-p ARMAMENT was amused on Monday to hear officially that the Governor of Queensland had sent a policeman to annex Papua, an island about a third larger than France. Members...

LORD BEACONSFIELD'S STATUE. S IGNOR RAGGI has done his work admirably, and it is perhaps not, on the whole, to be regretted that the distinction of creating so fine a statue to...

O N one condition, and one condition only, we can approve the annexation of Papua, and that is, that Parliament deliberately sanctions the act with its eyes open, votes the...

Argyll is over-eager to spring at any one of his former colleagues who errs in the direction of what he deems Radicalism. We do not think that his attempt in Monday's Times to...

I T is quite natural that the first dangerous division of the Session should have been upon Rates. Rates come home to us all. They are for many classes, indeed for all below the...

W E cannot, we must say, reconcile ourselves entirely to the new form which social improvement is taking upon the Continent. Kings and Ministers have been frightened by the...

I T is unfortunate, though perhaps not unnatural, that the Bill to grant pensions to Lord Wolseley and Lord Alcester should have met with so much opposition. The reasons on...

T HE Vicar of Selby is a very clever man, who not only laves the process generally known as " taking the bull by the. horns," but even the still less common process of...

T HOSE who watch the new Mammoth Millionaires now coming forward in such.numbers from America and Australia, say that one definite reason for dreading them is their incapacity...

I N the suggestive collection of " Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne "—a book which adds interest to all the author's other books, because it gives us...

THE AFFIRMATION BILL. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The proportion of the Clergy of the Establishment who are " Liberal " is undoubtedly a small one, but I hope...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—Out of,— " God bless the Squire, And all his rich relations," I made most of my sermon this morning. With your leave, I should like...

Hume Elliot, or his friend the Wesleyan minister, tell us the name of the squire men tioned in the former's letter to you dated the 9th inst.? Was it by any chance Sir Joseph...

[To TEE EDITOR OF MR "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In answer to the letter in this week's Spectator, I may say that lately I went from this to Moville, in one of the tenders, with 500...

MR. FOOTMAN ON MODERN UNBELIEF.* Tins is perhaps the calmest, the most courageous, and the steadiest effort to look modern unbelief in the face which we have yet had from a...

A DOZEN years ago a good history of Latin literature was one of the most marked desiderata of the student. There was no. work even professing to give a complete survey of the...

prolific and, within what is now a well-ascertained orbit, as versatile as ever. The first of these volumes is a collection of very miscellaneous papers, some critical, some...

saintly Fletcher of Madeley is a very poor book on a very interesting subject. Con-sidered as a contribution to biographical literature, it is so complete a failure, that were...

old speeches, even on burning questions— perhaps we should say when they are on burning questions, on the Laureate's theory that passion leaves dry what it sweeps through—are...

The Dublin Review, for April,1883. (Burns.and Oates.)—This is a number of unusual interest, inthe first place, for the article on the accomplished and much more than...