N O certain news about Armenia has arrived from Con- stantinople this week. The Sultan still hesitates, doubting whether the Powers are in earnest; but he has, it is said, made...

a possible transaction between the Papacy and the Italian Government. Rome and a port are to be given to the Pope, in consideration of £200,000,000 to be raised by the Catholic...

of trouble. It is stated that the German Government has again agreed to assist Russia and France in insisting on a more speedy evacuation of the Liam-tang Peninsula by Japan. In...

at Ku-cheng have been executed ; but it is not believed on the spot that this punishment will check further outrages. None of the leaders have been even arrested, and nothing...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 12th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

for the municipal control of the capital this party received thirty thousand votes against seven thousand given to the Liberals, and will therefore be able to appoint all...

for the French. The Czar sent a General to watch the great manceuvres in progress round Mirecourt on the old theatre of war, and this officer, General Drago- miroff, was...

case.

most unsatisfactory way. It was clearly proved that the accused, Robert Coombes, a boy of thirteen, purchased a knife in order to kill his mother, and did kill her without...

Edinburgh Shipping Company, caught fire while off Clacton The fire began in the ladies' cabin—it is not known how, but a spirit-lamp and bottle that had contained methylated...

is extremely interesting. The gross liabilities of the State for the year which ended on March 31st, 1894, were E669,104,024, and these were reduced in the succeeding twelve...

keeping the questions of the over-representation of Ireland and the misuse of the special facilities accorded to illiterates under the Ballot Act before the country. In a letter...

at the North Midland Poor-law Con- ference assembled at Derby, in the course of which he touched on the question of old-age pensions. After declaring that the matter was a very...

acknowledged a vote of thanks, he dwelt upon a subject which we have touched on in another column, and in effect, though not under that name, advocated, as we have done, the...

Division of Lincolnshire have lately clubbed together to found an institution for teaching all that can be taught in regard to dairying and cheese. making. This institution,...

New Consols (2-1 1 ) were on Friday, 107f.

has reopened the old controversy whether the Irish hierarchy would have thrown over Mr. Parnell even if the Non- conformist conscience had not been aroused, or whether they only...

con- tain :accounts of the loss of two important vessels caused by collision,— one a Spanish man-of-war, and the other a Dutch mail steamer. On Wednesday at midnight the Spanish...

fast. The Daily Telegraph of Tuesday pub- lishes a letter from an English gentleman high in authority in Uganda, in which he reports the evidence of a native - named Kadia, in...

few years ago the Chief Justice of Bombay—Sir Joseph Arnould, we think—had to settle a quarrel about a large revenue, the right to which depended upon the question whether a...

Our -evening contemporaries will, we believe, acknowledge that the reports of the Plaistow trial were sold like those of a great political event or of the race for the America...

move us much. Irishmen when they quarrel always wave papers which they threaten to publish if the other side does not take care, but somehow or other these terrible papers never...

S HREWD observers of Irish politics from behind the scenes have always prophesied that in the long-run the Irish clerical Home-rulers and the English Nonconformist Liberals...

FRANCE AND RUSSIA. T HE correspondent of the Times in Paris, who, in spite of his foibles, is an unusually keen-sighted and well-informed man, is, we fancy, endeavouring to warn...

W E know of few political problems more puzzling than the situation in Cuba. There seems to be little doubt as to the general facts. The information received in Europe, it is...

W E are not among those who think that any great good can come from writing about the agricultural depression. No amount of fine words will make two blades of corn grow where...

AV E sincerely hope that the Foreign Office is pressing the King of the Belgians very strongly to bring Captain Lothaire to a public trial for the execution of Mr. Stokes. If...

South African mining shares, has this year afforded a pleasant relief to the dullness and stagnation of business which generally prevails in the City throughout the autumn...

N O serious challenge seems to have been offered by the experts of the Economic Science and Statis- tical Section of the British Association to the view put forward in Mr. Edwin...

J T is difficult to exaggerate the importance of the subject which Mr. Flinders Petrie brought before the British Association last week in his paper on "Civilisation," and con-...

D O doctors and lawyers invariably keep the secrets in- trusted to them in their professional capacity,—or if not invariably, are the exceptions so insignificant as not to need...

