loyalty of the Conservatives. They must have voted solid for Mr. Lyttelton, in spite of their disappointment at not being able to return Mr. Nelson, or they could hardly have...

case.

fell to 10, 18, 14, 9, and 13, and on Mr. Healy's Irish educational motion, Mr. John Morley (in a very thin House) obtained only a majority of 5. On Tuesday the Government...

Session, and it consists of sixteen Moderates, sixteen Radicals, and one Socialist. It is believed that this result will be fatal to the Government, for the Radicals are deter-...

towards that of Great Britain. Admiral Meade, in command of the American squadron off Nicaragua, it appears, expressed publicly his regret that he had no instruc- tions from his...

T HERE is no fresh news from Japan ; but it is evident, as we have all along maintained, that the readiness of Japan to " surrender " to Europe has been greatly exaggerated. The...

business, and especially as to the Crofters' Bill, brought on a little one-act melodrama, in which Dr. Mac- Gregor, the Crofters' representative for Inverness-shire, took leave...

wise and moderate one. He was received with the utmost enthusiasm, the whole audience rising to testify to their com- plete confidence in his disinterested and courageous...

on Wednesday, describing the Gladstonians as so anxious to keep recasting the Constitution at the shortest in- tervals, and even with the very small majority which they now...

held in St. James's Hall, under the auspices of the Metropolitan Liberal Unionist Federation and the Women's Liberal Unionist Association. The Duke of Devonshire, who , was in...

millions a year out of the Budget. That is to Bay, the -Judges, by a vote of 5 to 4, declared that any Income-tax whatever is unconstitutional "unless apportioned accord- ing to...

Church Disestablishment Bill Committee was Mr. Lloyd George's motion to substitute in the third clause of the Bill the word "Council," in the place of the words "Welsh...

Thursday, much of which was devoted to Armenia. He spoke in an unexpectedly, and to us distressingly, feeble tone. He virtually admitted the atrocities, but attributed them in...

Committees of the House should not sit on Thursday, that being Ascension Day, till 2 o'clock. Mr. Mlles objected. Every one knew, he said, that this solicitude for Church...

baying in effect reported that the succession to a peerage per se vacates a seat in the House of Commons, and the Selbome Committee having also reported that Lord Wolmer had...

te- paid to the opinions which M. Daudet is expressing abon. England. He is a novelist, not a thinker ; he has neve.. been in England before, and he does not know English. Hia...

New Console (21,) were on Friday, 100.

on May 18th, which, though it did not throw down buildings in the city, destroyed many in the neighbouring villages. In one place a church fell in upon the worshippers, crushing...

Wednesday, and made an optimistic speech. His main drift, of which we have said enough elsewhere, was that the fiscal and economic policy of the last fifty years had been a...

of Unification. Lord Farrer defended the Report of the Commission in a very moderate speech. He believed that the taking over the duties of the Corporation would not increase...

from the Union announces that the fight for the Presidency will rage around this pivot, and associations are being formed all over America to urge that silver be legal tender to...

LORD SALISBURY AT BRADFORD. T HE most weighty and effective speech which Lord Salisbury delivered at Bradford on Wednesday brought out with marvellous force the great political...

W E do not see any particular advantage in holding more meetings about the Armenian question. The English people are quite convinced that the Turkish government of all...

1,1-R. CHAMBERLAIN is accused by the able paper _LI I whose ce,ly craze appears to be a hopeless yearning f,a• the sweet revenge of a real, however momentary, emotion of scorn...

Lord Wolmer. It was certain that they would do so if they were willing to make not the law of the land, but what they thought ought to be the law of the land, the test of the...

M OST people, and especially most Liberals over fifty, will read Sir William Harcourt's speech ( f Wednesday in the City with hearty gratification. It is so pleasant to hear the...

on every side the question is being raised, "Ought the labour of women to be placed under special restrictions ? " —that is, ought trades and occupations to be forbidden to...

In France the present object of penal taxation is not a class but an institution. The Church is hateful to the Radicals, therefore the Church must be made to contribute more...

A MONG the many quaint characteristics of the human mind, none at first seems to be quainter than the exagt gerated importance it attaches to decent, and in some sense...

" D O you think," asked a lady of the writer, who was sup- posed to know something of the matter, "that a great and rapid change in Hindoo thought will ever be pos- sible ? "...

O N Monday, May 20th, the fiftieth anniversary of the sailing of the 'Erebus' and 'Terror' in search of the North-West Passage, was celebrated by a kind of pilgrimage to view...

HAWAII, AS HALFWAY-HOUSE, FREE TO ALL, FOR EVER. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—Nearly half-way between Asia and America, on that great trade route of the Pacific,...

you allow a sympathetic reader of more than a generation to record a protest against your recent use of the Coleridge letters as a text for your warning against "Glori- fying...

[To TES EDITOR OF TRIG " EPECTATOR."] Sra,—As you are so interested in animals, I send you yet another "dog-story," which seems to me a good instance of intelligence. A....

THE ACADEMY,—III. MERE TECHNIQUE. THERE has been going on what the papers call a Revulsion of Public Feeling in the matter of technique. It was but yesterday that the correct...

DEAN STEPHENS'S LIFE OF E. A. FREEMAN.* DEAN STEPHENS has done his biographer's work excellently well. Where he has to speak for Freeman, he does it with all the frankness, good...

No character in history is more interesting than that of the Duke of Wellington, so great are its contrasts, so unique is the combination of qualities exhibited, and so strange...

So far as our knowledge extends, Miss Ada Cambridge is, in one respect, unique among novelists. She is the only writer of fiction we can remember who has spoken well of critics,...

THE general knowledge of the English people with regard to Mesopotamia is probably not much less vague than that of the old lady who found blessing and comfort in the name; they...

THIS is an interesting, even fascinating, if not an altogether satisfactory book. Mr. Sherard is an Englishman who has made his home in Paris, and has thrown himself completely...

WHY should the Turks alone of pagan Powers be licensed to kill, rob, and outrage Christian men and women ? If the things done in Turkey were done by China or by Japan, or by any...

up his commission to take service with an Afghan chief. He leaves behind him the girl whom he loves. She cannot face poverty, and yielding to her mother's persuasion, marries...

Professor in Randolph Macon College, Virginia. He devoted his youth and early manhood to the study of philology, and on resigning his post in 1871, gave up the rest of his life...

A.D. 1138- 1838. By the Rev. C. M. Church. (Elliot Stock.)—A little more than twenty-five years ago Professor Freeman, when lecturing on the history of the Cathedral of Wells,...

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society. New Series. Vol. VIII. (Longmans.)—There are several articles of special interest in this volume. Among these we may mention "The...

Wormeley. 2 vols. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—M. Dumas tells the public in his preface that this story is a continuation of "The Company of Jehu." It covers a period of...

a volume crowded with facts about the past and present condition of the Colony, its exports and im- ports, minerals, products, &c. The recent increase is chiefly in gold, of...

Lie by Jessie Muir. (Hodder Brothers.)—There is even more than the customary proportion of Scandinavian melancholy in this story. The hero is born under an adverse star, and...