of events on Lord Mayor's Day, 1880, and his review of them on Lord Mayor's Day, 1881, with the circumstances of the pre- sent time ; and he showed, we think, that both as...

Mr. Child'ers, in returning thanks for the Army, was one of singular interest. He recalled the fact that twice before 1882 had a great British victory occurred on the 13th...

debate, has gone on all the week, nor shall we be able to record the final division even on the first resolution, which was to take place last night after we went to press....

T ORD DUFFERIN only reached Cairo on the 7th inst., 1.J and already the Egyptian Government has issued a Note, demanding that, in view of the altered circumstances, the Dual...

case.

ance of danger from the False Prophet in the Soudan, and to maximise the force to be sent against him. They give out therefore, that though he defeated the Egyptian army, he did...

House of Commons for its tendency to draw out debate ad infini tam. He quoted Lord Bacon's remark that "it is pleasant to see errors and wanderings, mists and tempests in the...

"military occupation" of that country "an event novel in Eurorean politics which raises questions specially affecting • France," but adds that "the negotiations are being...

of the first resolution—after Lord John Manners's wonderful proposal for taking the vote for the closure of debate by ballot had been rejected—was careful to indicate something...

Lord Sandon contributing to the debate the only successful point on that side,—we mean the statement that in 1880 and 1881 the Liberals had wasted a great deal more of the time...

proposing to the Conservative Party to force the Government into a dissolution on the question of Procedure, which, ho said, might be very properly done, without even the...

out a single remarkable speech, unless Sir W. Hart-Dyke's speech, embodying the bold assertion that her Majesty's Government had been themselves the chief obstructives, may be...

in such compression of debate as to give sufficient time for the adequate discussion of important measures, than the Irish, who are always crying out for a measure of...

a long Ministerial statement, of which the salient points are these. M. Duclerc tells the Chamber it is the source of . foreign influence, that on its policy the influence of...

a definite plan of using the interval during which it is effaced in Europe, to pick up colonies abroad. M. Spuller, M. Gam- betta's devoted friend and agent, told his Parisian...

the National Anthem in India ? A public meeting was held. on Thursday week at the Mansion House to raise funds for trans- lating the Anthem into all the dialects of India, and...

which • exactly confirms our remarks of last week. They declare that Dr. Arthur was burnt while he was affected by " narcotic stupor," that the fire was caused by Mr. Cranston's...

Pope's encyclical to circulate in his diocese, together with it, a comment of his own upon it, in which he speaks of the democratic spirit of the present day, its zeal for...

from Cuba, against whom nothing is alleged except treason, landed without passports, and were immediately con- veyed by the British police across the frontier. The Spanish...

porated Law Society of Liverpool, the President, Mr. Enoch Harvey, pointed out in forcible terms the extreme gravity of the injustice which is suffered by great centres of...

Vienna. The pretext was originally an electioneering quarrel, the wbrkmen and roughs of Josephstadt siding with Dr. Kronz- wetter, a Democrat of Ultra opinions. There is reason...

THE RADICALS ON EGYPT. T OED DUFFERIN will find that some of his most embar- rassing difficulties are at home, and one of them is the existence among many Radicals of a...

I T is a great pity that Lord Dufferin's letter to Lord Gran- ville of September 18th, describing his final negotia- tions with the Sultan about the despatch of Turkish troops...

T HERE is a very natural tendency to make the annual speeches at Guildhall as cheerful as it is possible to make them ; but we do not think that Mr. Gladstone's speeches there...

ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S Letter in Monday's / Times ought not, perhaps, to be taken as the gauge of his statesmanship. We should first learn whether true Con- servative...

S O Mr. Green is out of prison. He has "satisfied his con- tempt" by undergoing deprivation, and as he has now no Miles Platting to return to, he cannot again break the law at...

Nv -E are disposed to think that the friends of good govern- ment in the United States are a little exaggerating the consequences of the elections of Tuesday. They have ended in...

T HE Letter of Leo XIII, to his Clergy, on occasion of the seventh centenary of the birth of St. Francis of Assisi deserves to be read and pondered by Protestants, as well as...

