the Home. rule Bill was brought to a conclusion by speeches of which the most remarkable were Mr. Chamberlain's, Mr. Blake's, Mr. Courtney's, Mr. Goschen's, and Mr. Morley's,...

O WING to the great authority conceded to the Speakers of the two French Chambers, it has often been said that France is governed by a trinity of Presidents,—of the Republic,...

case.

Germany,. whioh 18 expected greatly to influence politics. The squires, farmers, and small freeholders, especially in Prussia, are greatly irri- t ated by the low prices, which...

of being broken. The two States are far more loosely tied together than Britain and Ireland will be under the Home-rule Bill ; but the Norwegians are impatient of their slight...

the Gladstonians, but vaguer rhetoric we never read. Mr. Blake's Canadian experience did not furnish him with one effective reply to Mr. Chamberlain's demonstration that the...

" a writer in Monday's Times draws attention to a passage in Mr. T. P. O'Connor's account of Mr. Chamberlain's speech, pub- lished in the Weekly Sun of Sunday last. The passage...

Bill, pointed out the inconvenience of the existing system, which practically required a minimum residence of eighteen months, and a maximum residence of two years and three...

preventing any further vested interests arising in Welsh dioceses, by making all future Church appointments there subject to the future action of Parliament in connection with...

principle on which the Bill is founded is. that, "where a person on his own responsibility sets in motion agencies which create risk for others, he ought to be civilly...

a Conservative in place of Mr. Louis Jennings, the deceased Conservative Member, so that there is no change in the balance of parties; but, as a political symptom, it is a gain...

probably form part of the first Irish Administration, one of the first duties of the Irish Parliament was to "draw the last fangs of landlordism," and yet the Ministerialists...

the President of the Board of Trade and 'Colonel Howard Vincent, on the price of bread. According to the Honorary Secretary of the British Chamber of Com- merce, quoted by...

exhaustive volume on Stock-Exchange securities, called " Burdett's Official Intelligence," states a fact bearing strongly on the reported decline of business in Great Britain....

again raging in parts of Russia. The Grasliclanin declared recently -that five hundred deaths a day were occurring in one province, and the Official Gazette, while denying this,...

"Empire" of Anam, the secluded Indo-Chinese country —now, perhaps, reduced to ten millions of people—of which so little is known in Europe. It is under French protection ;...

the annexation of Hawaii. He forwarded, last week, a Treaty to the Senate, in which the Government of the United States agree with the Provisional Government in Honolulu to...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 981,.

by a considerable fall in Irish securities, including Bank of Ireland shares, which have declined from 322 to 305, and shares in the Guinness Brewery, which have fallen 12...

Commons, but it was a little thrown away, Mr. Kimber bringing up the subject of the excessive disparities in repre- sentation, which is still a little academic. He wanted a Com-...

THE UNIONIST CASE. W E remember no debate in the House of Commons in which the Opposition have so completely failed to elicit any answer from the Government, as the debate on...

M R. J. P. WALLIS, writing to the Times of Monday, points out that Mr. Gladstone's New Home-rule Bill, if it passes into law, will not only destroy the English...

at first sight so full of restrictions and limitations that it is no wonder if many people carry away from its perusal the impression that, after all, there is not much that the...

called in Germany "Agrarian" feeling is of interest in one way to Germans, and in another to all Europeans and North Americans. It looks very much as if the tie between the...

W E wish our Unionist friends would keep their literary tempers a little better. The Times has plenty of good reasons for being savage with the Irish Revolutionary Party • but...

T HE unforeseen is the salt of history,—the only com- fort that can be offered to the many anxious souls who have been reduced to a calm despair by Mr. Pearson , s terrible...

M R. GLA.DSTONE curiously misunderstood the whole point of Lord Randolph Churchill's Horatian quotation on Thursday. When he pointed to Mr. Glad- stone as he uttered the...

manner of controversy, for, though newer in form, it is nothing but the old doctrine that wealth, like every other power, ought to be held in trust for Him who gave it, which,...

rather news less popular P We are inclined to think that it will have the latter effect. For nothing seems to us more certain than that indolent amusements do not amuse. The...

