we certainly may, that the Orkneys will return a follower of Mr. Gladstone. Making this assumption, they have turned out as follows :- England, roroughs Counties ...... 465...

the English House of Commons " the laughing-stock of the world." " This," says Mr. Patrick Ford, " is one of the ways to educate the brutal English masses who have mocked at the...

he received the Queen's summons, was expected in town yesterday. It was said that he wished to confer with his old colleagues before going down to Osborne, whither the Queen...

of gaining two or three, as he had expected. He did gain the seat in West Belfast for Mr. Sexton ; but he has lost two seats, one in South Londonderry, where Mr. Healy was...

M R. GLADSTONE, as we anticipated, has resigned, and the Queen on Wednesday accepted his resignation, and sent for Lord Salisbury. We never entertained the notion that Mr....

credit ; nor would his acceptance of the office of Prime Minister at least,—had that been possible,—have been misunderstood by any instructed Liberal. That it might have been...

case.

interview between himself and the late M. Guizot on the subject of England's conduct to Ireland, by way of showing that the "civilised world" does not stamp the whole of our...

woes to the Pall Mall Gazette, with, on the whole, a good deal of truth and naivete. What it comes to is chiefly this,—that the season was an unfortunate one for getting...

elections. He says that the Home-rulers had special difficulties at the elections, owing to the want of adequate local organisation. That is true enough, we dare say ; but is it...

stone on the subject of his recent proposals. The correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, last Monday reported an interview with Dr. Bollinger, for the impartiality of whose...

in the United States will approve the Convention with England en- larging the terms of the Extradition Treaty. Merely political crimes are, as before, not to be made the subject...

last Saturday's Times, as showing how, at the last moment, party spirit often got the ascendency in the Liberal Associations of the constituencies during the recent contest. He...

of his East Cambridgeshire canvass, where, after issuing a really admirable Liberal-Unionist address, he only polled 263 votes, to the great astonishment of his friends, who...

celebration of the storming of the Bastille three years hence, in 1889, and are hoping to make the three years' pre- paration useful for the purpose of organising a...

reduce the number of pictures which an Academician has the right to exhibit, from eight to four. The proposal was rejected by the majority of 14 to 9, in spite of Sir Frederick...

Act passed last Session is bearing good fruit already. We mean the useful little Act which enabled a married woman deserted by her husband to obtain a maintenance from him,...

with the Baker Street "mad-dog" case, it is only fair to give here the remarks of the Magistrate who tried it, as supplied by the Chief Commissioner of Police. Here is the...

sickening details of the Crawford divorce case, which ended yesterday with a verdict in favour of Mr. Crawford,—in other words, against Sir Charles Dilke. If that verdict be...

Reign of the Common People," seems to have had a good deal more in it of the democrat than of the Christian preacher. He did not, he said, approve the conduct of the Nihilists...

THE REASONS FOR A MODERATE LIBERAL ADMINISTRATION. W E are asked by a correspondent why a Government of Lord Hartington's would be preferable to a Govern- ment of Lord...

Northumberland, Cum- berland, Westmoreland, Durham, and Yorkshire, there is a large majority of representatives favourable to Home-rule ; indeed, there they are in a majority...

I N their hearts, the Conservatives cannot r. ally believe that any one with less than ..t100 a year willingly votes on their aide. A victory in a popular constituency always...

T:NTHUSIASTS for Imperial Federation, when they tell ' us that the only bonds which unite the Colonies and the Mother-country are bonds of sentiment, are somewhat too apt to...

T HE letters which we publish to-day from Mr. Fuller, of Bristol, from "A Radical Curate," and from "A Country Curate," all seem to us to show that, whether or not the latter...

W HEN Mr. Lowell left us, it seemed as though there could never be any compensation for the loss of him. • Mr. Phelps has taught us that there are some advantages in having a...

T HE part which the clergy and ministers of religion should take in politics is a question which always excites interest in clerical circles, and unless the whole sect belongs...

I F any one idea has been common to the religious and to the sceptical thinkers on religious subjects in this curious century of ours,—a century in which the most profoundly...

I T was during a voyage from London to Melbourne that the scene we are to describe was beheld. We had passed Madeira, an azure island of faery, veiled in the golden haze of...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] T HERE is no province of France faller of fine and curious old houses, of ghosts, legends, and old family traditions, than the province of Anjou; but...

