... Sir Michael Hicks-Beach put his foot down last night, and Sir William Harcourt made a mistake in getting under it. A decla- ration of that kind this time last year would have saved the Government a good deal of criticism which was partly founded on misapprehension. We still continue to think that, with several crises on hand, the Cabinet acted rather rashly in ordering the move on Dongola. Nor ...

... THE HERTFORD WALLACE COLLECTIONS. ATiLmTrVoU a number of people have been allowed to visit the Ce1;c~tiols at Hertford House, but few can flatter themseives that thley hlave seen thle private apartments where Sir Richard Wallace had for his own personal enjoy ment brought together the art treasures already known at the exhibition of Manchester, 1857, and Bethmal Green, 1872, but for the most ...

... l REI'JOINDER TO T1IE COUNCIL'S CIRCULAR. As leaders of the agitation for the reform of the Corporation of Foreign Bond holders, Nlessrs. Brownv and Tilleard have issued another circular dealing w\ith tlhe defenice which the Council has put forward. TJIn COINSTITC ITION OF THlE CORPORAT[ON. Tile Council, savs this circular, rcfers to the opinion obtained in 1883. We have always been ?? a sight ...

... am waff Anti onlettt Offirtt 18. CHARING CROSS ROAD, W.C. [FROMi OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENTS.] The Emperor of Austria, the Archduchess Stdplhanie, the Archdukei Louis Victor and Ranier, Sir Horace and Lady Ruttbold, Prince and Princess Dietrichstein, and Princess Clotilde Mensdorff. were among the guests at the ball recently given in Vienna by the Count and Countess B3adeni. The French ...

... MIXED BLOOD. If the distinct types of race are interesting, the indistinct are sympa- thetic; moreover they have a nationality of their own. A marriage of Orient and Occident creates a child that looks newer than the mere dividing and joining of hereditary characteristics could make him. The sobu of Persian and English, the daughter of English and Greek, have a fresh quality, remarkable for an ...

... REFORMS IN TU RKEY.| T HE DETERMINED ATTITUDE OF COUNT MURAVIEFF. CoNsTANT lNor.E, Tuesday.--Thlle Sultan ha ving verbally communicated to the British, I renh, anid ussiajn lbassies his intention or despatching a ccimnllSSiO- to SuplvIse the ex~ecultioiun o the projectcd retorms, alnC hin]g reauested them to ?? ?? to represent them el the C0o1minSsioit, tke three ?? tephied that they could not ...

... Mr. Luttrell, who has achieved the distinction of passing the first bill of this Session, was one of the few private members who succeeded in getting a measure through all its stages in the crowded Session of last year. The bill which he conducted to a successful issue in the early hours of this morning is to amend the qualifications for elections to parish councils, by providing that any ...

... - ~ - - - - Till; fSt' TON 1 ?? CO)LON/AL4 TRAX~INJIVG HIOME. vl p H,- the many openingils that undoubtedly exist in the 10n \.cn V OmTen of the educated class ?? wilhotit meanls, ~tet ini ct ~of' man~~y of the schiemes to which benevolenet rpc ,I tltlj Ci .14sta1cc, with tire obtect ofhelping the samei is beyond N0nhiWvo-ks, it is itot suthojient merely, to subscr~be the funds c'ISF'~ :n -, a ...

... ITT0% UR TH EDITION. T-FECRISIS IN CRETEOI I)EXISIbON 0OF THE POWERS. ATTITUDE OF THE GREEK~ GOVERNMENT. 'ThIe negotiationis which have been goiing onl among the Great Powers withte oblect of securing a settlement of thle Cretan qnestion, appear to h~ave been crownied withz somnething like suiccess. Commiunicalionis have been, Passinlg be~tween the var1ious Cabinets, and the result is put in ...

... That presence of mind and seamanship are still available when required in both officers and men of the Royal Navy, even in these degenerate days, was made manifest at Portsmouth last Thursday, when a serious accident was only avoided by the smartness and prompt action of the officers and men on watch of the InJ7exible and Hero. Both these battleships were moored in the harbour, and the former, ...

... IHE truce arranged yesterday between the North-Eastern Railway Company and its men is a capitulation on the part of the directors. With Sir JOSEPH PEASE concerned in nego- tiations, uncompromising resistance was hardly to be looked for. We are bound to confess, however, that the com- pleteness of the surrender is most surprising. In the dreary annals of labour disputes there has been no ...

... THE STRIKE THAT TWAS BOOMED. BY A SUPPORTER OF LORD PENRIHYN. ALWAYS eager for a new sensation, always anxious to listen to the argu- tnents of those with whom I cannot see eye to eye, I attended the curious perlormance at St. Margaret's, Westminster, which Canon Eyton gave as a benefit for the quarrymen at Bethesda. It was probably the most informal service on record. First came a short ...