to the incitements of the journals, many of them respect- able, as, for instance, It. Clemencean's organ, La Justice, which declared that the King in accepting a Colonelcy of...

prove a dis- aster for France. Germany has been insulted without cause, and Spain in the teeth of reason, the President has lost prestige, and the Ministry is breaking up....

at Belfast, and on Monday Lord Cranbrook delivered in Bir- mingham a speech characterised elsewhere; while on Tuesday Mr. Gibson delighted the Conservatives of Glasgow. His...

affair as reported by the correspondent of the Times. It is dignified and Spanish I have no resentment against the French nation, and I am touched by M. Grevy's visit, but...

week is a lamentable one. King Alfonso, of Spain, arrived in Paris on Saturday, and was received by President Gr4vy, who accompanied him in another carriage to the Spanish...

case.

The Paris correspondent of the Times had a long interview on Tuesday with the Marquis de la Vega de Arm ijo, the Foreign Minister of Spain. The statements made were...

happily bloodless end, and the rumour that Mr. Parnell himself had been murdered by an Ulster Orangeman proved to be- only an imaginative prevision of what might possibly have....

ultimatum to Pekin. M. Ferry, emboldened by a report from M. Tricon stating that China is not preparing for war, and that the southern provinces deprecate hostilities, has...

only 6,216 votes out of the .52,000 upon the new Register, while Mr. Houldswortls, polling the full strength of his party as it now stands, received 18,188. As the votes given...

In a letter from the Secretary, Mr. Leonard Courtney,. my Lords inform the Chairman that the coal and wine duties, which expire in 1889, cannot be regranted without urgent...

the- Victorian Government in refusing to allow the Irish informers to land at Melbourne, and the Agent-General for the Colony, Mr. Murray Smith, has replied, defending Mr....

the movement in favour of confederation and annexation is spreading steadily. The conduct of the Melbourne- Government in refusing the Irish informers leave to land, and sending...

October 3rd shows clearly the policy adopted by the Government in Croatia. It will yield upon every point except the right of the Magyars to rule. The Government of Buda-Pesth...

China correspondent of;the New York Herald, was published in London on Thursday. The writer, who dates his message October 3rd, declares that the people of Canton are highly...

powerless to obtain decent treatment. The annual meeting of their representative body was held in Edinburgh on Wednes- day, and it was stated by several delegates that even...

speech by Sir R. Temple, which is in itself a splendid example -of the first of Indian difficulties. Everything in India is on too -vast a scale,—classes are nations, cesspools...

Congress of the wide division now opening between the Church and the Universities, complains that wealthy mothers now fail to teach their children the elementary truths of...

on Thursday he explained to the Conservatives of Bel- fast the reasons they have for distrusting the Liberal Government. They are briefly that this Government is not national,...

than ever. France and Italy are now "taking precau- tions" against each other. The Italian Government, having a large fleet, is beginning to fortify the island of Mad- dalena,...

-day, Dr. T. Clifford Allbutt, senior physician of the Leeds Infirmary, made a furious assault on competitive examina- tion. He believes that the children of much examined men...

to 100i.

THE HOOTING OF KING ALFONSO. T HE hooting of the King of Spain in Paris is not merely a regrettable incident. It is a calamitous occurrence. It brings war perceptibly nearer,...

I T seems to us that the only importance of the commotion in the Guildhall on Saturday last consists in this. The organisation of the Government of the City of London is so...

T HE great Conservative demonstration in the Aston Lower Grounds last Monday was evidently planned by a skilful hand. Nothing had been overlooked that could ensure for the...

W HAT is the object with which Sir Stafford Northcote has gone to Ulster? Some people imagined that he- was going to seize the opportunity to give an official exposition of the...

I N spite of Pascal and all the haters of the Jesuits in the Roman Church, in spite of all the denouncers of casuistry among Protestants, in spite of all the well-intentioned...

A CCORDING to a recent telegram from Montreal, one of the ceremonies that will take place before the Marquis of Lorne leaves Canada will be his installation as Grand Chief of...

T HE Church Congress, assembled this year at Reading, is showing courage. Its conduct in officially requesting Professor Flower to state at length the place held by the...

