Gaiety Theatre there, to as large an audience as the build- ing could contain. He was hearty in his praise of Lord Salisbury's foreign policy, but very severe on Mr. Gosehen's...

Mr. Gladstone, and on the question of " concealment " broke down the ex-Prime Minister's case. Nothing had ever been concealed. Indeed, the whole tenor of the Navy proposal had...

case.

decision. Mr. Jackson, of Clitheroe, had vainly urged his wife to live with him, and, after obtaining a decree for restitu- tion of conjugal rights, seized her by force, and...

and Paris, and on Wednesday M. Roche, the French Minister of Commerce, addressed to Mr. Raikes, the Poatmaster-General, a whole speech of congratula- tion, which was heard as...

P RINCE NAPOLEON lingered a few hours longer than was expected, but he expired on Tuesday evening, having, it is said, remarked a few hours before : "I have succeeded in...

and an underbred ono, recovers his dignity in addressing his followers abroad. He has published a manifesto to the Irish Americans quite in his old form,—brief, plain-spoken,...

Government, to be the head of the Commission on the relations of Capital and. Labour. It would be impossible to find a stronger or more impartial head for the Commission.; but...

A jury there, empanelled to try nine Italians accused of murdering Mr. Hennessy, the late Chief of Police, acquitted six of them, and disagreed as to the remaining three. The...

the Government was a mere repetition of former attacks, Mr. Gladstone always representing the liberty to oppress your neighbour by depriving him of the right to do what the law...

to swallow any pledge that may catch stray votes. The dele- gates of many labour associations presented to him on Sunday a furiously Radical programme; and though he did not...

in resigning their seats for Cork, and test the feeling of that constituency by a double election, has been accepted by Mr.. Maurice Healy, after consultation with th - e Bishop...

Germany. The Germans recently discovered, or more probably, for Protectionist reasons, imagined, that American pork was not quite healthy, and prohibited its importation.. The...

Committees, voted for this crude Bill, and that Sir Henry James and Mr. Chamberlain did not vote against it, though Lord Hartington did. But this is just the sort of Bill for...

was confided to women, the " school-marms " from the Eastern 'States furnishing the main body of instructors for the entire Union. The compilers of the new Census have...

members of the Wesleyan Church supported Mr. Davison, and general satisfaction was expressed with the whole drift of his paper. It was proposed that it should be published in...

the Bible was held by a meeting of Wesleyan ministers in the Wesleyan Chapel in the City Road on Monday, to hear a paper by Professor Davison on "Inspiration and Biblical...

'thing as gambling. They all insist that what men call by that name is an exact science, which can be found out if one is only skilful and lucky enough to do it. Two Englishmen...

on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The British steamer 'Utopia,' with 750 Italian emigrants for New York on board, was steaming into the harbour of Gibraltar, when, either through mis-...

Option Bill for Wales was carried on Wednesday by a majority of six in the House of Commons, the Government not taking any official line on the subject. It allows a two- thirds...

New Consols (2) wen ou Friclay 96t to 96g.

E VERY excuse may be made for the citizens of New Orleans in regard to the lynching affair of Saturday last, except the final one that their action was unavoidable. They had...

IS THE LIBERAL UNIONIST PARTY AN ABORTION? M R. GLADSTONE rarely uses words so ill-considered as those which he employed at Hastings to express his disgust for the Liberal...

loss for- midable in his attack on the Government, and less plausible in his defence of the policy of his party, than he is accustomed to be. On Lord Salisbury's foreign policy...

grateful to Mr. Hanbury for insisting that counsel engaged before Parliamentary Committees shall not cross-examine witnesses whom they have not heard examined in chief. By his...

evidence of statesmanship in that part of the Memoirs of Talleyrand which the Due de Broglie has just given to the world, but there is some, and in particular there are a few...

W E are always glad to find ourselves in agreement with Mr. Morley, and we have this pleasure in regard to a large part of his speech on the second reading of the Welsh Liquor...

M R. GLADSTONE'S lecture on "The Homeric Artemis" to the boys of his old school, is of more interest as showing how a really great subject exerts over the imagination a spell...

