have produced no result, M. Delcasse remaining quiet and declining to open negotiations with the German Foreign Office. His steadiness greatly irritates official circles in...

whether there was any seriousness in the " plot " for the overthrow of the Republic with which the French Courts are about to deal; but at present it suggests rather an inferior...

a revolution bas received a remarkable illustration from the action of a Congress of barristers in St. Petersburg. Repre- sentatives attended from all parts of the Empire, and...

I NTEREST in the Far Eastern War has been suddenly revived by the arrival of Admiral Rozhdestvensky with his entire fleet in the neighbourhood of Singapore. He passed that port...

the Unionist Free-Trade Club at the Hotel Cecil on Monday night, and in proposing the toast of the evening, "Success to the Cause of Free-trade," delivered an important speech...

case.

statement in a shorter and clearer speech than this occasion usually receives. He had to tell a more hopeful tale than he had expected. A year ago he estimated the Revenue at...

increase the Sinking Fund, which would then stand at £28,000,000, and the balance to take off the addi- tional twopence per pound on tea which was. imposed last year. This would...

on Tuesday was opened by Lord Balfour of Burleigh, who succeeded in eliciting an important statement from Lord Lansdowne which undoubtedly throws new light on the situation....

the question of Irish University education, and insisted that no solution of the problem would be successful which did not give Irish Roman Catholics facilities for University...

Campbell-Bannerman was introduced by Mr. Tuff, the Member for Rochester, in the Commons on Wednesday night, in a speech almost entirely composed of extracts from the utterances...

Balfour thought it quite a sufficient explanation of why he had done nothing to carry out his policy to say that his views were "personal," and not acceptable to his colleagues...

while the Unionist Free-traders might be driven in self-defence to measures of retaliation and reprisals, be did not think it their duty, even if it were in their power, to...

The following table shows the details of estimated receipts on the basis of existing expenditure :— Customs £35,600,000 Excise ... 30,200,000 Death-duties 13,000,000 Stamps...

spoil by condensation :- " By what authority does Mr. Chamberlain pose as interpreter of Canadian sentiment and ambition ? What has he seen of Canada, and what does he know of...

and self-control with which the Colonies had declined Mr. Cham- berlain's lures to hustle and harry the Mother-country into believing that they would regard a refusal to alter...

House of Commons took place under the presidency of Mr. Chamberlain on Thursday evening. Those present were pledged to secrecy, but an official communique was issued on Friday...

Pall Mall Gazette and St. James's Gazette, was entertained at a complimentary banquet at the Trocadero on Saturday last. Mr. Morley, who presided over a remarkable gathering...

a scheme for an Advisory Council for the Empire. The easiest way of establishing such a body would be in the shape of a Committee of the Privy Council, its province being...

Union Club on Wednesday was noticeable in more ways than one. His reference to Lord Lansdowne's diplo- matic achievements was both generous and well deserved; but it was a...

Chamberlain policy. The names have been changed, but the things remain just what they were before. The ingenious tradesman, when he finds that he cannot sell certain goods,...

Consols (2i per cent.) were on Friday 90i.

THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE AND THE UNIONIST FREE-TRADERS. W ITH the general principles laid down by the Duke of Devonshire, and with his statement of the aims and aspirations of...

T HE Budget produced by Mr. Austen Chamberlain on Monday is a sensible one, and disinterested besides. The classes which support the present Government were longing for a...

T HE Bishop of Hereford's little Bill of which we spoke last week came to an undeserved end before what we had to say in its behalf had appeared. We hope that a still smaller...

W E have no sympathy with Russia under her present system of administration. That a great, and in many respects admirable, white people, professing and really reverencing the...

than a one-shilling duty ; that if it did we must not be pedantic, as the Duke of Devonshire observes, about the application of a principle ; and that, if we again mitigate our...

less widespread, though scarcely less appalling, disaster due to the collapse of a great reservoir in Madrid, call attention to a question of daily life concerning which the...

to propound something agreeably stimulating by way of controversy to tide over the " silly season," asked its readers the question, " Is Marriage a Failure ? " The question, for...

due, in the first place, to the Protection Acts, which prevent the shooting of the birds when nesting ; and secondly, to the recent fashion of breeding artificially enormous...

THE EXCAVATIONS IN THE FORUM AND LATIN CIVILISATION. [To THE EDITOR Or TER "SPECTATOR. "] Sit,—On returning to the Forum I cannot but speak of what I had occasion to observe...

the above your correspondent ignores the fact that every officer and man in my brigade (three batteries) volunteered for service in or out of the country, and actually served...

