T HE Bishop of Peterborough is to succeed Archbishop Thomson in the Archbishopric of York, and the appoint- ment has been received with general, we might almost say, universal...

case.

portant letter to the Customs Commission. All the commercial treaties now in operation can be made to expire on February 1st, 1892, and the Government intends to take the...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, January 31st, will be issued, .gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages ..of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To...

the canards and dreams of the Unionists as to divisions amongst the Gladstonian. leaders. For our own party we never believed in those divisions any more than we believed in the...

Bompas, Q.C., in condemning on appeal three of the leaders in a recent strike for intimidatioh, pronounced a judgment which, if it is upheld, will render strikes under- taken to...

an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index ' ,and from July 5th to December 27th, 1890, inclusive.

written by .Miss Anna Parnell to the Freeman's Journal, from which the larger part of it was transferred to the Times of this day week. She proposes a revival de novo of the...

said some hard things. Mr. Gladstone, he said, was a man who always told truth, but was never understood, and always, therefore, deceived those who listened to him. That is...

conceal for a moment the reverse from which the Gladstonians are suffering. He believed that it was only temporary. And with a democracy that would defeat the Government one day...

indeed, a series of Irish speeches this week. He has returned more or loss to his old calm style, and maintains absolutely his contention as to the tenor of his interview with...

He brought out the drift of Mr. John Motley's speech at Newcastle with great clearness and force, and made some- very pregnant remarks on Mr. Gladetone's proclamation of the "...

he was prepared to satisfy the demands of either of the two existing Irish parties,—the Parnellites or the Anti-Parnellites, —Mr. Morley was perfectly frank. He evidently is...

on Mr. O'Brien as a true patriot, and so forth. With him Mr. Parnell had come to a complete agreement, if only Mr. O'Brien could persuade his former colleagues to adopt his view...

crew of free sailors on board the Claudius,' met with considerable opposition from a crowd composed either of members of "The National Seamen's and Firemen's Union," or of...

of slums and palaces, and left it the city of magnifi- cent, tasteless, dreary boulevards we all know, died on Sunday at the age of seventy-nine. He owed his favour with Napo-...

Convocation with reference to " Lux Mundi." So far from being satisfied with Mr. Gore's explanations in the preface to the tenth edition of that work, and his letter to the...

the regular Trade-Unions, who, though often violent in intention, never degenerate into mere frothy Jacobinism. One of his speeches to the Scotch strikers—that made at Glasgow...

The President, Senor Balmaceda, has of late been attempting to overstep the very wide powers already lodged in his hands by the Constitution ; but the Chilians, anxious to...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 978 to 97k.

in process of settlement. On Tuesday, attempts were made, both at Glasgow and at Edinburgh—the Lord Provost of each city conducting the negotiations—to induce the Com- panies to...

MR. MORLEY'S AVOWALS AT NEWCASTLE. I T is difficult to conceive a speech more discouraging to the Gladstonian Party than Mr. Morley's speech of Tuesday. Except an artificial...

T HOUGH we have the greatest possible respect for the opinion of so able a lawyer as Mr. Bompas, we find it difficult to believe that his decision in the case of the Ply- mouth...

the clergy of England than the Archbishop-Designate of York, but there is hardly a more interesting public man amongst them, and assuredly there is none who has shown himself so...

W E have had three pronouncements lately on the Archbishop of Canterbury's judgment in the Lincoln case, which may serve as so many drops of acid to, prevent the general chorus...

Parnellites without defiance of the law. There is not only no analogy and Anti-Parnellites alike are more or less directly re- between the case of Ireland and the case of Italy...

between the coasts of Ireland and Scotland is just now attracting a great deal of attention in Belfast. During the autumn, a large and enthusiastic meeting was convened by the...

T O Sir William Harcourt belongs the honour of having first broken the silence that seemed to have settled upon the leaders of the Opposition, together with the lowering...

O P all the months in the year, perhaps the month. of January is the most dear to the heart of childhood, the most productive of rapturous pleasures and joys that arc never put...

AS the late snow-storm swept over London, flocks of sky- larks were all day passing over Piccadilly and Kensington Gore, in ceaseless flight towards the south-west. Thousands of...

frIHERE is something very pathetic about the heroism of childhood, where we mean by heroism something of really independent daring and presence of mind, something 'beyond mere...

THE "NONCONFORMIST CONSCIENCE." [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOE."1 Snt s —In your issue of January 3rd, you express a wish that I would " openly discuss in the pulpit " the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOIOJ Sin,—I fear the Unionists are indulging a dangerous hope that the cause of Home-rule is already finally defeated, It is the unexpected that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "J SIE,—I have always observed and admired in the Spectator a spirit of fairness in dealing with any subject, which is in striking contrast to the...

