On Monday he assumed his former place below the gangway, and when the House called for him, rose with some reluctance, to state that he could not now agree with his former...

T HE situation in Egypt is extremely critical. Arabi is still at Kafrdawar, about fourteen miles from Alexandria, and the number of his troops is said to be increasing daily....

almost the whole European quarter has been burnt to the ground, and a great part of the native quarter ; but the Khedive, it is said, still hesitates to issue the proclamation...

for the moment of irritable and suspicious but determined qui- escence, in relation to the Egyptian crisis. That attitude, however, has changed, M. de Freyeinot having been sud-...

Note of the Six Powers, asking for its intervention in Egypt to restore order, has replied. by simply intimating its willingness to come at last into Conference, and discuss the...

case.

new credit would be asked for, for the protection of the Suez Canal. And on Wednesday, M. Cldmenceo.0 having spoken in favour of the European concert, as distinguished from the...

having "reverted to that co-operation with England which at one time he seemed inclined to abandon." The convention just concluded with England for the protection of the Suez...

Healy having called the Irish landlords " a set of thieves," and again having accused them of " robbing their tenants," it was moved, but not carried, that the words be taken...

the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland (inoluding even Arch- bishop Croke and Bishop Nulty), has just been published, in which they say that, in obedience to the Sacred Congre-...

special meeting of the Vauxhall Ward Conservative Associa- tion, in Seuth Lambeth, making the chief subject of their in- vective the Egyptian policy of the Government. "The same...

gests positiveness ; and positiveness, as we all learned iu our youth, too often implies the disposition to assert strongly, by way of making up for deficiency of evidence....

on a Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the Agricultural Tenants Compensation Bill, and it was shown, • as a precedent, that Baron Rothschild. was appointed...

Czar, that being interested in the operations of some labourers at work in the park at Poterhoff, he beckoned one of them, who at once ran towards him, but before reaching him,...

Crawford and Balcarres was discovered in the grounds of Dunecht, and not farther, it is said, than ten yards from the public road, nor above 500 yards from the great house...

generally understood to have been one of the ablest private secretaries a Minister ever had, has been appointed a Commis- sioner of Inland Revenue. Between 1865 and 1875, Mr....

the Hammer- smith Police-court, deserves the attention of those charitable societies which provide the boys or girls whom they befriend with clothes. It has hitherto been held...

for our inadequate estimate of the number of evictions in Ire- land. Indeed, Mr. Gladstone was roughly attacked at the same time, for not indicating clearly how numerous those...

of the greater companions of his early life, seems to be the most curious " note " of the amusing book which Mr. Mozley has just published. This , characteristic is illustrated...

OUR POLICY IN EGYPT. T HE Government will hardly have much difficulty on Monday in justifying the request for a Vote of Credit for the cost of our operations in Egypt ; and...

IT has been said that our century bas lost the gift of i dignity,—or rather, that the Western world has lost t ; for the East has never lost it, but seems to retain it by way...

B Y Mr. Bright's resignation, the Cabinet is reduced to twelve Members, of whom one, Lord Spencer, can, from the nature of his duties, hardly ever be present, though he is, of...

I T is too soon, as yet, to weigh accurately the many military lessons which the Bombardment of the Alexandrian Forts will doubtless teach. The data are imperfect and...

F ROM the moment that Mr. Justice Chitty gave judgment in the Prestbury Ritual case, there could be no doubt that the defendant would appeal. What the Ritualists want, before...

W E should not have thought that this question required an answer, but for the attempt which is being made in various quarters to fasten the imputation of Jingoism on the...

M R. RICHARD HERNE SHEPHERD has brought out two largely padded-out volumes which he entitles, "The Plays and Poems of Charles Dickens," *—plays and poems which could certainly...

46 faut traitor notre vie comme nous traitons nos (Snits; mettre en accord, en harmonie, le commencement, le milieu, et In fin," is a maxim of Jonbert's which suggests, first,...

TUE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR,"] SIR, — I have read your article on the Salvation Army in this week's Spectator with much interest and very g eneral agree- ment. It recognises...

MR. RUSSELL, M.P., AND THE PREVENTION OP CRIMES ACT. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, — As you do me the honour to mention my name several times in your recent article...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPHOTATOR.1 SIR,—The prevailing soundness of the opinions advanced in your valuable paper, and, their consequent general acceptance by your readers,...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." j SIE, — In the Spectator for June 17th appeared a review of Mr. Warner's recent memoir of Washington Irving, in which the statement is made...

('re THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sm,—Your article of July 8th, and Sir Charles Gavan Duffy's letter to the Times, to which you allude in your last issue, are both excellent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It is a matter of regret to me that I was not informed of the existence of a window commemorating Gray in the College hall at...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " BPECTATOR."] SIR, —Your article of July 15th on " Solicitors and the Public " invites comment. The question is,--What is a standard of efficiency for...

ET o THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] &it, — Will you kindly permit me to say, in reference to an in- troductory remark in the review of " Spinoza" in the number of the Spectator...

FANNY KEMBLE'S RECORDS OF LATER LIFE.t Mts. KEIS1BLE'S Records of Later Life is a book of great interest, but it is not a good autobiography. The records which the reader cares...

A TRANSLATION FROM ADAM OP ST. VICTOR. Polchra, prudens, et illustris, Jam duobus Agnes lustris Addebat triennium Proles amat hang Prnfecti, Bed ad ejus virgo flecti Respuit...

to expect from this book. " Wandering" ought certainly to be taken here in Goethe's wider meaning, which is found in the Wander/care. There can be no pleasanter task than to...

Boons of travel may be divided into two classes, the literary and the business-like. The typical examples of the first class owe such value as they may have primarily to manner,...

A 'VENERABLE Free-kirk Edinburgh minister is reported to have held the following colloquy with one of his sons, at the family supper-table on a certain " sabbath " night :—"...

the writer of an able, if not a convincing work on the authorship of the De Imitations Christi. Incidentally, though not always briefly, he touches on the same subject in the...

'Tuts little book is one of a class that is very acceptable just now. It is a translation of a semi-popular work by the great French electrician, Du Moncel, and may be...

Tux title of this work is somewhat misleading, unintentionally so, perhaps, on the author's part. It suggests an intimate personal * With the Boers In the Transvaal and Orange...

SERMONS.—The Divine Patriot, and other Sermons, preached in Scarborough and in Cannes. By R. F. L. Blunt, D.D., Archdeacon of the East Riding, Vicar of Scarborough. (Kogan Paul...