Tuesday, a speech which signifies, among other things, that one of the most acute men in England thinks the tide of Tory popularity is rapidly flowing out. We have commented on...

on the political situation. It was studiously moderate, though the criticism of the policy of transforming the Queen into an Empress, and then using the prerogative in a manner...

T HE Government has decided that all preparations for the inva- sion of Afghanistan shall be completed, but that Gholam Hussein Khan shall take an ultimatum to Shere Ali warning...

excessive bitterness of the Russian journals on behalf of Afghanistan. They call loudly on their Government to defend the Ameer, and declare that Afghanistan must not be annexed...

report that Indian society, civil and military, is disgusted and humiliated by the resolve to send an ultimatum to the Ameer before declaring war, and the former adds that Lord...

case.

mission, with the signature of the Italian Commissioner, and have- forgotten to state,—if we may judge, at least, by the document reproduced in the Times,—that the Italian...

temperate and most convincing letter against a war with Afghanistan, in which he raises points always too much forgotten. He says we can subdue Afghanistan, but cannot retire,...

laid down the chief heads of our educational needs in England thus ; (1), good schools of the elementary class, i.e., for children who must go to work, if possible, by thirteen,...

to the Times, on Wednesday, to say that he can find nothing in Sir Stafford Northcote's speeches in the Midlands, except a threat to Turkey. They remind him of the Frenchman...

Bywell Castle' and of the 'Princess Alice' from responsibility in the destruction of the latter steamer. The captain of the former, Captain Harrison, is declared by Mr. Balguy,...

Birmingham on Tuesday. He said you might almost track the path of Tory Governments in this country by the debts they left behind them, and that this Government certainly would...

Glasgow on Monday night, in an elaborate speech, in which he tried to show that if the Liberals had been in power they would have plunged us into war on behalf of Turkey, and...

of William Watkins, his wife, and three children, at Llangibby, in Monmouthshire, on July 16, was found guilty on Wednesday, at the Gloucester Assizes, and sentenced to death by...

to agree to the division of Bulgaria, and are forming Committees in Philippopolis, Adrianople, Tirnova, and places in Macedonia, in order to arrange resistance. The Committees...

to pay seem to prove that, at all events in very many counties, the gradual progress of Free-trade in bringing to us all the low-priced wheat of countries far fitter for...

City of London is anxious to retrieve its reputation, and has elected for its " Remembrancer" a barrister of very different calibre from its last choice. There were eighteen...

held lately. in Dublin will not only have to dispense with Mr. Butt's co-operation, but may have to encounter his active oppo- sition. In a letter to the Cork Examiner, Mr. Butt...

the Liberals. The Hon. J. W. Fitzwilliam was returned by a majority of 689 over his Conservative opponent, Mr. Lawrence (1,360 votes against 671) ; and there were besides, 653...

at the election of the French Senators in January came off on Sunday. The results are not yet ascertained, but it is believed that the vote for the Republic was very heavy, and...

Depu- ties of the numbers of persons under religious vows, which appears to dispose finally of the assertion that the exemption of clerics from military service interferes with...

SIR J. STEPHEN ON THE JUSTICE OF THIS WAR. S IR JAMES STEPHEN, in Monday's Times, takes up the cudgels nominally against Lord Lawrence, but really against all the world, in...

W HATEVER may be the explanation of Sir Stafford Northcote's visit to the Midland Counties, there was one sentiment., twice repeated in his speeches, which must hiave surprised...

of peace and of Lord Beacons- field's policy are cropping up in Eastern Europe, and of these, the first, though the most talked about, may not prove the only serious one. This...

S IR WILLIAM HARCOURT'S speech at Scarborough on Tuesday was an ominous one for the Ministry. No one sees quicker than Sir William how the cat is going to jump, and no one can...

M R. GLADSTONE'S speech at Rhyl will, of course, be regarded by the great mass of Conservatives, and by not a few of the nominal Liberals, as a fresh ground of offence against...

T HERE are all the signs of a coming Strike among the farm labourers of Kent and Sussex. Their present wages vary from 26.4d. to 2s. 9d. a day, subject to the deduction often...

I N the November number of the Fortnightly Review, Mr. James Sully discourses with much unction on what he calls "the whole Iliad of afflictions" to which sensitive ears are...

I T is with a sense of actual pain that we find ourselves unable to support the proposal now mooted in Glasgow, Edinburgh, and London to open a National Subscription for the...

MHE scientific spirit is often charged with attempts to invade and conquer other domains than its own. In that of the Fine Arts, a certain legitimate influence, it is true, has...

THE AFGHAN QUARREL. [TO TOG EDITOR Or TEM "SPECTATOR.") S.112,-11111 you permit me to express a conviction that all this present excitement about Afghanistan and the supposed...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The mot d'ordre has evidently gone forth to divert public attention from Afghanistan to Turkey in Europe. The country has now seen that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] hope Mr. F. W. Harper will read my letter again ; he will then, I think, see that I did not "hint a doubt as to the Bishop of Carlisle's...

[TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] concur heartily in every word of Mr. Lyttelton's criticism on our present Guide-books, and I am sure travellers of almost every kind would...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] Sin,—There are occasions, as you justly pointed out in a recent article, which not only justify begging, but make it the duty of some...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—Mr. John Goodier is entirely mistaken in stating, in his letter in last week's Spectator, that the holder of Bank or other shares who,...

[TO TIM EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—No one man knows everything, and I am not surprised at Mr. Baldwin Brown's ignorance of the nature of "John Knox's" Establishment. But...

A PARALLEL [" Look hero, upon this picture, and on this ; The counterpart presentment of two brothers."] As some bedizened juggler at a fair, With bleared eyes blinking in the...

VILLAGE POLITICS.* THERE is a ring about this little volume which has not been heard often of late in the speech of English clergymen,--scarcely, indeed, since "Parson Lot" was...

TEE reviewer, like Iago, is nothing if not critical ; but his scorn for all that is amiable or confiding in either man or woman must be as bard and as cold as that of Iago, if...

BUSH -FIGHTING amongst the Kaffirs is not even now a very enticing style of warfare, or one likely to lead to very glorious results ; but in 1851, when the Cape Mounted Rifles...

THE biography of actors is very often amusing, but seldom elevating. It is often " shoppy," in the lower sense of the word, containing too much of the outworks of the calling,...

ONLY one observation need be made about the work of the trans- lator of the Iiismarckbrieft,—it is well done. Herr Maxse ought, however, to have made some reference to the...

the most interesting article in this number is the review of Mr. Torrens's "Memoirs of Lord Melbourne." Ho was not a statesman after the heart of the Westminster Review, but he...

very careful and elaborate discussion of "Further Evidence on the Petrine Claims." The Scriptural and the Patristic evidence, and then the testimony of the Liturgies (which is...

The New Quarterly Magazine, October. (Chatto and Windus.)—It is only right to express our sense of the great advances which this peri- odical has made since the time when it was...

Street, Strand.)—Is a means of bringing the Coastguard Ser- vice more prominently to the front, comprised, as it is, of picked men from the Royal Navy, a Liqt, containing the...