warned beforehand or not, at once seized his opportunity. He mobilised the Bulgarian Army, started for Philippopolis and proclaimed himself " Prince of Northern and Southern...

T WO rumours of grave importance were in circulation on Friday. One, vouched for by the Standard, was that the Continental. Powers, alarmed by the situation in Eastern Europe,...

roughly exposed this week. Lord Beaconsfield, it will be remembered, during the Conference at Berlin insisted that Bulgaria should be divided into two,—a State called Bulgaria...

that it had no part in the Roumelian revolution. The Russian General in Bulgaria has resigned, all Russian officers have thrown up their commissions, and the Russian Press has...

Con- stantinople, and the air has, of course, ever since been full of rumours, the most important being that the Sultan had ordered 32,000 men into South Bulgaria, that...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPECTATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The Twelfth of...

any case.

effect upon Sir Stafford Northcote. It has diminished hi fear of making a joke in public. By nature one of the most numorous of men, he has been remarkable among English public...

place, to restore tribal ownership in the Highlands, declaring what is no doubt historically true, that originally the clan, and not the chid, owned the soil, and desiring...

His speech at St. Leonard's on Friday week on behalf of Mr. lades- wick, though moderate, and in some passages cautionary—for example, he deprecated making any promises which...

The Whigs call it vague, the Radicals over-cautious, and the Tories crafty; but all alike admit that it has healed fends. Mr. Goschen praises it ; Mr. Chamberlain, though he...

made an important statement. He had, he said, pro- posed three things—(l), that taxation should be readjusted so as to produce equality of sacrifice among all classes,—that is,...

im- portant journals, that the Elections will be postponed until next year. We do not believe a word of it, for this self-evident reason. There was a clear understanding between...

sharp sentences condemning the Liberal vacillations in Egypt, and a declaration that Lord Salisbury would not leave that country until the ends of its occupation had been...

both Germany and Spain agree to submit the question of the ownership of the Carolinas to the Pope for arbitration. The word to be employed is, however, " mediation." The...

England loses a good servant and Italy the most devoted of friends. Familiar with Courts, an easy man of the world, and a finished diplomatist, Sir James had in him the passion...

They say that this winter rents will not be paid without evictions, and that evictions will be impossible through the strength of the National League. The Committees affiliated...

The Superior of Foreign Missions in Paris states that during the summer the natives rose against the missionaries and their converts in all parts of the country, and massacred...

a judgment the lucidity and force of which will greatly raise his standing in his profession, has decided that the new Registra- tion. Act does not of itself enable...

problem of steering a balloon has at length been solved. Two aeronauts, MM. Renard and Krebs, ascended on Tuesday and Wednesday, and in the presence of the Minister of War...

of St. Andrews, Professor of Poetry at Oxford, and one of the best critics Scotland has produced. He had a most sensitively delicate appreciation of poetry, and many of his...

passed a resolution declaring that " Moral responsibility does not exist; but society has a right to guard itself against criminals and madmen." That is the first time, we...

Consols were on Friday 99ffr to 9911.

MR. GLADSTONE'S MANIFESTO. A LL the criticisms passed by both parties upon Mr. Gladstone's Manifesto resolve themselves into a sentence. It is not, those who depreciate it say,...

T HE revolution in Roumelia is not in itself and by itself an important one. The clause in the Treaty of Berlin which divided Bulgaria in two was considered by Lord Beacons-...

W E most deeply and sincerely regret the attitude which, to all appearance, Mr. Chamberlain has definitively taken up. If it does not deprive the Liberal Party of his aid,— and...

T HE Irish peasantry seem to have discovered that a weapon need not be any the less effectual because it is not deadly. There has of late been a decided revival of outrages in...

T HE police, like fire, are good servants but bad masters. When they are protecting our property from disappear- ance or our persons from violence, they are doing their proper...

that a friend who interests them has developed the Nobody will suspect us of having any sympathy with the passion—for it is a passion—of meaningless extravagance. doctrines of...

U NDER the new dispensation, Lancashire is singular among counties in having but one borough disfranchised —Clitheroe, an ancient yet insignificant town, which, unless a wide...

I N all trials which, like the extraordinary bigamy case now being tried at the Central Criminal Court, turn upon the evidence for and against identity, we notice an unusual...

M IMES have certainly changed since Dr. Pole, some five years and a half ago, argued in the Contemporary Beview against the practice of signalling for trumps, which, he con-...

CROSSING THE ATLANTIC. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) September 4th. "A MIIG-WIIMP !" I should like to ask you, Sir—not as Editor, not even as English gentleman, but simply as...

[Mr. Impey's reply to the Duke of Argyll has unhappily arrived too late for insertion in this number of the Spectator.] THE STATE AND THE CHURCH. fTe THE EDITOR OF THE "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sta,—In Mr. Chamberlain's speech at Inverness, as reported in the Times of Saturday, he repeats the attacks on Political Economy which have...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." ] SIN—Encouraged by Mr. Lee Warner's letter, may I request you to allow a reminder to your readers of the reforms advocated by the Church...

offer a few remarks, founded on the article in the Spectator of September 12th, on " The Church and the New Voters." So far as my own experience goes, over a pretty wide field...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article of September 5th, on the Cheshire accident, you say,—" We never met a human being of any race, not being essentially...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I have read your article on Electric Lighting with interest, and fully agree that the charges of the various Companies at present...

" SPECTATOR." J SLR, In 1880 you inserted a letter from, me which went the rounds of the Press, and has been quoted several times publicly by prominent Liberals, in which I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Mr. Gladstone remarks, in his address, that " according to the habits of this country a contribution towards the cost of the article...

WHY FRANCE CANNOT COLONISE.* " Tins is all very well, gentlemen," said Napoleon to his Generals, after the crowning victory of Austerlitz, " but it is not enough. We must have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The translator of Victor Hugo's beautiful verse, in your issue of September 19th, scarcely respects his original text suffi- ciently. I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EIPECTATOR."] Sin,—In the Spectator of September 19th you quote from Mr. Macgregor's poems about Brazil the expression, " God-feeding cacao plants,"...

VICTOR HUGO'S VERSE. SoYoNs comme l'oiseau pose pour an instant Sur des rameaux trop freles ; Qui sent trembler la branche, mais qui chant pourtant, Sachant gull a des...

this book," says Mr. Clodd in his opening chapter, " is to show that in what is for convenience called myth lie the germs of philosophy, theology, and science, the begin- nings...

THE general feeling, we suspect, among readers of these volumes will be that Lady Hobart has not gone quite the right way to work in perpetuating the memory of her husband, whom...

Daniels Cortis is a work which has attracted a good deal of attention in Italy, and one which should have a great interest also for English readers, not only from the intrinsic...

volume by saying that four-fifths of its 548 pages are prolegomena, and one-fifth a sketch or summary of the History of Israel and of Judaism, constructed from the materials...

English Student-Life at Peking. By a Student-Interpreter. (W. H. Allen and Clo.)—The author is quite right in thinking the "personal element" indispensable in a book of this...

Marsh, has undoubtedly established her claim to be considered one of the first of the school of fiction to which it belongs, and which depends for its interest solely on a...

E. Norris. 3 vols. (Smith and Elder.)—Mr. Norris has collected here some stories which, with one exception, the first, has been already pnblished in the Corn- hill Magazine....

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Kameham4 ha, the founder of a dynasty of kings, was certainly a remarkable man, the Napoleon of the Pacific, whose con- quests might have been...

Henry Clarke, M.A. (Swan Sonnensohein and Co.)- Isocrates deserves to be much more generally read. His Greek is singularly pare and graceful, and he throws a flood of light upon...