T HE Conservative meeting at the Carlton Club on Thursday was a very large and not a very harmonious one. Lord Salisbury brought forward the proposal of the Government to take...

routine, that Lord Wolseley has resigned his great post as Adjutant- General of the Army. That is a serious change, and we can only hope that it has not been produced by any...

of extraordinary bitterness upon the conversion of the Egyptian Debt. France, he said, was favourable in principle to that conversion ; but behind Egypt stood England, and...

compel the First Lord of the Treasury to explain the resolve of the Government on a subject on which they had not, as Mr. Smith told him, taken any resolve,—namely, the course...

With the " SPZOTATOR" of Saturday, June 28th, wit/ be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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owes so much to the munificent gift of Mr. Carnegie, and stated in his opening speech that the Library Committee had spent £12,000 in books, with which they had bought 58,000...

differences with the Home Office; and his resigna- tion has been accepted. The causes are not accurately known as we write, but it is believed that Mr. Monro objected to the...

the comparative uselessness of the Closure in reference to the enormous number of amendments possible in discussions in Committee. Each application of the Closure takes at least...

dinner given to him and the Conservative candidates of England and Wales at St. James's Hall by the National Union of Conserva- tive and Constitutional Associations. Mr. Balfour...

in order to complain of the action of the Government and the police in Tipperary, and a furious debate arose, the Irish, wildly excited, interrupting speakers opposed to them,...

Association on Wednesday, at St. George's Hall, when the Duke of Westminster took the chair. Lord Hartington said that he had never supported the proposal to give women votes,...

ought to have lasted half-an-hour, but interrupted business for hours, that the Government had a right in its discretion to prohibit the meeting; that Mr. Dillon read into the...

of the National Liberal Club, one of the speeches by which he is honourably distinguished from Sir William Harcourt. Not that it was at all fair to the Government, but that it...

negotiations between Germany and Great Britain about Africa may end in a compromise of which these are the main lines. Germany would stretch her East African dominion from the...

excited by new demands from the Ministries of War. It is stated that the sums asked by General Verdy du Vernois, now head of the German Army, for more men (54,000 in all), more...

Cambridge on Wednesday in the Senate House on Erasmus, whom he endeavoured to clear from the charge of having been something of a Laodicean in his religion. According to...

Philippa Fawcett, the daughter of the late Postmaster-General, who was himself seventh wrangler thirty-four years ago, in 1856, two years before the accident that robbed him of...

45, rejected Lord Meath's Bill allowing women to sit as County Councillors. Lord Meath did not travel out of the usual arguments ; but Lord Derby produced the far-reaching one...

Tuesday of Dr. John Oakley, Dean of Manchester, at the age of 56. He was one of those clergymen who are at least as much philan- thropists as divines, and his sympathy with the...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 974 to 974

on the part of all vestries to increase assessments, sometimes in the most oppressive way, the assessed value being fixed greatly in excess of the entire rack-rent. According to...

TILE DILEMMA OF THE GOVERNMENT. W HETHER it be more or less deliberate obstruction, or more or less undeliberate obstruction, which has reduced the Government to their present...

T HE newspapers of Wednesday contained two state- 1.. ments of the highest importance to all who desire to understand the present position of Great Britain. The first of these...

M R. T. W. RUSSELL'S presence in the House of Commons is a standing grievance and annoyance to the Parnellite Party. His representation of an Irish county constituency is the...

I T is of very little use to criticise the new demands of the Continental Governments for money to be spent on military preparations. Those Governments understand war if they...

tolerant Whig who has withdrawn himself a little, as we regret to per- ceive, from the political arena, tries, in a letter we publish elsewhere, to explain the social bitterness...

T HE interviewer seems likely to furnish the journalist with a constantly increasing proportion of his material. One eminent person after another is discovered to have found...

A RE not our politicians in danger of over-praising books when they open these free libraries which are expected to do so much for the people, and which, no doubt, will do a...

I T must be pleasant to Miss Philippa Fawcett to know that while winning a name for herself and the possibility of a career, she has delighted all the women in the kingdom...

M R. COVENTRY PATMORE, in the current number of the Fortnightly Review, discourses upon the quality of " Distinction," and by way of defending himself for appre- ciating it, for...

T HERE is a very real pleasure in surprise oftentimes. It may be the enchanting gateway to the New; and yet there is a sense in which even the delight in the New may be regarded...

NOTES OF A PILGRIMAGE. IV.-2.10IINT CARMEL. IT was with a somewhat uncomfortable feeling that we made our first plunge into the unknown in the classic region of Carmel. So...

THE NEW HEAT OF PARTISANSHIP. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sis,—I have read with interest and general agreement your observations on the sensitiveness of partisans,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — The daily Press has been full of felicitations upon the successful arrangements of the police for securing the con.- tinnance of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra, It will be very unfortunate if the Government proposals be undecided before the County Councils' Elections in November of next year :...

WORDSWORTH AT DOVE COTTAGE. "But Wordsworth's eyes avert their keu From half of human fate."—MArrakw AIINOLV. WISE Wordsworth, to avert your ken, From half of human fate....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOE.".1 SIR,—In your most interesting and suggestive criticism of " La Lutte pour la Vie," you say that " M. Daudet's object is to ran down the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. ") SIE,—Affirming that our Lord quoted the LXX., you last week drew the fair conclusion that " where the LXX. differs from the original Hebrew,...

THE SCULPTURE OF THE YEAR. WE welcome the Camel to Burlington House. It is true that he is unpleasant company elsewhere. "The Commissariat Camel," as the poet has told us,—...

THE JOURNAL OF MARIE BASHKIRTSEFF.* WHEN the history of a human soul is written without reserve by itself, it is the most interesting reading in the world. It is his- tory...

assert that intellectual " commonness " was the late Lord Derby's dominant charac- teristic. Still, if Mr. Matthew Arnold, in the exercise of that prerogative of kindly...

Mn. THOENELY has a considerable share of the poet in him, but not even a fragment of the dramatist. He has written a drama on the old subject of the struggle between the...

DR. BRIGHT is well known as one of the most learned and cautious of our divines, and these Sermons are worthy of his reputation. The title of the volume indicates, as far as a...

In this volume, Mr. Nettleship has reprinted his papers on Browning, first published many years ago, and has added to them a considerable number of other Essays and Thoughts,....

its shape and size. It might very well have been brought out in one, or even two enormous volumes, expensive to buy and impossible to hold. But it has not followed this tiresome...

The June number of Longman's Magazine is rather a poor one, the miscellaneous articles being neither sufficiently serious nor sufficiently light, and Mr. Val Prinsep's story of...