economic unrest, as 8110wn by the recent abortive, but none the less dangerous strike, continues, and there are signs that the enthusiasm caused by the war has spent itself, and...

better. Throughout the week a confused battle has been pro- ceeding round Durazzo, the Albanian capital. It is true that the latest news is more reassuring, but the possibility...

I N the region of foreign affairs there is a marked sense of unrest. Though happily the danger is now over, France has passed through an internal political crisis of great...

latest nese shows that very little advance towards a com- promise is being made by the mediators who are discussing events at Niagara, while, on the other hand, the reports of...

Bill, which revokes the clause in the Panama Canal Act granting free passage to American coastwise vessels. It will be remembered that the British Foreign Office made...

the foreign news —the growing tension between Greece and Turkey. Last Saturday came the news that M. Venezeloe had announced in the Chamber at Athens, in regard to the...

of all, hurried naval preparations are going on on both sides. The Turks are expecting in about six weeks or two months the delivery of two powerful battleships, an increase in...

case.

his vote of censure on the Government. We have dealt with his speech and its consequences elsewhere, but must say here that it was an utterance in every way worthy of the...

in the matter of the National Volunteers, who, by the way, are said to be increasing at the rate of fifteen thousand members a week. Mr. Redmond's plan for reorganizing the body...

Government that the Amending Bill will be introduced into the Lords next Tuesday. As to its form nothing was said, but, after all, this does not matter, as the Government...

its political and strategical aides, maintained that the good relations between Russia and Great Britain would be un- affected by this deal. The Anglo-Peraian Company's con...

Anglo-Persian Oil Company in the Commons on Wednesday. His speech, which lasted an hour and a half, was in great measure an expansion of the Admiralty Memorandum ; but Mr....

Friday week at Glasgow, where be addressed a unanimous and enthusiastic meeting in St. Andrew's Hall. He began by contrasting the grave peril of the present situation in Ireland...

which he attributed to the prescience of Lord Strathcona, criticized its finance ; and Mr. Ramsay MacDonald applauded the Government for standing out against the monopoly of the...

formed a strong Cabinet. A few hours later he had resigned as the result of a hostile vote in the Chamber, which by a majority of forty-four declared its want of confidence in...

country, and on Tuesday lectured to the Royal Geographical Society on his recent travels in Brazil, and not only described how he discovered his new river, the Duvida, but also...

of the Revenue Bill appeared yesterday. What is noticeable about the Bill, the Times points out, is its omissions—omissions which show that there must have been a fierce fight...

of Russia, inspected ten thousand Boy Scouts drawn from London and the Home Counties on the Horse Guards Parade. The boys were drawn up in ten blocks on three sides of a square...

approved the triple alliance between the Execu- tive of that body, the Miners' Federation, and the Transport Workers' Federation. We have dealt elsewhere with some of the larger...

space to chronicle the victory of the English polo team. On the first day's play their score was si goals to 3 and on the second 4 to 21. This British victory will, we sincerely...

arrest Sir Edward Carson and the other Ulster leaders would lead to civil war. They had always recognized in their hearts that Ulster was entitled to special treatment, yet for...

papers in regard to the revolt of a certain number of Liberals against the new Budget, or rather against the plan of raising vast sums of money before the objects on which it is...

afternoon, when London was visited by a tropical thunder- storm attended by distressing loss of life. On the north side hardly a drop of rain fell, while in Wandsworth,...

THE HOME RULE DEBATE IN THE LORDS. rf1HE Home Rule debate in the House of Lords, 1. though it does not by any means show that we are out of the wood, has undoubtedly done...

1.11 RESIDENT WILSON deserves well of his country- men. In obtaining the repeal of the clauses in the Panama Canal Act which infringed the spirit of the Treaty made by the...

TN spite of the preoccupations created by the continued crisis in Ireland, the British public is becoming dimly aware that there may shortly be even nearer home another crisis...

J) EMOCRACIES, at all events in France and England, have of late years shown, signs of a singular change. They are ceasing to believe in themselves. They , are giving themselves...

I F justice is more than a technical phrase of the Law Courts, more than a mere word of art, the Secretary for Scotland should listen to the petition of Mr: Cecil Aylmer...

(By AN ECCLESIASTICAL LAWYER.) T HE Savoy Conference followed in March, 1661, when an equal number of Bishops and Presbyterian divines were nominated by Royal Warrant to meet at...

Ar r experiment which proved a great success in the United States last summer looks like developing into an institution. Two "military camps of instruction for students of...

