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[The intelligence of the week from the Indian frontier is slight,...]
The SpectatorThe intelligence of the *week frot!1 the Indian frontier is slight, l)ut sicnificant. The Viceroy's ultimatum has been forwarded to the (Governor of Al .\I uJjj ed, for...
[The grand reforms demanded in Asia Minor, urged by Sir Austen...]
The SpectatorThe grand reforms demanded in Asia Minor, urged by Sir Austen | Layard, promised by the Sultan, and be-praised by the Ministerial journals, have already ended in smoke. A...
[On Tuesday, Lord Carnarvon delivered a very striking address...]
The SpectatorOn Tuesday, Lord Carnarvon delivered a very striking address to the Edinburgh P'hilosophic;l Society on "sImperial Adniniistration," in which lie described the extent and...
[The Government denies that it has asked the Powers to...]
The SpectatorThe Government denies that it has asked the P'owers to I co-operate in enforcing the Treaty of Berlin. It is, however, probable that inquiries as to the result of such an...
[THE Ministers dine at the Guildhall to-night, and as Lord...]
The SpectatorNEWS OF THE WEEK. THE Ministers dine at the Guildhall to-night, and as Lord Beaconsfield will be present, a great speech in explanation of his policy is expected. As, however,...
[Some despatches which passed, in July and August, between M....]
The SpectatorSome despatches which passed, in July and August., between 1r. Waddington and Lord Salisbury upon Eastern affairs were published on Tuesday. They show that the Foreign...
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MR. CHAMBERLAIN ON THE CAUCUS.
The SpectatorMR. CIIAMBEIRLAIN ON TIHE CAUCUS. E. CILAMBERLAINS (lefence of the Caucus principle I ill the ldtu/g/citI/ u tit( is, like all he does, both frank arnd clever: b)ut iiiillhe...
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THE POSSIBLE FALL OF FARM RENTS.
The SpectatorTHE POSSIBLE FALL OF FARMI RENTS. THE Landlords of England-on the whole, the best-off class in the world-are just now not happy ; and they have some reason for their...
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[The Pall Mall, in roundly accusing other people of making false...]
The SpectatorThe Pall Mall, in roundly accusing other people of making false statements, should at least endeavour to aim at accuracy itself. In a paragraph on Monday it attacks the Rev....
[At a meeting of the Council of the Liberal Association of...]
The SpectatorAt a meeting of the Council of the Liberal Association of Aberdeenshire, Mr. Ainslie, of Delgaty Castle, was unanimously recommended as the Liberal candidate at the next...
[The result of this election is the more creditable to the...]
The SpectatorThe result of this election is the more creditable to the- American people, because, apart from the currency question, they were getting tired of the Republicans, and have only...
[In Birmingham the municipal election ended in a manner...]
The SpectatorIn Birmingham the municipal election ended in a manner I which seems to promise no hope to the enterprising Captain Burnaby, who is to try to wrest the third seat from the...
[The Municipal Elections seem to have been fought very...]
The SpectatorThe Municipal Elections seem to have been fought very I generally on what are called political lines, with various results in various places ; but on the whole, apparently...
[Sir William Harcourt argues in a powerful letter to the Times,...]
The SpectatorSir William IHarcourt argues in a powerful letter to the Times, that if the Government has asked its co-signataries to carry out the Treaty of Berlin, and has met with a...
[The American people, at last roused to a comprehension of the...]
The SpectatorTrhc American people, at last roused to a comprehension of the schemes of the Inflationists, have inflicted on them a crushing defeat. General Butler, their leader, who was...
[It is quite possible, as matters are now going, that Russia,...]
The SpectatorIt is quite possible, as inatters are now goinr, that Russia, whom we are to fight in Afghanistan, will have affairs on her hands demanding all General Kaufmnann's energies....
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THE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY.
The SpectatorTHE AMERICAN DIFFICULTY. TE stand face to face with a serious difficulty with the Ali United States of America. The details of it are not yet fully known, because the...
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THE GOVERNMENT OF M. THIERS.
The SpectatorBO OK S. TIHE GOVERNMUENT OF M. TIIIERS.* [FIRST NOTICE.3 To call these volumes a history of Monsieur Thiers' Government would be a misnomer; and so, too, would it be to...
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[The difficulty caused by the tendency of parents who can...]
The Spectator'['he difficulty caused by the teudency of parents who can afford, and have been in the habit of paying, a respectable school fee, to send their children to any good Board...
[Sir Richard Malins had to adjudicate on a curious case of liti-...]
The SpectatorSir Richard Malins had to adjudicate on a curious case of liti- gating hardness of heart on Wednesday. It was a petition from Air. I)ay for an injunction forbidding (;Cueral...
[The Bulgarians have handed in their petition to the English...]
The SpectatorThe Bulgarians have handed in their petition to the EDgIlish I and French Ambassadors. In this document, which expresses their ideas, though it is drawn up in literary style,...
[At the meeting of the Manchester Society for obtaining the...]
The SpectatorAt the meeting of the Manchester Society for obtaining the I Suffrage for Women, on Wednesday, Mr. Courtney, M.P'. for Liskeard, remarked that the progress of the cause was...
