at,Xadrid, as the new Ambassador at Washini- ton. ' The appointment• is an unusual 'one,' Sir Mortimer's experience having been principally in the East, and he himself having...

Macedonia 'has been-published after being subniitted to 'the Sultan. It -contains nine ' points,' the principal of . which are the first, second, -and third.' Under the first...

appears. to, be even stronger than in London. An immense meeting w as held last Sunday in the Theatre de Sarah Bern- hardt, which was attended by prominent, men from' France,...

State at the Vatican has created unusual interest, 'and even excitement. It is supposed that he will completely guide Pius X., who is no diplomatist, and the older 'members of...

THERE is practically no news this week from the Far East. , The cue given .to its agents by th6Governnient of Tokio lis to say.that negotiations are 'going on, and there is no...

Tisza, who will accept it 'if the Liberals:, as distin- guished from the Kossuthites, will accept the concessions to which the King has agreed. ' These include some important...

case.

The first was delivered to a large and enthusiastic popular audience on Tuesday in the Hippodrome. We have dealt elsewhere with the fantastic and impossible personal pledge...

appealed to the Duke of Devonshire to . induce the Free-looders to change their name, and de- nounced as a preposterous doctrine the view—which he attributed to them—that a tax...

his most luminous and valuable exposition of the fallacies of Mr. Chamberlain's scheme. The chief points in a remarkable speech were his exposure of the curious system of...

of which throws some light upon the popular appreciation of Protection, while the other does not. The first was the return for Warwick and Leamington of the Right Hon. A....

recent speeches, of a very disputable order, and in dealing with the question of "dumping" he showed himself entirely unable to grasp the case of his opponents. After a few...

Alaskan boundary decision has made it necessary for the Ministry to say something on that question. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, if we can judge from the cabled summary, seems to have...

scene of a political murder. The suburb is a favourite one with Armenians, who there formed some years ago a powerful associa- tion having for its object the liberation of their...

fixed when all compensation should cease, that no limit be placed on the amount of reduction, that new licences be debarred from claim to compensation in case of subsequent...

Chancellor of the University of Oxford vacated by the death of Lord Salisbury, and will to-day be elected without opposi; tion. A post of more picturesque dignity, and fraught...

last week. This takes the form of a widely signed memorial outlining a policy on the lines of (1) a great reduction in the number of licensed premises; (2) wide ppwers of local...

Aberdeen, gave a most useful and impressive account of social progress in the nineteenth century, and dwelt upon the emergence of the individual. Very striking was the passage...

5th, when all the facts known will be produced by witnesses, most of whom will for the first time speak on oath. Till then judgment ought to be suspended; but, according to the...

Consols "(21 per cent.) were on Friday 881.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S PLEDGE. M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S henchmen have, we fear, )played upon him the trick which Canute's courtiers tried unsuccessfully on the Danish Monarch. Canute was...

T HE Eastern Powers have evidently tried hard to dis- cover a compromise between the ideas of Turkey, or rather of its Sultan, and the ideas which, as they see, pre- vail in the...

I S there reason to believe that Mr. Balfour and Mr. Chamberlain are in any true sense opposed to each other on the fiscal controversy, or that the present Government can be...

T HE affairs of Spain do not greatly interest English- men unconnected with that country or with the wine trade, but all politicians will do well to read the speech of Setior...

E LECTIONS only occasionally turn upon single issues. Even in the Election of 1885, says Mr. Morley in his Life of Mr. Gladstone, " there was nothing like general concentration...

I N Mr. Lecky. Britain has lost a type of scholar who is becoming rarer as knowledge increases and books multiply. Nowadays a scholar tends to be a specialist and to strive for...

I N England whenever it happens that there is an unusually long succession of rainy days the weather is generally described as "awful." People feel an intense resentment at...

always has a bad effect on the health of animals, whether wild or part of the live- stock of the farm. But this is due partly to constant ex- posure to wet and damp, which...

