T HE Comte de Paris, who sailed this week for the United States, before his departure addressed to M. Bocher, the " managing man" of the House of Orleans, a letter intended for...

defended on the ground of religions liberty. The Mormons are tired of suffering prosecutions for their "peculiar institution," and the President of the Church has formally...

Mr. T. D. Sullivan, delivered a curious panegyric on Mr. Dillon and Mr. O'Brien, whom he declared thousands of Englishmen, Scotchmen, and Irishmen "knew to be honest and to be...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 11th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

landlords are the English garrison. Whenever the Government annoys them, they seek revenge by en- deavouring to fine the landlords. Just now they are excited by the recent...

whose great abilities are less known to the public than to his chiefs, made a speech on Wednesday to his con- stituents at Leeds. He said he had recently travelled for two...

case.

men, arrested for wrecking trains on the New York Central Railway, have, it is stated, made a full confession. They say they were engaged in plots for wrecking trains, one at...

and the other dynamitards sentenced during Mr. Gladstone's adminis- tration. Their advocates do not plead that they were innocent, but that dynamite was placed at their disposal...

was published in. Monday's newspapers, is of special interest at a moment when the Irish struggle is being centred in New Tipperary. He was asked to attend a meeting in that...

British South Africa Company's expedition into Mashonala,nd reached its goal, Mount Hampden, on the 12th inst. A site—we presume for a post, or "fort," as the Hudson Bay Company...

of no importance to India. It is a Palace revolt, in which the Maharajah's brother, probably aided by some dislike enter- tained by his subjects for the reigning Prince, has for...

House of Representatives—for several days the Democrats refused to help make a House, in order to prevent the carrying on of legislative business—and seated Mr. Langston for...

will be considerably increased by the extraordinary telegrams about incidents in Goa. An election is going on in that decayed city, and there has been a riot, terminating in a...

of Spain. The next elections, which take place almost im- mediately, are to be held under the law of universal suffrage, and the alarm of the authorities is great. They are not...

the miners are "out," not for wages, but in defence of the grand principle that non-Union men shall not be employed; and the stevedores have all struck with the same object in...

never see a paper now without a discussion somewhere in favour of adopting Protection, in order that the native may " defeat " the foreigner—at the expense, as the speakers...

experiments at Annapolis with different sorts of armour-plating. The details published as yet are scanty and confused, but it would seem that a French plate compounded of steel...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 95 to 951.

vancement of Science at Indianopolis, Mr. Dodge read a paper on the standard of living in the United States, of which a sum- mary is given in Monday's Times. That standard is,...

Times, drawn from a work entitled "Things Japanese," published in Japan by Mr. Basil Hall Chamberlain, a well-known scholar. The number of things which, according to our...

of [the reported German proclamation in East Africa in favour of slavery. The story came originally from the correspondent of the Times in Zanzibar; but it is pretty evident...

MR. DrLLON . AND PURCHASE BILLS. W E wish every Unionist in England would read Mr. Dillon's speech of Monday at Swinford, and read it not only with care, but with a...

I T is well at this moment for the permanent interests of the country, that Lord Dufferin is Ambassador at Rome, and Lord Salisbury Foreign Secretary. Lord Dufferin is certain...

the formation of a Farmers' Party has been the bogey of American politics, and both Democrats and Republicans have every now and again been thrown into a fever of alarm lest the...

accustomed his friends to hear him cry, " Wolf ! Wolf !" without any reason, and who was devoured by a wolf because his cries were disregarded when he had only too good reason...

T EOPLE are exaggerating to a quite amazing degree the political effect of the collapse of Boulangism. Conservatism is not dead in France because a particular General, from whom...

p EOPLE are wondering why it is that the public is taking so much interest in the Benwell murder ease that the newspapers find it worth their while to pay for telegrams of two...

T HE officers who claim to represent the modern spirit in our Army are above all things anxious not to make their craft a mystery, but to take the public—or, as they frankly...

latest story from America is a peculiarly horrible one; HE we do not know that there is any reason for the partial incredulity with which it has been received. Five men, it is...

sailor's fancy that pictured the mermaid sitting on a 1 1 rock with "a glass and a comb" in her hand, was not quite the myth it seems. Weary of male companionship, he painted...

A S a rule, we in England pride ourselves on the fact that, so far as our domestic life is concerned, we have little or nothing to learn from other countries; so that when we...

IRISH TENANTS' IMPROVEMENTS. [To THE EDITOR 011 TIER " SPICCTATOR.1 SIE, — I am glad to see that Mr. Cooper has put the matter of landlords' and tenants' improvements in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If your correspondent, "An Oxford Fellow," wishes to know in what sense and upon what grounds Dr. Liddon was "a Liberal," may I...

Sra,—Your correspondent, Mr. D. H. Saunders, states that in Ireland "bridges, roads, drains, and other works are all done by the tenant." As a matter of fact, bridges, roads,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—One does not expect to obtain from a "Commentary in an Easy-Chair" much information as to either the objects, methods, or record of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—My attention has been directed to the review of my "Life of Byron" in the Spectator of the 20th inst. I am sorry your reviewer thinks I...

ERDMANYS HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY.* THE translation into English of Erdmann's History of Philo- sophy is an important event in itself, and in the fact that it is the first...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] say that you hear ladies lament in every locality that a decently good dressmaker is not to be had. I believe that in almost every village...

[To Tan EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Will you allow me space to call attention to the treat- ment which the Church in the Province of York receives from successive Prime...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—In reviewing the new translation of Thomas b. Kempfs's -" Imitation of Christ," you say : "We do not remember any praise of it from...

NOT since the publication of Hobson-,Tobson—Colonel and Mr. Burnell's monumental glossary of Anglo-Indian colloquial words and phrases "—has so important a con- tribution been...

article of diet which is not attractive to the unsophisticated palate—say, caviare or truffles—he will notice, should he be in the habit of examining his sensations, that his...

This interesting selection of Mr. Austin's lyrics is introduced to the public by a preface in which Mr. Watson makes some remarks "upon the distinctive English note in our...

OUR " kin beyond the sea" are useful to us in a variety of ways, but in none more than in providing us with detached, and on the whole disinterested, observers of our historical...

the volume to which "Jacquetta," the second of them, gives its name, are very different, and of very unequal merit. It is not often now that Mr. Baring. Gould writes up to his...

The Expositor's Bible : Judges and Ruth. By the Rev. Robert A. Watson, MA. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This volume deals chiefly with a book considered by some one of the most...

is "the story of the Mission to Deep-Sea Fishermen," and is full of interesting details of the work, and of the life and character of the population among whom it is carried on....

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mrs. Douglass voyages in the Florence,' a steamship from Plymouth to Australia. On her way, she observes various persons, and especially certain lovers....

Bramston. (Walter Smith and Innes.)—This is a sequel, to a certain extent, of Miss Coleridge's excellent story, "An English Squire." The most attractive person in the new tale,...

Co.) —A fairly successful volume of occasional poems, such as Mr. Pierce published some years ago, and on which we were glad to bestow such praise as we felt able to give,...

W. Frank Shaw (Griffith, Farran, and Co.), makes "stories and illustrations" a prominent feature. Catechising is often a dreary function, and always wants a special gift if it...