be Guilty," the tribunal, the charge, and the accused being all equally political, and a full defence not being allowed in the absence of the prisoner. The knowledge of this...

Merchant Taylors' Hall by a large and representative com- pany of bankers and men of business, who availed them- selves of that opportunity to testify their value for his great...

very reassuring. Mr. Balfour went down to Birmingham yesterday week to try and persuade the Conservatives to give a hearty support to Mr. J. Albert Bright. His speech was...

to be growing serious. King Charles, after great efforts to avert the necessity, has been compelled to admit a Ministry exclusively belonging to the Boyar party, and therefore...

striking peroration, in which he asserted that the Times and their representatives were no longer the accusers, but had become the accused, and prophesied as the result of the...

T HE President of the Wench Republic signed on Monday _I- the decree constituting the Senate a High Court of Justice for the trial of " M. Georges Ernest Boulanger, retired...

ease.

is at present somewhat grotesque, by providing that in future they shall be elected half by the owners of the soil and half by the ratepayers. There will be great differences of...

government to Scotland, and its Bill for the purpose, introduced by the Lord Advocate on Monday, was received with very general approval. It transfers the government of the...

Bethnal Green on Tuesday, made it a great crime on the part of the Liberal Unionists that they voted in the House of Commons rather with a view to strengthen the Govern- ment...

and 200,000 inhabitants, is just now much in the papers. On the death of the King of Holland, who cannot recover, and on Tuesday was reported " sinking," Luxemburg passes by in-...

James's Hall on Wednesday, under the presidency of Mr. Stuart, M.P., at which Sir William Harcourt made a speech and said that there was some ghost,—he did not explain of what...

for the Parnellite Party:—" When I recollect that a large number of those gentlemen are not by tradition accus- tomed to the methods of the House of Commons ; that they do not...

in the Times' report of Mr. W. H. Smith's speech on Mr. Bright, attributing to the First Lord of the Treasury the remark that some of them would follow Mr. Bright to the grave "...

Freeman, the bailiff on Mr. Brooke's Coolgreany estate, who was accused of having shot Kinsella, and whom a special jury in Dublin have declared innocent of the murder, and Mr....

cution, which was published in Tuesday's Times, seems to us conceived in a less ambiguous and more heartily comprehensive spirit than the letter of last week. In commenting on...

read a paper on Wednesday evening before the Institution of Naval Architects, on "The Designs for the New First-Class Battle-Ships." The paper was intended principally as a...

practice of dyeing hair which throws the oddest light upon some difficulties in the way of getting a living. It appears that old age is by no means considered honourable by all...

week, having, indeed, held an extra meeting to get rid of its overplus of words, many of which were expended on the grand question whether it should contract for the right to...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 98g to 98k.

I T is most difficult for outside observers to form even an opinion on the policy of the French Ministry in pressing on the trial of General Boulanger. They number among them...

THE CENTRAL BIRMINGHAM QUARREL. W E suppose that the Unionists will lose Central Birmingham,—not because the Unionists there are not in a very considerable majority, but...

M R. BALFOUR'S speech at the banquet given to the First Lord of the Treasury, was remarkable for the attitude which he assumed towards the Irish Ex- tremists. They were, he...

D R G B. CLARK, who on Tuesday proposed Home- rule for Scotland, did not make a good speech, even from his own ultra-parochial point of view ; but he let fall incidentally a...

M R. STANLEY'S letters, in many ways so pleasant to read, especially in the proof they afford that all Englishmen have not lost their grit, are in one way not a little...

TA KEN as a whole, the provisions of the three Bills by means of which the revolution in Scotch Local Govern- ment is to be accomplished, are perhaps a little less democratic...

the Dean of Windsor on which we made some observations last week has been the occasion of an interesting correspondence. As the Dean has made his reply, the controversy may be...

interesting letter which we publish in another column, explains that in the paper on the forms of childish insanity on which we com- mented three weeks ago, he did not intend to...

THE life of M. Chevreul, the French chemist who died on 1 Tuesday in Paris at the age of 102, is one of interest to us, because it precisely illustrates our old proposition that...

I T is to be feared that the School Board, which is fast sweeping away many local characteristics of speech and custom, will not long spare the gaily bedizened pace-egger. Who,...

the Spectator of March 23rd, there appeared a very interesting article on " Children's Phantasy," an article based upon an address on Insanity in Children," which I read to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—You have spoken justly of the many great qualities manifested during his long life by Mr. Bright. I should like to add a little...

THE DEAN OF WINDSOR, THE BISHOP OF LINCOLN, AND THE RITUALISTS. [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sin..—If I may judge from the correspondence on the subject, many...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Why is it " highly improbable " that Danton should have read Bacon's Essays P He was a buyer of and reader of English books, for I...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I see that in your review of the book, "The American Language," " corp " (corpse) is asserted to be an " Irishism pure and simple." On...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] your notice last week of Mr. Farmer's book on " The American Language," you say :—" It is rather disappointing to'be put off thus at the...

" SE ILLLI)All." A LESSON FROM A. LEXICON. [The rare quadriliteral 1 - 17?„17 ) (S'macliir) is found only in Cant. ii., 13-15 ; vii., 13. The highest Rabbinical authorities...

DEAD—no, not dead—the darkness of the grave Shrouds thee indeed, invisible below, And hushed those tones of passionate pure glow, Foes of the sophist counsels which deprave,...

LADY BLENNERHASSETT'S "MADAME DE STAEL."* THE French Revolution, in Carlyle's opinion, may claim three great men as its products. But the greatness which he thrusts upon Danton...

story of the fall of the Western Empire, and told it well. The present volume, which consists of lectures delivered at Durham, is in- tended, he says, for persons who may not...

IT is not always quite safe to set a thief to catch a thief ; sometimes the sentinel thief makes common cause with the predatory thief, and the result is disastrous. But nothing...

Celia Fiennes started upon her travels in England in search of health, and in order that her mind " should not appear totally unoccupied," wrote a copious account of the places...

Froude has con- structed this sombre romance are to be found in the first volume of his English in Ireland (see pp. 455-464). John Puxley, of Castletown Berehaven—the prototype...

Shakespeare is thoroughly sound and pleasantly readable, and it has found a translator who has done it full justice. Mr. Morgan's essays on Shakespeare are full of originality...

Abbey" in this number deals with the "Coronations," and is particularly interesting. But perhaps the most noticealika paper in the number is a curious description and...

developed, is this month weak in fiction and strong in general articles. Of the contents of this number," Church Music in Early Presbyterian Scotland," and the first of a series...

There is no very remarkable article in the April number of the Magazine of Art. The nearest approach to such is Mr. Ford Madox Brown's " Self-Painted Pictures," and that...

Relating to a Railway in Operation. By James Ferguson. (W. Green and Sons, Edinburgh.)—Mr. Ferguson is a young Scottish barrister who has produced a couple of volumes full of...

George Barnett Smith. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Mr. Smith has condensed, without making any serious omission, his longer biography of the deceased statesman, and has also carried...