appointments, which was officially announced in Monday's papers as follows :- Lord Chancellor ... Sir Robert Reid. AST Sunday afternoon Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman J First...

Mr. Lawson Walton and Mr. W. S. Robson as Attorney- General and Solicitor-General confirmed expectation, and gives general satisfaction. Mr. Robson, it will be remem- bered,...

the affairs of Morocco. Its reve- lations fully confirm the view that the English people have taken throughout on the conduct of Germany in the matter. We have no space to...

of the Porte have unfortunately proved premature. The Ambassadors had made considerable concessions in regard to the terms of the appointment of the Commission, which is limited...

the definite expression of the policy of China for the Chinese." This is due partly to the assumption that the Anglo-Japanese Alliance guarantees the integrity of China, partly...

Aberdeen has been appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Justice Walker becomes Lord Chancellor of Ireland, and Mr. L. V. Harcourt First Commissioner of Works. We have...

labour in the Transvaal mines" is chiefly remarkable for a long despatch from Lord Selborne which deals exhaustively with the situation, and may be regarded as the best official...

Oxford under the auspices of the University Tariff Reform League. In addressing an audience mainly composed of young men, he dealt rather with the Imperial and political aspects...

convincing document, and abounds in serious admissions,—e.g., he frankly admits the impossibility of explaining to a large proportion of the Chinese coolies before they leave...

the departing Ministry were announced to the world. Sir Michael Hicks Beach becomes a Viscount, and Mr. Ritchie, Sir William Walrond, Sir Henry Meysey-Thompson, Sir Henry de...

was notable chiefly for its omissions. He did not explain why he so suddenly discovered the divisions in his party, and in admitting such divisions he was most careful to...

and very ably dealt with in a letter signed "F. R. S." which we publish in another column, demands a word from us. As our readers know, we have never ceased during the past five...

his constituents at Manchester. Most of his speech was occupied with an elaborate analysis of the reasons which led to his resignation. His Government had got through the work...

Russell, the editor of the Liverpool Daily Post, on a charge of having libelled eight members of the Liverpool Licensing Committee in a leading article in his paper. Sir Edward...

a short illness originally contracted in South Africa, had combined a career of exceptional academic brilliance with solid services to the cause of education. He was much more...

Association at Manchester on Monday evening, and made a suggestive speech, enlivened by an autobiographical reminiscence. His interest in the ques- tion, he explained, dated...

to the members of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Chamber of Commerce on the question of national training. Lord Roberts urged on his hearers four points. First, the creation of a higher...

absolutely pledged not to introduce any Bill in the next Parliament for the creation of a separate Legislature in Ireland, or for the eitablishment of an Irish Parliament in any...

on the grounding of H.M.S. ' Assistance ' in Tetuan Bay last October. The Assistance,' the steam repair-ship attached to the Atlantic Fleet, was riding at anchor with four other...

of the new Government with special anxiety, for we cannot conceal from ourselves the fact that it stands between the nation and the adoption of a policy which, as we believe,...

a new Secretary of State for India, and the vital importance of the subject, must be our excuse for again returning to the question of the Indian Army, and the fundamental...

of the doubts which for some time he entertained as to whether a body of water that he was following was a tributary of a great lake which he had lately left, or an outlet from...

or seem to dash, the hopes of his party just as it is going into action? No one knows better than he how necessary it is that the country should give "an overwhelm- ing and...

alien will tacitly conform in the measure of his good taste or his good sense. It is not his affair, and in the meantime it is a most curious and interesting spectacle." To an...

he Peer or peasant, provided he is not a bankrupt or a criminal. But if the theory is old, it has not hitherto been put into practice. Working men have in the past held small...

many not ignoble failures. From the Uni- versity Extension student downwards, the Londoner seeks learning multifariously. Bookkeeping and shorthand, perhaps, are his favourite...

I T is difficult to contemplate without some sorrow the complete extermination of any wild animal. When the beast which has been swept off the face of the earth by the...

Sr,—With regard to the letter of Mr. Malcolm in your issue of December 2nd, I must express my regret that, writing from bed, I did not verify a reference, though I did not...

SIR,—I understand that it is proposed to utilise the funds of the Primrose League for the support of candidates at the coming Election. Is this legal without the consent of all...

SIE,—The fog which enshrouded Mr. Balfour's resignation has cleared. Mr. Austen Chamberlain was right in saying that there was no Ministerial crisis, and Sir A. Acland-Hood in...

SIR,—What struck me as the most significant passage in Mr. Balfour's address to the members of the British Cotton- Growing Association on Monday seems to have escaped the...

it worth while to let the wider circle of your readers know that two medical periodicals, the Transactions of the Pathological Society of London and the Studies from. the...

to be controllers. There is to be a Turkish member among them. Their appointment is limited to two years. Hilmi Pasha is to be President. And the Sultan has a veto on all their...

permitted to say that Canon MacColl in his letter to the Spectator of December 2nd appears to be under some misapprehension regarding Islamic law? Since 1517 the Ottoman...

the high precedence which has now been accorded by the King to the Prime Minister, you draw a picturesque, but entirely imaginary, description of the Prime Minister of the past...

and Cambridge" (December 2nd) you made, implicitly at least, some criticisms upon the Bishop of London, against which I venture to protest. In the first place, is the Bishop,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In your courteous notice of my book on "God's Image in Man" in last week's issue, the writer states that I "would bring down" the...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SP ECTATOR."1 SIR, — As it now appears practically certain that the needful funds will soon be fully subscribed, the time has come to commence some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In answer to Mr. J. G. Hollway's letter in the Spectator of December 9th, I send this line to say that when he told me the story I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTITOE."] Sin,—Although Mr. Arnold-Forster's deathbed scheme for the Volunteers is now a thing of the past, it was so well received by the country...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — Your correspondent " Rhadamanthus " in last week's Spectator is more careless in his judicial summing-up than one might have hoped a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Does not the writer of the interesting article on "The Village Thatcher" in your issue of December 2nd himself indulge in one of those...

of the pen, I wrote in my article of Decem- ber 2nd that the thatcher is paid at the rate of tenpence to a shilling per square foot. I should have said "per square" simply....

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