apparently bent on making the Consular inquiry a farce, and meantime there are reports of fresh outrages. On Friday the Times published a telegram from their Hong-kong cor-...

correspondents with the Madagascar Expedition, which seem to show that the troops are suffering greatly from disease and depression. The correspondent of the Autaritg calculates...

of Daly, the dynamiter, for the City of Limerick, in which Mr. Healy fought a losing battle with more astute- ness than sagacity, supporting Mr. Harrington's amendment to Sir...

the help of the Speaker, the Address in reply to the Queen's speech was voted on Monday after only three nights' debate. Yesterday week was Mr. Healy's night, when that...

T HERE is no fresh news to report as regards Armenia, except that the Porte has not yet yielded, and that Lord Salisbury's warning has not proved so immediately effective as was...

case.

time of the House for Government business ; a motion which, after a little not very formidable discussion on two or three mild amendments, which were all rejected, he carried by...

Com- mittee on the Civil Service Estimates, Mr. Balfour rose and On Tuesday, when the House was about to go into Com- mittee on the Civil Service Estimates, Mr. Balfour rose...

in the House of Commons on Wednesday on the Foreign Office vote. The most interesting points raised were connected with East Africa. Sir Charles Dilke pointed out the...

Parliament and others interested in Swaziland, with reference to the alleged grievances against the Boers. Mr. Howard Langston, "Chief Secretary for the Swazi nation...

Charles Dilke returned to the question of the administra- tion of Colonial dependencies by the Foreign Office, and again urged that the African protectorates should be placed...

South Africa to edit the Cape Times, prints in the weekly issue of July 24th a most interesting interview with President Kruger, of the Transvaal. " Oom Paul" is furious....

on the question of Foreign Office versus Colonial Office administration, or on the slavery problem. He virtually avoided the subjects. We trust that this "means that the...

of Reviews has collected some amusing examples of Election placards. Much the most effective, in our opinion, was that issued in Inverness, describing "What the Liberal Govern-...

national Co-operative Congress in the rooms of the Society of Arts. After pointing out that the English Co-operative Societies distribute annually between £4,000,000 and...

8 o'clock on Thursday evening. Mr. G. J. Symons, F.R.S., writing to yesterday's Times, reports that he himself had chronicled 667 flashes of lightning between 8 and 9 o'clock...

Wolseley is to be the new Commander.in-Chief, and that he will enter upon his duties at the beginning of November, the Duke of Cambridge desiring to retain office for another...

an able and temperate plea for Liquor Law Reform. He points out that all the Pablic-house Reform Association asks for is a fair trial of their scheme for local management. They...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday, 107196--107*.,

tradeat the meeting of the Cobden Club last Saturday, and a very excellent address it was on the whole, though on one or two minor points we differ from him, as we have...

the work done has not been of a very sensational kind, or of a nature which makes it largely understood by the public, it is believed by the experts to have been exceptionally...

week of Mr. Thomas Ellis, the Gladstonian Whip, as Mr. John Ellis,—a very different politician.]

FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND EGYPT. W E publish in our correspondence columns an able and temperate letter from Mr. Hodgson Pratt dealing with the subject of France, England, and...

IN R. T HEALY is looming rather larger in the ranks of A. the Irish party. He has always been a man of mark in the party, partly because he is a shrewd lawyer, partly because he...

NV HENEVER it is contended that, emphatic as has been the declaration of the "predominant partner" at the recent Elections in favour of the Union, the mass of Irish people have...

Gazette to classify and analyse the replies given to their questions by the accepted and rejected candidates of their party, we are not sure that we are very much the wiser. No...

A MEETING of the Cobden Club is one of those happy occasions on which politicians may cease to be partisans. The doctrines which this institution still finds it necessary to...

might be expected in the organ of Mr. Stewart Headlam, is an ecclesiasti- cal Cave of Adullam, has opened its columns to a certain Dr. Thackeray, who is making ample use of them...

A DISCUSSION has been going on in the United States, of which Mr. Stead gives a résumé in the current number of his quarterly Borderland, on the question of the intrinsic...

an ingenious little article on over-emphasis. The writer, Mr. Nisbet, makes the text of his discourse the five-line whip which is issued to Members of Parliament by both sides....

"The Wanderer," that very tedious novel of Madame d'Arblay's decadent period, there is at least one exquisite t hing,—the reason given by the man of fashion for not coming to...

FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND EGYPT. [To IRE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You have very properly called attention in recent articles to the serious character of our relations with...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 you allow me to make one criticism on your admirable article on the Armenian question, in the Spectator of August 10th? You deprecate any...

LTO THE EDITOR Or ME SPECTATOR."] SIR,—We have heard something lately, and shall probably hear a great deal more, about the redistribution of Church revenues. By common consent...

cm THY EDITOR 07 TIM "SPICIATOR."] Sin,—The following text I have seen on a grave-board in Okewood Churchyard, Surrey :—" The Lord hath need of him." This quotation from the...

[To TIIE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—I often see interesting letters in the Spectator about dogs, and I thought perhaps your readers might care to hear about the best-known...

[To THZ EDITOR 07 THE " SrscrArou."] SIR,— Some little time ago it was stated in an article in the Spectator that, although the Catholic Church invariably re- ordains all...

[To THZ EDITOR 07 TEl " Sracrwroa.") SIR,—In your interesting notice, in the Spectator of August 17th, of Mr. Jackson's "Great Frozen Land," your reviewer takes exception to...

[To TER EDITOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR.] SIR,—The insertion of a letter from a dead correspondent might probably be a bizarrerie unfit for the Spectator. And the Spectator would never...

QUARR ABBEY RUINS, (CISTERCIAN, WHITE MONKS), NEAR BINSTEAD, ISLE OF WIGHT. Nobile Mud monaaterinm Camerarim."—Ass. MONABT. Low level with the sward, the grey-green tide In...

SIR ROBERT SANDEMAN.* THE character and career of Sir Robert Sandeman, as clearly set forth in Mr. T. H. Thornton's full and authoritative memoir, possess so powerful an...

a woman, and a very clever woman, though she is sometimes too clever by half. She has a passion for being paradoxical, and is often • Wilderonoor. A Nord. Bentley .Bz Ih r...

THERE exist many preconceived notions as to each particular form of art being specially adapted to the expression of a particular class of impressions or emotions. But the...

COLONEL MAUDE shrewdly remarks in his interesting book on Madagascar, that it is certain that the world in general would be more likely to take an interest in what is going on...

warfare it is pleasant to take up a book on monetary matters which is written neither in defence of the gold standard nor of the double standard, nor, as far as we can judge, of...

THE latest addition to the series of biographies entitled Public Men of To-Day" has a special and tragic interest of its own. Mr. Beaman wrote of a living man, who, though in...

Story of Africa and its Explorers, by Robert Brown, M.A. (Cassell and Co.)—This is the fourth volume, and deals with "Europe in Africa—Colonies and Colonists –the Scramble for...

Australasia. Vol. II.: Malaysia and the Pacific Archipelagoes By F. H. H. Guillemard, M.A. (E. Stanford.)—This volume belongs to the new issue of "Stanford's Compendium of Geo-...

son and Co.)—This is a good, wholesome story of the old-fashioned sort, without the "New Woman," the "New Morality," or the "New Humour," and so neither vicious nor tedious....

the time is not come, and will not come for some years, for writing a real biography of the late Czar, there is plenty of room for a book of this kind. Mr. Lowe knows much about...

Zhob Field-Force, as it turned ont, had very little fighting to do. It was too formidable for. the tribesmen who had provoked, the expedition to resist, and theZhob country...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Dr. Prestwich has collected here six articles, the first of them from the Nineteenth Century, the second from the Journal of the Geological Society, the...

Press.)—This volume is a sequel to the same editor's volume of the Odyssey. His work has been purely critical, a conscientious and laborious effort to present a correct text....

Stone, D.D. (G. W. Jacob, Philadelphia.)—Dr. Stone is an American clergyman who describes, not without enthusiasm, what he saw in Derbyshire, its human dwellings, civil as well...

U.A. (A. D. Innes.)—We do not remember to have seen a col- lection of translations more uniformly good than these, between thirty and forty in number, that Mr. Innes has brought...

Constable and Co.)—Every one has probably heard, and most have probably repeated, the saying that if the English were to leave India, the sole monuments of their sway would be...

Biographical Notes, by the Rev. Robert Barlow Gardiner, M.A. (Bell and Sons.)—The little that can be said of a volume of this kind cannot possibly be an adequate acknowledgment...

(Osgood, McIlvaine, and Co.)—These are sketches of West Indian life and West Indian character, mostly of a disagreeable kind. Very likely Mr. Trowbridge is holding up the mirror...

Salt. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Salt, probably known to many of our readers by his "Life of Thoreau," now gives us extracts from his writings. His five books, "A Week on the...