meeting of the Dublin Corporation at the City Hall on Thursday, was a very frank admission indeed that the Papal Rescript is already operating, and operating powerfully. " He...

A S we predicted, this Sikkim business is growing serious. The stubborn Tibetan Lamas are evidently determined not to give up their claim to the little State, and are collecting...

case.

acquainted with the opinions of the masses, is obviously greatly alarmed by the progress of Boulangism. He has accordingly made an agreement with M. Ranc. who may be taken to...

Sunday, to protest against the interference of the Church of Rome in Irish politics. The Lord Mayor of Dublin took the chair, and declared that the Irish people would as soon...

and has made a careful study of the subject, published on Wednesday his view of the Boulanger mania. He thinks that, although General Boulanger is probably deficient in the...

Mr. Gladstone against the un-Christian character of the Irish Crimes Act of 1887, the memorial being signed by nine Members of Parliament who are Friends. In Thursday's Times,...

courage P.—of his opinions. At the meeting of the National League held in Dublin on Tuesday, he told his audience that he remained, " in the face of the Papal circular, a wholly...

boycotting really means, is so bitter, everybody should read Mr. T. W. Rolleston's answer to Mr. S. Laing's discreditable apology for it. Mr. Rolleston is not a Unionist, but a...

increased on appeal ;—indeed, this has happened much oftener under Mr. Gladstone's 'Government than under the present Government. Mr. Gladstone disavows all responsibility for...

has been most beneficial to the Emperor ' Frederick's general health, though, as the world is carefully warned, there is no improvement in the local disease; and while he lives,...

blow in the Southampton election, which resulted in the return of the Gladstonian candidate by a majority of 885, Mr. Evans polling 5,151 votes, against 4,266 given for the...

asserted that in working the " Plan of Campaign," the moneys deposited by the tenants " were freely lodged with persons whom they knew and trusted, to be held as an in- surance...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 99 to 99i.

a most appreciative lecture on the system of limited liability. He approves it entirely, though he would, if he could, compel the promoters of such Companies to be more explicit...

without a manliness and distinctness all his own. At Loughborough last week he referred to the Sunday-closing question, and deprecated the use of the ad captandum assump- tion...

marked in the accounts of the German Royal wedding on Thursday. Both Prince Henry of Prussia and his cousin- bride, Princess Irene of Hesse, are descendants of our own George...

is mentioned that in that year the population amounted to 109,000,000, that the birth-rate exceeded the death-rate by 900,000 a year, and that of 853,000 young men eligible that...

attracted some attention. Jackson, a plumber addicted to burglary, was on Tuesday serving his term in Strangeways - Gaol, Manchester. He had been ordered to mend a gas-pipe in a...

yesterday week, which was addressed by Mr. Lea, M.P., Mr. Wodehouse, M.P., and Mr. Arnold-Forster. Mr. Lea, M.P., remarked that Mr. John O'Connor, in moving a recent amendment...

week, the Bishop of Rochester stated that a Bill had been introduced into Parliament to create a Suffragan Bishopric, to be cut out of his diocese, which would be called the...

TIRE meetings of Roman Catholic Home-rulers in Phcenix Park on Sunday and at the Dublin City AO I on Thursday were evidently intended to compel the head of their Church to draw...

• THE BIRMINGHAM PROPOSAL. W E sincerely hope that the article in the Birmingham Daily Post suggesting a new policy for the Radical -wing of the Unionists, is only a feeler,...

W ERE an experienced election-agent forced to lay down a general rule as to elections in England, we imagine that he would do so in some such words as these :: At a General...

H UMAN folly, always a powerful factor in human affairs, has been fighting this week, both in Paris and Berlin, on General Boulanger's side. The wise course for Republicans to...

- force distributed throughout the entire continent. The ciplined native army, with native officers and native proposals are made very cautiously ; there is much stress...

the has been made for the cost of the distributing machinery, any profits that were earned either went to reduce prices or were divided among the purchasers in proportion to the...

a second time on the Friday of last week, has been recognised on all sides as an honest attempt to carry out the recommendations of the Select Committee of 1881; on the subject,...

T HE "Blarney Ballads,"* two or three of which have formerly appeared in our own columns, show that Ireland has not run dry of that delicious and extravagant humour which, fifty...

W E greatly doubt the moral right of Miss Leona Dare, the aeronaut who ascended from the Crystal Palace on Monday, to risk her life as she does, even for the sake of getting a...

P ROBABLY the Times is right in ridiculing the notion that the Bank Holiday-makers do not in general thoroughly enjoy the gregariousness of their festivals. Cer- tainly they...

LORD MTNTO'S KIRK PROBLEM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Lord Minto expects that on this matter both sides may disagree with him. But both sides, if they are wise,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—Your correspondent, " Parvo Bene," is not yet purged of some misconceptions about French wine. I gave the average produce of the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Snt, — I enclose you herewith copy of the excellent pamphlet by Mr. T. W. Rolleston, in reply to Mr. Samuel Laing, which has just been...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Permit me to add a word to your paragraph of May 19th upon the new Employers' Liability Bill. The impression left by one sentence in...

TO MY TEN YEARS' WIFE. THE silver ripples of a quiet sea Murmured and sang to us in whispers low, Kind welcome carolling to you and me, When first we met, dear wife, ten years...

THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER-COLOURS. THIS is a good Exhibition, though a good many of the members appear to have mistaken it for the autumn collec- tion, and to have...

DOROTHY OSBORNE'S LOVE-LETTERS.* EVERY reader of Lord Macaulay's essays knows something of Dorothy Osborne ; but we have to thank Mr. Parry, and still more the owner of...

Lawrence in the Punjab was Reynell Taylor, of whom Mr. Charles Raikes wrote in 1858,—" His character is so round and perfect in its goodness, that one is almost as provoked with...

only with subjects of interest in an interesting way, but show no small amount of originality of treatment. Indeed, their independence of view is what gives the essays the charm...

it is impossible to read it through without feeling that the author of it is a genuine poet, though probably not more than a minor poet. There is freshness in all he writes, and...

THE only previous work of Mr. Paul Cushing's which the present writer remembers to have read is Misogyny and the Maiden, a clever, brilliant, albeit somewhat fantastic and...

History of Newcastle and Gateshead. Edited by Richard Wel- ford. Vol. III. (W. Scott.)—In this third volume, Mr. Welford carries on the history as far as 1640, when Newcastle...

of Hindoo Life. By Devendra N. Das, B.A. (Chapman and Hall.)—These two volumes should be read together. Mr. Wilkins, who is a missionary of large experience, limits his account...

and Co.)—The importance of the sewage question may be gauged by the number of patents issued ; the hopelessness of a solution seems indicated by the absurdity of many of them....

(Religious Tract Society.)—Mr. Bentley, who is working for the Baptist Mission, describes with an effective simplicity the life with which Christian enterprise has to deal on...