M R. GOSCHEN'S Budget caused a great surprise to most of his hearers by its announcement that the Government intend to reserve the whole of the surplus for the complete remis-...

the Peers assembling in large numbers to hear Sir W. Whiteway, Premier of Newfoundland, plead at the Bar of the House in favour of his Colony. He was more moderate than was...

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protect the Portuguese. The Government of Lisbon is, it is under- stood, fairly satisfied with the revised treaty laid before it, and if left to itself would sign it, and begin...

A great number of Boers in the Transvaal are dis- satisfied with their position in the midst of English immi- grants, and five thousand of them resolved to " trek " in a body to...

easily rivalled, as a Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but unquestionably he does not study the art of putting his statement into a form which, as the enthusiastic " crammer "...

case.

the newspapers are offended, and talk of a "Royal pro- gress," and the decay of Republican simplicity. As he pays his own bills, there is little reason in the criticisms; but...

at the Opera House, Covent Garden, on Tuesday afternoon, under the presidency of the Grand Master, Lord Salisbury. The house was filled long before the proceedings commenced...

secret design of expelling its Jewish subjects, probably five millions in number, from its dominions. Decree comes out after decree, and the object of all is to concentrate the...

tion for the lynching of Italians at New Orleans. Meetings are being held all over the Union to suppOrt the Government in its refusal, upon the ground that the men lynched did...

288,319,000, including 228,295,000 for the Consolidated Fund services, and reckoning the Supply services at 260,024,000; but in another part of his speech, Mr. Goschen stated...

Labouchere's group avowedly resists its principle. Mr. J. Morley's amendment, however, postponing the operation of the Bill until County Councils had been created in Ireland,...

H. Smith pointed out on Monday that while the Indian Govern- ment would, of course, be aware of the vote of the House,. they were not bound by it, or responsible to the House of...

Oxfordshire is very cheering. There was no contest in 1886, when Mr. Maclean, the Liberal Unionist, was elected without opposition. In 1885, before Mr. Gladstone declared for...

letter to the TilY6C8 of Thursday, explained that the consequences of the decision in the Clitheroe ease may not be so serious as is imagined. He maintains that the wife who...

Mr. John Redmond sent up a cry of distress over the evicted tenants on "Plan of Campaign" estates, who are now finding that those who betrayed them into refusing their rents,...

Birmingham Liberal Unionist Association on Tuesday, Mr. Chamberlain reproached the Gladstonians with not seizing on the opportunity which had been given them by Mr. Parnell's...

finally settle the Home-rule Question. If, as he expected, the Conservatives carried the day, he looked forward to the Gladstonians still persisting in their advocacy of Irish...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 95i to 96.

yesterday's Times, warning the 'members of Convocation of the University of London not to pledge themselves to reject the new draft Charter offered to them, till they have...

MR. GOSCHEN'S BUDGET. M R. GOSCHEN'S Budget has the great merit of ex- treme simplicity and great caution. His surplus is not large, but it is adequate for the purpose to which...

even to the tyranny of impotence. We may be made to endure a great deal because Portugal is weak and we are strong, and because it would be odious to send the Fleet to the...

W E are not inclined to take Mr. Cecil Rhodes so entirely upon trust as a great many people in this country show a disposition to do. They are so sick of the flabbiness of...

T ORD SALISBURY'S speech at the Primrose League J was a little disappointing. What we wanted in that address to the Primrose League, was some indication of the " principles " to...

So long as the Government of Washington plays fair, of them perhaps a little dangerous. We have repeatedly we have no objection to raise even to this gigantic scheme. pointed to...

W E would earnestly ask those of our readers who are still interested in Irish politics—they have grown tiresome, we know, but they are nevertheless important— to consider...

some interesting and use- ful things at his Diocesan Conference on Tuesday about Lay Help. There are, as we think, some other things to be said on the subject which are needed...

in another column, challenges us to dissect his dissection of what he regards as Cardinal Newman's ecclesiastical "lubrication," and to demolish, if we can, his demonstration...

F ORTY years ago—it seems a century, so rapid has been the march of opinion—the orthodox argument against the abolition of the taxes on literature was, that if the poor could...

A T one time it seemed to us as if the theatre was anxious to usurp the place of the pulpit, and considered that its Irst duty was to illustrate and explain difficult "cases of...

DR. ABBOTT ON CARDINAL NEWMAN. [To ME ERMA OF THE " SPECTATOR."' the violent attack made by Dr. Abbott on Cardinal Newman, there is an element which has escaped your notice....

Abbott's Attack on Cardinal Newman," and referring to a book of mine called " Philo- mythus," you have attacked me. I have proved—and you have scarcely attempted to disprove it,...

[I,. THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'1 Stn,—My attention having been directed to an article entitled " Bonxie " in the Spectator of April 11th, I desire very shortly to do away...

THE pathway of my life, since thou art gone, Seems like a dusty and exposed high-road Whose upward-stretching weary length is sowed With rough, uneven places. The bright sun...

THE " SPECTATOR.") you have never read Mr. Paget's articles in Black- wood's Magazine, March and April, 1860, do. They may modify your opinions about Nelson and Caracciolo....

TO LORD TENNYSON. (WRITTEN AT FRESHWATER, APRIL, 1890 NESTOR, of Poesy, whose utterance sage Has charmed so long our times, Exemplar bright In the hard war of Truth, a...

MR. W. B. RICHMOND ON PORTRAIT. "Portrait-painting has nothing to do with real Art, What is portrait- painting but copying what you see , Art is not what you copy, but what...

RECENT NOVELS.* THERE is a large number of readers, chiefly feminine, to whom the attractiveness of a work of fiction depends very largely upon the attractiveness of the...

THERE is a great deal in Mr. Fitzgerald's History of Picicwick that is really interesting and of value, not only to the book- collector or to the most select circle of Dickens's...

AN imperfectly understood institution of mediaeval England has found a competent historian in the Instructor in History at Harvard. Dr. Gross writes of the Gilda Mercatoria with...

on a useful piece of work well done. Already well known as a Plautine scholar, he will distinctly increase his reputation by this edition of the Rudens, the first, by-the-way,...

with its everlasting diapason of majestic thundor, rolled at the feet of the two, who had learned something of the harmonies of the spheres from the wonderful and revered...

The assertion that "the dismal science is dead," variations upon which have been loudly rung within the past few years, has received the most authoritative of all denials in the...

from the " Athenaeum," By Joseph Jacobs. (David Nutt.) —Mr. Jacobs is a thoughtful and kindly critic, but are not those various notices a little too slight for preservation in a...

ex- ceptionally good one, especially from the Anglican point of view. There are no fewer than three articles devoted to Bishops- " Bishop Westhott on the Hebrews," "Bishop...

story is rather long drawn-out, and in the end almost too tragical ; but yet it is bright and lifelike. There are four impor- tant characters in it, two Italian artists and two...

Wellington, New Zealand), may be commended to all interested in the Colony, and, indeed, to the public in general. The statistics of death and disease are curious. The...

pub- lished some weeks before the meeting of the Council, and entitled "Considerations for the Bishops of the Council respecting the Question of Papal Infallibility." The second...

Low and Co.)—The Nelson literature, biographical and epistolary, is embarrassing in its size, and Mr. Clark Russell deserves well of the reading public for giving, in a volume...