case.

T HE appointment is not yet formally made, but it is evident from Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's renunciation, from the chivalric reference made by Mr. Goschen to his rival in his...

amidst a pageant which is said to have been ex- Mr. Parnell was buried on Sunday in Glassnevin Cemetery, Dublin, amidst a pageant which is said to have been ex- ceedingly...

in Parliament for seventeen years, he is only forty-three, and has been a Cabinet Minister only since 1886. In those five years, however, he has proved himself to be one of the...

in Ireland. Immediately after the funeral, the supporters of Mr. Parnell held a meeting, and adopted an address to the Irish people, which was signed by thirty-two Members of...

October 13th, by M. de Giers to the King of Italy at Monza. As M. de Giers is the Czar's Foreign Minister, and enjoys all the confidence his Majesty gives to any one—which is...

£20,000,000 offered at 3 per cent. having been subscribed on Thursday seven and a half times over in France alone. As the subscriptions in Russia itself are considerable, the 10...

Mead, near Carmarthen, held under considerable difficultie'. In order to get to the hall, an avenue of trees had to be traversed, and this, owing to the fury of the gale, proved...

contented with the magnitude of their resources in men. They need greater multitudes of soldiers to meet the coalition between Russia and France, and are inclined to try...

be clearly understood that he does not entertain the idea of again becoming Leader of the House. "I know that I accepted the office most reluctantly in 1885, that I insisted...

Saturday. Mr. Graham Murray, the Unionist candidate, polled 1,365 votes, against 990 polled by his opponent, Mr. MacCulloch, and this secured a Unionist majority of 375. In...

last few years began to sweep over England. Inland, the country was strewn with the trunks and limbs of trees—the heavy foliage which, in spite of the fact that October is half...

though with little real enthusiasm, for the past fortnight, practically ended on Wednesday, when it became generally admitted that the attempt to institute a " block " at the...

a speech positively bristling with bright sentences, like the one in which he summed up the result of triennial Parliaments " In future, Members of Parliament are to sit with...

On Monday it was reported that three colossal statues, 10 ft. in height, of rose granite, had been discovered at Aboukir, a few feet below the surface. "The first two represent...

ebb when it is necessary for us to say that the long paper on the Levant published by us last week, and signed " G. A. S.," was not written by Mr. George Augustus Sala.

water to its other triumphs of municipal government, and on Tuesday a scheme suggested by the Water Committee was passed by the City Council, and will be presented to the...

unveiling of the statue of Mr. Bright, instanced as the very reverse of Mr. Bright's manner and method of speaking, the oratory of a certain class of speakers whom he had heard...

case " in India, is whether the Nizam of Hyderabad bought a diamond from Mr. Jacobs, of Simla, on approval, and sent it back because he disapproved it, or whether he bought it...

year, issued on Tuesday, gives a curious instance of feminine economy. A lady residing in Siam forwarded to London several parcels declared to contain walking-sticks and sta-...

the despatch of the Indian mails by way of Belgrade and Salonica, are so far advanced that the new route may be opened in the beginning of 1892. The mails will pass through...

New Consols (VD were on Friday 94 to 95.

THE IRISH FACTIONS. T HE Gladstonians perceive already that they were mistaken in expecting an immediate reconciliation between the Irish parties as a consequence of the death...

I N the feverish condition of the Continental mind, which is expecting catastrophes it hardly knows from whence, it is natural that the visit of M. de Giers to the King of Italy...

C ASUAL labour at the Docks has hitherto been the curse of London. Indeed, it would be more correct to say that casual labour at the docks has been the curse of the whole...

T ORD DERBY'S speech at Manchester on the ue- veiling of the statue of Mr. Bright, brings into prominence the peculiar position occupied by Mr. Bright in English contemporary...

W E do not attempt to predict how the Election will go, though we think Mr. Gladstone confident beyond reason ; but we are convinced that the wirepullers behind him, whenever...

I S public homage of the kind which is being paid this week to Professor Virchow—homage such is reserved, as a rule, for great statesmen or great Generals—good for science or...

I T is just thirty-three years since the writer was assured by the great Indian jeweller of that day, a man full of ex- perience and representing large capital, that there was...

T HE lack of variety in those meats which, whether flesh or fowl, must always form the ground-work and basis of an English bill-of-fare, is a want keenly felt, but most...

T HE summer which has seen a Hygienic Congress meet in London under a Royal President apparently well satis- fied by a position of so much credit, must surely chronicle some...

