poll by counties and of the time-limit. Why were the six hundred and ninety thousand Roman Catholics to be left out of a system in which they were anxious to be included? He...

from last week, was continued on Monday. Lord Milner said that nothing would satisfy Ulster but a guarantee that she should never "at any time or in any degree" be subjected...

with the Amending Bill, when Lord Selborne moved that Clause I., the clause which relates to the exclusion of counties or boroughs in Ulster by means of a local Referendum,...

T HE field of foreign affairs is this week barren of important events. All that it is necessary to record is that the situation in Albania shows not only no sign of improve-...

at Vancouver on May 24th in the 'Komagata Meru.' Of the three hundred and seventy-five Hindus originally on board, fourteen have been allowed to land on proving that they were...

of the Sacre Coeur, which has been thirty-nine years in building, and presides magnificently over Paris on the lofty hill of Mont- martre. The ceremony will take place on...

establish "Home Rule within Home Rule." The discussion included a speech from the Lord Chancellor, in which he tried to show what difficulties the Opposition would be in if they...

ease.

while Lord Sydenham, speaking from the cross- benches, condemned the Bill as vicious in principle and dangerous in practice. The proposed method of election would be peculiarly...

told that they can only get delivery of three-quarters of the goods they have ordered, and know that these goods can be obtained nowhere else, accept the three-quarters, though...

executive power in the excluded area not to the Lord-Lieutenant, but to " a Secretary of State." These con- sequential and administrative alterations were agreed to without a...

Lansdowne had said they must consider what the Unionists of Ulster would accept. They were also bound to ask what the Irish Nationalists would accept. The answer is easy. If...

on Tuesday by Lord Ampthill, who supported the rejection on the ground that it would not seriously displease anybody, least of all the organs of Indian opinion. Lord Morley,...

out that there must be formidable difficulties. It was no use putting forward proposals which the Unionist Party in Ulster would not accept. The whole object of the Bill was to...

Purchase Acts from the control of the Irish Parlia- ment was under discussion, Lord Lansdowne announced a most wise and statesmanlike determination which had been come to by the...

Ireland Bill, 1914, should not apply to the excluded area as hereinafter defined "—the excluded area being " the province of Ulster." His amendment was designed to provide an...

the Amending Bill being accepted by the Government have improved greatly during the week. As the Times points out in Friday's issue, there is a large and very important body of...

shown by the Prime Minister, spoke of Mr. Chamberlain's private life as a picture pf what family life should be. Tim two great impulses of his career were his desire to improve...

adjourn till the following day as a token of respect, Mr. Asquith paid a notable tribute to Mr. Chamberlain. For thirty years he had been in the forefront of our Parliamentary...

of the debate, and to the consequent upsetting of the Government's time-table. Mr. Walter Long complained of the absence of the Prime Minister. Mr. Lloyd George explained that...

party spirit. Nowadays more Members were capable of debating and wanted to take part in debate. The days when the House was a jury and listened to speeches from the Front...

23 in a division of the first importance. There is no explanation of this fact that will hold water except that there were genuine abstentions by disaffected Liberals. Mr....

issued at Belfast the night before by Captain Craig, Sir Edward Carson's able lieutenant. It was made in anticipation of the meeting of the Ulster Council which took place on...

week in Scotland. On Wednesday their Majesties steamed slowly down the Clyde and inspected a number of ships, from super. Dreadnoughts to torpedo-boat destroyers, which are...

we congratulate the Ulstermen on the wisdom as well as the completeness and clearness with which their position is set forth. It must not be supposed, however, that it is an...

Jan. 29th. Consols (24) were on Frilay 751—Friday week 75f.

A GOVERNMENT WHO ARE NOT GOVERNING. T HE Government are in a position of peril. On Tuesday night their majority, not in a snap vote, but in an arranged division, fell to 23, and...

W E share to the full the sorrow that has been expressed so widely in the Press and throughout the nation in regard to Mr. Chamberlain's death. He was a man of whom the nation...

2L T a time of many political distractions Lord Roberts's masterly speech in the House of Lords on Monday might have less effect than it deserves to have, especially as it dealt...

in Woolwich Arsenal, and the equally sudden surrender of the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for War to the demands of the strikers, together constitute one of the very...

subject of the open Communion we desire to put on record some extracts from the very remarkable article in the Church Times — the able and sincere organ of the High Church...

S TRICTLY speaking, there are no new necessaries. It is only luxury which is new. The necessaries of life are the same as they always were this side of savagery. But a few new...

I T must have occurred to everyone to reflect how small is the margin that divides a disaster from the normal way of safety. And yet how incalculably different in the event is...

