previous rumours that the Sultan of Morocco has given way in regard to the claim for compensation made upon him by the British Legation ; and announces that on Thursday, Mahomed...

With the " SPECTATOR" Of Saturday, January 28, will be issued, Iratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half,Yearly Index and Tale-Page,—i.e., from July 2nd to December 31st, 1892, inclusive.

O N Monday, the Khedive, without warning, deprived the Premier Mustapha Pasha Fehtny, and the Ministers of Finance and Justice, of their portfolios, and appointed Fakhri Pasha...

ferment, and in the French Press charges of the most silly kind have been flung broadcast. One paper even tells the Khedive to be careful that the English do not poison him. On...

getting any- thing new to say, or in finding any more emphatic and impressive way of saying what they have said before. There have been this week new meetings of the Irish...

rather than weakened by the result of the crisis. It must not be forgotten, however, that Riaz may prove a very difficult Minister to deal with, under existing circumstances....

case.

Panama case, has been principally occupied with the speech of the Advocate-General, M. Rau, who has been summing-up the evidence for the prosecution, and who declared that he...

Society on the "Reorganisation of Our Labour Department." He considers the present office undermanned and undeveloped, and wants,—" (1), An increase in the strength of the...

West Birmingham Relief Fund, on Monday, described the- action of that Association. A very small relief-area is taken, and within this voluntary help is entirely relied on to...

Berlin correspondent describing a movement which is taking place in Germany for the creation of a new party, to be called the National Party, the main object of which will be to...

on Tuesday, protesting against either trusting Mr. Gladstone or thanking him till the Irish had fairly grasped what he bad promised them. And he quoted Mr. Parnell's advice to...

under the presidency of Mr. Keir Hardie, M.P., came to an end last Saturday. In the course of the debates, Alderman Ben Tillett declared that the Conference "should keep away...

present state of the pension problem in America, drawn from the report of the Secretary of the Interior. The annual de- mand for Army and Navy pensions has n'ow reached the...

and daughter of Charles Kemble, died last Sunday night in London, at the age of eighty-three. She was not a great actress herself, but she was full of enthusiasm and poetical...

and on Tuesday the Chamber passed, a very remarkable Bill, under which the maximum issue of Bank -of France notes is to be raised from three-and-a-half to four milliards of...

the Bristol Bench of Magistrates, for exciting the people of Bristol to riot, and on other similar charges. The chief evidence against him was the depositions of the police,...

branch of the Chelsea Free Library on Wednesday. It was a bust taken from the studio of Sir E. Boehm. A Chelsea free library is certainly a very appropriate place for a bust of...

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education to the Working Men's College in Great Ormond Street, last Saturday, which he made a kind of criti- cism on Professor lffahaffy's recent article on the superficiality...

was presented to the Reichstag on Monday, gives some curious facts as to the working of the Tripartite control. It will greatly interest lovers of English literature to know...

a very remarkable report on the Witwaters- rand gold-fields, which shows that their richness has not been exaggerated. "There have often," he tells us, " been mines of short...

THE EGYPTIAN CRISIS. T HEyoung Khedive has been learning a lesson in the working of the political Constitution in which he is called upon to take a part. That a lad of nineteen...

in another column con- firm a belief which we know to be widely expressed in Ireland, that if we ever pass an Irish Home-rule Act, and betray, as the Irish Unionists will think...

W HATEVER else the Panama business has done, it has made the position of the Constitutional Right one of great anxiety. Until the recent disclosures, there was. no question but...

TF gratitude for public services were to be gauged by newspaper paragraphs, the English people would have to be pronounced the most ungrateful on the face of the earth, for...

M R. CHARLES HENRY PEARSON, in the very remarkable book which Messrs. Macmillan have just published on "National Life and Character," brings forward evidence to prove that all...

HE accounts, which have been appearing almost from day to day till now, of the distress produced by the failure of the Liberator Building Society are most painful reading. They...

W E shall not be suspected of any design to advocate an inversion of the Salle Law in reference to the owner- ship of land, if we here express our admiration of the clever- ness...

