ment declining to entertain Mr. Dillwyn's resolution, in con.. sidemtion of the "great and growing influence and work of the National Church, especially in the Principality of...

G ERMANY is greatly moved by some formidable strikes. They began among the coalminers of Westphalia, but are extending to the collieries in Silesia, and also to other trades,...

It has given the cue to its supporters that nothing which can be avoided shall be discussed, and will with- draw every unpopular proposal, the Income-tax in particular. It has,...

resolution,—" That, as the Church of England in Wales has failed to fulfil its professed object as a means of promoting the religious interests of the Welsh people, and...

rather less moderate in tone than the Member for Swansea. He quoted Mr. Spencer Walpole to the & effect that "it is absurd to say that a country enjoys reptesentative...

any case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, May 25th, wilt be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages .of which will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

a debate on the representation of the Universities, moving that it should cease. He maintained that they had at first obtained representation surreptitiously, that the Univer-...

remark that the Cymry are the most ancient race in this country, and that it is impossible to "stamp out a people of 1,600,000 who had been in existence for 200,000 years." Sir...

Senoussi has totally defeated the Mahdi. A letter has been received from that personage of later date than the reported capture of Khartoum. In it, the Mahal adjures her Majesty...

students at Oxford, much of which is both instructive and enjoyable. Unfortunately, he allowed himself to be carried away by the applause of his audience into a fierce party...

raid on two gambling-clubs, the Field and the Adelphi. Moved, it is said, by the prayers of the ladies of two wealthy families, the police entered these clubs in force early on...

of the world upon the means of investment, that even the Russian Fives are being converted into Fours, and it is believed that the operation will be completely successful. Italy...

presented their Report, which is unanimous against the wish of the Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons to have a Medical University of their own, with the power of conferring...

pensions, his main contention being that twenty-seven years' purchase was too high a rate for commuta- tion. He showed that a Committee of the House had agreed with him in this...

at Bury on Wednesday evening. Lord Hartington pointed out that the Liberal Unionists, after commenting very severely in 1885 on what they then regarded as the virtual alliance...

of Conservative Associations at Birmingham on Wed- nesday on the Naval Defence question, in which he said that while in France, for every two francs locked:: up in stores on...

what Toryism appeared to mean, judging by the pro- ceedings of last week, is dear sugar and cheap and abundant flogging. By this we suppose that Mr. Morley approves the policy...

this removal of important questions from party conflict will be confined solely to Irish subjects. I believe that there are questions which affect the whole of the United...

the library of Lambeth Palace,—the conferring by the Archbishop of the honorary degree of M.A. on Mr. George Tansley, one of the original students, afterwards a Fellow, and now...

New Consols (22) were on Friday 991- to 99f.

LORD HARTINGTON'S FORECAST. T 4 01W HARTINGTON, in the important speech which he made at Bury on Wednesday, expressed his belief that the effect of the democratic settlement at...

T HE correspondents of the London papers are right in the great attention which they are paying to the strikes in Westphalia. Those strikes are not more exten- sive than many...

rilHE debate on Mr. Dillvryn's motion was not, we think, unsatisfactory either in its character or in its result. It, proved that the ltouse of Commons is perfectly willing to...

T HE debate on Friday week on University representation was not such a bad one as the journalists say, and though it is condemned as academic, it had an im- portance of its own....

THOUGH with a great deal of Lord Wolseley's Oxford X speech we are in complete accord, we must express our disapproval of the temper in which certain of his remarks were...

RE have been times, possibly, when Judges have been too much given to make law ; but society would have gone on but badly if it had been necessary to wait for an Act of...

1' I RS. RUSSELL BARRINGTON has just published a 171 thoughtful and eloquent paper on "The Reality of the Spiritual Life,"* which may be described as embodying the view of...

to write a sermon on the immorality of gambling, it propos of the recent raid upon two gambling-clubs. That is a question which we regard as settled. spite of the Committee of...

I T has been remarked that there is a good deal of pedantry among anglers. We fear that the charge is not without some reason. Anglers are in many cases unassuming, con-...

