condi- tions and prospects of British trade in Canada by Mr. Richard Grigg, Special Commissioner of the Advisory Committee on Commercial Intelligence. We are plainly. told that...

by the Canadian Government to discuss the immigration question, has been attended by eminently satisfactory results. It was announced in Thursday's Times that Mr. Lemieux's...

A T the opening of the Belgian Session on Tuesday the new Prime Minister, M. Schollaert, made an important declaration in which he said that the Government were still determined...

nullity of marriage in a case which exposes to the full the extraordinary complications of the marriage laws. An Englishwoman married a Frenchman, but the Frenchman, who was...

second reading in the Prussian ,Chamber on Thursday. As originally brought forward it was rejected by the Com- mittee, and a compromise was accordingly agreed to by the...

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any case.

Mr. T. Farman, the Paris correspondent of the Tribune, accom- plished a memorable feat with a flying machine of his own invention. The apparatus, says the Times correspondent,...

loyal Conservative or more convinced • Free-trader alive to-day, was also a guest at the luncheon, and -made a speech which we trust will receive the earnest attention of the...

Unionist Free-Trade Club entertained Lord Cromer and other Unionist Free-traders at a luncheon. The gather- ing 'was' a remarkable one, and representative of the best elements...

Alnwick on Wednesday dwelt upon the fact that foreign nations are showing a disposition to increase their Navies. At the present time we had a Navy perfectly adequate to meet...

very sound things about• Free-trade. We must . expect to find ourselves in the future in a less satisfactory condition as to the employment of labour and the profits of capital,...

York correspondent of a statement by Mr. Grover Cleveland is to the advisability of providing pensions for ex-Presidents. rhe argument in favour of pensions might be taken as...

for several interesting papers and a good deal of intelligent discussion. Thus we may note Canon Beeching's acute appreciation of the poetry of Mr. William Watson, which, unlike...

Courts of London, San Francisco, and elsewhere threatens to eclipse the finest efforts of imaginative novelists. The latest instance comes from Paris, where Sir Julius Wernher...

doubts, and waverings whioh alternate with moods of high hope and ambition, Mr. Kipling declared that the chief cure was "to interest yourself in some issue not personal to...

of an admirable address given by Mr. Rudyard Kipling to the students of McGill University, Montreal. Mr. Kipling warns his hearers that when they go out into the battle of life...

secret in Dublin Castle to investigate the loss of the Crown jewels. The result of the procedure adopted has been to, fill the air with rumours of a very disagreeable kind in...

and control the Territorial Army, have now taken shape, and were gazetted on Tuesday. We are glad to note that in the great industrial centres the co-opted members usually...

during the past few days,—one in England and the other in the United States. Last Saturday afternoon at Barnsley, West Yorkshire, children were crowding in great numbers into...

Jan. 16th. Consols (2i) were on Friday $3,1---on Friday. week 83i. .

THE OSTRACISM OF THE UNIONIST FREE- TRADERS. A, QUESTION of vital import to the future of the Unionist Party has been raised during the past week. In their speeches at Glasgow...

ri"HE proclamation at Fez of the Pretender, Mulai Hafid, profoundly alters the situation in Morocco. Mulai Hafid had already been acknowledged as Sultan in the South, and now...

AT a luncheon given in his honour at Glasgow on XI_ Friday, January 10th, Lord Cromer said some very sound and notable things about the Empire and Free- trade, and also upon the...

by the Druce trial has had one unfortunate consequence. It has diverted atten- tion from the real and great injustice involved in the proceedings in the Police Court. The "...

He is too wicked, too expensive, too prolific, too dangerous, and he is to be put out of the way by all means and in as large numbers as possible. That is the substance of a...

S UCH cruelty to children as was disclosed in the trial at York at the end of last week is not common, happily for our humanity, and yet the character of the cruelty must have...

A FAIR field and no favour" is nowadays considered to be every man's due. In the abstract, at least, we all agree that so it ought to be. Nature alone abhors the theory, and she...

I N the clear dawn of a September morning a wide-beamed boat lying at the stone quay of the harbour is being loaded in that deliberate fashion characteristic of harbour work,...

