amendment had been carried by 89 (316-227), Lord Robert Cecil, on the motion that the Bill be read a third time, moved the adjournment of the debate as a protest against the...

case.

A PASSIONATE and disorderly scene took place in the House of Commons on Thursday afternoon. At question time the Prime Minister announced that it was the intention of the...

why an Amending Bill was brought forward at all, and had demanded an undertaking that before the division on the third reading they should be told what was to be in the Amending...

that he utterly misunderstood the whole position with which he had to deal. He had said that the final word would rest with the House of Commons, but forgot that the House of...

from the Speaker, in which he declared that he had intended to invite Mr. Sonar Law to assist him in maintaining order. He had been disappointed in that, and there was now...

" the Opposition. If they were the dominant party in the House, and if they were dictating terms of capitulation to a defeated and impotent minority, the sort of language which...

meant the disestablishment of religion. The Government, by means of their "religious social reform," had really done more than any of their predecessors for the establishment of...

the Scottish Home Rule Bill, moved by Mr. Macpherson, was talked out. An application was made for the Closure in order to get a division, but the Speaker refused it. The...

meet. ing held at Tunbridge Wells last Saturday afternoon. In the course of his speech be said that the Cabinet were in the position of u firm of fraudulent solicitors who had...

into a series of secret conferences held between the mediators (the representatives of the Argentine, Brazil, and Chile) and the Mexican and American representatives...

have seen appeared in some papers of last Saturday, when a whole page was occupied by the text of the new Treaty between Colombia and the United States. The Treaty was signed on...

stage in the House of Commons under the Parliament Act. Mr. Ellis Griffith said that the Welsh dioceses could not be allowed to remain part of the Province of Canterbury,...

of the Opposition as premeditated, but there is no ground for this view of the disturbance. It was due to the very natural exasperation caused by Mr. Asquith's refusal to...

the Speaker had no right to put the question he put to Mr. Boner Law. If Mr. Boner Law had thought his supporters in the wrong, he would have appealed to them on his own...

before the Royal Society of British Architects, made several suggestions for the improvement of London. All the city railways ought to disappear underground ; Trafalgar Square...

resulted in a gain for the Unionists. The figures were :— Major Harland Bowden (U.) 6,469 Mr. J. P. Boulton (L ) 6,155 Mr. J. Martin (Lab.) ... 8,669 Unionist majority ... 814...

new Army aeroplane, which is considerably more stable than any previous model. During the flights the controls were not touched. The stability does not depend upon any automatic...

makes an excellent start with contributions in prose from Lord Milner, Lord Balfour of Burleigh, Sir Edward Carson, and Mr. Walter Long, and a sonnet from Mr. Kipling. Lord...

silly attempt by the militants to force their way into Buckingham Palace on Thursday in order to present a petition to the King. Their efforts were defeated by the presence of...

Bishop of St. Albans, was held at the Jerusalem Chamber, Westminster Abbey, yesterday week, at which Lord Hugh Cecil read the Report of the Committee who since 1910 have been...

scarcity of oar meat supplies. The history of this scarcity is the history of increased meat consumption, which is not alto- gether a matter of increased population. The poor...

powerful appeal issued last Saturday and signed on behalf of the Trustees of the Oxford University Endowment Fund by Mr. Asquith, Lords Salisbury and Milner, Sir W. R. Anson,...

Jan. 29th. Console (21) were on Friday 741—Friday week 754.

THE IRISH FINANCIAL DEBATE. I N the course of the debate on Home Rule finance on Wednesday, Mr. Healy, while wrangling with his Nationalist colleagues, asked the significant...

A "CONDOMINIUM" is the moat awkward form of authority which necessity has ever forced upon man; and there is the possibility of a condominium— for at the moment the only...

T HE extended system of doles to local authorities which is the principal feature of Mr. Lloyd George's last Budget has evidently not won for the Liberal Party that popularity...

W E publish to-day a letter which raises in an interest- ing form the ethical problems connected with betting and with playing cards and other games for money. Before, however,...

I T has always been possible to enter the highest English society without birth or exceptional beauty, without wealth or conversational wit, and without genius of any...

I N a fanciful moment we found ourselves wishing at the Naval and Military Tournament that, while England is waiting for compulsory military training, every voter could be...

[COMMUNICATED.] Tnt curt, faint paragraphs that usually represent our formation on Chinese affairs in English newspapers give but a feeble picture of the perils and problems...

