T HE day for the meeting of the three Emperors is not fixed, but it is known that the time will be about the 15th inst., and the scene the Castle of Skernievice, in the...

case.

with 700,000 dirty people, living huddled together in " wynds," and drained by open sewers into a tideless sea, is the natural home of an epidemic, and the attack has been...

have gone through the regular solemn farces in the way of interviews with the Khedive. Lord Wolseley keeps his own counsel, but it is asserted that the Nile Expedition has...

summon the French Chambers and ask for heavy votes of men and money for a Chinese war. He believes that "the policy of reprisals" will yet bring China to her knees. It is...

ascent of the Nile, under Lord Wolseley's daring plan, are being rapidly com- pleted, and on Thursday one of them was tried at Woolwich. The boat was launched in the outer basin...

Radical of the old and constructive type, told his constituents, at Swansea on Saturday, that ever since he had sat in the- House—twenty-nine years—the Constitutional machine...

where a statue of Lord Beaconsfield was unveiled, and clashed the cymbals pretty loudly. He had no hesitation, he said, in affirming that, whoever said the House of Lords had...

the obstructiveness of the Lords for the past fifty years the subject of his speech. He was himself, be said, convinced that compromise was the life of politics ; but the...

think, and are afraid to say, speaking on Saturday at Marske-by-the-Sea, made a remarkable admission. He had, he said, always upheld the admission of the rural voters to the...

one good result. It has convinced the populace that their cruel pre- cautions are all useless, and the Ministry of the Interior has ventured to withdraw the guards on the...

favour of the Franchise Bill. No less than 70,000 persons joined in a procession of the trades ; eight open-air meetings were held, at which resolutions supporting the...

been wasting much space, energy, and knowledge in an effort to in- -duce the Government to compel the Princes of India to dismiss their armies. They maintain, it states, in the...

that the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have purchased Lord Mansfield's rights in the Highgate Woods, and are now in freehold possession of the great sylvan estate of 1,100 acres,...

to meet on Thursday, October 23rd. This is a little later than was expected, but it leaves a space of seven weeks before Christmas, and Government will not introduce any...

gress at Aberdeen a long and strong speech in favour of the federation of the Empire. He thought that in 1783 the old organisation, which was really the organisation of the...

and the Tory Party. The more furious of the Extremists—such as Mr. O'Brien—declare that Earl Spencer and Mr. Trevelyan must go, and that if they are retained the party will vote...

Zululand, beyond the frontier of the Reserve, is now a Boer Republic, with President jonbert at its head, claiming inde- pendence, but in subordinate alliance with the...

now passed the new Education Law, which we described last week, by large majorities, and it has gone up to the King. In ordinary circumstances, Leopold II. would sign it at once...

THE " ARISTOCRACY " AND THE PEOPLE. T HE aristocracy, properly so called, and the people are not at war with one another. Nothing strikes us more strongly in the reports of...

W E see little to hope for, and not much to fear, in the meeting of the three Emperors in the old castle in Russian Poland. It is, of course, possible that they may intend to...

which Liberals have devoted themselves for the past month, is being accomplished on the whole in a satisfactory way. There has been a total absence of violence, and a general...

T ORD RIPON, who has never had any personal motive for retaining the Viceroyalty of India, has resigned a post which had become a thankless one, and returns to England before...

I TALY is now in a special sense the object of reasonable anticipation in Europe. From England, France, and Germany there is nothing new to be looked for. We know what they have...

railways wrought greater changes in the art of warfare than were wrought even by the invention of gunpowder. The revolution has been completed, so far as the Continent of Europe...

F ROM the Clyde to the Wey, along the Lea and along the Thames, even from the groves of academies on the banks of the Cam and the Isis, the cry of despair goes up against the...

T HE Magistrates of Falmouth have done a public service in arresting " Captain " Dudley, of the yacht Mignonette,' upon the charge of murder, and in insisting upon an open...

W E cannot say that we at all agree with Mr. Andrew Lang's estimate of the importance of cricket-matches as superior to that of the match between Lords and Commons now being...

