as containing nothing, but that is not quite true. It con- tains, in words which we give textually elsewhere, what is virtually a promise to accept any Ministers or any measures...

T T may be taken as almost certain that before our next issue, we shall have proof that Wei-hai-wei, the second great Chinese arsenal, is in Japanese possession. Up to January...

at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Wednesday, but said very little of interest in their morning speeches. At the great meeting in the Olympia of Newcastle in the evening, where five...

a Moderate who has been Premier and Foreign Minister, on Saturday accepted the task of forming a Cabinet, and has been at once joined by all to whom he has applied. He fills the...

accompanied by some regrettable incidents. The Ministry pro- posed to grant a national funeral to Marshal Canrobert, who died on Monday, aged eighty-six, as a great soldier and...

case.

allow Alsace-Lorraine to govern itself as a province of the Empire. A motion to that effect was made in the Reichstag on Wednesday, but the Chancellor refused to accept it. He...

dinner given to Lord Sandhurst, the new Governor of Bombay, which appears to have been reported only in the Times. He repudiated strongly the idea that England would ever give...

Lords, Lord Lansdowne took up the plan which we have continually advocated, of the weeding of the House of its great redundance of passive Conservatism. But we do not think that...

on Tuesday, in which he made one useful sug- gestion, that Bills which have passed their second reading in the House of Commons in one Session should go up to the Lords before...

unfortunately interrupted by a severe attack of illness at Glasgow on January 15th, and a very powerful attack on Lord Rosebery it is, though in our opinion much too bitter in...

expression of his previous conviction that Home-rule is the only cure for Irish discontent, and of his extraordinary belief that handing over Ireland to the tender mercy of the...

who a little unreasonably expected him to summon a represen- tative, or at least a consultative, Assembly. His Majesty on Tuesday received an immense number of deputations from...

from the Irish Catholic, the organ of Mr. Healy, shows how bitter is the feeling between the two sections of the Anti-Parnellite party. Mr. James F. X. O'Brien is "an official...

Europe, which they buy from the Treasury with currency notes, and the Treasury balance in that metal has shrunk from £20,000,000, regarded as the proper minimum, to £10,000,000,...

Company, was entertained at dinner at the Imperial Institute, and afterwards delivered a lecture, the Prince of Wales being in the chair. After repeating his belief in the "...

of the first class, and belonging to one of the greatest and most popular of the great steamship lines, has gone down, with nearly everybody on board. At half-past five on...

a lecture on the Nile at the Royal. Institution. After mentioning that, though Isis and Osiris had long been forgotten, every native still knew the night—that of June 17th—on...

`Sew Consols (2D were on Friday, 1041.

THE RADICAL IDEA OF THE LOWER CLASSES. A NY one does a service who helps us to understand the thoughts of the dumb mass which now rules England, and we welcome therefore the...

I T is to be feared that the great speech which was inter- rupted by the Duke of Argyll's sudden illness on January 15th, will never be read in its entirety by the English...

I S France once more slipping down the inclined plane which leads first to anarchy in the Executive, and then to a dictatorship ? No one can answer the question, for France...

once very painful and also almost ridiculous in the manner in which both Unionists and Gladstonians in turn console themselves for the prospect of defeat at the polls, by the...

M R. CLEVELAND'S Message of Monday to Congress about the condition of the Treasury, is a remark- able paper. Very few people will read it outside the Union, for the subject...

W E assume, as every person who stops to remember the high character of the Lord Chancellor must assume, that there is not the least atom of truth in the story that Mr. Justice...

S O much has been said of late about altering the law dealing with the relief of the poor that it is a pleasant surprise to find the Local Government Board treating workhouse...

W E perceive with some surprise that many of our correspondents believe that the body which is to clothe the soul after death is identically the same as that which clothes the...

'W HY is a man with a title better liked by electors than a man without one ? It is the fashion just now, we believe, with election agents to deny that this is the case, and...

T HE weather changes of the last ten days have been so marked as to have compelled the attention even of those whose interest in meteorology seldom extends beyond the forecast...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, With reference to the letter of Sir Henry James, which appeared in the Times of yesterday, dealing with what he characterises as...

SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I cannot think that the estimate of Sir John Seeley's religious position given in the Spectator of January 19th, is adequate. He wrote " Ecce Homo" in the...

THE PRESENT DIVISION OF PARTIES. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your article entitled "Sir William Harcourt Breaks Silence," in the Spectator of January 266h, you...

interesting article, "Sentiment and Sepulture" in the Spectator of January 12th (p. 46), says :- " As a rale, a Christian of the cultivated sort believes, like the Hindoo, that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sir, — La your interesting article in the Spectator of January 26th, on this subject, you say that "it is most unfair to speak as if Mr....

[To TILE EDITOR OP THE 4. SPECTATOR."] ,SIR, It is indeed matter for keen regret that men, many of great and deserved weight in the Church, should fail to under- stand St....

SIR,—Will you allow me to express the moral pain which your article in the Spectator of Jalriary 26th, on the American millionaire, Mr. Vanderbilt, gives to some who look upon...

P [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The question raised by your criticism of my last nova, " A Modern Quixote," in the Spectator of January 26th, is one of such...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you permit me to observe that the remark ;LI the Spectator of January 26th regarding my lecture on Dickens, given recently at the Royal Institution,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."_1 SIR,—In your otherwise admirable article, in the Spectator of January 26th, entitled " Mr. Vanderbilt's Expenditure," you do, I am sure...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,— Having derivedmuch pleasure from reading the frequent natural history notes which from time to time appear in the Spectator, I venture...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-"] SIR,—For the chance of your caring to insert in the Spectator my comment on a letter signed "C. J.," in the Spectator of January 19th, I beg...

doubt as to the interpretation given by Mr. Veasey, as well as that given by your correspondent of January 19th, of the curious web-shaking of spiders ? I have often provoked...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sin,—Knowing your love of animals, and the interest so often shown in your columns in their ways, I venture to send you the following...

MR. STEVENSON'S "AMATEUR EMIGRANT."* THE second volume of the late Mr. Stevenson's collected works deserves special and separate notice, for it contains a large contribution of...

IT is fitting that the interesting story of Macgregor's life should begin with the loss of the • Kent' East Indiaman, from the burning deck of which the infant "Rob Roy" was...

the House of Lords gave as much attention to such subjects as "High and Low Church" and " Socialism " as Lord Norton has given in the two modest and thoughtful pamphlets which...

and is, a story of the conflict between religious scruple and love, yet all its characters are, throughout, consciously or unconsciously, so continually engrossed in the...

the study of the sources of the American Constitution has been strangely neglected. Mr. Gladstone only expressed the accepted view when he wrote in Kin beyond the Sea that, as...

THE place of honour in the Nineteenth Century is given to Mr. Wallaee's paper, " Single Chamber Democrats." In it he "makes hay" in the happiest way of the more solemn portion...

and Co.)—The obvious moral to deduce from this novel is, that men are most unwise to fall down and worship a girl merely because she has a pretty face, without regard to her...

The Sunday Magazine. Edited by the Rev. B. Waugh. (Isbister and Co.)—We have half-a-dozen serial stories by well- known writers in this yearly volume. The names of Annie S....

one time Good Words was the serious magazine, but of late years it was said that it was no longer the Good Words we used to know, with probably as little justice as there is in...

By E. Beresford Chancellor. (Hiscoke and Son, Richmond.) —Nine years ago Mr. Chancellor brought out a history of Rich- mond. Since that time he has been busy collecting...

of The Eccentrics are exactly described by the title, and the author deserves congratulation on the vividness of imagina- tion which has enabled him to fill three volumes with...

R. Horton-Smith, M. A. (Macmillan and Co.)—The subjunctive, or, as it should more accurately be termed, the conditional mood, has long been the terror of schoolboys and of the...

humour in these sketches is not always spontaneous, and occasionally it becomes a little wearisome. There is a decidedly American sound about some of it, without, however, the...

by the author of " Through Green Glasses," is, as its very name implies, a " rattling " Irish story, full of practical jokes, full of noise, and full—indeed, rather too full—of...