THE MODEL HIINDRED-GIIINEA COTTAGE AT MERROW. pro roe Eorror or ram ”Srsorrror."1 SIB.,—As your large sale of the plans and specification would seem sufficient evidence of the...

men of the Victorian age. It has been well said that " England owes her greatness to the silent men who do their duty," and to few do these words apply with such absolute...

or nu r'Sracreroa,•r] SIM—I fear that many of your readers must have acquired the opinion during the present crisis that English Quakers are callously indifferent to the...

[To rue EDITOR or 'RR Srzer,roa."1 SIB,—Permit me to draw attention to a State Paper of great interest, issued a few days since by the Convention of the Royal Burghs of...

[To rex EDITOR or THR Erscraron,.1 Sin,—The Spectator has rendered such distinguished services to the community by its persistent denunciation of the so- called " Cocoa Press "...

ITO rex Eorroa or run SIMMT02."1 Siu,—A copy of the Spectator of April 18th, the first I have ever read, has recently come into my hands. It is needless to say that I am highly...

ITO rag Eases or run SPECTATOR:1 Six.,—Amidst a good deal of loose discussion of the Army's duties in a time of civil strife, it has been clearly shown that, as Lord Roberts...

[To rue EDITOR 01 THE .. SPEC21,08...] SIR, Will you allow me to add a few words to your article on "Healing by Faith and Suggestion" in the Spectator of May 9th P The treatment...

[To vas E01/011 or rue ..Srlc-r■ron."1 Sin,—It is not to be wondered at that your reviewer of Canon Hugues de Ragnau's work, The Vatican (Spectator, May 16th), finds it...

[To ras EDITOR 07 ma "Sercmos.1 SIR,—The attitude of the Spectator on this subject has altered so largely during the last twenty years that, as one bolding to the old Liberal...

.SracraToa."] Sra,—Mr. Ramsay MacDonald has recently asserted as an objection to the Referendum that it is unsatisfactory because in countries where it has been introduced the...

[To um Eorror or Tar ..SracrAroz."1 FIR,—Your review in the Spectator of May 9th of Mr. J. R. Elder's book on the Highland Host of 1678 recalled to my mind an incident, or...

the oak, in connexion with the above, has an additional interest in that we may presume from the authority quoted—the Public Record Office—it is now definitely established that...

north-west of Dublin, near the Phoenix Park, was called Oxmantown or Ostmantown, which the Danes or Ostmen (Eastmen) had appropriated. The site of St. Miehan's Church, named...

.131..CMOR."] SIR,—In your issue of May 16th you strike the right note when you speak of the joy of seeing oaks, like those described by Mr. Lionel B. Wells, " growing with the...

rTo TIM EDITOR Of TUN SPECTZTOR1 Sia,—I notice in your last number that Mr. Wells. in his letter re oaks, reproduces that very common misquotation of Garrick's well-known...

[To rag .EDITOR OF TRX .. SPRCTZTOR...] Sts,—Like your correspondent Mr. Schaup (Spectator, May 9th), I have also lived amongst Moslems for twenty-six years, and without...

[To TR. EDITOR or TIM SPRCTZTOV1 SIR, —Travel abroad has prevented my replying to the question asked by the Director-General of the Ordnance Survey—Colonel Close—in your issue...

people besides Mr. Steele and Mr. Roney who are unwilling to abandon their early belief that the roof of Westminster Hall was built of Irish oak, which successfully repelled the...

[To TUB EDITOR or TIM STIICTAToR:1 have read the article in your paper entitled "The Geography of the Nightingale" (Spectator, May 2nd) with the greatest interest. There is a...

[To vs. EDITOR or TUB .. STReszT014 . ] Sat, — Your correspondent from Margate in the first part of his letter, in your issue of May 16th, asks me if I should desire to be so...

[To TR: Eason or TIM "STSZTZTOR.".1 Sia,—A large number of people are working earnestly in various ways to improve village life, but owing to the increase of societies there is...

howler " may be perpetrated in spelling as well as in speech. If so, one has lately come to me from a boy who, baying in a dictation lesson to write the word "wife," spelt it...

[To nes EDITOR or me "Brecrerort. - J Stn,—May I enlist your sympathy for space to raise a matter which should interest all who know and love Box Hill ? The front of the hill...

[To Tile EDITOR or roe “Eescesroe."1 SIR; I am sorry to see, from your issue of the 18th inst., that my letter contradicting the alleged atrocities by Epirots was addressed to...

