T HE Vienna correspondent of the Standard vouches for a story which, if true, is the strongest testimony yet received to the genuineness of the German Emperor's desire for...

A plot has been discovered to seize the arsenal at Foochow, and it is believed that even Shanghai, the greatest of the ports open to foreigners, is threatened. The agitation is...

from the Liberal side, but the speech he delivered at Cam- bridge on Monday is not very satisfying. He satirised the Liberal Unionists, and prophesied their extinction, and...

lohe and Count Munster, has decreed the relaxation of the passport rules in Alsace-Lorraine. Indeed, except as against soldiers, they may be said to be abolished. They were im-...

last he executed himself with a revolver. It appears that after his defeat he fled from Santiago, hoping to reach one of his steamers at a point along the coast. The steamer,...

case.

been appointed Postmaster General. The appointment is probably as good a one as could have been made at the moment, for there is no inspired administrator available, and Sir...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, October 10th, will be issued, -gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

for splitting . Queensland into three Home-rule Provinces, with a united Central Government., which Sir Samuel Griffith recently laid upon the table of the Assembly. It is...

He helped greatly to improve the condition of the Navy, and now he wants to improve that of the Army. He declares that :—" Our cavalry are without horses, our artillery without...

Hull, Mr. Tom Mann delivered his presidential address. There has been an improvement in their condition, but many of the dockers, he declares, are still at times called on to...

A letter addressed by the Pope to the Archbishops and Bishops in the German Empire and in Austria-Hungary, condemning the practice of duelling. The Pope condemns duelling as not...

Suffolk, held in furtherance of his son's candidature. After praising Lord Salisbury for the successful apportionment of unappropriated Africa which he had carried through, Lord...

shore, and without the aid of ships, was tested on Monday night, when four hired steamers, representing a hostile fleet, attempted to raid the Port of London. At 9 o'clock, the...

Stoke,' the elephant sent by the Queen to the Sultan of Morocco, was presented to that Potentate. The Sultan was in camp, and the elephant was, therefore, marched into the...

to introduce a sort of bastard hull-fighting into Belgium. A rough wooden bull-ring has been erected at Spa, and here on Sunday last a wretched bull, who, as the Times'...

to the test in London. Colonel Desmond has Veen informed, on behalf of his spiritual superiors, that his acceptance of Mr. Stuart Cumberland's challenge cannot be allowed, and...

though by no means quite, unique in the annals of crime, and which will greatly perplex the Judges. A coroner's jury has affirmed that Samuel Crawford, nine years old, and...

in the Bangabasi case. The jury, it will be re- membered, disagreed, andthe defendant, who had been accused of seditious writing, was not convicted, but the conductors of the...

the City during the last ten years has increased at a rate which is positively astounding. According to the City Press of Wednesday, the profits assessed to income-tax under...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday'941 to 941.

W E cannot see what object the Times had in printing its Monday's article on " The Liberal Unionist Position by a Conservative M.P.," unless it was to show how foolishly the...

MR. MORLEY AT CAMBRIDGE. M R. MORLEY has been the first Liberal of Cabinet rank to break the silence of the Recess, and his speech will have been read by thousands eager to...

essential differ- ences between things English and Irish than the fight over the Freeman Journal that has been raging during the past month—a fight which has ended in the dis-...

W E spoke last week of the nervousness of the Con- tinent ; but England also, at least England as represented in the journals, is in a fidgety mood. There is a readiness to...

T HE Gladstoniansthink they can capture the counties 1 by the aid of the villagers' votes, and are diligently spreading the idea that the villagers have many grievances, and...

the House of Lords, of all Charges, Fees, First-Fruits, and Tenths, and other payments made by Archbiihops and Bishops since January 1st, 1885, disposes of a popular delusion....

having accepted the office of Lord-Justice-General' —by his promotion the House of Commons loses a very- keen and agile, if also somewhat dapper and occasionally flippant...

NV E find ourselves often a little perplexed to trace the cause of incredulity among the cultivated. Credhlity without reason always seems intelligible, for we set it down to...

M R. BESANT will probably find plenty of people to agree with him when he says, as he does in his " Voice of the Flying Day," that after some six weeks of country solitude there...

T HE sustaining hope of the discoverer of the unknown is seldom wholly vague or visionary. No man, as a rule, breaks into a new world by accident or hap-hazard. New - worlds, or...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The landlords of Ireland, past and present, have of late been subjected to so much unjust censure, that I ask per- mission to suggest...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT FOR IRELAND. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—Allow me to correct an error in your note in the Spectator of September 19th, giving the substance of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The letter in the Spectator of September 19th on this fascinating topic, based on Mr. Haliburton's paper at the Oriental Congress,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The experiment of converting the child Raja of an uncivilised people into " a brown Englishman," has already been at least once tried,...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I have read with much interest your article on this sub- ject, in which you state that men of the physique and vigour of Sir Richard...

Sra,—It seems to me that the theory, identified with Kant's name, of the subjectivity, or unreality, of time and space is rendered almost infinitely improbable by the doctrine...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You sometimes, I think, record local survivals of generally obsolete words. One such I chanced on here the other day. An old woman,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—To your correspondent's quotations touching the nature and duration of Time, may be added the words of Harry Percy, the man of action,...

FRANCE BEFORE THE REVOLUTION.* IN these two remarkable volumes, we have a study of public and private life in France during the reigns of Louis XIV., • La France sous l'Ancien...

ANXIETY. THOU infant sister of more dread Despair, Chill visitant of every troubled heart, Who, stealing on us from we know not where, Will all unwelcome play thy impish part...

OF Mr. Kipling so very much is already expected, that several critics and friends have taken the wise precaution of dis- counting any disappointment that the public may...

To understand the history of the Isle of Thanet is to under- stand bow completely man is at the mercy of the elements, and of water in particular. In the case of the ancient...

OPINIONS differ as to the beauty of Palestine, but none have returned from Jerusalem, the Dead Sea, and the Lake of Tiberias, without feeling the fascination of the plains, the...

As a matter of course, the now numerous novels of Mr. F. Marion Crawford vary somewhat in excellence ; but few novelists of' any distinction have preserved b. more constant...

who writes an interesting introduction to this volume, tells us how it came into existence. A series of articles appeared in a Dublin newspaper on " Irish Graves in England,"...

daughter of an Austrian officer who has married a Venetian young lady, very much against the wishes of her family, who were all ardent patriots. Von Hochwald falls into disgrace...

A Literary Manual of Foreign Quotations. Compiled by John Devoe Belton. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—This is a really good book. The author has selected with judgment 'from the mass...

edition. (G. Allen, Orpington.)—This new edition of lectures delivered at Edinburgh in 1853, has, we think, been printed without alteration. Mr. Ruskin sometimes modifies his...

and New York.)—This is one of the series of American Statesmen," of which some twenty, including Wash- ington, J. Q. Adams, Monroe, Jefferson, Daniel Webster, and Henry Clay,...

edition of a book of Herodotus cannot do better than use this volume. A wonderful amount of information, grammatical, philological, historical, and archteological, is given in...