has occurred. General Roberts, who, ten days ago, was believed to be master of Cabul, and on the 13th inst. to have carried "a peak," and so dispersed not very formidable...

Lord Beaconsfield in successfully misleading the people he is supposed to guide. Within about three months he has made two speeches to the City of London. On August 6th he said...

believe that no strong reinforcements can pass Jagdalak for six weeks at least, and that General Roberts must depend upon himself. This view is also taken by the Viceroy, for he...

rp m very latest intelligence, the 19th inst., reports General Gough moving forward from Jagdalak to attack the enemy. "Result not known." Major Acton and Major Norman, with...

expected, with reinforcements, to restore British " command " in Cabul, and the Viceroy professes perfect confidence in his safety. The grounds of his confidence are, however,...

even to form an opinion on its drift. Rejecting, however, all rumours not received via Caudahar, but accepting Candahar rumour as substantially true, we believe this theory will...

any case.

Russia, apparently started by the Lloyd, a Pesth journal of some standing, but repeated and amplified by Continental journals and correspondents. It was affirmed that the Czar...

Question. The Turks have fulfilled the Treaty of Berlin, as far as Russia is concerned—Russia being strong—with com- mendable promptitude. Montenegro, however, Greece, and...

Parliament till Thursday, February 5th, then to meet "for the dispatch of divers urgent and important affairs." The newspapers have also informed us that a Treasury circular has...

at Neath on Monday, and put very strongly the real issue before the country,—whether or not the country are so well pleased with the doings of the last six years, that they wish...

that Lord Beaconsfield will have destroyed two of the only three independent Mussulman States. The Sulta.not is dying, the Ameership is extinct, and in a few months the "...

being irritated at his steady support of some of the worst acts of the Government. Yesterday week he attended a meeting of the Newbury Liberal Association, at Newbury, to defend...

the - suppression of independent Correspondence now perceive that secrecy is not equivalent to safety. General Roberts has gained nothing by his monopoly of intelligence, except...

being not merely the gain of an Irish seat, but the gain a .air an Irish seat for a Liberal who has not pledged himself to 1 - j .f. the Home-rulers. Mr. Lea, the Liberal,...

of "Kerry, Galway, Sligo, Mayo, ROBCOM mon, and Donegal," and also in the south of Cork, is now officially acknowledged. At least, the Duchess of Marlborough, the wife of the...

be growing disloyal to the Conservative party. On Tuesday, Mr. Cavendish Bentinck addressed his constituents in the town- hall there, and was continually interrupted by cheers...

the Anglo-Indian weakness. He does not speak as well as he writes, or as clearly as he thinks ; but he would be a most valuable Member of the House. In a lecture to the...

having stormed the mountain stronghold occupied by Moirosi, the Basuto chief, dispersed his followers, and killed him. The only native, therefore, now in arms against the...

addressing a farmers' meeting at Wisbeach on the sub- ject of agriculture, made some rather curious remarks on the law of entail :—" So far from the law of the land being...

private secretary to Lord Salisbury, addressed the Edinburgh Conservative Working Men's Association, endeavouring to undo the effect of Mr. Gladstone's onslaught on the foreign...

challenges its vote, and yet it is stated that M. Wad- .dington is going to resign, and M. de Freycinet to form a new Government in his place. It is clear that M. Le Royer,...

come Mr. T. B. Potter back from the United States, Mr. Bright made an interesting speech on America,—the enor- mous resources it possesses, and its vast size. He said that the...

THE PROSPECT IN AFGHANISTAN. S IR FREDERICK ROBERTS, in the early days of the new year, with the snow still thick upon the ground, will be compelled to fight his way through...

I T is very convenient for Tory papers, or papers which are Tory under a disguise, to treat Mr. Gladstone as the head of the ultra-Radical party in the country ; and to treat...

on Monday wrote a frank article in which it embodied its political confessions as to the limits within which moral ideas have any applica- tion to the intercourse of nations....

W E cannot think that the proposal made by the Directors of the London and Westminster Bank, by circular to their Shareholders, is a wise one, or that it will benefit either the...

T HE Russian Government, like all Governments controlled by second-rate statesmen, our own included, preserves all the secrecy it can about " untoward" events ; but there seems...

P ROBABLY no European country offers so promising a field for the study of pauperism as Switzerland ; for none possesses so great a variety of systems for the relief of the...

W HAT can be done with aged clergymen who are really only fit for an almshouse ' but under the existing laws of the Church of England have the charge of a parish ? The case of...

very ambitiously termed "The Philosophy of Handwriting,"* containing the auto- graphs of between one hundred and thirty and one hundred and forty public characters, whose...

A MONGST those who have attended to the controversies of A . the last few years some must have been led to ask the question,—Will the ideal of morality be affected by a great...

DOUBTING DOUBT. (To THE EDITOR OF THE . 4 ISPEOTATOTI.1 SIlt,—It appears to me that both Mr. Gladstone's address to , the students at Glasgow, and your very interesting...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") you allow me to call the attention of such of your readers as take an interest in Victorian politics, to the present aspect of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. " ) SIE, — Your correspondent of last week gives Mr. Gladstone's Scottish origin on his father's side. On his mother's side, it is purely...

rather important mistake you make in an occasional note of this week's Spectator ? You speak of Mr. John Morley's "growing admiration" for Burke. So far from this being the case...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ) ,Sin,--Your comment does no more than justice to the quality of the speeches at this meeting, and no report I have seen gives any idea of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your correspondent, "K. J. V.," notices a point which, in the present stage of the Ritualist controversy, is not without interest. Mr....

"SPECTATOR.") SIR, — The following extracts from the Times of the 17th ins". form a curious and suggestive contrast. The leading article says :—" We declared war against Shere...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the last issue of the Spectator, your Art critic makes the following charges against the Fine-Art Society :- 1. That the charge of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Srn,—Allow me to correct an error into which you have in- advertently fallen in your notice of Mr. Gladstone's Rectorial address at Glasgow....

MR. ARNOLD'S SELECTIONS FROM WORDSWORTH.* Ma. AliNoLD has executed a delicate rather than a difficult task with his usual grace and insight. But we wish he had added to his very...

CHRISTMAS ROSES. PALE winter roses, the white ghosts Of our June roses, Last beauty that the Old Year boasts, Ere his reign closes ! I gather you, as farewell gift From parting...

volumes in which Messrs. Cassell have collected a rich and varied series of pen-and-pencil illustrations of the picturesque scenery and buildings of Europe, the more are we...

for children we have over seen. If it be good for young eyes and . minds to become early acquainted with grace and beauty of form, as Plato and divers other profound...

of humanity is always interesting; we like to be told in what their strangeness consists, and still more, perhaps, in what points they are, nevertheless, like ourselves. Mr....

Potter, Galpin, and Co.)—Of Morocco, which, according to the author of this book, is "destined to be the great commercial high-road be- tween Europe and Central Africa," but...