action in the port of Chefoo, on the Gulf of Pecheli, the nearest port to Pekin. It was at first declared that the Russians had seized an English "concession," and compelled the...

and was directed to prove that the object of the Chartered Company in the Matabele war and the Jameson Raid was solely to acquire a gold-bearing country, and thus to increase...

T HE threatened debate on affairs in South Africa came off on Friday week, and was not unworthy of the occasion, the protagonists being Sir William Harcourt and Mr. Chamber-...

be drawn from the cipher telegrams, but held that, nevertheless, he was bound to do the beat he could for the Empire and South Africa. It was essential to maintain the paramount...

any ease.

William Harcourt did not address the House of Commons, the Leader of the Opposition fled into West Monmouthshire, where he found amongst his constituents a more appreciative...

of the National Union of Conservative and Consti- Antional Associations in honour of her Majesty's Ministers, at -which Mr. Balfour spoke. He commented on the singular victory...

much more moderate tone than most of his supporters. His best point was that when the Education Authority established schools of its own, it would not be competent also to...

sent to Suakin. It will consist of the 35th Sikhs, the Nth Punjab Infantry, the 1st Bombay Lancers, the 5th Bom- bly Mountain Battery, and a company of Madras Sappers, the whole...

drawn up in cautious and courteous form, is obviously intended to inform the world that the Sultan's mind is seriously affected. The assassination of the Shah threw him into a...

upon the great patrol of six hundred and eighty men which has marched out to bring in Mr. Rhodes and his party from Gwelo. The Matabeles are sure to attack that body, and if...

been a very important one from several points of view. In the first place, it shows that at least one denomination of Dissenters has not lost its bigotry, for Mr. Hirst...

after two more nights of rather languid debating. The asserted eagerness of private Members to speak did not show itself in ardent speeches, but for all that there were some...

of Boston, the Transatlantic counterpart of our own Hon. Artillery Company, and a body with a history quite as interest- ing and distinguished—it was founded in 1639—is going to...

the Cordwainers' Company (cordwainer means shoemaker) at their hall in Cannon Street, the object of the meeting being to unveil a memorial window to the memory of Mr. John Came...

to his tenantry at Thorney Abbey, Cambridgeshire, which is full of curious statistics. He declares that although his family have in the last eighty years spent £1,598,000 in...

of the Coronation, the ceremonials for which are immediately about to begin. Foreign Princes are arriving in Moscow literally by the dozen, and Asiatic Princes are as common in...

an American of the Americans, addressed the Loyal Legion at St. Paul last Sunday, in favour of war, as against arbitration. He does not agree with Cardinals Vaughan, Gibbons,...

on the Rating Bill. All the instructions were ruled out of order by the Speaker except that of Mr. Knox, the Member for Derry, which proposed to extend the pro- visions of the...

New Consols (21) were on Friday, 1121.

THE MAJORITY FOR THE EDUCATION BILL. T HE great majority by which the second reading of the Education Bill was carried on Tuesday night, 423 to 156, or much nearer three to one...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN is compelled to conduct his negotiations with President Kruger at terrible disadvantage. The President, to begin with, holds a double position, being on one...

of any Leader of recent times, unless perhaps it was of Sir Stafford Northcote for a few years before his retirement, than has been poured out on Mr. Balfour during the early...

W E are by no means so sure that the United States will either "enfranchise" or annex Cuba, as some of our contemporaries appear to be. It is, we have no doubt, quite true that,...

W E wonder if Englishmen ever fully realise how their Empire must appear in the eyes of its European rivals. We think they do not, for if they did they would be less surprised...

M R. BALFOUR'S speech at the annual dinner of the Civil Service drew attention to the extraordinary success with which this country has solved the problem of combining a system...

Bishop of Peterborough will be present at the Coronation of the Czar, as the representative of the English Church, has attracted little attention beyond that which Sir Wilfrid...

" Life " of Oliver Wendell Holmes contains a re- markable letter written in 18(17, when be was fifty - eight years of age, on the natural phenomena of old age in their bearing...

T HE eloquent description published in the Times of Monday of the services which the late Mr. Chester Macnaghten, the head of the College of Nobles in Kattiawar, nad performed...

T HE Dutch, who seem to grudge no expenditure for public purposes, have followed up the construction of the new museum for the national collection of pictures by adding a model...

THE SCILLY ISLES. IF, in the haste and high-pressure of our modern British life, one wishes a short holiday of complete change and of perfect rest, he cannot do better than...

