Government professes neutrality in the expected war, it will really join Austria-Hungary, and has, in fact, already acceded to the League of Peace. This is probable, as the...

rumours from the East remains to be explained. The Paris correspondents scarcely allude to them, and the newspapers are satisfied that the scare has been got up in order that...

course, be Prince William. His mother, the Crown Princess, is competent to all political duties ; but her position as Princess Royal of England is not in her favour, and the...

to the supreme command in Germany in the event of war. The Emperor is far too old to lead his troops in person, the Crown Prince is far too ill, and Prince William, the next...

/1111E sense of some half-obscure danger on the Continent, though lulled by the Christmas holidays, does not pass away. If negotiations are going on between the three Imperial...

was received with great enthusiasm at various places on his route; but at Dover, on Tuesday, he was hooted and snow- balled by an unmannerly crowd as he left the station for the...

case.

Times a correspondence with Mr. Gladstone,published in the &Min g Journal, in relation to a speech which Colonel Saunder- son delivered at Stirling on November 2nd. In that...

the rules for closing debate, which he seems to regard as a most illegitimate assertion of the right of the people to put down those who paralyse Parliament by their empty talk....

falling-off in energy. Mr. P. Stanhope was in the chair, and Mr. Gladstone seized the occasion of his connection with an old Whig family to pay a tribute to the Whig families of...

Dicey insisted that Home-rule in Ireland must either be of the Colonial type,—in other words, absolute independence in all matters not involving foreign policy,—or must involve...

in the Gaelic Athletic Association is not yet settled. There is to be a synod at Thurles next month, when the fight will, we suppose, be renewed. In Limerick County, the...

the Sager-Bounties dispute, by asking, in his letter to Thursday's Times, whether it would or would not be to our advantage for every foreign country with which we trade to make...

quarrel about homoeopathic medicine into which Lord Grimthorpe has plunged with his usual pugnacious verve ; but it is at least worth remarking that Mr. Millican has scored for...

mediate with Italy, and intends, if he can, to expel that Power from Massowah. Rae Monk, his commander-in-chief, is, in fact, hurrying to attack that place with two corps...

increase of the shipping of the United Kingdom during the last ten years. The total tonnage was 6,336,000 in 1877, and in 1886 was 7,321,000 tons, while the steam tonnage alone...

publication, a long letter showing that in the case of " McClenaghan v. Waters," it was assumed (rather than decided) by the Court of Queen's Bench that the police have no right...

and in their colonies, comes out in their treat- ment of the poor. They assist paupers in two ways,—by gifts in kind, and by careful admissions to houses of work, where, though...

and sent to Thursday's Times a very curious entry in the marriage registers of St. Alphage, Greenwich, under the date November 18th, 1685:—" John Cooper, of this parish, almsman...

end- less, and his own letters are always hopeful ; but the only state- ment worth studying is the following (December 26th), from Sir Morell Mackenzie :—" Although the...

by fire since 1877. The eighth was the Grand Theatre, Islington, which took fire at 1 a.m. on Thursday. This theatre, built on the site of the Philharmonic, could hold three...

Consols were on Friday 1011 to 1011xt.

THE PROBABILITIES OF WAR. T HERE is even less reason than there was last week for considering peace assured. The little Powers of Eastern Europe speak openly of the " serious...

T HE speech which Mr. Gladstone made at Dover on Tuesday, shows assuredly that the greatest individual force in English politics is still displaying unabated intensity, though...

A N able and weighty letter in last Wednesday's Guardian, signed " Unionist," sets forth the double stream of reasons,—the Imperial reasons and the local reasone,—by which...

TI NDER the existing land•tenure of Ireland, we cannot see even a case for criticism in the resent decree of the Land Commission reducing the Judicial Rents all round. It is a...

T HE" Syndicates," and "Rings," and " Groups " of capitalists who are now constantly trying to make rapid fortunes by " regrating," or buying up different articles of commerce,...

T HE evil influence so long exercised by the Irish vote in American politics seems at last to be working its own cure. The great political difficulty of the United States has...

