A REVOLUTION was attempted in Portugal on Satur- day, but it failed. Acting, as they thought, in concert with the Republicans of Lisbon, and supplied with money by the...

an important speech on African affairs. He maintained that the retirement of Germany from Zanzibar and Witu in favour of the English was wise, as neither position was so...

that the two factions have extorted from Mr. Gladstone their own terms about the police and the land, and that on Thursday, the 12th inst., they will formulate an agreement...

polls. It appears that, while the Italian electors approve the Triple Alliance, they are discontented with the expenditure rendered necessary by the attitude of pre- paredness...

Liverpool. He stated that he expected a great measure of Home-rule from Mr. Gladstone, "who would never bring forward any measure which could not be cordially accepted by the...

in a victory for the Conservatives, now in power, who have seated 322 Deputies out of a total of 427. This is a majority of nearly three to one, and would be a guarantee of...

took the chair, made a very brilliant speech in proposing the health of Lord Hartington, the guest of the evening. Ho said that he was warned off almost all the ground it was...

on the inevitable upshot of the Irish Party's dis- position to take anything Mr. Gladstone would give them as a lever by which they might extract a great deal more. " I have not...

proposing the second reading of his Religious Disabilities Removal Bill,—in other words, the opening of the offices of Viceroy of Ireland and Lord Chancellor of England to Roman...

argumentulre ad korainem by way of reply. If this removal of religious. disabilities is really so needful, said Mr. W. H. Smith, how does it happen that Mr. Gladstone, during...

at all. Lord Salisbury's son and son-in-law,—namely„ Lord Cranborne (Conservative) and Lord Wolmer (Liberal Unionist),—both of them voted for Mr. Gladstone, as also did the...

was right to reduce Mr. Justice Charles's rather astounding sentence of twenty years' penal servitude in. Haegan's case, though it may be questioned if lie did not reduce it too...

the United States approaches a crisis. It appears that on December 13th, 1890, the Governor-General of Canada addressed to the Colonial Office a despatch proposing a joint...

that place. " I was struck," writes a correspondent, " with the absence of dogs in the bazaars and streets, and remarked on it to our Arab. He replied : 'It is the English...

new magazine rifle, now distributed to the troops, is complicated, -expensive, and when out of order difficult to repair; and on 'Tuesday, Mr. Marjoribanks brought the subject...

" mixed " battle at Northampton. Alderman Manfield is apparently to be the Radical candidate, but it seems not im- probable that Dr. Aveling will attempt to get a hearing as...

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rather adroit method of defeating them. They say they are good reforms, and shall gradually be carried out, but that, as this is their intention, there is no need for an English...

of the Ashbourne Act continues to be entirely satisfactory. Up to December 31st last, the number of applications for loans was 24,223, involving money to the amount of...

absence of petitions in favour of Mr. Gladstone's Bill, and - treated that as evidence that the Roman Catholics do not feel the stigma which the disability implies. The Duke of...

which everything is to appear smooth, and the leadership accustomed for centuries to regard the Royal veto as a that they were abusing the physical superiority of the...

I N the speech delivered to the Liberal Unionist Club on Tuesday, Lord Hartington protested that Professor Dicey, who presided, and who had delivered a very brilliant speech in...

C ONSTITUENCIES are certainly not institutions likely to improve either the logic or the moral simplicity of the human mind. The mind of the repre- sentative is a very complex...

T HE news from Canada is the most important that has been despatched across the Atlantic for many years. Sir John Macdonald has dissolved the Dominion Parliament and appealed to...

Lord Salisbury, as diplomatist as well as Premier. The difficulty with Portugal, though it seemed a small one, had threatened to become almost unmanageable by diplomacy. The...

I T was, we suppose, a good thing that the conceited and vulgar self-gratulation over the progress of man which was the note of the middle of this century, and which attained...

T HE debate on Mr. Marjoribanks' motion on Tuesday bore a strong likeness to most other debates on points of administration. The Houso of Commons holds a very awkward position...

M R. LESLIE STEPHEN'S paper, in the Nineteenth Century for February, on Cardinal Newman's scep- ticism, does not show much insight into his mind. If any one wants to miss the...

I T was an American who told an interviewer that be humbly hoped, in his better moods, for a future state in which there should be less friction and no editors ; and the feeling...

HATEVER may be the ultimate fate of the new enter- prise, Mr. D'Oyly Carte has certainly deserved well 'of the musical republic. He has built and dedicated to the lyric stage...

"D OST thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be -no more cakes and ale ?" Yes," cries the teeto- taler ; "and because I drink water, my guest shall not look upon...

