Imperial Institute on Wednesday, which was attended by from fifteen The Prince of Wales held a grand reception at the Imperial Institute on Wednesday, which was attended by from...

case.

carried by the majority of 42 (309 to 267), after a debate into which a good deal of heat was imported by some Irish Member unknown, who called out during Mr. T. W. Russell's...

Hall, to protest against the Welsh Suspensory Bill. The two Archbishops and almost all the diocesan and suffragan Bishops were present, and a great crowd of the most...

T HE omens as to the German Election are not as yet satis- factory. The Radicals, it is true, have broken into two . parties ; but the only effect of that will be a great...

been signs since Thursday that it is drawing towards its end. Four more banks have suspended, one of them, the 'Commercial Bank of Sydney, being of great importance, and...

and on Wednesday Mr. Balfour, Mr. Chamberlain, and Lord Randolph Churchill addressed great meetings in Manchester, Birmingham, and Reading. Mr. Balfour ascribed the silence of...

the Home-rule Bill, the discussion turned almost exclusively on the meaning to be assigned to the supremacy of the British Parliament. On Friday week, Mr. Victor Cavendish had...

proposing to allow the Queen, on receiving an address to that effect from both Houses of Parliament, to diminish or restrain the whole or any part of the powers therein granted...

the most important of the scenes was caused by a speech from Mr. Henry Fowler, which covered a very wide amount of ground. Mr. Goschen intervened not to object to this, but to...

'vigour, and excited storms of laughter by a comparison between the Government policy and the confidence-trick, the Government asking that the Irish should be trusted with power...

speech which was intended to be animated and encouraging to the young fighting-men of the Gladstonian Party; but we doubt whether it served its purpose. The Secretary for War...

South of England it has been one of the longest on record, having lasted some seventy-eight days,—i.e., two months and a half. The result has been to add a month to the summer...

Brittany into an autonomous State, in expiation of the cruel- ties committed there by the Terrorists, and are sick of hearing about the Panama bribe-takers and bribe-givers....

seems to interest all English Catholics a little more than its importance warrants. They desire, being loyalists, that England should rule in Uganda ; but suspect that the...

Foreign Office upon which Lord Salisbury and Lord Rose.. bery agree. In a very able speech on Friday week against the Bishop of London's Bill for reducing the number of...

which may affect the whole policy of England in regard to naval construction. What is peculiar about the new vessel= The Speedy '—is that she can steam twenty-two knots (i.e.,...

Avalon— First Naval Lord during the late Government—moved that, in view of "the rapidly approaching completion" of the scheme under the Naval Defence 'Act, and of the great in-...

New Console (2f) were on Friday 98i.

THE " HALLOWED " SUPREMACY. I T certainly was not unnatural for Mr. Balfour to lay a good deal of ironical emphasis on Mr. Gladstone's religious reverence for the " hallowed "...

I T is worth while, as the Whitsuntide holidays are upon us, to look for a moment, as impartially as we may, at the immediate position,—that is, in fact, at the chance of the...

T "great meeting of Tuesday to protest against the Welsh Suspensory Bill, went occasionally farther than we should be able to go with it. Disestablishment, —to which we are...

matter for Au . a- l_ tralia . , and we Cannot say that we think the calamity is barn . g wisely auet. deposits together, It is stated that, taking shares and the failures...

to Madagascar, which took place in the French Chamber on Tuesday, was absolutely devoid of any intrinsic importance. M. De Mahy, who introduced, the question, was himself at the...

T ORD ROSEBERY'S jest about the people whose ideal of mental and physical food is a "Blue- book and a biscuit," does not apply to the two "Blue- books" on the Agricultural...

HORTON is a thinker as well as a scholar, and we always find what he has to say on the funda- mental truths of religion well worth attending to. But towards the close of his...

butterflies and moths reared in the Zoological Gardens, and exhibited in the rooms of the Royal Society last week, naturally attracted less atten- tion than the latest...

