rumours about the corning Session, few of which probably will prove true, the Opposition always finding, when Members assemble, that their temper differs some- what from what...

of injustice in the decisions of Magistrates and Judges in Ireland are in substance just complaints, asserted that with a Legislature and Administration on the spot, the temper...

case.

and reargued the Irish Question at considerable length, but without throwing any new light upon it. He said that Ireland fills the mind of Parliament to the exclusion of all...

Protectionist Deputies from towns have come to an agree- ment with the special representatives of agriculture, and the majority of the new Chamber is therefore inclined to Pro-...

thieves," grows fiercer and fiercer. A determined effort is being made to boycott English goods ; and it is said that in one theatre at least in Lisbon, tickets are not sold to...

with saying that a bouquet of white flowers which had been presented to him by the Women's Liberal Association typified the purity of the Liberal Party, which lived by "purity."...

of his facts. Mr. T. W. Russell, speaking at Glasgow on Tuesday in favour of Mr. Parker Smith, the Liberal Unionist candidate for the Partick Division of Lanark- shire, dealt...

opinions by Lord Selborne and Lord Bramwell, on the subject of Mr. Justice Grantham's decision as to the boy- cotting ease at Liverpool, and Mr. Frederic Harrison's conten- ton...

Thursday. He expected that Mr. Gladstone would be revising the Constitution of the United Kingdom in his eighty-fifth year, as the late President Adams did that of the State of...

in answer to Mr. Gladstone's great speech there delivered last week. It was a good and entertaining speech, but the greater portion of it is familiar to all politicians. Sir...

in the Ulster Hall, and in making his acknow- ledgments, after describing the great wealth and prosperity of Belfast, he said that the people of Belfast attributed that wealth...

addressed himself to Mr. Gladstone's paradoxical statement,—endorsed, we observe, by Mr. Morley on Thursday at Liverpool,—that the appointment of the Special Commission on...

because it seemed at first sight to be a revival of the old practice of highway-robbery by force. A well-to-do slop- seller of Crewe, named Davies, who was accustomed to drive...

the expulsion clause in the Bill intended to make anti-Socialist legislation permanent. They conceded permanence on Thurs. day week, but rejected the clause which enables the...

Diocesan Educational Society at Tunbridge Wells on Tuesday, and said that if all political parties were virtually agreed that the school-pence,—the parents' fees,—ought to be...

appears for the moment to be amazing. The German merchants in Prague have informed the Czechs, through the Chamber of Commerce, that they will take part in a Czech Industrial...

New Console (2D were on Friday 9'; to

French Government to the conversion of the Egyptian Debt will very soon be waived. They only injure French credit in Egypt, and do not hamper the English, who have at last so...

to us a good one some months ago, has suddenly and decidedly improved. The Radical majority in the Skupt- schina has contrived to quarrel with the Army. They have insisted, it...

Socialism is not, we think, so obscure as it is some- times made by the telegrams to appear. As usual, the Emperor and his Chancellor have adopted a strong and definite line....

THE PROPOSED ATTACK ON THE GOVERNMENT. T HE attack on the Government that at present seems most serious is not that which is contemplated in reference to the Judicial Commission...

T HE Liberal Opposition seem to have determined that the question of Disestablishment in England is to be let alone for the present, and that Disestablishment in Wales and...

M R. MORLEY puzzles us. He is a statesman at heart, but he allows the statesman in him to dis- appear and reappear like the blaze of some of the revolving lights. While he talks...

a bad man IV or a good one, must be at heart a fanatic of a very determined type. At least, we can discover no other theory to explain his action in attending and assisting at...

British soil. That this result will hailed with no small amount of satisfaction in the Union, cannot be doubted for a moment, for the want of an effective system of extradi-...

M R. RILL CAINE, presiding last Saturday night at the annual dinner of the Whitefriars Club, gave it as his opinion that the higher literature probably owes no more to solitude...

W 1, need not say that we agree entirely in the wish of our V V correspondent, "A Native of Staffordshire ;" but the difficulty is to realise that wish. It is not so easy as he...

SCORN OF THE SUCCESSFUL-A CASE IN POINT. LITERARY subjects do not seem likely to fail US for discussion, according to the rapidity with which they are now springing up on all...

CARLYLE AND TYNDALL. [To THE ED/TOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Permit me to enter in your friendly columns a word of protest against a statement in Professor Tyndall's...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—I observe that attention has been directed in the Spectator to a letter upon "Hydrophobia and Muzzling," by " F.R.S.," which appeared...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Mr. Wolf's sole connection with the "true story" told of him by the writer of the article, "Bird-Painting at the Grosvenor Gallery," in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE ' SPECTATOR,"1 SIR,—Mr. Frederic Harrison, in a letter which appears in your issue of January 18th, charges you and others with wronging Positivism "in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Are that forgetfulness of our past history and our great men, and that insensibility to the glory and greatness of our country, which...

WATER-COLOURS BY THE LATE SPENCER. VINCENT AT THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. ON entering the room which the Burlington Fine Arts Club have devoted to the works of the late Mr....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIN,—The following absolutely perfect " bull " is contained in a letter addressed recently to an Irish solicitor :— "15th January, 1989....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, — Several newspaper cuttings have been sent to me with the story of my dog which appeared in the Spectator of January 18th, and one or...

IN ARCADY. A LITTLE breath from spray to spray That wanders with a purposed quiet, As tho' it were so calm a day To shock it were unholy riot ; A. little cloud-wreath in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — While acknowledging on Mr. Moorsom's behalf your favourable notice of his "very interesting book" (Mr. Moor- soul's blindness makes...

TRAVELS IN THE EIGHTIES.* THERE are some nominally sporting books which may be read with both pleasure and profit, although as a class the records of sport are repulsive reading...

judgment on these poems. There is a gleam of real poetry in the small volume, but the gleam is bathed in too much sweetness. There is too much popular preacher about the verses,...

WHAT little interest has hitherto attached to Celebes is perhaps due rather to the singular appearance it presents on - the map, than to any knowledge the general public has...

Latin name of Giraldus Cambrensis, is a notable instance of the way in which the energetic Norman race intensified and gave a vigorous and effective expression to national...

IT is a fact hard to explain, but familiar to all who habitually read them, that the larger Reviews are usually lively or dull, interesting or full of worn-out matter, all...

which comes from sympathy when it has been taught by experience. Miss Stanley has been at work, and knows the conditions of the problem which has to be solved. Her club in Soho,...

The Clergv List,1890. (Kelly and Co.)—This publication appears for the present year in a greatly improved form. "The Clerical Guide" has been incorporated with it, and certain...

(Triibner and Co.)—This volume gives us M. Renan's work in a cheap and convenient form, a closely printed volume of moderate size, certainly containing a vast amount of...

Co.)—This is meant for an answer to Sir John Lubbock's "Pleasures of Life." Mr. Govett is a necessitarian (" Freedom of the will is a fiction which most people of higher...