a triumphant success. From Chester to Invercauld, wherever he has appeared, the people have assembled in thousands on the barest chance of seeing him, and giving him one cordial...

ttiderstand its precise object. Nominally, it is intended to rescue General Gordon and Colonel Stewart, but as those officers can come away when they please, there must be some...

this. Agents of the Mahdi are besieging General Gordon with large forces of Arabs, who, however, make little impression, General Gordon's troops being obedient, and the fire of...

A N Expedition to raise the siege of Khartoum has now been finally resolved on, and the preparations are rapidly advancing. General Wolseley, with the Staff which invariably...

one spoken in the Corn Exchange on Saturday was the most important. It was devoted to the Franchise Bill, and was from end to end a warm but closely reasoned piece of argument...

Franchise Bill, Mr. Gladstone entered into much detail. The proposal was physically impossible. The Government has nominally 90 days in a Session, but really only 65, in-...

passages in this speech was that in which Mr. Gladstone, in the strength of his fifty years of experience, described the habitual action of the Lords. So far from representing...

For instance, Sir Hussey Vivian, addressing a large meeting in Glamorganshire on Tbursday, made it his single text. The right of Dissolution, he said, belonged to the Sovereign...

Market was, in one way, the most important of all, for the audience consisted of from twelve to fourteen thousand work- men of Midlothian, who had come to present an address ex-...

a representative man, on Wednesday made a most out-spoken speech to his constituents. He declared that in his borough, at all events, the extension of household suffrage to the...

de- fence of the action of the Ministry since 1880, and was very heartily applauded. We have given its substance elsewhere, and need only add here that Mr. Gladstone intimated,...

by a telegram from Sydney couched in these words : —" Caldwell finds monotremes viviparous, mesoblastic ovum." That does not seem to outsiders to be an epoch-making message; but...

close of the month at some point in Russian Poland, not yet revealed, are gradually acquiring consistency, and are probably true. The three Chancellors will, it is said,...

ordinary step of forbidding the exercises of the Salvation Army throughout its jurisdiction. The reasons assigned are,—that the police cannot 'protect the Salvationists from...

Monday, Sir F. Hincke, who had been invited to address the Economic Section, made the only political speech delivered at the meeting. It was one against Federation. He declared...

to 1001.

people in the South appear to have gone mad. They are worse than the French. Instead of treating the disease as a disease, they treat it as a kind of invading force, and ehnt...

China .does not yield, he must send a large force to defend Tonquin, or a larger to threaten Pekin. He has not got such a force to send unless the Chamber votes war, and the...

of the Foochow forts, but has placarded Pekin with warlike announcements, and has directed General Tso, who conquered Kashgar, to invade Tonquin in three columns of 20,000 men...

from all Churchmen a sum of £1,500 to put up a memorial window to Bishop Ken, once Bishop of the See, and n. man whose memory is still reverenced as that of a saintly poet and...

THE NILE EXPEDITION. W HATEVER the merits or demerits of the Expedition to Khartoum, now finally decided on, one thing about it is certain. Nothing more original or more daring...

I T is difficult, it is almost impossible, for anyone who reads his first speech at Edinburgh to believe that the Tory theory of Mr. Gladstone's personality can be quite...

T HE Householders judge Governments broadly, and with greater consideration for special and isolated mistakes than the Ten-pounders used to show, and so judging, they will, we...

G ENERAL CAMPENON'S recent admissions, if they are correctly reported, show that the trying moment for M. Ferry is rapidly approaching. A very few days may severely test both...

which, in modern times at least, is altogether unexampled. We seem to be taken back to the Middle Ages, when the only method of deal- ing with a pest was to stamp it out more...

F OR the week ended on Saturday last, the official average price of wheat was 35s. id. per quarter. This is the lowest weekly average recorded since official returns have been...

T HE Belgian Ministers would probably have preferred to leave the Education Law of their predecessors untouched. They represent the moderate section of the Catholic Party, and...

I F no other Department had justified the existence of a Liberal Ministry, the Post Office at least would have amply redeemed its credit. The same official who has given us the...

W E all talk education, but we confine the talk to the poor, and there is danger in the difficulties and dangers of the rich being ignored. It is often assumed that our...

" I DO so enjoy my murders," says the nice old lady in Miss Eden's charming novelette, "The Semi-Detached House ;" and we suppose that sentence, which was uttered in simplicity...

T HE Wool Trade, though in magnitude it ranks below cotton, is far the more ancient and inieresting of the two in- dustries. Wool has been used for clothing from time imme-...

THE HOUSE OF LORDS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIII,—I thank you for your courtesy in publishing and corn- menting on my letter, and I venture to trouble you with one...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR7] Sra.,—In an article in your issue of August 9th, entitled "A Misconception of History," you raise a very interesting historical question. I...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR"] SIR,—The recent unveiling of George Sand's statue at La Chatre has set people thinking about her afresh. At no time since " Indiana " and "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPF.CTATOR."] SIR,—The number attending the Hatfield Conservative demon- stration was grossly over-estimated in the London morning newspapers. I was in...

SPECTATOR.") SIR, — In an article on the Queen's Colleges in Ireland in your issue of the 9th inst., you refer to the Government as being "pledged as no Government ever was...

IN THE BEGINNING. AUGUST, year unknown ; time, Six o'clock in the morning ; Sate in a tree an Ape ; irrational; eating an apple, Raw ; no cook as yet, no house, no shred of a...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR."] • • Sin,—The following epitaphs are Scotch, and may be interesting to many of your readers :— In a country churchyard near Paisley :—...

WE are indebted to the late Prcfessor Green for the proposal to make Lotze's System of Philosophy accessible to English readers. Part of the translation had been executed by...

COLONEL BRACKENBURY'S Life of Frederick the Great is the first of a series of volumes "illustrative of the operations and the art of war, by writers of distinction in the...

THIS is an excellent novel. There are characters in it which the creator of Baillie Nicol Jarvie might have " fathered " with- out feeling them any discredit to their kin, and...

IN this work Professor Rogers has essayed to give a history of English labour from the forty-third year of Henry III., i.e., 1259, up to the present time. The subject is an...

THERE is nothing very striking in the Magazines this month. There are, of course, many papers on the conflict between Lords and Commons, but we perceive little in them that has...

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Edited by Francis James Child. Parts I. and II. (Houghton and Co., Boston ; Henry Stevens, London.)—Mr. Child has been long known as a...

and Co.)—It is many years since we reviewed the first edition of this book. It then, we thought, took its place as the best work on the subject. Now that it appears "much...

three of Bret Harte's characteristic tales, of which the third, "Left out on Lone Star Mountain," is the best. The first two are a little obscure as to their detail. The last is...

By Philip Schaff, D.D. (Macmillan.)—Dr. Schaff's volume contains an account, as complete as could be desired, of what may be called the circumstances of the New Testament and...

Yacht 'Ceylon.' By Surgeon-General Munro. (Hurst and Blackett.)— This work reminds us of the letters which Mr. Bouncer wrote to his mother when he was at Oxford. Each letter...

M. A. Skerring. Revised by the Rev. E. Storrow. (Religions Tract Society).—This book was first published ten years ago. Ten years are a long period in the history of Indian...