ably 'conducted by Admiral Courbet, and, so far as the reports enable us to judge, perfectly successful. The Foo-Chow Arsenal was bombarded and destroyed on Sunday, with little...

after but a week's illness, at his summer villa at Potsdam, on Monday morning last, at the age of fifty-five. He was the son , of Major-General Lord George William Russell, and...

G ENERAL STEPHENSON having declared his distrust of the Nile as the route on which succour should be sent to General Gordon, Lord Wolseley, who recommends and prefers that...

account to his constituents of his four years' administra- tion. Blackwood's Magazine for September, which indulges in its usual frothy fury against him, contains a prose attack...

case.

stone made no reply to the address of grateful acknowledg- ment and unabated confidence which the Liberal Committee presented to him. Opposite the Caledonian station is the...

highly-coloured account of the bombardment of the Foo-Chow Arsenal, from which it would appear that a great deal of wanton destruction on the part of the French had taken place...

so rash as Lord Salisbury ; but the whole drift of his speech was that no Bill would do which did not propose to apportion the number of Members more or less to the number of...

about 30,000 persons, was made in favour of the- Franchise Bill, and against the course taken by the House of Peers. Another, on the same day, about 6,000 strong, was made on...

on Saturday, and made in his address some odd remarks. One consisted in a comparison between Lord Beaconsfield's Government, which lasted six years, while " every one was sur-...

the Times as numbering 120,000 persons, and by the Pall Mail as numbering 80,000, in the grounds of Nostell Priory last Saturday, the residence of Mr. Rowland Winn, M.P., the...

crats was, however, unable to be present at Nostell Priory, and Sir Stafford North cote wept over his absence. There was always some bitter drop, he said, in the sweetest cup,...

overjoyed to find out what numbers they can muster, but neither the surprise nor the joy is very reasonable. So long as there is a great party on one side, there will always, in...

that the Government should surrender to the demand of the House of Lords, and produce a Redistribution Bill along with the Franchise Bill in the Autumn Session, the more...

thing on the relation of scientific teaching to general education. He approved, on the whole, of the discipline of the classics for those who have leisure and a certain amount...

told them for their comfort that the Conservatives were getting on very well, and were quite unconscious of being worsted in the agitating struggle of agitation. And when a man...

of the British Association on Wednesday, to some 1,600 members. We cannot, of course, pretend to give any summary of it here, however meagre. It was one of great interest to...

few days before his death to Mr. T. B. Potter, was republished on Wednesday, and, as it seems to us, most oppor- tunely republished. The doctrine of that letter is that Mr. J....

of age, well nourished, but, it is said, without food in the stomach, or any sign of its recent presence, was discovered on Wednesday, wrapped up in brown paper, in the garden...

THE TORY TACTICS. T HE Tory tactics are very ingenious. With one consent Sir Stafford Northcote, Lord Randolph Churchill, Lord Carnarvon, and even the Duke of Norfolk—who voted...

THE death of Lord Ampthill is the most serious loss to • 1 this country which its Diplomatic Service could have suffered. He combined all the qualities which go to make a great...

While reading the Bishop's calm discussion of the vexed question of ecclesiastical vestments, it is hard to realise that we are separated by less than two years from the...

T HE Lords undoubtedly still have their " favourers," as Richardson's Clarissa used to call her elderly friend and confidant ; and we publish in another column the letter of...

T HE law is always with us, late and soon (though rather late than soon), and the Long Vacation only serves to emphasise the importance of the way in which it is admin- istered...

I F it is useful to see ourselves as others see us, it is some- times almost equally so to see other people as they see themselves. We must know the nature and strength of the...

A N old traveller—one Gilpin, if we recollect aright—hearing at Launceston of the dreary moorlands beyond, begins to sigh for the Saxon comforts of good roads and good inns, and...

T HE measure which English teetotallers would deal out to sellers of drink is meted by the Government of Russia to sellers of books. In that country literature cannot be reached...

M R. J. S. MILL, in his essay on "Liberty," long ago warned us against the stupifying influence of custom upon human beings, and held that we ought to encourage eccentricities...

Sin,—I suspect you overestimate the number of those who are so moderate as to be willing to tolerate a Second Chamber. In Scotland, at any rate, there is a very widespread...

THE REFORM OF THE LORDS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' 81)4 —Having in a former letter discussed the election of a House of Lords from amongst the Peers by the...

[To rag EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—What the Prime Minister may say in Scotland as to the House of Lords will be said not to Scotland alone, and it will be said with the...

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — AS you are generally not indisposed to grant a hearing to those who may differ from you, I would ask permission to make a few...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Mr. Browell should be more careful in his statements. I alleged that the Charity Commissioners obtained money from the Skinners'...

[To TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Yon suggest that Mr. Gladstone should recognise the eminent services of the Marquis of Bath to the cause of freedom in the controversy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Since many of our country cousins will doubtless follow the good advice of the Spectator, and take up their abode in De Keyser's...

Sur.,—An epitaph very like that sent you by Mr. Reade is, or was, on a stone in the Old Churchyard at Liverpool. It is dated 17£0, and is this :— " This town's a corporation,...

SIR, —The following epitaph was copied by me nearly thirty years ago in the churchyard of the village of Brauuton, North Devon " To ye memory of * * * (name illegible),...

THE KING COUNTRY OF NEW ZEALAND.* "Tars is the greatest word of all—love ! love! " So said the Maori King, Tawhiao, a few days ago at the Mansion House-, when bidding farewell...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] So.,—Your correspondent, " F. S. L.," has given the first two lines of an epitaph in a Staffordshire churchyard ; but has un- accountably...

SomE people who have a grievance are shy of making it known, lest it be considered an evidence of weakness, as showing that they have neither strength to put right what is...

this bulky volume, which contains more than a thousand closely-printed pages. " The object of this work," writes the editor, " is to place before the general reader in an...

THIS is a rather pleasant account of Denmark,—especially J utland,—thrown into the form of a slight story, the hero of which, a young English landowner, is made rather too...

ALTHOUGH the cry of " no Popery " and the feeling which that cry represents are far less general among us than they were thirty years ago, there is still to be found among many...

and Sons, New York.)—Even after Dean Stanley, the traveller who keeps his eyes open can pick up interesting facts and make a fresh story of the oft- told tale of Sinai and...

Life and Labour in the Far, Far West. By W. Henry Barneby. (Cassell and Co.)—This book is properly described by its author as " notes of a tour " in the Western States, British...

—" °aide's" dramatis personm are of the types which must by this time have become sufficiently familiar to her readers. There is a Russian prince, enormously wealthy, in...

is in most respects a very common-place novel. The plot turns upon such worn-oat incidents as the return from abroad to claim a family estate of a brother long believed to be...

U.S.)—These "poems in prose," a title, the translator tells us in his preface, "half suggested" by the author, are sometimes idylls, some- times satires, but almost always...

White and Co.)—This story somewhat reminds one of " The Castle of Otranto," only there the mysteries are explained, the book being really a bur- lesqae, whereas here there is...

her Sister. With a Preface, by the Rev. H. D. Rawnsley, M.A. (Seeley and Co.)—This little memoir is published for the British Syrian Schools and Bible Mission. It was to this...

and Co.) . —This book may be conveniently described by its second title, "A Chronological Survey of the Years between the Ascension of our Lord and the Martyrdom of SS. Peter...

Katharine Saunders. 3 vols. (Chatto and Windus.)—Of the stories in these volumes (three longer and three shorter ones) "The Silver Line" is, we think, the beat, because it is...