In Holland the people begin to fear that the dynasty may end, and that a question of succession may arise. The Prince of Orange, a weakly man, is dying ; and the King, now...

which were proposed as additions to the Bill. And, after some unimportant proposals of Mr. Ecroyd's had been negatived, Mr. Woodall's amendment for the enfranchisement of women...

to cultivate friends in Europe, and raise funds for the railway to Delagoa Bay, have received an ovation in Berlin. The Chancellor has exerted himself to do them honour, has...

in which Lord Granville directs Sir E. Baring's locum. tenons at Cairo to inform General Gordon that, " as the original plan for the evacuation of the Soudan has been dropped,"...

M R. GLADSTONE on Monday night stated that the negotiations with France had reached a point which would shortly enable the Government to consult the Powers. He hoped, therefore,...

originally drawn by the Government passed through Com- mittee. Mr. Cavendish Bentinck made an effort to save the rent-charge qualification, by the aid of which so many faggot-...

case.

Friday week, after only three ballots had been taken, during which Mr. Blaine's numbers went up steadily, the whole party of Mr. Logan, General Grant's nominee, joined him in .a...

could not be responsible for the fate of the Bill if this amend- ment were accepted. He did not wish to argue the case on its merits, and fully recognised the force of some of...

Goschen, who ridiculed the idea of excluding married women from votes which were to be given to spinsters and widows, if the object were, as alleged, to enforce the equal rights...

Folkestone, who had resisted women's suffrage on former occasions, proposed on this occasion to support it, not because it was good, but because it would enfranchise a better...

amendment, and Mr. Storey in its favour, the House divided, and rejected Mr. Woodall's amendment by two to one,—by 271 votes against 135 ; majority, 136. Only thirty-one...

speech which proved how very little he had grasped the full meaning of the issue. The only thing to debate was, as he put it, a very humdrum matter,—" Will you grant the...

Randolph Churchill to Mr. H. H. Wainwright, the presi- dent'of the Blackpool Conservative Association, on the subject of Lord Randolph's rather sudden conversion to the...

Vienna of murdering and robbing an old banker, his son, and another boy, and of killing Police-Agent Bloch, and was condemned to death. Stellmacher denied the murder of the...

exempt candidates for the priesthood from the three years of barrack life to be imposed on all the youth of France; but the remonstrances of the propertied classes have been...

was laid in Berlin on Monday with extraordinary ceremony. The Emperor was present, all the Ambassadors, the Princes of the Imperial House, Prince Bismarck, and all the grandees...

W. H. Deverell, of Bossington House, Stock- bridge, has come forward to contest South Hampshire in the Liberal interest, and the polling is fixed for Friday week. Mr. Deverell,...

in the United States, according to the Catholic census, did not -exceed five-and-a-half millions. This includes, of course, the 'French Catholics of Louisiana and the Spanish...

in the House of Lords on Monday night. Lord Salisbury likes to make unprovoked attacks out of the House of Lords, but seems to be very much injured when they are answered in the...

to benefit by one. The Government appears confident that a petroleum district has been discovered near Sibi, on the proposed Quetta Railway, and has sent experts to report and...

to 99}-i x.d.

THE POLITICAL SITUATION. T HE position of the Government has improved during the week ; but a partially new question has come to the front which forbids us to believe that they...

N OTHING, perhaps, shows better the morbid and almost monomaniac suspicion with which some of the Con- servative Party regard the Liberal Leader, than the singularly...

W E are not very fond of prophetic politics, the drift of events being constantly deflected by unexpected accidents ; but it is sometimes necessary to notice possibilities still...

T HE Republican party in the United States has for twenty- four years enjoyed the strong sympathy of English Liberals, who saw from the first that their tenets would ulti-...

T HE" invasion of Ulster " by the Nationalists has created a novel difficulty for the Irish Government. Upon the Tory theory of ruling Ireland it would be no difficulty at all....

I F any one wants to study the genius of democracy when, in the most vulgar of all its forms, it saturates a clever man's mind, he should study Lord Randolph Churchill's letter...

