Tuesday. He admitted that Lord Salisbury could certainly force a dissolution, if he pleased, on the Franchise Bill, sup- posing that the Government decided to introduce it; and...

and London Conferences with having neglected prac- tical difficulties, to press on a measure which could hardly be shaped until the practical difficulties had been overcome. He...

in answer to a demand for troops for Tonquin, has already telegraphed that the Mah di's "emissaries" are proclaiming his victory, and that he -expects a general rising of North...

case.

T HE destruction of the Army of Hicks Pasha has been placed beyond a doubt, but nothing whatever is known .of the subsequent movements of the Mahdi. A report has :reached Cairo...

the meeting of the National Liberal Federation, which was singu- larly clear and vigorous, though without the higher qualities of the orator, without passion and without...

is rumoured, on good authority, that Admiral Courbet refuses to advance on Bacninh without further reinforcements ; and he has only 600 men to expect immediately, and 1,200 men...

the Liberal candidate for York, and Lord Salisbury. The latter had stated that Mr. Lockwood was inter- viewed by the Irish Nationalists, and that, in consequence of this...

going wrong in Tonquin, and IL Cl6mencean on Thursday tried to obtain permission to make an interpellation. He maintained that a memorandum had been received from China making...

Bank, and J. D. Watters, broker, were tried this week for' stealing 2116,000 worth of bonds payable to bearer from that. Bank. Warden surrendered after he had escaped, and...

ents of the Prussian Diet, and in his address used an expression which has attracted great attention. He "assured them, in the most positive manner, that peace was at the...

is impend- ing, both in the coal and cotton trades. In the former, the- miners declare that prices have risen, and demand an increase of wages by ten per cent., while the owners...

of Chelsea on Thursday, revealed a secret of some importance. The Govern- ment intend to act promptly on a Report of the Royal Commis- sion on City Guilds, and to bring in a...

has re- jected the proposal to establish a modern-language tripes, and wish the majority had been larger. It was only 40 to 39. The modern languages are most useful, but the...

much disfigured by a great framework of notice-boards, on which the public are solemnly warned of the rules and regulations under which public gardens are to be used by...

Lambert, Chairman of the Council of the "Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants," describes the work done by that Association amongst the 3,000 girls from the...

week with singular success. The Birds is the great comedy in which, according to Ottfried Muller, Aristophanes satirised Athenian plausibility and credulity, in the persons of...

Justice of the Peace for Monaghan has been suspended, in con- sequence of his action on October 16th. Lord Rossmore, on that occasion, unquestionably led a procession to a...

by the students of the College, with a success which certainly justified the attempt. The play was selected as being one of the few really good ones containing a chorus of...

Consols were on Friday 1011 to 101i.

pleasing impression in Spain, the populace especially being quite enthusiastic about his dignified bearing. Both he and his father are taking unusual pains to deepen the...

.Club on Thursday, in which he abused the attempt to secure by any direct scheme the representation of minorities up hill and down dale. But while attacking it thus furiously...

THE MAHDL W E are not often in accord with the Government on Egyptian questions, but in the new crisis which has arisen, their action strikes us as both wise and firm. They...

B OTH Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Hartington have spoken this week, and both have said something on Reform. Though neither of them spoke for the Government, and both, indeed, as we...

evidently considered the necessity of taking some action, or, as we hope, of authorising the new Municipality of London to take some action, towards the Rehousing of the Poor....

T HE appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the best mode of constituting an efficient Anglican Church Representative Body,—if, at least, it may also inquire whether...

G ENERAL CAMPENON, the French Minister of War, was on Wednesday interrogated by the Committee of the Chamber, which is discussing the Tonquin grant, as to his resources for...

W EDNESDAY, November 28th, 1883, may hereafter be a day famous in the history of the "Expansion of England." The meeting of the advisers of the Crown in the several Australian...

W E have not had the advantage of reading any report of Mr. W. Morris's Oxford defence of Socialism which would give the remotest idea of the kind of Socialism which he advo-...

T HE trials of Warden and Watters for stealing a huge amount of Bonds payable to bearer and speculat- ing with them on the Stock Exchange, have evoked a quantity of excellent,...

T HE brilliant representation of the brightest and gayest of the Greek Comedies, which has attracted crowded audiences to the Cambridge Theatre throughout the week in which we...

r E work of Sir William Siemens deserves notice, not only because of the interest which attaches to great achievements, but also because his career bears witness at every step,...

MINORITY REPRESENTATION. To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am afraid my scheme of representation must, indeed, be complicated, if even the Spectator misapprehends it....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Srn,—Will you allow me a few words on your own article, and on the letter of "C. R. A.," relative to the negative vote ? As to the former, I...

SIR,—Is it not possible that the adoption of negative voting- would effectually destroy the chances of men with any marked individuality of character, and result in the still...

