has won 8 seats from the Unionists, to 3 which they have won from him, giving him a net gain of 5. In Wales, too, he had won 2 seats, and lost only 1, or has a gain of' 1. But...

England, has ran steadily against Mr. Gladstone's policy, is the magic influence exerted by the Prime Minister in the capital of Scotland, where Mr. Goschen, who was elected by...

week, as we reported in our last issue, the first borough election, in Colchester, showed an increased Conservative majority for the Conservative candidate. On Friday week, the...

T HE struggle is not finished ; but five hundred Members have been elected, and it is clear that the Unionists have triumphed. Broadly speaking, Mr. Gladstone's policy has been...

ment, who have been losing steadily ever since. On that day a net balance of 7 seats was gained by the Unionists over the number gained by the Gladstonians, the Unionist gains...

was not known here till Tuesday afternoon, it appeared on Wednesday morning that the net gain of the Unionists had risen from 15 to 21, including two gains in Glasgow, and one...

been, perhaps, Mr. Sexton's election for West Belfast by a majority of 103 over Mr. J. H. Haslett, the Conservative, the poll showing for Mr. Sexton 3,832, and for Mr. Haslett...

case.

cordiality and reverence, was evidently hurt by one or two passages in the Birmingham speech on which we commented last week. And on Saturday a letter of expostulation from the...

eulogium passed on Mr. Chamberlain in the Quarterly. The article, "Mr. Gladstone and Ireland," is said to be directly inspired by Lord Salisbury :—" As for Mr. Chamberlain, we...

in the Liberal cause. Yesterday week, he spoke for the Unionists (who won the battle) at Plymouth. On Monday, he spoke at Chesterfield for the Unionist candidate for the...

each speech as it is uttered ; but we notice that as the contest goes on, Mr. Chamberlain becomes more resolutely Unionist, and more antagonistic to the Premier. His speech at...

only serious affrays have occurred in Dublin and Cardiff. In Dublin, on the 5th inst., a Nationalist procession smashed the windows of a Conservative working men's club, and the...

intention of abolishing Batonm as a free port. The trade of the place has increased se- much since the annexation, that its fiscal immunity is inconvenient to the Exchequer. In...

; but the duty to be done at Assonan is doubtful, and the English troops there are dying of the heat. On June 17th, the thermometer stood at 121, and eighteen deaths from...

suppress disorder in Mandelay. It is forwarding more Ghoorka and Bombay troops, has introduced a temporary Bill for the more rapid trial of prisoners, and has divided Upper...

to the Royalist provincial Press of France, which may be accepted as an expanded manifesto of the party. He repudiated all ideas of violence, plots, or intrigues, and declared...

governing Paris, which many believe will endanger the safety of the city. The debates of the Municipality are henceforth to be open, and a great ball is to be built in which...

worth Society, which is very refreshing reading after the political turmoil of the week. He described his conversion to Words- worth by the Bishop of St. Andrews, and his...

balance. M. de Lesseps, deceived by his experience in Egypt, where he had the advantage of forced labour, has under-estimated the cost of the works at Panama, and now demands...

THE ELECTIONS. T HERE are many satisfactory features about the Elections, besides the preponderance which they promise, and we may even say ensure, to the opponents of Mr....

T ORD SALISBURY will shortly have the opportunity of 41 his life. It is evident, from the way the Elections are going, that substantial power in the new Parliament must fall...

T ONDONERS axe all so accustomed to the Conservative tendency of the vast population within and around their city, that they are apt to forget how remarkable a pheno- menon that...

M R. GOSCHEN'S great defeat in East Edinburgh is by far the worst disaster which has befallen the Unionist cause during a week of otherwise great and even success. In Edinburgh,...

I S not this fuss about Batonm a little foolish ? The Russian Government, in announcing that the place must cease to be a free port, has possibly shown a bad spirit, and has...

A FORTNIGHT ago we put before our readers the results of the " Blue-book " on the depression of trade abroad, especially in the countries with which we have most productive...

T HE Colonial visitors to the Exhibition have been received at Windsor, have been entertained at the Guildhall, and at half-a-dozen great country-houses, have had a review at...

• Publbbed br Reeves and Turner. Strand. N OTHING is more striking than the tendency of the Eastern wisdom to paradox, unless it be the tendency of the Western wisdom to the...

W E were writing last week of the modern form of hero. worship, and of the power still remaining to indi- viduals, and there is an untouched question connected with the subject...

O UR old law-books contain for the curious a store of quaint and pleasant learning as to animals. We are inclined to think of all animals, as regards our rights over them and in...

"LETTERS FROM DONEGAL." ITO THE Burma OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sre,—Two anonymous correspondents have challenged the knowledge or veraoity of the Lady "Felon." One, your corre-...

OF TEE " SPECTATOE."1 Sra,—Mr. Quilter will excuse me if I point out to him the fact that, in his criticism of June 12th, be did not speak of " the fact of the associates of the...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTILTOR." J SIR,—Your "News of the Week," of July 3rd (p. 866), contains an unconscious humour of a lateral reading, worth marking at this time :—...

MR. F. BARNARD'S DESIGNS.* THERE are some artists for whose non-success, or, at all events, for whose non-popularity, it is especially hard to account. For frequently it is...