.tireersron...) SIR, — It is to be hoped that Lord Fortescne's appeal in the Spectator of last week in aid of this admirable Society may meet with an adequate response. I adopt...

corrections in your last two issues of your contributor's statement that the nightingale is never heard west of the Severn, be might have quoted the authority of Giraldus...

[To TIM EDITOR OF TR. SPRCTATOR,"] SIE, — During the last General Knowledge Examination held at one of the first public schools occurred the following " howlers ": " George...

OXFORD IN MAY. Tan motors hum along the High, And out of wide-flung windows blown A husky and a strangled cry Bewrays the gramophone. The 'Transatlantic tourist, primed With...

the tinomies " reminds me of the following experience of my own. As a child I well recall hearing my sisters, older than myself, reciting daily to their governess Cowper's lines...

writer's name or initials, or with a p,andengen, or are marked " Communicated," the Railer must not neseaserilp be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or...

WALTER BAGEHOT.* No writer of the Victorian era whose work was principally done in weekly reviews or occasional articles has had an influence comparable with Bagehot's in...

Ma. WADIA.'S Reflections on the Problems of India is well worthy of study on the part of all who are interested in the sundry and manifold developments of opinion elicited by...

Tna Lord Advocate till the other day was the real ruler of Scotland, and even now be has far greater powein than belong in England to the chief law officer of the Crown. He was...

published, the most interesting by far are those of Captain Alexander Taylor, The Journal of a Cavalry Officer in the Corunna Campaign. The author joined the 15th Hussars, then...

MACFALL ends the "Foreword" to 'his book with these sentences : " The artist, in the full meaning of the word, is the supreme man. It is well, therefore, to try and realize,...

THE editor of the present work discovered in the Record Office a manuscript by Shaftesbury, which was published in 1900 with the title of Philosophical Regimen. At the same time...

THE editors and publishers of this volume show some courage in sending it forth with the uncompromisingly repellent title of Statistics ; presumably they relied upon the name of...

THE LOST TRIBES.* CANON HANNAY alarms the pessimist by the rapidity and extent of his production, but misgiving is largely allayed by acquaintance with the latest fruits of his...

P. Putnam's -Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—Dr. Kippax aims at present- ing "in plain, non-technical languuge, a concise and accurate story of the starry heavens, together with the...

[I-Teeter this funding.sr. Rollos 'Ma J3004 rif tho Wag as haw cat Urn rsserosd for review to other forms.] The Fundamental Basis of Nutrition. By Graham Lusk. (Humphrey...

Lane. 6s.)—A. South African story of love and intrigue, concerning chiefly a " strong, silent man." Miss Young writes with remarkable fluency and has a strong grip of...

net.)—Thena are few higher authorities on the subject of this work than Mr. Joyce of the British Museum. He has already contributed a volume on South American archaeology to Mr....

and Co. is. net.)—A great advance in the manufactum and use of aeroplanes took place in the autumn of 1912. " Learning to fly was transformed from an accom- plishment of the...

Co. 6e.)—When we rend in the publishers' note that "The Fruits the Morrow is a_novel shelving the consequences of a man's and a woman's conduct in the past and how it affects...

6a.)—The date of this exceedingly attractive novel is the opening of the nineteenth oentnry, though, indeed, the "thirties" hare already been reached before the main part Of the...

6d. net.)—General Reyes was President of Colombia from 1934 to .1909, when the unpopularity of his Treaty with the United States and Panama compelled him to quit the country...

better half of the book is Part I., entitled "Fortune," in which Edgar Brainard, the hero, becomes casually involved in rescuing the papers of one H. Krutz- macht from the hands...

with which this book is sent out seems intended to suggest that the author's name would carry conviction if it were revealed. We -very mach doubt it. His knowledge of English...

net.)--This new annual is designed for those who "desire to secure thorougb]y sound information regaivEng Canada as a field for investments, industrial- and agricultural...

Woodhead and K. T. Montague Bell. (G. Rontledge and Sons. 10s. net)—Though only in its third year, this animal has established a reputation as a handy and trustworthy source of...

C. Williamson. (John Lane. 63s. net.)—This beautiful folio volume contains fifty-eight reproductions, in eollotype facsimile, of the Keats autographs and other relics which form...

Richards. (David Nutt. 5s. net.)—The habit of publishing a graduand'a thesis is commoner in American than in English 'niversities. Thissomewbat thin little book was approved as...