delayed by a good deal of obstruction from Mr. Healy and his friends, which has been prolonged through this week. Discus- sions have taken place as to small points like the...

T HE Porte has met with another rebuff. The Sultan sent a whining complaint to the great Powers that he is being bullied and insulted by England, and the Powers have snubbed him...

weakness of the Hovas with the news from the French camp. This shows how true was the Hova boast that they com- manded an almost invincible force under Generals Fever and...

esting letter from its Madagascar correspondent, who is now established at Antananarivo. He gives a pitiful account of the corruption, treason, stupidity, and blustering against...

Richard Webster, the English Attorney-General, pro- voked a most legitimate explosion of indignation from Mr. Dalziel and his friends, by suggesting in a whisper loud enough to...

impressions of an American—Mr. Woodford—who has just returned from Madagascar, which, as far as we know, has been missed by the English Press. Mr. Woodford does not apparently...

the Paris Press represents the attitnde of the French Government, not less but more difficult of solution. The Temps is now claiming that recent French expeditions have linked...

able letter to Monday's Times in favour of unity amongst those Educational reformers who desire to see the children of believers in the dogmatic basis of the Christian faith...

the Colonial Office on the subject of West African railways. The deputation drew attention to the rapid growth of trade in West Africa. Twelve years ago there were but 25 tons...

who would be very slow to make such a blunder as Sir Richard Webster's, is not overdoing his ostentatious display of animosity towards England when he boasted as he did on...

Conservative circles at both the Irish and the English Solicitor-Generalship having been given to Liberal Unionists, Mr. Kenny and Mr. Finlay. The English Solicitor-Generalship...

the County of Dublin, is an enterprising man. He has been attempting to unite all the various sections of the Irish Members,—Unionists, Anti-Parnellites of both the sections,...

of deference in which the Edinburgh students hold the ladies who compete with them in their study of geometry. The front bench in Professor Tait's class to which the Professor...

departmental posts at the War Office will be filled up as follows :—Sir Evelyn Wood will become Adjutant-Genet al, and the Duke of Connaught Quartermaster-General. Sir Redvers...

regard to the execution of Stokes, the ex-missionary and African trader. We agree with Mr. Stanley in thinking that Major Lothaire, the Belgian officer, was wrong in hanging...

Thames, west of Blackfriars, took light last Saturday night, and caused a fearful conflagration, which is said to have destroyed property worth near £100,000. The most...

Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, by sending him a letter con- taining fulminate of, mercury, or some other explosive of an equally dangerous character. It happened, however, that...

Supply, Mr. Chamberlain dealt with the subject of Cyprus. After pointing out that it was inevitable that France should benefit by the allocation of the Cyprus tribute to the...

meeting of the Rural Labourers' League, fall of sensible and suggestive things. There was no doubt that small occupiers were good and punctual tenants. Indeed, there was only...

the Pall Mall Gazette, dwells upon the fact that Stokes was arrested in com- pany with "Kilaonge, the greatest slave-raider in Africa." It was Xibonge who murdered Engin. and...

New Consols (2.1) were on Friday, 107+1-10714.

AN UNDERSTANDING WITH RUSSIA. T HE news from Constantinople shows that Russia is working harmoniously with England in the matter of Armenia, and the fear that she would break...

W E are always glad when any party in the State founds its belief in pure principle, and repudiates mere opportunism. That is the way to test the truth of political convictions,...

O N Tuesday Lord Lansdowne announced the decision of the Cabinet in regard to the reconstruction of the War Office. The scheme of the Hartington Commis- sion is to be adopted in...

the proposal to put up President Cleveland for a third term, contrary, it is alleged, to Washington's obiter dictum that a third term should never be thought of for the...

W HETHER the Chancellor of the Exchequer likes or dislikes the prospect, we do not know ; but whatever his feelings may be, it is clear that voluntary schools are preparing to...

S IR JAMES CRICHTON BROWNE delivered last June a very interesting lecture on " Dreamy Mental States," before the Medico-Chirurgical Society, which he has published extenso. We...

A REPORT just issued on the dismal subject of the working of the Bankruptcy Acts during 1894 is one of those publications of which the inside is more interesting than the...

I F there is one thing which the average Englishman—i.e., the plain man or ordinary man, that useful figment on whom journalists and orators are accustomed to father their...

S INCE the Mayor of Plymouth went out to catch lobsters on the rocks, and was himself caught, as Charles Kingsley relates in the "Water Babies," lobster-catching with the naked...

A BUSY man on his holiday, especially if he is spending it in the balmy but somewhat enervating climate of the Cornish coast, may be excused for occupying his hours of delicious...