AN ALTERNATIVE TO STATE-GRANTED OLD-AGE PENSIONS: [To THE EDITOR OF THE "Sezorwrosi your readers are not weary of the subject of old-age pensions, may' I be permitted to...

To zaz EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR...3 Sza,—The crisis in Ireland, which appears to amount to open and widespread defiance of the law, affords a good test of the character of...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your article last week entitled "Rates and Rate- payers" you state that "the people who groan under them [the rates] are virtually...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR:1 Sut,—In your article on the coming Education Bill (Spectator, January 11th) you state that the real difficulty of the con- tracting-out scheme...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOE.1 Sin,—The Spectator is regarded in India as possessing some- thing like an hereditary interest in Indian affairs, and high hereditary...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." . ] Sin,—I venture to ask you to insert the following statement of the Hospitality Committee of the Pan-Anglican Congress. A very large...

LTO VIE EDITOR OF TRB '`SPROTATOR."] SIR,—I am sure you would not wish to convey a false impres- sion of an institution even if you condemn it, or let misrepresentation of...

"SPEOTATOR.'1 SIR,—I do not propose to tempt your patience with another long letter, but I should like to point out that in your note to my previous letter you appear to have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE 'EPROTATOR:j SIR,—The announcement that the Great Central and the Great Northern Companies have decided to enter into an agreement which will have the...

[TO THAI EDITOR OF THZ -Spipmezon.1 SIR,—There is no doubt that the present Government has grievously disappointed many who voted for it at the last General Election, and that...

[TO THE ninron OF TUE "SPECrATOR." . 1 Sin,—Having the good of our country very much at heart, and knowing, as we well do, the great misery and the state of unrest the Japanese...

two remarks with regard to your very interesting letters to a working man ? (1) Is it not the case that 'c'hat is wanted is a better distribution of existing capital, —the...

LTO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR:] Sut,—Relative to your "Letter to a Working Man" of January 11th, there is one thing grates on me as an economist who remembers the many stones...

rre TUB EDITOR OF TUE " sr scriveroa."1 .SLE,—Referring to the correspondence in your columns as to proportionate expenditure, my experience may help families with moderate...

LETTERS TO A. WORKING MAN. III.—" THE RICHER THE STATE THE POORER THE PEOPLE." DEAR MR. People sometimes talk as if the poor could be bene- fited by making the State richer....

SIR,—I cannot possibly instruct your readers in the art of bringing up a family in happiness and contentment on 2175 per annum ; but this is a far my from•the complaint of your...

THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY. THIS Society represents more fully than any other the principal tendencies of modern art both in England and on the Continent. Its Exhibitions,...

THEY lived and loved when Glory swayed Our England's sceptre undismayed, Rome's thunders treating with disdain Though backed by all the might of Spain On land and sea in pomp...

BALLAD OF THE YOUNGER SON. MY brother is in goodly case, Far goodlier than I: He bath a mansion to his name— My roof-tree is the sky. To him, a hundred willing knaves That...

A GREAT EXPEDITION.* THIS is a great book on a -great subjeet. The expedition of which it tells the story was by far the most remarkable feat of recent African travel, the...

an educational series to be issued by the Manchester University Press, and is therefore fitly dedicated by its editor, Dr. Michael E. Sadler, to Dr. J. J. Findlay, the eminent...

.11fimoires de la Comtesse de Boigne are even more interesting than the-first. They include the story of her father's embassy at Turin, with a curious account of the humours of...

THIS important-looking book contains a good deal that is very curious and instructive. Mr. Webb approaches his subject from the point of view of the naturalist, observing that...

KENT, the garden of England, is not only one of the most beautiful of our counties, but it is also perhaps the richest of all in human interest. Indeed, so rich is it, so stored...

MAN AND THE CASSOCE.t • IT is more than four years since the publication of The Truthful Liar revealed in Mrs. Ritchie a new novelist of exceptional ability. The interval that...

Sin WILFRID LAURIER declared not long ago that if the nineteenth century was the century of the United States, the twentieth century was destined to be the century of Canada....

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