case.

moo- lotion, that it would be desirable for Parliament to assemble early in the autumn for the purpose of considering the Franchise Bill and the Redistribution Bill together....

his resolution,—" That this House is prepared to proceed now with the consideration of the Representation of the People Bill, on the understanding that a humble address be...

hurri- cane of the afternoon fell as suddenly as it rose. Lord Ran- dolph Churchill apologised to Mr. Gladstone with effusion "for having given the Prime Minister occasion to...

to the same subject; and Mr. Gladstone, after making the statement which he had made in the letter to Lord Granville as to the words of Lord Salisbury, denied absolutely that...

STERD AY week there was a curious scene in both Houses. TAE Salisbury assured the House of Lords that theproposal of the Government to ask both Houses to vote a resolution...

in the House of Lords, his proposals for peace ; and gave notice that he would move, — as he did move, — on Thursday, a resolution accepting virtually the offer of the...

the kind of enemy which St. Paul graphically described as beasts at Ephesus,—delivered a very striking speech to the " Eighty Club,"— a club established to com- memorate the...

Shore- ditch Town Hall, to a meeting of his constituents, on the pre- sent crisis. He repeated what he has often said before on the excuse for the action of the Lords in...

conduct of the House of Lords. And even some of the Conservatives,— as, for example, the Conservative Member for the City of London, who wrote to the Times on Thursday to...

reader of Lord Salisbury's speeches would give him credit for really wishing for household franchise in the counties ; and that, of course, he who did not wish for this, could...

for the Conference on Egyptian finance. And the Conference itself will probably meet next week. At present, the rumours afloat represent that France is steadily opposed to the...

who has gone back to the circumstances of every dissolution of Parliament since the Reform Bill, has shown that not one of these has been due to the pretended right of the House...

except. that the Turkish battalion intended expressly to " stiffen " the Egyptian Army has mutinied at Assiout, demanding three months' pay before proceeding to Assouan, whither...

been rescued near Cape Sabine, at the mouth of Smith Sound. The expedition numbered originally twenty-five per- sons, and of these nineteen have perished,—eighteen before the...

anniversary of the taking of the Bastille,—passed off on Monday in France with but one sinister incident. Among the flags flying on the Hotel Continental, the German flag was...

See of Chester. He died at the palace at Chester at 6 o'clock last Sunday morning. Brought up as a Dissenter at Homerton College, under the teaching of Dr. Pye-Smith, he soon...

Canonry of Ripon has been offered to the Rev. Malcolm MacColl. We heartily hope that the rumour is true. Mr. MacColl is one of those High Churchmen who seem to us to have always...

was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency yesterday week, and Mr. Hendricks, of Indiana, was nominated for Vice-President. Mr. Hendricks appeared to be the...

" platform." It is thoroughgoing only in reviling the Republican Party, and on every other point of policy it carefully balances promises against reserves. " The Democratic...

a few cases have occurred at Arles. In Marseilles and Toulon the number of deaths is still very heavy, though this week has proved perhaps a trifle less fatal than the last. The...

on Wednesday afternoon between Manchester and Sheffield, near Penistone, to the express train leaving Manchester at half-past twelve, and due at King's Cross at 5.20. The train...

Consols were on Friday 100a to 1001.

THE REJECTION OF THE COMPROMISE. I F we still used the language of Scripture in the sense in which Scripture really uses it, we should say that the Lord had hardened the hearts...

O NE of the ignorant platitudes of the day is the belief, not exclusively confined to the Conservative Party, that Mr. Gladstone knows little and cares less about foreign...

W E entirely respect Mr. Fawcett's motive in making the admirable appeal to the country which was contained in his speech to his constituents on Tuesday night, to separate as...

T 4 ORD ROSEBERY was well advised in withdrawing his I motion about the French Recidivists. The Bill which is to turn them loose in New Caledonia is likely, it seems, to...

T HE Republican Party seem to reckon so much on the popularity of Mr. Blaine's supposed hostility to Great Britain, that we feel some hesitation in saying, what is never-...

N O wonder the spirits of Law Reformers are often heavy within them. When they have overcome the preju- dices of lawyers, and the inertia of the public and of Parlia- ment, and...

T HOSE who have only a passing acquaintance with Hamp- stead Heath are hardly aware how very small is this famous metropolitan open space. From the high land between " The...

T HERE can be little question that, so far at least, the terrorist policy of the Russian revolutionary party has proved a disastrous failure, and to this conclusion it would...

