its defeat in Abyssinia as was at first believed. General Baldisaera, it is said, found the army even more demoralised than he had expected ; great pressure has been put upon...

T HE expedition to Dongola is fully sanctioned by the British and Egyptian Governments, and the troops are already collecting at Wady Haifa. The force will consist of five...

serious danger of European complications on account of the advance to Dongola. Germany, Austria, and Italy are, for reasons connected with the safety of the Italian Monarchy,...

the Army Estimates by Admiral Sir J. Colomb, who thought that we have not nearly enough available force for transport beyond sea in case of war. He thought that a good deal too...

when, in answer to Sir William Harcourt, Mr. Carson ex- plained that the Government bad for some time heard rumours of an advance of the Dervishes in large numbers into Upper...

case.

Egypt, published this week, is a most striking State paper. It shows how extraordinarily successful has been our work on the Nile. Last year's surplus was the largest ever...

Egypt. It has hitherto always been believed that as much was known about the Sphinx as could be known ; but now Colonel Ronm, an American, by digging round the base, has brought...

currency, moving a Resolution that the instability of the relative value of gold and silver was an injury, and that the Government should do all in their power to establish a...

both Sir M. Ricks-Beach and Mr. Balfour spoke with strong dis- favour of the present Indian currency. Both evidently con- sidered that it was "inconvertible," the rupee being,...

Their opponents have repeatedly accused the Govern- ment of choosing bad men for Colonial office, and during a long debate which ended on Tuesday, Dr. Peters, the chair- man of...

but would, with his party, resist the permanent occupation of the Sondan to the utmost of his power ; while Mr. Courtney maintained that we were safe behind the barrier of Wady...

the House of Lords. Its object, he explained, was to place the water - supply in the hands of a re- sponsible and representative body. That body could not fairly be the County...

Souls' College, Oxford, on the Dutch Republics in South Africa, which has, however, been very imperfectly re- ported. He spoke of the Orange Free State as one which had adopted...

House of Commons on Tuesday night concerning an article in the St. James's Gazette on the result of the recent trial, in which he obtained only one farthing damages for the...

on Friday, 1091.

of Fife in a classroom in the schools of the parish of All Saints, Mile End New Town, commemorating the purchase of the free- hold of the schools erected by the efforts of the...

does. Sir J. Westland read his statement at Simla on Wednesday, showing that owing to the recovery in exchange, improvements in opium, and savings in military expenditure, the...

over Oxford than the grant to Principal Fairbairn, the Principal of Mansfield College, in the Oxford Convocation of Tuesday, of the degree of MA. by a majority of 94 against 29....

of last Wednesday, of an exhibition by Mr. Herbert Newton of what the Röntgen rays could do in the way of casting shadows through an apparently opaque object on to a screen...

THE ADVANCE TO DONGOLA. W E feel no disposition to be enthusiastic over this expedition to Dongola. We cannot get rid of the impression that, in the present position of...

being carried a little too far. Lord Salisbury's position is, we fully acknowledge, a most delicate one, and it may be impossible for him to make any public statement, but in...

O URpeople have never done a better or more success- ful piece of work than they have done, and are doing, in Egypt. When one remembers the state of Egypt in 1883, and compares...

A T the dinner given by the Fishmongers on Wednesday, Mr. Gully had to return thanks to that ancient Company for drinking the health of the Speaker of the House of Commons; and...

House on bimetallism, like the one of Tuesday on Mr. Whiteley's Resolution, is an odd sort of incident from which to derive an increase of moral courage, yet we are conscious of...

against the return of Mr. Marks for the St. George's Division of the Tower Hamlets has some claims to the dignity of a public scandal. It has occupied the whole attention of two...

an admirable ex- ample to coalowners in placing before his hands plainly and accurately the conditions which render it quite unprofitable to him, at the present cost and price...

T HIS is an age of curiosity on all sorts of subjects, of asking questions, in short, but not always of asking them well. The interviewers who abound are very little aware how...

T HE most marked difference between society in England and society in the United States is the existence on the other side of the Atlantic of highly privileged classes. No one...

"A B Africa, Beeves non i aliquid "—always something fresh from Africa—is as true of records of the Zoo as it was of the annals of Rome. That continent has provided the greater...

