to concert steps for what is called the federation of Eng- land with her Colonies, with Mr. W. E. Forster in the chair, was a successful one, the leaders talking nothing but...

week, an autumn of agitation is a very formidable prospect for journal- ists. Not only is it impossible to count the number of speeches, but the number of great meetings is...

T HE Conference on Egyptian Finance had come to no decision yesterday, but it is hoped that one will be announced to-day. The rumour is that England has proposed a temporary...

Reform demonstration, so wet a day as to test the zeal of the people to the utmost; and their zeal stood the test. We publish else- where the evidence given by a keen observer...

the vast audience into an uproar of delight by likening the affection of the Lords for household franchise in the counties to the ostentatious affection lavished on Rob the...

the Mudir of Dougola, as usual, has been doing the most wonderful things, and professes to be in possession of a letter from General • .Gordon, in which General Gordon asserts...

at once. Four of the seven Australasian Colonies,—Victoria, Queens- land, Tasmania, and Western Australia,—have now, by unani- mous, or all but unanimous, votes of their...

z.ase.

House of Lords is a mere guarantee for securing the will of the people ; and with his comparison of the indignation expressed at the House of Lords for using its constitutional...

the Conservative Associations of the Metropolis and the Home Counties, representing sixteen constituencies and 298 associa- tions, were addressed by Lord Salisbury and Sir...

Cardiff to the aid of his party, accusing the Liberals of raising this Reform cry in order to distract the attention of the country from the blunders of their administration. W...

on Saturday in the drill-hall, instead of in Paradise Square, where he was to have spoken, in order that there might be shelter from the pouring rain. Mr. Mundella was almost as...

at legislation by picnic. One was in Lord Jersey's park at Isleworth, where Lord Carnarvon and Lord George Hamilton addressed some 2,000 Conservatives, and accused the Liberals...

gardens of the Thames Embankment:at Charing Gress. Lord Rosebery unveiled onBaturday ahroxuse statue of Burns, in the gardens of the Thames Embankment:at Charing Gress. The...

constitutional eloquence,—a speech of the kind of eloquence which Macaulay commemorates as the eloquence of Charles, Earl Grey,—against the recent action of the Peers. He told...

on Wednesday at a conference of 2,000 delegates of Liberal Associations, representing 500 Liberal Associations in different parts of the country, and made a remarkable speech....

literature which is accumulating on the subject of the passion of the Peers for the Franchise Bill. George Eliot, he said, describes one of her characters,—a certain boy,--as...

Zulu debates, unsatisfactory. It is easy to show,—and Mr. Wodehouse especially, we think, did show,—that our position in South Africa, and especially in relation to Zululand and...

both Marseilles and Toulon, nor has it really appeared in Paris ; so that France has reason to hope that for this year, at least, the worst is over. Nevertheless, at Arles and...

the article of the Constitution which confers on the Senate the right of amending the Budget ; and M. Ferry has accepted his defeat, though he intimated last week that he would...

giving a certificate for her incarceration in a lunatic asylum without the proper precautions prescribed in the law, and the jury have given her £1,000 damages. Further, the...

Public Schools Act turn out to be very Conservative bodies ; and after the appointment of Dr. Hornby to the Provostship of Eton it was tolerably certain that there would be a...

the French quarrel with China is going to end. The Times of yesterday had an alarm- ing telegram from Foochow, to the effect that war is imminent, and that sailors were being...

captious spirit Mr. Gladstone's ecclesiastical appointments, on the ground that he has not done justice to the Broad-Church Party. According to our view, Mr. Gladstone has made...

Consols were on Friday 100i to 100i.

LORD SALISBURY'S FIXED IDEA. T A OED SALISBURY'S speech on Monday to the London Delegates of Conservative Associations was more careful —perhaps because it was more pervaded by...

M JULES FERRY has never been a statesman to our • mind. He took up the r3le of a persecutor of religion with something resembling, but only resembling, passion, at a time when...

I T is well that Mr. Gladstone's generous attempt to build up a civilised Government under native rule in Egypt should have a fair trial. But let us cherish no illusions. A...

-FI ORD GRANVILLE'S despatch to Count de Bylandt, dated May 31st, as regards the negotiations for the release of the crew of the Nisero,' is an admirable one ; but the reply...

T HERE is no doubt that a study of history greatly con- tributes to a due appreciation of the politics of the present. Lord Salisbury once recommended the study of large maps as...

E VERYONE who has followed this case at all must rejoice, not only that Mrs. Weldon gained a verdict against Dr. Semple, but that she got substantial damages. Had Mrs. Weldon...

I T is worth the while of those who are interested in pro- moting thrift to consider the novel arrangements which have lately been made by the Post Office for facilitating the...

T HE meeting at the Westminster Palace Hotel, on Tuesday, was in every way a success. It was comprehensive and it was practical. Had it not had the former quality, it would not,...