[The Liberals have some right to congratulate themselves that...]
The SpectatorThe Liberals have some right to congratulate themse Ives that i Lord Odo Russell has refused the peerage offered hini by the present Government, on the express ground that it...
[A correspondent of Tuesday's Times, signing himself "Philip-...]
The SpectatorA correspondent of ]Tuesday's Tim(.s, si-nin, himself '' Philip- pus," declares that lie has tried the experinient of leaving his pony unshod, and that after turning Iiii out...
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MR. SYMONDS'S LIFE OF SHELLEY.
The SpectatorMil1. SYMEON)S'S LIFE OF SIILLLEY.* Wi: regret that in a popular series of Lives intended expressly for those * who lhave to run as they read," should have been included the...
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THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND THE KHEDIVE'S BONDS.
The SpectatorTHE BRITISH GOVERN-MENT AND THE KHEDIVE'S BONDS. THE strangest point in all the foreign policy of our present Government is its attitude in relation to Egypt. That country, and...
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CHURCH EXCLUSIVENESS.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorCHURCH EXCLUSIVENESS. [Tr) THlE l i -j THE ' SPECTATUR."] Sin,-In the last number of the Sj)uctator, the Lev. Charles Green points out that the separation of Church and State...
AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorA(RICULTURAL LABOURERS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'"] Sirn,-If prices of produce are to affect the wages paid to the producer, there can be no doubt that with wheat at...
DR. TYNDALL AND EDUCATION.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorDR. TYNDALL AND EDUCATION. rTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] I I SIR,-I earnestly'beg you to allow me to raise my feeble protest I against the most pernicious educational...
THE BISHOP OF CARLISLE AND THE ORNAMENTS RUBRIC.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorTHlE BISHOP OF CARLISLE AND THE OllNAMIE.NTS RUBRIC. [TO TIE EDIITOR OF THE 4 SPECTATOR."] Sirn,-As to suggestion of motives, I write no further. I wrote in my former letter...
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The George Eliot Birthday-Book.
The SpectatorCURRENTir .LI~TERAURlE. The George E/liot hl'afy- I9ok. (Bltakwood and Sons.)-If a '"birtbday-book" is a good institution at all, one supplied from Ueorgo EIliot's works is...
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NOTABLE PAPERS IN THE MAGAZINES.
The SpectatorNOTABLE PAPERS IN TILE MAGAZINES. Trii. C(oldu 1porary tends to become a little too theological. 'Theology and morals are the highest subjects of human thought, but there are...
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THE ECCLESIASTICAL FRACAS.
The SpectatorTIHE ECCLESIASTICAL FR ACAS. TIIE conflict of jllrisdliction hlichz21 has arisen between the Queen's Bench Division of the Iligh Court of Justice and the Arches Court of...
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ENGLISH FEELING ABOUT TERMINABLE ANNUITIES.
The SpectatorENGIIShI FEELING ABOUT TERMINABLE ANNUITIES. THLIE India Office is about to try an experiment, the result of which is of some social, as well as political and financial,...
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NEW TRANSLATIONS OF HEINE'S POEMS.
The SpectatorNEW TRANSLATIONS OF HEINE'S POEMIS.* ALTIOUGII a very slight knowledge of German is enough to enable one to real Heine's poems, it is a knowledge not possessed by a...
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THE MORPHIA-CRAVE.
The SpectatorTHE Tiii: author of this little nionograph gives as lhs excuse for wvriting it that, in Germany at least, the use of inorphia injections is becoming too common oamong, his...
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CHRIST NOT A COMMUNIST.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorCHRIST NOT A COMAIUNIST. [TO Tll E Ei)ITOR OF THE " Si'ETATOR.J] EIR,-Your reviewer, in his most kindly notice of my little book on "Village Politics," last week, objects to my...
ENNUI AMONG GIRLS.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorENNU'I AMONG GIRLS. [Tro 1i111 E'lloIL oIII r Sii *.l, A o.] Ssii,-Tle letter quotcd in the Spectator of October 2Cth,, from a young lady in London society to the Bishop of...
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WELLINGTON COLLEGE.
The SpectatorIVELLIN-GTON COLLEGE. TIIE attaelz upon the allege(l abuses of Welling ton College T now possesses all the elermelnts -which '\r. Cobden once said were essential to t he...
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THE FEAR OF DEATH.
The SpectatorTHE FEAR OF DEATH. A FINE writer in the new number of the C'ornhill points out that the somewhat artificial avoidance in society of the subject of the feelings with which...
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THE STATE CHURCH.; [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
The SpectatorLETTERIS T) THEl EI)DITOIR. TIHE STA'11, CHURCH. [To Divitni or ( iX 1 -i-E,,rklo I Sin,-As I grow older, I Seell clliifly to know how little I know. Still I am not unaware of...
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LORD CARNARVON ON TRUE AND FALSE IMPERIALISM.
The SpectatorTOPIC S OF THE DAY. LORD CAURN-\ARVONT ON TRUE AND FALSE IMPERIALISM. LORD CARNARVON'S very fine address at Edinburgh, of L -which no one who has not read the report in the...