on Wednesday, to prove that the Tories are insincere, the Liberal Unionists guilty of something like treason to the democracy, and the Gladstonians alone immaculate and...

coal-miners, under circumstances discussed else- where, had demanded a rise of 5 per cent. on their wages at once, and 5 per cent. more on July 1st. About a third of the...

case.

von Caprivi di Caprera dei Montecuculi " has been appointed Chancellor of the German Empire, and President of the Cabinet of Prussia, two offices which together give him, under...

expected, partly because it has been understood for some time that the Emperor intended to rule himself, partly because people have not yet comprehended the full significance of...

in moving a resolution that it would be well for the House of Commons to rise early in July, and make up for the time thus lost in the summer by making more use of the winter...

T HE week has been marked by a great historic event, the definitive resignation of Prince Bismarck. For reasons which we have discussed elsewhere, and which may be summed up in...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 19th, will be issued, ; gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

Carlton Club on Thursday, and was addressed by Lord Salisbury on the necessity for earnestness, union, and loyalty, if the great battle is to be won. Lord Salisbury specified...

of course, very bitter, and not very candid. He was as angry as he could be with the Primrose Dames for distributing leaflets enumerating the charges of which the Parnellites...

has been at work ever since. Nothing is known of its proceedings except that M. Delahaye, a French representative of Socialism, resigned because he was not allowed to propound...

Friday week, ostensibly because the Senate insisted on a prohibitory duty against Turkish raisins, really because all strength had gone out of it with M. Constans' resignation....

in which he expressed his indifference to Mr. Parnell's being what is called "the uncrowned" king of Ireland, so long as he shall never be crowned. Dilating on the tranquillity...

expected, against the introduction of the principle of election into India. They are ready to obey the race which defeated them, but not races whom they regard as properly their...

of Lords on Rabies and Hydrophobia, Mr. Victor Horsley stated that the deaths from hydrophobia in Scandinavia reached in one year the total of 181, that that was much higher...

has, as usual, decided that the office of Commander-in- Chief has gradually been made too important, and that if the Secretary for War is to be really responsible for the Army,...

28) in the Bill for the improvement of the Strand should be referred to a Select Committee of nine, five to be appointed by the House and four by the Committee of Selection. Mr....

day fortnight of the Conservative candidate for the Stamford division of Lincolnshire by a very much reduced majority. The contest was a sharp one, and the Gladstonian can-...

at the Mansion House to raise subscriptions and donations for the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants, one of the most purely useful of all the charitable...

returned for Stoke-upon-Trent, in the place of Mr. W. L. Bright, who had resigned, by a majority which was hardly increased at all as compared with 1886, though the poll was...

on Tuesday on "Marriage Rates and Ages," which contained some interesting facts. He denied that the rate of marriage increased with declines in the price of food, the exact...

action in East Africa, and on Thursday intelligence reached Lisbon which, if true, will increase the excitement there to fever-heat. According to Reuter's telegram from that...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 97 to 971.

PRINCE BISMARCK'S RESIGNATION : ITS CAUSES. r E resignation of Prince Bismarck is a strange and yet a, ce most natural event. It is strange, because, as a friend suggests,...

W E cannot but think that Prince Bismarck's resigna tion will prove, on the whole, and perhaps by degrees, unfavourable to continued peace. It is true that it is not equivalent...

leaders of one party appear to receive the news that the leaders of the other party have summoned a meeting of their followers, are rather, we think, pathetic indications of the...

S IR GEORGE TREVELYAN'S speech of yesterday week on the wisdom of limiting the House of Commons to Sessions of about six months, lasting, as he suggested, from January to June,...

reflection which rises in the minds of sober men about this Coal Strike, now happily ended, is the terrible disproportion it has involved between means and ends, — a...

the Select Committee to which the Bill for conferring responsible government upon Western Australia has been referred has been busy hearing the evidence of Colonial and Colonial...

T ORD SALISBURY'S Government has, apparently, one very singular taste. It likes to be beaten on questions that do not affect its existence. Possibly it is the pleasure of...

M R. GOLDWIN SMITH has added another to the not inconsiderable roll of eminent men who have found their delight in Miss Austen. His little book upon her just published by Walter...

TOCUBLIC opinion," as it is called—that is, the favour or 1. disfavour of those who know nothing about the matter— will not matter greatly to the miners now or recently on...

I T is difficult for the Unionist Party to understand the change that has come over the minds of many of their opponents with regard to questions which they thought well above...

HOME-RULE AND IRISH COMPETITION WITH ENGLISH LABOUR. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " Spumeros."] SIR, — Referring to your article on the Unionist defeat at North St. Pancras, and to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — May I address you in a few words on the subject of local government in country places, a propos of your article on the Bill just...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —The passage which you cite from the University Hall Appeal would be fairly open to your criticism, if it contained nothing to qualify...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—After many years spent in charge of a rural parish in England, I have come to live in Donegal, and been thrown a good deal among the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In the cause of justice I beg for a short space in your valuable columns, while I endeavour to correct a mistake made by the reviewer...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Six,—The article, " On the Verge of Spring," in the Spectator of March 15th, induces me to offer, in the hope that you may think them worthy...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — During the latter part of the last century and the former part of the present, Parliament used to meet on Queen Charlotte's birthday,...

THE ROYAL INSTITUTE. THE Royal Institute of Painters in Water-Colours hangs this year seven hundred and ninety-one works. Of this number there are several that reach the level...

THE ROOF OF FRANCE.* CIVILISATION and English customs need not be always an& entirely synonymous terms. We are led to make this remark by Miss Betham-Edwards's astonishment at...

Mx. STEBBING has done the very best he could for the " famous," the " great " Lord Peterborough. He has stated the oase as it appeared to him, and on the whole fairly, often...

its formal opening the other day by the Heir-Apparent, have given to the Scottish railway system an air of distinction which neither it nor, for that matter, any other railway...

has both fun and finish ; it is never, we need hardly say, coarse, and never —a fault not so easily avoided—spiteful. The editors of the Magazine are supposed to have had a...

discoveries in English scenery are appreciated by a large circle of readers. In his present volume he shows that the strangely neglected scenery of the Eastern Counties is full...

IF we contrast this handsome volume with the less pretentious books of travel which delighted the last generation, it may be taken as not a bad representation of the difference...

is one of the happiest of Mrs. Marshall's efforts. The story of domestic life, disturbed by the Commonwealth troubles, is told with much tenderness and grace. And the beautiful...

In the Universal Review for this month, there is no lack of subjects provocative of discussion. The outlines of a repulsive tale by Tolstoy, "The Kreutzer Sonata," are given by...

(Harper Brothers, New York.)—Beyond the sea-marshes at the mouth of the Mississippi lies a "curious archipelago," once the resort of pirates, freebooters, and sea-robbers, now...

Bell and Mary I. Safford. 2 vols. (W. S. Gottesberger, New York ; Trubner and Co., London.)—Herr Eckstein has not exactly attempted to " whitewash" Nero in this romance, but he...

alphabetical guide to all the chief places of interest in England and Wales, with the information brought up to date.—To the same well-known series also belong Hurray's Handbook...

(Longmans, Green, and Co.)—Florida is one of the youngest Of the United States (annexed in 1821), but, so far as its connection with Europe is concerned, one of the oldest,...