T I HUNG CHANG left Tientsin on Thursday in a German A steamer for Japan, to commence the negotiations for peace. He has obtained full powers, and is authorised, it is stated,...

to resign the chair before the adjournment for Easter, —an announcement which has caused everywhere the deepest regret and something like consternation. No Speaker since the...

have already dealt with, but may note that the Per- =anent works to be paid for by a loan will cost 29,000,000. Th's loan will be raised by terminable annuities running for...

the Navy Estimates, Mr. Arnold-Forster proposed a resolution asking for an assurance that the Estimates were "based upon a con- sideration of the needs of possible war by sea...

case.

cussing theirs. On Monday, M. Lockroy made an impressive speech, the gist of which was,—" They order things better in England." The French Estimates were two-thirds of the...

the price of corn in Germany, which has so alarmed the Prussian Government. It is sure, according to the Berlin correspondent of the Times, to be rejected by the Committee on...

rapidly in France. Rentes have been considered the safest of all investments because they are held by such multi- tudes of investors, and because Frenchmen understand that good...

a paper on some relics of Gautama or Buddha, now lying in the Central Museum in Madras. They consist of three pieces of bone taken from his corpse after cremation, and inclosed...

becomes positively bewildering. Here is what is known in the picturesque vernacular of Irish politicians as a "blazing indiscretion" lately committed by Mr. Edward Harrington....

declare that he still held as much as ever to his former policy, that it is right to extend to Ireland a popular system of local government, though it is right also to insist in...

of the Associated Chambers of Commerce in which he prophesied tolerably cheerful things. Cycles of depression, he said, never lasted in this country more than six years, and we...

Board of Guardians (Ireland) Bill, of which the second reading was carried without a division ; but not till Mr. Morley had intimated that he had no intention of accepting all...

New Consols (2-1) were on Friday, 1o41.

deprives the Congregationalists of one of the most learned and scholarly, as well as one of the most high-minded, of their leaders. He was a leader in their political no less...

in Dartmoor, who last Sunday had a desperate conflict with a burglar whom he found in his drawing-room about half an hour before midnight, has given an account of the struggle...

Metropole on Tuesday, which we recom- mend to the Fabian Society. He found that the principal evil in the mountains outside his station was the want of desire for money. The...

average in London for last week being 41 . 2 per 1,000, or double the normal rate. The deaths exceeded by 1,583 the average for the same week during the last ten years ; 473...

leum in his own mosque on Tuesday. It was resolved to make the ceremonial, which is foreign to the genius of Islam, as splendid as possible, and a procession was arranged in...

well-doing. As they were hopelessly beaten at the elections, they were bound on their ctwn principles to regard the Moderates as the depositaries of the popular "mandate," which...

A LL the chief newspapers seemed very much shocked at Mr. Arnold-Forster for moving the resolution he moved last Monday, but for our lives we cannot tell why. In our opinion, he...

THE SPEAKERSHIP. T HE resignation of Mr. Peel deprives the House of Commons of the ablest Speaker of this century. Mr. Shaw-Lefevre (afterwards Lord Eversley) indeed was quite...

They have baffled. the European newspaper correspondents ; they have defied the Chinese, who must at least have tried to keep spies at Hiroshima ; and they have managed to hide...

M R. BALFOITR'S little speech on Wednesday after- noon in the discussion on Mr. Crilly's "Board of Guardians (Ireland) Bill," was not at first sight an important one. But read...

con- siderable service if he would limit the scope of his Bill for the appointment of an official Trustee. At pre- sent, it is too wide. His idea is to appoint a State official...

for more security and comfort, which we now dignify with the title of the "Social Question," is hardly more interesting, and certainly not more important, than the struggle of...

Committee on the Unem- ployed is a very much more satisfactory document than it seemed likely to be when the Committee was appointed. Perhaps we may say that it is a more satis-...

II GOOD deal of bewilderment and almost of conster- nation has been aroused in those who have studied some of the recent cases of French hysteria by the apparent change of...

T HE present writer believes in a superstition which his reason peremptorily rejects, but which, instilled into him as it was in the nursery, he is unable completely to discard....

