The Queen Has Announced Her Intention To Raise Mrs. W.
H. Smith to the Peerage, as a posthumous tribute of respect to the late First Lord of the Treasury. The electors of the Strand will doubtless show on Tuesday next that they echo......
Mr. Chamberlain Made One Of His Very Ablest Speeches At
Sunderland on Wednesday, though he might have spared the Government of 1880-1885, for the errors of which he was in part responsible, some of his very candid criticism. He......
Mr. John Redmond, Who Is To Contest The Vacancy In
Cork, caused by Mr. Parnell's death, is declared the new head of the Parnellite Party. So far as we can judge, that is not a strong appointment. There will be two elections in......
M. De Blowitz, In Tuesday's Times, Tells A Curious Story
about a "thin sheet of paper" which was "circulated at Rome" on the evening of Thursday, October 15th, " in a manner sufficiently mysterious, and within only a small circle."......
Notice To Advertisers.
With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, November 7th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure......
News Of The Week.
A S we anticipated last week, it has been officially announced that Mr. Balfour is to become First Lord of the Treasury, with the leadership of the House of Commons, and that he......
They Were, If We Are To Believe The "thin Sheet,"
directed towards reducing the importance of the Franco-Russian entente. Russia took France by the hand only with the object of securing European peace, for France isolated was......
Mr. Balfour Has Been Making A Few Not Very Important
speeches at Manchester, on Education and the defensive organisation of the Kingdom, but has said nothing of any consequence which it is at all necessary to record. He reserves,......
