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Finland. There the entire population joined in the " strike " ; the Russian agents of despotism were all dismissed; the gendarmes were disarmed, and a civic guard provided for...

the result of a hundred casualties among the rioters. Every- where in the Cisleithan dominion the dispute stirs up the most bitter animosities of race, the Germans being deter-...

Their plan is to let loose the lowest populace of the cities upon the "intelligents " and the Jews, prohibiting the soldiers on one pretext or another from interference, and...

representatives of the various political parties, but the result has been a complete failure. Prince Eugene Troubetzkoi, the only member of the Constitutionalists who accepted...

the King's birthday, and met with a very cordial reception. Replying to a Municipal Address, the Prince observed that he inherited both from his father and Queen Victoria a love...

has given a shock to its power. The great city has re-elected Mr. McClellan, who is the nominee of the corrupt organisa- tion, but his majority has been greatly reduced, and he...

yet appeared is that of Lord Hugh Cecil in Tuesday's Times. After comparing Mr. Chamberlain's method of healing the discords of the Unionist party with Pride's Purge, Lord Hugh...

the Sultan. Their union has not been broken yet, and it is stated that within a fortnight fifteen men-of-war will be assembled off the coast of the Levant with orders to seize...

so seriously last week, returned remorse.. lessly to the charge on Tuesday at Basingstoke. Free- traders, he observed, had never accepted the view that the export trade was the...

by the London County Council at the eastern junction of Aldwych with the Strand—was unveiled on Saturday last by Mi., John Morley. Lord Peel, who presided, after alluding to his...

meeting of his constituents in Birmingham. With the most significant part of his speech—his attack upon Lord Londonderry and his demand for an early Dissolution—we have dealt at...

summarised in our last issue, has been hailed by all the Ministerial organs as a triumphant vindication of the Government policy. One of his great points was that the total...

sincerity and straightforwardness of Japanese diplomacy. " Whether in the field of diplomacy or war, we have gained an ally at whose side we may be proud to find ourselves." The...

were delivered by the Prime Minister, Lord Cawdor, Mr. Arnold-Forster, Lord Lansdowne, and the American Ambassador. In replying to the toast of "His Majesty's Ministers," Mr....

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usually uninteresting. A peerage has been conferred on Mr. Alexander Forbes-Leith, who showed great enterprise and liberality in raising and equipping Volunteers in Scotland...

of Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities last Saturday show the strength of the reaction against the present Government and all associated with it. At Edinburgh Mr. Haldane beat...

N O sadder or more saddening deputation has ever waited on a Prime Minister than that which Mr. Balfour received on Monday. When women and children come on the stage we are...

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existed years ago were being, or had been, firmly repressed. If not openly by the Congolese authorities themselves, yet by news- papers and persons acting under their...

together Tariff Reformer and hesitating Free-trader in an unnatural alliance is getting very frayed and thin. The fates sometimes select unexpected agents, and in this case they...

that the public memory of Mr. Gladstone, of his character We were unable to follow Yr. Gladstone in the later years of his life, for we thought, and still think, that his first...

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rows, in the glade and under the ancient tree standing alone in the pasture, wherever a solemn oak spreads its crooked limbs the ground beneath is thickly bestrewn with acorns....

letter from me in which I endeavoured to warn the friends of the Auxiliary Forces against a too-ready subscription to the view that Mr. Arnold-Forster had abandoned any part of...

suggest that on the occasion of the deputation of the unemployed waiting upon him, Mr. Balfour's silence on one point was the most eloquent part of his speech. I refer to his...

Sin,—Was not your article on " The Cant of Efficiency " in your issue of October 28th a little tortuous P Did not it set up a bogey only to knock it down P It would have made...

nation losing our practical common-sense P I trust not; but surely we must be on the downward grade if seven thousand people in Birmingham can be so carried away by the fervid...

Stn,—On September 9th my wife and I drove to see the Etruscan tombs on the hill over against Orvieto (not the Necropolis Mancini). We were accompanied by a guide. After a time...

Sin,—I think you will allow a short rejoinder to your reviewer's reply in last week's issue to my previous letter. There appears to be a little confusion as to the issue. His...

attached to the letter of "The Author of A Retrograde Admiralty " in your issue of October 28th you rightly sum up the high speed question in the following words : " Of course,...

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your issue of November 4th, in his letter to you touching the claims of great actors to be buried in the great Abbey, Canon Duckworth asks : " What did Garrick leave behind him...

SIR,—In the Spectator of October 28th appears a eulogistic poem by Mr. F. Edmund Garrett on the deeds of the Johannesburg " Outlanders " (Imperial Light Horse) at Elandslaagte,...

Sin,—The attention of the public has during the last few weeks been again drawn to the great scarcity of employment in West Ham, and to the distress which accompanies it. How...

readers who consider that the attack upon the classics is often one-sided will applaud the courage of the writer in your last issue in openly suggesting what the advocates of...

read your very interesting article on Cambridge House in the Spectator of November 4th, and I confess that I am not very much surprised to hear that the Mission is in want of...

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man, but in the meantime Lord Goschen appears unfortunately to be the last of a line, illustrated by the names of Peel and Gladstone, with whom it was the first business of...

to days when the loosening hold of the Cobdenite philosophy upon public opinion first began to be apparent, and when Mr. Goschen—who was as regarded foreign and Colonial policy...

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this audacious extravaganza, bound in the uncompro- mising colours of the Zingari Club, Mr. Frank Richardson exhibits that fine sense of irresponsibility which has on several...

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