, the Queen left Osborne for Wales. The accounts of the journey and of her reception will not reach London in time for us to comment on their details, but...

case.

attempts to review the decision of the jury in the Maybrick case, point to a Court of Criminal Appeal as the only remedy for the amateur revision of criminal cases in the Press...

for life. And the commutation appears to have been decided upon not because there is any reasonable doubt of the intent to kill, or of the actual administration of arsenic to...

force a quarrel with Great Britain on the subject of the right to seize British sealing-vessels in the Behring Sea. At least the United States Revenue cutter Rush' has committed...

apparently to disavow all sympathy with the wishes of Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Bryce, as he was to prove that Lord Salisbury feels the deepest hatred for the French Republic. Mr....

pension question, and on Thursday withdrew it. The measure, which Mr. Goschen declares will be pressed to a settlement next year, deals with superannuation in the Civil Service,...

duties under our Foreign Office, appears to make it his special duty to assail the Government on the subject of its foreign relations. He has been very busy this week, par-...

has been compelled this week to defend his administration of the Irish Secretaryship at length against long-winded speeches from Mr. Sexton and others, who have reiterated all...

that of the Government, but we may safely assume that it has no chance at all of being carried this Session. It proposes to make the rent directly chargeable with the tithe, and...

who had opposed the Irish Light Railways Bill in the Committee, tried to get the House to recommit it, in order that amendments should be moved which Mr. Salt, the chairman, had...

that, in his opinion, it would not be in conformity with precedent to move in Committee amendments altogether altering the character of the Tithes Bill, after rejecting an...

against the Duke of Cambridge, and did not succeed in getting it, seems to be a sensitive journalist, as he has now been threatening Mr. Linley Sambourne, the Punch artist, for...

Consistory held in June, it was determined that the Pope should leave Rome whenever he should receive notice from a friendly Power that a war was imminent in which Italy would...

Indian Forest Department are not tinged with the spirit of romance, we have by accident done a very picturesque thing. Unknown to ourselves, we have contrived to annex a Utopia....

Piazza Colonna, at Rome. As the band was playing, the square was full of people, and the explosion caused a con- siderable amount of damage. Six persons in all were injured,...

at New York. At present, these strange immi- grants are detained at Castle Garden, pending inquiries whether they are to be allowed to remain or to be sent back. Should they be...

Reform will thus have to stand over till next year, there are several alterations proposed by the Commissioners for which the sanction of Parliament is not required. These have...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 98I-981.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO WALES. F OR the moment at least, the House of Commons does not appear to be an institution with which the various branches of the British and Irish race are...

a little stir about himself during the past Session, and has succeeded. in bringing the editor of Truth into a position of considerable notoriety and promin- ence. This...

" A RMA virumque cano." " My song shall be of mercy and judgment." It is hard to say whether the Roman or the Hebrew poet best expresses the emotions excited by the...

M R. LEA, M.P. for South Londonderry, in his irritation at the inability of the Government to undertake to press the Irish Sunday Closing Bill at the fag-end of the Session,...

11 HERE can be no question as to the extent and sincerity of the fear with which Loyalists in the South and West of Ireland are awaiting the next experi- ments of which they are...

T HE Duke of Veragua, a descendant of Columbus, is offering, as President of an Association formed for the purpose, a prize of £1,200 for the best literary work, written in any...

" W AR having regrettably broken loose," to use the picturesque language addressed by Admiral Tryon to the Mayor of Belfast, we are now in the thick of forays on coast towns and...

N I - 1 R. MATTHEWS has done, perhaps, the best he could at a moment at which public feeling is so flabby that to have done the absolute best would have been to weaken the vague...

I F we understand Lord Coleridge's criticism on Matthew Arnold, in the New Review, aright, he holds that nothing is permanent in poetry which expresses a temporary mood of...

J- HST where the narrow gorge of the Tepel opens out upon the wide valley of the Eger lies one of the many towns which, in divers tongues and sundry places throughout Europe,...

which marks the beginning of the " second season" on trout streams and salmon rivers, is an unnoted evidence that the regular course of nature is adapted to the needs of...

PAPAL INFALLIBILITY AND HISTORY. [TO TYE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 have only to-day seen your review of my book, " What are the Catholic Claims P" and the observations...

