residence, Nooton Park, this day week, in which he indulged the hope of ousting almost all the Unionists in Lincolnshire from their seats at the next Election. He attacked the...

as to who they are who are doing all in their power to under- mine that Constitution. Mr. Morley holds that when Colonel Pride, at Cromwell'a order, turned out the Howe of...

Turkey as it has to France. The Porte maintains that Italy, far from having asserted its occupation of Massowah in the sense of full sovereignty, has repeatedly given assurances...

13th, to M. Goblet's Note of August 3rd, on the question of ihe applicability of the Capitulations to the Italian rule at Massowah, on the Red Sea. The Note is extremely defiant...

case.

berlain's Fisheries Treaty by the narrow majority of 3,—the vote given being a strictly party vote. As a modus riven& had been already agreed upon between Canada and the United...

G ENERAL BOULANGER was on Sunday elected for all the three departments for which he was a candidate. In the Nord, his majority was a good deal diminished as com- pared with the...

the real facts of the case were not these. Dr. Ridley was a poor man, with a wife and family dependent upon his private practice. When the Crimes Act prisoners were sent to...

Burslem and the Potteries in Hawarden Park. Before he addressed the main body of the deputation, their committee had an audience in Ha,warden Castle, where they presented to...

really restoring liberty to Irish citizens to do what is lawful, they would have seen the result in the turn of the electoral tide in Ireland, and the displacement of Parnellite...

Friday, August 17th, after having occupied twelve days, in a verdict of "temporary insanity, produced by the apprehension of dis- closures at the Mitchelstown inquest." The jury...

came to an end, after lasting twenty-five days, the funds at the disposal of the men being exhausted. M. Boule, who pre- sided over the Strike Committee, after informing the men...

violent. Referring to the emblematic figures of Poland and Ireland on the presentation vase, he said that not even in Poland is there an adequate parallel to the condition of...

of fruit, and poultry-keeping, at the Havrarden. Flower-Show on Thursday. He showed that poultry might be easily made to pay a net profit of id. a week per fowl, which he...

not only Welsh Nonconformity, but the principles of the Peace Society, died suddenly on Monday, at the age of seventy-six. He was, with the possible exception of Mr. Dillwyn,...

New Consols (2!) were on Friday 99} to 99i.

Robert Morier in regard to our commercial relations with Siberia. It has been known for some years that it was possible for a ship during the summer months to pass through the...

Geiser ' and "Thingvalla,' off the Nova Scotia coast, which reached London on Saturday last, show that the 'Geiser' —the ship which sank—lost 79 of her passengers and 26 of her...

the round of the papers which shows, if true, that "Treasure Island" contains not a word that is impossible ; and if untrue, that a very remarkable rival to Mr. Louis Steven-...

now in session at Frankfort-on-the-Main, may well feel that to it belongs the future of European engineering. If an admirer of the great exploits of railway construction points...

THE NOCTON AND HAWARDEN SPEECHES. Pt RE was one passage in Mr. John Morley's speech Lincolnshire which we read with much pleasure and more astonishment. It was his disquisition...

lATHY General Boulanger should have been victorious. in three departments after being beaten in two only the other day, it is hard to say. Perhaps if we knew the exact...

QIGNOR cRispr s singularly severe snub to the 1.3 French Government, delivered just before his visit to Prince Bismarck, certainly looks like a deliberate attempt to make France...

is a great change for the worse in Mr. 1. O'Brien's condition. He has lost colour and weight, and is unmistakably assuming the appearance of a person drifting into phthisis. I...

I T is possible to make too much, as well as too little, of the naval operations which came to a close at noon last Monday. They were experiments carried out on fixe&...

Bishop of Liverpool hates Popery ; but what a Pope he would make ! His protest against the Lambeth Encyclical breathes the very spirit of infallibility. The Encyclical was...

I N one of the popular African novels of the day, "Ulu,"* all the interest of which is concentrated in the sketch which it contains of the native races on and near Kihnan-...

