help he had received in his work, and with the utmost emphasis of the help of Mr. Trevelyan ; also cordially of Mr. Campbell- Bannerman, and again of Sir R. Hamilton as "that...

Bright moved a vote of thanks to Lord Hartington, of whom he had, he reminded his audience, told the Liberal Party in 1874 that "he had a strong head, and would run so straight...

Westminster Palace Hotel, the accommodation was not at all equal to the demand for seats. About two hundred sat down to dinner ; but as many more from Ireland alone had, it is...

T ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL gave up at the eleventh hour—we might almost say at the twelfth —an engagement to address the Conservatives and Tories of Liverpool in Hengler's Circus...

according to Mr. Bright, his remarks had no application, until Mr. Callan himself asserted in the House of Commons on that day that he might " almost " say Lord Spencer was...

case.

they could to instigate the Irish electors to vote at the General Elec- tion against a party which could approve Lord Hartington's very frank language. Later, Lord Randolph...

on Wednesday, at which Lord Wolseley, who had to answer for the Army, seems to have given offence to some of our Conservative contemporaries. He gave this offence by asserting...

dead. According to the latest accounts he was taken ill on Friday, June 19th, and died on Sunday, the 21st, from small-pox. He nominated his nephew, Abdullah, as his successor,...

as usual over the evacuation of Candahar and the surrender of the so-called "scientific frontier." He seems unable to grasp the fact that if we had still been in occupation of...

Lord Milltown had a curious contest as to which should move the second reading of the Medical Relief Bill, abandoned by the Government. Lord Granville, who has had an attack of...

in support of the candidature of Mr. Charles Russell, M.P., for South Hackney. Mr. Stephenson, who presided, in introducing Mr. Chamberlain to the meeting, spoke of him, as...

in office but the Radicals in power, and that the Treasury Bench of the stop-gap Government is filled with "an eccentric combination," the new performers having donned the old...

opinion, candour was not the prominent characteristic. He denied that the Conservatives had changed their principles at all since they became a Government. The abandonment of...

College on Wednesday, described that institution,—which is just supplying Harrow with a headmaster in its retiring headmaster, Rev. J. E. C. Welldon, and obtaining Mr. Gilkes in...

Ramsgate, at the age of a hundred years and nine months. He was one of the twelve Jewish brokers at the time when only twelve Jewish brokers were admitted to the Stock Exchange....

a discussion of Lord John Manners's amendment for free addresses, which was rejected by a majority of 46 (108 to 62). Mr. Shaw-Lefevre stated that he was willing to adopt the...

policy of the late and present Government, and M. Ferry has delivered a very elaborate speech, which was intended as a defence of the forward policy in the Colonies, and which...

of Tuesday of the escape of Father Bononi from El Obeid, thanks to the assistance of Major Turner, who supplied the means for effecting the good Father's escape, and took charge...

to 99i.

Law Amendment Bill into Committee in a very short speech, which was rather too rhetorical in tone, assuming, as it did, that legislation, however just and stern, could do much...

ended only in an adjournment of the debate. Lord Justice Fry, in an able though rather rhetorical speech, pre- dicted all sorts of advantages to the University if it would but...

THE POLITICAL ISSUES OF THE GENERAL ELECTION. T HE Tory Ministers, if they are not in good spirits as to the General Election, at least simulate good spirits well. Sir Michael...

W HAT strikes us most in the new Toryism which now inspires and controls the so-called Conservative Party is not its immorality, naked and unabashed as that is, but its...

M R. CHAMBERLAIN, in the lively speech which he made at Hackney yesterday week, charged the Spectator with "preaching at him" for proclaiming to the new consti- tuencies that...

of Commons on Thursday, though Sir Richard Cross opened it in a tone which seems to us more that of the agitator than of the statesman, was, on the whole, satisfactory. We can...

I T would probably be "an absurd work of supererogation," as Mr. Bright once said when he was accused of trying to bring the aristocracy into contempt, to ask the spinners and...

