T HE German Emperor, in unveiling a statue to the late Prince Frederick Charles on Thursday, made a short speech which will disturb the French. He is reported to have said that...

to the Provost of Dalkeith concerning Mr. Dillon's imprisonment, than he has ever gone yet in justifying opposition to the law. "If Mr. Dillon broke the law," he says, "he was...

Calcutta that 3,000 men have recently joined the Tibetans in the Jalapla Pass, raising their army at that point to 14,000, and that besides there is a force of 1,500 men...

to the formal opening of the new line which places Constan- tinople in direct railway communication with the rest of Europe. On Sunday, the first regular train passed through...

a second time in the House of Lords yesterday week. Lord Salisbury moved its second reading in a speech of great dignity and impartiality, in which he recounted the history of...

case.

admirable in tone as that of the Prime Minister, and much the best, we think, that has been delivered against the Com- mission. But his criticisms, though moderate and calm in...

Charges and Allegations Bill," it became known that Mr. Parnell had instituted an action for libel against the Times in Scotland, laying his damages at 250,000, and that Mr. T....

H. Smith, in moving on Saturday last that at its rising on Monday the House should adjourn till.November 6th, took occasion to read a letter sent him by Mr. John Morley,...

Saturday last in the Exchange Hall at Stockton. He reviewed the Session, dwelling on the -almost exaggerated, praise with which the Local Government Bill was at first received...

Of responsibility for the proposed measure, and Lord Gran- ville actually singled out Mr. Whitbread as a Member of the House of Commons who, if placed on a Committee of Inquiry,...

on his landing at New York on August 10th„ was extremely enthusiastic. Mr. Blaine's first speech, it should. be noted, was delivered in answer to an address of welcome given to...

of a party of seven hundred Bashi-Ba . aouks, commanded. by five Italian officers, despatched from Massowah to attack the Abyssinians at a place called Sagameiti. On reaching...

to him, in relation to the negotiations between them during Mr. Chamberlain's official connection with Mr. Glad- stone's Ministry in 1885. Mr. Chamberlain admits that Mr....

nothing of its scope. But so far as regards his special com- plaint that the Times suppressed his letter explaining that when in May, 1882, he omitted all denunciation of the...

brought by the Mogul Steamship Company against M`Gregor, Gow, and Co., and others, for having "bribed, coerced, and induced shippers to forbear shipping cargoes in -the...

of speaking-trumpet, which has rendered it loud-speaking, so that a considerable group can hear what it says or sings or plays without the help of a conducting-tube to each...

there is now no likelihood of fresh hostile operations being undertaken. The enemy's raid on the North having proved completely successful, both in a pecuniary and a naval...

William Burgess calls attention to the good which might flow from the cultivation of our barren waters. If the streams and ponds now destitute of fish-life were properly...

with the Hatfield papers, sheds a very curious light upon some of the events in the history of Queen Elizabeth. Perhaps the most extraordinary of all the Queen's love-affairs,...

made an appeal to the country for further subscriptions to the Children's Country Holidays Fund,—of which the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (10 Buckingham Street, Strand) is the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 991. to 99#.

' nth UPSHOT OF ME SESSION. THERE is to be a legislative aftermath in November, tut without counting that aftermath, the fruits of the Session, though not abundant in...

M R. PARNELL has been countermining the Judicial Commission which he did not venture to oppose, and hopes, apparently, to explode it by instituting in Scotland an action against...

L ORD SALISBURY'S management of Foreign Affairs on the two occasions on which he has held the office of Foreign Minister in his own Cabinet, has won the approval even of his...

A R holding the post of Chief of the General Staff for thirty-two years, Field-Marshal Count von Moltke has resigned. an office which he made illustrious, and has been appointed...

T HE useful analysis of the evidence taken by the Lords' Commitee on the Sweating System, which appeared in the Times of Wednesday, brings out with great force the confusion...

TIT hot sunshine of last week caused the corn to change. 3olour rapidly, and harvest was begun generally in. the early districts on Monday last. A few fields of oats, and a...

of Canterbury to extend very much the practice of leaving churches open to the public on week-days as well as Sundays, has been too much regarded as something new. For twenty or...

A NIMATION is the chief note of the Art portion of the ItsliAn Flichibition, animation which is in many- instances exuberant to the point of vulgarity, and especially in the...

T HE European of the nineteenth century is every year becoming more and more a mere bundle of nerves. Such is the universal complaint. Nervous diseases, the doctors tell us, are...

