EXPENDITURE. REVENUE (if Taxes unchanged). Interest on Debt 227,861,000 Customs 219,800,000 Army 16,700,000 Excise 25,560,000 Ordnance Factories 30,090 Stamps.. 12,740,000...

be made by the new provisions for local taxation. A third of the Probate- duty is to be devoted to the local taxation in the first year (subsequently it will be one-half), and...

any case.

a week before the expiration of the financial year, so that for the last week his account of the expenditure and revenue was only estimated. He apologised for a statement of...

With the "SrzcxAmoR" of Saturday, May 5th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

has been successful. The five Generals forming the ccmseil d'enquete into the charges against him, have found him guilty of insubordination, and sentenced him to retire upon his...

- L121TREMELY grave events have occurreitin France this I week. On Sunday, an election to the Chamber came off in Marseilles, and it was found that while M. Herve, the spokesman...

willing to black Lord Spencer's boots, that Mr. O'Brien always seems to be anxious to blacken something ; a few years ago it was Lord Spencer's character, and now it is Lord...

Ireland, is that the two men accused of murdering J. Fitzmaurice, near Listowel, in Kerry, have been convicted and sentenced to death. Fitzmaurice, it will be remembered, had...

Budget is to hand over (after the first year) one-half of the Probate-duty to the Local Councils, and to assign to them old licences (chiefly publicans' licences) amounting to...

day week,—the kind of speech which gives us the im- pression that the old sturdy race of statesmen who ignore sentiment where the present generation is wont to pay a very...

Wednesday in the success of the Gladstonian can- didate by an enormously reduced majority. In 1885, Mr. Yeo (the late Member) was elected by 5,560 votes, against only 2,103...

Free State, which concluded its business on February 18th, resolved that the first step towards Federation must be a South African Union upon the basis of internal Free- trade....

duty will be determined, will be by estimating the proportion between the indoor pauperism of the county and the indoor pauperism of the whole country, and handing over the...

upon M. Wilson for selling decorations. The Judges find that the facts are fully proved, and that M. Wilson had consciously engaged in a disreputable traffic ; but they also...

emigrants to its logical extreme. Under a Treaty already signed by the Government of Pekin, and about to be sanc- tioned. by the United States Senate, they prohibit the entrance...

that, though the Emperor did not sleep well, his general health is decidedly improving. Nevertheless, on March 21st his Majesty signed a decree which virtually makes his son a...

the reform of the House of Lords, is certainly open to the criticism of the Times that it would in all probability empty the House of Lords of the ablest Peers, and add them to...

ended in a great victory for M. Bratiaxio ; but the Opposition, who are Russian in sympathy, have been irri- tated almost to the point of insurrection. On Sunday a great meeting...

Goschen'a Conversion scheme by what has already occurred in the case of the New Threes. The amount of that Debt is £166,000,000, and the stock held by the dissentients is....

pro- ducing great disasters in Germany. The Elbe, the Rhine, the Vistula, and the Warthe, on which Posen stands, have all overflowed their banks, and are sweeping through the...

Consols were on Thursday. 101f to 1011.

THE BUDGET. M R. GOSCHEN has achieved in his great Conversion scheme that which will make his name famous as one of the boldest, and in all probability as one of the most...

Local Government Bill weary the oldest Parliamentary hands, but the Bill itself is of exceeding interest. It illustrates to perfection the English method of doing things. A...

VRANCE is always interesting, but she has seldom been more interesting than at the present moment, when we seem to be witnessing the slow development of a revolution in the...

G-ladstonian majority in the election for the Gower Division of Glamorgan- shire has probably been made too much of by the Unionist critics, so far as they have treated it as...

TT is with the greatest possible regret we learn that the measures for dealing with the Tithe Question which have been reintroduced into the House of Lords by Lord Salisbury,...

I F Mr. Goschen, when he has converted the Debt, and provided funds for county government, and made all sovereigns of full weight, and introduced one-pound notes, feels in want...