THE STATE SCHOOLS OF VICTORIA AND DR. DALE. [TO TH1 EDITOR OF TRH " SPECTATOR:1 SIB,—As a constant reader of the Spectgtor, would you kindly permit me a word or two in...

LIFE IN CALIFORNIA. Stn,—As a regular subscriber to your valuable paper, and having read an article concerning California in a recent number, I imagined that a further insight...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] am an old guinea-pig. I assist in the direction of four or five Companies of more or less importance. I receive, on an average, two...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.”] Six,—In your remarks of last week upon the Unionist Club dinner, you refer to a speech of Mr. John Redmond, quoted by Lord Derby, in which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The sentimentalism of the day condemns as heartless and cruel the wide-reaching principle of "the survival of the fittest," without,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—You have lately published several dog-stories. Allow me to send you another for publication should you think it worthy. It was told me...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Does not the following passage from Bossuet's " Medita- tions " (" La Cene," Premiere Partie, 72 Jour), answer your doubt whether St....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—You have written on the question of a Royal residence in Ireland. It is not a new idea, but very important. Lord Strafford wrote from...

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The interesting note of your correspondent in the Spectator of April 14th, showing that Danton had many. English books in his library,...

THE NEW GALLERY. [FIRST NOTICE.] THE collection of pictures on view at the New Gallery has several points in which it may claim to.be the most interesting of this year's...

MAY MEMORIES. ! for the light-hearted Life, and the passionate Pulse, and the fetterless Feet, and the strong Stream of enthusiast Thought, when the spirit of Spring, like a...

THE general effect of the Grosvenor show this year cannot by the most optimistic observer be considered entirely satisfactory. One goes round the rooms, and although there are...

VIRGINIA OF V 11-LGINLI..* Jr Mr. Gosse reads this story,—and he ought to read it,—he will repent him of his sarcasm at the expense of Miss Amelie Rives. In his essay in the...

"GEORGIA is practically unknown to the British public," says Mr. Wardrop, and we may add that in this respect it may be put on a line with many other lands. He wishes to excite...

sort in a sentence would be to do a grave injustice to the author. For it is a work of great im- portance, of wide knowledge, of condensed and systematic reasoning, and of...

THE historic value of this book lies in the fact that it is in a sense an epitome of the history of the Church of Scotland, and its author, Dr. J. Cameron Lees, has attained the...

some time in his career, nearly if not quite every public servant in India is a man of action. It is of the essence of the great business, that those who carry it on should be...

DR. BRETSCHNEIDER, who for some years held the post of physician to the Russian Legation at Pekin, has long been favourably known to Orientalists as a diligent and acute...

and Co.)—This is a book of information intended for the "amateur and professional photographer," and conveniently arranged in alphabetical order. The practiser of the art could...

Litera- ture. By Henry Morley. Vols. I.-IV. (Cassell and Co.)—In 1864, Professor Morley published a work, or rather part of a work, having the same title as the volumes now...

book of selections, which, as "chosen and edited" by Mr. Arthur Galton, has been added to the "Camelot Series" of Mr. Walter Scott, is a sufficiently judicious compilation, and...

Welsh.)—This is a harmless though rather spun-out story of English country-house life, with its indolence, its simple pleasures—simple, at all events, where that life is not...

The Vasty Deep. By Stuart Cumberland. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Parts of this story are evidently designed as burlesque exaggeration, and it is not always easy to know where the...

a gossip about books, Mr. Rees has done some pleasant work, and readers acquainted with "The Pleasures of a Bookworm" cannot but have a kindly feeling towards the writer. It is...

and Co.), is an essentially commonplace novel that is yet not altogether devoid of promise. Monte Carlo has claimed its suicides before Mr. Cliffe told the story of Vane and the...

volume of verse is appropriately dedicated to Mr. Pater, and the writer's conception of art agrees with that adopted by the author of "Studies in the Renaissance." The "highest...

Blackett.)—There is but little to distinguish this story from pre- ceding works by the same author. Like them, it is full of Irish character, Irish brogue, and the linked...

Robert Carter. (Alex. Gardner.)—Mr. Carter, whose biography is briefly given by a friend as an introduction to this volume, was an American journalist, a man of wide reading and...