men's minds are tenacious, and where they have beaten their Peers for a half century past, has delivered two speeches at Newcastle. In the first, he quoted statistics to show...

full of statistics on Redistribution. The Standard calls it a " repellent " essay, and it is certainly a dry one. Its professed object is to show that Tories are sincere in...

the organ of the City and the propertied classes, which detests Mr. Gladstone and sniffs at Radicals, declared war on the House of Lords. "There remains in the country," it...

M R. GLADSTONE, though weary and hoarse with speech-making, made, on Wednesday, a speech of importance to the citizens of Perth. We have quoted the more serious sentences, which...

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 Seventh of...

should be fused into one Bill, and the complete measure be brought forward in the Autumn Session. The Government would have plenty of time, because Franchise had been...

case.

mark out the Northern frontier of Afghanistan. Every State should have a defined boundary, Afghanistan is quite content, and the- two great Empires involved are in most...

the King's visit, which re-inspirited all classes, the death-rate has declined, and it is now little over 100 a day ; but the disease kills 38 more in the suburbs, and it has...

confirming his recent telegrams, and announcing that the Arabs are no longer around Khartoum. He has made the position unpleasant for them with his steamers, and they have...

week. Admiral Courbet is believed to have received orders to proceed to the Yangtse ; but according to the latest rumours, M. Ferry hesitates, either hoping for German mediation...

relying on their kinsfolk in Cape Colony, and transported with their success in defending the Transvaal, are losing their heads, and will shortly do some act equivalent to...

an identical Note to Nubar Pasha, protesting against the suspension of the Sinking Fund. The Note reserves the rights of all creditors, and declares the letter of the Egyptian...

week, in the first portion of Which he examined at length the position of Ireland in the present crisis. The Tories, he said, rightly or wrongly, expected Mr. Parnell to win...

the Panama Canal, expressed the most absolute confidence in the opening of the Canal in 1888. He stated that all American opposition had disappeared, that shipowners were at...

does his best to utilise the cry which has risen for additions to the Navy. In a letter to the leading London papers, published on Tuesday, he deprecates any discussion as to...

business. So equal are the parties, that every American not bemused by party feeling admits that the result depends upon the importance attached to certain "scandals." Mr....

sell just now, when a kind of double panic is abroad. Those who buy for investment think they will not get their rents, which is true, if they adhere to the old terms ; and...

Tuesday read a paper on the Stage before the Social Science Association. It is, on the whole, decidedly unfavourable to the present condition of the drama. The comfort of...

receives converts in India without compelling them to break their caste. The Societyis probably unwise, though caste is not exactly what Mr. Dyson thinks ; but what will he say...

Consols were on Friday 101* to 101+.

TORY TIMIDITY. A RE not the Conservatives, as a body, just now a little foolishly nervous ? We understand the angry annoy- ance of the county Members, who see that if the...

T WO political manifestoes of grave importance have been issued this week by the leaders of the two great parties. The first is a speech to the citizens of Perth by Mr....

rE altered tone adopted by Sir Stafford Northcote in his Newcastle speeches this week, as compared with his own previous performances, and those of the other Conservative...

T HE decree suspending the Egyptian Sinking Fund is in itself a small matter; but it may yet compel the British Government to assume a new attitude in Egypt. It has been...

T HE Pall Mall Gazette—whose general services to Liberalism we heartily acknowledge—spoils its "finds," often hunted up with great cleverness, by screaming so loud over them....

O N the morrow of her humiliating defeat, France thought to secure safety for the future by adopting the military system of her formidable antagonist. And she had hardly an...

A NEW hope has arisen, among the agriculturists of this country since the revival of the ancient system of Ensilage—the preservation of green fodder in pits—set in. At a time...

W E wonder whether the " repute " of the Christian Clergy throughout Europe has declined very much. Mr. Ruskin, in some recent notes quoted. in the Pall Mall Gazette, says it...

W E published, on August 9th last, an article entitled "A Misconception of History," in which we maintained that, contrary to a very prevalent belief, human progress has not...

T HE present unsatisfactory condition of English law in rela- tion to Lunatics, which has been brought home to the in- telligence of our readers by a recent trial, may be...

T HE insertion of a former letter of mine, and the endorsement of its contents by a correspondent as "a truthful descrip- tion of Irish peculiarities of speech," has encouraged...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' Sm.,— In your kindly notice of my " Abstract " in your last issue I am said by the reviewer to be " certainly wrong" in saying that " there...

"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You would not, I am sure, intentionally do a wrong to , the amiable and unfortunate gentleman who has so recently been leading a forlorn hope in the North....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—" E. M. B.," in Saturday's Spectator, asks why Lord Duffeiin is called an Irishman. Then, expecting your readers at once to give up the...

A GHOST STORY. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Considerable astonishment, not wholly unmixed with indig- nation, is felt here at the extraordinary ghost-story...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—If it is not too late, I should be glad if you worth! allow- me to say a few words in regard to your article on "Cannibalism at Sea,"...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The majority, I had almost said the great majority, of the very interesting epitaphs which you have been printing from week to week, are...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—T am obliged to "F." for his reply to my question. He entirely corroborates the statement of my informant. Clearly, Mr. Editor, "the...

SIR,—On a tombstone in the old churchyard of Peterhead (Aberdeenshire), there was wont to be the following interrogative epitaph :— " Wha lies here ? John Sim, ye need na'...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Sin,—In your article, entitled " Revising Barristers and Regis-. tration," of Saturday last, you suggest that the Householders' occupation of...

MR. WOOLNER'S " SILENUS." MR. WOOLICER'S name is sufficient to ensure a respectful atten- tion for his work. His eminence in another art affords a presumption in his favour,...

WHAT with Stock Exchange speculation in Grand Trunks and Canadian Pacifies, with scientific interest in the speculations of the leaders of the British Association, and last, not...

'THERE are secret societies in Out of their Element and The Red Route. In both novels, by far the most interesting character is stabbed to death. According to some folks,...

ALTHOUGH Ishmael is not, we think, the most attractive of Miss Braddon's later novels,—her recent New-Forest and Cornwall stories please us more,—it is by far the cleverest of...

A MORE provoking or more entertaining work than this two- volume melange of original theory and secondhand erudition has seldom, if ever, been given to the British public. Here...

distinctly "novel," and if the rest of it were up to sample, we should recognise a new power in the novel-world. Unfortunately, the sequel is a sad falling-off from the...

and Farran.)—Dean Plamptre has collected here a number of occasional Poems written at intervals during the last twenty years. All are not dated, but we are under the impression...

is very difficult to get at the story of this book, so strange, so irritating, not to say maddening, is the style in which it is written. What can be done with pages of this...

Hardman's book is, for the most part, characterised by sound sense and judgment. Now and then his views seem obscured by political prejudice, in what, for instance, he says...

The Death. of Alexander the Great. By Cecil Henry Boatilower. (Shrimpton, Oxford.)—This, the " Newdigato Prize Poem" for the year, is a creditable exercise, though scarcely...

Paul, Trench, and Co )—Miss Liickes, who is matron to the London Hospital, prints in this volume a series of lectures delivered to the probationers in the training school for...

The greater part of its contents lie beyond the scope of a non-professional writer. But if Mr. Gastafsen is not more accurate in his dealing with these matters than he is with...

(Hodder and Stoughton).—We do not quite see that there was a call for a new book on this subject. Dr. Stoughton might have taken Mr. J. Baldwin Brown's biography, which has the...