of a serious change in the Bechuanaland policy of the Government, and that Sir Charles Warren will probably be supported after all. The Conservatives could do nothing more...

p ARLIAMENT was prorogued yesterday in a speech from the Throne to which no one, Liberal or Conservative, can take exception. The Queen recites the well-known story of the...

deep in the conflict of the General Election. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach made his first speech to the constituency he hopes to win,—the Western Division of Bristol,—on Saturday...

case.

borne on Wednesday. He was very bitter with the Daily News and the Standard for attacking him, and tried to make himself out the most soft-spoken of men, one who had never in...

the Conservatives of West Bristol. We have dealt with the very unscrupulous assertion that he and his party had done and said nothing to weaken Irish administration, and had...

earnestly,—equally passionately,—concerned to take the part which they considered .most likely to put a stop to the evils disclosed. But we wish with all our hearts that...

Amendment Bill by a clause allowing a child's evidence, even though it be too young to know the nature of an oath, to be taken for what it is worth ; and, with several other...

to the proposed Royal Commission of Inquiry into the De- pression of Trade. The depression, he said, which had now lasted some twelve years, was admitted on all hands. The...

Bristol deputation to urge the claims of women to the franchise. From his reply it seems likely that, as regards the concession of this right to women properly qualified,...

published in Wednesday's Times, on the subject of the part which his Grace and Cardinal Manning and certain other gentlemen have taken in relation to the recent revelations of...

weeks after completing his seventy-sixth year. He was the only son of Mr. Robert Pemberton Milnes, of Fryston Hall, Yorkshire ; was the friend of Arthur Hallam and of...

Houses to Lord Wolseley and her Majesty's troops in the Soudan for the ability, courage, and determination exhibited in that most difficult campaign; and fall credit was done to...

refusal of the Liberals to join the Commission, followed Lord Iddesleigh's speech, Lord Salisbury taunting them with a wish to " boycott " the inquiry. Thereupon Mr....

likely to blight the hopes which bad been entertained as to the yield of the present harvest. Some of the returns show that every- thing will be scarcer this year than last,...

Dilke to the Chairman of the Liberal Association of Chelsea, in which he says: —" I have received formal notice of the commencement of legal proceedings deeply affecting my...

on Tuesday, the debate turned chiefly on the power given in the Bill to apply the sites of certain public prisons to build dwellings for the working-classes, without paying for...

Mr. Sexton moved the omission of the clause which requires the State to place one-fifth of the money advanced by it to the tenant in the hands of the Land Commissioners as a...

" The Future Government of Scotland," objects to two of the statements in it,—that the appointment of a Scotch minister, though occupying a position little, if at all,...

S IR MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH, who is to contest West Bristol at the General Election, went down last Saturday in a great hurry to address the constituency he has chosen for him-...

THE LATE PARLIAMENT. T HE Parliament which was prorogued yesterday, and which will be dissolved in November, has had a very chequered fate. But the most remarkable feature...

A CORRESPONDENT, who writes as an admirer of Gordon, protests against " the injustice" which, in his opinion, we have done to General Gordon on a variety of points. Let us take...

T RE Royal Commission on Commercial Depression will hardly be a, success. It contains the names of some very able and eminent men,—Professor Bonamy Price, for instance, Sir...

T HE political horoscope of France is almost as hard to fore- cast as that of England. Scrutin de lists may lead to changes as startling as any that are likely to be wrought by...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN was not peculiarly fortunate in the facts of the case which he selected for the text of his attack on the Charity Commissioners, in his speech at Hull the other...

of the Poor Bill show very plainly how evanescent a great popular excitement may be. This is neither a needless nor an unprofitable lesson at this moment. We are now in the...

R ICHARD MONCKTON MILNES, whom Carlyle once described as "a pretty little Robin Redbreast of a man," and who certainly could sing in the days in which that description was...

T HE Crofters' agitation has scared the votaries of deer- shooting. It has moved them to essay a vindication of their sport with all its existing concomitants and conditions. A...

I T is evident that Haft, like many other shining lights of Anarchism, was moved quite as much by a spirit of vanity as by that deep sense of the injustice of existing social...