■■•■•••■■ CONFIRMATION AND COMMUNION. [To THY EDITOR 07 Ta8 " SPRCTATOR.''] SIR, —I read with deep interest your correspondent's letter in last week's Spectator, and would be...

or Tee "SPNCTLTOB:1 Sre,—In last week's Spectator " An Old Cromwellian" speaks of Ulster as "excluding herself from the blessings of Home Rule "—blessings of such an obvious...

[To TER EDITOR or TER "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—I am strongly of opinion that the exclusion for an indefinite period of the entire province of Ulster is the soundest solution of the...

[To THE EDITOR or TER " SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—Yon were good enough to allow me last summer to call the attention of your readers to the series of Statistical Monographs which I have...

SIR,—It is quite a common error to say that the "non- official assembly in connexion with the Church Congress at Southampton" was " a meeting of its kind entirely new." At the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I feel I should like to thank you and "E. P." for the article in the Spectator of June 27th calling attention to the wicked way in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Shall the most judicial of periodicals not do justice ? You and Lord Newton are making a mistake. Whether Lord Saye and Sele had a will...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The little poem " Waverley " in the Spectator of July 4th expresses in terse and well-chosen language the sub- conscious emotions of...

[To TIIR EDITOR OP 1115 "SPECTATOR...I SIR,—May I be allowed to say a few words in the Spectator on a question asked in the House of Commons on July 1st, on the subject of the...

exist. They cannot buy food or clothes in the manu- facture of which no free labour has been employed, or be sure that the houses in which they live have not been built by...

SIR, — Referring to the article entitled " How to Behave" in your issue of June 27th, where you suggest the term " sediment-bowl " as an alternative for " slop-basin, " allow me...

[To THE EDITOR OF TUX " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—On the occasion of the George Borrow celebration in Norwich last year, the house in which Borrow resided with his parents when in...

[TO THE EDITOR OF TEl " SPECTATOR:1 BER,—Will you kindly make known that the fund for the above memorial has now been started, and an influential Committee appointed for its...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Since I issued my appeal on behalf of the Boy Scouts' Endowment Fund in February an average of about £700 a day has been sent, and the...

[To THE EDITOR OF TEl “Srseraroa.'1 SIR, —The Women's Holiday Fund again ask you to let your far- reaching voice speak for them. To be supported by the Spectator is such a boon,...

OF BIRDS. [To THE EDITOR OF TEl "SPECTATOR") Sm,—As the views of the Committee for the Economic Preserva- tion of Birds have been either misunderstood or misrepresented, we...

THE CHANTRY OF THE CHERUBIM. 0 CHANTRY of the Cherubim, Down-looking on the stream ! Beneath thy boughs the day grows dim; Through windows comes the gleam; A thousand...

THE STRUGGLE FOR SCUTARI.• THIS is a depressing, although a brilliant, book. Miss Durham is well known as an extraordinarily courageous woman who hesitates at no self-sacrifice...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with The views therein expressed or with the mode of...

THE illustration of history from contemporary records has long been a familiar aid to teaching. Nearly thirty years have passed since the late Professor York Powell planned out...

- " SINCE the year 1794, when England seethed with excitement through fear of a French Republican invasion, no book has been produced dealing with the invasions of England,"...

Miss ROSE MACAULAY in her slim book of verses, The Two Blind Countries,' seeks a different prize from most poets. It is magic that she would capture-not the common magic of...

THE accepted estimate of the position of the English peasant as compared with a century ago has greatly changed within recent years. He was formerly assumed to have profited to...

BEASTS AND SUPER-BEASTS.t UNDER this unattractive title Mr. Munro has collected a number of the sketches which appeared in the Morning Post and other papers, and with very few...

* Reunion All Round; or, Joel's Hammer Laid Aside, and the Ha of Human Kindness Beaten up into Butter and Sere'd in a Lordly Dish. B the Anthour of Absolute and elbitofholt....

an ordinary guide-book, although its author is careful to give the traveller practical hints, which in most cases will be found accurate. For it contains some excellent...

(Heath, Cranton, and Ouseley. 6s.)--We would not have minded so much if it were merely that the gods had denied all sense of humour to the authors collaborating in The Purple...

(Methuen and Co. 6s. each.) — Although The Two Kisses was published in the autumn and A Crooked Mile has only recently appeared, the two books are as certainly Volumes L and II....

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(Macmillan and Co. 5s. net.)—This book should be very helpful to students of English poetry and criticism. It consists of a series of extracts from the writings of the chief...

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