T AST year we advised our London friends to go and see J Kew Gardens in the middle of May, when the hardy azaleas in full bloom combine with their humble neighbours the...

"THE GRUDGE AGAINST TEIE LIBERAL UNIONISTS." [To THZ EDITOR OF THO esesereroe.ei SIR,—There is a sting in the tail of the complimentary re- ferences of your correspondent, "The...

ITO VIZ EDITOR OF TRH " SFICCTATOR.".1 Sea.—Your admirable article under the above heading in the Spectator of March 7th leaves little more to say for the merits of the Bill...

MORE HAWARDEN HORACE. An JUSTINUM HISTORIAM NOSTRORUM TEMPORITM FERAGENTEM.—(0d. II. 1.) MOTU bf ex Metello consule 'Tis no milk-and-water fable to Bellique causas et vitia et...

L'To TEE EDITOR OF THE * SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—The almost incredible atrocity to which you cal? attention in the Spectator of March 14th demands investi- gation, and probably there...

allow me to send you the following specimen of a "bull," which I heard from a Roman Catholic pulpit in England. The preacher may have been an Irish- man, but I am not sure. He...

[To THE Burros OF THE " SPECTAT0R:] SIR, — Will you kindly allow me to state through the medium of your widely read journal, that on April 2nd there will be opened a London...

StR,—A " bull " is none the less palpable though the subject be serious. Shortly after the tidings came of the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg, the captain of the Boys'...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—As you have informed me that you have no room for an elaborate letter, but will permit me to protest briefly against your criticism of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Persons who attribute either " bulls " or good sayings to the wrong people should be put to death, or obliged to copy out with their...

WILLIAM CARLETON THE IRISH NOVELIST.* IT is the fate of most autobiographies to be incomplete, and this unfortunately is the case with Carleton's, which Mrs. Cashel Hoey...

THERE is no figure in modern history like that of Charles XII. of Sweden. He stands absolutely alone. The only analogy to his career is that of some Viking filled with Berserker...

WE would offer the above heading to the author of Trig. nettes from Finland; or, Twelve Months in Strawberry Land, as a more appropriate title to her book than that which she...

horticulture in New England is naturally contemporaneous with the colonisation of that country by English emigrants in the seventeenth century. The Indian tribes whom our...

AGRICULTURE in Germany, where the law of equal division of landed property at death in case of intestacy prevails, appears to be suffering as much as in England, where (subject...

and scattered realm over which she presides, England has had not a few reverses and losses. The general course of her progress has been so conspicuously suc- cessful, that with...

The QuIrto. (J. S. Virtue and Co.)—This new magazine. published for the Slade School of Art, contains a number of very well reproduced drawings and pictures. "The Spirit of the...

an interest- ing account of the work of Felicien Rope by M. Emile Verhaeren, Although a Belgian by birth, Rops has become saturated with that element of French art which...

by the Rev. Frederick Burnside, M.A. (S.P.C.K.)—This annual publication furnishes a mass of information, given in figures and otherwise, from which we may learn how much is...

Introduction, and Connecting Notes, by George Saintsbury. With Illustrations by Chris Hammond. 2 vols. (George Allen.) —Richardson, the most prolix novelist in the language, is,...

an Introduction by George Saintsbury. (Lawrence and Millen.) —There is probably no poet about whom critical judgments differ more widely than with regard to Donne. His faults of...

Literary History of the Period. Edited by W. Robert- son Nicoll, MA, LL.D., and Thomas J. Wise. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—This large and beautifully printed volume is the first of...

(Gay and Bird.)—The writer of the stories contained in this volume has undoubtedly steeped her mind before writing them in the ever fascinating saga period, with the happy...

annual issue. It contains lists of clergy, with dates of ordination, preferments, or occupations, of benefices, patrons, cathedral bodies, church societies, &c. The volume is...

Co.)—This is a complete record of Stock Exchange transactions, of investments dealt with, of the prices obtained, of liquidations, in short of all the vast multiplicity of...

Professor S. D. F. Salmond, M.A. Vol. V. (T. and T. Clark.)—We cannot profess to give a "review of reviews," and therefore we must be content with recording the appearance of...