S OME of the omens of the week are not very pacific. The meet- ing of the Emperors of Austria and Germany at Gastein which has taken place this week, appears, if we may trust...

Mayor at the Mansion House on Wednesday, Lord Salisbury spoke with more than usual strength and dignity. He said the Elections had proved that all the classes of the nation had...

subject of Ireland as a declaration of war against the Irish people, and adds, melodramatically,—" Our race is used to resisting tyranny. War let it be, in the name of God !"...

case.

a contest after all. When the feelings of the Liberal Unionists came to be tested, it was obviqus that they were uo more inclined to vote for Irish Home-rule in the form in...

solely due to the breach between Alderman Cook and the Radical Union. It was discovered, on a close canvass of the constituency, that the electors themselves were not at all...

occurred in Cork last Sunday, when, at a meeting of a branch of the League, with a Catholic priest in the chair, some labourers were bitterly reproached for accepting work from...

that the casualties were as numerous as those of a small engagement in the Soudan, and which were followed up by rather serious riots on Monday and Tuesday, have at last been...

important effect produced by the Military College in Canada, and the grant of commissions in the British Army to the young officers who acquit themselves well in that College,...

understood to represent M. Jules Ferry, on the subject of the retention by France of the New Hebrides, which she is under positive treaty engagements with England not to occupy,...

at the Colonial Office, may, we hope, attract the attention of M. de Freycinet, for it is certainly one of those signs of the times which the French Government ought gravely to...

day week in Cork, Mr. Penrose Fitzgerald said that he defied con- tradiction in alleging that Mr. Gladstone's Bill for granting Home-rule to Ireland " took from Ireland...

dropped recently by Mr. Gladstone that, under certain circum- stances, it might be necessary to have recourse to a simple repeal of the Union. It is an open question, Mr....

Clausen, Mr. Walter Crane, and Mr. Holman'Hunt, these artists point out that the Royal Academy, by insisting on the private right of the artists who constitute it to exhibit a...

Times, by a correspondent signing himself " X.," Mr. Henry Howorth returned last Monday to his indictment against the personnel of the Conservative Government. He objects to...

Association, which held its annual meeting at Brighton on Tuesday.. He condemned the inadequate salaries paid to our parish medical men, dwelt very seriously on that " de-...

to hold out hopes that if a powerful steamship company should offer to carry letters to Australia by long sea,—without con- ditions such as we now impose as to the time of the...

admirers of the late Principal Tulloch,—one a monument, the other, and principal one, a "Tulloch Memorial Scholarship Fund," which is intended to found a Tulloch Fellowship in...

to be Sir James Kitson) is the President and Mr. Schnad- horst is the Secretary, issued in Monday's papers a manifesto dated from Colmore Row, Birmingham, in which, while admit-...

establishment and Disendowment, which we wish they could have inaugurated in a less aggressive spirit. Their first pub- lication is called "Aggressive Irreligion : an Appeal...

LORD SALISBURY'S POSITION. T HE return of Mr. Matthews for East Birmingham without a contest strengthens immensely the position of Lord Salisbury. It proves not only that Mr....

W HILE one section of the Press is using the Belfast riots as political capital with which to assail the reputation of Mr. Morley, and another section is using them as political...

M R. MARVIN'S article on "Batoum," in the current num- ber of the Contemporary Review, throws a good deal of light on the recant action of Russia is that matter. He shows that...

I N the case of " Armstrong and others v. Armit and others," reported in the Times of Monday, the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Denman, sitting in bane, gave judgment on a...

A FEDERATED Fleet, a concerted scheme of Imperial defence, common commercial, postal, and telegraphic systems, a sympathetic Colonial Office, and a well-organised means of...

D R. WITHERS-MOORE devoted his interesting Presi- dential address to the British Medical Association on Tuesday to a somewhat popular subject, the danger that women would...

A NOTHER of the volumes of the Royal Commission on the Depression of Trade has made its appear- ance. It treats de onini scibili in regard to trade, from the price of silver to...