PROSPEROUS LANCASHIRE. FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] ACCORDING to the testimony of a late United States Consul at Manchester, recently quoted in the Spectator, the district of which...

LORD ALTHORP AND MR. W. H. SMITH : A PARALLEL AND A CONTRAST. [to THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—Most of the comments on Mr. Smith's undoubted success as Leader of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."_1 Sia, — The German tale of a fiddler pursued by wolves alluded to in " Orpheus at the Zoo," in the Spectator of October 10th, is the...

on " Orpheus at the Zoo," which have lately appeared in the Spectator, have suggested to me that possibly you might care for an anecdote which goes to prove that horses can...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Six,—I have often had to thank you for most kindly and sympathetic notices of my books ; but with reference to what you say of " The Red...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATo$"] Stn,—No doubt you are perfectly right in exposing the ab- surdity of Mr. Gladstone's mode of estimating the numerical relations between the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I regret that I was not earlier made acquainted with the existence of the letter of your correspondent, " Not So Very Good-Looking." It...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—The case of execution of the men for rick-burning referred to by your correspondent, occurred about 1832 in North Somerset (I think...

RODNEY.* MR. HANNAY'S Life of Rodney, in Messrs. Macmillan's. "English Men of Action," is an admirable contribution to an. admirable series. Mr. Hannay not only writes of the...

IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. October 10th, 1891. WHY do the great and famed repair Hitler to-day, and why Rolleth the full-voiced Requiem where Kings, warriors, poets, lie ? What...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The Executive Committee of Girton College having been informed that the name of the agency for governesses, advertised in the...

expression to a hope that your "Orpheus" will make public some more results of his interesting musical experiments upon the inhabitants of the Zoo. His recent articles in the...

-" I DO not in the least want to know what happened in the past," says Mr. Morley, insisting on the "from which we learn what ? " manner of reading history, in a speech to which...

Bashkirtseff was creating an interest which would—or, perhaps more truly, might— have satisfied the ambition of even that ambitious young lady. But the interest human beings...

the fifth and last volume of what is certainly the most popular, if not also the most valuable work of a historical and expository character that has, since the " Dis- ruption "...

IN republishing The Voyaye of Francois Leguat, the Hakluyt Society has given to us a remarkably interesting book. It has been transcribed from the first English edition, which...

Mn. ROGET has taken up, and in these two large volumes completed, a work projected by the late Secretary of the Old Water-Colour Society, Mr. Joseph John Jenkins. That gentleman...

GIFT-BOOKS. " Boy :" Word - Sketches of a Child's Life. By Helen Milman. (Griffith, Farran, Okeden, and Welsh.)—In this charming story we find much of Mrs. Ewing's best manner,...

Dramas." (Griffith and Farran.)—A very different book, but with its own usefulness, is Evenings Out, by Miss Constance Milman, a sister, we believe, of the author of " Boy." It...

Co.)—The first part of this book contains a general survey of the poet's relations to the Bible, and Christian belief generally. One noticeable remark is, that his knowledge of...

which this story is made up is very slender indeed. Harvey Dalrymple, great-nephew and heir of Gilbert Dalrymple, the owner of Westford Hall, comes home unexpectedly, with the...

Co.), is a valuable addition to the " Westminster Library." — We have also received Studia Biblica et Ecclesiastica, Vols. II. and III. (the Clarendon Press), valuable...

half-apology for the " unexpectedly large propor- tion " which the pieces in this volume by Scottish authors bear to those which bear the names of English authors. The...

the successor of one, bearing the same title, that we noticed last year. As that began with " The Charge of the Light Brigade," so does this with "Trafalgar." (The story of the...

M.A. (Church Extension Association.)—Mr. Moore has done a good work here in showing how much England owes to the exertions of the Church. He reviews the progress of education...

may be mentioned together. Sketches of Village Buildings. By James Williams. (Bentley and Son.)—Any one desirous to set up a model village cannot do better than study Mr....

(Routledge and Sons.)—It is satisfactory to find that Dr. Courmelles, after careful study of his subject—a study which, indeed, is manifested by this volume—remains " absolutely...

Henry Bowdler. (Regan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—John Juvenal Ancina was one of the companions of St. Philip Neri. He was born in 1545, and died in 1604. In 1890 he was admitted...

on a ques- tion now much discussed, a little book on The Use of Greek. By Maurice C. Hime, M.A. (Hodges and Figgis, Dublin.)—Dr. Hime argues for the retention of the language as...