It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPECTATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The Eleventh of...

T HE scene has greatly changed since last week. To the surprise of Europe, the Russian Government has accepted the British offer of arbitration as to the Pal-i-IChisti incident,...

Houses was a little peculiar. Mr. Gladstone said :—"The British Government agree with the Government of Russia that they do not desire to see gallant officers on either side put...

was summoned to London, leaving the headship of the English part of the Boundary Commission to Colonel Ridgeway. The Conservatives are indignant at this, and declare that the...

a surrender by the British Government. Their recognised leaders have not yet taken this line in Parliament ; but it was taken in a violent speech by Lord R. Churchill in the...

its Report, which amounts substantially to this. The received statements as to overcrowding in London are wholly true, and partially true as to other great cities. Such...

he said, was the chief result of the foreign policy of the present Government; and loss of prestige is to a nation what loss of credit is to a merchant. Lord Salisbury did not...

in which be tried to overbid even Lord Salisbury in abuse of the British Government, though Lord Salisbury far surpassed him in his attack on Russia. Lord Randolph's heart, he...

of defraying the expense of the registration of our voters, which Sir M. Lopes proposed to take off the rates and to pay out of Imperial taxation, on the ground that it is not a...

moved an amendment to the effect that the receipt of medical relief from the parish should not in itself constitute a disqualification for voting, and Sir Henry James opposed...

speedy abandonment of the Suakim Expedition. Lord Wolseley, who has visited the port, himself maintains, it is said, that he was right after all, and that effort should be...

which will probably create great Parliamentary discussion. The railway has hitherto been undermined, and attacked almost with impunity ; and early this week it was known that...

stride towards the annexation of the Isthmus of Panama. It was necessary during the recent gmeutee there to land Marines for the protection of American property, and, indeed, of...

the decision pronounced by Baron Huddleston and Mr. Justice Grove on the case of the Lewes Magistrates who were declared by those Judges to have given an order for the...

account of Sir James Han eon's and Lord Justice Lindley's judgments, why they do not regard the fulfilment of those conditions precedent as essential to the jurisdiction of the...

of Dr. Mercer, a distinguished American, was unveiled in Westminster Abbey on Thursday, after a striking address from the American Minister, Mr. James Russell Lowell, delivered...

but the speeches were not remarkable. The President made several of his little addresses, but they were only as happy and as ornate as usual, and no one said, anything striking,...

Console were on Friday 38a to Osi.

THE ARBITRATION. W E cannot assent to the policy of this settlement by arbitration without certain reserves. The Government has so strained—as we begin to think, so unwisely...

W HAT surprises us most in the most effective form given to the Conservative statesmanship of the day is not merely the great deficiency, but we must even say the total absence,...

S IR RICHARD TEMPLE publishes in this week's Contemporary a paper on the soldiery of India, which should be attentively studied by all who care to understand the difficulty and...

true state of opinion and feeling in the Presbyterian Churches of Scotland at least as well as any statesman of the day, and any suggestion, therefore, which originates from...

W E fear it will be found impossible, as some of our Radical friends hope, to dispense with the Crimes Act altogether. We detest Coercion Bills everywhere as admissions that the...

A DISTINCTLY retrograde movement will henceforth be observable in a direction most important to Londoners and dwellers in other large centres in England. A familiar feature in...

F RANCE is even nearer to a General Election than England is ; and though she has no new voters to add to the natural uncertainty of the result, she has her vo'ers newly...

I N ordering the Public Prosecutor to inquire into the ease of the little boy Bourdas, who was recently beaten to death by some of the upper boys in King's College School,...

I N an amusing and ingenious article on Courage, moral and physical, by Mr. J. G. Cox, which appears in Merry England for May, under the title of "A Misunderstood Quality," Mr....

LTO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTITOB."1 SIR, - I was glad to read in your current number the first warning I had seen against the ominous—and, from the speaker's position in the...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR." I SIE, — The Queen's Commissioner to any country should under. stand that country with the intelligence of sympathy. Tried by this test, Lord...

Sin,—" A Liberal's" sweeping assertion concerning the impotence of the Church in Wales is not, I think, borne out by facts. The truth is that the Church in Wales, like the...

SIR,—Mr. Ruskin's resignation on account of the recent vote of Convocation is the latest, but not the least, of his services to Oxford and to England. Another recent resignation...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Do you hold the opinion that the Queen's English can be improved P I am willing to admit that a useful word may now and then be coined...

IN APRIL. LIGHT falls the rain On link and laine,* After the burning day, And the bright scene, Blue, gold, and green, Is blotted out in gray. Not so will part The glowing...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [EMT NOTICE.] "THE Grosvenor Gallery does not improve ; it does very much the reverse. Not only is it losing its special character, but the general...

MR. GOSSE'S EDITION OF GRAY.* To Mr. Gosse we are indebted for the best critical biography of Gray we possess in the language; and he has now added to the debt by giving to the...

upon the North-West of Canada appeared just in the nick of time in one way, though rather out of time in another. At a moment when every thought that can be spared from...

[SECOND NOTICE.] DR. MARTTNEAll'S account of the Platonic system is not only a very remarkable piece of condensation, but in many respects an original study, and an original...

THE merits of this book, and what we cannot but consider its defects, all that it shows us of its author as a genial, accomplished sportsman, and high-minded, honourable...

TILE interest of the numerous Magazine papers on the coming war with Russia is a good deal diminished by the announcement that peace has been arranged ; but, nevertheless, some...

• ■■•■-■-■ Westminster Review, April. (Triibner and Co.)—The most noticeable articles in this number are the two which deal with important social topics,—" The Work of Women as...