Yet in the deep seas the inconceivable has been found to .exist; highly organised creatures live and are reproduced where no light penetrates, where no plants grow, in eternal...

A MONG the commonplaces of sentiment to which most of us give occasional utterance, one to which a more than common pathos and sincerity belong, is the lament that in the busy...

DEATH OF BOB,' THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY DOG. [To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Knowing your constant sympathy with the canine race, I venture to inclose some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sin,—My second daughter, aged twelve, is the patroness of cats—and indeed of all other quadrupeds in my establishment. During her absence the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Snt,—The story you give in the Spectator as told by one of the speakers at the meeting of the Catholic Truth Society at Bristol, reminds me...

Sin,—Having been a pupil of Professor Jowett's before he became Master of Balliol, I have read with interest the article in the Spectator of September 14th relating to myths...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have a fox-terrier whose idiosyncrasies excite much interest. Professor Lloyd Morgan, of University College, Bristol, chronicled the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I entirely agree with your hope, in the article in the Spectator of September 14th on "The Genesis of University Myth," that the higher...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin,—An Irish gentleman visiting here said to an English officer,—" Do you know Mr. —, of — " The officer disclaimed having that pleasure....

SIR,—In your interesting article on "The Genesis of Uni- versity Myth," in the Spectator of September 14th, a doubt is raised which I can fortunately set at rest. In my "Recol-...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Most of the specimens sent you by your correspondents' are rather malapropisms than genuine instances of absent- mindedness. The best...

"TWENTY YEARS IN KHAMA'S COUNTRY." Tms book has appeared opportunely at a moment when the attention of the British public is turned to the question of the duty of the Imperial...

that Mr. Murray's Handbook of Devon has reached its eleventh edition. The work is admirably done, it contains all that a tourist can need to know, and the subject is of...

Mn. PINERO is a most successful playwright ; there can be no doubt about that. Was not Sweet Lavender performed at Terry's Theatre for six hundred and eighty-three nights in...

the subject or the author of this work, when it is said that there are many pages in this memoir of the late Mr. Higinbotham, by his son-in-law, which are of little interest to...

EARLY in 1893—so she tells us in her preface—it occurred to Miss Billington that a series of letters on the status of Woman in India" would be acceptable to the readers of the...

has unpleasant associa- tions. One cannot help connecting it with irrelevant and misspelt "programs," with inverted and misapplied progress, and with Mr. Frederic Harrison's...

Two Suffolk Friends. By Francis Hindes Groome. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This little volume is a reprint, with additions, of two lively papers from Blackwood's Magazine, and the...

Arnold.)—Every one knows, or ought to know, what manner of critic Sainte-Beuve was. It is needless to attempt, at this time, any estimate of him. All that we have to do is to...

books, both of which show, in their different lines, a great amount of special knowledge. These are, Greek Dress, by Marion Millington Evans (Macmillan), and Ancient Ships, by...

and Co.)—This is a strange story, but, for all its strangeness, most distinctly effective. Margaret Deane is " converted " by a revivalist preacher, as we suppose he would be...

of letters written by the late Sir C. P. Beauchamp Walker, during a period of between twenty and thirty years' active service. Nearly half is occupied with letters from the...

the Greek Revolution" is, it seemed to us as we read, a little confused. An author may complicate a plot as much as he pleases, and prepare as many surprises as may be possible,...

Literature. By W. F. Kirby. 2 vols. (John C. Nimmo.)—Mr. W. F. Kirby tells us that in the course of his study of the Finnish epic " Kalevala," he was led to examine the...

Knapp. (Rivington and Percival.)—The range of this most interesting little volume goes beyond what is indicated by the word "Universities." Various other missions and clubs are...

admirable or edifying. It is curious to compare with them what we now find to be her true ideal,—that is to say, the nearest realisation that the circumstances of human life...

Africa, edited annually by A. Samler Brown and G. Gordon Brown for the Castle Mail Packets Company (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.); Clark's Guide to Cornwall, edited by G. R....

Rev. Spencer Robert Wigram, MA. Vol. I., "General and City Charters." (Clarendon Press, for the Oxford Historical Society.) —There is little to be said about this volume except...