I N considering the differences, radical or aceidental, which divide, and, as we believe, always will divide, Asiatics from - Europeans, one of the most perplexing is the...

and Leander," to the present time, the English reading public have enjoyed parodies of their favourite poets. Just as the triumph of a Roman general was not complete without the...

[TO TRH EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:1 Six,—I hope that the Rev. Dr. Crosskey's solution of the problem of religious education in Board-schools is not, as he himself avers in his...

SIR, C. GAVAN DUFFY ON THE "SPOILS SYSTEM" IN IRELAND. [TO TUR ]tDITOR OF TEE" BPIWTATOR."] 6 'R.,—May I point out that the passage which you quote from ,` conversation of mine...

Sru,—In the Spectator of May 6th, your correspondent, " A Member of the Society for the Protection of Birds, " mentions the usefulness of rooks in a cornfield. An old farmer...

I.TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR, — In your article in the Spectator of May 13th on "Cuckoos and Nightingales, " you say that the popular feeling in England in favour...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR.] Si,—For many years I was a member of the Home Mission Board of our little Scottish United Presbyterian Church. We dealt with this very...

A CRY OF DESIRE. YET one lay to the love, long, deep, and sweet, That heartens, as it hears, Before the worn tones falter, for my feet Are in the vale of years. And the night...

SPECTATOR:1 Sra,—The theories of your critic, "D. S. M.," are excellent, and his aspirations admirable. His personal attack on myself, except that he far overrates the...

MISS BURNEY'S " EVELINA." * Wu hear much talk about "annuals " and " perennials " nowa- days. The interest taken in old-fashioned flowering plants and shrubs is a very marked...

Prince's Quest" is concerned, we cannot say that we see the least reason for the author's statement that he recognises "the crudity and immaturity of many things in this...

to the share taken by Lord Hastings himself in the events of the history of India from 1813 to 1822, however much of the increase of British influence and Native peace and...

is the most interesting and informing book which has appeared on Australia, or at least New South Wales. A career which began when New South Wales included what are now Victoria...

into being his Hew Zeitschrift filr Musa, he was moved to lament, in reviewing the difficulties of the situation, how few musicians * Studies in Modern Music. By W. H. Hadow,...

people have different experiences in their study of Shakespeare. One reads him only as a teller of good stories, one as a poet, some few as a philosopher, and many as the great...

By J. Dyer Ball, H.M. Civil Service, Hong-Kong. (Samp- son Low.)—This useful, and in some measure interesting, book is an avowed imitation of Mr. B. H. Chamberlain's more...

Poems of the Hon. .Roden Noel. A Selection, with an Introduc- tion, by Robert Buchanan. (Walter Scott.)—Mr. Noel's work shows to advantage in the selection which Mr. Buchanan...

a useful volume, though it is not without defects and mistakes. F. D. Maurice was never Professor of English Literature at Cambridge. It will be news to scholars that "Several...

trated by his daughters. (Jarrold and Sons.)—Readers of Mr. Doughty's "Friesland Mores" and "Summer in Broadlaud " will hail with pleasure his new volume, in no way inferior in...

and Co.) —We have read many a worse story than In a Forest Glade, which has some well-described scenes and situations in it, and lacks principally a knowledge of the proper...

(Cassell and Co.)—Electricity, the science which the majority take most interest in, is to have a new standard ohm which is to do away with the various hindrances and...

great deal of research has been expended by Mr. Johnston on his work, and in its own particular department it is really a mine of information. It mainly consists of an....

Castle. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Egerton Castle's stories are all that the short story should be,—dramatic, finished, and, many will add, tragic. "La Be]la," the story of two...

Farmer. (Clarendon Press.)—Mr. Farmer gives us here a selec- tion of more than one hundred and sixty hymns and chorales, the work of about sixty various authors, of each of whom...

Glasgow.)—This is a queer, interesting book of a rather uncommon kind, and, apart altogether from the intrinsic merit of the stories which it contains, serves a useful purpose...

and Co.)—We should hardly have been surprised had the authoress of A Mysterious Family described herself as " The New Writer! , Such a perfectly preposterous and absolutely...