M R. GLADSTONE has received an enthusiastic reception at Nottingham, where the National Liberal Federation is sitting this year, and on Tuesday and Wednesday delivered -speeches...

Parliament in Ireland should be a sovereign Parliament. He would give up his own wishes, he said, but the Parliament must be accepted by Ireland—that is, practically, by Mr....

list of the measures which he thought the Liberal Party, after the Irish struggle was over, would carry through. It would have been of great interest at another time ; but...

case.

is little evidence of it beyond the hard blows struck in collisions which rapidly become free fights. A few workmen in uniform have to contend with many " workmen " out of it,...

usually the quietest of all capitals, accompanied by frequent and cruel assaults on the police. On Monday and Tuesday, crowds of unemployed workmen, reinforced by roughs,...

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, 1gbvember 5th, will be issued gratis a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

in which he dealt with Mr. Gladstone's statement as to the "servitude of Parliament" owing to the Closure. "The phrase was not a bit too strong or too distinct to mark what came...

can scarcely notice ; but Lord R. Churchill made the most important one. He spoke at Sunderland, and declared that he was in favour of the total abolition of settlements upon...

have resulted in the adoption of two important resolutions, —one in favour of "one man, one vote," and the other of Dis- establishment in Wales. With the principle of " one man,...

of over five thousand people, in a speech of singular force and courage. After a generous tribute to Mr. Balfour, and an assurance that the Cabinet were in perfect sympathy with...

states that an invitation has been sent out to Germany, Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy, the United States, and the minor Powers, to meet in conference at Madrid and...

believed the fate of the Ministry will speedily be decided. M. Heavier will be attacked for his alliance with the Monarchists, who, since the issue of the Comte de Paris's...

Liberal Unionist Association on Wednesday last, Sir Henry James delivered a speech of exceptional power and weight. In defending the Liberal Unionists from the charge of...

not a very distinguished figure disappears from English society. He was one of the few wealthy men in England who filled their lives fall, and were conspicuous at once in art,...

Consols were on Friday 1021 to 1021.

manly speech to the Diocesan Conference on Thursday. He declared that he would promote no reform merely to resist Disestablishment. The object of reform, the single object, must...

the account of his new machine, given in the Daily News of Friday, reads like a fairy-tale. According to the detailed narrative, the sender of a message has only to talk into a...

of the Crown Prince. It is openly asserted that he has cancer of the throat, and will therefore never be able to mount the throne. Sir Morell Mackenzie, the English specialist,...

energy is still without a rival, is to be found in an account of the building of the Arctic Railway, published in the Times of Thursday. That English foremen and engineers...

Strand, one of his fascinating lectures on the habits of ants. There was some evidence, he declared, to show that ants even felt affection for each other. Nobody had ever yet...

M.R. GLADSTONE AT NOTTINGHAM. W E have read Mr. Gladstone's speeches at Nottingham, and especially the speech of Tuesday, with a stupe- faction so deep as to deaden even our...

W E do not expect that the French President will resign in consequence of what is known as the Caffarel affair, though it is not unnatural that politicians in Paris, heated with...

T Unionists who are inclined to become weary and dispirited by the length and confusion of the Home-rule struggle, and who grow desponding as to the ultimate fate of their...

W HILE Lazarus suffers, says the Pall Mall Gazette, it is as well that Dives should occasionally be made uncomfortable. We assemble in Trafalgar Square, says one of the leaders...

T HE Home-rule papers have been shouting pavans over The meeting held at Woodford (Kerry) on Sunday morning. That, notwithstanding the Government had forbidden the holding of a...

T HIRTY-THREE thousand people, seated on the South- Western edge of the Australian continent, have sent in a polite request that they may have control over the vast resources of...

T HE Quarterly Review touches in two articles on Die- establishment, and the fact that it does so shows the abiding interest which the question excites, even when for the time...

T EE interest, the deep intellectual interest, of "John Halifax " for the present writer arises from this cause. It is a nearly unique instance of a book which owes a lasting...

A BOUT the worst way to see a town, more particularly a manufacturing one, is from the railway. You look out on shabby houses and smoking chimneys, and you think that a more...

T HOUGH humour is hardly a prominent quality of the Jews, and many are possibly of Carlyle's opinion, that they have no real sense of the humorous, there is a good deal more...

OP THE"SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—It is a matter of congratulation that the public is awaken- ing to a sense of the ludicrous want of proportion in the language of the Separatists, and...

FACTS FROM GWEEDORE. [To TER EDITOR Or TIM 4.8PROTAT01.1 8114—The author of the contribution in your issue of October 8th, under the above beading, seems to assume that the...

[To THE Rerron or rex "Gramme:) Srs,—I regret to find that I have incurred your displeasure by my prolixity in examining, within less space than you occupied in stating them,...

[To rat Burros or TEE "Ereormea."] Sur,—To deal exhaustively in twenty minutes either with Islam or with Christianity, much more with both, is clearly impossible.. Twenty...

[To T117 EDITOR OF TUB SPECTATOB.".1 Sin,—The late Mr. Assheton-Smith was a man of some account in his day, and when he died, a biography of him came to be written. It is not a...

[To Tar Roma or Tar "SrScrsros..] ens —I am thunderstruck at a most confident assertion in an article upon " Starlings " in Obambers's Journal of this month, —namely, that they...

[To ran romans or THE “Sracreroa."] Sts,—I run thankful to my friend Miss Whately for showing you that the doctrine of the Fall is not so entirely exploded as you thought. For...

[To rim Maros or Trim "Ssacrsroa."J Sm,—In common with other readers of your valued paper, I have read with regret your recent articles on the probabilities of the next European...

[To TH7 EDITOR 07 THE "sescreroa."1 Sia,—An October "memorandum " from Nature may possibly interest you. This has been the hottest summer I remember in London since 1868; yet I...

THE PRIVY COUNCIL.* Tits true nature of a political Constitution, like that of a. man, can only be completely known and understood when alive. How- ever perfect are the...

" A ',man," according to Chamfort, quoted by Mr. Finck, " is a man who endeavours to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be ; and this is the reason why almost all...

THE thanks of the archery world are due to Mr. Batt for having taken Mr. Ford's Theory and Practice of Archery in hand, and dealt with it so effectively. The forward place he...

Br placing the scene of his tale in Britain, the author of The Count of the Saxon Shore has given novelty to a familiar subject. The last days of the Western Empire have often...

THE warmest admirer of Benvennto's genius and the severest censor of his crimes will equally welcome the translation and editing of this famous autobiography by Mr. Addington...

THIS is a most interesting book for English readers, though not written for them. Dealing as it does with the greatest of American orators, whose career covers the half-century...

to be found in the sixty pages of introductory matter which are pre- fixed to the first. Mr. Pearson discusses the genius of the poet in a " Life" which is all that could be...

(Hurst and Blaokett.)—The faults of this tale will be obvious to the least critical reader. The improbabilities of the narrative may be forgiven perhaps, for romance allows of...

" Which of these things ie lust P Or are we 131¢71 bat playthings of the hour, The l eMirtn1 f t g e t ' P od lir7t h t o hrt i o e gclIlle We may criticise, also, the...

Douglas, Edinburgh.)—This is a volume of posthumous sermons, most of them intended, it would seem, though not prepared, for publication. It is evidently meant to include a...

(T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—This volume deals fully and ably with a portion of the New Testament which scarcely receives the attention that it deserves. For one work treating...

(Deighton and Co., Cambridge.)—Dr. Scrivener published the first edition of this revision of Stephen's text in 1859, the second in 1876, and now sends out, with the assistance...