though adequate, are by no means too heavy. Consider what was the punishment to which these terms of imprisonment are the alternative. If Dr. Jameson and his associates had not...

T HE Jameson trial was brought to a conclusion on Tues- day. The summing up of the Lord Chief Justice was powerful in manner and comprehensive in matter. The accused were to...

the fact that the Matabele still hold the Matoppo hills in forge, and that the whites are at present powerless to dis- lodge them. The serious nature of the situation is shown...

all the questions put to them. This the Lord Chief Justice held to constitute a verdict of "Guilty." At first, however, the jury failed to base a unanimous verdict of Guilty" on...

the Presidency, but refused to endorse the Demo- cratic nomination for Vice-President, choosing instead Mr. Watson, of Georgia, as their candidate. The choice of the Populists...

night on the Report stage—the new clauses, and the amend- ments—the House not adjourning till close upon five on Wednesday morning. The amendments were chiefly technical,...

ease.

to a division, was a lively debate; the landlords opposing it because it was too much of a tenants' Bill, and Mr. Davitt opposing it because it was too much of a landlords'...

Committee to inquire into recent events in South Africa. The reference ought, he agreed, to be as wide as possible, and therefore he gladly accepted the amendment of Sir William...

A rumour is current that the Powers are proposing to under- take a blockade of the Cretan coasts in order to prevent the landing of arms and the consequent spread of the...

personally he had been in favour of a Commission rather than a Committee. At the same time, there was much to be said in favour of a Committee, and the House generally seemed to...

tained that the centre of disturbance is the Monastir district, which is on the Greek side, and that several bands of Greeks have entered Macedonia, some coming by sea and some...

mission on the military and civil expenditure of India at the India Office on Wednesday, there was a very curious collision of opinion on the relation of India to England...

and Peace Society, gave an account to the interviewer of the Daily Chronicle, printed in the impression of Thursday last, of his visit to Mr. Olney and President Cleveland on...

the Colonial policy of France,—the occasion for his discourse being the unveiling of a statue of M. Jules Ferry. The President of the Senate, the Prime Minister, and several...

from Melbourne giving the substance of a statement in regard to the proposals for an Imperial Zollverein made by Mr. Reid, the Premier of New South Wales. After declaring that...

at Epsom in opening formally a new technical institute and art school, on the singular economical errors of which we have commented sufficiently in another column. He appeared...

Railway Bill was rejected in the House of Commons on Monday night by a majority of 153 (239 to 86), and the Bill was then read a second time. Mr. Labouchere founded his...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday, 113-A—lic.

THI RE is the usual amount of rumour concerning the. r u rish Land Bill and the dealings of the Upper House with it as it has passed the House of Commons. It is said that all...

THE JAMESON TRIAL. TrI Jameson trial has ended in e conviction of the th cused. After the fairest possible investigation the jury found the prisoners guilty, and with the...

the Macedonian ques- tion is at last upon us, and that the diplomatists will have to face in earnest what they have always regarded as the most difficult and hopeless of all the...

M R. LABOUCHERE is impartially hostile to every extension, and to almost every recognition, of Imperial responsibilities, but if he has a pet aversion it is the Uganda...

Tues- day a most interesting letter on certain rumours which show how impatient the various States in that loosely compacted Union sometimes become of the tie which binds them...

A SUB-COMMITTEE of the Economic Club has undertaken what eventually may prove a very valuable, and is already a very interesting, piece of statistical work. Its object is to...

ORD ROSEBERY assisted mankind a few days ago by succumbing before the pons asinorum of economics. The occasion was the opening yesterday week of a technical institute and art...

W E have no quarrel with the men of science, for they do a great deal to make life easier, pleasanter, and more interesting. We cannot, however, help observing that they are...

Splendide Mendax," of which Mr. Stephen Gwynn has given us his version in the August number of the Carnival Magazine, we are told of an Irish woman who hearing from her daughter...

T HE death of the great gold-fish in the central fountain at Hampton Court was recently recorded. It had reached a. weight of nearly 4 lb., and was probably the largest, and...

T HE mythical personage who committed suicide because the life before him presented itself as nothing but a series of dressings and undressings had certainly no better reason...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "SPECTATOR."] Eire,—I am glad to see your article in the Spectator of July 25th on "Cure by Suggestion," for I know by experience that it is a real...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—A friend with whom I have been talking about a. project which I have long meditated and have now partially realised, suggested that...

NEW ENGLAND AND FREEDOM OF CONSCIENCE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. Gregory says I confuse the issue. It seems to me too simple to be confused. The Spectator...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] you permit me to supplement the obituary notices of the late Charles Dickens, jun., by a brief mention of the private school where I was his...