[se We have endeavoured as far as possible to open our columns to a free discussion of the fiscal problem. We think, however, that the time has now arrived when, in fairness to...

night-school have just written some rather valuable remarks which show how fiscal problems would affect Somerset labourers. " Father always eats one small loaf a day,"—at 21d.,...

hope that Unionists, Free-trade or otherwise, before resting on Mr. Sydney Buxton's letter in the Spectator of October 24th will compare his views with those of other...

EDITOR OP THE . SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In discussing the effect of wheat at 608., as compared with 30s., on the price of bread, you state in the Spectator of October 24th: "If the...

your article on " The Squires' Illusion" in the Spectator of October 24th, but consider that you have overestimated the amount spent by the labourer on bread. In the towns he...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." SI11,—There is one important point that has hitherto been overlooked in discussing the above question. There are many Free-trade Unionists...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — YOUP article in the Spectator of October 24th on the duty of Free-trade Unionists would have been more pointed if you had quoted Lord...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — The fiscal attitude which Lord Rosebery has taken up is historically so interesting, and your approval of it so sur- prising, that I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Allusion has been made in the present fiscal controversy to the employment of British capital in " foreign " countries. There is,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIE,—This fiscal problem covers such a vast amount of ground that experts on both sides can dip in here and there and deluge us with columns...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Snt,—If my friend Mr. Haldane contends (Spectator, Octo- ber 17th) that all-round Free-trade would not have prevented land from going out of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SLR, —In the Spectator of October 24th Mr. Chamberlain is reported to have said that no alternative to Protection has been suggested by his...

rTo THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "' SIR,—I read with much interest your article in the Spectator of October 17th in regard to the cash on delivery of parcels. While I agree...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR."] have read with much interest and entire approval the excellent article in the Spectator of October 17th entitled " Cash on Delivery." May I...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] S111,—As the Government, and for the most part the Press also, has abandoned inquiry into the fiscal question in favour of discussion, there...

[To THE EDrroa OF THE " SPECTAT011.1 'Bin,—Your readers must have read with much interest in the Spectator of October 24th that, while approving with reluctance of the...

Cro THE EDITOR OF THE "SrEcTA?oa.1 SIE,—On Friday, October 23rd, Mr. Choate delivered at Birmingham an address on Benjamin Franklin that more than maintained the extraordinary...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TUE 31 . 110TET04.1 Sin,—The Royal Commissioners' Report is in everybody's hands. Restrictive as were the terms of their reference, they have had the courage...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TIIM "SPEOTA.TOR.1 Snt, — For some years a group of persons who have in different. ways been dealing with questions affecting the condition of the people has...

"SPIOTATOIL") Si8,—In your concluding notice of Mr. Morley's Life of Gladstone in the Spectator of October 24th you refer to Mr. Gladstone's fondness for poetry, and mention in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."J SIB,—In the Spectator of September 5th you state that you would very much like to know if young officers will read the Minutes of Evidence...

LORD CROMER'S TRANSLATIONS.* WE are reminded by Lord Cromer's volume of the literary 'amusements of another great English statesman. The Marquis Wellesley found time amidst the...

IN MACEDONIA. THE babe to its dead mother pressed, Still tugging at her empty breast; For ere that fluttering heart grew cold . She wrapped it in the mantle's fold. Lo, by the...

SIR GILBERT PARKER and Mr. Bryan have chosen an excellent subject. As they very truly say, "more vivid and enduring memories cling to the walls of Quebec than belong to any...

THE names of William Story and Henry James form an agreeable literary conjunction, and the book before us is pleasant and distinguished, demanding a good deal of its readers, it...

SIR WILFRID LAURIER, the great French-Canadian who has directed the policy of Canada for the last seven years, and has made himself a name as one of the foremost of Colonial...

is to be presumed that there are many people who like to read of the sort of life depicted in The Odd-Job Man, in the beginning of which the last shifts of an impecunious and...

THE LONG NIGHT.* 'THE vogue of many popular novelists of the day is a thing which is hard to explain, still harder to justify. It .always affronts the fastidious, and not...

Sergeant's hero cannot quite make up his mind whether to be loyal to his fiancée, who shows him pretty plainly that sha prefers being the Principal of a Ladies' College to being...

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