the Unionist vote from 4,209 in July last, to 4,181 last Saturday. Mr. John Slagg, the Gladstonian candi- date, and a very able man, polled 5,026 votes on Saturday, against the...

the Con- servative Party was called for Monday. It was addressed by Lord Salisbury, but he said little of special interest. He congratulated his followers on the adhesion of Mr....

the Report on the Address, what was virtually a vote of censure on the Government for protecting Prince Alexander of Bulgaria. His speech was full of innuendo directed against...

Lorraine. In spite of the Stadtholder's proclamation, and of some severe measures against prominent "protesters," every seat was carried by candidates opposed to the annexation....

visited on Wednesday morning with shocks of earthquake. The damage done in France was not great, though the rocking of the houses in Nice and Cannes created wild alarm, and...

ease.

T HE German elections of Monday have ended in a victory for the Government. There is still some difference of opinion as to details ; but according to the best accounts, the...

had been practically worthless ; and while they had led to much irritation, they had not furthered the business of the House at all. Mr. Whitbread was almost as discouraging in...

and bitter," and spoke of Mr. Goachen as "a chartered libertine." Sir W.Harcourt himself was for the Closure by a bare majority without asking for the consent of the Speaker,...

Parnell's very cool proposal to except all discussions on change& in the Irish criminal law from the operation of the Closure. Mr. J. E. Ellis's further amendment, extending Mr....

of the House, though there was hardly anything fresh to say upon it that had not been said ad nauseam either in recent years or in the debate on the Address itself. Mr. W. H....

speech in which he denied that the Procedure resolutions of 1882 had been a failure. In 1881, the Speaker had had to intervene 935. times, and the Chairman of Committees 939...

a banquet at the St. George's Club, Hanover Square, a completely non-political dub, Lord Bateman, the president, being in the chair. In reply to the toast of his health, Mr....

of the North-West Manchester Liberal Association last Wednes- day, scored heavily by a quotation which he made from a speech of Lord Randolph Churchill's, made in Manchester...

The victim was an old man named Cornelius Murphy, who had been a water-bailiff, but was living in retire- ment as a little farmer with his wife and family at Coola. Eight masked...

greatest of the Egyptian evils that can be reached by legislation,—the corvae, or annual demand for forced labour. The comic saved the Government 2250,000 a year, and its...

the increase. It is affirmed that the failure of the negotia- tions about Bulgaria in Constantinople is due to "the intrigues of England and Germany," and a writer, believed to...

of Parliament accused of inciting tenants not to pay rent, ended on Thursday in a discharge of the jury, which was, according to Mr. Sexton, equally divided. There was no...

physiologists, and there can be no doubt that the scruples which were felt eleven years ago by a very large number of British medical men, are now felt by comparatively few of...

for ensuring the safety of Egypt. It is to entrust the country to a Swedish, Belgian, or Swiss force, under the orders of an International Commission, which would keep back the...

do not wonder that when Lord Salisbury expressed, in his speech to his party last Monday, his hope that before very long Lord Randolph Churchill might rejoin the Government,...

THE GERMAN ELECTIONS. p RINCE BISMARCK'S appeal to the German people lies been, for his objects, a great success. The Roman Catholics of the Empire have, indeed, stood out with...

T HE debate on Procedure illustrates as well as anything could illustrate, the growing tendency in the House to lose time. The subject had been thoroughly exhausted in recent...

B Y far the most important single incident in the German .1.1 elections is the amazing growth of the Socialist vote in Berlin. The vote of Alsace-Lorraine, that defiance flung,...

T HE speech which Mr. Matthews, the Home Secretary, made on Tuesday at Birmingham, has almost escaped public attention, and, indeed, in many quarters has not been even reported...

ItTR. BRIGHT is too practical a politician to set any store _LILL by the kind of agreement we feel with his speech of last Tuesday. For it is an agreement which is confined to...

