INDEX. FROM JANUARY 7th TO (JUNE 241h, 1893, INCLUSIVE, TOPICS OP THE DAY. A GRICULTURAL Labourer, the 665 A g _ricultnre, a Pessimist View of ... 247 Albert Hall, Great...

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N O facts at once new and authentic have been published this week about Panama affairs, all engaged in the two prosecutions and the inquiry waiting the reopening of the Assembly...

have got something very like one in North Carolina. A man named Calvin Snipes, in Bakersville, suspected a neighbour named Osborne of betraying his possession of an illicit...

the British occupation of Egypt. A body of 750 camelmen, in two divisions, threatened Gamai, south of Wady Haifa, on the last day of the year, but were driven off. It was...

bell, the author of an American work, entitled " The Puritan Mr. Gladstone has written a letter to Mr. Douglas Camp- bell, the author of an American work, entitled " The...

ease.

Panama Scandal of its own. Its organ, the Vorwarts, declares that Prince Bismarck employed the sequestrated income of the Guelph estates to subsidise not only the Press, which...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, January 28, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages .of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

from malignant small-pox, at Allah abad, where be had gone to be present at the meetings of the Indian National Council. Mr. Summers, who was about forty, was well known during...

the present Government "had come to stay," and that if the House of Lords rejected Mr. Gladstone's Bill, the country would send him back to power at the next General Election...

a Nationalist gathering, which deserves notice on account of its remarkable aloofness from reason and common-sense. He told his audience that when he was in Dublin he investi-...

Newcastle-on-Tyne, since our last impression, once on Satur- day last and once on Monday. In his first speech, Mr. Healy intimated that the spiritual intimidation said to be...

the Congo Free State which are of some interest. One is, that the Belgian officials have determined to import Chinese coolies, and thus give themselves a command of labourers...

the Premier, is pledged to allow civil marriage to be legal, and the Bishops are issuing manifestoes against the innovation. They not only declare civil marriage con- trary to...

to the Cunard Liner, the Umbria,' was relieved by the news that she reached New York early last Saturday morning. The delay was due to "the breaking of the shaft at the thrust-...

known as Lord Winchilsea's Plan, which is to form a National Agrieul- -turd Union. It was accepted at York on Thursday ; but it was evident that many of those present thought...

was still vaguer and less interesting. It appears to have been merely a diatribe against Imperialism, pointed by a declara- tion that England should retire from Uganda. But Mr....

the official visit of the Lord Mayor of London—who is a Roman Catholic and a Unionist—to Dublin, to assist at the inaugura- tion of a Protestant Lord Mayor, which took place on...

publishes in that journal on Friday a remarkable letter -On. the "Sea-serpent." He says that in 1851 he heard from a venerable lady of unmistakable character a full account of...

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on January 5th. It provides that an intending emigrant must obtain a passport from the United States Consul at the port of departure, and must prove that he can read and write...

of Holy Women," and on New Year's Eve Mr. Frederic Harrison spoke on " Womanhood," Positivist religion being very fond of words ending in " hood." But the main line of remark...

THE HOME-RULERS AGAINST HOME-RULE. T HE Unionists need not be too anxious to serve their own cause. Their foes are serving it a great deal better than they could do. No Jnionist...

I T is a curious fact, considering the great interest taken in crowned heads, that of all the leading statesmen in Europe, the Kings are the least accurately known. Even Queen...

not a day too soon, a pamphlet containing the full text of the Bishop of Meath's Pastoral, the most important portions of the evidence given at the trial of the South Meath...

T N his letter to the author of the American book which Mr. Goldwin Smith describes to us in Thurs- day's Times, Mr. Gladstone, after first warning his correspondent, Mr....

Deanery has to be filled up than in the case of any similar vacancy. This is not because Deaneries are any longer peculiarly rich " plums." They have ceased to be great prizes,...

T HE importance of the action of the Government of Bengal, in abolishing trial by jury in the districts to which it had been extended, has been greatly exaggerated in one way,...

I T is stated that Tennyson, like the earlier Gnostics, was at one time tempted to solve the difficulty as to the mani- fold shortcomings of our human world, by imagining that...

T HE Dalin' News of Tuesday relates a story which, though in itself only a bit of gossip of the day, has for us a certain intellectual interest. One of its writers affirms that...

I T will be a long time, probably, before the passengers of the ' Umbria' forget the eventful journey which came to a happy end last Saturday, when that ship safely entered New...

the dead and frozen surface of the London lakes, will find a strange contrast in the scene presented by the still living and moving surface of the London river. The tidal Thames...

THE GOTHENBURG LICENSING SYSTEM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " EVECTATOR,"] SIR,—I see, in the Spectator of December 31st, a letter from Mr. Reginald Lucas directing attention to what...

COMMON THINGS. GIVE me, dear Lord, thy magic common things, Which all can see, which all may share, Sunlight and dewdrops, grass and stars and sea, Nothing unique or new, and...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFEOTATOR."] SIR,—Your previous correspondents have been elders ; may a junior speak P It always seems to me that the friction-point is not between youth...

SIR HENRY MAINE.* FEW of our public men have the literary taste and skill of Sir Mountstnart Grant-Duff, and his wide acquaintance with men and affairs. His powerful memory and...

Mn. WILLIAM BLACK'S new novel has something of the panoramic quality—given by a constantly shifting background — of The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton ; and we recognise our...

THE swarming populousness of the earth certainly calls for our possession of some means of distinguishing our fellow- creatures one from another, and of such means we should...

THE theme of these sermons, as their title implies, is the in- timate connection between morality and doctrine. It might be thought, prima facie, that this connection was too...

THIS book reminds us of a legend, current, we believe, in one of our Universities, that the printing of a certain book at the academic press had to be suspended because the...

THE Nineteenth Century for January is even fuller than usual of readable papers. The editor's reminiscences of Tennyson, for example, are by far the most interesting yet...

exact reprint, together with all the errors of typography and punctuation, &c., of the "original manuscript attached to the Act of Uniformity, 1602."—With this may be mentioned...

style, that one cannot help wishing that, instead of being neatly got up in approved English style, the book were put loosely together in foreign guise, so as to admit of the...

Press.)—It may be doubted whether either Lord Clyde or Lord Strathnairn can properly be called " Rulers of India." It is true that in time of war the soldier mostly rules ;...