T HE least flattering of Lord Rosebery's critics has spoken of his speech before unveiling the statue of Burns as "marked by his usual felicity of touch, though marred a little...

T HE anonymous author of some admirably-written essays, just published by Elliot Stock, to which the very inappro- priate title of " Obiter Dicta" is given,—the essays, in fact,...

W E once heard a Zermatt guide express the opinion that glaciers have a bedeutende Natur of their own ; that they wax and wane in some mysterious manner, independent of the...

THE LATE MR. MARK PATTISON. trams A CORRESPONDENT.] SIR,-It was my good-fortune to be an undergraduate of Lincoln - College at a time (1847-1851) when Mr. Pattison's influence...

[Farm A CORRESPONDENT.] Sra,—At a moment when the British West Indies are passing through a commercial crisis of almost unexampled severity, attributable to causes which are not...

THE REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT MANCHESTER.. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Slit,—Manchester witnessed an extraordinary sight on Saturday last, and those who attended the...

[To THB EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The Liberal Party, I believe, has never once during the last sixty years failed to carry, sooner or later, any great reform which it...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Is it possible to gather from the King's Lynn incident any hints as to Lord Salisbury's plan of Redistribution P King's Lynn, with...

SIR,—Yon ask in your last week's Spectator,—"Now, what example could Lord Salisbury produce of the House of Lords ever accelerating the sluggishness of the Commons, willing, as...

Sia,—My words have indeed concealed my thoughts when you have understood me to mean by "the surrender, voluntary or enforced, of the independent legislative power of the Lords,"...

SIR,—In your friendly review of my book you demur to two of my statements of historical fact, and as the point at issue, in one case, is of grave importance, both on historical...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 Sin, — Lord Salisbury has received fall credit for the coinage of a somewhat happy phrase—a valuable political weapon in the present day ;...

than sixty years ago, I remember thie inscription on a very old stone "Here lies a piece of Christ, A Star in dust, A vein of gold, A china dish that must Be used in Heaven...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'1 Sia,—May I thank you for your kindly notice of "The Memoir of Harriet Monsell," and will you at the same time permit me to make a brief...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Will you allow me to add to your list of noteworthy epitaphs the following, which was lately repeated to me by one who had seen it in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] Snt, — The very interesting letter of "F.," in your last issue, con- tains a statement about the family of the late Bishop of Chester which...

FRANCIS BEAUMONT.* WREN, at the end of the eighteenth century, men began to turn from the merely decorative elements in poetry, and in seeking for what was of passionate human...

Sra,—Amongst so many more or less pathetic epitaphs, you will not refuse to admit their antidote and good business-like one, from Ashover Church :— " This Tablet is here placed...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] ' Slit, — While thanking your reviewer for his kindly notice of my book "Di Fawcett," and confessing to a certain amount of nebulosity on...

SIB,—The late Colonel Chester, to whom all present and future genealogists will be for ever indebted, gave me" the following epitaph, and I much doubt if it has ever had the...

Owniu to the harshness of the Dutch language, and yet more, owing to the tiny area wherein it is spoken, the literature of Holland is, to all intents and purposes, a terra...

a means to happiness, and it is not, perhaps, on the whole to be regretted that the science of Economics—a term which seems preferable to the somewhat misleading one, Political...

described as the revelation of a literary loss sustained by Scotland. Probably few Englishmen have heard until now of its author, who at the time of his death was senior English...

being that for the first half of the present year, keeps well up to the high level of merit which that periodical has long sustained. There is no " padding ;" nothing in any...

The sole fault to be found with the July number of the Scottish Review is that ft is too Scotch,—a fault that will probably be con- sidered an excellence on the other side of...

By A. B. Connel, M.A. (Regan Paul and Co.)—The value of this latest work by the author of "Discontent and Danger in India," is impaired, as was that work, by an unreasonable...

White and Co.) —It has rarely been our lot to read anything quite so hopelessly unsatisfactory as these two volumes,—nearly five hundred pages of disjointed twaddle, held...

and enlarged by Charles Tyler. (Hamilton Adams, London ; J. B. Lippencote and Co., Philadelphia.)—Mr. Backhouse, who was an energetic member of the Society of Friends, devoted...

and Co.)— Mrs. Fry's life has been written before ; but it is a story which becomes more significant as time goes on. The world has been moving very swiftly along the way in...

By "Anon." 2 vols. (Sampson Low and Co.)—There is a certain photo- graphic lifelikeness about these sketches (they give us, indeed, the idea of being actually drawn from real...

and convenient form, of the first and second series of Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning (Smith and Elder). These two small octavo volumes, each of about 300...

and Blackett.) —It is seldom that a novelist changes her accustomed field of action with a success so complete as Mrs. Riddell has attained in this very pleasing book. She...

G. Sargent, MA. (Rivington.)—This is a most convenient and use- ful little volume. Mr. Sargent utilises his large experience as a teacher and an examiner to bring together a...