case.

T HE funeral of the Emperor William, the grandest of all melancholy pageants since the Duke of Wellington died, will have taken place before these lines reach our readers, and...

to fulfil his promises is still unknown ; but the omens are unfavourable. As often happens in his disease, the general health is but slightly affected, and the Emperor displays...

House of Commons, Mr. Bradlang13,—who was so lately kept out of the House at the sacrifice of weeks of valuable Parliamentary time, —having carried his Affirmation Bill by a...

necessary and surest guarantee" for the execution of the tasks of the State, concludes with a repudiation of all ambitious de- signs :—" Careless of the splendour of glorious...

It is more important to the Russian Government to retain its influence in Bucharest than even in Sofia itself, for without such influence it has no means for the safe passage of...

politics than was anticipated. The House begins to perceive its utility in preventing mere talk, and employs it for that purpose with zest. On Tuesday, for example, the House...

as dangerous, for the Minister of War, with the consent of the President, has deprived General Boulanger of his command, and placed him upon half-pay. The pretext for this act...

it is contrary to the true principles of representative government, and injurious to their efficiency, that any person should be a member of one House of the Legislature by...

of his on the Thirty-seventh Article for saying,—"It is lawful for Christian men, at the commandment of the Magistrate, to wear weapons and nerve in the wars." This amounts only...

ready to strengthen the Home of Lords, bat declared that the initiation of reform must be left to the House of Lords itself, and he quoted Mr. Gladstone's strongly expressed...

strengthened and reformed House of Lords,—one in which the hereditary principle should have a recognition as determining the class out of which the bulk of the House was to be...

deliberate throwing over of Mr. Gladstone's counsel, ten- dered only two years ago, not to meddle with questions of such deep moment as this by the instrumentality of abstract...

Irish Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Mr. King-Harman, who has rendered great assistance to Mr. Balfour, and who is to have a salary provided for him by the suppression of one of...

Unionist meeting at Cambridge on Wednesday. He described his own visit to the field of Bannockburn, and how he could not help shouting with joy when he recalled the victory of...

Roch- dale, declining to commit himself to any revised scheme for Irish Home-rule, on the ground that to do so would require him to part with his own liberty of judgment, while...

as to be an event. Early on the morning of the 12th inst., a fall of snow commenced which lasted for thirty hours, and aided by a terrible wind, nearly suspended communication....

Consols were on Friday 101i to 1011.

the strength of Russia consists in isolation from the West, and, according to a Viennese account, said to be accurate, he has adopted a new and singular plan for confirming the...

Indian questions came out strongly on Tuesday. Some Mem- bers wished for a debate on the coat of the frontier policy, a most important subject, needing discussion, and they...

THE EMPEROR FREDERICK. T HE Great King has been buried with his fathers, first Emperor of his long line, and it is time to form an opinion as to the change made by his death in...

in the House of Commons on Friday week, on the subject of the reform of the House of Lords, is, to our minds, more impressive and important in relation to the light it throws on...

T HE advantages gained by the people from Mr. Goschen'a Conversion scheme may prove to be very great, and not the pecuniary advantages alone, though these are larger than the...

I T is convenient to go as far as possible with an opponent, and for that reason we shall not contest any of the state- ments made by Lord De La Warr in his speech in the House...

T HE scene on Wednesday, when Mr. Bradlaugh's Affirma- tion Bill was carried by a majority of 100, after a short debate in which the Government did not officially intervene at...

W E stated at some length on September 24th the grounds of a dispute which had arisen between Mr. Bart, the Member for Morpeth, and the Northumberland Miners' Asso- ciation....

Y a strange irony of fate, the Government has been defeated in the House of Lords. It might have been supposed that on no conceivable question would the Upper House, after an...

T HERE is one side of the gloomily grand scene now trans- acting itself in Berlin which will appeal powerfully to the imagination of existing historians and students of history....