F OR parsons and peaceableness, I never see the like!" This testimony was borne to the social aspect of the agglomeration of hill-side and hill-foot villages and. villas of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—As the action of the House of Lords in the matter of the Franchise Bill has brought the subject of mending or end- ing their Lordships'...

SIR, — Your description of Mr. Gladstone's progress in Scotland reminds me of Sir Walter Scott's words, in "Guy Mannering," —"It was one of those moments of intense feeling...

MR. GLA.DSTONE AND THE HOUSE OF LORDS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Now that Mr. Gladstone has spoken, with words of which the meaning is not the less clear because...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] have been a strong upholder of the Boarding-School, and particularly of the present Public-School system. But recently I have been partially...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." _I &R,—It has amused and interested me very much to find from your article in the Spectator for August 30th, that some one besides myself...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sra,—I observe with interest that a courteous writer in your number of August 16th has used my little book, "A Western -Journey with Mr....

SIR, — Though I entirely agree with the main argument of your article headed as above, I cannot help thinking that you over- rate the social advantages open to boys attending...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR?'] SIR, — Your correspondent, "W. McL.," is unduly impressed by the approving tone in which many Protestants speak of "the principle of united...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — An American clergyman, writing on the subject of Miracles, says :—" In one of the high cathedral towers of England there is a clock so...

education, but we confine the talk to the poor, and there is danger in the difficulties and dangers of the rich being ignored." Such was the beginning of an article in your...

Sfa,—I beg to enclose copies of two curious epitaphs, both of which are to be seen in the graveyard at Wigtown, in Galloway- shire, Scotland.—I am, Sir, Ste., 6 High Street,...

THE result of the treatise on Logic has established that in the mind there are certain laws and forms by which we give shape to the material supplied to us by the Senses, and...

subjoined epitaph from an ornitho- logical correspondent, Mr. G. Mann, and have no doubt of its genuineness. It is from the churchyard of Ilfracombe :— "Here lies my wife; There...

for your columns, the following epitaph (I believe unpublished in any generally accessible form), in Bromfield Church, Suffolk, will interest students of " style :"— " Between...

SIR,—The following, on a blacksmith, is in Shropshire. I forget where:— " my sledge and anvil lie declined, My bellows too have lost their wind ; My fire's extinct, my forge...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm,—Among the communications which you have printed on this subject, I have not observed any reference to the well- known one in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sfa,—A gentleman, who has resided for many years in India and who ought to know, tells me that in the Madras Presidency the Society for the...

acquaintance with the work of James Hinton are aware that he left behind him a number of MSS., recording the speculations which occupied him during the last few years of his...

Zola are at one in giving the first place in M. Alphonse Daudet's remarkable series of fictions to Numa Bountestan, of which Mrs. J. Granville Layard here presents us with a...

"Tin enormous Thirty Years' War, most intricate of modern occurrences in the domain a Dryasdust," as Carlyle calls it, has found in Professor Gindely, of the University of...

WE like Mr. Crawford's style none the less that he does not pretend, as too many travellers now-a-days with an eye to effect and the circulating libraries do pretend, to be a...

will be especially acceptable to those who do not merely admire flowers, whether wild or cultivated, but like to study them in their poetical and legendary aspects ; but it may...

and Co.)—This is a repulsive book. The heroine is a silly, sensual woman (one of her minor vices is an addiction to sweetmeats and liqueurs), an adulteress in will, who would...

have added the second title of this book, "A Narrative of Facts from 'Outcast London,'" we have shown good reason why we should not attempt to criticise it. The state of things...

twenty-three. Mr. Drummond, who was his friend, wrote this biography, and left it at his death unfinished. It now comes out under the editorship of his son. It is enough to say...

The Land and the Labourer. By C. W. Stubbs, M.A. (W. Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Mr. Stubbs has something to tell us about small culture and about co-operative agriculture. It is...

(James Clarke and Co.)—A remarkably intsresting "Prefatory Essay" sets forth in outline Mr. blunger's conceptions of what he calls "The New Theology." Orthodox divines will pro-...

Marshall, and Co.)—We are glad to welcome a second edition of Mr. Ellacombe's Plant-Lore and Garden-Craft, which has been already noticed in our columns. The indexes are...