I T is not very easy to summarise with any precision what it is which Mrs. Humphry Ward has intended to convey in her very interesting novel, "Robert Elsmere," as the sum and...

C ONVICTIONS for agrarian murder are rare enough in Ireland to make the Lixnaw case, which was tried at the Wicklow Assizes on the first three days of this week, one of real...

P RETTY nearly everything has now been done for women with property. They can hold it, they can inherit it, and they can bequeath it, if they like, as independently as • men. If...

SIE,-I recognise heartily the excellent intention in the latter part of your article headed "The Welcome to Mr. Chamberlain," and I hope you will allow me to help you in your...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—I abstained from commenting on the main point in the letter addressed to you by the Vicar of Greenwich, under the conviction that some...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin.,—When the general admiration at tlis stroke of financial genius has subsided, Cassandras will have a good time. Better, therefore, to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have just read the article in the Spectator of March 17th on " Trout-Fishing,"—I am almost ashamed to think with what gusto. To turn...

CONVERSATION IN A COUNTRY HOUSE. COMMUNICATED BY MR. THOMAS EAVES. [" Three parts, and in many ways the most interesting parts politically, of the conversation have been left...

PEACE. " Wu° knows how often he offendeth ?" When Conscience's white light burns dim In doubt of Right, that word descendeth Alone, from Him. We cannot tell ; we see but...

GEORGE SAND.* A VERY charming study of George Sand, by M. Caro, of the French Academy, has lately been translated into, on the whole, excellent English by M. Gustave Masson,...

preface to a book of great merit is apt to render the reader doubly anxious to do full justice to such a work. It is when people have best realised how difficult is the task...

Bampton, who, some hundred and forty years ago, furnished the means for a perpetual polemic, which was "to confirm and establish the Christian Faith, and confute all heretics...

in ever so many of the ways in which a novel can be good ; and yet we hesitate to speak of it as a thoroughly good novel. If the foregoing sentence sounds wilfully paradoxical,...

Jr was a happy idea to write an account of two such excellent examples as Francis and Horace, of the men whom Carlyle, in his Cro m well, called "the fighting Veres." They...

introduction, and we can readily believe it, that The Makers of Venice was a more difficult book to write than its forerunner, The Makers of Florence. The story of Florence is,...

guided Mr. Alfred M. Williams in making his selection, his Poets and Poetry of Ireland (J. R. Osgood and Co., Boston, U.S.A.) is none the less a very interesting collection. All...

By Virtue of his Office. By Rowland Grey. (Kogan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—" Rowland Grey" has not repeated the success of " Linden- blumen " and "Sunny Switzerland." Her new...

York.)—Mr. Bouton recommends his readers to drop "any heavy pack of fine old English prejudices" that they may be carrying about with them. Change " English " to "anti-English,"...

Joyce's book is mainly historical, though he lets us see pretty clearly what are his views upon one great question of the day. He is very emphatic in affirming that the laity...

set purpose. The silliness is to suit and symbolise the kind of life which the story portrays. Go to Florida and live on an orange-plantation, and this is the kind of thing into...

and Co.)—We are like many readers, we fancy, in feeling a shudder of apprehension when we see a story described by its author as "realistic." It is pretty sure to be a picture...

and in a Highly Civilised State. (Harrison and Sons.) It was suggested by Professor Horsley's lecture on "The Operation of Trephining during the Neolithic Period in Europe," and...

the Royal Colonial Institute. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The State : the Rudiments of New Zealand Sociology. By James H. Pope. (G. Didabury, Government Printer, Wellington, N.Z.)—Mr....

Murphy. (Burns and Oates.)—Count Murphy completes this third edition of his book, "with events and statistics brought down to the present time," and has, it cannot be doubted, a...

with a particular relation of his voyage to Nombre de Dios under that renowned Navigator, the late Sir Francis Drake." Mr. Corbett has made an interesting tale out of his...