E VERYBODY is off for his holiday, and yet hardly any- body gives any thought to the question what the chief use of a holiday is, and how best this may be secured for himself....

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Six,—The interesting paper on the art of living cheaply reopens a subject on which a great deal has been written. The poor are perforce...

THE LATE VISCOUNT HALIFAX. ITO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIZ — The death of Lord Halifax reminds us that of the states- men brought to the front in Lord Grey's first...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR."' have not read the article in the National Review which you criticise in your last issue, nor am I at all concerned to defend it. But as...

THE " EPECTATOR.".] SIR, —You speak so courteously of myself personally while you are distressed by my opinions, that, notwithstanding the penalty attaching to a controversy...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sta,—Although you have placed your veto upon this discussion being carried any further, will you spare me just a line or two for a "...

Sin,—Here, in Dorsetshire, a labourer receives lls. a week wages, and pays twopence a week, ungrudgingly, for the educa- tion of the eldest child, and a penny for each of the...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Stn,—In my letter in the Spectator of August 8th, on Free Schools, is printed,—" Or by a sudden and large increase of Government grant,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—In the long and very painstaking review of Mr. Mexican's " /Eneid " which appeared in your issue of August 1st, among many censures...

[To EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I have subscribed to and read the Spectator for many years, and hate to find therein an ill-judged article. You tar us all with the same...

I TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sra,—May I be allowed to point those who have read with interest your article on " Mr. Lilly on the Prophecy of History " to the views...

SIR, —May I say, in reply to your comment on. my letter of last week, that if I " overlooked," or rather did not refer to, the fact of " the admirable character of the work...

EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—Allow me to point out to Mr. Massiah (August 8th, p.1,040) that the words " Hilleh lily," cited by him from " The Land and the Book," have no...

HORACE. HOOK DI., ODE 29. TO M.ZECENAS. M.EcENA.s, thou whose lineage springs From old Etruria's Kings, Come to my humble dwelling. Haste ; A cask nnbroached of mellowed...

Sin,—In your number for August 1st you make the suggestion that " the new burying-ground in Tyburn," where is a memorial to Laurence Sterne, should be thrown open to the...

I SING the doleful tragedy, Guy Fawkes, that Prince of Sinisters, Who once blew up the Parliament, The King and all his Ministers; That is, he would have, if he could, For he...

THE ALDINE EDITION OF COLERIDGE.* Is to have a niche in Westminster Abbey be the greatest external honour that can be paid to the memory of a poet and man of letters, then is it...

TSB is a really good book, full of learning and full of thought, —learning which illustrates and never confuses, well-digested, and consequently adding to the vital power of...

Mn. HYDE has brought together in the book before us a number of curious facts connected with the Post Office. He writes with the pardonable enthusiasm of an official in the...

WHILE disclaiming all political motives for writing on the Transvaal, Mrs. Carey Hobson sets before us, in a series of very distinct pictures, not only the manner of life of the...

Maivv readers of the Expositor will have regretted the decision of the proprietors (this division of proprietors and editors is often no small evil) which compelled Dr. Cox to...

The Iliad of Homer (I.-VI.) Done into English Verse. By Arthur S. Way, M.A. (Sampson Low and Co.)—We must own that, greatly admiring as we do Mr. Way's translation of the...

Williams discusses several subjects which have an important bearing on practical life and social polities. So much will be seen from a look at his "Table of Contents." Such...

the law forbids in Miss King's clever and interesting story is not a man's marrying his deceased wife's sister—a disability of which we are very tired in fiction—but a man's...

and Co.)—Mr. Hare's account of Russia is not likely to encourage travellers who have no special purpose to serve, and are bent more on amusing themselves than increasing their...

In two volumes. (Macmillan and Co.)—It is not reasonable to expect so voluminous a writer as Miss Yonge to be always equally interesting, but we confess to some...

White and Co.)—The author's characters are all well known to the practised novel-reader. There is the ingenue heroine, with her babyish name of " Kitten ;" the unworldly old...

Co.)—" The contents of this book," says the author in his Preface, "are intended to afford the owner or his land-agent, and others interested in such matters, such information...