Commission to inquire into the relations between Capital and Labour, and, of course, into the various modes in which it is believed that those relations might be im- proved. The...

T HE Queen presided on Thursday at a grand naval cere- mony, the launch at Portsmouth of two new ironclads, the Royal Sovereign' and the 'Royal Arthur.' The former is the...

Empress Frederick has been staying in Paris a few days, partly to purchase fine furniture for her newly purchased Castle of K6nigstein, and partly to convey the German Emperor's...

before the (very early) Easter recess is now extremely small. Supply will use up almost all the time at the disposal of the Government before the Easter adjournment, Good Friday...

Soudan, has suffered a total defeat. He had given from Tokar so much annoyance to Suakim, that Colonel Rolled Smith resolved to dislodge him. On the 19th inst., accordingly,...

of the Church in Wales was seconded yester- day week by Mr. Dillwyn, and rejected by a majority of only 32 (235 against 203) in a House that was not as well attended as the...

case.

was a very remarkable one, would not have led up to a vote in favour of Mr. Pritchard Morgan's motion in any mind less singularly organised than Mr. Gladstone's. The latter part...

issue appears, the day fixed being Thursday, March 5th. As yet, no one in the Dominion appears confident of the result,. which depends to a great degree on the votes of a...

had now distinctly made up his mind that a. women's franchise would benefit neither women nor men. In 1876 or 1877, he had once voted for the women's franchise r in deference to...

his constituents of South Paddington, this day week, at the Norfolk Hotel. He said that Lord Melbourne or some other Liberal Premier had defined an independent Member as a...

on occasion of the first anniversary of the foundation of the Birmingham Liberal Union Club,—of which he was unanimously re-elected President. Mr. Chamberlain spoke. with...

propose a Royal Commission to inquire into fogs, and the possibility of preventing them. It is quite possible, as everybody knows, to turn them into mists, if only Londoners...

to Europe or Scandinavia ; but it is full of instruction for Englishmen. The bond between Sweden and Norway is only the "golden link" of the Crown, but hitherto foreign affairs...

the President, who has sent his family away into the Argentine Republic. His troops have been defeated near Iquique, and - the port, under a sharp bombardment from the insurgent...

three times. His principal utterance was at Roscommon, and its drift was to repudiate all English in- terference with the Irish Parliament. He disbelieved in an English...

with two remarkable speeches, one by Lord Salis- bury, who is by no means so mere an amateur in chemistry as he chooses to appear, and one by Sir Lyon Mayfair. Lord Salisbury...

Friday 961 to 96i.

Mr. Matthews's Factories and Workshops Bill, the object of which is to keep the places where associated labour goes on in a wholesome condition, and to secure this, in the case...

once been described as "the father of chemistry, and the brother of the Earl of Cork," ironically hinting, perhaps, that Lord Salisbury was reflecting as much immediate glory on...

THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY AND THE NEW COMMISSION. T HE announcement of the intention of the Govern- ment to issue a Commission to "inquire into the relations between employers and...

O N one point we agree with the English humanitarians about the battle at Tokar, We heartily regret the slaughter among Osman Digna,'s men, who are fighting in a cause they deem...

M R. GLADSTONE paired in favour of the Die- establishment of the Church in Wales yesterday week ; but his speech was certainly a speech not very well calculated to hasten the...

his Imperial brother of France that the people of Naples have begun to love their new Sovereign, and that they hate the old Queen. To this, Napoleon replies by cynically...

W E are always reluctant to accuse Mr. Parnell of blundering, because during the past eleven years he has made so many successes. He succeeded to a degree never attained even by...

half the advan- tages of wealth were counterbalanced to the very rich by the temptations to which the expectation of riches ex- posed their sons. The Peers are evidently of Dr....

W E print in another column a very interesting letter from "An Octogenarian Rector." He takes ex- ception to our remarks on the training of curates on two grounds,—one, that the...

M ISS AMELIA B. EDWARDS, LL.D., who delivered an interesting lecture at the Birkbeck Institution last week on "The Art of the Novelist," was extremely indignant with the view of...

T HE millionaires of England and America have lost a great opportunity. They might have dug up Delphi, and they have let the French do it. The French Government has apparently...

W HAT is the exact measure of the iniquity that a man commits in plagiarising, in giving utterance to another man's ideas without publicly acknowledging his indebtedness P Whom...