O N the last day on which Parliament sat before the Whit- suntide recess, two things happened which are in striking contrast. The Government, by moving the adjournment of ' the...

M R. STOPFORD BROOKE preached last week a very remarkable sermon before the British and Foreign Unitarian Association, on the paramount importance of keeping Christ and the...

W E wonder if mankind, taken as a body, do care to have nice things to eat? Educated men in Europe, accus- tomed to comfort and solicitous for health, will open their eyes at...

" THE POLITICAL SITUATION." [TO THE EDITOR or THE " EPECTATOR."1 • :SIL — The article under the above heading in the Spectator of last Saturday states : " The electors...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] STR,—It is with regret that I read in your last number a sen- tence respecting the English wife of the Shereef of Wazan which will give...

ITO THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In comparing my address on the above subject at the Co-Operative Congress with Miss Simcox's article on co-operative shirt-making in...

fTo TER Emma OF TIER "SPECTATOR. "' SIR,—Mr. Trevelyan's statement in the House about the riot in Newry is now before your eyes. The practical lesson that ought to be drawn...

LTO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR. "] Stn,—The downfall of Christianity amongst the French country people is abundantly proved by the kind of shows which are most popular in...

THE " SPECTATOR."' Sul,—In your review of "A Poet's Portfolio" in the Spectator of May 31st, you quote the following stanza from Matthew Arnold's " Euphrosyne" :— " On one...

[To TRH EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR."] Stn, — As I am anxious, if possible, to get a satisfactory render- ing of the lines Mr. Symonds refers to in your number for last week,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE Sta,—The experience of nine years has shown that a country holiday is no impossible good for the children of the closest and dreariest parts of London....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The phenomena of deafness which puzzle" Observer " are surely to be explained by an unsuccessful attempt at correcting imperfect...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I think the epitaph a copy of which I enclose, and to which some friends of mine drew my attention in Edwinstowe Churchyard, on the...

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS. [FOURTH NOTICE.] IN this fourth notice of the Royal Academy Exhibition we pro- pose only to note here and there the most important of those pictures...

ANCIENT RELIGION AND MODERN THOUGHT.* THIS is a book which evinces not only wide knowledge and much subtlety of thought, but a very high dialectic power. The fourth and fifth...

to republish his con- tributions to the discussion of the important subject of co- operation between capital and labour. He would have done better if, instead of contenting...

THE "Legend," or " Chronicle," which is "introductory " to this novel is not very happily worked out. " The feast-day of St. Elme " is a strange date for an event that happened...

Faux the internal evidence afforded by this work, we conclude that Mrs. Pringle had not extensively studied East Africa from books, or, indeed, Eastern travels of any kind,...

THIS is the biography of a right noble gentleman, a soldier of heroic mould, a chevalier sans pear et sans reproche. Colin Mackenzie was one of the men who have helped to make...

The Historical Monuments of France. By James F. Runnewelf. (James R. Osgood, Boston ; Trlibuer and Co., London.)—This work, which, as touching print, paper, binding, and...

WE are rather overdone with the literature of " the Profession " just now, in the way of "Memoirs," " Impressions," and volu- minous criticism. Minor novelists have of late...

Manchester; Simpkin, Marshall, and Co., London.)—Cheshire Gleanings does not answer to its title so well as the " Lancashire Gleanings" of the same writer. Some of the...

the most part, a description of Exmoor scenery, as the writer saw it himself at midsummer. He tells how he traversed the moor, with what delight he came to the hollows with...

vols. (Elliot Stock.)—This novel is divided by a pretty sharp line into two parts, one of which is, it seems to us, eminently absurd ; the other is a fairly reasonable and...

By Herman Charles Merivale. (Chapman and Hall).—Mr. Merivale means his book to amuse " children of all ages." We should think,—but we say it with diffidence, knowing bow...

from the two which he terms " authoritative "—Dr. Andrew Wilson's " Ever-Victorious Army," and Dr. Birkbeck Hill's " Colonel Gordon in Central Africa." As for'the more recent...