changed. Wad-el-N'Jumi has been reinforced, but he has not made any great progress north of Abu Simbel ; while the Egyptian forces are concentrated, and the British brigade, at...

end on Friday week, when an unexpectedly large minority,—num- bering no less than 116, without counting the Members who paired in favour of Mr. Labonchere's motion,—voted...

T HE condition of South-Eastern Europe grows more un- settled. In Crete, the insurrection is spreading rapidly, and something very like general anarchy prevails in the island....

defeat of General Boulanger's hopes. He was elected only in twelve communes at most; and as the smallest number of com- munes in which he had proposed himself as the one nominee...

Wednesday, took a fairly hopeful view of the European situa- tion. He thought the rebellion in Crete dangerous, but he repu- diated altogether any wish or disposition on the...

but the Royal family, and the most prominent members of the governing class—including the Cabinet Ministers and their wives, and Mr. and Mrs. Gladstone—a few personal friends of...

case.

Morley, who moved an amendment, which was in effect the amendment of Mr. Labouchere over again, though made in Committee instead of made as against the proposal to go into...

sense decidedly, though not openly, hostile to the policy of the present Administration. Ireland is to be conciliated by every concession short of the one which the Parnellites...

meeting at St. George's Hall, Walsall, elaborated his proposals for social reform. The Opposition, he declared, were demoralised and disorganised, and Ireland was compara-...

harmless though unpractical suggestions in relation to the sale and purchase of land, and the building of cheap and wholesome houses for the poor, dashed into his more natural...

but we cannot omit to notice here that Lord Randolph entirely ignores the Settled Land Act when he describes the insolvent tenant for life growing on the land like a fungus....

and reduced the issue to its true insignificance. Sir Wilfrid Lawson, however, was unusually heady, and called all his opponents a " swell-mob." Mr. Goschen closed the debate...

Tories might have been, no one could deny that an Old Radical like himself had got real reforms out of this Tory Government, with which a practical man should feel himself very...

Bruen, Stipendiary Magistrates, resumed the hearing of the charge of assault preferred against Dr. Tanner for spitting at County Inspector Stevens on May 2nd. On that day the...

by Mr. Sexton, in order that the question of the legalitiof the sentence for contempt passed upon Dr. Tanner might be raised. The Petty Sessions Act gives the Justices authority...

Bishops have been obliged to interfere with the playing of the game of football in some districts of Ireland. Archbishop Walsh has been interviewed on the subject, and while...

New Consols (2D were on Friday 98j to 98i.

squabbles between the United States and Great Britain. On July 11th, the Canadian sealing-schooner Black Diamond' was seized by the United States revenue cutter Rush,' in...

the Liberal Union Club, which was held on Wednesday at the " Ship," Greenwich, and made an admirable speech on the present position of the Union question. He said that the...

THE GOVERNMENT AND THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE OPPOSITION. M R. CHAMBERLAIN, in his remarkable speech at Greenwich on Wednesday, said that a Nemesis of disintegration had...

the English newspapers are greatly exaggerating the meaning and extent of General Boulanger's defeat in the cantonal elections. That he has been defeated very decidedly, there...

Bayuda steppe. gathered to a head at Dongola, started afresh in successive detachments, reached the neighbourhood of Wady Haifa, suffered a defeat at Arguin, and strengthened by...

S IR WILFRID LAWSON says that we are all Republicans, only that we choose to have a hereditary head to our Republic. There is not, we think, much truth in that assertion. No one...

T HOUGH it might not be quite just to say of Lord Randolph Churchill that his fault is thinking too little and talking too much, there is no unfairness in asserting that he...

and a Prophecy," is the title of an article in the Contemporary Review which might equally well have been christened " The Kernel and the Husk." For the Prophecy, which stands...

M R. ANDREW LANG, who has indulged himself, in the new number of Longman's Magazine, in a criticism on our remarks on " The Pitilessness of Angling," seems to have mistaken,...