T HERE is an old story that Freeman, in the days of his Professorship, being visited once by an American who was eager to see the oldest thing in Oxford, sent him to Port...

lath WELSH CHURCH BILL. [To IMF Ramos OF Till "sesames.") Snr,—The time is at hand when, in the ordinary course of events, the Welsh Church Bill will become law. But it ought...

Si,—One phase of the Home Rule controversy does not seem to have received the consideration it is entitled to. Taking it for granted now that the Home Rule Bill is an...

[To ME EDITOR 01 TILI1 .. SPSCIATOB..".1 Si,—On October 29th, 1912, in the House of Commons, when Clause VII. of the Home Rule Bill was in Committee, and the Colonial analogies...

[To MI EDISOlt OW Tan 't Screw:mm."1 Sin,—When Ulstermen began to drill those who were thoughtful amongst us saw at once the far-reaching and dangerous consequences that would...

[To ras Eorros 07 TIM "SracTaroo-"] firs—Among the startling features of the present political crisis nothing is more astonishing than the fact, as I believe it to be, that the...

TRU SPECTATOR."] Stn,—I have just seen a copy of your issue of June 13th con- taining the first portion of an article on the legal position of the Church by an ecclesiastical...

[To no Eorroa or no .8rooraroa.".1 Sea—Whilst thanking you for your courtesy in publishing my letter on this subject in your last issue, I should like to refer to your...

SIR,—As supporting historically the views expressed in your columns on this subject, it may be of interest to quote from the "Statutes, Ordinances, and Constitutions, ordained,...

of those who most reluctantly, but Tinder a deep sense of necessity, brought before the Dublin Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends, held recently, the question of the...

[To DID Berzon 07 TRH "STEC-MORI Six,—You take such a wise and judicious course in dealing with the attempt to force Home Rule on Ireland and with the matter of the "betting"...

pro ra. Enrroa or TM . 8rscr.0....1 Sta,—Can we never have done with the absurd quibble that chance has no existence in reality ? When we say that phenomena are due to chance we...

[To Tar Ernes or mat . SrscrAroa"] Srs,—.2 gropes of your remarks about the Rowntrees and Cadburys, there are few things more melancholy to contem- plate than the degradation of...

.. IMECTATOE.".1 SIR,—The enclosed letter which I have addressed to the Chairman of the General Purposes Committee of the Surrey County Council may interest your readers.—I am,...

of May 23rd on "The Ethics of Gambling," I venture to suggest that the moral aspect of the practice was admirably and tersely summed up some seventy-odd years ago by General Sir...

Ito an EDIMIL Or TIM .. SIMCIALTOE:1 Si,—The Lisbon paper Republica of June 7th reported the trial by "Court-Martial" of Dona Julia de Brito a Cunha, whose previous imprisonment...

Sig,—The evil effects of betting, from the point of view of the man who bets, are somewhat obscured by the fact that he does not deal directly with another man who bets, but...

[To Ta. EDITOR Or TIM .. HTSCUTOR...1 Sr,—In your issue of June 13th I see it stated that Gray in his Progress of Poesy ranks Dryden as" the equal of Shake- speare and of...

the Temps of June 50 is a short account of a Franco. Indian Committee organized by Mr. Krishnavarma, with the help of M. Pauliat, who, it seems, is an expert in the politics of...

I SIR,—Your reviewer (May SOW of the French thinker's volume, La Volonte d'Harmonie, covers a large field, and is indeed worth reading, more particularly while the subject of...

few weeks ago a strange thing happened to me on the Oddicombe Beach in this neighbourhood that might perhaps be of some interest to your readers should you think it worthy of a...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor must not necessarity'be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

THE HUMANIST POPE* This admirable biography of a great Pope is one of the most interesting books of the present season. The life of /Eneas Silvius is one of the romantic...

IN MEMORIAM.—A. 0. How many million years have gone to mould Those mountain fastnesses that gave you birth? How many million years must yet be told From that dark day when you...

a man should have been so badly brought up," said Talleyrand of the Emperor Napoleon. When we consider the autobiographical vignettes which stand out from the particolonred...

MOST of us take for granted the vast services rendered every day by the railways which carry us or our food and goods so regularly. But strikes and a Railway Commission have...

FEWER sermons are published to-day than was the case a generation ago, because fewer are read. The taste for eloquence has diminished, and so preachers give less time to its...

THIS little volume contains a collection of short appreciative papers contributed by some of those with whom Professor "Westlake's long life of widely varied activity brought...

WHAT light does geology throw upon the interesting problem of the antiquity of man in Europe P No one is better qualified to answer this question than Professor Geikie, who bad...

recollections of Mr. Gathorne-Hardy's Autumns in Argyllshire, confident of finding the same cheerful philosophy and catholic tastes in sport, and we have not been disappointed....

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