M. Loubet, who was at the time of Madame Cotta's visit M. Soinomy's superior ; but he has at last been attacked himself on grounds which he only rebuts by pleading patriotism....

M R. GLA.DSTO NE evidently finds i t hard to remember that he is not as young as he used to be, and ought to take more precautions against chills at eighty-three than he has...

On Saturday, Madame Cottn, wife of the director recently sentenced, was examined in the Assize Court, and testified that in the beginning of this year a man named Goliard asked...

await the Session of Congress in December before he pro- poses his plans. The friends of silver are, he believes, at present too obstinate to hear reason. He expects, however,...

on the Army Bill, and though the Committee which represents them is more hostile than ever, that Committee consists of picked Members. The question is how the rank-and-file will...

case.

propose to make special provision for the evicted tenants, and to place them in the position of debtors to the State. "Although you say these men were swindlers and fraudulent...

and the three Southern Provinces of Ireland, which had asked for an interview with Mr. Gladstone to protest against the Home-rule Bill, and had been denied the interview, —on...

put off the second reading till after the holidays, in order that the constituencies might have the power of con- ferring with their representatives on the many new and com-...

and a sitting not limited by the usual Wednesday hours and rules, gave rise to a great debate. The majority of the Government sank to 27, 22, and even 21, so unpopular was this...

Russell, in a speech of great ability, moved to reduce the vote for Special Commissions by £2,170, the cost of the Evicted Tenants Commission. If, he said, a Bill were to be...

second time by 281 to 246,—that is, by a majority of 35. Six Liberal Unionists and two Conservatives supported the Bill, while four Parnellites, one Anti-Parnellite, and one...

nesday, and the result was declared on Thursday. The Gladstonian candidate, Sir W. Wedderburn, was successful, 3,166 votes being given for him, and 2,395 for his opponent, Mr....

the Pimlico Rooms, Warwick Street, against the general policy of the Government. He ridiculed the majority for having denounced 'Conservative extravagance while they had...

at all events, told the telegraphic agents that he did—was on Tuesday condemned by the Central Criminal Court to eight years' imprisonment, for obtaining money on false...

on in Ireland, amply described in another column. We only need say here that the entire wealth, responsibility, and in- telligence of the island, Catholic as well as Protestant,...

wealth of one of the parties, came to a sudden conclusion on Saturday last. Lady Howard de Walden sought a decree of judicial separation from her husband, who is the ultimate...

New Console (21) were on Friday 98i.

Balfour differed as to the prudence of Mr. Gladstone in refusing to see it, Lord Salisbury wondering that Mr. Glad- stone had not wished to hear the impressions of such wit-...

MADAME COTTUS CHARGE. T HINGS are not going well for the Government of France. There is an impression in London, derived partly from the correspondents' letters, partly from the...

A NY politicianof experience who read carefully the debate of yesterday week on the motion for a Saturday sitting, must have seen, both in the figures of the various divisions...

M R. GLADSTONE'S refusal to see the deputation from the commercial men. of the three Southern provinces of Ireland who came to protest against his Home-rule Bill, was, we think...

T HEGovernment are very much in the wrong about the Bill authorising the construction of the Channel Tunnel. They have given notice that they will not oppose it, but will...

M ONDAY'S debate on the Evicted Tenants Commission was clearly not a waste of time. Both the attack and the defence were conducted with marked ability, and the country had...

I N "Patronage," an admirable though preachy novel by Miss Edgeworth, now, we fear, almost forgotten, there is one strikingly dramatic scene which we have some- where read was...

MHERE are three distinct lines upon which a scheme for relieving the poverty of the clergy may move, and upon the choice made between them the success of the effort will mainly...

p ROFESSOR JEBB'S lecture at the Mansion House on Saturday, on the fascinating qualities of Greek litera- ture and the advantages we should derive from anything like popular...

T HE grand difficulty, as any experienced Anglo-Indian will tell you, of talking to an Englishman about India, is that he always forms a picture of the place in his mind. It may...

M R. MATTHEW ARNOLD, in his "Friendship's Gar- land," pictures one of his minor characters, Mr. Job Bottles, a stockbroker, as a man "with black hair, a fleshy nose, and a...

T HE "Dissenting Interest," as it used to be called, is distinctly unhappy. There may be no public confession of concern, but its augurs do not smile when they meet, and the...

VISCOUNTESS TEMPLETOWN'S NEWSPAPER FUND. [TO THE EDITOU OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I ask you to make known through your columns the fact that, under the title of...

[To THY EDITOR OF THE " Spitcvoron."J SIR,—I agree with everything in your article of March 4th on Sir William Harcourt's Liquor Bill, except where you claim compensation to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Stn,—When, some weeks ago, you inserted a letter in which I urged that the effect of Home-rule would be to unite all parties in Ireland in a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] Sin,—In reply to Mr. Gibbs, it is only suggested that those clergy and Bishops whose net official income admits of it, should voluntarily...

will illustrate the difficulty of taxing benefices in any sort of proportion to their value, for the benefit of those more poorly endowed. About three years ago, inquiry was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.”] SIR,—I have waited in vain for any of your correspondents to draw attention to the fact that the present Chancellor of the Duchy is an...

THE STANDARD OF THE PHILISTINE. IN a notice of the Grafton Gallery in these columns some numbers back, the picture by Degas, called L' Absinthe, was given the place that its...

[To THE EDITOR OF TILE " SPECTAT0101 Sin,—In a sensational story in a recent issue of the Idler, a man, to cure his wife of her fear of snakes, places a dead python in his...

JOHN KEBLE.* Mn. WALTER Loon's Life of Keble is not a great biography, and there are points of view from which it is not even a satisfying biography ; but it is the very...

since Sir Walter Scott was laid to rest in Dryburgh Abbey, a period which has witnessed great changes in the literature of England as well as in the social life of the country....

WE like the form of this book, its paper, print, and size; and we like still more its spirit, for it is that of "sweetness and light," and " maketh for righteousness"...

"A Novel of Indian Life," and this is, perhaps, the best description of it ; the sub-title suggests some such name. But it is not by any means a formal study of English ways and...

Mn. HaatunTox remarks somewhere in this book on the absence of the oyster from poetry. He forgets the English lolus classicus ; but his reader is irresistibly reminded of it....

after some one, under the mistaken impression that he is her husband in a state of mental aberration, is the theme of Singularty Deluded, which is a very clever and fresh tale,...

Silhouettes of American Life. By Rebecca Harding Davis. (C. Scribner and Sons, New York.)—There are some admirable sketches of American " back " country life to be found in...

Fairyland, naturally reminds one of a certain famous Miss Alice ; but it is a contrast rather than a resemblance that we find. Mr. Atkinson, finds in his little heroine various...

Co.)—This is the story of a lady who starts with the belief in the superiority of woman, and seeks to convert the world to her way of thinking. She goes through some...

that binders may correct the serious mechanical error on page 332 of our last week's issue.]

The author dedicates this story to three clergymen, whom he describes as "champions of sanitary Christianity ;" but it more than fulfils the expectation raised by this somewhat...