A GOOD part of the world is almost governed by very old men. The Emperor of Germany will be 90 next ntonth ; Von Moltke is 86; Prince Bismarck is 71; M. Grevy, 76; and Mr....

W E always listen with attention to our correspondent, Mr. Harper, but he has not succeeded where Archbishop Wliately failed. His argument, that the gambler plays to injure his...

A FTER the death of the young Marquis de C—, his mother's existence became less solitary, though not less formal, than it had been in his lifetime. Her aunt, the old Marquise de...

I T will not be a matter of surprise to those who know the present position of the country clergy, that their manifold troubles in consequence of the agricultural depression...

THE "QUARTERLY REVIEW" AND "MIL CLAD. STONE : A STUDY." [To ntr Errros or rErs ”Sescrrroa."] Sm,—In spite of extreme reluctance to enter into a controversy in which I am not...

LTO TRH EDITOR OF TEE SPECTATOR.. J Sia,—I most distinctly deny the statement about myself made- in your issue of February 19th by "An ex-M.P." It is per- fectly untrue that I...

[To TER EDITOR OF TRY " sreors-nou'] Sin.,—I am afraid you did not let your intelligence play very freely round the subject of Lord Hartington's relation to the Liberal Party...

[To TRE EDITOR OF TIM SFECTATOR."] SIR,—Referring to the notice in your issue of February 19th of the recent Temperance Convention at Exeter Hall, permit me to say that the...

4. BPROTATOR.".1 era,—The traditions of the Spectator will, I am sure, procure the insertion of a protest from an author who, while quits con- THE KERNEL AND THE HUSK. [To TEX...

Ire TIM EDITOR OF THE ..SPECTATOS."1 Sin,—Your influential journal having given currency to some extracts from articles reflecting injuriously on this church, per- mit me to...

SPECTATOIL".1 Sts,—In your very interesting article on "The Interpretation of Animal Character," you thus sum up your remarks on Sir John Lubbock's observations of the habits of...

[TO TES EDITOR 01 THE SPECTATOR:] SIR that gambling is not immoral in se, to Whately's argument that the winner gains his quid without giving his pro quo, you reply that be...

I To TIER EDITOR OF SPRETATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Close has sent you from Dublin an illustration in support of your remarks on Professor Huirley's paper in the current number of the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF TER SIOMTATOR."] Sra,—As Mr. Quitter still persists in regarding me as an upholder of the bold, bad, British style of painting, I must make a further attempt...

MR. HALL CAINE ' S " COLERIDGE." BIOGRAPHY, save in one instance, has not been kind to the great authors and poets who made the earlier years of this century among the most...

[To TR. EDITOR 08 TIER SPECTATOR.”] S1E,`•May I again, through the medium of your widely read paper, say a few words in favour of the thousands of little helpless marmosets...

[To 1718 EDITOR 00 THE SPECTATOR:1 Sut, — At the close of your article on Tennyson ' s " Locksley Hall, " you speak of his representation of the " black Aus- tralian " who hopes...

course of the Servo- Bulgarian Campaign of 1885 will remember how for once English journalistic enterprise was at fault, and how fortunate were those who could fall back upon...

read, and is, indeed, the best translation of the Odyssey with which the present writer is ac- quainted. It is not, of course, so elaborate a poem as Worsley's beautiful...

and she displays her mastery of her trade by a singularly careful and yet unobtrusive thrift in the material of invention. She takes thought for the morrow and for the novel of...

THE faculty of true literary criticism is the rarest, the most peculiar of gifts. Literary sympathy, the power of analysis, good taste, sound and proportionate judgment, are...

by R. H. Mair, LL.D. (Dean and Son.) -From tbe profane to the one hundred and seventy-fourth edition of this useful work, and oldeet serial extant, we learn that in 1886, 12...

We may commend to our readers a series of little manuals, pub- lished by Messrs. Cassell and Co., under the title of "Helps to Belief." Four of these have come under our notice,...