T HE Bishop of Ripon, in his discourse on " Novella " which we noticed last week, gave expression to the mind of the generation when he complained that so many of the modern...

THE NAVAL MANCEUVRES. Off Milford Haven, August 14t1i, 1888. SI1S,--Since my last letter to you was written, the plot that had been hatched in Sir George Tryon's brain in...

[re Tan EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—I have been a great sufferer from insomnia, and can endorse most thoroughly all that Mr. Stuart says in the Spectator of August 11th as...

[To TIM EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR..") Si,—In taking leave to thank you—as I sincerely do—for your review of my book, "Cardinal Pole," I would point out that it was penned and...

SIR,—A curious experience of a member of my family quite corroborates Mr. Stuart's testimony to the efficacy of hot water for sleeplessness. She was suffering severely, when on...

QUEENSLAND AND THE NAVAL DEFENCE BILL. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Being abroad, I have only just seen the Spectator of August 4th, with " L.'s " letter on"...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " $PECTATOR:1 SIR,—To your flattering allusion to my papers on Ireland in Murray's Magazine, in the Spectator of August 11th, you. add the words, "herself...

[To THE EDITOR 01 TEl "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your note in your issue of August 11th on the deliverance of the Bishops as to African converts with several wives, brought to my...

WORDSWORTH. I DREAMED I was a poet once ; but all Nature ' s most mighty spells of sound and sight Fell on my heart like softest notes that fall, And, dying, only wake a dumb...

• England under the Angenn Yings. By Rate Norgate. In 2 vols. London : Macmillan and Co. 1287. • which the author can say that it was eleven years in making. Some great books...

NOT the grey spectre of the scythe and sand, And soundless wings subversive in their flight, Not he, the wasteful wizard prone to blight And crumble all that hopeful men have...

you kindly inform me if the following paragraph has ever appeared in your paper ?—" Grover Cleveland has done more to advance the cause of Free-trade than any Prime Minister of...

EVERY book written by the author of Vera possesses distinc- tion and charm in a greater or less degree, and to this rule Ninette is not an exception. If it does not altogether...

MB. JENKS has written an interesting essay on two men te whose writings he has evidently devoted a good deal of careful and discriminating study; but we must say that we would...

produce a couple of extremely interesting and readable volumes out of the un- promising materials of old Budgets. Budgets are not good historical reading as a rule. However...

THE spirit and love of adventure are probably not greater in the world now than they were in former periods, but we hear a great deal more of them. Many daring youths sallied...

Mitchel and his companions in the Irish revolutionary movement of 1848, two facts stana out in strong relief. The first is the moral and intellectual superiority of the Young...

Co.)—Mr. Salt complains that none of Shelley's biographers, "with the possible exception of Leigh Hunt, have been heartily in accord with his social and moral doctrines." This...

The Lost Wedding - Ring. By Mrs. Winter and Mrs. Boy. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is a disquisition, put into the shape partly of dialogue, partly of autobiographical...

are four lectures introductory to the study of geography delivered by the President of the Royal Geographical Society at Cambridge, where a University Lecture- ship in Geography...

Son.)—There are some fine and powerful studies of character in. Loyalty George, and we are unable to decide to which we shall award the palm as the most vivid and lifelike. In...

P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is a series of amusing sketches, the adventures of two lone ladies who take a driving tour among the Berkshire Hills, —the Berkshire in New York State,...

Downey.) —Mr. Hogan's subject is an interesting one to Irishmen, and he himself is thoroughly conversant with this history of Irishmen in. Australia. Unfortunately, he has...

Walker. (Ward and Lock.)—Reincarnation is our old acquaintance metem- psychosis, it being understood that the transmigrations of the human soul are not from man to the lower...

by Lieutenant H. de B. Hovell, and Notes on Army Signalling, by Captain E. T. C. Bower. (Gale and Polden, Chatham.) —The author of Soldiers' Shooting asserts very emphatically...

made Justice of the Common Pleas in 1689, and removed to the King's Bench in 1695. He died in 1699. His diary contains notes of cases tried by him, and some personal...

—As Mr. Tirebuck aptly remarks in his introduction, the lives of great painters are made up of two phases, the biographical and the artistic ; the former being often the record...

advice which " 20-Bore " gives on the subject of guns is not of a nature to render much assistance to a would- be sportsman. Instead of enlarging on the merits of various...

and Co.)—We are glad to see another book about bees, for such books are much wanted. This is intended for young people ; but, indeed, in the matter of bee-keeping most people...