[To TER EDF/OR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Silk—Being keenly interested in your dog-stories, I venture to send you two which were told me by the late Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin.—Kindly allow me to add the two following to yourinterest- ing examples of canine sagacity and intelligence. Forty years ago a large...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] propos of your review, in the Spectator of July 18th, of Mr. Cornish's book, the following may be of interest. Walking on the Wiltshire...

SIR JAMES SITLIVAN.* THE Snlivans were a race of sailors, and the forces of heredity and the immediate ancestry of Sir James could scarcely turn out aught but a sailor. His...

.10 •■-■. THE LATEST FEAR. TIME was, I said, I fear not Death, For Death is but the end— Darkness, a pang, a failing breath That heals what Love can't mend. My God ! I cried,...

THESE volumes, though dedicated to the infancy of education, are so full of mature research that we feel almost overwhelmed by the store of learning that Mr. Tuer has...

no wise lacking in interest and instruction, is none the less an excellent example of the globe.trotter and his ways. There are many signs by which we can recognise a...

THE holiday-making English public, that loves to combine a little sport with a change of scene, ought by this time to be fairly familiar with the advantages offered by a visit...

Awakening, deserves, in our judgment, to be widely read and deeply pondered by British statesmen and politicians of all ranks and parties. And every intelligent reader of it...

the life of Sir Frederick Gore Ouseley one would have to pass in review the history of English church music during the last half-century. For which reason we are not ill -...

the master pub- lished some years back, and those who prefer to have their art history in English will find the translation serviceably done. M. Guiffrey is of the documentary...

Life of Blessed Sebastian Valfre, of the 7‘1.4Tili Oratory. By Lady Amabel Kerr. (London Catholic Truth Society.)—This is the his- tory of a remarkable member of the Oratorian...

Williams, a friend and, we may say, companion of Mr. Spurgeon during many years, has put together in this volume some of his recollections of his talk, table and other, adding...

Alex. Armstrong. (Nisbet and Co.)—Mr. Armstrong says very little about the tomb. He got there without much difficulty or danger, except of being cheated, a process in which most...

and Co.)—We must own to liking the surroundings and scenery of Mrs. Leith Adams's story better than we like the story itself. The rustics of Greylings, both men and women, are...

bountifully as well as beautifully illustrated edition of Edinburgh : Picturesque Notes, by Robert Louis Stevenson. This was one of the earliest of the efforts of the now...

—It is not once only that in Mr. Robert Barr's excellent story a woman intervenes." At first it is Miss Jennie Brewster, a young lady journalist attached to the staff of a New...

by Elizabeth Gilbert Martin. (Hutchinson and Co.)-11f. de Saint-Amand tel!s in detail the story of Louis Philippe's fall, and a strange story it is ! That the" Ulysses" of the...

of The Compleat Angler, by Walton and Cotton (J. Lane), is appearing in monthly parts, under the editorship of Mr. Le Gallienne. The peculiarity of it is the "Angler's Calendar"...

and Co.)— A very attractive "set of rogues" Mr. Frank Barrett contrives to make them. There is something almost immoral in the sympathy which he somehow creates between his...

to the "grey lady" from whom the story takes its title, we are inclined to say with one of the characters, "We did not know that such women were." Anyhow she is not interesting,...

Harris. (George Redway.)—A good story, or, we should rather say, suc- cession of stories, somewhat spoilt by an occasional stiffness of style, especially noticeable when the...

Harberton. (J. Parker and Co.)—Viscount Harberton suggests "a new edition of Jacob's Anthology,' with improved text and commentary." The volume before us is described by him as...

Co.)—" These eight stories," says the author in his preface, are made from our Western Frontier as it was in a past as near as yesterday and almost as bygone as the Revolution."...

(E. Arnold.)—Lieutenant Beynon was Colonel Kelly's Chief of the Staff, indeed, the Staff itself, for the column which moved to the relief of Chitral Fort was not on a...

a distinctly powerful story of the last days of the Commune. Ernest Durand, a Member of the Council of the Commune, is betrothed to a young Paritienne, Elise Rollin. He loves...

bridge University Press.)—Mr. Taylor has made various changes in the preliminaries of Euclid, omitting some definitions (as trapezium, &sc.), and changing others (a figure is "a...

Marston, and Co.)—The volume quite justifies its sub-title, "Pleasant Memories of Pleasant Places." Pleasant they must be to the writer; pleasant they certainly are to the...

(E. Howell, Liverpool.) — The author has brought together a number of interesting particulars, none of them newly discovered, but making an effective total, all the more so...