singular clearness, described the plan of the Government for facilitating the sale of land to the peasantry. He described land in Ireland as almost unsaleable, the " block "...

but our readers will remark a certain change of tone in telegrams and letters. It is now declared that the Mudir of Dongola has conquered his rebels, that Berber has not fallen,...

11 is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPECTATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The Sixth of...

M R. BOURKE, the Baron de Worms, and others, raised a discussion on Tuesday which drew an important statement Trom Mr. Gladstone, the pith of which is this :—The Conference on...

saw that if his company continued to overcharge British trade and keep out British Directors, it would ultimately lose control of the Suez Canal. He arrived, therefore, at an...

any case. •

is entirely favourable to the principle and to most details; but the intervention of the Local Board might - prove both cumbrous and ineffectual. Local Boards in Ireland are...

that the French Government has rejected the British financial proposals. If so, Lord Granville's hands will be untied.

at a meeting held under the presidency of Lord John manning, —both Lord John Manners and Sir Stafford Northeote keeping within the limits of moderate party feeling far more...

against the Government at the Philharmonic Hall at Tewkesbury, on Wednesday. He said that Mr. Gladstone was a statesman who only required to be properly tackled in order to be...

and Portugal for the government of the basin of the Congo, from its mouth up to Stanley Pool, has been given up. Nobody liked it, not even the Portuguese, who got five or sir...

agree to Colonel Stanley's amendment ; since, if passed, it would enable the House of Lords, by the simple device of throwing out the Redistribution Bill, to defeat as long as...

an amendment on Clause 2, the effect of which would be to do away with the present system of voting in three-cornered constituencies like Glasgow ; but Mr. Gladstone, having...

that we see, alarming. The Boer immigrants into Zululand, with the con- sent of the Government of Pretoria, have declared Cetewayo's son, Dinizula, King of all Zululand outside...

great deal of Conservative pressure was put—in vain—on Colonel Stanley to induce him to postpone the amendment which would defer the operation of the Franchise Bill till after...

We do not, it is true, believe in his statesmanship, his great powers being - impaired by immoderateness, by optimism, and by inability to understand that an official should...

a mission to the Great Powers of Europe to petition for the reunion of the two halves of Bulgaria which the Treaty of Berlin cut asunder. Lord Beaconsfield's experiment has now...

to Mr. Macmillan on the Life of F. D. Maurice, refers to him an being, to quote Dante's expression about St. Dominic, a "spiritual splendour." The passage to which Mr. Gladstone...

on Wednesday, where he bad a great reception on his first visit home in his new capacity. He remarked on - the close attention with which our Colonies and the English- speaking...

Bury, in Lancashire, on Thursday,—he is to be the -candidate for Bury at the next general election,—chiefly on the -expected contest between the Commons and the Peers. On - this...

regular party meetings to speeches delivered by candidates to provincial constituencies, if we wish to see in what direction the real feeling of the electors is tending. At a...

THE EGYPTIAN NEGOTIATIONS. T T is not difficult, after Mr. Gladstone's careful answers of Tuesday night, to understand the position of the negotia- tions about Egypt. There is,...

A GREAT advance has been made towards the pacification of Ireland. We do not mean in Mr. Trevelyan's new Bill, which is only a machine, though a most ably planned machine, for...

TT is impossible to doubt that even in the most Conservative circles,--Conservative, we mean, even as distinguished from Tory,—that dread of the masses which used to be so...

T HE Attorney-General's speech at Bury has more of genuine oratory in it than any speech which we have read since Mr. Gladstone made even Tories ashamed of them.elves for having...

B Y far the most interesting of M. Ferry's proposals for the revision of the French Constitution is contained in the clause abolishing the demand now made on the Churches sup-...

T WO decisions have lately been given, one by Mr. Justice Stephen, the other by the Railway Commissioners, upon a question which is yearly growing in importance. The ex- tension...

W HATEVER charges interested opponents may bring- against the President of the Board of Trade in rela- tion to the Merchant Shipping Bill, even the bitterest railway director...

T N a brilliant paper contributed to the June number of the National Review by Mr. Wilfrid Ward, on what he terms the "Clothes of Religion," that very able essayist turns the...

T HE Royal Geographical Society would probably do well, before sending out its j roposed commission to examine into Continental ways of teaching geography, to offer a prize— a...

as one of a large and, as yet, unrepre- sented class, to remark on certain points in your article opposing Mr. Woodall's Amendment ? At the last general election, the question...

[To MR EDITOR Or THE " SPICCTATOR."1 you allow me a line of reply to the article on Mr. Woodall's amendment in your last number ? Your main point is, as I understand, that the...

THE SINGLE-WOMAN FRANCHISE. [To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—One or two objections to Mr. Woodall's proposal to ex- tend the franchise to single women who are...

[To TRIO EDITOR OP TIER " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—Will you allow me to point out that the writer of the- paper on "The Art of Fiction" in last Saturday's Spectator has very strangely...

OF THZ " 8PRCTATOR.1 Sra,—The following extract from a letter of Manrice's which I enclose may interest some of your readers, as illustrating his view of the Messianic...

ITO THE ED/TOR OF THZ "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—In a recent issue of the Spectator, in an article on the Highland Crofter question, the following paragraph occurs :— " It makes one's...

[To THE Enrroa OF THE " $PECTATOR...3 &a,—The higher education of women has now assumed an importance in the public mind which would have appeared almost incredible ten years...

FAITH. I wpm not think the last farewell we bear Is more than brief " good-bye " that a friend saith Turning towards home, that to our home lies near; I will not think so...

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. [THIRD NOTICE.] LET us reverse the order of the catalogue in this notice, and, beginning at the last room, work our way backwards. It ia strange enough,...

THE WIZARD'S SON.* Tins is a difficult story to review, on account of the strange way in which its merits and demerits are mixed throughout. Considered simply as a novel, it is...

MR. STORY'S device for piecing together the poetical fragments in his portfolio with dialogue between the author and one of his lady friends, is an agreeable one. On the whole,...

Ma. MURRAY'S novel is not without blemishes. A strange mistake runs through it by which the elder daughter of an earl is always spoken of as "the Lady Ella;" and the younger as...

Da. Beni has obviously been rather hard pushed for a title to give to this collection of addresses and magazine articles ; forhis " practical " essays include dissertations on...

THIS is an unpretending account of a two years' circumnaviga- tion of the globe, in the course of which other than the hackneyed • The 'Popov of the • Wanderer.' From the...

for it a sensational and not altogether relevant title. The International Association of Workmen, organised at 'London in 1864, shared the fate of the Paris Commune in 1871; and...

with a bright, pleasant account of how some English folk came to sojourn in an Italian town. Then enters upon the scene a Mon- tenegrin conspirator. All kinds of troubles and...

Notes. By William Wayte, M.A. (Cam- bridge University Press.)—These two speeches belong to an early period in the career of Demosthenes. They were not delivered by himself, but...

The Expositor (Hodder and Stoughton) is not less interesting than usual. Canon Farrar contributes the third of his papers on "The Reformers as Expositors," having Calvin this...

R. Wheeler Bush. (Religious Tract Society.) — We cannot speak highly of Mr. Bush ' s handling of this great subject. He seems to have had an idea of writing down to his readers....

R. Maxwell.) —This is a family chronicle, simply told, though the family history is, we are bound to say, of a curious kind. Mr. Hilton is the owner of a good landed estate ;...

into English Tercets by James G. Gibson. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—Few English readers know the Journey to Parnassus but by name; and not all, it is probable, even by that....