well at Versailles, though a colonist from Martinique named Perrin,fired at President Carnot. He says he fired blank- cartridge, wishing only to call attention to his wrongs ;...

yesterday week before Sir James Hannen's Commission, elicited from him that in declaring in January, 1881, that secret societies had ceased - to exist in Ireland, though he had...

of Merton (the Hon. George Brodrick) in the chair, entertained Lord Derby at Willis's Rooms. Mr. Brodrick, in proposing the toast of the evening, said that the Home-rulers, when...

Czar intends to have himself crowned as King of Poland, and that the laws, or rather, administrative ukases, now pressing so heavily on the landlords in Poland and the Baltic...

remains to be passed ; but it is hoped there will be no more serious divisions, as opinion will not approve any interrup- tion to the Exhibition, which was formally opened on...

case.

With. the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, May 25th, will be issued, -gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

time at least, not a landlords' question, Mr. Balfour pointed to the fact that not only all the non-Romanist Episcopalians, but all the Dissenters without exception, are on the...

of emissary to the Pope during Mr. Gladstone's Administration between 1880 and 1885, also made a very graceful speech in the character of a Unionist who had been converted from...

evidence as to the competition of Canadian railroads with railroads within the Union. That competition must, as regards interocea,nic traffic, gradually become sharp, and many...

chiefly by a pleasing announcement from Lord Salisbury. The Premier told his audience that a private gentleman had offered that morning, if the Government would find a site near...

gave Mr. Balfour a great reception at Willis's Rooms on Wednesday, the chairman expressing the belief that the Nonconformist Unionists were not the minority even of English...

deteriorating effect of union with the Parnellites on so self-restrained and academic an orator as Mr. John Morley, from one of whose recent speeches he extracted about fifteen...

which he was received, remarked that there was real reason to fear that religious feeling may have something to do with the movement in Ireland, since, in spite of the fact that...

Bromley on Wednesday, attacking them at all points at which he thought that they were vulnerable, He began with the Sugar. Bountiesmeasure, predicting that if measures were...

wheat every year from India, and expects to import more. With this wheat is mixed a proportion of dirt so great that we, in fact, buy 3,000,000 cwt. of earth from India at the...

on Wednesday, the object of which is to abolish flogging in the case of incorrigible rogues and vagabonds, but to intro- duce it as at least one of the punishments which may be...

of the Cape, has, it is said, consented to retain both offices for three years longer. He is greatly trusted by the Colonial Office, but he is said to insist strongly on two...

again defeated in the Lords on Thursday, by the unusually heavy majority of 147 to 120. No new arguments were pro- duced or producible, but Lord Herschell, in speaking for the...

and was therefore less ornately eloquent than usual, producing no sentence quite on a level with his description of "the blue riot of the rolling hills." He made, however, a...

after one of the obstructive debates raised by a motion for adjournment on the Falcarragh evictions, collapsed on Tuesday night, when the second reading was carried by a...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 9ei to 99.

THE FRENCH EXHIBITION. A RE not we English a little underrating the intelligence of Parisians ? The huge crowds present at the Fete of Monday, the popularity of the Eiffel...

I T is no wonder that the Government find a difficulty in replacing the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and it is not to be regretted that they should find that difficulty. There...

rril principle assumed by physicists under the name f "the conservation of energy,"—which asserts the existence of a constant amount of physical energy in the world, which never...

Lieutenancy of Bucks is in many ways a natural one. He has identified himself with the county, which, we notice, many of his co-religionists now choose when they purchase...

" T HERE are not now, I venture to say, fifty estates in all Ireland where any serious trouble exists ; I believe, indeed, that the number is far below fifty. If I am not much...

all over Europe that the Czar intends to be crowned King of Poland, and that orders have been issued to relax the repressive measures under which the landlords of the Baltic...

improving, but only by very easy stages. If to go softly is an earnest of going far, the Council ought in the end to go very far indeed. It has been in office for nearly two...

