to Abyssinia on a mission to King John. He is instructed, it is believed, to ask whether, if the King is allowed free access to Massowah, and guaranteed against Egypt, he would...

'MEM latest intelligence from Khartoum is that the city is closely invested, that General Gordon is very angry at the non- arrival of British troops, and that he intends to...

on Mr. Brodrick's Irish amendment, Mr. S. Leighton's amendment for giving a freehold franchise in boroughs to balance the freehold franchise in counties having been withdrawn....

of the Conference. Under cover of a motion to reduce the Civil Estimates, he contrived to insinuate that the Government would neglect English interests in Egypt, that it would...

argument over again, Mr. Gladstone replied with great fire that it was quite impossible to go back to the policy of in- justice to Ireland, from which this country had suffered...

that M. Ferry's first preoccupation has been to protect French Bond- holders, and his second to prevent direct annexation. He is said to have been satisfied on both heads, and...

ease.

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the SPECTATOR Special Literary Supplements, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The Sixth of...

his speech on the Vote of Censure, and in what is con- sidered in Bradford as the personal attack on Mr. Gladstone, has brought down upon him a censure from the Four Hundred of...

a Colony, in Indo-China. It is already explained in Paris that, although certain "Chinoiseries "—that is, showy make-believes —were allowed in the words of the Treaty of...

odd thing. The International African Association, founded and managed by the King of the Belgians, has recently acquired by treaty with native chiefs a sort of supervisory power...

the revision of the French Constitution has been prepared. Under its provisions, the seventy Life-Senatorships, now filled by co-optation, will be abolished, and replaced by...

the Merchant Shipping Bill, made a very masterly speech, lasting three hours and three-quarters, on the evidence be had collected to prove the need for the measure. He showed...

so soon after the reconciliation bad been patched up, has fallen like a bombshell into the Conservative ranks ; and tha Standard on Thursday thundered against him in language of...

Churchill, who, as it was known beforehand that he would do, withdrew his opposition to the inclusion of Ireland in the Bill, praised the Government for their statesmanship in...

half ago, from Lord Tennyson to Mr. Dawson, of Montreal, on the subject of so-called plagiarisms and the resemblances which may be found between one poet's work and another's,...

was unexpectedly Liberal in tone, but nevertheless S. Canovas has -secured a heavy majority in the Cortes by direct compul- sion on the electors. He announces that all opponents...

Mr. Albert Pulitzer, editor and proprietor of the New York Morning Journal, a halfpenny paper, which has had an astonishing success. This gentleman is "one of the latest men of...

to be the new Bishop of Ripon ; and the Rev. E. Capel Cure, Rector of St. George's, Hanover Square, is to succeed him in the Windsor Canonry which he vacates. It is...

portion of deaths from water on the brain in children above school age has increased considerably between 1870 and 1880, and he attributes it to the operation of the Education...

not good. It amounts to this,—that Cetewayo's old fol- lowers in Zululand are expelling the missionaries, and have - threatened the Reserve, which we are bound to defend. At -...

Consols were on Friday 101f to 104.

yesterday -week, when the Peers, who had thrown out the Bill to put down pigeon-shooting matches, began with one voice to apologise for what they had done, and to deprecate its...

THE REPORTED DECISION OF THE PEERS. N EITHER party has yet quite realised that the middle- class has ceased to be the ultimate arbiter in the affairs of the United Kingdom. If...

W E suppose this Expedition must go to Khartoum. The Government has decided nothing, and can decide nothing, until it has heard from General Gordon what he wants, what his...

I T has been publicly stated that Mr. Fawcett and Mr. Courtney have memorialised the Government to allow Mr. Woodall's amendment for admitting women householders to the...

T HE Fourth Party have not often been wise, but the Fourth Party have shown a true instinct as to the bearing of democracy on the political feeling of England in urging on the...

T T was very natural that Lord Salisbury and Sir Stafford Northcote should endeavour to make up their quarrel with Lord Randolph Churchill ; but we question if it was wise. They...

T HAT the will of the people is the ultimo ratio of demo- cratic communities, is undeniable ; but there is a wide difference between theory and practice. And it may well be...

T HE Water question is, for Londoners at least, the question of the day. It is in great measure owing to the excite- ment on this question that the London Government Bill has...

M R. BESANT has just republished, with notes and addi- tions, the lecture which be delivered at the Royal Institution on April 25th, concerning " The Art of Fiction." Let no one...

T HE " Market " has decided by an informal pl6biscite that Mr. Childers's scheme for the conversion of Consols into Two-and-a-Half per Cents is substantially sound. The dealers...

I To THE EDITOR OS THE " EIPECTATOE."1 SIR,—The cry for an immediate expedition to rescue Gordon has undoubtedly proved, for party purposes, a telling one ; for it appeals not...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your article on " Indiscipline in the Church of England," you do good service in calling attention to the grave scandal of criminous...

MR. FORSTER AND LORD HARTINGTON. [To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR."] .Sin,—Permit me, as a country Liberal, to suggest that your rebuke of Lord Hartington for reproving Mr....

[To ma EDITOR OF THE "SpEcnrou.-1 SIR,—It by no means follows that the quaint remarks of our peasantry, which never fail to amuse an Irish audience, should- be equally...

OF THE "SPECTATOR."1 Sui,—Let me at once express my sincere regret that I should ever have appeared to deserve the charge which Mr. Donald Campbell brings against me, of taxing...

SIR,—May I, as a clergyman, thank you for your article on "Indiscipline in the Church of England " ? It is a nail which wants" a great deal of hammering, and I do hope you will...

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY. [SECOND NOTICE.1 and well conceived picture, exceptionally clever in the pose and arrangement of its figures, and failing only where so many clever...

A NEW POET.• THESE poems are poems of great promise. We know nothing of the author, but we have found a wealth of surprises in the strength, the simplicity, and the terseness...

A NOTICE of the first of the three volumes of Mr. Boulger's History of China appeared in the Spectator when it was pub- lished, some three years ago, which brought down the...

is written, as its title-page tells us, 'to upset the theories of the Hibbert Lectures, which were -delivered by Dr. Rhys Davids. It is somewhat new, but none the less...

SHAKESPEARE, despite all that the commentators, doctors, lawyers, ornithologists, entomologists, botanists, and other specialists find, or pretend to find, in his work, was...

Grenville-Murray never pretended to " high seriousness " of purpose when writing his always sparkling and sarcastic but never too cynical sketches of the society for whose fads...

F.R.S. (J. W. Kolckmann.)—Mercy and Truth v. Cruelty and Contradiction : a Reply of the Bristol and Clifton Anti-Vivisection Society to Mr. E. D. Girdlestone, B.A. (Simpkin and...

S vole. (Chapman and Hall.)—We cannot honestly call this a good novel, but we can say, with perfect sincerity, that we have read it with a great deal of pleasure. It is not a...

(Macmillan.)—This book does precisely what is promised by its title, and does it, we should say, very well. It is a guide-book, if the metaphor may be allowed, to the...

(Baillibre, Tindal, and Co.)—Dr. Dowse thinks that neurasthenia has been un- duly neglected by the profession, and that this neglect is very harmful to sufferers. For he refuses...

Commentary on the Cruelty to Animals Act, 1871. By the Hon. Bernard Coleridge, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Reprinted from the Zoophilist. (Printed for the Victoria...

unquestionably made his mark by the two volumes of verse which he has already published. The third is now before us : indeed, we mast apologise for having so long delayed our...