SIR, — Will you allow me to supplement Mr. Compton's hypo- thetical case of the working of the Negative Vote by another :— Against. Candidates. For. 1,164 ...... . ..... Jones...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—In the many able articles which have appeared in your lately respecting the approaching Reform of Parlia- mentary representation, I have...

inveterate habit of detraction—a mean habit, unaccountable in a man so great—avenged itself upon him in one instance of which, so far as I am aware, no notice has been taken....

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Mr. E. B. Nicholson has declared himself to be the 'high local authority for the statements I challenged in the -Spectator for last week, I...

A TIMELY HANDBOOK FOR CONSERVATIVES.* TIIE late Mr. Bagehot was, as is well known, on almost all sub- jects a hearty, though moderate Liberal. Nevertheless, his great dislike...

CHARLES LAMB. DEAR heart ! from dim Elizabethan days Surely thy feet strayed to our garish noon ; Thou should'st have walked beneath a yellowing moon, In some old garden's...

Tan author states in the preface that this book is an attempt to produce "a drama, in the form and under the conditions of a novel ;" but what that may mean is not very...

THE private correspondence and diaries of public men of the past have long been objects of research, as the best materials for history which aspires to go below the surface. In...

Ofav the other day, we were all reading what Mr. Anthony Trollope says in his Autobiography about the hopeless unpopu- larity of historical novels, and finding confirmation of...

talking about a certain Ram - Dass, who had "fire enough in his belly to burn up the sins of all the world." Well, there is fire, or rather "go," enough in this one- Doctor...

first volume consists of two books, entitled respectively "The Sources," in which the origin and the mutual relations of the Four Gospels are discussed ; and "The Prepara-...

GIFT BOOKS. The Wigwam and the War-path. By Ascott It. Hope. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Hope has searched among the treasures of the past history of the American Colonies, and here...

in a very happy fashion. We feel sure that the lad who makes his home among the wild birds on the Breton cliffs is a real person ; but he is skilfully idealised, and his story...

Biographical Sketch, by Kenneth It. H. Mackenzie, LL.D. (Hogg.)—The tales, of course, we need not criticise; but we may say that the illustrations are not unworthy of them. They...

and Ferran), we cannot say much. The book is too big for the very small things which it has to relate. With half the length, it would, if a wearied critic may judge on such a...

(Religious Tract Society.)—This story is reprinted from the Boys' Own Paper ; and, indeed, it well deserves a more extended life. The device of making a biographer of a watch, a...

young. The present writer confesses to a preference for those stories of this author which tell of every-day life, rather than for her fairy stories. There is much beauty and...

Co.)—Castle Lowengard is the abode of a German baron of the old type, the baron who took toll, and something more than toll, of pass- ing merchants, and trod down his peasants...

come up to our ideal of a fairy story, it is a brisk and pleasant tale, which will doubtless please its readers. The hero of Mr. Hodges' firet . tale, "Among the Gibjigs,"...

Henty goes back to the Civil War for the incidents of his story. The friends, as may be readily imagined, are drawn by circumstances to take opposite sides. This is a situation...

and her brother Marmaduke come home from India, to be put under their grandmother's charge, when Dolly is to perform the function of a peace-maker, for the grandmother is sorely...

of this simple little story, is all the more attractive because she is "not too bright and good, &c." On the contrary, she has a distinct spice of wilfulness. But then, she is...

Hutcheson. (Blackie and Son.)—The first of these stories is a curious mixture of land and water. The scene changes from the sea to a mining camp in the States ; the Sioux appear...

and Co.)—We cannot pretend to check Mr. Ballantyne's account of Pacific Wanders, missionaries, and pirates, who make up the dramafispersonca .of this tale. We can only say that...

Farran.)— This is a simple chronicle, bearing every mark of being, what indeed it professes to be, a true chronicle of daily life. There is nothing especially eventful in "...

and Stoughton.)—It is always a pleasure to read one of Miss Meade's tales, but we must repeat a wish that we have, we think, expressed before, that she would consult...

Windas) comes recommended by illustrations of George Crnikshank's; and by "A Poet's Memories of Robinson Crnsoe," from the pen of Bernard Barton.

and Co.)—Sir Valentine finds himself dispossessed from his position as heir to his grandfather's estate and title by the sudden return of another grandson, supposed to have been...

and Ashore, is a reprint of one of Mr. W. H. I. Kingston's capital stories. (Griffith and Ferran.)

Pansies " represent two types of girls, which Miss Marshall describes with her wonted skill. Tbe story is slight, but well told. Now and then a touch of humour relieves its...

Farran.)—This is a sad story,—sad at least in the ending, when the girl who has been so wilful at the first comes to her right mind. But we suppose that it will be useful as an...

of Roumania. Translated by Helen Zimmern. (T. Fisher Unwin.)— The Queen of Roumania has achieved some literary distinction, under the pseudonym of "Carmen Sylva." And, indeed,...

This is a story of honest endeavour to do good, and teaches admirably that best of lessons,—that a man must not judge his work by the event, nor look to success as the test by...

the style of this tale which far exceeds any deserving that we MD find in the tale itself. It has a style, itself no small distinction, when, we compare it with piles of...