I S confidence in the people theologically defensible, or not ? The Primate of all England has advised the Church to trust the people ; and the Bishop of Manchester, in an...

T HERE can be but little doubt that we have had our Con- tinental critics ever since the days when we painted our- selves with woad and fought under Boadicea ; but Monsieur...

W ITHIN the compass of two short articles in Macmillan, under the title of "Diversions of a Pedagogue," Mr. Raven gave to the world such a delightful and well-assorted...

REFORM OF THE LORDS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SI11,—The outline of a plan for the reform of the House of Lords, given in last week's Spectator, comes very...

THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, —I am a Liberal, and I have amongst my friends a great many Conservatives. Since Monday I have been making a canvass of them, without giving any hint of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I was much pleased in reading your review of " Eupho- rion " to find that somebody has spoken the truth at last about the Minnesingers....

I TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, —Lord Melbourne once said to a friend of mine, " You talk of the power of truth; I am much more afraid of the power of falsehood."...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SI-ECTATOR."1 Sin,—I hope that you will permit the authors of the article on " Apparitions," in the current number of the Nineteenth. Century, to say...

And sings on the topmost spray ; And its song is ever the loudest In the hush at the close of day. There lies a child in a bedroom, White-gowned in a cot snow-white; And her...

SIR,—I have to thank Mr. Chapman and "E. C. T." for their letters in the Spectator• of the 12th about the epitaphs in Bake- well Churchyard. I have, since I wrote on the...

SIR,— Some year or two since the wife of a well-known Hunting. don tradesman was walking in a lane near the town when suddenly and unexpectedly she saw her husband coming...

SIR,—You reflect on the Liverymen of London in a way that might come most naturally from some quarters, but is, to many of us, hard to bear from a journal written usually with...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Talking of epitaphs, if any of your readers should be passing the very picturesque church of Godshill, in the Isle of Wight, they will...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—It is both unjust and untrue to assert, as the Spectator did last week, that " the whole movement [i.e., for securing the protection...

true copy—which is to be found in the Chancel of the Parish Church of King's Teignton, South- Devon, is (I think) worthy of insertion in your pages :— RICHARDUS ADLAM HuIuS,...

MR. GAIRDNER has done real service to historical knowledge by his republication of Mr. Brewer's memorable Prefaces. In their former shape, richly as they deserved readers, they...

• Dorothy Forster. By Walttr Besant. London: Hutto and Windy& Dorothy Forster is a more successful, as well as a more pleasing, presentation of a past epoch in history and man-...

of the poem is extremely faint. It turns entirely on a Polish plot to assassinate the Czar, and makes the mistress of the Czar —herself a Pole—suddenly fall in love with the...

THE publication of a new translation of the Book of Psalms in a series which contains, together with what might be thought more appropriate companions, The Fables of Mr. lohn...

much exaggerated views concerning what may be called emotional hardening. They incline more or less strongly to the opinion that the priest's familiarity with sacred rites must...

favoured with opportunities for study- ing American life or any part of it, no doubt he would have been able to avail himself of them to produce an accurate and interesting...

THE essays have already appeared in substantially the same shape in the Saturday Review. Though their authorship has long, we fancy, been somewhat of an open secret, Mr. Oxenham...

By John F. Genung. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Genung begins by briefly sketching the literary life of the poet up to the publication of the work with which he proposes to deal. He...

Windus.) The book is well arranged, clearly written, lively and—almost beyond what might be thought possible for a con- temporary historian of the extreme Irish party—tolerably...

little sumptuous ? Here is the bill-of-fare for March 30th (a Friday, by the way) :—" Lamb chops ; egg kromaskies, grilled kidneys and lemon juice ; scones, strawberry-jam fool...

Mythology, by Jacob Grimm. Translated from the Fourth Edition by James Steven Stallybrass. (Bell and Sons.) This is a volume at least equal in interest to its predecessors. The...

Blackett.)—Mr. John Fothergill, like Miss Jessie Fothergill, the writer of many very admirable novels, selects Yorkshire and Lancashire as the scene of his story and shows the...

Eastward Flo ! (Wells Gardner, Dorton, and Co.)—This magazine continues the useful career for which we heartily wish all prosperity. " Peter the Hermit" repeats in the plainest...

2 vols. (T. and T. Clark).—The bringing of this great work—for it is really nothing less—within the reach of English students of theology, is another of the very considerable...

V. White).—There are some odd things in this book. Witness the way in which Mr. Erskine talks to a lady of his acquaintance (i., 83-4), and the strange statement that Byron (of...