Free- man's Journal, evidence that two at least of the Archbishops had appealed to Mr, Parnell against the violent policy of Messrs. Dillon and O'Brien, after the departure of...

action in renewing the passport system in Alsace- Lorraine because the Parisian journalists were so rude to the Empress Frederick. The Paris correspondent of the Times has...

is Parnellite) on Tuesday, in a gathering held in the Ancient Concert-Room, Dublin, which was carefully protected by tickets from the invasion of the Parnellites, who number...

Parnell except in pity and compassion, but his pity and com- passion were not inconsistent with describing him as "the unhappy and ruined man who had caused this division in the...

T ORD SALISBURY is resorting to arbitration. The ques- 41 fion of American and English rights in Behring Sea which las been raised by Mr. Blaine, in bold defiance of American...

in their marvellous tolerance for corruption. It is asserted, on the authority of Members of Congress, that clauses have been inserted in the Indian Appropriation Bill under...

King Milan has recently suggested that his own favourite Minister, M. Garashanine, murdered two girls in prison, because they knew too much about a plot for assas- sinating the...

get to business. Up to yesterday, the whole time at its dis- posal was consumed in speeches in which the delegates one after another expressed their ideas at large. There has...

unadvisable in itself, which will form a decidedly evil precedent. The Ship Canal Company has so far done its. work very well, and will no doubt greatly benefit the trade of the...

Monday, on the Naval Estimates, their complaint being that the Government was pledging the votes of future years, which was unconstitutional. This, as Mr. Gosthen showed, was...

of England, explained to his shareholders on Thursday the position of the Barings' affairs. They owed, when the crash came, £21,000,000, with assets estimated at £24,800,000. By...

in the House of Commons on Monday without a division. Neither party, in truth, had the courage to resist a measure which may greatly conciliate such a mass of votes. We have...

Wales, made a speech on Wednesday at the City Liberal Club in Walbrook, in which he declared that the federation of the Australasian Colonies would not, in his belief, diminish...

But the hostile comments on Mr. Balfour's statement were very feeble. Objection was made to the bargain with the Midland Great Western line for the construction of the Con-...

no notice of the centenary of Wesley's death last week, and appears to attribute the omission to a disparaging estimate of that great man's services. Such a conception is quite...

a grant of £55,831 for the relief of distress in Ireland, and made an interesting speech on the measures taken to supply the people of the West Coast with work on the new...

University Extension movement in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House last Saturday. The subject was the indis- pensableness of high ideals to any life worth living. Man, he...

evidence of the death in South Africa of Mr. Kynoch, the late Member for Aston Manor, to justify the issue of a new writ, and the contest between the Unionist candidate, Captain...

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He dwelt on the great judgment with which the very moderate subscriptions they had received had been used and expended, so as now to furnish the means by which 13,000 students...

THE OPPORTUNITY OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN IRELAND. M R. HEALY asked triumphantly in the Dublin meeting of the Anti-Parnellites on Tuesday (of which no less than one-third of...

to the charge of hastiness brought against him for re-establishing the passport system in Alsace-Lorraine. At least, it is difficult to believe that the answer telegraphed from...

W E see little reason for scolding Mr. H. P. Cobb on account of his question of Monday, about what is called, with the English habit of prejudging everything, the "judicial...

TT is a curious comment on Mr. Gladstone's indignation at the limitations to which the rights of private Members have been recently subjected in the House of Commons, that on...

M R. JESSE COLLINGS is to be warmly congratu- lated upon his Bill for providing small holdings. It is without question one of the most statesmanlike and practical measures for...

Bonaparte dynasty, the only man of that family entitled to put the plebiscitary question ; and as it was certain that France would not have him, the party found itself blocked...

"W E remarked last week that the German Emperor, in punishing the Alsatians for Parisian rudeness to the Empress Frederick, displayed some "want of the faculty of disdain," and...

T HE Bishop of Durham, in his impressive address on University Extension, delivered in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House this day week, insisted very earnestly on the...

'E VERY now and again, the readers of the daily papers must come across stories that will make them dis- believe for the time in our vaunted moral progress, and almost despair...

O UR estimate of the sense of pleasure possessed by animals has suffered from a double set of errors. The -older ethical writers were leagued against them, and de- clared that...

FRANCIS HASTINGS, DUKE OF BEDFORD. [To TI[};. EDITOR Or raj " SrECTATOlt."] Sra,—Kind and sympathetic as are the words written by Mr. Jowett on the late Duke of Bedford,...

[To THE EDIIOR OF THE " BPECTATOR."1 SIR,—You seem to have been uncertain whether the Archbishop of York was legally justified in the course he took for the removal of a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " $PECTATOR."] Sin, — I should like to offer a reply to the very depreciatory estimate of the Shire horse which appeared in an article on " The Cart-Horse"...

[TO THE EDITOR, OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—From some remarks in your last number on the fate of the Duke of St. Albans' Bill, it would appear that you have -overlooked one of...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 ;Sin,—With great deference to your reviewer (whose notice of " The Law of Musical and Dramatic Copyright " is a most impartial one), he has...

ITC THE ED/TOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sin,—While thanking you for inserting my letter concerning the Lending Library for the Blind, may I be allowed to correct the misprint by...

' SIR BEDIVERE,' OUTWARD BOUND. HE lay upon the deck amid the crowd, Sublime in beauty, more sublime in calm, And gazed upon the scene with tranquil eye. Around him yelped and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " spEcTATon."1 SIR, May I beg the favour of acknowledging through your columns the many kind subscriptions I have received in aid of the above charity,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "sraeTArov..3 SIR,—I am rather late in the field, but it has only just now occurred to me to say that I think there can scarcely be one of your readers who...

SIR LOUIS MALLET'S " FREE EXCHANGE."* THOSE who had the pleasure and privilege of Sir Louis Mallet's friendship, will read these economical papers of his,—many of them, and...

of Mr. Bridges to lyrical honours, there can be no doubt that in Achilles in Scyros, the fifth and most recently published of his plays, he has given to the world a. beautiful...

SOMETIMES a critic can only distinguish a " made " book by internal evidence, and internal evidence may be deceptive; but mistake as to the nature of In Troubadour - Land is im-...

THE writing of a History of the Church of Scotland, from the Revolution period to the present day, which shall not offend certain susceptibilities and even revive certain con-...

argued by an unsuccessful appli- cant for the appointment, that the position of a Metropolitan Police Magistrate affords an unequalled agency for raising the moral standard of...

The Prototype of Hamlet has taken care to earn for himself the character of an able and temperate as well as an interesting critic of Shakespeare, before confronting us with the...

Twa MINOR Miessairms.—Of the numerous additions which have recently been made to the periodical literature of the , country, none looks more promising than a new quarterly, The...

superiority over their " von-less" neighbours are a flue of the knowledge that should be given to young people, and of the study. Both of them make one exception to their...

Garnett. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Garnett has °or- something more picturesque than boot-making. Willy caught something of the classical spirit. Indeed, we do not remember to have...

supposed to 1phip ania. —The captive's doom thou doemest enviable. have been written by Christopher Columbus on his fi rst voyage Electra.— 0 were it mine, wore but my brother...

of the faults, and Diverse beyond comparison, a twain essayist is always genial, and his pleasant country pictures 7 some also of the merits, of that hybrid form of composition....

The extent of the investigations which the preparation of such rphigenia —Rath Mon wrought thee, then, snoh wretched doom? a volume must involve, may be faintly guessed from...