the text of the Agreement just concluded between France and Japan. M. Pichon described the Agreement as a guarantee for a lasting peace in Asia. Japan thus gave a peremptory...

in Russia. On Friday week M. Stolypin, on the strength of information obtained by the secret police implicating the Social Democrats in attempts to undermine the loyalty of the...

a simple but dignified building. The delegates wear ordinary morning dress, and are arranged in the alpha- betical order given by their names in French,—an arrangement which,...

MHE wine revolt in the South of France has ended in blood- 1 shed and street-fighting. On Wednesday Dr. Ferroul and other subordinate leaders were arrested, and efforts have...

any case.

and Spain and France and Spain, in which the Powers concerned pledge themselves to the maintenance of the status quo in that part of the Mediterranean and the Atlantic which...

it would be a great mistake to exaggerate its actual significance, or to suggest the possibility that the Government will not be . perfectly well able to overcome disorder. The...

town and village of organisations for the performance of the Raksbi Kali poojah every Amabathya night. " With drums, torches, music and fireworks, vast congregations should...

Parliament yesterday week on the subject of Chinese labour. The Government, he announced, had decided not to re-enact the Labour Ordinance, but to repatriate the Chinese...

the arrangement sketched by him a week ago under which the threatened abolition of the Militia is to be prevented. Shortly, the new proposals come to this. In Ireland the...

Pal, the Indian purveyor of sedition upon whose address at Madras we recently commented, reported in his own paper, the Bands Mataram, and delivered late last month in the house...

of pacific, Nonconformist opinions should be brought by their senti- mentality and ignorance to co-operate with, or at any rate to support, such sinister persons as Mr. Pal,...

by Lord Crewe in the House of Lords with regard to Irish Magistrates who betrayed their trust are being made good by the Government. Mr. P. J. Kelly, a Nationalist Magistrate...

gathered when it is stated that by extending class suffrage to landlords four-fifths of the electorate are placed within the absolute control of the landowners ; that the system...

deep disappointment at the Duma's abuse of its trust, condemns its hostility to Government measures, its failure to condemn terrorism, and its vexatious resort to...

Australia) on Wednesday, eulogised the great practical sagacity and fine frankness of Sir H. Campbell.Bannerman, the acumen and fairness of Lord Elgin, the courtesy of their...

Lord Tweedmouth forgot all about the Resolution, and that neither he nor his colleagues, secure in their own honour and honesty, ever troubled about the matter. We say to that...

the ordinary shares in Mena and Co., and as the owners of the ordinary shares appear to control that company, it certainly seems to us undesirable that the firm should receive...

Apr. 25th. Consols (2k) were on Friday 83i—uu Friday week 831. Bank Rate, 4 per cent., changed from 41 per cent. Apr. 25th. Consols (2k) were on Friday 83i—uu Friday week 831.

heated debate was raised by Sir Frederick Banbury. He stated that a contract for supplying beer to the Navy had been made with Meux and Co., in which company Lord Tweedmouth was...

over the fact that Lord Robert Cecil has brought in a Bill restrict.. ing the powers of the House of Lords, which, unless it is withdrawn, will under the rules of the House...

THE ABOLITION OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS. W ITHER th e Motion which the House of Commons is to debate on Monday is a perfectly futile piece of party rhetoric, or it means the...

P ERHAPS the most wonderful thing about this Russian revolution is the absence of first-rate ability in Russia which it has so plainly revealed. The °tar is less trusted as...

"HE continuance of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in health and strength is essential to the peace and welfare of Europe. That is- one of the commonplaces of European diplomacy,...

IIIHE second Peace Conference, which was opened on A Saturday last by the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs, is composed of delegates from forty-seven States. That is an...

Q 0 much has been said and written on the land policy of the Government which is vague or ill-informed that it is a relief to come across a really practical essay on the small...

T O - MORROW is the anniversary of the battle of Plessey, the battle which secured their Empire in India to the British people. The best-known story of the battle is that in...

Museum are to be con- gratulated on a very successful experiment. Through a rearrangement of certain collections, it became possible lately to make use of a vacated room for a...

A GOOD deal of discussion, conducted now and then at rather a high temperature, has been engendered recently by the use in a Scottish river of a kind of cross-bred lure for...

LES SAINTS SUCCESSEURS DES DIEUX. (To TIM EDITOR ON el. "Sr.cnmou."1 Sra,—Cultus, says Wellhausen, was the residuum of paganism left in the religion of IsraeL To how much of...

[To MR EDITOR or TER .. EPROTATOR.1 Sit, — Political problems follow each other fast in England . That of an Upper House is not without practical interest for us here. In your...

THE CLIVE MEMORIAL FUND AND THE ANNIVERSARY OF PLASSEY. [To TOR EDITOR or TR. "EPROTATOR...] SIE;May I ask you to be kind enough to publish in your columns these few words...

