gives information to the world, tells a curious story. It asserts that one at least of Prince Bismarck's resignations was a trick arranged between the Emperor and himself....

the American Senate has adopted the principle of fixing a time at which the vote on a Bill resisted by obstruction must be taken ; and the Tariff Bill, which is so resisted,...

at York on Wednesday, though the Home- rulers declare that there are only about thirty Liberal Unionists in the great county. That, however, is of course mere brag. The Liberal...

least. It is not really popular with any class, except a section of the peasantry, who see that under the Constitution they are the masters of France; but on September 4th it...

case.

T HE Continental papers are still full of rumours as to the result of the meeting between the German and Russian Emperors, but very few of them even look true. There is no -...

Liverpool, with some formal business, and a review of the year by Mr. Broadhurst. On Tuesday, the President, Mr. Matkin, read his address, which was on points almost...

seasons like the present, make strange reading. Whole columns of them record nothing but Royal movements, local disasters, and startling crimes. Dalziel's telegrams, in par-...

lesson. Although some of the leaders were absurdly furious, and personalities were exchanged of a savage kind, order was maintained. The delegates resolutely supported the...

Journal on the potato-disease in the West of Ireland,—which, as he evidently hopes and suggests, may render it impossible to pass the Government Land-Purchase Bill, and yet...

Tuesday Mr. Woods, of Wigan, moved an amendment censuring the Parliamentary Committee of the Unions for not supporting the Miners' Eight-Hours Bill more energeti- cally, but...

year's British Association, at Leeds on Wednesday, ranged over so many topics, that we can only select the one which seems to have excited most popular interest,—his account of...

of the Mediterranean and its coasts was read by Sir E. Lambert Playfair, her Majesty's Consul-General in Algiers. He pointed out that the Mediterranean had formerly been divided...

even in England. In France, Switzerland, Italy, and Austria, the floods have done serious damage, in the latter country sweeping away whole villages, and threatening the very...

the " Cotton King," who raised the price of cotton so high last year in the middle of September. This year he has found himself unable to continue the struggle against the...

England as late as September 1st, the ordinary time of their departure being about August 20th, while it is exceedingly rare to find any of them still in this country in...

Times, to withdraw the sky-sign on Ludgate Hill which is said to interfere with the view of St. Paul's Cathedral, though they themselves strenuously deny that there is any point...

of Corsica and its pine-forests, and also its chestnut-forests, on the fruit of which the Corsicans subsist more entirely than the Arabs do on dates ; indeed, the chestnuts...

prospects of agriculture. He thought that the new Ministry of Agriculture, from which he had never anticipated very great results, had signalised the very first year of its...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 95i to 96xd.

SLACK UNIONISM. T HERE is an article in last week's Guardian from which we differ about as widely as it is possible to differ from any article written on the basis of an...

Hartington's speech [at York] appears to be nothing more or less than a very commonplace representation of the jaded theme of obstruction," can hardly have honestly asked...

ought to speak more, for his speeches increase light instead of obscuring it, occasionally attains his exquisite lucidity by narrowing too much his field of view. He has done...

S PEAKING on agriculture at Barrow on Saturday last, Lord Hartington took occasion to offer some good advice to the North-Country farmers and their men. He considered it beyond...

T HE secret history of attempted revolutions does not nowadays long remain secret. Journalistic enterprise generally contrives to find the key to it. The revelations about...

" laws "—the whole of the criminal and civil law, for example—being left to the State Legislatures ; and the people therefore,. unless a new tax is under discussion, or a...

T is autumn ; the corn has been carted, the grapes have 1 been plucked, and soldiers can move across the bared plains without destroying property or irritating the peasants into...

in this month's Contemporary Review, discusses Dr. Martinean's book on "The Seat of Authority in Religion," and has no difficulty in showing the almost intolerable paradox of...

Nv E do not know whether the Conference of the students of prophecy, recently announced by the Daily Telegraph, is really coming off, or whether the project is only the idea of...

I N the course of last spring a lively controversy went on for some weeks in the Times over the well-known story of the Highland girl who was reported at the time to have heard...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR : DULLNESS-THE SILLY SEASON-THE QUESTION OF MISTRESS AND SERVANT. THE questions which crop up for idle discussion at this time of the year are...

THESE good folk of Auvergne seem to get much more fun, or at least much more play, out of life than we do ; at any rate, they have been twice en fete in the three weeks we have...

WHEN Mr. Jorrocks proposed the toast of " 'unting ; the sport of Kings, the image o' war without its guilt, and only five- and-twenty per cent. of its danger," he would no doubt...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Perhaps it is hardly worth correcting certain errors in the Spectator of August 30th, on the celebrated contest between the Monitor'...

TRANSLATED BY JOSEPH JOHN MURPHY.* No more I see the blissful Sun ; I feel the gloom of darkened days. Mine is their sadness ; joy is none. But I can feel, thou blissful Sari...

THE CONTROVERSY BETWEEN DR. O'DWYER AND MR. DILLON. L TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—There appeared in the Spectator of August 16th a most remarkable article on "...

RECENT NOVELS.* THERE are, we should think, very few people who can boast that they have read every one of Mr. F. W. Robinson's novels ; but of those with which the present...

most unprofitable spirit in which to approach a study of Shakespeare is that of the schoolmaster. In the first place, it is rather doubtful whether it is advisable to use his...

THE idea that the Apostles, throughout their intercourse with our Lord, were dealt with in such a manner as should prepare them for their special work, is not a new one. But Mr....

MR. NE ILsoN, by putting together all that can be gathered from English and Scottish history of that extraordinary perversion of law, the ordeal of battle, has produced an...

IT was a good thought of the Linacre Professor; whose recent election shows that Oxford knows when to be generous as well as wise, to rescue these essays from the semi-oblivion...

OF the many articles that appear in this month's magazines on the subject of the late Cardinal Newman, certainly the most interesting is that contributed to the Contemporary...

Philip and Son), is a vade mecunt for cyclists, which it would scarcely be too much to docc.iba as indispensable. The pedestrian generally is happiest when he is not on a road ;...

has used his title in a very vague sense. There is generally something strange in connection with the crimes he relates, either as to their incidents, or their motives, or their...

Notes on American Schools and Colleges. By J. G. Fitch. (Mac- millan and Co.)—Mr. Fitch, who knows as much as any man about elementary education in England, made a tour of...