I N this holiday season, most people are capable of a certain degree of idleness ; but to understand what idleness really means one should winter on the Riviera da Ponente....

bewilderment ; to attempt the solution of Irish ques- tions without it, sheer folly. At the best, Irish history is sad reading,—the weary chronicle of a nation's path "all down-...

THE IRISH PEOPLE AND HOME-RULE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTA.TOR."] Snt,—While thanking you for the notice with which you have honoured my letter in the Spectator of July...

SIR,—.1.8 not gambling, from the economist's point of view, a case of "unproductive expenditure," and as such to be "ruled out of court " without delay ? If I spend money on...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Stn, It is scarcely to be expected that I should acquiesce in the verdict of " quite wrong " contained in your editorial note to my...

pm THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] STE,—In the Spectator of July 27th, you published a letter by " R. H. Q." which cited a passage of Archbishop Whately, as bearing on the...

[T0 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIE,—It seems to be generally taken for granted that free transfer of land and the breaking up of large estates will somehow benefit the...

SIE,—In your note in the Spectator of July 27th, you say,- " The loser loses in order to gain enjoyment, and loses less. than he gains." But what of the winner? What does he...

PROFESSOR KNIGHT'S LIFE OF WORDSWORTH.* THE author of these portly and finely printed volumes writes as if brevity were a fault which biographers should avoid. But, as a rule,...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — On Saturday afternoon, just about the time that the fleet " dressed " for the Queen's return from her grand- daughter's wedding, any...

have not seen Mrs. Gatty's book on this subject, and cannot therefore say if the following appears in it :— "I am a shadow, so art thou— I mark time, dolt thou P " This I...

THE LIME-BLOSSOM AFTER RAIN. HERE by the Rectory garden's old, red wall, The limes and chestnuts side by side grow tall, And, thickly even, mass against the sky, Their bloom...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The muzzling order for dogs is the most cruel and tyrannical edict ever issued; it is also useless, because it inflicts a vast amount...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following was told me by the present Master of Marlborough College, the day after it had occurred at one of the College...

[To THY EDITOR OF THE " firscrATok."] SIR,—In a kindly notice of my volume of poems, your reviewer asks where I got the materials for " The Wanderings of Oisin." The first few...

IMAGINE Hiawatha so increased in bulk as to be about half as long again as the Iliad, and you have some idea of the- Xalevala, the epic of Finland, which Mr. Crawford has been....

IN a foot-note on p. 118 of this little volume the author reveals with ingenuous frankness the fundamental difference between Ultramontanes and others in the study of...

IT is much to be regretted that, by the premature removal of Dr. Hueffer, these essays have been put forth without the final revision of which they stand so sorely in need. The...

WE have already, in a notice of the earlier volumes of this magnificent edition of Franklin's' works, congratulated the editor and publishers on the way in which they were...

IT might have been expected that the very doubtful success of the Contemporary's excursion into the regions of sensationalism during the spring would have acted as a warning to...

Shakespeare's Funeral, and other Papers. By Sir Edward Hamley. (Blackwood and Sons.)—These papers are, we believe, reprints from Blackwood; but the volume contains no indication...

of Thibet " belongs to the literature of the marvellous. A young English officer falls into the hands of the Buddhists, professes himself to be a disciple, and is initiated into...

Oates.)—The meaning of the title may not be at first sight obvious to the reader. The volume gives a transcript of the registers kept by the priests of various Roman Catholic...

(A. and C. Black, Edinburgh.)—Dr. Ingram has here republished in an enlarged form the article on " Political Economy " which he contributed to the recent edition of the "...

(Chatto and Windus.) — A certain number of English readers are probably acquainted with this tale in the original. Mrs. Cashel Hoey ' s admirable translation will introduce it...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Colonel Garland is a pleasant, impecu- nious gentleman with a passion for gambling on the turf, which brings no little trouble upon himself and his...