has been reduced to £6,323,015. The official statement explains that this result is due to an unexpected increase in revenue of £3,633,938, and also to a nominal reduction of...

at Posen, and raised the town to the distinction of being a "Royal Residence." The castle is described as being of Romanesque style, and has cost about £250,000. There were...

power in Korea, would not trouble to insist on 'annexation. We do not think, however, that objection can reasonably be taken to a nation's insisting on the reality of facts and...

T RE most important foreign news of the week is the announcement that Japan is about to annex Korea. Thus Japan ceases to be an island kingdom, and turns her provisional...

case.

ducted on the principle of scrutin de liste, threaten to com- plicate international relations in the Near East. For not only has M. Venezelo, the Cretan leader, been returned at...

every one knows that the Japanese Pro- tectorate has meant much more efficient rule, which it is to be hoped will develop yet more efficiency as well as broad- mindedness and...

Eregli to Bulgurlu, which was resumed in May, has been making only slow progress owing to the want of funds. The Paris correspondent of the Times states in Friday's paper, on...

Unrest" deals with the replies of the Ruling Chiefs to Lord Minto's request for their views and suggestions. The first point noted in these communications is their practical...

to the evidence of the Crown witnesses. One man, described as a Bengal agent, penetratedjnto the secret society, and was even admitted to the inner Council. Besides describing...

economic situation in Morocco published by M. Charles Rene Leclerc, the representative of the French Morocco Committee at Tangier. While French trade with Morocco has constantly...

Parliament. Two of the four prosiness created by the new Constitution—Cape Colony and the Transvaal—will hold their elections for their Provincial Councils as well as for...

Mauchamp, who was assassinated three years ago at Marakesh, defined French policy in Morocco. According to the report in the Times he said Nothing would be easier for us than...

Press by Mr. Montagu's recent speech in which he referred to Lord Morley as acting through "the agency" of Lord Minks It is thought that this phrase detracts from the dignity of...

the Secretary of State to India as saying that he "shall superintend, direct, and control all acts, operations, &c." Any one who turns to the Act will find that the words it...

in Wednesday's issue the beneficent forces generated by Indian unrest. Amongst these he notes the various non- political organisations which have been quietly developing all...

his opinion, it was a very good sign that the Conference had met. At any rate, there was, this to the good: there was goodwill on each side. "It was quite true that if the...

Berwick on Thursday. After maintaining that the Budget was a Free-trade Budget, and that Free-trade, thanks to the last Election, was still secure, Sir Edward observed that if...

Bedford' in the Straits of Korea. The Bedford,' an armoured cruiser of 9,800 tons and with a speed of 221 knots, launched in 1901, and attached to the China Station since 1907,...

the effect that the Admiralty had resolved to build an experimental motor-driven battleship without boilers or smoke-stacks has led to a good deal of sensational comment in the...

grant facilities for the consideration of the Bill introduced this Session to carry out this object, or to guarantee fulfilment of their pledges to provide for the payment of...

June 9th. Consols (24) were on Friday 81--Friday week 81.

say here that English observers should beware of taking au pied de la lettre charges of disloyalty to the Constitution and to the British attachment. Of course, certain policies...

at the approaching manceuvres. Certain well-known aviators have been asked to put their services at the disposal of the Army from September 21st to September 24th. The area of...

joint Board representing the General Federation of Trade Unions, the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress, and the Labour Party. The Board, having considered the...

rilHE Republican Party in the United States is hunting .1. for a formula which will satisfy all its warring sections. Sometimes one is inclined to think that it has about as...

LABOUR AND LIBERTY. ' T EE attitude taken up by the Labour Party to- wards the Osborne judgment is one of the most significant, and at the same time one of the most...

I N this country, never very far removed from the memory of a General Election, we are so near to the turmoil of the campaign of last January that we may perhaps the better...

A WONG the invaluable articles on Indian unrest which Cll. the Times special correspondent has been sending home for the last few weeks there are two which stand a little apart...

T HERE is a picture in Punch of August 17th which has been, we are sure, productive of much laughter and some sad reflection. The scene is the interior of a shooting booth of a...

A T a time when we have all ceased to wonder that flight has been achieved by human beings, it is easy to lose sight of the accumulation of small but significant facts by which...

ERE in an Australian city sleeping outside one's house is a common habit, for scarcely any dwelling is without a verandah or wide balcony that will accommodate at least one bed,...

BATTLESHIPS AND BATTLE-CRUISERS. [TO FHB EDITOR OF TOR " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Public interest in naval construction has been stimu- lated of late by the launching, within a...

Sre.,—It is difficult for any one to reply to Mr. Shi-Chae Chang's letter in your issue of August 13th against foreign missionaries in China, because he carefully abstains from...

THE NEED FOR A CONSERVATIVE PARTY. [To THR EDITOR OF THE " SpEcnvroa."3 Sin,—The great need of the present day is a Conservative Party,—not a party which calls itself...

[TO THE EDITOR 01 TEE " EirscriTox."] Sns,—In your issue of the 18th inst. a Chinese student com- plains of the misunderstanding of the character of his nation prevailing in...

[To VIZ EDITOR OF THR "SPECTATOR:] venture to trespass on your space, if you will kindly permit me, in order to point out a few phases of the difficulties surrounding the slave...

[To TIM EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIE,—By last week's mail I received a letter—written on July 28th last—from a young relative of mine, who went out two years ago to Canada to...

allowed to add an illustration to those which Mr. George Moores alludes to in his letter in your last issue on this subject of the superiority in certain departments of thought...

