urge the claims of his friend Mr. Assheton to be again returned at the next election, and consequently he dwelt generally on the claims of the Conservative Administration to the...

T HE British flag flies on the Bala Hisser. After their defeat at Chartisiab, the Afghan soldiery, 110W Bald to number 7,000, took up a strong position on the hills above the...

to stay at Knowsley, on the occasion of his political visit to Lancashire, at the end of next week. This invitation is under- stood to mean that Lord Derby now identifies...

we can recall no precedent in Indian lust er .. y General Roberts appeared on the balcony of the palace, and through interpreters proclaimed to the crowds below the British...

starring it in Lancashire would be unjust to Mr. Cross, for he does not star it anywhere; but he has been plodding it in Lancashire,—playin g, not ineffectively, the plain,...

wretched of man- kind, "our ally," Yakoob Khan, in whose nam e we are fighting, whose flag has been superseded in his own capital, and whose palace is occupied by the General...

fall elections in all directions. We recently recorded their victory in California, where they crushed not only the Demo- crats, but the victorious Labour party, and now they...

Quartier Javel, one of the eighty electoral divisions of Paris, to the Municipality. The enthusiasm in his favour was not great, his opponent, M. Depasse, also declaring for the...

our sketch of his speech to the subject of the redistribution of seats, as a consequence of granting household suffago to the counties, —his object being apparently to show that...

The Residency papers were Rent secretly on board a steamer, the ammunition was smuggled out in ration-bags, and the per- sonal baggage of the Legation was abandoned. At five...

Wolseley's settlement of Zululand, being especially moved by the regulations against English immigration, the pro- hibition of Missionaries, and the rumoured. selection of John...

a sketch of which we have given elsewhere, laying down the chief objects which a Liberal Administration would have in view. We may add here that he began by remarking that it...

holding meetings, the most important of which assembled at Navan on Sunday, the 12th inst. Not less than 20,000 people are believed to have attended. Mr. Parnell addressed the...

address which turned chiefly on the reorganisation of secondary education in England, and the manner ia which it could best be effected. Mr. Forster was opposed to putting this...

the Bradford Liberal Club to the Bradfor d School Board, -denied entirely that the great increase in the cost of elementary education was due to the extravagantly high education...

abotit the office of High Sheriff. It is contended that the office is almost totally useless, and that the unlucky landowner who is compelled to fill it is compelled also to...

.constituents, and making a telling onslaught on the insane foreign policy of the Government, spoke briefly on a subject to which he has given a great deal of special study,—the...

week. In the first, Mr. Cornwallis West, Lord-Lieutenant of Denbigh- shire, prosecutes the publisher of Town Talk, one of the journals of debasing gossip which have recently...

the East Cumberland Liberal Registration Association, said he was not so anxious for a dissolution as some of his friends, for be was persuaded that a generation having grown up...

T HERE is something childlike and engaging in Mr. Cross's artless political prattle in Lancashire. His speeches remind one of one's early lessons. In relation to foreign...

THE FALL OF CABUL. G ENERAL ROBERTS has completed his task with great skill, energy, and success, and has made it evident, if any evidence were required, that the British can...

T HE speech of Mr. Childers at Pontefract, reported in yes- terday's papers, has upon it the stamp of very careful, and in some sense, almost official, consideration by the...

M R. PARNELL, we fear, is leading the Irish people on a course which can end only in a great disaster. He may himself be only desirous of organising an Irish popular party by an...

O NE of the greatest defects in the English system of col- lecting intelligence through resident Correspondents in foreign capitals is this. Whatever interests those Correspond-...

T HE Address of the President of the Incorporated Law Society, delivered at the Annual Provincial Meeting of the Society, at Cambridge, last week, is interesting, as showing the...

T HE prosecution for libel brought by Mr. Cornwallis West against the publisher of Town Talk illustrates a defect in the usual law of libel, which Continental jurists have re-...

T HE remarkable paper in the October number of the Nine. toenth Cont ray, to which we drew attention last week, by Miss L. S. Bevington, is, in the frankness and the firmness of...

T HE hundred and thirtieth anniversary of Goethe's birth- day was kept, as usual, on August 28th of this year. The inhabitants and. visitors in Frankfort are still enthusiastic...

ARTISANS' DWELLINGS. [To rat EDITOR. Mr THE BPECTATOR.1 your issue of the 4th inst., commenting on the recent speech of the Bishop of Manchester at the Social Science Congress,...

LTO THE EDITOp. Op THE "SPECTATOR.") Silt, —Will you kindly allow me to point out a misprint in your review, October 11th, of the above-named book P In your extract from it,...

[TO TILE EDITOR Op THE " EPEOTIaton..] S111, - 112 a notice of Bishop Fraser's address at the opening of the Social Science Congress at Manchester . , in the Spectator of...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTITOR.") S111,—May I tell you a few facts, to prove that birds can be, like their human friends, both reasonable and unreasonable P 1. Several years...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] • Silt—There is much in your article on "The Continuance of Depression" which will recommend it to business men, but I think you have...

MR. ROW ON CHRISTIAN EVIDENCES.* As we did not notice this v'ery able book on its first appearance, we are glad to seize the occasion of its reaching a second edition to give...

[TO THE EDITOR Or TEE " SPECTATOR.") SI11,—'Tis but a small matter, yet even flies don't like to be mis- taken for fleas. You quote the old Scotch proverb, "Let that flee stick...

This volume presents us with a very well-defined example of one of the two schools to which most of the young poets, or quasi-poets, of the present day belong. There is the "Art...

on the labour question was reviewed some weeks ago in the Spectator, has also recently published a companion volume, on working-class insurance, which, although treating of the...

Henry, has made himself responsible for causing us—US his reviewer—who are now to sit in judgment upon him, a con- siderable shock, and almost something worse than that I As Mr....

MR. BROWNLOW NORTH was known for many years all over Scotland as an evangelist. His close connection with the Free Church and the peculiarly Scotch and narrow range of his theo-...

Aunt Jucly'8 Magazine, for October. (George Bell and Sons)— " Jackanapes," the leading story of this number, deserves a review' to itself. The story of that name is meant, we...

IT is in some respects a pity that General Lefroy has thought it necessary to continue his history of the Bermudas on so large a scale, for the interest of the second volume,...

Tales and Sketches. By E. Owens Blackburne. (Newman and Co.)—No more lively volume of Irish tales then this has heon pualished for many years. It bears the impress of true...

Fennell, M.A. (Cambridge : the University Proesa—Pindar enjoys the die. {auction of being the most difficult of Greek authors, not even except- ing sEschylus in his lyric moods,...

and Marshall.)—Dr. Rime gives fifteen reasons why Irish sehoole are not as pxosperous as they should be, reasons which do not, he thiuks, affect English schools, in the same...

(Bentley.)—Mr. Wingfield gives, as a second title to his book, "A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union,"—that is to say, he calls it a novel in one breath, and...