fresh taxes were levied, would be :- Revenue (on existing basis of taxation) ... £90,955,000 Expenditure ... ••• ••• 95,4,58,000 Deficit ... &1,502,000 That is, the...

Pasha has accepted the Premiership, with Mastapha Fehmy Pasha as Minister for War. The latter has been -savagely attacked already in a journal supposed to be devoted to the...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, April 28th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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end, Admiral de Mello having surrendered his fleet, and fled into Uruguay or Buenos Ayres. The legitimate Government reigns therefore throughout the Republic, though many of the...

has been the subject of more than the ordinary amount of rumours. As usual, he began by stating what had been paid both into, and out of, the Treasury during the past financial...

T HE German Emperor is said to have asked the Russian Emperor to agree to a European conference on the possi- bility of Disarmament, and to have been refused. That may be true...

introduced the new Registration Bill. Its chief provisions are (1), the redaction of the period of residence to three months ; (2), registers to be made up twice a year; (3),...

of the fiscal traditions of the Liberal party, and Sir William Harcourt deserves all the praise he has got for the lucidity of his exposition. It was, however, a marked defect...

Crimes Act of 1887, in a violent speech in which he called the Act infamous, and he was seconded by Mr. W. Redmond, who described minutely his own experience as a prisoner...

it affects- derelict land, we will not pronounce till we have seen the text ; but we must say at once that the provisions in regard to land occupied by new tenants are among the...

Death-duties is to be accomplished by equalising their incidence on real and personal property, and by graduating them against large fortunes. In future there will in effect be...

Grand1 '- , trimittee was continued, and Mr. Balfour's amend- mentdec a,ing to entertain this isolated proposal without the submissica of a general scheme covering the procedure...

conferring on Ireland the precedence for which she , has been struggling with Wales, Scotland, London, and the- Temperance party. His Bill proposes to create a Board of three...

those educated female poisoners, who, every now and then, make their appearance throughout all criminal history. Madame Joniaux, wife of a chief engineer of roads and bridges,...

in which he entreated the electors of the neighbouring con- stituency of Bodmin not to return Mr. Courtney again, though he lavished empty compliments on Mr. Courtney's capacity...

the Court of Appeal vacated by the death of Lord Bowen; and Sir John Rigby, the Solicitor-General, of course succeeds him as Attorney-General.. Mr. Reid, Q.C. (M.P. for the...

rather an important arrest. Inspector Melville and his plain- clothes men have been lately on the look-out for an Italian Anarchist named Polti, and on Saturday night at 8.30...

taken so active a part in organising the great dairy interest in Ireland, in helping the farmers to test the quality of their milk and butter, and to sell it to the best...

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as the English one, and, curiously enough, the deficit they -have to meet, 23,320,000, is nearly the same al that with which Sir William Harcourt had to deal. They deal with it,...

League in Covent Garden Theatre on Thursday,—Primrose Day,—and devoted his speech chiefly to the defence -of the House of Lords, as a body which did not pretend to be itself the...

THE BUDGET. T HE Budget is a fair Budget, and though democratic in the new principle it introduces, it is not democratic in the bribing way. The classes will suffer heavily from...

N O• fair-minded person can look at the Government Registration Bill without noting that it is an attempt to alter the electoral constitution, not in accord- ance with reason...

illustrated more impressively, perhaps, than any recent debate, the political centrifugalism which has been the result of the Home-rule movement. "Home-rule all round" itself is...

Bishop of London has that rare virtue in Bishops, —the courage of his opinions. We are especially bound to single out this characteristic for praise, because we differ from him...

W HETHER Mr. Disraeli really loved the primrose or not, either as a flower or as a salad, seems to be one of these things which, as Dr. Johnson said in his per- emptory manner...

1W HETHER the Czar really answered the Emperor William's proposals for a general disarmament, as he is reported to have answered them, no one can know with certainty, for the...

T HE interesting letter which we publish in another column, on the rapid growth in the North of England, and even apparently in the United States, of a so-called Labour Church,...

W E want to know why persons who believe in wizards, or at all events consult wizards, nearly always prefer to believe in men or women who are of a race inferior to their own,...

I F the monkey-folk could talk, as Mr. Garner would have us believe, they might well pray in the Simian, or any other tongue, "Save us from our too zealous friends ! " The...

THE LABOUR CHURCH. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " BPECTLTOH."] Stn,—The position of the National and Nonconformist Churches with regard to Labour is discussed as it has never been...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—Your reviewer of "Lady Granville's Letters," in the Spectator of April 14th, has not read them very carefully. Had he done so, he might have disliked them...

MR. BALFOTJR'S POPULARITY IN IRELAND. [TO THE EDITOR Os THE " SPECTATOR:1 'In,—Havittg read with much pleasure your critique in the Spectator of April 14th, on the letters of...

[TO THZ EDITOR OF THE "EIFECTATOR."] SIE,—Reading the Spectator of April 7th, I noticed your observations in a notice of the "Paragraph Bible" of the Religious Tract Society,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TER "SPECTATOR."] SIH.—Can you say a word to publishers on the size and weight of the volumes they sometimes issue P I am absolutely pre- eluded from reading...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—As one who has at least a bowing acquaintance with all the dogs to be met with in the streets of St. Jean de Luz,— in certain cases...

THE GUILDHALL EXHIBITION AND THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB. THE concurrence of these two exhibitions,—the retrospective collection of English paintings at the Guildhall, and the...

THE HAWARDEN HORACE. AD PLANTAGENISTAM. MAECENAS atavis edite regibus, 0 et praesidinm et duke decus insure: Sunt qnos curriculo pnlverem Olympicum Collegisse jnvat, metaque...

"LIFE'S LITTLE IRONIES," BY THOMAS HARDY.* MR. HARDY is very lavish with his materials. The plots of most of these highly condensed, artistic, though not always pleasant, little...

ago Mr. Carew Hazlitt edited a fine edition of Browne's works for the Roxburghe Library. It was a generous tribute to the merits of a poet whose work, in spite of manifold...

little book, which comes to us from the hands of the translator like a glimpse of another life and another school of thought than that which mainly occupies the compilers of...

THE author has chosen a very appropriate title (though Variz -me would be more conformable to strict Latinity) for his book, for it contains seven essays on very different...

Mn. BENSON gave undeniable proof, in his first book, of the- possession of the power, so indispensable to the novelist of to- day, of violently arresting attention, or in the...

Tins excellent history of Ireland, by Dr. Joyce, who is one of the Commissioners for the Publication of the Ancient Laws of Ireland, and is well known as the author of Irish...

Theories: Studies from a Modern Woman. By " A. N. T. A. P." (T. Fisher Unvrin.)—This is a remarkable little book, though it contains some elements that appear to mark an inex-...

Oliphant. (W. Heinemann.)—This is an "enlarged edition," of a book which pleased the great army of golf enthusiasts, and which, in its new shape, can scarcely fail to be still...