while, probably as a consequence of that improvement, the relations between the Porte and Servia have grown more hostile. The Porte has sanctioned the appointment of three...

effect to the treaty ceding Heligoland to Germany elicited very little except approval of the general agreement proposed by the Foreign Office, the arrangement for allowing the...

Club, Mr. F. Seager-Hunt, M.P. (for West Marylebone), in the chair. The chairman attributed the shattering of the Liberal Party in 1885 in a great measure to Lord Randolph...

United Kingdom in regard to South-East Africa is not yet known, the negotiations have been made the subject of attack in the Portuguese House of Peers. The Foreign Minister,...

to have taken place in the Argentine Republic, the object being to banish President Cehnan from the country. General Campos, Colonel Figueroa, Major Garesita, and other officers...

T HE official correspondence relating to the Behring Sea question, presented to Congress on Tuesday, shows the existence of a very unsatisfactory condition of affairs. On the...

came out that disaffection had been simmering for some time past, and that the final act of insubordination was deliberately planned. The plan of trying the oldest insubordinate...

what one may call the residuary legatee of all the unattached resources of the State. If the Government does not know what to do with any aura of money, such as, for instance,...

bery as Chairman of the County Council, by a majority of 33 (61 to 28),-45, who probably belonged to the Radical party, keeping out of the division. It is a good choice, and a...

5th. The particulars to be given in England and Wales will be the name, sex, age, profession or occupation, condition as to marriage, relation to the head of the family, and the...

propose to introduce a religious census, they did not feel inclined to put pressure on their followers to vote against it, no small hubbub arose. Mr. Campbell-Bannerman was...

Baron Dimsdale proposed to ask for the religious pro- fession of each person, as well as their age, sex, &c., pointing out that Ireland was to give us this valuable piece of...

paraded at Wellington Barracks before proceeding on foreign service to Bermuda, where they have been ordered as a punishment for their recent insubordination, the Com-...

in the House of Commons on Wednesday, when Mr. Raikes was virtually supported by Mr. Shaw-Lefevre ; and even Mr. Labouchere, to the surprise of the House, justified Mr. Raikes...

Federal Union among the Republics of Central America has been an outbreak of hostilities between the forces of Guate- mala and San Salvador. As yet, the details of news are...

M. Paul Giffard, underwent a public trial at the head-quarters of the " London Scottish," before a number of military experts. The propelling agent, liquefied carbonic acid gas,...

Winter Garden on Wednesday, said that London was so rapidly eating up all the old-fashioned gardens, and pushing away the open spaces to greater and greater arm's- lengths,...

able reply to a letter written by the Rev. H. J. Boyd, of Sheffield, on the subject of the Licensing Bill, in which Mr. Goschen criticises the resolutions passed at the annual...

be submitted to the Brazilian Con- gress in November, is in many respects a copy of that of the United States. The President is, however, to be elected for six instead of four...

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THE CONSTITUENCIES AND THE GOVERNMENT. L ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, in his speech to the Conservative Club, said that the assumption of a great victory for Mr. Gladstone at the...

at St. James's Hall on Wednesday between Mr. Brad- laugh and Mr. Hyndman, showed that we have at least one public man who has not lost faith in the old ideals of individual...

T HE short debate on the amendment to give the English, Scotch, and Welsh people the right (if they wish it) to describe their religious profession in the Census paper, was very...

T HE Irish Church is disestablished. At fi rst sight this statement may seem near of kin to " Queen Anne is dead." But there is this notable difference between the two. The...

; contains the whole of Lake Rudolf, a magnificent the picture of an organised State springing out sheet of water, comprises Mount Kenia, known to be over of the chaos of...

Trade Provisional Orders for the London and North-Western and Great Western systems, enables us for the first time to form some estimate of the precise benefit which traders are...

P ROFESSOR, JOWETT concluded his Sunday evening lecture at Westminster Abbey on Robert Browning and Professor Hatch by the remark : " If asked where, among all the Christian...