RADICALS AND HOME-RULE.--A PROTEST. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTIITOR."] Sra,—I have only just seen the article, "Sir Henry Fowler and the Future of Liberalism," which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Your correspondent " X." opens, in the Spectator of August 17th, a very interesting question, especially at this juncture when a new...

[To THE EorroA os T8E "fssoraroa."] Bra,—Your article on this subject has come as a surprise on many Irishmen who have so long admired the Spectator for its evident desire to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR: SIR,—We hope so much from this short respite to the attack on our Church, that I should be most glad if you would allow the views of one of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—An inscription in an Indian cemetery which records the assassination of a missionary by his chankidar (watch. man), concludes with the...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You have given a new and startling direction to the Egyptian question by conjoining it with the treaty stipula- tions of France as to...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—As the originator of the controversy to which the title has become affixed, I write to disclaim all respon- sibility whatsoever for it....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIn, — I am a very regular and diligent reader of the Spectator, and it seems to me you, in common with most Englishmen, believe the people...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—A lady friend of mine had a very favourite cat, named Peter.' One night she left him in his usual sleeping-place, and went to her own...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am afraid Mr. Plimsoll does not appreciate the fact that our woes, in a political sense, arise from the assumption by the House of...

SIR, —Perhaps some of your readers can tell me where the stone is placed which contains the names of a certain man and his wife, underneath which is written the text " Their...

before a large party in a country-house, intent only on making an early start agreeable for his depart- ing guest, a genial host observed : "I am very sorry to find that no one...

THE EVIL EYE.* Mn. ELwoitrtry is well known as a high authority on all that concerns the West-country dialects. He has written several. valuable essays on the local history and...

Sin,—In my Balliol days it was said that a very absent-minded undergraduate, going for a walk with Jowett, complained of feeling weak and unwell. Jowett asked him what he had...

LAUDABIINT ALII. (AFTER HORACE.) LET others praise, as fancy wills, Berlin beneath her trees, Or Rome upon her seven bills, Or Venice by her seas ; Stamboul by double tides...

is specially true of the criticism of fiction,—that it is largely a matter of emphasis regulated by taste. There are many, nowadays, who say that it is wholly so; but even those...

on the Adoption and Amend- ment of Constitutions in Europe and America received the Rossi Prize from the Law Faculty of Paris, and is unques- tionably both a very learned and a...

at literary style, and yet with a certain force that impresses itself on the reader, more than is the case with many books of far greater pretensions. To begin with, it brings...

this book is written leaves nothing to be desired. The author feels the full fascination of his subject, and if he has failed to do it real justice, this is because admiration,...

To learn the lesson conveyed by the defence and the fall of Plevna, we must find the true place of these events in the war of which they were a part. Before the month of April,...

The Note-Book of the Bev. Thomas Sally, A.D. 1671-93. Edited by Henry Fishwick. (Printed for the Chetham Society.)—Thomas Solly, belonging to a family of energetic...

and Son.)—Mr. Vachell describes this story as "A Study of Certain Phases of Life in California." We cannot see that there is anything especially Californian about it. We have...

White and Co.)—This is one of the least satizt.:ctory books that have as yet been given to the public by a writer who is obviously doing far too much work. It is quite...

vols. (A. Westwood and Son, Cupar-Fife.)—"The Kingdom of Fife" seems to have a singular fascination for many minds,—a fascination for which St. Andrews, with its historical and...

his new story, which is hardly so powerful as " The Devil's Playground," a romance of "the great lone land." Cer- tainly he contrives to invest the Canadian North-West, to which...

tale has for its sub-title, " An Episode in the Career of an Adventuress," and for its central figure pre- sents us with the personality of Miss Jockaway. We cannot say that we...

which make up the contents of this number will be found highly interesting by the readers to whom they specially appeal. Mr. Maunde Thompson writes about " English Illumin- ated...

and Co.)—We must own that the world into which Mr. Hollingshead takes us is not familiar, and that we have but little interest in some of the questions which he raises. We hope...

this collection, and all of which, unless we are mistaken, first saw the light in the Yellow Book, are by no means equal in point of merit. The shorter stories, in which Mr....

is a lively Munster story, full of conspiracy, misery, abduction, and fighting, with a little animal spistits thrown in. It also, of course, contains some politics more or less...

but, we think, a failure. We do not advise the author to try again, but if he should, let him first study Swift. That should give him a lighter hand for the work.

of this writer, who, we should say, is quite young, has been to write a historical romance repro- ducing the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. She has taken great pains...

and Co.)—Corona is a maiden who grows up into singular beauty in a lonely spot of the North Carolina mountains. Her rearing, her life while she was still fancy-free, and her...

and Co.)—This volume, contains the Tyndall Lectures, delivered at the Royal Institution in 1894. It deals scientifically with the subjects of Colour-Vision and Colour-Blindness,...