which is its serious business, being impeded as often as the Radicals can manage by amendments or irrelevant discussions. Mr. M'Carthy tried on Friday week to move the...

or Harborough Division of Leicestershire, promises another contest. Mr. Tapling gained the seat by 1,138 in 1886, on a poll of over 10,000 ; but as on that occasion a...

week, and the attacking force from the Burmese side has not yet left Tammu, whither Lieutenant Grant with his men has retreated from Thobal in safety. It was not expected that...

any case.

With the " SPECTATOR" of So turdav, April 25th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the ()Weide pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements, To secure...

P RINCE BISMARCK has allowed himself to be nominated a candidate for a seat in the Reichstag, the district selected being Geestemiinde, in Hanover. The result in the ballot of...

vacancy for the City. As the General Election is probably close at hand, and certainly very near, and as the Gladstonians would have exceedingly little chance of gaining the...

at a dinner given to him by the Parliament of Padding- ton. He praised these local parliaments as useful training. grounds for true Parliamentary life, and then went on to...

Parliament in Vienna on the 11th inst. His Majesty expressed a firm confidence in the maintenance of peace, declaring that he received from all Governments assurances. of their...

and the wisdom of Lord Granville, when the House of Lords met on Tuesday for the first time after his death, was something quite unique for the energy, and we may truly say the...

160 to 130, a vote which, if it were obeyed, would temporarily reduce the Indian Government to bankruptcy. Sir J. Pease, on going into Supply, moved a resolution declaring that...

all authority but its own. It has succeeded with King Milan,. who, in consideration of £30,000 a year, promises not to revisit Belgrade ; and hoped to succeed with Queen...

on Tuesday, dwelt with great - power 'cel the dangers involved in the Catholic Archbishop Logue's explicit claim to dictate authoritatively to Irish voters how they ought to...

many Magistrates as fatal to the practice of granting orders of separation between husband and wife. They are said to be superfluous, as, in fact, they seem to the lay mind to...

Disci- pline Bill, which show that a certain section of the Church feel very keenly indeed about reserving to a truly ecclesiastical authority the ultimate legal right of...

of Truro (Dr. Wilkinson), on the score of health. And yet in a sense be sets a noble example by resigning duties which he feels that for a certain interval of time, which may...

Liberal and Radical Association in the Clerkenwell Road on Wednes- day, in which he, sharply attacked the Irish Tories for voting for Mr. Parnell's candidate in North Sligo,...

Friday 96i to 961.

upon the subject of the lynchings at New Orleans. The Government of Italy declares that it asks "nothing beyond the prompt institution of judicial pro- ceedings through the...

of the History of Religions in the University of Brussels, who lectures in French, is not very fortunate in the reports of his lectures, which are so brief and general as to...

Liquors (Ireland) Bill, in which, for a wonder, Sir G. Trevelyan and Mr. Balfour were both found on the same side as sup- porters of the Bill, which closes public-houses on...

INQUIRY BY PUBLIC MEETING. W E cannot pretend to view the composition of the Labour Commission with anything approaching satisfaction. Instead of being a committee of inquiry,...

S IR, HENRY JAMES. in his speech at the Union Club on Tuesday, made effective use of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh's formal claim to exer- cise political authority...

I T is neither useful nor quite fair to scold the one hundred and sixty Members who on Friday week carried the vote intended to prohibit the further cultivation of the poppy in...

I N his speech at the dinner of the Paddington Parliament last Saturday, Lord Randolph Churchill took perhaps a somewhat optimist view both of the House of Commons as it is, and...

W E suppose we may fairly assume that the now Italian Premier intended the remarkable exposi- tion of his policy which appeared in the Times of Tuesday, to be published to the...

we have spoken of the great change which has come over the clergy of the Church of England in respect of their mutual intercourse, From being one of the most silent bodies in...

D R. ABBOTT is an eminent scholar, a genuinely Christian- minded writer, and a critic of considerable power. But be is a little too much of the schoolmaster, and when a great...

E NGLAND has been so free from criminal Secret Societies—Societies, we mean, unconnected with politics —that Englishmen, when they read of such a Society elsewhere, betray the...

M R. MANTALINI described his Countess as being the possessor of a " denan'd outline :" what would he have said of the "Telluric Curve" P As it appears on Mr. Jenkins's...

YORK CONVOCATION AND CLERGY DISCIPLINE. [To THE EDITOR OF T5 " SPEOTATOE."] Sin,—You characterise the demand of the York clergy that the Bishop should himself pronounce...

[TO THE EDITOR Or THE " SPEOTATOR."J SIR, — The stickling of the clergy for the sentence of depriva- tion of a criminous clerk being formally pronounced by the Bishop, instead...

ITO THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR...1 Sire, — In the interesting article upon public speaking con- tained in the Spectator of April 11th, the opinion is expressed that industry...

A WORD IN SEASON. LAST year, I brought you, love, a gift of rhyme, The best I might bestow ; If bright, it stole the brightness of the time, The Spring's clear early glow....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR."] 'SIR, — Possibly it is from an excess of the "maudlin senti- mentality " of which physiologists complain in those who protest against cruelty...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE liPECTAT011."] Sin —I was much interested in reading " Vacuus Viator's " .account of the " Scoppio del Carro" in the Spectator of April 11th; but without...

gave in the Spectator of April 11th, with reference to the answer given to Professor Bonamy Price, is too good not to be rendered accurately, and if Sir Lyon Playfair had only...

" STECTATOR."1 SIR,—I remember hearing the late Professor Bonamy Price tell the story which you mention, in a lecture at Eton about ten years ago. According to the version...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."I Sin,—You may possibly think the following facts worth pub- lishing as an example of the curious coincidences which have doubtless bad a...

THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB. THE New English Art Club has returned this year from an enforced exile at Humphrey's Mansions to the members' old and more convenient quarters in the...

WARWICK THE KING-MAKER.* True is a really valuable work. It is as interesting and readable as a novel. It deals with one of the most striking and least known characters in our...

IN combining to do honour to the memory of Professor Maxwell, the graduates of Cambridge have acted in a manner worthy of their University. We are indebted to them for two...

Mn. MezeiNv went in November, 1869, to Rome in the capacity of special correspondent to the Times, having as a collaborateur on the spot, Mr. Henry Wreford. For nearly five...

in the field of Literature whom it is more pleasant to follow than Mr. Andrew Lang. He goes neither too fast nor too far for his followers ; he loves to linger in pleasant...

Sir Edwin Arnold's new poem resembles one of those painted glass windows which are wholly made up of the most gorgeous colours. It must be allowed that these take the eye,...

RELYING, perhaps, on the fact that some of the best books about Mexico have been written by ladies, the publishers of the "Story of the Nations" series have confided the task of...

Horatio Nelson. By W. Clark Russell. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) —This is the first volume in the "Heroes Series," Perhaps one might wish that it had been commenced with another...

) —This work, ranging "from Celtic Times to the Present Day," is an enlargement and continuation of a work which has had a very considerable success, Dr. W. F. Collier's "...

Co.)—This volume contains six lectures delivered with the object of showing how " to increase the utility " of primary schools. Mr. W. Lant Carpenter advocates the teaching of...

Low and Co.) —This is a distinctly interesting story. The matter is, indeed, much superior to the form. We think it would have been better if the story of John Underwood, and...

James Hay. (Chapman and Hall.)—" No life," says Mr. Hay, "in the whole range of literature is so difficult to unravel as that of Jonathan Swift, nor has any man been more...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Many readers will certainly be glad that Sir Frederick Pollock has not limited his volume to lectures actually concerning the subject of his professorship....