T HE news of the week from Matabeleland is rather con- fused. It may be taken as certain that the whole Matabele tribe has rtsen, and that to dislodge its impis from the hills...

on the Dervishes, Colonel Stevani, in command near Kassala, driving back an advancing column with heavy loss. He was inclined to follow up his victory, but was ordered by...

shameful condition of affairs in Sicily. The Premier, who is a Sicilian and understands the island, has appointed a Senator, Count Codronchi, Civil Commissioner of Sicily, with...

all the classes which dread the Income-tax Bill, is not disposed to abandon its quarrel with M. Bourgeois. It insisted on Friday week on "further explanations" as to the...

spondent in Paris confirming even in details the explanation we suggested on Saturday last of the fall of M. Berthelot. That Minister fell because the Russian Government refused...

this week, have been chiefly engaged in discussing the Edu- cation Bill, on which they have passed a great number of elaborate criticisms. They wish for an Education Authority...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 25th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

case.

things which happen when a system of slavery is tolerated. An Arab named All Bin Abdulla, of Pemba, owned a slave called Muftah. This slave ran away, but was caught and restored...

appeal on behalf of a permanent tribunal of arbitration to decide disputes among the English-speaking races without war. Cardinals Gibbons, Logue, and Vaughan, passing by...

con- sequences. The Times of Thursday announces that the Regent of Nepal, irritated by continuous outrages from Thibet, has forwarded an ultimatum to the Lamas at Lhassa, and...

Bodmin, made a powerful protest against the advance into the Soudan, and pleaded that there was still time to keep the expedition within bounds. The idea of the reconquest of...

the mountain railway up Snowdon on Easter Monday. In a narrow saddle about half-way between the top and bottom of the mountain the gradient is steep and the curve very sharp....

between the story of Mrs. Humphry Ward's "Bessie Costrell" and that of Lucy Clack, living in an Oxfordshire village near Bampton, who was convicted on Tuesday, and sentenced to...

believed, to the increase of manufactures, is becoming of political importance. According to the corrected return of the Census taken on December 2nd, 1895, the Empire now...

invites the politicians of the Gladatonian party to consider whether some very moderate scheme of Home-rule,—partaking ap. parently more of a provincial local government than of...

at the comparatively early age of fifty-one, of Mr. James Ash- croft Noble, who had been for many years a regular con- tributor to the literary columns of the Spectator. He was...

committed with circumstances of unusual atrocity. An old Jew umbrella-maker named Levy, a man of seventy-five, had -accumulated considerable means, and lived in a small house in...

as always, some splendid examples of heroism and self-sacrifice. No fewer than eight hundred persona received recognition for saving, or attempting to save, life. They actually...

New Consols (2i) were on Friday, 110.

THE STRUGGLE OF CLASSES IN FRANCE. T HE struggle between classes which is going on in France is becoming highly interesting, all the more because, if we are not greatly...

HE shriek against the Education Bill which the Opposition journals raised on its first introduction has not found itself echoed in the country. The Con- ference of the National...

W E never remember within the last fifty years a time in which the Opposition were so completely with- out a policy on which they could hope to dwell with the slightest hope of...

T "policy, so strongly advocated in the Times of Tuesday, of treating Eastern and Central Africa as a dependency of India rather than of England, is one which has attracted a...

I RELAND is quiet and Ireland is prosperous, and unless accident or faction manages to frustrate the plans of the Government the last of the grievances of the Roman Catholic...

W E perceive from our correspondence that the experts in Poor-law management think that our con- demnation of the Metropolitan pauper schools was a great deal too harsh. It was...

M R. BIRRELL'S article in the current Nineteenth Century is, to our thinking, a singularly attractive piece of work. It is so in part from the curious detach- ment of the...

I T is iniPmsible to get honestly interested in the revival of the Olympic games. They are not contested in the old place, but in Athens, or in the old way, but among the repre-...

T HE secret society which appears to have been in existence for some ten years or so in Cambridge,—with branches in other places,—of the Companions of St. John, must have had no...

E VIDENCE of the astonishing sagacity and military organisation of the African baboons increases with the recent exploration of their favourite haunts, due to the troubles in...

THREE GENERATIONS OF LUNATIC CATS'. [TO THE EDITOR 07 THZ " SPRCTATOR."] THE alternations of temper in household cats are often sudden and violent, their spit-fire ways being...

[To THE EDITOR Or TRY " SPECTATOR."] SIE, — Canadian bullocks, before they were excluded three years since, were worth 20 per cent. more than similar bullocks south of the...

ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The chance has now come for England to show whether the expressions of respect for the true kernel of...

[To ri EDITOR 07 TER "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Allow me to express my great satisfaction at the news conveyed by Mr. Pirkis through your columns. An institute opened in England under...

To as EDITOR Or TRI " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In the portion of my letter originally quoted in the Spectator of March 14th, were the words :—" Nearly twenty thousand horses are said to...

CAPTAIN YOUNGHUSBAND'S "HEART OF A CONTINENT."* THE speciality which distinguishes Captain F. Younghusbarraf as an explorer is the nonchalance with which he performed....

THE GYPSY TAINT. FATHER is a townsman, mother from the far Green southern uplands where wealthy pastures are : My kith and my kindred are prosperous and sleek, Who feed well...

Mn. Macxxicarr possesses important special valifacation* for writing on Ulster As It Is. For more than a quarter of • Ulster As It Is; or, Twenty eight Tsars' Expsr.enca as an...

THE ingenious author of The Time Machine has found in this little book a subject exactly suited to his rather peculiar type of imagination. When he tried to conceive the idea of...

WHEN last summer the House of Commons debated, with no little heat, whether Cromwell should have a statue, the Irish Members fiercely declared that if the tyrant and arch-enemy...

IT is to the papers upon Japan that the reader will turn first when he opens the volume before us. Sir Edwin Arnold has been known for a long time as a devotee of that...

THERE is always a brilliaut charm and an atmosphere of high spirits about Mrs. Hodgson Burnett's books, but we doubt whether her latest achievement will add much to her reputa-...

Chambers's Journal still retains its positively unique position among magazines as a combination of old-fashioned solidity and that "lightness" which is supposed to be the...

the third edition of Mr. Burdett's work (the second was published in 1880). The intervening years have witnessed, as our readers are probably aware, many changes, mostly, it is...