" convert Consols "—that is, in fact, to offer £106 or there- abouts in 21 stock for £100 in Three per Cents.—has this week gained almost universal credence. The time is, it is...

bitterness expressed by the Irish, and of difficulties raised by the Canadians as much as the Americans, he has succeeded in framing a Treaty on the Fisheries which is approved...

intimating that he spoke chiefly because Lord Londonderry had had no opportunity in the House of Lords of ex pres- sing his opinion of the state of Ireland, proceeded to say...

well illustrated by a statement that reaches England from China. It is stated that the Chinese Government is closely watching events in Europe, that it is collecting an army on...

case.

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, March 10th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

T HE Government of M. Tirard sustained on Monday what was really, though not nominally, a serious defeat. The Colonial Ministry asked £800,000 for Tonquin; but the Bonapartists,...

in which he showed that Mr. Parnell, who now attri- butes so much of the improvement of Ireland to the Land Act of last Session, last Session described that Act as one which...

show that what he had said in the country he would say within the walls of Parliament, proceeded to bleat criticisms on the Government in the most lamb-like of tones,—tones...

the Government for the Criminal Law Amendment Act, and for the " harsh, partial, and mischievous " conduct of the Government in enforcing it, made a great parade of the wish of...

best style. It consisted chiefly in asserting that whatever improvement there is in the state of Ireland, is due either to the feeling that so large an English party is on the...

The former showed that the Parnellite talk about conciliation and union of hearts is chiefly kept for consumption in Great Britain, while in Ireland the old style of invective...

boasted loudly that he had broken not only the law of the Crimes Act, but the Common Law ; and he justified the pro- ceeding, whenever it resulted, as he maintained that it did...

of persons, in proportion to the number of agrarian offences, than the present Government had proceeded against, the Crimes Act of last year had diminished the number of...

unre- markable speech ; and no great speech was made till the Attorney- General rose, later in the evening, and remarked, with some irony, that Sir George Trevelyan had...

a beautiful poet, though hardly more than a minor poet, amongst his other distinctions,—has been set on foot by a very influential committee, of which a multitude of Bishops and...

Russian Government is not moving, publicly at least, in Bulgarian matters, but is steadily increasing its preparations in Poland and the West generally. According to the Sreuz...

or expedient for this country to enter into a secret treaty ? At all events, Mr. Laboachere thinks so, for he keeps worrying Sir J. Fergusson as to a Treaty about Italy ; and on...

a demonstration in London, in honour of the release of Mr. T. D. Sullivan and other Irish Members imprisoned for defying the law. They were met at the Euston Square Station by a...

as ever, their whole meaning being that the Crown Prince has not suffered greatly from the operation of tracheotomy. It was not expected that he would suffer from that, the true...

to inquire into the condition of the crofters of Lewis, have presented their report, which is full of grave appre- hension. The number of the people has increased from seven-...

THE DEBATE ON MR. PARNELL'S AMENDMENT. T HE debate on Mr. Parnell's amendment ought to be very encouraging to the Government. There are several characteristics in it which any...

T HE division of Monday in the French Chamber may prove to have been one of considerable importance. It is, to begin with, almost fatal to the Gambettist policy of acquiring new...

T HE Lewis question is not a great one, but it contains in itself every one of those burning questions which are now agitating English society, and will agitate it more and...

P ONTESBURY, in the diocese of Hereford, has the unusual good fortune to have three Rectors. Each is called the Rector of a " portion," but apparently they all three take it by...

I T is the custom of the English, when they alter procedure either in the Law Courts or the Houses of Parliament, to introduce a better system bit by bit ; and we must not,...

at present con- stituted, is something peculiarly bureaucratic and centralised—that Ireland, in fact, is governed like a Poland —has been a cause of grave doubt and difficulty...

A battle has been going on for some time in the- Barnet Board of Guardians, which has ended in what may prove to be an illegal decision to entrust the religious teaching of the...

