O N Wednesday it was announced that Spain had opened negotiations for peace. The method of approach was as foalows. The French Ambassador, M. Carabon, " acting on behalf of the...

to the Prince of Wales have been favourable. It is arranged that he will leave London to-day for Cowes, where he will live on board the Osborne.' Though the public anxiety in...

the Navy Estimates, introduced his supplementary programme. The original programme was for three battleships, four cruisers, and four sloops. The new proposal is to build, in...

con- siderable extent be influenced by the trend of public opinion cannot be doubted, and public opinion just now, we are glad to see, is setting dead against the terms which...

the Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations, and therefore a person of weight in international affairs, delivered a speech of great importance in regard to the relations of the...

From Cuba we learn that the arrangements are being completed for transporting the Santiago troops to Spain in the vessels of a Spanish company. It is also stated that General...

case.

Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday afternoon. Some of his evidence was of a very sensational kind. Pressed as to what he gave "the chairman of his directors," Lord De la Warr, Mr....

raised a question of privilege, which, in fact, involves the most impor- tant right of Members of Parliament,—the right of absolute free speech and of being able to say what...

Shipping Bill was under discussion, Mr. Ritchie made an interesting announcement. He proposed to add a new clause to the Bill under which an allowance would be paid to...

though he said some exceedingly true things, was not, on the whole, very effective or very judicious. He was possibly right in saying that in the case of war the country would...

British Medical Association was held in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening, Sir T. Grainger Stewart giving the inaugural address. Naturally enough, the president spoke strongly of our...

very well when he asked him squarely whether he was or was not in favour of our keeping pace with our rivals among foreign Powers. Mr. Goschen made another good point when he...

to the office of Governor-General of Canada in succession to Lord Aberdeen. Lord Minto, who is fifty-three, is the great- grandson of the Indian Governor-General. He was...

as to cause any very great alarm. For example, Wednesday's bulletin published by the Hamburgiseher Correspondent states " To-day he has partaken of caviare, eggs, and scraped...

Wednesday, outdid himself in boisterous irre- sponsibility and irrelevance. The people of East Hertfordshire were in a state of blissful and rural ignorance. They were under the...

the Royal College of Surgeons and Sir William Broadbent— in fact the heads of the medical profession—have sent to the Press a most important communication on the prevention of...

was published on Tuesday. The delegates report that their German, Austrian, Dutch, and Belgian colleagues were in favour of a complete suppression of the bounties, but that the...

majority of 694. Even after making allowance for the great local popularity of Mr. Palmer, who polled 4,600 votes against 3,906 given for Mr. Keyser—the Socialist, Mr. Quelcb,...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 111.

AMERICA AND THE TERMS OF PEACE. W E are by no means to be numbered among those who think that peace is likely to come quickly. The Spaniards may be perfectly sincere in their...

not do something strong in China, and because they allow Russia to have her own way at Pekin, goes on as loudly as ever. So widespread, indeed, is this dissatis- faction with...

M R.bleKTNLEY is the only English-speaking man who is invested with the powers of a Sovereign within a first-class State. That position of itself makes him an object of great...

with reference to the Mullingar Union are of more importance than at the first glance might appear. The particular incident which called forth the Resolution of Mr. Patrick...

T IIE recovery of France after the catastrophes of Sedan, Metz, and Paris is the wonder of the last quarter of the dying century. It has contradicted every probability and...

U NDER the above heading, we hasten to explain, we do not propose to offer any thoughts on the question of the intellectual preparation of manufacturers for the successful...

D O the dead influence our lives for good or for evil? The immediate answer to this question will be that of course they do. All the generations that have passed away have left...

A PROPOS of the "fashion" in games, to the vagaries of which we referred some weeks ago, it is clear that these mostly affect what may be called minor and private pastimes, and...

T HE new number of the Edinburgh Review contains an interesting essay on our lost and vanishing land mammals. Omitting the seals, whales, and porpoises from his list, the writer...

LAY CONFESSORS IN RUSSIA. [TO THY EDITOR OP THY "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—It is a curious fact in the social development of our own country, that while more than ever before is being...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—To every real student of this country in the United States the second half of your article in last week's issue entitled " The Terms of...

THE BENEFICES BILL. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—In your comments upon my proposal to give power to the Bishops, under certain conditions, to reject a presentee on...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Srn,—In the letter in the Spectator of July 23rd, "South African" adopts a line of argument which one often hears in South Africa. He holds...

[To TRY EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your correspondent " C. H. B.," in the Spectator cif July 23rd, has struck a note which will reverberate far ana wide. That note is "...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIIE "SPECTATOR " ] SIR,--By your courtesy I desire to draw attention in the columns of the Spectator to a new and encouraging effort put forth in China to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " snociwros."] SIR,—I have found these stories (and a good many others) 'ea the notebook of an old aunt who has lately died. Early in the sixties, the...

" SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Mr. John E. Page, in the Spectator of July 23rd, whilst transferring the authorship of the phrase, "Probability is the guide of life," from Jeremy Taylor...

C. H. B." expressed in the letter printed in the Spectator of July 23rd is excellent ; but why is the evening celebration of Holy Communion to be "allowed" on one day only ?...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, —I venture once more to beg you to find room in the Spectator for an appeal on behalf of the Naples Society for the Protection of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—An eminent philosopher and historian has remarked : " If I am not wanted for the defence of the State, if I am not dangerous to those...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—You do me the honour of alluding to me in the Spectator of July 23rd as "the Irish-American now preaching at Stein- way Hall." May I...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR "] SIR,—In the brief notice of "The Minister of State" in the Spectator of July 23rd your reviewer asks, "Why the sneer on page 58 ? "...

IN FAIR NATAL. THROUGH the long Tambonkie grass we rode at set of sun— Round the hill, across the spruit, we followed, one by one— And the cattle, lowing, went before and, ever...

THE POETRY OF CHAUCER.* WHERE men are met together we hear one question not uncommonly asked: " With which out of the great figures. of the past would you choose to talk for an...

TEE Head-Master of Harrow has written a painstaking volume on the "hope of immortality." His work is, for the most part, popular in form, although it embodies also a more...

Miss SY1tES'S book upon Persia is neither more nor less than what it purports to be,—a pleasant record of a woman's expe- riences in a strange land, written without any...

the career of a man who had been for nearly twenty years a regimental and Staff officer in the • General Sir Richard Heade and the Feudatory States of Central and Southern...

THE high-priest of Positivism—once so lauded, now a mere nominis umbra—gravely laid down that an ideal history would contain no proper names. Under M. Comte's grand law we...

in the path of Mr. Crockett, though he lays his scene of • n.) Grace O'Malley, Princess and Pirate: told by Euari Macdonald, Bedshank and Rebel. The same set forth n the tongue...

Curiosities of Popular Customs. By William Walsh. Illustrated.

6d.)—Mr. Dixon's book is a plea for the protection of wild birds. He points out in his introduction that in some places it is partly the growth of civilisation and the...

are words of wisdom indeed. Mr. Bennett edits a ladies' newspaper, knows what he is talking about, and has the courage to speak his mind with a quite admirable frankness. His...

gives us in this volume some of the experiences of an entertainer, and tells a variety of stories which will of them- selves more or less entertain. One is of a lady who, acting...

" Periods of European Literature ") between Spain, to which he allots about a half, England (the literature, roughly speaking, of Elizabeth's reign), France, the most...

of Demerara. (Sampson Low. 108. 6d.)—The author has succeeded in giving a full and interesting account of the history and changes of the last quarter of a century in our Central...