[TO rims EDITOR UP THE "SPECTATOR"] SIB, —May I be allowed to add a mite of experience of an original Volunteer in a good City regiment? At that time there were two schools...

[TO THE EDITOR or TRIO "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is it not a little difficult to ask for Liberal votes for Unionist Free-traders, if we put party interests in the front of the...

" Volunteer Field Officer," especially that in your issue of April 8th giving the numbers of Volunteers who patriotically offered their services hi South Africa in 1900. I have...

The in- correct returns are as follows :— I. III. IT. Strength Volunteered Went with Went with Corps. on for South Vol. Service other Nov. lst. 1899. Africa. Company....

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The following is an extract from the Morning Post of April 8th, reporting a meeting of the Tariff Reform League, with Lord Ridley as...

STR,—As one among the many wellwishers of your vigorous campaign to uphold the united cause of Free-trade and true Conservatism, it has appeared to me unfortunate that there...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:'] SIR, —The Lord Chancellor is reported as saying in Tuesday's debate in the Lords on the subject of the Colonial Conference : " Supposing a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, — When reading the interesting and able article in the Spectator of April 1st on this subject, I notice with surprise that no allusion...

[To THE EDITOR Or TIM "Snore:role:1 SIR,—I may be able to relieve your mind on the subject of the Master of Haileybury's attitude towards Latin verses. Whilst he may hold that...

(TO TIM EDITOR Or TUE 'SPECTATOR:1 SIR, — Your correspondent " E. A. A." in the Spectator of April 1st does not apparently consider that St. Peter's expres- sion, " us, who did...

Sin,—John Schorne, rector of this parish at the end of the thirteenth century, was not so famous as Thomas it Becket, but pilgrims came almost as numerously to his shrine from...

Spectator of April 8th under the above heading. My father (Mr. Paget, of Ruddington Grange, Notts) solved the question for himself in a very practical way more than fifty years...

been made to the public by Lord Rosebery and the other officials of the University of London to avert a disaster to the advancement of women which would be brought about should...

by Mr. Lionel Tollemache in your issue of April 8th was thus told by my father, the late Lord Cottesloe. Dr. Goodall, formerly Head-Master of Eton, but then a. Canon of Windsor,...

Sin,—In reference to your article of last week, may I point out that the proposal to exempt lads of twelve from attend- ance at the elementary day-schools, subject to certain...

[To THE EDITOR OR TOR "SPECTATOR "] SIR, — Noticing an extremely interesting letter in the Spectator of January 28th, I would beg to give you an account of bird-kindness...

THE VOICE VOICE OF THE GWRYD. [It Is through the valley of the Gwryd (pronounced "Gooryd ") that the new Snowdouiau Railway is to run.] , O FOR the voice of the Gwryd, Rippling...

[To TILE EDITOR OP TIM "SPECTATOR "] SIR, — In reference to your article in the Spectator of March 25th, the following instance of an animal "passive resister " may be of...

THE EAST AFRICA PROTECTORATE.* SIR CHARLES ELIOT has found a good use for his leisure since his retirement, for out of the fulness of his knowledge he has written one of the...

THE amount of subscriptions and fees received up to April 13th for the Cheap Cottages Exhibition is £1,108, besides £420 promised to the Prize Fund, making a total of £1,628....

(see Spectator for March 25th) ? Miss Pbcebe Allen, the well-known author of " Garden Pests," Kays " No." " Pill-millipedes " as they are popularly called, Glomeridae as known...

year's work done in his Eastern Counties gardens at Ditchingham and Kesaingland in 1903. At the outset he tells us that he has still much to learn, and so places himself in...

the students of Montaigne, and of the various effects of his mind upon theirs, from Shakespeare and Pascal downwards to Charles Lamb, Sainte-Beuve, Renan, Edward Fitzgerald, and...

Diary—in 1843, when he was sixty-four—Moore describes a meeting with Miss Berry at one of her famous soirees. He writes :- " She reverted in her odd way to the early days of...

TALES OF CHINA AND THE CHINESE.* IT is surely no mere coincidence, but an evidence of a growing interest in the Far East, that three independent efforts to interpret the mind...

knows her audience, and is sure of her popularity. Peter Reidy is the son of an Irish peasant who, having made a, great fortune in England, goes back to his native district and...

6s.)—Mr. Sheppard's name is new to us, and if this be a first book, it is a notable performance. It is an historical romance, in the old-fashioned full-bodied style, of the...

old-fashioned type of novel in which the various characters were formally introduced to the reader has completely passed away, and the personalities of hero and heroine, to say...

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