envy when they read the accounts of the new regulations as to the use of its weapons by the Army against civilians which hare just been issued in Germany, and were printed in...

at once that, if coercion was to be used, they must lose no time, for the military situation was rapidly drifting in a way unfavourable to them. To give the policy of coercion a...

THOUGH the dispersal of Parliament for its short Easter 1 holiday has left a cooler atmosphere, it is to be feared that no real progress has been made towards a settlement. The...

is true everything is explained ; and if it is false nothing is explained." Why, if precautionary measures only were intended, was it necessary to give orders to eight Generals...

done by the House of Lords in the last resort, but may note here the very significant movement in the Liberal Party in favour of Liberals being allowed, in the matter of the...

important article entitled "The Army and Ulster." It tells the story of the naval and military coup d'etat which was prepared by the Government, or a section of the Govern-...

catching on, and the nation being persuaded that the officers at the Curragh attempted to usurp the functions of the civil power and to create a military domination, the nation...

case.

sub- stantial indication of a desire for a settlement. It was not true that the Government's proposals for a settlement were dead. "The offer will remain open whatever the...

essential facts. "In my belief, the position was never more full of danger." The danger could be ended only by the Exclusion of Ulster or by an appeal to the people. Mr. Boner...

Council of those who have signed the British Covenant was held at Caxton Hall. Lord Milner said that signatures to the Covenant were pouring in at the rate of thirty thousand a...

of Ulster was not a compromise or a concession. Sir E. Carson had "nob advanced an inch towards compromise." The Government's latest proposals were hateful to Nationalists, and...

the presence of Mr. Balfour, an ex-Prime Minister, lent the protest its greatest weight. The speeches were, with hardly an exception, worthy of the occasion. Mr. Balfour drew a...

Hyde Park last Saturday afternoon was remarkable for its quality and temper, as well as its numbers. No open-air meeting held in London in our time has been attended by so many...

House of Commons on Monday by a majority of 80. The majority for the second reading in 1912 was 101, and 98 in 1913. The number of Irish Nationalists who voted for the Bill on...

of the world any Government had been mad enough to try to drive out from its Parliament a loyal, obedient, and pros- perous community. Sir Edward Carson said that no Radical...

in the last resort, that any such call could be properly addressed to the military and naval forma of the Crown. On such occasions it was the duty of the soldier, as of the...

from all quarters of Fife at the Masonic: Hall, Ladybank. The Prime Minister, after treating in a jocular vein the " strange credulity" which inspired the "ridiculous legend" of...

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the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress, the General Federation of Trade Unions, and the Labour Party, held on Tuesday, it was decided to send Mr. Ramsay...

Edward C. Mitchell, the racing journalist who for many years was sporting editor of the Star, writing under the familiar pseudonym of "Captain Coe." The dynasty is to continue,...

Wednesday, has constructed a model ship fitted with a stabilizing gyroscope. The model, which is six feet long, is to be placed in the Science Museum at South Kensington beside...

rebel leader in Mexico, to inquire into the murder of Mr. Benton, was published in the papers of Tuesday. The report says that the crime was committed by an officer named...

House of Representatives, has won the Democratic Party nomination as Senatorial candidate for Alabama. The Times correspondent says that he is sure to be elected. This is...

WHAT HINDERS A SETTLEMENT. T HE country as yet seems hardly to have grasped the statesmanship, the moderation, and the far-reaching character of the offers which Mr. Boner Law...

W HAT is to be done in the last resort? What is to be done if all efforts at compromise in the House of Commons fail because the Nationalists demand their full pound of flesh...

W HEN the Greek Government, in return for the grant of nuanerous islands, promised the Powers that Greece would evacuate Northern Epirus, otherwise known as Southern Albania, no...

O NE of the most amusing, and yet disheartening, features of the present situation is the manner in which the Radicals with one accord are attacking the Referendum. A few years...

MILE attempt to solve the mysteries of cancer is made 1. along two main lines ; there are the researches of the pathologists and bacteriologists, and there is the tabulation of'...

T HE popularity of the lesser novelists is always something of a puzzle to the readin g public—as soon as their vogue is past. Why, for instance, was " Oujda " so widely...

"Warn Wat o' Harden and his sons, WV them will Borthwick water ride, Warn Gaudilands and Allanhangh And Gilmansoleugh and Commonside. Ride by the gate at Priesthaugh swire, And...

MHE corps of the Northumberland Guides and Despatch Riders signalized its formation by riding on Thursday, March 26th, right across Northumberland, from Kidder Castle, on the...

SIR,—In a note appended to Mr. Bernard Holland's letter on " The Will of the Nation" in your issue of April 4th you say: "We are Unionists, but if the country by a direct vote...

HAVE QUAKERS ABANDONED PEACE PRINCIPLES P [TO TER EDITOR OF THR "SrEcrrror.."3 SIR,—Where is the man of peace that his voice is silent in these troublous times? Is it that...

[To rum Ennor or ins "Sprortroa73 SIR,—I venture to protest against the doctrine you lay down as to the above: "We are Unionists, but if the country by a direct vote adopted...

"Bracrazos.") Sin,—The Senator for an important New England Slate writes me from Washington (March 25th) :— " Naturally, being an American, accustomed to the State system,...

Srn,—I have been grateful to read and endorse your wise and moderate counsels during the whole of this Home Rule crisis. But what you wrote on p. 561 last week gives me pause....