.ARCHBISHOP WALSH AND HIS TARDY PROTEST. [To THE EDITOR OF. TI1E " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—As you pithily remark in a paragraph in the Spectator of January 24th, in which you deal...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " BPBOTATOR.1 SIR, — I question the accuracy of your writer's statement when he says that Western villageis have no. traditions of the Sedgemoor carnage,...

[To THE EDIrou or THE " BrEcrATou.1 SIB,—I should like to corroborate the tendency of your remarks on the above subject. It would be quite impossible to give a more grotesque...

serious allegations which the writer of the article in the Spectator of January 31st makes against the work of the London Schools Dinner Association, must be my apology for...

THE "Brxerkron."1 Sin,—Mr. Leslie Stephen's article in the current Nineteenth Century on " Cardinal Newman's Scepticism " is so elaborate, that it would be useless to attempt to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." . I Sin,—My mother used to tell a story of an old cat who used to sit on the table beside her mother's old housekeeper, and play with her...

(TO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR, "] SIR,—Your reviewer may well say of the Rev. Arthur Male, that "of his own claims to rank as Anglican apostle of that country our author is...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] SIR,—In reference to a notice in the Spectator of January 31st of my work on "Memorable London Houses," may I be permitted to correct an...

A DANCER. FROM floor to ceiling a tense hush upsprcad, Then a short sigh, and then the dance's beat ; The music woke again as from the dead, And surged and trembled up to feel...

ITC THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, —May I point out to Mr. Nevill and your readers that an Association already exists which pays blind people to write Braile books ?...

To those who have seen many of Cardinal Newman's later letters, there may be a certain measure of disappointment in finding that there is, on the whole, less of undisturbed...

contains few volumes that can compare in attractiveness with the delightful auto- biography of Joseph Jefferson, which, after running its course in an American magazine, has now...

by Mr. Macdonald in Southern Africa, and in this modestly written volume a lucid account will be found of the customs and habits of the natives of the Transkei and East...

as they were before the days of iron ships and the introduction of steam. It does not pretend to be a systematic treatise on the con. struction and rig of ships and boats of the...

novel, Sour Philomi:ne, we are inclined to begin with a few remarks on the style and work of these writers. Books like theirs, of vivid, realistic description, and painfully...

THE Fortnightly Review is remarkable this month for two of the most paradoxical articles we have recently seen even in magazines. Mr. Oscar Wilde, in " The Soul of Man under...

a rather too modest name for a little volume of singularly sweet and graceful poems, hardly one of which can be road by any lover of poetry without definite pleasure. Take, for...

THE LIGHTER MAGAZINES.—Tile Magazine of Art is a good average number, although there is no article in it which has an air of distinction. The recent death of Sir Joseph Edgar...

B.A. Vol. II. (West Indies). (Clarendon Press, Oxford).—This latest instalment of Mr. Lucas's work maintains the high level of excellence and accuracy which distinguished his...

Corbett describes himself as a " semi-professional," i.e., he was a gentleman by birth, who filled the post of stage- coach driver so long as to gain a professional expertness,...

B.A. (Elliot Stock.)—This is an able book, a contribution to Biblical criticism of real value. The author is candid and courageous. But he is not rash, rightly thinking that we...

The author has endeavoured," we read in the preface, " to discuss the questions relating to the existence, the attributes, and the works of God under the light and the theories...

(Religious Tract Society) is The English Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, by W. H. Beckett,. Mr. Beckett very properly introduces his sub- ject with some preliminary...

Morley gives us in this volume the second part of his Fourth Book, and so carries on the literary history of the four- teenth century. A third part is to follow. The contents of...

writer has given us a fairly comprehensive account of Denmark, the geological, prehistoric, and historic stories. All three are interesting, especially that part of the historic...

(Cassell and Co,)—Mr. Farmer has selected a hundred songs, of the most varied nature and from many sources, Of the merits and demerits of a collection of songs, it is not easy...

Co.)—Mr. Preston tells us that this book is to meet the wants of junior students, but may be read by those who desire more exhaustive treatment. Certainly the size of the...

With an Appendix on " Illuminating Gas." By J. Alfred Wank- lyn and W. J. Cooper. (Kogan Paul and Co.)—This small book deals more particularly with the analysis of air for...

and Co.)—This is, indeed, a somewhat exhaustive guide to the study of public health, filling some six hundred and fifty pages, and touching on all the great points of...

An Autobiography. Edited by J. Murray Mitchell. (Nisbet and Co,) —Mr. Padmanji was born at Belgaum sonic sixty years ago. He belonged to a family of respectable position, of the...

Lebour-Faussett). (J. S. Virtue and Co.) —Part of this volume has already appeared under the title of " Economical French Cookery for Ladies." The author has now increased the...