I T is stated that the Porte has at last accepted Russia's pro- posal to send General Ernroth to Bulgaria as sole Regent, and has requested Germany to obtain the approval of the...

for the legality of the National League's action, admitted that it endeavoured and endeavours to put down" land.grabbing," as it is the taking of land from which another has...

Wednesday in the return of the Conservative, the Hon. Alwyn E. Fellowes, by a majority of 286, he having polled 2,700 votes, against 2,414 given to the Home-rule candidate, Mr....

any case.

in Ireland was resumed on Friday week by Sir George Trevelyan. His drift was favourable to the intimidation clauses of the Crimes Act, which bethought should have been used,but...

and the mingled moderation and firmness with which it was sustained, have certainly improved their position in the country, and probably enough made the difference between...

Sir William Harcourt had avowed his intention to initiate a criticism of exaggeration by magnifying to the highest degree everything faulty in their policy. He had, in fact,...

of a dangerous Association under the Crimes Act void within a week's time unless Parliament should be summoned to meet within twenty days, proved that this was not a matter left...

the House to raise a question as to the proclamation of a meeting near Ennis as unlawful, was extremely violent. Mr. Balfour maintained that the meeting was proclaimed not under...

speeches at Mitchelstown, took the chair at the meeting of the National League in Dublin on Tuesday, and made a very violent speech. He accused the Government of calling that...

week in the House of Commons as even Parnellites can, but Mr. Parnell himself has not taken the lead. On Tuesday, in Supply, Mr. Healy called Mr. King-Harman, the Under....

which was almost confined to his own subject, chemistry, has been spoken of as of less than the usual interest on that account. We differ from this estimate, and think that it...

the third death within a few days amongst M. Pasteur's patients. Yet Sir Henry Roscoe, in his inaugural address on Wednesday to the British Association, spoke of M. Pasteur's...

been published. England agrees that decennial missions shall be sent from Burmah to China to present articles of local produce, the members of the minions to be of Burmese race....

of International Arbitration to the Secretary of the London Peace Society, who is about to proceed to America to advocate there the advisability of a Treaty with England, under...

Consols were on Friday 1011 to 1014.

On Wednesday, volleys of stones were thrown at an English ship in the harbour, and the attack became so serious, that the vessel had to proceed to sea. A quantity of fish was,...

o'clock, in the public square in front of the prison of La Roquette. For nearly a week before, immense crowds had gathered every night, in the hopes of catching a sight of the...

the post of Chief English Commissioner in the Anglo-American Fishery Commission. Mr. Chamberlain's great power of mastering new and complicated details, and his statesmanlike...

imposing affairs. That held last Saturday evening in Trafalgar Square to protest against the proclamation of the National League seems to have been simply ridiculous. Not-...

which is being carried on in the Times concerning the action of the Salters' Company in refusing to continue their acctuitomed grants to the churches, schools, and charitable...

and very graceful address to a number of his fellow- parishioners whom he entertained at a Jubilee treat in honour of the Queen's completion of the fiftieth year of her reign....

THE NEW FEDERALISM. I T is astonishing to us how easily politicians of the first class are dropping into the assumption that the British Constitution must come to an end, that...

M R. GLADSTONE'S conclusions in the paper on "Political Meteorology," as he calls it, which he has contributed to the Nineteenth Century for September, are, we think, very...

F OR the first time since July, 1870, of unhappy memory, the French War Offioe has undertaken, as an experiment, the "mobilisation" of a corps d'armie. This enterprise, due to...

A CORRESPONDENT whose letter is published in another column, pulls us up sharply, and not unjustly, for the remark which we made, rather in spleen than in equity, we admit, as...

N 0 idea is encouraged more persistently and more eagerly by the Parnellite Party than that which represents English rule in Ireland as a moral and material upas-tree, under...

M R. GIFFEN is essentially an unpopular economist. He wants the quality which, more than any other, enables a writer on his special subjects to catch the public ear. That...

T HE sepulchral remains of Athens, noticed in our issue of August 13th, must have revived or suggested one reflection in the mind of every observer. The student of Greek art...

A CORRESPONDENT of the Daily News of Monday -.6111- mentions a curious practice prevailing in Cambridgeshire, where the men who have got-in the harvest drive up and down the...

THE DOCTOR-DUKE AT MERAN. [PROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Sac,—I have lately returned from a trip to TyroL An account of some of the pleasant sights and people met with at the...

PROFESSOR DICEY ON UNIONIST DELUSIONS.—IV. [To TH3 EDITOR or THE " firscumoa. - ] Suz.,—" No Liberal ought to support a Conservative Govern- ment" This maxim is rarely stated...

THE t 'SpromOs.") Sue,—When I first knew, or thought I knew, the Spectator, fancied that its underlying principles were Liberal,—perhaps- even Radical. The doubt is not on that...

.. SPILCZATOR."] Sm.,—You aud Professor Dicey have in recent numbers of the Spectator demolished, with irresistible arguments, the illusions of those numerous Unionists who...

[To Tea EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR:] S114 — Permit me, as a Liberal Unionist and Irish landlord on excellent terms with his tenants, to make a few remarks on Mr. Winterbotham's...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THY . 13PECT•7011,1 Sra,—The Report of the Committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the subject of Forestry, does not, if I may venture to...

[To sex EDITOR os vas "Ersozasoz."J Sia,—I must remonstrate most earnestly with you for your extraordinary attack on Mr. Jacob Bright. You say it is "hardly decent to show so...

[To sex Rorros Os me "SrsorAroa."] Sis„—I read with much interest your recent estimate of Mr. Jefferies' literary character. I hope the contributions to the Jefferies Fund will...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE . SPECTATOIL.”3 SIR,—The stream will soon be setting southwards, and travellers who make the journey frequently may be asking if there is no new way into...

[TO THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOB.1 have only to-day received my copy of the Spectator for July 23rd; hence the lateness of this communication, which, nevertheless, I hope you...

THE LIFE OF DEAN COLET.* Mn. LUPTON is to be congratulated on the completion of a worthy task. It is just twenty years since his devotion for Colet first found expression in his...

it is to note the different ways in which exploration, whether it be simply geographical, or whether thereto be superadded researches in some other science, is carried on in...

MR. OSWALD ORAWFURD'S previous works, although not wanting in variety of motive, subject, and treatment, had not prepared us for a feat of the kind which he has performed in...

Tr would certainly be hard to get more wanderings into the space of three years than Mr. Keane appears to have com- pressed into them. He is apparently marked out by Nature to...

To the volume containing the best plays of Marlowe, with whick the excellent "Mermaid Series " of our old dramatists opened, there have recently been added a volume of the...

Ma. Merrdsw ARNOLD'S article in the Nineteenth Century is as irritating as his political writing usually is. Doubtless Mr. Arnold will take our irritation as a sign of how...

Brown's book may be generally described 92 oonsiating of two parta—firat, a description of flint implements and the remains of primitive man discovered in a certain portion of...

—Joseph Napier, a scion of the famous stock of the Napier!' of Her- chistoun, was born in 1804. After a successful career at school and college, he won early distinction at the...

alternative title of this book, "Charity Commission Acts," more exactly states its purport and contents. A general work on Charitable Trusts is sadly wanted, but this book will...

The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century. By John Latimer. (W. and F. Morgan, Bristol.)—Mr. Latimer, himself editor for many years of a leading Bristol paper, has...

Woods, DI)., and J. 0. Johnston, M.A. (D. Nutt.)—The three treatises, "De Spiritu et Littera," "De Natnra et Gratis," and "De Detain Pelagii," represent very well one side of...