SIE,—I cannot accept your reviewer's invitation to follow him into the new question of Yincenzi's "critical method." The question between us regards Yincenzi's " view " as to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—Allow me to make some remarks upon the two letters of " Hibernicus " and Dr. Wyld, in the Spectator of August 17th, in opposition to my...

[To THE ED/TOR OP THY "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—A letter from Mr. Pearson in the Spectator of August 17th defends, with some qualification, the exclusion of certain Christian phrases...

[To mas EDITOR OF THY "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin.,—In the Spectator of August 10th, a former Vicar of Wisbech mentions the fact that on the south wall of the south porch of the parish...

will probably be new to most of your readers. The Senior Bailie of a Royal Burgh in the North of Scotland, who still sits in judgment on the local unfortunates, was recently...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —In the Spectator of August 3rd, p. 140, you say :—" Have not our best poets, as Mr. Lowell says, all been idlers in the land' ? "...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIRI venture to submit to your readers another specimen of spirituel mistranslation :—" Hoc erat in votis :" " This occurred during...

SIR,—In your article with the above heading, you mention several remarkable verdicts, but perhaps none so amusing as that of a Welsh jury (who must have had, one would think,...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, —The Ville de Paris,' captured by Rodney in 1782, foundered in that tremendous gale which wrecked so many of the prizes on their way to...

ADORATION. LET us not pray as to some distant God ; Always imploring palms we stretch toward heaven, As though we drew the consecration down, And miss the sacred wells that...

THE FRENCH EXHIBITION. [SECOND NOTICE.—THE FOREIGN SCHOOLS.] IT is interesting to observe the various degrees of intensity in which the influence of French technical art...

SiR,—An ingenious translation made by a boy in the same form as myself is recalled to me by the' letters on the above subject :—"Et rem carmine signo:" "And I sign the document

Bailie who made such a charming jumble of a " bountiful Providence "—health and strength, and hen- stealing—was surpassed by a Warrington Justice only a few years ago, who tried...

STS,—Has no Oxford man reminded you that "Pereunt et imputantur " is emblazoned on the dial of All Souls' College, and that it comes from an epigram of Martial (v. 20) :— "Nunc...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — In the leading article in the Spectator of August 17th, "Humours of the Bench," you give the following as the sentence pronounced by...

THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLAMS FATHER RICHA.RDSON complains that we did not give his book " a fuller examination and exposition," and that we reproached him "for a sentiment he never...

books on Burns have been published, especially in Scotland, that it becomes a positive duty to give a hearty welcome to any work that is the outcome of the great Scotch cult of...

IF we took the advice, delivered in " honest seriousness " by Mr. Perceval on the final page of his book, we should lay it aside, which, perhaps, is the last thing he would...

is certainly less known to the ordinary Englishman of the present day than it was twenty- five years ago Many natural causes have produced this result. Amongst others, the...

and useful, not only to students of Oriental archaeology, but to every one who is interested in the early beginnings of architecture, sculpture, and the industrial arts. The...

and Co.)—Sir J. Lubbock writes "with special reference to insects," so that the unscientific reader will look in vain for anecdotes of domestic animals. however, there is...

gives a most curious and inter- esting glimpse into Irish affairs in Elizabeth's reign. " Red Hugh " was the son of one of the most powerful Irish chiefs, and was kidnapped by...

Co.)—" The Tale of Taketori," the earliest of the Japanese romances of the tenth century, is, we have no hesita- tion in saying it, a charming and graceful idyll. We can well...

Vol. IX. Third Series. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The portrait of this volume is of the eminent Hebraist, Dr. Cheyne. An account of his labours in Biblical criticism accompanies...

In dealing with the Universal Review for August, it is necessary to speak first of the pictures, for they are always its chief feature. In the present number, the most...

impression which these operatic tales make on us is their extreme fancifulness and improbability, which frequently verge on the absurd. A few of them, of course, do not merit...

by G. M. Edwards, M.A. (Cambridge University Press.)—This is a carefully constructed and complete little edition. The introduction deals with " Homeric Forms ;" in the...

2 Maps. (Longmans and Co.)—Mr. Tuttle is quite right when he says that the part played by Frederick in his reign renders neces- sary the preponderance of biographical matter....