held at Willis's Rooms on Wednesday last, at which the Chancellor of the Exchequer made the speech of the evening. He had to reply to a very violent speech from Mr. Chaplin,...

an arrangement by which he conceived that war might have been averted, men- tioned not long ago in the correspondence of the Daily Telegraph, Lord Derby made on Tuesday a most...

on April 24 which has given rise to unreasonable apprehension. He was asking for 105 extra captaincies, and stated that he did not believe in peace ; that this was a period of...

Asia and Europe. In Asia, they are threatening Kars, and a force, probably sent out to reconnoitre, has, the Turks say, been beaten back from Batonm with a loss of 800 men. In...

in which he points out that the Cabinets, though they had con- sidered what should be done if Turkey failed to make the reforms mentioned in the Protocol, had not considered the...

TrIHE Czar has declared war. It was reported last week that he would wait until he had returned to Moscow, but at Kis- cheneff he became aware of the impatience of his Army, and...

any case.

been the Home-rule question, which was brought into prominence before Tuesday's debate by a discussion as to the failure of the Home- rule party to carry Mr. Kay at Salford....

consider the whole question of Parliamentary Reporting, and especi- ally the expediency of an official and verbatim report of debates in the House of Commons. We have commented...

417 against it,—an increase of three for the Home-rulers since last year and of 126 against them. The English Members who voted for in- quiry were twelve in number,—Mr. Jacob...

South-African Confederation Bill, under which any Colonies or 'free States in South Africa which accept the Bill can federate themselves into a Dominion on the Canadian model....

Mr. Shaw, M.P. for Cork County, brought on the proposal for an inquiry into the Home-rule question on Tuesday, in a very able and studiously moderate speech, in which, after...

Hobart Pasha's position. On Friday week Lord Derby, attacked by the Earl of Camperdown, said Captain Hobart was restored because the reorganisation of the Turkish fleet was a...

to the Archbishop of Canterbury has been published, respecting the wish to see the legislative power of Convocation substituted for the elaborate historical disquisitions of the...

of forging cheques in order to further a scheme for plundering a French lady, Madame de Goncourt, of /10,000. They appointed her agent of a non-existent person, Mr. Andrew...

New Orleans, and the remaining members of the Republican State Legislature therefore deserted to the Democratic Legisla- ture, leaving the Governor almost alone in the State...

library of Lambeth Palace on Monday, April 23, to discuss the reform of the methods of charitable relief. And a very indistinct discussion it was. Two resolutions were declared...

for -gallant actions at sea, should be given also for such actions on land, and be distributed first of all to those engaged in the rescue of the miners at Pontypridd. One of...

a success , with,bis Burials Bill. Of course, he carried the second reading, but it was only by a majority of 39 (141 against 102), and severatof the Conservative Peers...

over again tin Thursday night, on occasion of the motion for going into C, 'ilea tee on the Oxford and Cambridge Universities' withou, t, result, though-the discussion showed a...

THE DECLARATION OF WAR. T HE most just and necessary war of our time has commenced. Through nearly two years of constant negotiation the Turkish Pashas have steadily refused to...

W E have criticised Lord Derby for his Laodieean foreign policy, but we fear the time may be at hand when we would give a great deal to have him as Laodicean as he was at the...

the point in their attacks on the leaders of Opposition. Their speeches during the Recess helped to prevent war on behalf of Turkey, not to hasten it, and were of the very...

T HE Home-Rule party is strong, but nevertheless it over- calculates its strength, and is not strong enough to wield the "beneficent whip,"—as it doubtless regards that thong...

is not a pleasing one to read. The subject is of extreme importance, great personages intervened in the discussion, the House was seriously interested, and there was a...

A DEBT of £100,000,000—one seventh of the National Debt, an annual expenditure of £26,000,000—one third of the national expenditure—liabilities increasing at the rate of...

