Abbey on Monday was a wonderful evidence of the affection with which he was so universally regarded. Churchmen of all shades, ranging from Lord Shaftesbury to the Master of...

at last, thanks to the genius of Mr. Gladstone, who is the only statesman living who could have floated such an elaborate piece of legislation as this over the various reefs of...

has won the battle on the Helmund, and on the 26th inst., totally de- feated, it is said, .Abdurrahman Khan, the Khelat regiment and Candahar horse having deserted to Ayoub....

keep the secret well ; but Sir William Harcourt, in his explanation on Monday night in the House of Commons, conveyed the impression that as yet they had not traced these...

any case.

to limit the operation of the seventh clause of the Bill,—the one relating to judicial rents,—to holdings under the amount of £100 a year, on which a sharp debate took place,...

T HE sensation of the week,—and it is well that it was not also the convulsion,—has arisen out of the discovery that on the last day of June and on July 3rd there arrived at...

the new elections will be held about August 21st. This is rather a sudden notice on the part of the French Government. The date originally fixed upon and generally known to the...

and was much more temperate than might have been expected from the preliminary display in Willis's Rooms. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, in his opening speech, dropped the accusation...

French Government that her Majesty's Government are not at all prepared to look upon any French interference in Tripoli as they have looked upon the French interference in...

ment approving the policy of the Government, made an extremely spirited defence of the course taken, on the assump- tion that it was undoubtedly a frank confession of error, but...

in its admission of the manifold difficulties of the situation, and able in its exposition of the reasons for delaying the change of front 80 long,—which reasons were, in brief,...

last finished its labours, the final battle being a rather smart engagement between the Government and the Opposition on a clause proposed by Mr. Parnell, and accepted by the...

Club, at the Club-room, Walbrook, Sir John Lubbock taking the chair, in the necessary absence of Lord Granville, who had not yet sufficiently recovered from his attack of gout...

his lot among the Conservative Whigs. He did not vote at all on the Transvaal question ; and on Lord E. Fitzmanrice's motion to limit the operation of the Irish Land Bill, so...

difficulty of deciding who should be returned to the Senate of the United States as representative of the New York Legisla- ture, in place of Mr. Conkling, who resigned because...

Circular to the Ambassadors and Ministers accredited to the Pope, explaining that the insults offered to the body of the late Pope on July 13th are regarded by the Pope as...

who seized the occasion to pronounce a very spirited eulogium on Mr. Gladstone's wonderful achievements in the conduct of the Irish Land Bill. "The foremost man of the age," as...

operation necessary to remove the splinters of bone from the wound, and to open the gathering which they had caused. The operation was conducted without chloroform, only ether...

the execution of Abdul Aziz are not to be executed, but are sentenced to perpetual exile instead. The Sultan, it appears, summoned a Council to take the responsibility of the...

flONSIDERING the quarter whence it came, the amend- ment made by Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice on the Report of the Land Bill is suggestive of the kind of treatment which it is...

MR. GLADSTONE'S STEERING OF THE LAND BILL. T HE Irish Land Bill will have passed its third reading before these pages are in our readers' hands, and Mr. Gladstone has already...

T HE Tories have learned something by the criticisms passed upon their recent explosive meetings. Sir Michael Hicks-Beach returned on Monday to a moderation of tone which is...

-V ACANT Ecclesiastical preferments have a certain interest, even for those who have no chance of being presented to them, and when the empty place is one of such dignity and...

-V ERY few persons appear to be aware of the important and delicate questions which are in progress of discussion at this moment, in connection with the relations between Great...

A S in a few early districts some oats and wheat have already been cut, it would not be correct to speak of the "coming harvest," although the gathering of the crops will pro-...

" J UDGE BRENNAN " and the other Fenian preachers of what is now called the "science of dynamite," are apparently making a good deal of way in America, and they have certainly...

T HERE have been at least three cases lately in which magistrates or juries have been appealed to by Lon- doners complaining of unnecessary and discomforting noise, and there...

D R. WARD publishes in the July number of the Dublin IlPvietv an able and extremely interesting article on the extent of Free-will, the drift of which is to show that "each man...

LONGER LIFE, OR SLOWER DEATH? (TO THE EDITOR OF THE SFECTATOR:i have seldom read so strikingly practical an article as that which your columns contained last week, on the...

one of the most useful and certainly one of the most pleasing of the good works performed by Dean Stanley was his interest in children, as manifested by those annual gatherings...

ro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In a brief notice of "Horses and Roads," you appear to suppose that the question of non-shoeing has never been really tested in this...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE erscraion.-] SIR,—I am much interested in your article on the peasant- proprietors in the Isle of Axholme, chiefly because it fell to my lot a fortnight...

the Spectator of the 23rd inst. it is said that "a tradition" traces the origin of the Axholme colonists to an immigration from Holland. The "tradition" has a substantial basis...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:) SIR,—Believing that many of your readers must feel that no incident can be insignificant which illustrates the character of Dean Stanley, and...

ONE FAITH, IN MANY FORMS. r" What is the Being that is ever near, sometimes felt, never seen ; that which has haunted us from childhood with a dream of something surpassingly...

CICERO'S CORRESPONDENCE.* OF late, some good work has been done by English scholars for Cicero's Letters. The thing was much needed. These Letters are of the highest political...

THE novel-reading public is well disposed towards Mrs. Lynn Linton, and with good reason, for she is a thoughtful and care. ful writer, with powers above the average. But we do...

ANY competent observer of the set and drift of modern thought, and of the current controversies of our time, must have come to the conclusion that the first work to be done, in...

ALTHOI:Gil many books have been written on China since Les Letlres Edifiantes of the Jesuit Fathers, and the compilation by Pere du Halde furnished to the Western world a...

newspaper gossip, the late Mortimer Collins was in some respects eminently successful. His egotism, his cheerfulness, his appreciation of fine literature, his familiar style,...

is currently reported to have observed that it was all very well to say, "Scorn not the sonnet," but that the public did scorn it, or at any rate would not buy it. Probably the...

Tax history of gardening carries us back to far-off days, when Nausicaa led 'Ulysses to "where the garden yields a waste of flowers." From Chaucer and Shakespeare we learn what...

a Physician. By J. Compton Burnett, M.D. (Homoeopathic Publishing Company.)— This is the first Halmemannian lectare, which was delivered at the Lon- don Homceopathic Hospital...

T. G. Fraser. With an Introduction by Colonel G. 13. Malleson, C.B.I. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Lieutenant-Colonel Fraser died about three years ago. He had retired from the...

went out as Bishop of Newcastle, New South Wales, in September, 1817; he died there in March, 1879. During that period, he never left his diocese. Perhaps it would have been...

over about fifty-seven years, beginning with some contributions (dated 1820) to "Brewster's Edinburgh Eau- clopmdia," and ending with a letter to the Times, " Ou the Crisis,"...

Co.) —This elegant little volume, in its hundred or so tiny pages, contains much, a just and discriminating criticism of Poe's genius and work, and an account, which is at once...