I N one of his many tirades against actors, Dr. Johnson very ungallantly declared that the famous Mrs. Pritchard was in common life " a vulgar idiot," but that when she appeared...

T HAT was a sad saying, that " Life would be very tolerable if it were not for its amusements;" but still, one feels inclined to echo it, and to add the more serious reflection,...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR: mOLIDAY TRAVELLING-THE "TRAIN DE LURE "-OVER- CONVENIENCE AND DISCOMFORT. THE time is approaching when that St. Vitus' dance of energy whioh...

[To THE EDITOR or TEM "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — Will you allow me to point out that the writer of " A Commentary in an Easy-Chair," in your columns last week,. is under a complete...

LORD HARTINGTON ON CHURCH EXTENSION. [To TES EDITOR OP TEE "SPECTATOR."] SIBr — I venture to think that many of your readers, in common with myself, would be very much obliged...

[TO TER EDITOR Or THY " SPICTATOS.'] SIR, — The extremely interesting particulars relating to the celebrated naval duel between the Kearsage ' and the Alabama' off Cherbourg in...

THE " SPECTATOR.") Sza,—In your article on the position of the Government, you remark : " As for the by-elections, they all go to show a certain reaction against the...

A MANUAL FOR INTERIOR SOULS.* THIS is a very good translation of one of the most striking of the Roman Catholic manuals of devotion written in the last century. Pere Grou was a...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " spEcTAT08.-] SIR,—Your goodness in publishing my letter has brought much help to the poor sufferers by the fire. Besides the £5 already acknowledged, I...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " BPECTATOR.1 Sin, — It may interest your readers to learn that this un- rivalled delineator of country life is no longer to remain unhononred. A wish has...

novel written in collabora- tion by Mr. D. Christie Murray and Mr. Henry Herman will be misapprehended by those readers—and there will pro- • (L) The Bishops' BZie. By D....

FRIENDS of animals have to thank the Sailors' Friend for the moat complete exposure of the abominable cruelty of the Transatlantic cattle traffic that has yet appeared. It was...

reviewed in this journal nearly seven years ago (December 15th, 1883). It may be useful to remind our readers of the purpose of the work. It was intended to supplement the...

Mona years ago than he cares to remember, the present writer chanced to find himself in a railway-carriage with a learned and saintly Bishop, who was so absorbed in a little...

the India which is " done " nowadays by the tourist refugees from the winter of our ever-growing discontent ; but a good deal still lingers in the " Model State," as the...

Popoff. (Elliot Stock.)—A curious, photographic picture of the author's life, covering some ten years, beginning shortly after his tenth birthday, and ending with his being...

Burdett's Hospital Annual, 1890. Edited by Henry C. Burdett. (The Hospital Office.)—This Annual contains, as usual, a great amount of interesting and valuable information. The...

Translated from the French by A. P. Morton. (Chapman and Hall.)—The title-page adds, " with 233 illustrations," a matter so important in relation to the book that we call...

His- tories " (Elliot Stock) may be mentioned together. These are A History of Cumberland, by Richard S. Ferguson, M.A., and A History of Warwickshire, by Sam. Timmins, F.S.A....

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—In this volume we have the memorials of a very worthy man, who for a number of years was minister in Denmark Place Baptist Chapel, Camberwell, who is...

—This is a small and thoroughly readable book about Nature and her secrets. The writer takes a variety of rambles over hill and dale and along the sea-shore, and chats...

Co.)—There is little or nothing to be said about Blindfold that we have not said about other works from the same pen. The interior of the Australian home of the brothers Dorrian...

and Stoughton.)—This is a misleading title. We expect a critical essay on the changes and development through which the English language has passed in the hands of the great...

Stoughton.)—Mr. Runciman expresses himself with a vigour which leaves nothing to be desired. He leaves no doubt as to what he thinks,—and he thinks, anyhow, on the right side,...

Tsar. By E. Fraser Blackstock. (Putnam's Sons, New York.)—This is rather a matter-of-fact American book of travel in familiar regions,—and that although among the dramatis...