T HE difference between the sea-sands which we love and play with, and the desert-sands which are terrible and feared, lies in the presence or absence of the friendly sea. For...

I T would seem at first sight as if a smile were a smile, one and indivisible, and there was no more to say about it ; but, as in the case of the few notes of a scale or the...

MR. MORLEY'S PROPOSAL. [To THY EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR?'] Sin,—Although in your admirable article in the Spectator of March 9th, on the Irish Land Bill, you state that you...

[To TEl EDITOR OF TEl " SIZCTILTOR."] SIR,—In your note and article upon the London County Council Elections, in the Spectator of March 9th, there are some errors of fact which...

"SFICTATOR."] SI11,—In commenting on a recent °biter dictum of one of Mr. Morley's Magistrates, in the Spectator of March 9th, you write :—" The idea that people who refrain...

[To THR EDITOR OF TEl " SPIOTLTOR."] Sin,—Your reviewer treais my "Tales of Mean Streets" with a kindness which I acknowledge with gratitude,—a kindness. which I might venture...

[To TEl EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sm—In an article in the Spectator of March 2nd, you ask whether there exists at present any scion of the Ming dynasty. It happened to me...

ITO TEl EDITOR Or TEl " SPRCTATOZ."1 Sin,—A circumstance has come to my knowledge in respect to Llandaff Cathedral, which seems to have a distinct and important bearing upon...

LIFE OF BISHOP HAROLD BROWNE.* IT is as a chapter of contemporary ecclesiastical history, rather than as a biography of very striking personal interest, that Dr. Kitchin's...

in one of the diaries contained in his Life, in criticising the poetry of James Thomson, the author of "The City of Dreadful Night," speaks of him as being almost in the first...

IT is known, we assume, to all educated persons, that the learned Bentley laboured to arrange the various portions of the poems of Horace according to the dates of their...

a book which makes no pretension to literary skill. So many writers insist on bringing out works which are mere exhibitions of agility in piecing words together, that it is most...

learned and a modest book. The head of Manchester College, Oxford, is conscious not only of the difficulty of determining what "Christianity in its most simple and intelligible...

M. JUSSERAND is a French diplomatist who resided, we believe, for some time amongst us in that capacity, and has abandoned his profession in order to devote himself to the...

as it might be phrased, "The Confessions of an Auto- graph Fiend." Still, it is only fair to say that if all the tribe were as clever and appreciative as "3. H.," their offence...

Christopher Columbus: his own Boole of Privileges. Compiled and edited by Benjamin Franklin Stevens. (B. F. Stevens.)— This is "a photographic facsimile of the manuscript in the...

M. Vibart. (Archibald Constable.)—This volume may be described as a counterpart to that lately noticed in our columns, which had Haileybury for its subject. Here we have the...

Mr. Samuel H. Clemens found Missouri audiences or readers slow to appreciate his jokes P Mr. David Wilson comes to a Missouri town to push his fortunes. Unluckily his first...

and Co.)—" John Strange Winter's" soldiers seldom do much in the fighting line. They excel in love and sport. A "born soldier" might, we thought, be an exception. It is not so....

and Co.)—Notwithstanding its title, this story is scarcely one for a "bread-and-butter Miss" to read. Theodora Western is invited by her cousin Cara. She fancies the invita-...

M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—" Ideally speaking," writes Mr. Auden with perfect truth, "a phrase-book should always be compiled by the pupil himself from his own individual...

and Co.)—This volume contains extracts from letters written by an officer in the First Madras Royal Fusiliers to his wife. It cannot be said that we learn anything from them ;...

Elliot has given to her book disarms criticism. The severest judge could not deny that the contents answer exactly to the description which this gives of them. We are not led to...

This is a short story, some hundred and sixty pages, neither large nor closely printed, and it is certainly slight in texture. It is of the "no-incident" kind, and the...

has put together in this little volume a number of "Studies in the Christian Ideal of Womanhood," suggested by the notices which the Evangelists have left us of "Mary the Mother...