SHALL FIFTY OUTVOTE THREE HUNDRED ? [TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." I Stn,—Yoe have urged repeatedly that Lord Hartington should . be Premier of a Coalition Government; but...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—My attention has been called to your note on Lord Hartington's recent election. As a member of the Liberal Executive, and one who has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' 'SIR,—The recent General Election has seen what has probably been the greatest revolt against the leaders and organisation of a political...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' read in a recent Morning Post,—" The differences in the political convictions of Lord Salisbury and Lord Har- tington are of so shadowy a...

wrong as to the prc portion of Liberal clergymen who voted in the late Election for the Gladatonian candidates ; and wrong, too, in your estimate of the motives which prompted...

your leading articles in the Spectator of July 17th is entitled " The Clergy and Home-rule." It puzzles me much to think from what knowledge, or ground of any kind, your...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—Yon have endeavoured to formulate a theory which you believe will account for the small effect produced by Whig argu- ments upon the...

SIR, - It will no doubt be a source of satisfaction to the Liberal clergy, to find how fully you recognise their steadfastness during the present crisis ; but I doubt whether...

SIR, —I have carefully read your article on " English Commerce and English Education," which has given rise to the letter of "A Birmingham Merchant" in your issue of July 17th....

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR, — I fully agree with the article in the Spectator of July 10tb, on " English Commerce and English Education ;" indeed, it expressed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—You often give us pleasant anecdotes of our four-footed friends. You may think the following worthy of record. I have a little dog, a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.' • 1 SIR, — In June last, the Chief Commissioner of the London Police gave notice that " whereas mad dogs, or dogs suspected of being mad, had...

IT° THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—One can sympathise with Dr. Wyld's disappointment on finding that the Theosophic Society had nothing to do with Theism. It also calls...

KIDNAPPED.* WE question whether Mr. Stevenson will ever again come quite up to the freshness of Treasure Island, a book which may be said to have had more charm for boys than...

FOR many years Henry Bazeley was a well-known figure in Oxford. Sunday after Sunday he took his stand, habited in academic cap and gown, at the Martyrs' Memorial, and preached...

M.B. ASHWORTH deserves well of all students of English politics and law for having published a translation of what, if not the most valuable, is certainly the most interesting,...

Tins is an extremely well written life of a man whose life was well worth writing. And it is more than that. For, rightly judging that the appropriate background of a portrait...

ROBIN HOOD has always been a figure of interest to the lovers of English ballad literature and English folk-lore, as the one English hero racy of the soil of England, and with...

WITH the garrulousness of advancing years, and not a little pardonable self-complacency, the domestic Chaplain of King Ernest of Hanover relates his experiences at the...

Tins is another book about coaches and coaching from the pen of Mr. Stanley Harris, whose former work, Oki Coaching Days, has won an established position in the literature of...

WE are strongly inclined to recommend this volume by way of tonic to any—and there must be many—who, as they contem- plate the wild dance of the passionate pilgrims of frivolity...

Edward Le Clerc. (London Literary Sooiety.)--This is a volume of really ex- cellent reading. " Mr. be Clare " has no particular story to tell ; various private schools,...

Edinburgh.)—Here we have a specimen, and not a very happy specimen, of the " claimant " story. An amiable heroine is dispossessed of her inheritance by the sudden appearance of...

and Co.)—Mr. Posnett proposes to apply the scientific method to literature, which is to be regarded not as the product of individual genius (" the 'great-man theory' is really...

Stash.)—This is a volume on which very cinch might be written, but failing that (only to be done by an expert with much leisure at his disposal), for which a few lines must...

The spirited little Scotch magazine, Sunday Talk, edited by the Rev. W. W. Tulloch, has made a new departure with a new aeries, the fourth number of which has now appeared. Its...

a very keen and sympathetic observer of Nature. He has taught some of us, in his charming " Hunt after a Nightingale" (we quote the title from memory), to appreciate more fully...

story of Florentine life, with two distinct threads of narrative running through it, which do not meet till two-thirds of the book are passed. One deals with peasant life, the...

President of Yale College, by Dorsey Gardner. With over 1,500 illustrations. (Routledge and Sons.)—This wonderfully cheap and admirably edited dictionary performs many of the...

(Smith and Elder.)—Mr. Payn contrives to keep up the quality of the great amount of literary work which he produces with a quite surprising success. There is not much of a plot,...

Hunt, D.D., and others. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—These "Stories of Christian Martyrs and Heroes " make a handsome volume. There are thirty- nine chapters in all, the subjects...