A T last the tribe of little poets and verse-makers have taken a desperate resolve : singly they have failed to scale the steep heights of Parnassus, now they are going to band...

T HE two plays now being performed at the Lyceum afford, in many respects, an interesting subject of comparison. Both are in some sense monodramas. The whole interest of each...

MR. GLA.DSTONE AND IRISH CABINET MINISTER& [TO THE EDITOR OF ms " SPROTATOIL."] SIR, — Is it correct to say that Mr. Gladstone ever sat in a Cabinet as colleague to the Duke...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOII."] you allow me to correct an. inaccuracy in your article on Ambassadors? M.Waddington was educated, not at Harrow, but at Rugby, under Dr....

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J the Spectator of February 4th, you printed two letters,—one deprecating, as premature, any discussion as to 'the effects of Home-rule...

of Mr. Gladstone's errors as to the Irishmen who have been in the Cabinet, there are a few *missions. Two occur to me,—the celebrated Mr. George Canning, who was Premier,...

"SPECTATOR." I SIR,—As in the case of the Home-rule Bill of 1886, the alarm of the British taxpayer at the enormous liabilities con- templated in connection with Land Purchase...

am,—While you are discussing the question of Irishmen in the Cabinet, may I call your attention to the fact that, since Cabinets were invented, two centuries ago, there never...

[To THV EDITOR OF TER "Brzervron."] SIE,—In a letter just received from my son in Lancashire, he says :—" It is not only the 5 per cent. reduction that the master-spinners...

THE GRAFTON GALLERY. Tim newest of London picture-galleries is ample in size, large enough, like most of the others, to contain in itself all the pictures produced in a year in...

ITALY AND HER INVADERS.* WE are glad to welcome a second edition of Mr. Hodgkin's book, in which a great subject is worthily treated. No period of history better repays study...

THE writer who chooses to be known as "Maarten Maartens " has given us an undoubtedly able but very bewildering novel. The one thing clear is that God's Fool has a didactic as...

THIS volume is certainly "from the French," but it cannot be called a translation into English. It is neither English nor French, as our readers will soon perceive. Of the four...

a Russian scholar and professor should be attracted to the study of such a subject as villenage in England, and to the arduous perusal * Vittentmu in England. By Paal...

season when our own Government is holding secret councils upon the best means of dismembering and weakening our own Empire, how almost every other nation in Europe is taking...

True to the Prince. By Gertrude Bell. (Digby, Long, and Co.) —Enthusiastic admiration for William the Silent, produced by perusal of Motley's "Rise of the Dutch Republic," is...

Clarke Aspinall was not widely known outside a comparatively narrow circle ; but during the whole of his adult life, he was one of the most prominent citizens of Liverpool, and...

the spirit of the South of France and its childlike religion. It is a story within a story. The outside story is one of a simple, smooth, uncomplicated, but perfectly artistic...

son Low, Marston, and Co.)—This is a lively and readable account of the pleasures and pains of travel in Madeira, of the picturesque scenery, the inconveniences of the inns,...

Downey.)—This is an Irish story of the present time, told from the Nationalist point of view. The landlords are oppressive, and the constabulary brutal. The hero of the story...

man and Hall.)—A first novel, which this seems to be, is pretty certain to be marred by the faults which come of inexperience in narrative construction, and they are tolerably...

By J. R. Coupes. Illustrated by Irving Montagu. (Allen and Co.)—In the preface to this remarkable book the author states that one phase of his hero's career has its origin in...

Clowes. (Bentley.)—This volume has no doubt been written with the best intentions; but good intentions do not make a good book, and there is very little information contained...

edition of a well-known book, first published five- and-forty years ago. The West, as the author remarks, has mar- vellously changed since that time. The buffalo and the wolf...

(W. H. Allen and Co.)—This is, we learn from the title- page, "Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English Dictionary, Revised, Enlarged, and entirely...

others. (Chapman and Hall.)—These eight stories, adorned with portraits of their authors, are reprinted from the magazine which gives thorn a name. The authors, some of our...

Praise. (Griffith, Farran, and Co.)—This is the Anglican order for the celebration of the Eucharist, with instructions for Communicants, an office for "Spiritual Communion,"...