1 - ORD JUSTICE BOWEN has applied the sweet reason- ableness of the accomplished man of the world to the task of gently rebuking the rather excessive scorn of Pro- fessor...

T HERE is nothing in the world which produces the sense of mental nausea more completely, or is more certain to turn the intellectual stomach, than the use of certain jocu-...

T O the cause of temperance we earnestly and most sincerely wish all possible success ; for which reason we also wish that the more prominent promoters of that cause were pos-...

HOW WILL HOME-RULE AFFECT IRISH UNIONISTS P [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.1 SIR,—Englishmen are apt to think that Home-rule, if granted, will conciliate Irishmen who are...

Sins—There is an important aspect of the Irish Question 'which does not seem to have attracted as much attention as it deserves. Supposing Home-rule to be an accomplished fact,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOIL."] SIR, — As one specially concerned with your article on "Deans," which to a certain extent include chapters also, may I be permitted to...

[To raic EDITOR OP THE " SPEDTATOR,"] SIE,—/ cannot but think that your critic of Mr. Baring- G-ould's "Tragedy of the Cresars," if he would impose on himself the task of...

LTO THE EDITOR OE THE "BEEOTATOR."] SIR,—Your admirable articles on the Meath elections might be, perhaps, fairly supplemented by the following extracts from the Lyceum, the...

DEAN CHURC H'S CATHEDRAL AND UNIVERSITY SERMONS.* THEnn are few sermons in our language which surpass those of the late Dean of St. Paul's in beauty, and, so far as the present...

THE oscillations of the political pendulum that was set in motion by the overthrow of the Ancien Regime in France, and its passage between tbe poles of Revolution and...

WE are glad to understand that this book is no consequence of the Laureate's death, but the result of careful preparation and study beforehand. Indeed, it is clear upon the face...

on Egypt might be taken by a logician as a colossal example of a. non sequitur. Mr. Milner explains that if the interference of any European Power is to bear good fruit in...

twenty years or thereabouts that have elapsed since its original publication, the late Mr. Bagehot's book on Lonzbard Street is still much the best description of the * Lombard...

WHAT is inherited from parents, either in the way of sub- stance or moral qualities, is always a matter of importance to humanity and, of course, the latter kind is the more im-...

William Sharp. (Osgood, MoIlvaine, and Co.)—This is a story told by correspondence, and told with a certain amount of success, though we are bound to say that the Count saw more...

Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—These letters, which are supplemented by similar papers, such as addresses, charges, &c., were written by Dr. Maclagan when he was Bishop of Lichfield....

(Isbister and Co.)—The first of these "Speeches and Addresses" is the famous oration—for no less stately a name will fitly describe it— which. Dr. Magee delivered in the House...

and Downey.)—Mrs. Macquoid is not equal to herself in this story. It seems to us highly improbable from beginning to end ; while it does not possess compensating qualities in...

is wholly free from the lues biographica. He criticises the character of his subj ect with the most complete impartiality, points out its defects with a penetrating acumen, and...

the "penance" begin with the end of the book, or have we been reading about it when we came to this end P It is not easy to say. Portia, betrothed almost in her childhood to...

The Church of Ireland. By Thomas Olden, M.A.. (Wells Gardner, Da,rton, and Co.)—This is a volume in that useful series, "The National Churches," and may be recommended as an...

Murray.)—This volume contains the substance of the "Rhind Lectures," delivered by the author five years ago in Edinburgh. The second chapter, following a brief introduction,...

Sons.)—Mr. Patrick has done well to preface his account of Origen's Apology with an analysis of the work which it was written to answer, the "True Word" of Celsus. Such an...

is a book of the "Percy Anecdotes" kind. Mr. James begins with selecting some of the marvels of the spurious Gospels and of early legend ; he goes on to collect facts and...

and Blackett.)—This is really a somewhat silly story. The noble- man who employs as his agent a stranger of whose character and capacities he knows nothing, and the hated heir...

Trench, and Co.)—Miss Roosevelt, though Mr. Beatty-Kingston describes her in glowing colours, seems to us something of a "ghoul," to use a phrase of Lord Tennyson's. "The world...