W E have been at once amused and pained by the receipt of a number of letters, both from Germans and Anglo- Germans, complaining, often in bitter terms, of the "attacks on...

T HE opinion that the former days were better than these,' has, probably, never lacked numerous adherents. It is the natural prejudice of the old, it is the natural imagination...

ROLLING-STONE RAMBLES.—IV. BY THE AUTHOR OF "A LAZY JOURNEY." T EIS tour of ours was a fli g ht before the storm, which was upon us everywhere. Gradually, our dreams of...

A FREE COUNCIL FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. [TO TEE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR:1 SIIL,—Will you allow me to call your attention and your readers' to a demand put forward by the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the able article on Lord Dufferin's visit to Egypt which appears in your last number, you do not recognise one most important...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Do you think it is quite fair to dub a man a "pessimist," when he takes a view of a question that may run counter to your own P I have...

[TO TRH Eamon OF THE "SPECTATOR." :S. In,—I have read with great pleasure your genial notice of Dr. Jessopp's article in the Nineteenth Century, But, as an "Area- 'than," bred...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] have made a mistake, for which I heartily apologise. I misread the newspaper paragraph which has been going the round here, and to which I...

THE LITE PROFESSOR DE MORGAN.* This book contains not only a remarkable picture of a remark- able life, but is full of a lively interest which would not be generally expected in...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sit,—Having for many years been a reader of the Spectator, and knowing and fully appreciating the high-minded fairness and justice with which...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Perhaps Garibaldi's dream, just now published for the first time, may be interesting to those readers who are collect- ing remarkable...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your review of last week on Canon Farrar's "Early Days of Christianity" complains that, "It is impossible for one who has written so much, in so short a...

of the impressions made upon the singularly keen and receptive mind of the indefatigable Master in Chancery, during a stay of some four months in Egypt in 1856, at a peculiarly...

her preface, "is the month in which to visit Norway. The extreme hot weather of the summer has not yet arrived ; the rivers arc fall of water, from the snow melting on the...

of Mr. Stevenson's New Arabian Nights, is that he is tasting two pleasures at once. Every great novelist has a style of his own, and we soon learn to think each appropriate to...

The Expositor, for October and November, 1852. (Hodder and Stonghton.)—This admirable periodical keeps up its interest with complete success. In every number there is something...

is a remarkably readable one, presenting that happy combin- ation of fact and fancy which has marked it since it entered upon its new career. There is, perhaps, a trifle too...

A supno3 book of the "gift" or de lica..8 order, which is not .simply a splendidly-printed and richly-illustrated edition of a favourite author, should resemble a thoroughly...

Baxter, - M,P. {Cassell, Petter, Galpia, and Co.) —This is a" small" book in all senses of the word, Mr. Baxter visited India with every advantage in the Way of introductions...

Knowledge), is a not unsuccessful attempt to give "a brief sketch of Britain under our early English conquerors, rather from the social than the political point of view." Such...

Co., New York.)—This poem professes to be a continuation of the " Vision of Nimrod," already published by the autber, and has the same strange structure and metre of stanzas of...

F.R.S. (Williams and Norgate.)—This last book of Dr. Gore's possesses the same merits and the same defecate as his "Art of Scientific Discovery." It is quietly, but not firmly...

second contribution of it author to the excellent "English Citizen " series. Like the firet, "The Electorate and the Legisla- ture," it indicates Mr. Walpole's careful reading...

Edinburgh.)—It is satisfactory to learn from the preface to this admirable set of eight lectures that each of them was listened to, with appreciative attention, by two thousand...

, LL.D. (Macmillan.)—It is refreshing to come upon to a piece of work NO thoroughly well done as this. Dr. Holden has done a great service to English schoolmasters, and to...

late of the Bengal Civil Service. (Trilloner.)—This volume, which forms one of Messrs. Triibner's "Oriental Series," is a literal and faith- ful version of the rebel or quatrain...

Co.)— This practical guide to the home stage is neither much better nor much worse than its older rivals, and is, perhaps, more noticeable as a sign of the increasing popularity...