T HE absolute dullness of the Talleyrand Memoirs, so far as they have appeared, has been rather a perplexity to their readers. Part of their apparent heaviness is no doubt due...

W E do not love the organ-grinder. At our own doors he is an unmitigated nuisance ; at the doors of our immediate neighbours—though for them we have no un- friendly feeling—we...

T HE exhibition of Charles Keene's drawings and sketches which is being held at the Fine Art Society's galleries in New Bond Street, entirely justifies the opinion of those who...

NON-COLLEGIATE STUDENTS AT OXFORD. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your recent article on the " Spinning-House " contains. some startling assertions which affect...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIE,—What you say of young townsmen not taking advan- tage of the facilities 'for taking a degree offered by the University, may possibly...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] SIR,—I have a letter written to me just forty years ago by Charles Marriott which gives a further and characteristic illustration of what...

[To THE EDIrOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your reviewer, in his notice of "The Modern Church of Scotland," seems to do less than justice to Carstares, who. endured the frightful...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE SpECTA.TOR."] Silt,—Last year you were good enough to publish some letters • of mine on the above subject, which, judging from the number of questions I...

THE DARLING OF THE YEAR. APRIL, young April, Ever fresh and dear, Sweet sixteen" among the months, Darling of the year ! Ere your smile can flash and die, Lo a tear o'ertakee...

FOUR EXHIBITIONS. FEW artists have a talent that is indifferently applicable; the master of one order of effect or character will be a little child when he attempts another;...

THE LAST LETTERS OF FANNY KEMBLE.* THIS work, consisting of the latest letters of a well-known member of a distinguished family, is a pleasant supplement to its enjoyable...

THESE essays, unequal both in their dimensions and in their merit, contain much that will fully sustain the reputation of their author, and renew the regret of many readers that...

How the Other Half Lives is a work devoted to the description of the slums of New York,—the " tenement-houses " familiar to all readers of American literature....

landscapes, one of the most enchanting is the picture of "The Golden Bough," the dreamy lake bosomed amid wooded hills, the varied countryi beyond flooded with golden light, the...

will have the effect of making many of us feel young again. History and biography are written very differently now ; and the change in • The W of Norio do Medicis, Queen of...

in this translation of Mariette's Aperou, for although the language in which it is written might almost be said to be universally known, there are plenty • Outlines of Ancient...

Very Rev. H. D. M. Spence and the Rev. Joseph S. Exell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), contains the Proverbs. The Exposition is by the Rev. W. I. Deane and S. T. Taylor ; the...

(Cassell and Co.)—This volume contains, it may be said, the lexical" part of " The Encyclopasdic Dictionary," and appears under the same editorial care. It claims to be "far...

We have received the annual issue of the Expositor, edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton). We may mention that it is the second volume of the...

teachers" whom Mr. Forster describes are Ruskin, Carlyle, Emerson, and Browning. His book is a panegyric rather than a criticism. One might suggest objections to every one of...

London and Boston, U.S.A..)—This volume is "edited by a Com- mittee of the Classical Instructors of Harvard University." 'These are both philological and antiquarian. Mr. J. B....

Alexander Philip. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Mr. Philip brings to bear on the problem which he discusses tho discoveries and consequent new definitions which we owe to the researches...

Second Second Serios. (Elliot Stook.)—Mr. Parkinson does not always distinguish he accurately as lie might between history and the "legends and traditions" which he makes his...

D.D. (Nelson and Sons.)—Dr. Blackie travelled from Edinburgh to New York, thence to Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Chicago, and from Chicago by the Union Pacific Railway to...

Butler made a success in "For Good Consideration." Bsit it does not always happen that one good volume of essays will be followed by another of equal merit from the same pen. Of...

Norgate.)—Mr. Copner'e book is an able and well-reasoned effort to show that the belief in an intelligent and beneficent ruler of the world is not inconsistent with, but, on the...

Populations. By Edgar Jacob, MA. (S.P.C.K.)—Mr. Jacob, who is the Vicar of a largo parish in the South of England, delivered six lectures to candidates for ordination in the...

Oates.)—This volume contains some Old Testament stories told in simple language. The work has been done well. It is, per- haps, Protestant prejudice that makes us think the...