T HE training of dogs to act as messengers and sentries in war, reminds us that many animals are themselves in the habit of using methods and means to secure their own safety...

CURATES' SERMONS. [TO TEM EDITOR 05 THE " BPECT4T011•1 Silt,—May I offer a few remarks arising out of your article on "The Training of Curates" ? It is mainly devoted to their...

[TO TRU EDITOR OF THE " SPROTATOR.1 SIR,—Students and lovers of the English water-colour art have doubtless been much wounded by the furious raid which was made on their...

[To Tail EDITOR OF TAM " SpzoTATon."3 SIR,—In your postscript to the letter of your correspondent "L.," you say : "A voidable marriage is not a void marriage." May I quote in...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TIIR SPECTATOR."] Snt,—Part of your article in the Spectator of February 21st, on "The Training of Curates," brought to my mind an old story, for the truth of...

[To THE EDITOR OF TIIE " SFECTATOIt."] Sin,—Thrice (in p. 279) you speak of " retractation," meaning, not the revising, but the retracting of a statement made, Are we obliged...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Thank-you for your article on birds' eggs ; but in the last sentence but one I fear you are mistaken. The Shetland owners can only with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Allow me to point out that there is a more wantonly destructive class than even the Birmingham oologists, who are to be found...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.".1 SIR,—Your correspondent, "S. W.," hopes that your remark that "the crow that develops white feathers and is peeked to death by its...

MR. LELAND ON GIPSY SORCERY.t THIS is a curious book; and precisely the kind of book to which we should go to find out the true meaning of the word "superstition." Mr. Leland...

SAUL ON MOUNT OLIVET.* [After a day spent in persecuting the Church of Christ ] So one day more of bitterness had spent Saul, and the night, the solemn night, came on, Grateful...

to be known as ‘. Lucas Malet "have displayed many admirable intellectual and literary qualities, but they have hardly served to prepare us for so powerful a novel as The Wages...

a volume like one of these of the Dictionary of National Biography is by no means an easy task. How are five hundred articles by nearly a hundred different writers to be dealt...

FEW countries have experienced such varied vicissitudes of fortune as South Africa. At one time its inhabitants were confident of realising enormous wealth by sheep-farming, and...

THE modern French system is the subject of the third and concluding portion of M. Taine's great work, and in the volume before us he enters on an exhaustive examination of the...

Two boys were born in Edinburgh in the year 1813 both of whom were destined to play a prominent part in the religious history of Scotland and the world. Alexander Neil Somer-...

Lord Chesterfield's Wor/d/ad Wisdom. Selections from his Letters and Characters. Arranged and edited by George Birkbeek Hill, D.C.L. (Clarendon Press.)—Dr. Hill has given an...

Co.)—We cannot pretend to examine in detail Mr. Wise's theories. He has purposely put them in a paradoxical form. "Universalism, by a Calvinist," " A National Church, by a Dis-...

Farran, and Co.)—This is a very interesting—though in parts inevitably matter-of-fact—memoir of a man belonging to that limited happy class who live to see the triumph of the...

By J. P. Mahaffy. (Macmillan and Co.)—Tho year AB B.C. witnessed the greatest event of the ancient world. In that year the heritage of Greece fell to the Roman Republic. As...

M.D. (H. K. Lewis.)—Dr. Roberts is a lecturer and examiner to that excellent Society which has done so much to minimise suffering, the "St. John Ambulance Association." The...

(George Redwa,y.)—The author of this elaborate work, who published "The Evolution of Morality" in 1878, explains that it was not till the appearance, in 1880, of the result of...

(John Murray.)—We are glad to believe that the practice of writing Latin verse flourishes sufficiently to justify the publication of this book. It certainly should be helped and...

a curious and almost delirious story of passion which in ordinary life would and in hysteria or madness, suicide or murder. It is a story within a story, both being, it may...

Now Marguerite." (George Redway.)—This is a provoking story. A good deal of it—the country-house life, the love-making, and even the ghost-hunting—is not only intelligible to,...

Co.)—This is the last book that was written by a contem- porary of Scott, Jeffrey, Cockburn, and Wilson, who, though not of their intellectual calibre, was yet respected by them...

Robertson, who edits this volume, and prefaces it with a short memoir, does not seem quite at his ease when speaking of Lord 13eaconsfield. There is certainly a touch of...