OF THE " SPECTATOR. "3 Sus,—In an interesting note in the Spectator of January 10th, passages from the dialogue of "The Knight of Gwynn() " are -cited, with the object of...

[To TILE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." ] SIR,—It is to be hoped that when Parliament reassembles within the next fortnight, some noble Lord may see his way to take up the mantle...

d ' SPEOTATOR."] SIR, —The insertion of the story of "A Wise Dog," in the- Spectator of January 10th, encourages me to relate an incident that happened to me in ,Cape Colony...

[TO THE EDITOR of THE "SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — Having read with much interest your note and article on Charles Keene, I should like to supplement the instance you adduce of his...

[To TILE EDITOR, OF TIM "SPECL'ATOR, "1 SIR,—It must be matter of sincere regret to all who have owed much in times past to the sermons at St. Paul's Cathedral, to find that,...

[To THE EDITOR, OF THE "SrscTAron."1 SIR, — A short time since, a letter reached the Lincoln Post- Office addressed as follows : " sa Grandeur Monseigneur- l'Eveglie de...

• [To THE EDI , OR OF THE " SFEOTAIOS.1 SIR, — A charming kdition of the poems of William and Mary Hewitt, in three small volumes (separate), illustrated by Giacomelli, is...

[To THE EDITOR OF TES SrP.O1'*Yoii_"] SIR,—In the review you kindly gave of "Edward VI. and the Book of Common Prayer," the writer says " We do not know what share his (i.e.,...

THE PORTRAIT ART AT THE GUELPH EXHIBITION. THERE are those who admire Wedgwood ware, and are learned in Salopian. There are those who doat on genealogies, and fables of...

THE LARK. "Monte, monte, vive alouetto ! Vive alouette, monto aux eieux !" THE lark above our heads doth know A heaven we see not here below. She sees it, and for joy she...

EDMOND SCHERER.* THIS biography is of extreme interest, and we have to thank M. Greard for the delicately painted portrait of a man whose spiritual experience is not unlike...

WHEN a young lady meets a man whose fortune and social standing are such as to command the approval of her family, whose character is good, whose personal appearance is not...

recently noticed in these columns, has here essayed a task of a widely different character,—that of portraying the " artistic life " of the most popular of living French...

THE History of Richmondshire, in the North Riding of the County of York, by Mr. Whitaker, with illustrations by Turner, has, in course of time, become a picture-book by Turner,...

we are disappointed by this volume. Personal friends of the late Mr. Aubrey Moore may be in- terested in it for other than historical reasons, but the general opinion will...

To a Scotch lady, Madame Calderon de la Barca, who wrote fifty years ago, belongs the credit of having produced what still remains the best presentment of life in Mexico. An...

War-Path and Bivouac. By John F. Finerty. (Unity Building, Chicago.)—Mr. Finerty accompanied the United States Army, when employed against the Sioux in 1876, and again in 1879,...

in the English Language. Selected and arranged, with Notes, by Francis Turner Palgrave. (Macmillan.)—When Mr. Pal grave published his Golden Treasury in 1801, it received from...

Jackson.)—This elaborate work, the result of not loss than a q uarter of a Century's diligence and careful observation, is of too technical a kind to be noticed in detail in...

(Stationers' Company.)—Its contents include the usual eccle- siastical and civil information, a Parliamentary guide, statistics of commerce and taxation, chronicle of games and...

" of the higher education continues to do an excellent work in its proper sphere. An editorial in the first number of the year just past, contains some self-congratulation,...

(J. S. Virtue and Co.)—This is described as a " concise epitome of all matters relating to the Arts of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture which have occurred during the year...

contains in a convenient arrangement the, usual information, political, civil, and ecclesiastical, together with an almanac and other useful matters. We observe the days for...

a Monthly 'Record of Church Work (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.); The Young Standard - Bearer (Wells Gardner, Marton, and Co) ; and a new venture, Mothers in Couwil , edited by...

—This is a rectification, the author tells us, of the theories of molar mechanics, heat, chemistry, sound, light, and electricity. The three last ho calls " progenic physics,"...

welcome this, the annual volume of an excellent periodical. It has the merit of being entirely free from the element of fiction, of which surely we have now more than enough. "...

Co.)—This periodical has been noticed from time to time during the past year. It will suffice, therefore, to remind our readers that this is the first volume of a second series,...

by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, M.A. (The Clarendon Press.)—These Documents "are intended," says Mr. Gardiner, " to servo either as a basis for the study of the consti- tutional...

Legend " does not occupy any very prominent place in this very interesting periodical. It is chiefly concerned with the record of historical and local facts, The volume now...

(J. W. Arrowsmith.)----This is another of Mr. Barker's most entertaining volumes. That he is exceptionally fortunate in getting hold of• good things is beyond doubt. Does he...