M R. LESLIE STEPHEN, in his lecture upon Coleridge, delivered yesterday week at the Royal Institution, partly borrowed and partly mutilated the criticism which Mr. Traill passed...

I T is in March that the trout flits from the silent depths in which he has been wintering, to see whether any flies are yet abroad on the rippling shallows. This year he must...

SIR HENRY ELLIOT. [To THE EDITOR Or THE .gerzerAvos.-] Sra,—My attention has been called to an observation in your issue of March 10th, to the effect that I had confessed to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Thongh I hoped to have written no more on the subject of the unfortunate Anglican project of proselytism in Italy, it would be a want...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Srn,—As one of the clergymen who signed the memorial to Mr. Gladstone, I hope you will in fairness allow me to protest against the...

[To THB EDITOR or TEE " SPECTATOR."3 Sra,—Your correspondent, "A Roman Catholic," is in error when he says that there is a canon of 1604 "to the effect that the Church of...

[To THR EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sri:L i —While thanking your correspondent "A Roman Catholic" for the courteous tone in which he speaks of me personally, I must express my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—Now that the Bishops have called attention to Sunday amusements, the subject will, I hope, be considered not only with reference to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Yon assume the accuracy of Colonel Maurice's statement of what passed between us, through a common friend, as to Lord Wolseley's use of...

rro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SEE,—In his article in the current number of the Contemporary _Review, entitled "Further Notes and Queries on the Irish Demand," Mr....

MR. CRAUFURD'S "ENIGMAS OF THE SPIRITUAL LIFE."' MR. CRAUFURD states in his preface that though all the shorter addresses in this book were delivered as sermons to a London...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] STR,—It may perhaps interest the writer of the article "Ardent Agnosticism" in the Spectator of March 3rd, to be reminded that Dr. Freeman...

EXECRATION ODE. ODE. [PROM THE BAYFURIAD, A THRENODY IN THREE THROES.] "The Coercion Act has now been for nearly three months in force, but it is only of late that Lanky-doodle...

IT is easy to understand the fascination which Horace and Homer have for translators. It is not so easy—we are speaking only of Englishmen—to understand why Dante should in...

TIIS sermons of Padre Agostino da Montefeltro, called by his countrymen "the modern Savonarola," can hardly fail to have a deep interest for any one who cares to study the...

IN 1881, after a sojourn in Sydney, which seems to have inspired him with a very unfavourable opinion of that city, and obliges him to represent it as offering a flagrant...

• EVER since the Russians founded a military port at Vladivostock, situated at the extremity of the sea-coast territory south of the Amur, which General Ignatieff extorted from...

be congratulated on their work thus far. They have supplied a want which scholars, those especially engaged in teaching, must have often felt. There are medical and scientific...

LET us say at once that this is the best book which has appeared on the Scotland of the past—a Scotland not too remote or barbarous to be now uninteresting—since the late Dr....

nothing much to be said about Mr. Barchett's one-volume story, except that it is very melodramatic, very sensational, wildly improbable, and in all other respects decidedly...

which is evidently a first attempt in fiction, is not altogether a satisfying performance; but its defects are in the main those of inexperience, and it is by no means deficient...

A. False Start. By Hawley Smart. 3 vols. (Chapman and Hall.) —Every one knows Mr. Hawley Smart's novels well enough to vouch for their readableness, and for a fair amount of...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—It was a happy thought of an inmate of Lambeth Palace to give us this study of one of its most famous occupants in the past. There have been not a few...

V. White and Co.)—This latest work from the pen of the lady who, under a masculine pseudonym, has given us a number of very lively stories of military life, is not a novel, but...

Commentary, edited by the Very Rev. H. D. H. Spence and the Rev. Joseph S. Exell (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.), one of them belonging to the Old Testament, the other to the New...

C. Nimmo), fully justifies its title. It is a congeries of puns, jokes, stories, quotations, everyday reflections, good, bad, and indifferent, strung together by the slightest...