T HE reticence of the Czar causes dissatisfaction. At Vienna, while Prince Lobanof was still with him, his little speeches in answer to toasts by the Emperor of Austria were...

Df immediate importance, the disposition of the Czar to- wards Turkey. It is said, with some appearance of authority, that Prince Lobanof settled with Count Goluchowski a course...

stantinople itself that the Powers, fearful lest the anarchy in Turkey should end in some unexpected explosion, are dis- cussing plans for the deposition of the Sultan. If it is...

Powers from the Sultan, only stipulating in addition that the Mussulman garrison left in the island shall be a small one. The "reforms," however, have not been officially...

the direct complicity of the Sultan in the massacre of the Armenians, which covered at least six thousand persons. Not one or two, but twenty or more witnesses of re- pute saw...

case.

cheap money through which we have been passing is over. America is withdrawing gold from London in rather large sums, the banks there being determined to support the Treasury in...

in Dublin on Monday, and declared that Mr. Dillon did not really represent the Irish people fairly at all. In the first place, nearly half the Anti-Parnellites, both within and...

two thousand representatives of Conservative clubs, and they were addressed by Lord Churchill, who seemed to take great pride in the independence shown by the House of Lords in...

Pasteur Insti- tute of Lille, has discovered a cure for the bite of poisonous snakes, which he obtains as follows : He inoculates horses with the poison of different kinds of...

Mr. McKinley's chances. The sound money Democrats headed, it is understood, by President Cleveland, have resolved in Convention to start a candidate of their own, and have...

1894, to consider the financial relations of England and Ireland, and which lost its chairman, Mr. Childers, by death at the beginning of this year (after losing Sir Robert...

Paris was visited by a most terrific cyclone, which blew over many cabs and one omnibus, uprooted about forty trees, blowing some of them into the Seine, maiming many people and...

an experienced officer of the Congo State, as to the methods pursued by the Belgians in that region. He confirms the worst stories in circulation. He says the regions drained by...

Major Watts. He was escorting a prominent Matabele chief named Makoni to confinement, but, apparently en route, tried him by a field Court-Martial, which condemned him to death....

the ex- ternal and internal dangers which threaten the National Church, and gives a general support to the Church Reform League in- augurated last November at the Church House,...

by Commissioners who had signed this, the first by the chairman (the O'Conor Don), Mr. John Redmond, and three others, which concurs very much with Mr. Childers's draft report,...

put as many stings into his letters as there are sen- tences in them, and with a fair amount of success. The drift of his letters to the Times of Monday and Thursday on clerical...

Sheaf of Astronomical Discoveries," appears to show that a great many rocky islets, as we may call them,—planetary fragments of a minute kind,—are travelling about within no...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 111. •

THE ONE REMEDY IN TURKEY. E UROPE seems likely to fall into two blunders upon this Eastern question. One, the extent and direct influence of which perpetually surprises us, is...

the relative capacity of Great Britain and Ireland to bear taxation con- tains very valuable elements, in spite of its rather con- fused and confusing character. The Commission,...

-E UROPE presents no spectacle more extraordinary than the contrast between the nerve of the Spanish people and their incapacity in action. For eighteen months they have...

I T is,we hope, satisfactory to most of us to read of Mr. Balfour's beginning his long vacation by first paying a short visit to Mr. Gladstcne at Hawarden, and then taking Mr....

of the proposal to establish a State monopoly of spirits as a source of revenue may turn out to be an important event in the history of taxation, and certainly deserves the...

new and important goldfields is now a matter of almost monthly occurrence, and the additions, actual and prospective, to the world's gold supply are so enormous that the...

P ERHAPS the most interesting detail in the generally quiet proceedings of the Trades-Union Congress, which has been sitting in Edinburgh this week, was in the attitude of that...

note published yesterday week, in which he acknowledged a work on "Armenia and its Sorrows," described the Sultan as "the assassin who sits on the throne of Constantinople." We...

M ISS BETHAM-EDWARDS will not succeed in intro- ducing the Conseil de Famille into England, or any institution analogous to it. The voters could hardly be made to understand...

T HE coming international cat show at Paris is to be accompanied by an historical catalogue of the breeds -exhibited. Among these one will probably be absent, the "feral cat,"...

THE BOARDING-OUT SYSTEM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " EFECTATOIL" Stn,—There can hardly be any doubt in the minds of those who have had practical experience of the working of the...

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] cannot understand Miss (or Mrs.?) Edith Sharp's mis- taking the sex of your contributor of August 29th. The con- , tempt for, and the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,-If you are opening your columns to instances of suc- cessful dealing with the interrogative bore, I hope you will find space to recall...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin, If (as seems undoubted) clerical gaiters or leggings would he a great convenience to the ordinary clerical bicyclist, is there any...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The border-line between human Reason and the Instinct of Animals is so faintly traced, that many of us can hardly see that it exists....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Surely it is not the Bishops, but " C. H. B.," who has blundered. The Roman Augustine was the first to introduce Christianity, not...

had some thirty years ago a bright little black-and. tan terrier, who used to be my constant companion both in walks and rides. His friend was my pony (though often very jealous...

[TO THZ EDITOR 07 THZ " SPICTATOH."1 SIR, —A spider with tortoise-shell legs having made its web just outside one of our windows, I thought that observations concerning it...

Country of my fathers, home of my heart ! Overseas you call me : Why an exile from me ? Wherefore sea-severed, long leagues apart ? As the shining salmon, homeless in the sea...

MR. GLADSTONE ON BUTLER.* CONCLUDING NOTICE. MR. MR. GLADSTONE states the case for the inevitable fallibility► of all human knowledge with his usual power. Of course, we have...

DARKEN'D the world ! Each day the glory fades,. All the bright sunshine lost in endless shades. First a dim twilight, then the day and night Lost in one shadow, curtain'd from...

ON the death of the poet Crabbe Lord Melbourne rubbed his hands gleefully and said, "I am so glad when one of these fellows dies, because then one has his works complete on...

OF the four short stories given in Day Books, the two prin- cipal ones are " Morrison's Heir" and "The Fifth Edition." The leading figure in the first is a girl whose stupendous...

WHEN Rossetti visited Paris and saw the work of Manet and Courbet, he dismissed it as slovenly scrawling. This is the kind of apercu we too often get from the hasty, hostile...

IF the estimate of the late Cardinal Manning contained in this work by M. Francis de Pressense, the son of the well- known Protestant minister of that name, is too unqualified...

to the ordinary reader of poetry, it is probably due rather to three great modern singers than to any knowledge at first-hand of his best plays or even his Homeric paraphrases....

The Exploration of Australia : from 1814 to 1896. By Albert F. Calvert. (George Philip and Son.)—We have here before us a second bulky book on The Exploration of Australia...

(Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—The late . Mr. Johnson took great pains in preparing this volume, containing an account of the charities instituted for the relief of the blind, and...

Eyton makes a very vigorous attempt to establish what we may venture to call a modus virendi between the Beatitudes and actual life. They contain, by common consent, the...

(Printed for Subscribers.):— An interesting pamphlet this, especially in the matter of pirated editions, and poems, or parts of poems, suppressed by the author. "The...

of " Miss Molly." (W. Blackwood and Sons.)—The author of" Miss Molly" writes well, but, with the one exception of "Felicity Brooke," a bright and attractive story, these...

BristoL)—Mr. M. H. Hervey may fairly challenge com- petitors in the matter of piling up sensations. Mr. Morley Griffin, who finds his way into Dartmoor through his habit of...