Burt. The Member for Morpeth was originally a miner, and when, in 1874, he was elected a representative, the " Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association," now...

Mitchelstown has been chiefly remarkable for the extraordinary conduct and language of Mr. Harrington. Counsel are rightly allowed a very great license in cross•examination ;...

Legitimists are alike furious with the manifesto of the Comte de Paris. The Univers declares that he had no right to give up the claims of his House, and to promise to rest his...

matters were now in that condition that "either the Govern- ment "—that is, the British people—" must be beaten, or we must," made on Tuesday a noteworthy agrarian speech at...

of the inquiry, on the general evidence brought before the Coroner, it is impossible to refrain from remarking on the manner in which Mr. Harrington insisted on asking the...

O N Tuesday, the Government, acting under the powers con- ferred on them by the Crimes Act, issued proclamations suppressing the National League in the County Clare and in...

With the " flpsarsToa" of Saturday, October 8th, wilt be issued gratis a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements....

case.

Randolph Churchill attempted to com- fort the farmers, not, we are glad to see, by holding out, as he was once inclined to do, any hope of a duty on corn„ but by the prospect...

strengthen its own means of action, telegraphs, railroads, and money. In order to get them it needs European help, and has very naturally sought it in America. It is not yet in...

It appears to be certain that the Russian party in the Bulgarian Sobranje will not exceed a fourth of the representatives ; but the fate of Bulgaria is hardly in their bands. It...

as Mr. Sclater-Booth, to the Congress of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain, it is claimed that the fact that since the year 1870 the annual death-rate has decreased by...

'Trafalgar,' from the fact that she and her sister-ship, the ' Nile,' are in all probability the last of the huge floating ironclad fortresses which will be built for the...

Monday describing the progress of the negotiations about the Suez Canal. According to this, M. Flonrens had agreed with the British representatives to neutralise the Canal, to...

of the German Emperor, that any letters from him are of interest. Two have just been published from him in the " Memoirs of General von Natzmer," addressed to the General, who...

for instruction, is welcoming the Cambridge University Erten- sion Lectures with much heartiness ; and Mr. John Morley made on Thursday a bright speech on the subject. He was...

burning of the Exeter Theatre, have returned a verdict of " Acid. dental death," but consider the Magistrates and architect much to blame, the Magistrates for licensing an...

It was a savage one; but similar scenes are not infrequent in theatres when audiences are disappointed and the money is not re- turned. Two professionals were to run a race in...

everything but insult. A German squadron recently visited Samoa, deposed a King, and put up a Pretender, for no reason whatever, apparently, except that the King had "insulted "...

an invention of infinitely more utility than the telephone,—a writing telegraph. The telephone is absolutely useless for con- fidential communications, for it is impossible to...

apoplexy. So prosperous is the Union, that though Congress wastes money energetically, the Treasury receives from twenty to twenty-five millions a year more than it can spend,...

Consols were on Friday 1011 to 104.

THE BLOW AT THE NATIONAL LEAGUE. W HEN, six years ago, Mr. Gladstone, without attempting to obtain the sanction of Parliament, suppressed the Land League root and branch, and...

I T threatens to be a misfortune for the English people that they have enthroned the democracy in power before they have themselves become penetrated with the democratic idea....

S TIRRED by that hatred of pain, even when pain is divinely ordained or essential to society, which is becoming the distinctive craze of the English-speaking peoples, the...

fr HE landlords of Ireland are not, we fear, wise folk. They .1_ do not recognise the desperate character of their position, or see the only point in the lines now drawn around...

G ENERAL BOULANGER contrives to keep himself before the public. After the political convulsion which ended in the accession of the Bouvier Ministry to office, if not to power,...

T HE vote just passed by the "Northumberland Miners' Mutual Confident Association " to stop the salary paid for fourteen years to the Member for Morpeth, Mr. T. Burt, is greatly...

M R. CHARLES BOOTH has reprinted from the Journal of the Statistical Society, the remarkable paper on the condition and occupations of the people of the Tower Hamlets which he...

I T is probable that no two human beings heartily admire the same scenery, or see it in precisely the same light; but it is only probable. There ought to be masses of evidence...

I T is a strange and somewhat perplexing fact that the value of amenity in public life should be so little recognised as it is at present. In our habits of life, in our sports...

T HERE have just been published simultaneously on the two sides of the Border, new editions of A'Beckett's " Comic Blackstone" and Ontram's "Legal Lyrics." The readability and...

PROFESSOR DICEY ON UNIONIST DELUSIONS.—VII. pro MB EDITOR OP Tun SPE0TAT0R:] Sin,—Home.rule may be a benefit or may be a curse to Ireland ; but Home-rule will, it is argued,...

[To TER EDITOR Or VIZ " Ell•liCTATOR."] Sut,—A contemporary, the Saturday Review, lately made great fun of a statement in one of the daily papers that a bat had been observed...

[TO TRIG EDITOR or Tar "Sercrrros.-] SIB,—With all due deference to Professor Dicey, I cannot admit that his case against the further extension of Local Self-govern- ment in...

Tax "SPECTATOR." Sra,—The late Session has taught the world much at the expense of Great Britain and Ireland, and nothing more emphatically than that even a portion of the...

[TO TEM Bones Olt TECH SPIICTATOB."] SI11, — In the Times of September 5th appeared a letter from Mr. Watts, R.A., which recalls somewhat the idea he expressed in a paper...

[TO 70. EI0708 07 7H. amiemmal Sat, — Fourteen years ago, I was the Rector of a country parish containing 320 souls. On going into residence, I found that six acres of the glebe...

MR. SAYOE'S HIBBERT LECTURES.* THE Hibbert Lectures for 1887 have many features of great interest. In some respects they form a contrast to former lectures on this foundation....

Ix would be hazardous to predict when Mr. Mayor's commentary on Juvenal will be finished, and tiresome to indicate precisely the stage which it has reached in the volume before...

our columns a very interesting work, entitled Eminent Doctors, written by Mr. Bettany, who is connected with one of our great hospitals as Professor of Botany. In that book, the...

Now that Hungary is taking no decided a lead in the councils of the dual Empire, and that Buda-l'esth is beginning socially and economically to leave Vienna behind, it is high...

Ws heartily welcome this little book. First, we should be disposed to welcome it because of its authorship, even if it did not appear to us to contain much that was of value. We...

The Story of a Kiss seems at first eight—and, indeed, at second and third sight—rather a silly title for a three-volume novel ; bat after reading the book so named, we must...

Manchester. By George Saintsbury. (Longmane, Green, and Co.) —The preface of this book shown its origin and history. It "was written for the series of ` Historic; Towns' edited...

Translated by Annie Harwood Holmden. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —Professor Stapler has found the materials of his book first in the Gospels and Epistles, secondly is Josephus, and...

(Macmillan.)—Competent judges will expect to find in Mr. Permit's work brilliant scholarship and excellent taste, sometimes, it is possible, deflected from the true standard by...

Andrew P. Peabody. (Little, Brown, and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—Mr. Peabody continnes his translations from Cicero, and improves, we think, in accuracy and mastery of his original....