T ORD J17STICE FRY'S paper in the Contemporary on " Imitation as a Factor in Human Progress," has but one defect, that he does not seem to appreciate imitation as a factor in...

O F the many nations which England is slowly throwing off, there is one of which, as a nation in the future, we seldom or never hear, the nation which has as yet no name, its...

A LTH017GH Britain can show no parallel, either in number or brilliance, to the living lights of the tropics, we are not without several interesting phosphorescent creatures of...

COLONIAL GOVERNORS. rro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,") Sia,—You are good enough to admit into your columns letters controverting opinions advanced editorially. I wish rather...

SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—In your review of April 27th on Mr. Aubrey Moore's Essays, you say (the italics are mine) :—" If the purpose of God is shown rather in working out the laws of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR"] Sin, — I have only just seen your article of April 27th on Mr. Morley's speech, in which you suggest that what workmen need is insurance...

THE "SPECTATOR."] had, a couple of years ago, a king parrot. He used to fly about my study. On the table I have a letter-weight in the form of a parrot. The king parrot was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the kindly criticism of my "Breezy Morning," in the exhibition of the Royal Society of Painters in Water-Colours, in the Spectator of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR.1 SIR, — The following fine specimens may be entered in com- petition for a prize, English versus Irish "bulls." The first is from the Morning...

GWENDRON SANDS (CORNWALL). HERE, with heart and limbs at rest, On the beach we lie, possessed With the peace that comes of mingled sweet and bitter memories ; All around the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Being a traveller of more than thirty years' standing, fondly imagining that I had pretty well exhausted the accessible wonders of...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE.] IT is a question whether or not the present exhibition may be- pronounced an average one ; it is certainly not up to the mark of last...

So little time to speak, so much to say Without reply ! The day's work is to do, Lord, but the day Too soon will die! Before the fight to fall out of the ranks, Dead and...

OTWAY'S BEST PLAYS.* THE best plays of Thomas Otway are a welcome addition to the "Mermaid Series." The enthusiastic admiration which is now widely felt for the dramatic writers...

WE are sometimes astonished at the admirable work done by minor poets whose poems do not get, and probably never will get, the sort of appreciation which the same poems...

againt the prevalence of what we call modern sensational literature. We sometimes wonder what we expect. Railways, higher education, and the onward march of civilisation...

M. RERAN applies the "Higher Criticism" with a boldness which the Germans, who claim a certain property in it, have never equalled, which one might even think intended to...

THE questions upon which most English readers will be desirous of consulting the interesting volume prepared by Sir Francis Adams, the late English Envoy at Berne, and his...

distinguished of living Frenchmen has been inspired by the Centenary of 1789 to write a pamphlet, which a few weeks ago had already reached the twentieth edition. Thus, it has...

THE second volume of this valuable periodical fully maintains the standard of excellence reached in the first year of its existence, while its scope has been enlarged since last...

(Maclehose, Glasgow.)—This selection of addresses and essays from those delivered or published during the last thirty years by the Professor of Medicine in the University of...

with as much success as heretofore, fiction, history (lay and ecclesiastical), religion, and literature. Of the three stories now running, "Truth with Honour," "Lost in the...

Warne and Co.), of which the fourth number has now been pub- lished, has secured for itself a permanent place among the periodicals of the day. It is carefully and judiciously...

A very distinct improvement has lately been shown in the Gentleman's Magazine ; it is much more readable than it was a year ago or so, and its contents are much more varied....

of Evangelical orthodoxy, and the May number, in which such different subjects as "The Evolution of Christianity," "The Clergy and Freethinkers," and "Evening Classes,...

—Some persons think it wrong to be keenly interested in fictitious characters, and to let sympathy and emotion be wasted on mere creations of the imagination ; and to these...

By A. P. Stanley, D.D., late Dean of West- minster (John Murray.)—This small book is one for the house- hold, old and young, to love. It contains nine sermons preached to...

:—The Art Journal.—The Magazine of As-f.- The English Illustrated Magazine.—The Scottish Art Review.—The Westminster Review.—The Forum.—The Anglican Church Magazine. —The...