T4 ORD IDDESLEIGITS vacation is likely to be a short one. Not to mention - the immemorial Eastern Question, which is in that simmering stage in which, though nothing may happen...

T HOUGH we cannot find it an English name, and though no English critic has yet been able to discover a satis- factory definition, we all know well enough what is vers tie soda&...

I N noticing Mr. Briggs Carlill's essay in the Nineteenth Century on this subject last week, we said nothing on his peculiar to himself. As we hold that Mr. Carlill utterly...

I F any proof had been required of the enormous hold which Burns has on the hearts of the people of Scotland, it was supplied on Saturday, when some thirty or forty thousand...

UNIONISM v. GLADSTONIANISM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOR."J SIR, — Having sat at the feet of the Spectator for twenty years, and having learnt from you to look on Mr....

SIR, —As one of the Liberal rank and file, permit me to say that I disagree with much of the article in your issue of July 31st, and " N.'s " letter of August 7th, on Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Yon ,.express very happily in one sentence of your important article on " The Danger before the Unionists,' what may be regarded as...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, —I find myself so frequently in agreement with the opinions expressed in the Spectator, that I was extremely surprised to find such...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some of your readers may be glad to to see the epigram• to which "H. M." alludes in his charming letter of August 7th, with the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Sprcrerox.-] SIR,—The governing body of Christ's Hospital seems bent on repeating a mistake which has already produced, unless I am greatly mistaken,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Although yon have closed the discussion in your columns on Theosophy and Buddhism, I yet trust you will permit me to correct a...

LIVE AND LET BE ! LIVE and let be ! The Alpine heaven is bright ; Tired cloudlets sleep along you azure sea ; Soft airs steal by, and whisper, faint and light, Live and let be...

MR. HODGKIN'S CASSIODORUS.* No one in these islands has so good a right as Mr. Hodgkin to concern himself with Cassiodorus in any shape. How well he has worked at him and his...

RICHARD DOYLE'S WORK.* Is the many changes which have taken place of late years in our lighter forms of literature and the illustrations thereto, no peculiarity is more marked...

WHEN the editor of this unique compilation speaks of William Ayrton as "the founder of that healthy school of criticism which is now practised almost universally by living...

STErmaes new book is so full of matter and big with thought, so varied in its contents, and so rich in suggestion, that any one of its divisions might easily be made the subject...

Du. TAYLOR'S little book is iu its way unique, and is a far more valuable contribution to the literature of the Australian Colonies and our knowledge of them than many far more...

in Tonquin and Formosa of 1883 8 , 70. afforded the first practical evidence as to the reality of the mili- tary progress of China since the allied forces of England and France...

Grace Bevan ; or, the Mystery of Embden Vale. By "J. R." (City of London Publishing Company.)—The author concludes this book by saying, " Would you know whether the tendency...

Adapted to the London Matriculation Course and similar examinations. By W. H. H. Kelke, M.A. (Kegan Paal and Co.) —We have no doubt, from our examination of the book, that the...

See Them." Edited by J. E. Maddock, F.R.G.S. (Wyman and Sons.)— The month of July usually witnesses the publication of a perfect multitude of guide-books, and they almost...

Stock.)—This is a humorous story, which might, we think, be easily turned into a moderately successful farce. A determined old bachelor meets on the railway a lady no longer...

Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Sampson Low.)—As a novelist, or as an essayist, the author of "Elsie Venner " and "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table" is always sure of a welcome. He...

and Hall.)—By help, as we suppose, of Mr. Kinglake's "History of the Crimean War," Mr. Griffiths makes a pleasant and interesting story out of the fortunes of a certain...

Co.)—This book is, to a great extent, free from the defects to which we felt bound to call attention when noticing Mr. Adams's novel, "Leicester," in three volumes. It does...

burgh.)—We presume, from the "American Statesmen" which appears on the title-page, that this little book forms one of a series of biographies of the leading politicians of the...

(Elliot Stock.)—" The sources of some of our noblest rivers, which spread fertility over continents and bear richly-laden fleets to the sea, are to be sought in wild and...