[TO TR. EDITOR Or THR "SPECTATOR. "] Six, It would save a great deal of trouble, and some possible friction, and some expense, if the new 4e. grant of the Educa- tion Bill were...

MILLIONAIRES. [To =a ammo or as msracrraros."d Silk—Yon touch the true reason why rich men delight rather to grow richer than to give their money away. They delight in the...

[To TER EDITOR OF THE “ SPECTATOR.'] SIR, — Your correspondent, "L. L. S.," in the Spectator of May 2nd, says he would very much like to know whether any of your readers have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,— I can hardly regret that I have been misunder- stood since the misunderstanding has called forth so able a defence of Goethe as that...

[To THE EDITOR OP TEE " SPECTATOR.] Sin,—You may be interested by the following fragment preserved by Stobleus in his " Florilegium," VoL III., p. 231. Recent events at...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR"] SIR, — Are "bulls," even unconscious "bulls," always censur- able and always things merely to laugh at ? are their authors merely men to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Your article on the Rating Bill agrees with what I have been saying to my friends for many years. I am rector of a rural parish, my...

once heard an Irish lady, an author of distinction, asked if she had ever been to Devonshire. " No, I have never been to Devonshire, except to Lyme Regis, and that's in,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR " ] SIR,—I venture to add an American dog-story to your list which has been given me by one of my neighbours as follows r. —We have two dogs, '...

g() THE EDITOR OF TEN " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Having read from time to time in your pages notable instances of sagacity in dogs and cats, it has occurred to me that the following...

[To TIER EDITOR 01 TH2 " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I am a great lover of all animals, especially cats. The two I have now are the greatest possible contrast to each other in all...

[St. Columba, though a priest, had joined in an Irish battle. The penance imposed on him was perpetual exile from Ireland. He made Iona his abode till death, preaching on the...

MORE HAWARDEN HORACE. A POSTCARD TO LORD WARKWORTH.—Pd. L 33.) PERRICOS odi, puer, apparatus, Displicent nexae philyra cor- onae; Mitte sectari, rosa quo locorum Sera...

DEAR other self, so silent, swift, and sure, My dumb companion of delightful days, Might fairy fingers from thy orbit rays Of steel strike music, as the gods of yore From reed...

my duck and cats may interest your readers. We have several cats, one,—' Tom,' is a handsome young fellow and a great favourite from his amiable disposition ; his mother,...

ELEGIACS IN QUANTITY. (Nove.—Syllables on which the accent falls have been treated as long, without regard to Greek or Latin authority, as, e.g., dragon, comet. This is...

THE ACADEMY.—II. THE PORTRAITS. IN dealing with the portraits at an exhibition the question of likeness to the original can hardly be considered. Resem- blance, it is curious...

CLEG KELLY.* IMMEDIATELY after reading Oleg Kelly an enthusiastic reviewer might be tempted to hail Mr. Crockett as a latter-day Dickens—a Dickens with a drier humour, a more...

Tan book before us is based upon a very interesting series of letters from China and Japan, contributed to the Times last • The Far Eastern Qat:Hon. By Valentine (Iwo'. London...

been said of the mighty Rothschild. race that, in amends for the extraordinary qualities which have made them what they are, Providence has endowed them with a certain lack of...

Du. MURPHY uses the word " doctrine," when he calla this volume " Lectures on Doctrine," in a somewhat limited sense. The subject of them is, we should say, rather the...

THESE slight sketches are interesting, not so much for any novel information they contain, as for the echoes of old days, and the reminiscences they recall of the little New...

Ma. La GALLIENNE prefaces these volumes with a "hoard of little maxims," which he describes as " some first and second principles of criticism." Some of them, we suppose, are to...

Ms. THOMAS MacrcaY is a very clear and persuasive ex- ponent of what may be called the orthodox school of Poor- law reformers,—the school which aims, in his words, at "such an...

The Journal of the Royal Statislical Society is a storehouse of facts relating to all departments of the national life,—facts which ought to be of the highest value to the...

D.D. (Alexander Gardner.)—This volume gives a translation of the principal Lives in the author's new and enlarged edition of Pinkerton's " Vitas Antiqute Sanctorum Scotia:: "...

be found a helpful little volume. It contains fifty odd extracts, in prose and verse, furnished with a complete vocabulary, and brought into a very reasonable compass. The...

and Edwards and A. P. Marsden) we have Berkshire or Berkshire and Derbyshire, both compiled by Robert DodwelL There is too much " compilation " by far in these books. We must...