P ARLIAMENT was dissolved on Wednesday, in a speech which, amid the turmoil of the Elections, has created very little interest. It is, indeed, only noteworthy for 'the unusual...

that the Afghan Sirdars, including Mahmoud Jan, were coming in to make some arrangements with Mr. Lyall, the Foreign Secretary, a man of most unusual ability, and not we...

how the borough Elections will go, though precise numbers will not be ascertained for ten days after that. Of course, every- body is prophesying, but the grounds for safe...

Saturday the subject of his address to the consti- tuency of North-East Lancashire, at Rawtenstall, and was ex- tremely amusing in his criticism. The Home Secretary, he said,...

not for his own seat, at least for the seat of his Tory colleague, Colonel Blackburne, which is much endangered by the candidature of Mr. William Rathboue for the same divi-...

ease.

of Mr. Bartley's candidature for Hackney, and took occasion to make some very pointed remarks indeed on the- tranquillity which we might now expect in foreign affairs, and the...

from coming off, and it was rowed on Monday instead, when the Oxford crew won by four lengths, rowing the course in 21 min. 22 sec., on a rather slack tide, which probably...

day, exposing the Tory trick of defending their policy by attributing a policy which never existed to their opponents, and then denouncing it. They resembled a lad of his...

has shown very different qualities indeed from Mr. Cross. It is difficult, we think, in the whole range of the electioneer- ing now going on, to surpass the following criticism...

Devon constituents was delivered at Barnstaple on Thursday.. It consisted of a very lame apology for his finance ; a very conciliatory passage about the Irish, combined with a...

House of Lords, raised by the Duke of Rutland, remarkable for the- extreme pains which Lord Beaconsfield took to conciliate - the farmers. After disposing of the Duke of...

out a point in the Conservative finance which has been hitherto -quite unobserved :—" I have been told," he said," that we made no allowance for the bad times on which the...

to a deputation of licensed victuallers. He told them that they were a thousand times more frightened than lurt by the local-option agitation ; that the end sought - would...

new men of promise, or men who show themselves likely to de- velope into statesmen. There are, however, a few candidates whom it would be well for the country, apart altogether...

a fanatic, said to be a Persian, and therefore a Sheah, • stabbed the Grand Shereef of Mecca, guardian of the holy places and the most sacred person in the Mussulman world, at...

--" The subject of the following poem is from the Orlandus ' of the author's friend, Kenelm Henry Digby ; and the liberty is taken of inscribing it to him, as an acknowledgment,...

in the matter of non-authorised religious Orders very much as we anticipated last week. They are going to call on the non- authorised Congregations to submit to the Government...

by the remarks which we made last week on the reasons why the clergy should or should not use their electoral influence for the Liberal cause. To all who are considering that...

THE ISSUE BETWEEN THE TWO PARTIES. I.—THE CONSERVATIVE CASE. T HERE is nothing to be gained either in war or negotiation by shutting one's eyes to the enemy's precise position,...

T O this defence of Lord Beaconsfield, thus moderately stated, we should reply as follows. In the first place, it is a gross misinterpretation of the true attitude of Mr....

I T is hardly possible for the country to exaggerate the political importance of the diametrical contradiction in the language now held by the leading members of the Govern-...

T HE devices adopted at this Election have not much novelty, though the amount of misrepresentation is, perhaps, unusual ; but one is frequently employed which we can- not...

M R. GLADSTONE has this week put the climax on his offences. He has presumed to reply to the Emperor of Austria, and to intimate that the Austrian Government, though far more...

IR. CROSS is delivering in Lancashire what must be, we A should think, the most marvellous series of bald electioneering speeches on record. The old idea of speech was that all...

I T is becoming very clear that the old fallacy, so triumphant hitherto at county elections, that the interests of land- lords and farmers are identical, and that the farmers...

T HE Clewer case is at last at an end, and the conclusion arrived at in the Court of Final Appeal is entirely con- sonant with common-sense. With the Judges of the Queen's Bench...

T HE next week will be one of white-heat. Those who have the truest insight into the significance of the ques- tions at issue between the two great parties in the State will...

T HE decision of the Court of Appeal in the case of " Debenham v. Mellor " is so contrary to popular belief as to the state of the law upon the subject, and will so greatly...

juncture, when the British people are called upon to decide on the policy to be adopted by them abroad, and when the Greek question—a question which has so naturally been...

THE " SPECTATOR:j SIR, — Your interesting article on the Clergy and the impending Election, in your issue cot to-day, seems to me (though, as a Conservative by conviction,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR-"] SIR,—Lord Beaconsfield's late—I must not say latest— electioneering stimulus, " the great gates of India," reminds me of the tomb, at...

CPO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.] Sia,—It is my fate to see a large number of country papers, and to read the frightful amount of senseless " bunkum " with which Conservative...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATC/R.”1 SIR, — As publishers of the above-named book, the new edition of which was reviewed by you with so much appreciation last week, will you...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.) Sin,—In your issue of March 13th, Mr. Harry Quilter reviews my article in the Coraltill, under the above title. Into the sup- posed...

SIR, — I trouble you with a few words, in reply to your anony- mous correspondent's strictures. If he meant his distempered floor to be protected by varnish and from soap and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Will you kindly permit us to announce through your- columns that, on the retirement of Mr. Holt, the charge of the Bill for the Total...

THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN. [W. E. GLADSTONE.—MARCH, 1/330.] CLEARER than the note of trumpet, pealing to the Islands forth, Borne upon the ringing echoes of the strong and...

I FOUND a fairy-land to-day, A wonder-world, not far away ; I crossed no seas, I climbed no heights, I spent no toilsome days nor nights ; I came not to it in my dreams, Nor...

THE LIFE OF THE PRINCE CONSORT.• [FIRST NOTICE.] SIR THEODORE MARTIN has completed his work, and completed it in a manner which has fairly entitled him to the honour• -...

IP there is any name which deserves a place among " English Men of Letters," it is that of Robert Southey. Hardly another instance can be mentioned of a man of equal genius who,...

THE writing of this book probably afforded its author gratifi- cation of an amiable kind, and doubtless it was put before the world without overweening expectations as to its...

(FIRST NOTICE.] Tax biography of Mr. Buckle has sent us back to the perusal of the History of Civilisation, and the perusal of that work has been the occasion of not a few...

WE consider that the chapter entitled " Introductory " is a great flaw, if it is not a blot, on an otherwise first-rate memoir of Turner of a popular kind. The two contrasted...

(Religions Tract Society.)—Mr. Kingston tells a very pleasant story of how the Lively' and the 'Dolphin ' sailed from Portsmouth west- ward, and approached it again from the...

Charles J. MacColla. (Pickering.)—It is to be regretted that the• author of this little volume has been caught by the passion for dull jokes, which seems to dominate all who...

Sons.)—A little volume of sensible advice about the choosing of materials for dress, the making, the repairing, and the keeping of it.. Mrs. Greennp, like a thousand moralists...

Co.)—A little volume full of plain practical directions for all who. are thinking of sending a lad to sea, or for lads who are themselves looking forward to that career. It...

The Cambridge Bible for Schools the Epistle to the Romans. Edited by Horace C. G. Moule, M.A. (The University Press, Cam- bridge.)—Mr. Monle is what may be called a " high "...

de Chitelain. (Griffith and Farran.)—This novel was first published twenty-four years ago, and had then a certain success, which was not undeserved. The story is a farce, rather...