[To Tam EDITOR OP TIER " EPTCTATOR:1 Sin,—Mr. Moores says in your issue of August 13th England has the best unite in the world for manufacturing purposes. I suppose he means...

[To THS EDITOZ OP THZ "SracrAToa.") Sin,—.I would ask the hospitality of your columns to invite the co-operation of your readers in an Imperial experiment the results of which...

Sig,—The advantages of decimal calculations ought not to be mixed up with the question whether we do or do not adopt the metre for our standard. Nor is it necessary to discuss...

am glad to notice that the question of Metric Reform is now receiving publicity in your columns in the shape of letters from various correspondents which you have published....

SIR,—The great difficulty about our measures and coinage is that every one has learnt to count in tens, and that it is practically impossible to get people to count in twelves....

Sru,—Would you kindly allow me to say, for the information of your readers who have not already written to me, that I shall be pleased to forward particulars of the objects of...

[TO TEl Eorrox OP TEl " SPICTATOIS."] San,—Your correspondents who are against a decimal system of coinage and weights on the ground that the unit under such a system is not...

Stn,—In the course of your interesting article in last week's issue you say that when Miss Nightingale and her selected staff of nurses "reached the seat of war the camp lay...

[To THE EDITOR 07 TER " SnerrAToR.1 SIE,—Among your correspondents in the Spectator of August 13th was one who asserted that it only required the abolition of the Irish...

[To TEl EDITOR OF THE SP1CTITOR.1 Sra,—The popular fame of Miss Nightingale rests on her work in the Crimea, and it was great ; but her greatest achievement is really that she...

under the above heading in the Spectator of August 13th the writer quotes a sentence of Mr. Price Collier's to the effect that the Irish "consider themselves governed much as if...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] a review of Mr. A. G. Bradley's "The Avon and Shakespeare's Country" in the Spectator of August 13th it is stated :—" The chapter on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—You do well to remind your readers how worthy of attention the writings of some of the early Quakers are. How suggestive, for instance,...

ITO THE Einyea OF THE " SrxcrAToa..") will be - a gratification to many of your readers interested in the purchase by the National Trust of the three hundred and ten acres of...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF ins. " SPECTATOR."] . Sna,--In your note- to Mr. Haultain's letter- in_ last weeks issue you describe- Mrs. Jones of PantglAs as- " a-rich-Welsh lady who...

[To Too EDITOR OP- THE " SPROTATOIA.1. SIR,—Having lately visited the battlefield of Killiecmnkie and the grave of Dundee in the nave of the ruined. church of Blair, whither...

[To TIM EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sza,—In-the - Spectater for-August - 6th and 20th have appeared letters-on this subject. The first, if my memory . serves me, was to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPRCZATOES"1 one who has read and loved the Spectator for many years, may I say with what pain I read in your issue of August 13th that you offer best...

result of my letter kindly inserted in your issue of the 6th inst. several people have written asking for more information- upon the subject of pit ponies. The alleged cruelties...

[To THE EDITOR-OP THE " SFECTATOP.."] have read: with much interest your correspondent's letter about the red-breastedflyc atcher (Spectator, Au gu st 20th). For two years in...

Stn, r -Owing to recent legislation 'a new era of town-planning and reeenstruction- is about to open in the United Kingdom. That the ia Ucr danger of - the. legal and public...

THE PLOUGH. Fecod Egypt behind my oxen with their stately step and slow Northward and East and West I went to the desert sand and the. snow; -Down through the centuries one by...

reference to M. V. Hussey Walsh's letter in y ou r issue of August 13th, I have myself just passed along the routes- he mentions from Killarney to Parkna.silla and Cahireiveen....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sr,—Your correspondent "W. E. K.," in the Spectator of August 20th, is himself mistaken in saying that the word ." Cabal" is French. It is...

. from Dr. Benjamin Biekley Rogers in your issue of last. week, Iventure to draw. his.atten , tion to the-fact that lathe third edition of Morris's "British Birds," VoL L, p....

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked - "Communicated," the Editor mu.st not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein e:rpressed or with the...

THE GATES OF INDIA.* SIR THOMAS HOLDICH has probably more experience in the delimitation of frontiers than any man living, and the Indian Borderland has always, been his special...

THE controversy caused by the Report of the two Com- missioners sent to the Crimea to inquire into the mismanage- ment of the war is now almost forgotten. It was a heated and...

Canon Hobhouse has given us a very vivid sketch of the history of the Christian Church in its relations with the world. He begins by drawing a picture of the Church as we find...

Lanark has been made familiar to us by his own autobiography and by a consider- able amount of expository and critical dissertation. There was, however, until supplied by this...

Sirvmskr., noteworthy books for naturalists have appeared within the last few months. In a massive and finely illus- trated volume Mr. Gerald H. Thayer expounds his father's...

l',Europe." The present biography, though it has the faults of its kind, superficiality, a lack of thorough- ness, of deep research, of original character-study, so that it does...

TH IS is a very interesting book and a popular work of con- siderable merit, despite the fact that here and there it contains some rather naive historical and antiquarian...

MR. BRAN is an able and observant writer, who, having made it his business to find out the chief facts relating to Austra- lian wool, contributed the results to the Sydney...

PRESTER JOHN.* Yotrwa David Crawfurd, the narrator and hero of Mr. Buchtes vehemently exciting South African romance, is a son of the manse who abandons theology for commerce...

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