TI ORD WOLSELEY has decided to make an immediate rush on Metemneh, close to Shendy, where the Mandi has stationed a force variously estimated at from 5,000 to 3,000 men....

THE RESIGNATION OF GENERAL CAMPENON. M FERRY is swimming into very deep water. The • resignation of General Campenon, on the grounds which he has made public, reveals a great...

S IR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY, in a short note published in the Spectator of to-day, expresses his astonishment that we should not have advocated the Minority principle in the...

Air R. CHAMBERLAIN'S speech at Birmingham would, perhaps, have been in better taste if it had been curtailed of its wittiest passage. The suggestion that Lord Salisbury may...

W E are not sure that we feel so sore at Mr. Parnell's victory in Tipperary as some of our contemporaries evidently do. It certainly was a most striking one. Mr. Parnell, in...

T HE fuller and final Report of the Select Committee on the Charitable Trusts Acts, which deals especially with the Allotments question, has just made its somewhat tardy...

T HE members of the Stock Exchange, like everybody else, except engine-builders, leading physicians, and the tradesmen who distribute retail the goods of which the wholesale...

Air . CHARLES BRAY, the courageous author of The Philosophy of Necessity," and other kindred works, in which he found the key to the mystery of the universe with so much...

I T is said that the terrible Thirty Years' War lost Germany two-thirds of her population. In the ten religious wars that befell between 1550 and 1706, by massacres and...

THE ALLOTMENTS EXTENSION ACT. fro THE EDITOR OF TIIE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — I have read with much interest the letter of the Vicar of Sebergh, published in your paper of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Allow me to reply by a single sentence to your note on my letter in the last Spectator. 1 read all you write on the subject from week...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPEC rATost." I SIR, — In commenting last week on Dr. Martineau's letter to the Daily News about my " Life " of Miss Harriet Martineau, you use these...

A DECEMBER ROSE. FAIR pilgrim rose ! budding is spite of date In homely gardens where the sunlight falls, Breeze-haunted by a tune articulate In perfect melody on green-clad...

• Could aught arrest the rushing wings of Time, Or fix his shadow on th dial's face, This were the day supreme, the perfect place, Winaudermere, iu May's eternal prime. So...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY.—I. GAINSBOROUGH. TILE present exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery of Gainsborough's paintings is very incomplete, and therefore comparatively...

THE NEW DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY.* Ws: receive with most cordial welcome—a welcome, it is true, not unmixed with anxiety—the first volume of Mr. Leslie Stephen's...

WE bave once or twice called attention to the earlier of these dialogues at the time they first appeared in the Nineteenth Century. The second of the two is, however, much...

FOR some little time back the author of these volumes has been absent from the field of fiction, and our first word must be a word of welcome upon her return. We have, perhaps,...

HISTORY in magazine articles is not without its uses and advantages. As a specimen of this branch of light literature, Mr. McCarthy's latest effort is a favourable one. He...

Tux Bishop of Exeter's Bampton Lectures for 1884 form a most useful manual for the assistance of those who are troubled in mind by the speculations of the modern evolutionist...

good and, as we believe, unprecedented example to the numerous Proconsuls who represent England and govern her dependant races in every quarter of the globe. He has had printed...

If Scotland gives us only one Christmas number,—the Holyrood Anneal (Gardner), of which the first number has just been issued,— it makes up in point of SiZ3 for all other...