SIR, -,a,t the present moment, when the question of the advisability of a Second Chamber, and of the claim of the House of Lords to supply satisfactorily such a Chamber•, is...

pro THE EDITOR 01THE 1311110I/TO Sla,—The article in your issue of May 4th headed "The House of Lords and the Referendum " is interesting, but not convincing to Canadians, who...

taw .. E1P.Cf ATOR:1 SIR, It is not always realised how soon the creation of life Peers, and of life Peers only, would modify the character of the House of Lords to a great...

•• Brzerma.") Sra,—I have no wish for controversy, and note with satisfac- tion that for you, as for me, Free-trade stands before all else. As to your main comment on my letter...

[To vs. Eorros or yes “SrsarArOs.".1 Henri Lavalette is in error when be 'aye (Spectator, June 15th) that all political parties in Belgium are in favour of taking over the...

IVO Tee EDITOR or Tun "aplapparaR,^] SiRo--In your footnote to Sir Francis Channing's letter• in the Spectator of June 15th you refer to "old-age pensions, with the necessary...

[To Tex EDITOR or THZ.SPECTATOR21 Sift,—in the interests of historical accuracy, and in order that readers of the Spectator may not draw an incorrect inference from the Queen's...

[To Tee EinToR or vas 'bnrvxoa.•'7 Sin,—In the Spectator of the 15th Wit. you point out that the Nationalists forced the Government to get rid of Sir Horace Plunkett because he...

!TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have just been reading in this far-off country of Uganda the interesting article in your issue of March 30th on "The Abolition of the...

[To TEE EDITOR or THE "SPROTAT06.1 SID, —In your article in the issue of May 18th you say that in Greek or Latin there is no slang, except one discovers it in Aristophanes or...

ITO TIIR EDITOR Op TOR "SPRCTATOR.'J your review of Mr. Kebbel's " Tory Memories" in the Spectator of June 8th you certainly depart from your usual moderation of language, and...

find it possible to allow these remarks upon a previous letter to appear in the Spectator. " Major " of thirty years' service in his letter of June 8th states that the utility...

[TO rim EDITOR OP TR' "SPECTATOR." J Srn,—The number of young men who join the Volunteers after having served in a Cadet corps is so small as to be a negligible quantity. The...

ITO TEE HUMOR OP THE °SPECTATOR:1 Sra.—May I ask through your columns for the experience of yoir readers on the following conditions P When I came to this place in 1872 the...

SIR,—Your readers will, I am sure, be interested to hear some tidings of the men who enlisted in the Regular Army. Twelve joined the Somerset Light Infantry, and their progress...

pro THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR "] Six,—Those of us who possess talking parrots are often asked the question : " Do you think they really understand what they say ? " Sometimes...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE °SPECTATOR:1 Sze,—I was amused and interested this morning to notice the position taken by a dog accompanying a waggon drawn by two horses walking...

pro THE EDITOR OP THE °sPEcTAYOB.1 believe that carrier-pigeons are sent off on occasions by the thousand. Some North Country clubs despatch a couple of vanloads to Bournemouth...

SHAKESPEARE'S FIRST EDITORS.• "Did some more sober critic oome abroad, If wrong, I smiled ; if right, I kissed the rod. Pains, reading, study, are their jest pretence, And all...

[To Twe EDITOR OP THR "srsontroa."1 Snt,—We sing of the glories of Tommy Atkins, we cheer the outgoing troopship, and we raise elaborate memorials to those fallen in war. But...

A MATTER OF FACT. I HEARD the great frost catch the Lake; Its death-cry made my heart to quake ; Dull roar, shrill cry it raised again Like some sea-monster, mad with pain. I...

[To TH. EDITOR or THE "srsersvos,"l Sia,—We shall consider it a great privilege if the Spectator admits into its columns an appeal for the support of the Women's Holiday Fund....

NEARLY half-a-century ha's passed since Sir James Graham died at Netherby, in a year which proved fatal to many statesmen. There is probably no one still alive who enjoyed any...

THE Ohristological hooks published within the last few months fall for the most part under two heads, the historical and the mystic,—those, that is, which deal with the Jesus of...

uses plain speech so much that be will not, we are sure, be offended if we say that he is sometimes very rode.. It is not courteous, for instance, to speak of the Archbishops...

THE INVA.DER.• MRS. Woons's new novel is largely a- novel of modern Oxford, and the progress of University life in fifty years as reflected in fiction could hardly be more...

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LABOUR AND CAPITAL. Labour and Capital : a Letter to a Labour Friend. By Goldwin Smith, D.C.L. (Macmillan and Co. 2s. net.)—" Old age," says Professor Goldwin Smith, "is...

it ought to supersede the version which has held the field for more than fifty years. We may quote as a specimen Plato's description of the democratic State, with the...

by Georgian L. Davis. (Cassell and Cq r 7s. 6d. net.)— Napoleon visited Boulogne in June, 1803, and began the prepara- tions for his groat scheme, which, however, was no new...

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2a.)—Any one who had not the good fortune to see the pageant itself should at least get this book of words and pictures. These two together, with the help of imagination, should...