A T the good age of seventy-five, and after a short illness, in itself the appropriate close of a life of action, Dr. James Begg has vanished from the sadly-reduced circle of...

" T HE Silly Season" is a harsh name for the quarter, now generally reduced to a sixth of the year, which inter- venes between the rising of Parliament and the reopening of the...

I F a line be drawn on the map of France almost due south from the mouth of the Rance to St. Nazaire on the Loire, and the place-names on either side of it be compared, it will...

ITO TRE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR....1 Sut, — I think the Liberal Churchmen of England, most of whom, I take it, read the Spectator, will be interested in an experience I have...

HOULDSWORTH AND THE LIBERALS OF MANCHESTER. [To TIM EDITOR Or THE " SPECFLTOR."] S114 — T notice in last Saturday's Spectator you make the state- ment that I " called " the...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Si, - Will you allow me to protest against your eagerness to crush out individual crotchets in the Liberal party? Whatever "discredit" may...

SIR,—I am impelled by the frantic attempts of Mr. Parnell's- followers to misrepresent the events of their lateUlster cam- paign, and encouraged by the article on the invasion...

SPECTATOR.") SIB, - TH your very interesting article last week on food for the poor, no reference was made to the apple, which is a most important article of consumption. With...

sprcrAroa...) Sta,—I have read with interest in your last issue General Robertson's letter about the patriarchal age of Miss Gray. I am, however, surprised to learn that Sir G....

Tills is the most able and remarkable contribution to ethical science which has appeared in our country since the publication of Professor Sidgwick's 3fethods of Ethics. And...

"SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Perhaps the most important discussions at the Congress, I mean those on 'Recent Advances in Natural Science," &c., and "Recent Advances in Biblical Criticism,"...

I ONCE again in this charm'd realm inquire : Not listening to the Ocean's sad refrain, Nor watching on the mountain heights, to gain A message for the meditative lyre. The air...

A FANCY. SWEET Summer went forth to the fields, With roses entwined in her hair ; Her footsteps as light As her glances were bright, And all that she looked upon fair. Grave...

of Richard- son is unique. In reviewing that position, one feels tempted to indulge in the paradoxes of which Macaulay was so inordinately fond. If Clarissa Harlowe be, as some...

MRS. RIDDELL'S books have always had one merit that perhaps even the most blasti novel-readers can scarcely appreciate as keenly as reviewers must; they do not all turn upon the...

Jr it were not that so many other sciences are in a like predicament, one might reasonably be excused for doubting whether there is a Science of Jurisprudence, when so large a...

living Englishmen who have commanded an army of more than ten thousand men in the field ; and, if the question were asked by some Continental critic as to who were our Generals,...

MR. FREDERIC HARRISON'S Address to the Trades' Union Con- gress, delivered at Nottingham on September 12th, and on which we have already commented, is reprinted in the Con-...

(Hurst and Blackett.)—This is a story about Nihilism, which seems likely to become a favourite subject for the writers of fiction. Novelty, of course, is desirable, and novelty...

Reminiscences of an Adventurous Career at Home and the Antipodes. By Alexander Tolmer. 2 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—Mr. Telmer tells the story of his life from his birth down...

Memoir and Notes, by William Blair, D.D. (Macniven and Wal- lace.)—This very elegant-looking little volume belongs to a series (with which we make acquaintance for the first...

Trigger). Edited by Rev. John Wilson. (Sampson Low and Co.)— This volume is made up of the recollections and experiences of Mr. Hutchisson in India, and is divided between...

Thomas Brassey, M.P. Vol. IV. (Longmans.)—Sir Thomas Brassey completes in this volume his work on the British Navy with a number of miscellaneous papers, Parliamentary speeches,...

our last week's issue under the title of "A Saint's Correspondence," is published by Messrs. Burns and Oates.

Blackett.)—There is a considerable element of romance in Miss Beale's story, and it is a kind of romance which is pretty sure to attract the interest of readers. Most of as have...

Trench, and Co.)—Shelomith is a Hebrew woman, married to an Egyptian prince, who perishes in the overthrow in the Red Sea. Her son is the hero of this drama. His courage,...