M R. GLADSTONE and Mr. John Morley should consider the significance of the incident at Olympia on Monday evening, when the Cork band refused to play "God Save the Queen !" on...

T HE use which Mr. Parnell has made of the process known in the Scotch Law as arrestment, in order to bring his action against the Times in Edinburgh, calls to mind the quaint...

S URREY, although one of the smallest of English counties, can boast of infinite riches in a little space. So varied are its attractions, that it is difficult to believe that...

A RUSTIC SKETCH. [A LETTER FROM A COUNTRY COTTAGE.] I MOULD like to give you some idea of life in this little out- of-the-way nook. You know that sort of instinct which makes...

FUTURE OF AUSTRALIA. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j have read with much interest the two letters that have appeared in your issues of August 4th and 18th respectively,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB, — In your excellent article deprecating the attack upon the reredos in St. Paul ' s, you incidentally refer to the Puritans as having...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " STECTATOR.1 you allow me space to reply to your remarks relative to my letter in the Times upon the subject of "The Cultivation of Barren Waters " ? In...

Sia,—The Spectator of August 18th, in an editorial reply to a letter from Mr. Dunn, puts forward the name of Mr. Gladstone as that of a typical Free-trader. Then, I would ask,...

[To THE EDITOR OF SHE "SPECTATOR."] Sra, — The writer of the excellent article upon " The Lambeth Conference on the Reunion of Christendom " seems to regard the case of the...

[To ran Enxroxt, or THE " Serzrerozr-".1 Sin,—Before the work of restoration at Peterborough comes ultimately to an end, is it not possible to put in one plea for the...

OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR, — I welcomed your thoughtful article, in the Spectator of , August 11th, on the politics of Sir W. V. Harcourt. You may like to know that the late...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Siu,—My friend Dr. Lee says that Cardinal Pole practised the principle of corporate reunion, and that Rome approved of this action. But...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] venture to trouble you with a remark on a single collateral point suggested by the very interesting and ingenious argument on the above theme...

further reference to "Pope's Retreat." as described in Mr. Matthews's interesting letter in the Spectator of August 11th, your readers may be pleased to hear that the identical...

YES, we have wandered far, and we have found . Schools wrapped about with old baronial trees, Schools fenced by city walls, or wide on leas That slope to happy farms, on classic...

.MR. HURLBERT ON IRELAND UNDER COERCION.* [FIRST NOTICE.] MR. HurmitunT's interest in writing this book has been, as he takes care to make clear in his preface,—why he prefers...

SHE BATH GROWN COLD. SHE hath grown cold whose kindness won me to her. Wherefore is this? Wishing them more, I find her favours fewer. What is amiss P If, when we liked, to...

IN spite of the east wind in his composition, Henry Cockburn, the contemporary and fellow-worker in politics, and in the columns of the Edinburgh Review, of Brougham and Horner,...

Tras volume, by Major Tate—the celebrated Captain Tate of the Penjdeh incident—is a sequel to his brother's England and Russia Face to Face in Asia, which was reviewed in our...

in Bow Street apparently gave occasion for the compilation of these two volumes. The subject is attractive, for there is an abiding fascination in the authentic records of...

Miss ADELINE SERGEANT'S new novel, Seventy Times Sever, is a very beautiful, powerful, and pathetic story, the general effect of which we can best briefly describe by saying...

IF we were to assign to the various influences which go to form character their relative values as contributions to our happiness, probably for quiet and enduring service an...

(Rivingtons.)—In this story we leave the wars of Stephen behind, only to witness another and equally bitter civil war, the War of the Barons, whom Simon de Montfort led to...

Harvard Reminiscences. By Andrew P. Peabody, D.D. (Ticknor and Co., Boston, U.S.A.)—This volume, meant for old students of Harvard in the first instance, and American readers...

and Han.)-31. Renan presents his conclusions with a liveliness and vigour of style that it is not often given to criticism to attain. This is not, perhaps, altogether an...