IDYLLS OF THE ILIAD. —XII. AGAMEMNON. 4 ` FOR that the princes to the pride of place Chose me in Argos, and for love of fame, And honour of a brother, to this land Came I,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...] SIE, — In justice to the memory of a great writer, and in mercy to the reputation of two very young ones, permit me to call attention to a...

THE HEART OF SOUTH AMERICA.* OF the vast plains lying south of the Tropic of Capricorn, forming the drainage-area of the Paranit, we have but few descriptions, and these of a...

OF the three novels which we have bracketed together, mainly on account of their points of dissimilarity, The Wayfarers deserves the first place, because its author aims at...

TRAVELLERS in Central Asia have of late become so numerous, that M. Moser's interesting tour in that region two years ago will not attract much attention among either...

to a systematic effort to work out a system of ethics which some time in the future Mr. Courtney hopes to be able to accomplish." We place this in the forefront of our notice,...

THESE three volumes contain an enormous qnantity of informa- tion about India and Southern Asia generally, and it would be impossible to name any other publication which...

Maimun, whom moderns call Maimonides, is one of the few medimval Jewish thinkers whose reputation extends beyond the limits of the Synagogue and whose writings have secured a...

The editor of Time continues with considerable success to combine lightness with solidity in his table of contents, and the July number is a more than average example of the...

as Edin- burgh. It owes muds to its unequalled position, the charm of which even Scottish builders have been unable to destroy, and it owes much also to the concentration of...

of their high reputation. Mr. Blackmore's new story, " Springhaven," which le running in the former, and which de- picts the England that successfully resisted the first...

DESULTORY essays such as these, dealing with some branch of natural history and coloured by local associations, have a peculiar charm of their own. This charm has been...

—Here is a plot strangely made up of a number of curious threads and so made up as to puzzle a reader who has not time to spend on disentangling it. There is a will with each a...

biographies and specimen sermons of forty " distinguished preachers of the Church of England." Among the forty are seventeen Bishops (two of them, Drs. Fraser and Woodford, now...

all "true," but making some quite tolerable reading. It strikes us that the author is not very profoundly acquainted with the subjects of which he treats. No one who knew much...

Windus.)—Mr. Farrer has collected here a vast number of curious and interesting facts. We do not dispute the general conclusion which he would draw from them, viz., that war is...

—The Bishop of Bedford's occasional verses are of a kind which no one can read without feeling respect, we may say, regard, for the writer. They are the expression of a genuine...

the "Pocket Edition" of Pendennis, of which the second and concluding volume will appear on July 26th. The paper, print, and general get up of the volume are equal to that of...

regarded as a practical joke. You ask a friend, as the custom in each cases is, to write his name on the blank page, and look for something appropriate under the day ; and he...

office with no little self-importance, and, we may add, in a somewhat arbitrary fashion. We do not wish to defend all the Revisers' English (it is the Revised Version of the Old...

Fisher Unwin.)—The book begins with a charming description of a Tuscan villa, most charming of summer retreats, though probably less agreeable when the winter cold nips sharply,...

Lady John Manners. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This volume contains a collection of papers which have been published at various times, some of them attracting considerable attention....

of business, should not be addressed to the Enrroic, but to the Pm:two:LEE, 1 Wellington Street, Strand, W.C.

M.A. (Walter Soott.)—This is a volume of the" Canterbury Poets." To be quite candid, Mr. Carington has not fully accomplished what he aims at. The simple poems are sometimes...

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does not exceed two acres. And then he proceeds to say, what this writer knows to be true, that, sad as the lot of the agricultural labourer. may be, its hopelessness is a false...

book is likely to be useful to the intending student and to the visitor, and is, with its dark and light blue and white cover, beauteous withal. It gives in dictionary, that is,...

Little Folks, January. (Cassell and Co.)—This, the first number of a new series, promises well. Mrs. Moleavrorth, who has as skilful a pen in writing for the young as any author...

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TOURGITENEFF'S LAST STORIES.* IT has been the remarkable distinction of Tonrgueneff to have won—even through the necessarily distorting medium of trans- lations—a higher...

MR. GOFER, in again collecting in a permanent form his scattered essays, has not only provided his readers with a store- house of useful and interesting facts and figures, but...

of the best," is a true saying ; and we have an instance in the volume before us. Here is a handsome little book, well bound in cloth, with nearly four hundred pages of good...

"WITH this reprint," Mr. Patmore writes, "I believe that I am closing my task as a poet, having traversed the ground and reached the end which in my youth I saw before me. I...

IN personal narrative—which, by the way, is becoming a con- stantly increasing branch of English literature—what ought the intelligent reader to look for ; what qualities, and...

to find an Italian Professor—by his name, probably of Jewish origin—applying Spencerian methods to the history of English co-operation. And. although Dr. Rabbeno does not...

THERE are three Russian novelists who, though, with one ex- ception, little known out of their own country, stand head and shoulders above most of their contemporaries. In the...

Formation of his Library. By Henry Stevens, of Vermont. (Stevens.)—There are few kinds of sport more alluring, and perhaps we may add, more expensive, than that of the...