[To ens EOMoa or rex “Breorrron."] Sns.,—Are we not too apologetic about the Army ? True, no command was disobeyed, but those fifty-seven resignations saved us from civil...

[To an Emma or suu ..8rxerssoan Srit,—May I mention three matters in which the proverbial difficulty of seeing another person's standpoint is exemplified ? Some people are...

[To ma Eons. or an "Eirscrtroz."1 Sea,—" Oxoniensis " says that in all the distinctive marks of nationality enumerated by Herodotus, except language, Ulster differs from the...

[To sus Emma op as “BrsorAsou..] Six,—In your article on "The Kind of Army that the Home Rulers Want" in your issue of April 4th you quote Mr. Massingliam as demurring to...

[To Tar Evrroa or riri "Bracmor."] SIR,—Stran ge things happen. The present crisis has furnished the Liberal Party with a new rallying my, "Let us democratize the Army!" It...

the Welsh Church Bill will come on for second reading in the House of Commons, for the third and last time, on Tuesday, April 28th, and that it is under- stood that the Unionist...

(To THE EDITOR Or THE .. Eraorrros...] SIR,—We have it on Mr. Asquith's authority that the provision that a period of two years must elapse before a Bill can become law under...

[To yrs EDITOR or TRH .. ErHoTATOR."] Sta,—Your readers will see in Wednesday's Times the Privy Council judgment, which is what is called in the East the "last guess" of...

[To raz Ernes or THE “Seacxxxos."] Silk—Mr. Asquith, speaking on the question of referring the Home Rule Bill to the people, used as an argument against doing so "How could...

[To ass Emma or in "Sercr■roa..] SIE,—My grandfather, Robert Coutart McCrea (afterwards Admiral), served when only a boy of twelve on board H.M.S. 'Swiftsure ' at the...

grandfather, William Thornely, and some of Lis conversation. He was born in 1744 — prior to the Scotch Rebellion and the births of C. J. Fox and W. Pitt He died in 1839. - 1...

[To ran Zones or an " Sta, — You rarely trip. But have you not done so gloriously in last week ' s number P You quote I speak not of pity, I speak not of fear; They neither...

[To THA ZIATO. Or an "ssversssa."1 Sza, — On application for a motor-oar number to the L.C.C. received the enclosed formal notice of the number allotted to me, and pinned to...

..firsresson."1 Sm,—All those who love the glorious coast walks of Cornwall must thank you for your most interesting article in last week ' s Rpedator, and especially for your...

[To THE Eurros Or THE ..SFECT11202.1 SIR,—At the forthcoming International Book Trade Exhibi- tion at Leipzig this summer, a section of the British depart- ment will be...

THE EDITOR Or TEM "BriCTATOL'l Sm,—Would you kindly allow me to appeal through your columns to the theatrical-profession as a whole on behalf of the National Institute for the...

[To ass Lamas or ass ..SPICTATON..1 Si, — The Spectator has on former occasions shown interest in the National Lending Library for the Blind, and I, therefore, venture to ask...

(TO THE EDITOR Or THE "SrEcT.eroe. - 1 Bilk—Mentioning to my father that Sir Charles Tupper's Becollections of Sixty Years had just been published, it was interesting to hear...

.SPECTAT0141 SIE,—I thoroughly endorse every word in " Subscriber's " letter in the Spectator of April 4th. For four years I have been doing all I can to help the blind in a...

[To THE EDITOR or ran "Brierraros."1 the review of "Early Collegiate Life" in the Spectator of March 28th, the mention of "one of Anthony's mistresses" leads to a reflection...

THE SIGNPOST. Ow my green grass plot I stand aloof Where the four white roads have met, And I hear the tap of the coacher's hoof And the hum of the landattlette. I point the...

A RUSSIAN HUMORIST.* "Loco/ well at the face of Dostoievsky, half a Russian peasant's face, half a criminal physiognomy, flat nose, small penetrating eyes beneath lids that...

in agreement with the views therein eepressed or with The tnode of expression. In such instances, or in The ease of "Letters to the Editor," insertion only means that the matter...

Ix is somewhat difficult for those who, in the language of the Latter-Day Saints, are called "Gentiles" to treat Mormonism seriously. To them the founder of the Mormon creed...

THE series of dynamite outrages by accredited representatives of Trade Unions in the United States—outrages which caused the death of at least a hundred persons—are the most...

Appre- ciation of Australia," Mr. Jacomb has gone far to defeat his • n.we Commission on Historical Monuments (England) an rnaentory Ilistosieal Monuments in Buckinghamshire....

the Historical Monu- ments in Buckinghamshire is marked by the industrious care and enthusiasm for a great work which we have come to associate with the names of Lord Burghelere...

volume of her new edition of a Tudor cookery book. She was introduced to it, we learn in the Introduction, "by the Librarian of Corpus Christi College, who, knowing my interest...

ONLY four of the papers contained in this volume, and reprinted from addresses delivered by their author, deal directly with the lawyer in literature—those, namely, on the...

theological books that flows from the press is a strong testimony to the widespread interest taken to-day in fundamental problems. But of these numerous volumes it is only a few...

THE STAIRCASE.* THE present century has been described as having brought about the apotheosis of middle age ; but Mr. Frank Swinnerton dissents vigorously from this view in the...

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