(AN Monday, Sir Stafford Northcote, addressing the Beacons- N-1 field Club, dropped some significant remarks on the probable character and extent of the Redistribution Bill, The...

Govern- ment have submitted proposals upon the finances of Egypt to the Powers interested. These proposals are substantially that the British Government shall give up to the...

the relations of the Houses of Lords and Commons as to render it impossible for a Tory Chamber to obstruct indefinitely the measures of a Liberal Government, came on in the...

Colonial policy ended last night, but too late for us to hear the result. It was understood that M. Ferry would have a majority, the Opportunists still adhering to his policy as...

Expedition, but only two of them appear to be true. The new climate, the exposure, and the Nile water have produced some sickness among the men ; and the delay in transporting...

any case.

Pall Mall of last night reported some scare on the subject—that the negotiations on the Redistribution Bill have come to a success- ful end, and that no difference of principle...

Parliament on Wednesday. The Liberalists, Centre, and Social Democrats united, and carried the second reading of a Bill for the payment of Members by 180 votes to 99. The...

seem favourable to Free-trade, and there is no attempt to deny English interest in the matter, while the English repre- sentatives apparently approve the delimitation of the...

and much from the hereditary principle, and that he was no idolator of it. At the same time, he could not go so far as Mr. Labonchere and Sir Wilfrid Lawson in the opposite...

speech to the Liberal Six Hundred at the Philosophical Hall, on the present condition of the Reform question. He was quite unable, he said, to see the Liberal humiliation of...

A. J. E. Andre, of Port of Spain, reports to the Anti-Slavery Society that the Mnssulman and Hindoo coolies of Trinidad have of late years united to keep the Mohurrum, or...

conse- quence, to stand a contest for Scarborough, was returned on Wednesday by a majority of 193 for Scarborough,—the second contest there within a fortnight. Colonel Steble's...

Fair, against Lord Marcus Beresford, for a breach of the peace in assaulting him at the office of Vanity Fair, on October 16th last, was heard yesterday week, before Mr. Edlin,...

and fearing, as he says, to subject the plaintiff to fresh ex- penses, instead of receiving the verdict, gave judgment for defendant, with costs. There will, of course, be an...

C. W. Adams, litterateur of fifty, proposed to Miss Cole- ridge, daughter of the Lord Chief Justice, and was accepted. Lord Coleridge objecting to the engagement, Miss Coleridge...

another column, in which he remarks on some physiological experiments of Mr. C. Egerton Jennings, M.S., related in the Lancet of last week, but whether performed in this country...

calling themselves administrators of Goshen, hearing that an expedition is actually on its way, have become reason- able, and have agreed with the envoys from the Cape, that the...

against the King of Burmah. The cruelties, massacres, monopolies, and taxes, favoured by Theebaw, who is at once an educated native and a drunken savage, have, it is affirmed,...

night, at a meeting of the Church of England Temper- ance Society for the diocese of Peterborough, referred, with some humour, to the am‘Jignons reputation he had earned by some...

attention to an advertisement, which appears in another column, con- cerning a memorial to that high-minded man, the late Rev. James Baldwin Brown. We are sure that to many of...

THE MARCHING-FORCE OF DEMOCRACY. N O man can see the future ; but it is more than possible that the historian may one day point to the short Autumn Session of 1884 as a...

M R. JOHN MORLEY'S speech at Leeds on Tuesday is one of the surest indications he has yet given us that he is rising to a position of wide political influence amongst the...

T HE debate in the French Chamber on the Chinese War will not improve the position of M. Ferry either in Europe or in Asia. He has obtained, we presume,—for the actual figures...

T ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has wisely guarded his I fame as a statesman against the various risks to which - his projected journey to India might otherwise Shave exposed it, by...

T HE Person and the Parliament in Germany continue unable to agree. The first division in his newly- elected Reichstag taken on Wednesday must have been a severe blow to Prince...

H ERE is an Act, of a purely social and economic character, passed by the consent of both Houses and all parties in a busy and bitter Session, and which is pre-eminently an Act...

D OWN to the very end of last Session the cause of Australian Federation seemed as prosperous as its best friends could wish it to be. It was advancing in the Colonies and...

W E confess ourselves gravely dissatisfied with the tone of public comment upon the Coleridge Libel Case. In the first place, the enormous importance given to the case, the...

S IR ANDREW CLARK, in his lecture on Monday to the Young Men's Christian Association in Aldersgate Street, defined health as the state "in which existence in itself is a joy, in...

SECOND CHAMBERS. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECIATOR."1 SIR,—When writing an article on "Second Chambers," which appears in the Contemporary Review for this month, and which you...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATC1R.1 SIR,—The Spectator of the 22nd inst., on "Spiritual Denude- tion," during the last thirty years, makes the following state- ment :— " The...

rTo THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is there not an omission in your argument ? Of course, an average elector of Hackney does not maintain his sons when they are of an age...

"Dees MR. BRYCH,—A8 to the double-Chamber system in our Constitutions, Federal and State, it may be said not to be a subject of discussion at all in this country. It is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The question whether a particular hymn is to be called Anglican or Roman Catholic is surely settled by the religious position of the...

intentionally barred myself from the necessity of reply- ing to an editorial note which I expected to see appended to My letter in your last issue. Still, I hope you will allow...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR "] SIR,—Your well-known love for animals encourages me to hope you will find room for an account of one of the most touching incidents of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In your issue of September 27th, 1884, in the review of a book, "Ancient and Modern Britons," notice is drawn to the dark complexion...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " FPECTATOR.' • ] Sta,—In your issue of the 22nd inst., in reviewing "Rambles Round London Town," you say you think you have noticed this work before....

