T HE immediate danger to the Emperor Frederick, which was for a few hours extreme, has passed away, the fever and suffocation having both been relieved by the bursting of an...

moderation, moved the adjournment of the House, in order to call attention to the increase of sentences on appeal lately given by a County-Court Judge in Ireland. Mr. McCarthy...

be made in relief of local rates, "the duties accruing upon death should be no fixed as to equalise the charge upon real and personal property." In a speech which is said to...

the Chamber and the Government have finally decided whether they will or will not call a Congress, a decision which must be given next week. The Senate is most reluctant to...

calling upon the Government to suppress the sale of intoxicants among native races in the Colonies. Mr. McArthur, who brought it forward, rested his case, firstly, on the fatal...

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, May 5th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which wilt be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

in the interest of the masses, proposed the abolition of the tea-duty, but was defeated by 259 to 98, Mr. Goschen pronouncing the duty nearly unobjectionable. Certainly, without...

Bill for the Reform of County Government in Ireland. The measure, which is both ill-considered and ill-drawn, proposes generally to apply to Ireland the provisions of the...

on Lake Nyassa, in East-Central Africa, will be cut off from civilisation, owing to the demands made by the Portuguese. These stations, and a great trading establishment...

a correspondent at Rio Janeiro, of the poisoning of 3,000 Indians in Parana, by "persons employed by the Brazilian a'nthorities." The statement is that one Senhor Joaquin Bueno,...

after mature consideration of the evidence on both sides, has passed an official and formal condemnation on both boycotting and the "Plan of Campaign." Both are pronounced...

second reading of Lord Dunraven's Bill for the Reform of the House of Lords, announced that the Government intend to introduce a Bill for the creation of life-peerages. Since...

declaration that he did not consider that local government ought necessarily to be withheld until Ireland foregoes her claim to separate self-government. With political theories...

very successful annual meeting at London House, the residence of the Bishop of London, on Wednesday, Sir Edmund Henderson in the chair. Very striking speeches were delivered by...

Branch of the National League at Lixnaw, and a man named Galvin, were sentenced to six months' imprison- ment each, for intimidation and conspiracy in regard to Norah...

Friday week at the Royal Institution, laid it down that the principle of resistance or war in Nature, which he called "antagonism," was essential to the economy of the universe,...

Friday 99 to 991.

the Rev. Dr. Martineau, on the completion of his eighty-third year. It was signed by more than six hundred representative men of letters, by great poets, by philosophers and men...

month at Paris. It is to be the first of a series of similar meetings, which are designed to afford an opportunity for learned Catholics of different countries to meet and...

BOULANGISM. A CORRESPONDENT whose good opinion we value asks us to state frankly whether, as we have given so much space to the Boulangist movement, we secretly approve...

determined to deny moderate men all chance of supporting them. Even when they have a strong case, they contrive to put it forward in such a way that no man who has any sense of...

I T is not easy to assign a clear reason for the bitterness with which the military party in Germany is reported at this moment to regard Great Britain. The report may be an...

T ORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL will gain nothing by his attempt to embarrass the Ministry on the subject of Local Government in Ireland. In the first place, the late Chancellor of the...

imposition of the same per-centage upon the auction value of all property when transferred by death, irrespective of any question of kind ; but there is no necessity for...

MHERE is nothing that a writer of romance longs for more intensely than to give a sense of reality to his stories. For this purpose, Scott is for ever parading before his...

I S it not time that the long-standing and unseemly differences between the military experts and the Ministers who are responsible for our military adminis- tration should be...

T ET no one from henceforth accuse womankind of want .4 of logic. The arguments propounded by the orators at the conference in London convened under the auspices of the Women's...

A N interesting gathering took place on Tuesday evening, April 17th, at the South London Fine-Art Gallery and Library, 207 Camberwell Road, established by that inde- fatigable...

THE IRISH TENANT-FARMERS. [TO THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."] Sts.,—One is often told—especially in Ireland, by the gentry who have remained there—that Irish agitation has...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your very able article of April 21st on "Mr. Dillon's. Arrest," I think you miss the point of the argument in favour of treating the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — By an accident, I did not see until to-day the letter signed "T. S." which appeared in your columns on April 7th. As I am accused in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Surely when you try to prove that the faults which Mr. Lowell complains of in America are due to Federalism, you forget that he...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — You will doubtless have discovered the slip of the pen by which you speak of Matthew Arnold as wishing to rest, like his father, in...

MATTHEW ARNOLD. WEEP, if ye have the power to weep, All flowers of odorous and musical names That haunt the woodland or the wave of Thames— Weep, if ye have the power to...

NAY, be not June, nor yet December, dear, But April always, as I find thee now : A constant freshness unto me be thou, And not the ripeness that must soon be sere. Why should...

have no hesitation in saying that when bullfinches gape, hiss, and flutter their wings to those they like, as mentioned by Mr. Cobb, they do so as expressive of affection or...

SIE,—The article in your issue of April 21st oir Mr. Dillon's Arrest" contains these words :—" For instance, to admit the distinction of political offences as contrasted with...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 • Srp.,—Mock anger seems to be rather common among birds. There is in them, when caged, some suppressed excitement, or fury, especially in...

PRINCE ADAM CZARTORYSKI.* PRINCE ADAM CZARTORYSKI, a venerable, if not specially picturesque figure in Polish history, lived to the age of ninety- one, and spent more than...

the present volume, a continuation of his well-known Social Life in Greece. But the two books are very different in plan and execution. The former work dealt with a period for...

perhaps too quiet to appeal to those readers who must have their fiction seasoned by piquant condiments ; but it will give real pleasure to that smaller but not less important...

THE author of these essays would have done well to content himself with the publication of their substance in the briefer and more systematic form announced at the close of the...

To the recently past year, 1887, Mr. Besant, who is, of all popular writers of the present day, the most sympathetic, and the most thoroughly in touch with the various needs,...

With one exception, the non-Scotch articles in the April num- ber of the Scottish. Review have a belated look. It is virtually impossible to say anything fresh about Darwin,...

(Sampson Low and Co.)—The scenes in this decidedly "romantic chronicle" are laid in the time of Henry VIII. Most writers think that the license allowable in handling historical...

—Mrs. Black, who superintends the West-End Training School of Cookery at Glasgow, and has already published some works on the art and practice of cookery, now adds this treatise...

which many will regret, if only on account of the excellence of the short literary notices that used to appear in it) and the Con- gregationalist were incorporated in the...

Trench, and Co.)—Mr. Kaufmann here reproduces, with some changes, papers which have from time to time appeared in various periodicals, and which have contributed to make their...

Half - Told Tale. By Richard A. Proctor. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—Mr. Proctor here devotes much study and much ingenious conjecture to restoring the plot of "The Mystery of Edwin...

2 vols. (Barrie, Philadelphia, U.S.A. ; Crosby Lockwood and Son, London.) —Dr. Gross, who died in 1884 at the age of seventy-eight, was perhaps the most eminent exponent of...