THE news that the Pope has received the Queen's present "with evident pleasure," and that he has remarked that this "massive basin and ewer of gold, copied from examples at...

M R. LILLY, in his eloquent article in the Fortnightly Beriete for January on "Right and Wrong," denounces that modem application of the principle of evolution which traces back...

T HE last virgin fortress of aristocracy left in the world has been stormed, and it is formally announced that Bann Albert Rothschild, representative of that house in Vienna,-...

T HIS "town on a hill in a valley," called by its people "the Metropolis," or, better still, "the Queen of the Moor- lands," is certainly, in its way, one of the most...

was rather startling to be told in the Spectator of December 24th, in your review of Miss Daffy's life of this cele- brated woman, that " she was no genius." She had, no doubt,...

[To THE EDITOR or THE EPICTATOR.1 Sia,—If New South Wales must have a new name—and it is not difficult to understand the desire for one—is there any good reason why she should...

A PRAIRIE FIRE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR " ] SIE, — The accompanying extract from a letter recently received from a son in Canada may interest some of your readers.—I "...

[To Tar EDITOR or Tan .. Srnoriros.1 Sin,—While I was reading your articles on "The Succession to the Liberal Leadership," I could not help recalling a remark made to me a few...

SOMEWHERE. I G1VB this hour to sorrow : nay, refrain, Bethink thee skies e'en now are somewhere bright For others, the green leaves are dancing light, And lovers meet where...

LORD JUSTICE BOWEN'S " VIRGIL." Loan Joules BowsN lays it down as axiomatic that any translation of Virgil to be good, must be in itself an English poem, and next that that...

NEARLY forty-eight years ago, two young men resolved to travel by laud to India; one of them, Mr. Milford, actually achieved the feat, and has published a narrative of his...

the class of reminiscences to which Sir F. Pollock's book belongs, though certainly not of all reminiscences, to say that they consist of a record of the men whom the author has...

Tun principal novels of any single month are of necessity so various in theme, treatment, and merit, that, as a rule, any attempt to group them in relations of similarity or...

the very great pleasure which this scholarly and yet most effective and popular book has given us. • Lectures on the Book of Job. Delivered is Weetminster Abbey by the Very...

flies over the island, the political future of Crete will be " a matter of schemes and conjecture," says Mr. Edwardes, who doubts whether the people of that charming but...

The Earth Trembled. By Edward P. Roe. (Ward, Lock, and Co.)—This is a rather inferior story for a writer who has acquired each a reputation as its author has done in the United...

biography of the most wonderful of the poets who have died before their prime is not likely to be superseded. At the same time, it was necessarily incomplete, and in some...

Co.)—This is a book intended to show the amateur yachtsman how to build, rig, and sail his own craft ; and so far as all or any of those accomplishments are capable of being...

Morton (Pintos and Co.),appeare in its thirty-third annual issue. Besides the ordinary information and a calendar of garden and farm work, it has spaces for memoranda, he It...

Paul, Trench, and-Co.)—Mr. Rhoades's " Comedy,".as he calls it, is technically entitled to that :same, because it has the happy ending whioh the laws of tragedy forbid. Bat it...

and Co.)—In this "Second Series," the unwearied industry of Lady Adelaide Cadogan has added to her previous collec- tion nearly thirty games of patience, most of them from...

and Co.)—This is the " leisure " a cultured man with a very pretty.gift of verse-making. His themes are very various. He deals with classical stories, Acontius and Cydippe, for...

is a powerful little tale, in which Miss Phelps seeks her subject, as she has lately done more than once, in the fishermen's life at " Fairlsarbor," a New England village. The...

W. Partridge), appears in its fourteenth annual volume. Here the reader will find Mrs. Oliphant's story of "Cousin Mary." There are four other aerial stories of various lengths,...

November 11th, 1887, by John Morley. (Macmillan and Co.)—We said enough of this fascinating address at the time of its delivery to show how much we appreciate its ability. We...