S ELDOM has more flagrant corruption been exposed than in the inquiry which has just been concluded into the management of the Homerton Hospitals. Never has a stronger...

I T is one of the unfortunate results of the distrust excited by the discreditable attitude of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary for India towards the Parnellite...

M ORE than fifty millions of revenue—£54,437,945, to be exact—was collected in the year 1884-5 by the Inland Revenue Establishment. The particulars of this enormous revenue have...

I T seems that what was said in these columns on the contro- versy concerning the nursing in the University College Hospital, has given great offence to many excellent people ;...

T HE frequenters of the Holborn Restaurant are not, perhaps, aware that they are recruiting their jaded energies near the site of some of the famous old London gardens. Yet so...

T HERE are few pleasanter rides or walks within easy reach of London than from Loughton (through the Forest and by Ambersbnry Banks) or Epping, to Epping Church and Nazing, then...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTATOR:1 Sra,—The letter in your last number on this subject comes from too influential a quarter not to make us desire that your corre- spondent's...

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. • Pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTTATOR;"1 Sra,—Your correspondent, Mr. Scrutton, and his predecessors are under a strange misapprehension of the...

LTO ME EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—The appreciative notice of Dr. Veitch in last week's Spectator alludes to his remorseless accuracy as a scholar, and says that probably...

your readers must have read "U. P.'s" timely warning on "Free Education" with much pleasure. I for one can only wonder that the subject has not ere now been noticed in your...

130 THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR:1 San,—Your article on the "Fascination of Terror" reminds me of an anecdote told me by a friend no longer in this world. He had gone with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—I was much struck with the remark made in the Spectator of July 18th in reference to a speech of Mr. Leatham's at Huddersfield. You...

Sta,—The financial objections to Miss Helen Taylor's motion in favour of free schools, so forcibly set forth in the Spectator of July 18th, will make the ratepayer hesitate to...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In reply to Mr. F. W. Harper's letter of inquiry about Vincent Bourne's Poems, I believe the latest is the beautiful little edition...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—I do not feel it necessary to enter into the wide con- troversy raised by you last week on the subject of Free Schools; bat I must...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In consideration of the strangeness of a statement made in the review of my novel, "Entangled," which appeared in your pages, will you...

GLENAVERIL ; OR, THE METAMORPHOSES.* Wn prefer Glenaveril, on the whole, to Lucille. They are neither of them poems that will live ; they are neither of them romances of any...

THE author says truly that these Sketches are alight; but they are vivid and picturesque, and convey a more distinct impres- sion of Holland and Scandinavia than many larger...

THERE would be little • amusement or profit to be gained in examining critically a book like A Girt Artist, were it not for a certain negative interest which may be found in...

THE terrific, and in our opinion shameful, rigour of the Gromwellian reconquest of Ireland in 1649-50, although but one black episode in a dark history, has impressed itself so...

all its departments, has felt the influence of scientific method, and is in the course of being written over again and reconstructed from a scientific point of view. In no...

can be rendered to the world of English readers by a really good translation of a masterpiece like the YEneid are of so high an order that the appearance of a new prose version...

IF the history of New England is that of the United States, the history of Massachusetts may, with even better right, claim to be that of New England. In their social life, the...

Elder.)—Dr. Dwer first describes appointments which may be obtained in the public or in various private services, the Army and Navy, for instance, the Mercantile Marine, &c. The...

Hutton gives the information which he has here collected in alphabetical order, and without mach effort to invest it with literary attraction. This, perhaps, is quite right,...

Fifty Years Among Authors, Books, and Publishers. By J. C. Derby. (G. W. Carleton, New York.)—Mr. Derby began his experiences of the book-trade in a town in the State of New...

some of Mr. Waddington's verse is dated as far back as 1859, we may suppose that it represents the beat work that he can give to the world. This consideration moderates the...

(Remington and Co.)—A work ought either to be signed or wholly anonymous. A Lady Blank put forward, and yet held back, as the author of a novel, gives a touch of vulgarity to...