IN MEMORIAM: HENRY STORMONT LEIFCRILD. IN what fair Presence hast thou lately been, Genius of Death P Hest thou a moment seen Him of the Resurrection, that thy face Is like to...

SOME AUTUMN PICTURE GALLERIES. WE do not intend in this notice to attempt any adequate review of the contents of the Galleries which we mention, but only to speak here and...

I TO AN INVALID LADY, ON HER HUSBAND'S DEATH.] DEAR lady, sorrow-sainted, whose long pain Rebuked us by its smile, or hushed, like songs The sad, retired nightingale prolongs...

BY A PHILISTINE. [TO C. AL If.] 0, FOR a lilt of melody ! gracious boon, Grudged by our modern critic, merciless, Whose soul, sick of soft harmony's caress, And surfeited by...

ON laying down this interesting memoir,—and interesting as it is, it is difficult to express how much more artistic Mr. Julian Hawthorne might have made it by excluding letters...

MR. Yens has told the story of his literary life with great com- placency and good-humour. It has not been a serious life in any way, but the serious lives are not very...

less severe than that which has so long prevailed in these islands. For several years the occupying owners of France and Central Europe, though suffering from the same causes as...

of ex- perience upon previous speculations, and marvellously ap- propriate the morals brought home from outlandish quarters. Such are the reflections suggested by the attractive...

THE poem from which this volume takes its name is an effort at descriptive poetry more ambitious and laborious than any- thing that we remember to have seen before from Mr....

Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—The beginning of this story is quite charming. Molly and Nora, who will take to themselves the initials of the catechism ("neaten or nomina " they...

GIFT-BOOKS. St. George for England. By G. A. Henty. (Blackie and Son.)— Cressy, Poictiers, Slays, the Black Death, the Jacquerie, with such great personages as the Black...

By Darley Dale. (James Nisbet and Co.)—The seven sons are the children of a clergyman, who has resigned his living from ill-health, and lives at Avranches. Only two of them play...

(Hodder and Stoughton.)—Here is another temperance tale. Lucy, the little heroine, is much hurt by her father when he comes home in a semi-intoxicated condition. Sent to regain...

a number of volumes of various sizes, some of which have already been noticed. We have now to mention :—Three Sixteenth-Century Characters. By Sarah Brook.—The " three " are...

Dr. Stables's accessories stagger us a little. What were smugglers doing on an inland moor in Aberdeenshire, except it were to make our blood curdle when the hero is hiding with...

weighted by its having a purpose ; but Miss Edwards (or should we say Mr. ?) contrives to bear the burden with much facility. There is some real humour in the book ; and the...

Williamson has been engaged for many years in missionary work in China. This volume contains some of her more recent experiences, not so much of mission.work as of travel, but...

Meade (Hodder and Stoughton), a story of English life in a chalet near the Pyrenees ; Slyboots, and other Farmyard Chronicles. By Beata Francis. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Birds...

James Macaulay, M.A., M.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Macaulay has collected here between forty and fifty stories, making a somewhat curious mixture. "The Siege of Jerusalem by...

Co.)— This is a popular account of Egypt, ancient and modern. The sketch of Egyptian history seems to have been carefully studied (we may note that there is an error in what is...

and Stoughton.)—We cannot help thinking that that very respectable and sensible person, "nurse," was pretty nearly right when she gave it as her opinion that "there was...

handsome volume of more than eight hundred pages, printed in three eolamns, and containing a vast amount of reading. Miss Rose Nonchette Carey contributes a serial story...

the Sunday Magazine. (Isbister and Co., Limited).—Again we have to thank the editor of the Sunday Magazine for an excellent Christmas Number for children. Little 8nm:flakes...

title of this volume, which contains a year's issue of this magazine, sufficiently describes its object. Now and then we observe some slovenliness or inaccuracy, which an...

(G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York).—We cannot say very much in praise of Dr. White's Herodotus. He gives too much ; some of the details which he retains in his selection being...

(London Literary Society.)—This is a story of the Franco-Prussian war. It is not without interest ; but it would have been improved by being told in a simpler and less ambitious...

Buck- fitness for future work, must be a picture rather than a story ; and as she also says that material is wanting for rendering that picture artistic, we are not sere that...

centenary of the death of Samuel Johnson is close upon us, and, in consequence, a number of works upon him of the nature of biography or of "study" have been published. Of...

(Religious Tract Society.)—This is a story of the siege of Leyden, its title being suggested by the remarkable incident of the violent south-west wind which did so much for the...

Sons.)—This is an account of the doings of the Quern hunt from October, 1883, to March, 1884. We do not pre- tend to criticise it ; but we may congratulate the agricultural...

Frith. (Routledge.)—M. Daryl's book is divided into three parts, treating respectively of "Literature and the Theatre," "Parliament and the City of London," and "The Queen, the...

the North. By the Rev. C. S. Collingwood. (Simpkin, Marshall, and (io.)—The necessity for a fresh biography of Bernard Gilpin is not evident, and Mr. Collingwood fails to make...

Son, Bristol ; Hamilton, Adams, and Co., London.)—The author would have been better advised in allowing these romances to sleep in the obscure back pages of the Bristol Times...

Messrs. Eyre and Spottiswoode. They consist of endless varieties of flowers, some of them hand-painted ; some pretty arrangements of vignetted photographs, and also many quaint...