SHAW-LEFEVRE has introduced into Parliament a 1.V.I Bill to restrict the power of entailing and settling land and other property, and has supported his proposal in a most able...

some of the theologians, are potential criminals, and certainly they can produce one argument for their melancholy belief. All men have a sort of intellectual liking, betrayed...

T HE Irish Synod has not carried through its revision of the Prayer-book without a rupture with one of its very ablest Bishops. The Bishop of Derry—perhaps, the ablest Bishop of...

W ILL no one explore Roraima, and bring us back the tidings which it has been waiting these thousands of years to give us ? One of the greatest marvels and mysteries of the...

on behalf of which it had versation which he had with General Ignatieff. The General de- anticipation should not be verified, Russia would be constrained clued that Russia could...

[TO THE EDITOR. OF THII "SPECTATOR"] Sra,—I have read with much interest your article of Saturday last on the mine accident at Pontypridd, and more particularly that portion of...

[To THE Eorros 01 THE SPECTATOR:] have been for many years a constant reader of the Spectator, and I must confess that it was with great regret that I read the article in last...

(TO TER EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Though I am not a supporter of the Government, I do not wish to see them unjustly assailed. The documents about the persecution of the...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THZ" SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your able article on " Belief " assumes incidentally that "the best way to evoke truthfulness in boys is uniformly to believe them, even...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE spacreroa:1 Sra,—As letters telling of dogs and their doings occasionally - appear in the Spectator, perhaps the following rather pathetic- anecdote of a...

(To TIM EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin„—Your courtesy will, I am sure, allow me to occupy a small space in your columns for the purpose of proving that the epigram assigned in...

THE SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS. THIS is a more than usually satisfactory Exhibition, and we notice with pleasure that some of the very oldest members of the Society,...

THE UNKNOWN EROS, AND OTHER ODES.* Tins remarkable volume of poems, which appears without preface or the author's name, is singularly unlike much of the poetry which has of...

Is spite of its unfortunate title, which is calculated to repel the dis- creet reader of fiction, this is a clever, and in some respects a re- markable book. We confess that we...

Trim is a disappointing book. The reader opens it expecting to find a collection of anecdotes and amusing stories different to w those which crop up in Campbell's Lives of the...

IT is not very easy to determine whether this clever squib be meant for anything more than a clever squib or not. That some of the leading Oxonians of the latitudinarian or more...

Son.)—The three sketches which form Lady Herbert's latest contribu- tion to popular Catholic literature, are derived from the Abbe Bougaud's " Histoire de Ste. Monique," and two...

short addresses delivered at mid-day celebrations of the Holy Communion in the Church of which Dr. Evans is rector. Hence they are necessarily brief and fragmentary, suggestive...

Windns.)—There is a great deal too much of this novel, and the author has only a feeble and imperfect notion of constructing a plot. Never- theless the book is very readable,...

The Civil Service Orthography: a Handy-Book of English Spelling. By E. S. H. B. (Crosby Lockwood and Co.)—Here is an ingenious effort to overcome the greatest difficulty which...

be in various respects an improvement on most dictionaries already in use in this country. Among other things, the differences between separable and inseparable verbs, which...

Son.)— These stories, or "studies," as their author rather affectedly calls them, are reprinted from the Temple Bar Magazine. They are neither better nor worse than the stories...

and Adams.)—This is meant to be a popular summary of the history of the Christian Church from its first beginning down to the Reformation. It is merely a compilation, and has a...

Professors Cassel and Karcher, may rank among the best works of the kind ever published in this country. It contains selections from all those modern French poets who constitute...

Sermon. By Marcus Dods, D.D. (John Mackinlay, Glasgow.)—A very remarkable sermon, which seems to show—if we are right in attributing it to a minister of the Free Kirk—that the...

Rothe.)— This "bunch of hutting flowers" is an envelope, filled with delicately painted flower-cards, each containing not only a painted bouquet, but a sentence from Shakespeare...

"sixth. edition" of Mr. Kinglake's Invasion of the Crimea (Blackwood). It con- tains the account, such an account as no battles but those of the Crimea have ever had, of the...