A PARAGRAPH-WRITER in the St. James's Gazelle of Monday adds one more to the many attacks which social satirists are always making upon the system of afternoon calls. He says...

A T a time when there is so much useless talk about the unemployed, and so much unwise charity, one feels grateful to any one who, like Mr. Mills, tries to strike out some...

To THE EDITOR Or THR " srzeriroz.•rj SIR,—Your remarks on girls' modern education and the way in which proper exercise is overlooked, is a most cheering phenomenon to those who...

AN ANGLICAN " MISSION " TO CONVERT ITALY. [To THE EDITOR Or TIER " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am very far from wishing to controvert the opinions which you have expressed on the...

[To THR EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR- " ] Sia,—Thanks are due to Mr. Quick for his insistance upon one main point of the indictment against the present system of elementary...

DR. MARTINEAU'S " STUDY OF RELIGION."* [SECOND NOTICE.] DR. MARTIN EAU has never written anything that is more effective for its purpose and more comprehensive in its grasp of...

LUCIDLY and succinctly has Mr. Maurice described in this volume the revolutionary movement which shook Central Europe in 184849. Rightly, too, does he describe that move- ment...

PERTINACITY is the characteristic of Pretenders. It was ex- hibited last century by the Stuarts ; in this century, the French and Spanish Bourbons and the Bonapartes furnish...

ignorant of all literary art, he has managed to write two highly amusing volumes. The story of an artist's life is as interesting as that of a poet or a statesman, if the author...

THE authorship of really effective nicknames is almost as hard to trace as that of proverbs. They may be described as partial or personal definitions which gibbet some special...

of childhood and youth seems to come back to us with the new appearance of Undine, endowed this time, after the fashion of the present day, with an intro- Undine : a Romance....

Series. (Religious Tract Society.) —One deals with the subject of Non-Christian Philosophies of the Day. Eight tracts are included. Professor Blaikie writes on "Christianity and...

The twenty-fifth annual issue of The Statesman's Year-Book, edited by J. Scott Keltie (Macmillan and Co.), appears earlier than it did last year, and, appropriately enough,...

Books," for instance, is a discourse on a matter more important than any "amenities " of life, social or other. It concerns, in fact, the essence of life itself. Life may be...

M.A. (David Douglas, Edinburgh.)—This is the second edition—so enlarged and rearranged as to be practically a new work—of one of those excellent local histories that Scotland is...

Wheatley finds three epochs of dedication, which may be briefly described by the ruling motive of the dedicator,—friend. ship, money, friendship. Early dedicators, as in the...

and Co.)—Dr. R. Brown, already favourably known for his valuable works, " The Peoples of the World " and " The Countries of the World," has now increased the obligation under...

Dickinson.)—The plan of the book is to give the ipsissima verbs of philosophers. It represents a vast amount of reading, and doubtless will be found, on the whole, of some...

.)—These Chinese legends show, in some instances, the curious resemblances which run through all the folk-lore of the world. The first story, for instance, " The Sonl of the...

Chute. (Jacob and Johnson, Winchester.)—It is pleasant to find the owner of a historic house sensible of the "honour to which be is born." There are some very undesirable...

S. Ferguson, M.A., and W. Nauson, B.A. (Tharnam and Sons, Carlisle ; Bell and Sons, London.)—Most of this volume, which is one of the publications of the " Cumberland and...

Arnold has done well to reprint this suggestive essay from the Fortnightly Review. It is a powerful argument in behalf of a truth which, however strong our motives for believing...

is no doubt about Mr. Hope's schoolboys being real creatures. They are not heroic, they are not extraordinarily virtuous or victims; but they are ordinary human beings, and not...

and Co.)—This is a "revised and corrected" reprint of a book which first appeared more than thirty-four years ago. These thirty.foar years, as she remarks, have made the system...

(W. H. Allen.)—Sir William Hoste's naval career coincided with the long war with France. He entered the Navy as a midshipman on board the `Agamemnon,' and attracted the...