were released on Thursday, the Executive Council of the Transvaal having commuted their sentences of fifteen }ears' imprisonment into a fine of £25,000 each. In the event of...

the battle at Omdurman, where it may give a fatal blow to the self- confidence of the Baggaras, who are the Khalifa's most trustworthy soldiers, but its immediate results are...

high in the confidence of the Emperor, made an important speech to the Delegations on Tuesday. He characterised the Armenian massacres as " a stain on the nineteenth century,"...

T HE "Sirdar" or General in supreme command of the Egyptian Army, General Kitchener, has struck a heavy blow at the power of the Khalifs. The Sondanese tyrant, who, though now...

The insurgents are perpetually attacked and always defeated, but their impis or regiments have not been driven to any great distance from Bulawayo, and the country is in no way...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, .Tune 27th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

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on Thursday to transfer the control of education from the County Councils, where farmers are one in nine, to the District Councils, where they are three in five.

which held a meeting on Tuesday at the hall of the Grocers' Company, Princes' Street, E.C., Mr. Chamberlain presided as Secretary for the Colonies, and made a very remarkable...

this day week, which was none the better, but rather the worse, for being so successful. It was partisan through and through, except for one qualification, when he genially...

when it came to be discussed it soon appeared that there was very great diversity of opinion about it. Sir Douglas Smith, the High Commissioner of Canada and the delegate of the...

nominate Mr. McKinley as the candidate of the party for the Presidential election. He has a majority among the delegates of a hundred. This means that the party intends, if...

successful, and that is in concealing facts from Western Europe. Unless British Consuls are on the spot we never hear the exact facts from any corner of the Empire, and...

but in spite of great clearances of amendments effected both by the Speaker in relation to "instructions" to the Committee, and by the Chairman of Committees, Mr. J. W. Lowther,...

the great hall of the Church House on Tuesday, the Bishop of Rochester in the chair, while his predecessor in the See, the present Bishop of Winchester, was also present, Mr....

reading of the Irish Land Bill with a clever but rather captious speech, in which the speaker seemed more anxious to " score off" the Government than to make helpful...

Sunday evening (the 7th inst.), at the Clapham Congre- gational Church on Mr. Gladstone's letter, taking as his text St. Paul's exhortation to the Galatians, "Be not entangled...

to the late Judge Hughes was held on Wednesday in the Jerusalem Chamber at Westminster, Dean Bradley in the chair. The Dean delivered a cordial and well-deserved eulogium on the...

usual humour and keenness, if without much statesmanship. He drew attention to the high prices paid for tenant-right, sometimes from twenty to thirty years' purchase. He joined...

to worry the British administrators of Egypt. On Monday, June 8th, the Mixed Tribunal, in which those Governments have the superior influence, delivered judgment against the...

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THE ADVANCE ON THE NILE. T HE assault of Firkeb, described at first as if it had been a skirmish in the course of operations on the Nile, may turn out to have been an engagement...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN'S speech on Tuesday to the representatives of the different delegates of the British and Colonial Chambers of Commerce was a very able and remarkable one, and...

S O far as can be judged from the report, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's speech at Cambridge last Saturday was a highly successful one ; very few sentences were spoken without...

I T is interesting to read of the latest plot said to have been concocted by the French Monarchists, even though the interest is necessarily of a rather sardonic kind, an...

going to pass. Possibly it wi have to be cut down, and a certain number of the contentious clauses omitted, but that it will not be wrecked by obstructive opposition seems...

TH E speech delivered by the Austrian Chancellor, Count Goluchowski, on Tuesday, has hardly attracted in this country the attention it deserves. It is most unusual for an...

urgent as well as a difficult question. That class plays the part of a nursery from which at any moment the perfect offender can be obtained. Habitual criminals may not in all...

TV - HEN people talk of a boy-poet, they talk as specs. latively as some of the mining companies do when they issue a flaming prospectus on the strength of clear traces of...

T HE second invasion of the Soudan by troops under the command of English officers rouses once more the old and exceedingly difficult question of what Mussulman "fanaticism "...

G REAT numbers of the London sparrows are now deserting the streets and houses for the ever-in- creasing area of public gardens, parks, and squares. There they nest by...

ROBERT BURNS.* " DON'T be afraid," said Burns a few days before his death, "I'll be more respected a hundred years after I am dead than I am at present." The poet was a true...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR "] Sra,—Mr. Augustine Birrell, having learnt what County .Councillors are not, may like to know what they are. Let me take my own county. The...

SIE,—In your " News of the Week " of June 6th you can recall nothing to equal the Moscow tragedy except that at Fidena3. A -disaster strangely parallel to that at Moscow...

THE AGRICULTURAL LAND RATING BILL. [To rien Barron or min • Brscraron."] Sin,—Sir H. Fowler, M.P., is reported in the East Anglian Times of June 8th as having told his audience...

A KENTISH SCENE. JUST where the London road dips down To rise once more through Harbledown, Where, underneath the woods of Blean, The sheltered hops grow dark and green, Where...

Persia. The letter was, owing to a misprint, signed W. J. Goldsmid.]

THE story of Lorenzo de Medici comes to us again across the drift of years, making us wonder anew at the indefinable but absolute Florentine fascination, of its kind different...

Fon eight of these short stories out of the ten, In Homespun, is a very good title, and the title of an excellent little book. The other two stories are melodrama " in...

GARDENS are becoming yearly more cosmopolitan, for they are filled with the floral and herbaceous inhabitants of many • (I.) The Bamboo Garden. By A. B. Freeman•M.tford, 0.B....

glory of letters as is Mr. Stevenson's last romance, it confirms ns in the opinion which we ventured to express on his death,—the opinion that though his novels have so many...

interesting and reassuring incident of a twelvemonth within which the relations of Great Britain and the United States have been in an exceptionally unsatisfactory condition...

takes its title is the longest, the most important, and, with the exception of an admirable In memoriam notice of Lord Leighton, showing an intimate knowledge of the man, the...

which is devoted almost exclusively to dogs and the ladies who keep them, and which is full of lively letterpress and admirable portraits of both pets and their owners. No doubt...

Press.)—This is the seventh year of publication of this invaluable manual, a volume which contains a quite exhaustive statement of its subject. What hospitals do, for whom they...