the House to a letter by Mr. Conybeare, pub- lished in the Star, reflecting upon the conduct of the Speaker in the course of the previous night's sitting. The letter, which was...

T HE German Emperor, after taking leave of his Russian host, has extended the scope of his tour to Sweden and Denmark On Thursday he arrived at Stockholm, and after -a stay...

of the Members of Parliament Charges and Allegations Bill on Monday evening in a very brief speech, in which he mentioned that the Lord Chancellor had appointed Sir James Hannen...

during the debate which followed, Mr. Glad- stone supporting the authority of the Chair and the dignity of the House in a moderate and unexceptionable speech, though raising...

utterly at variance with every sentiment of gentlemanly honour and conduct" than a Member, when, "as a man of honour and a man of truth," he has withdrawn language used in the...

case.

proved a somewhat severe one, has evidently suffered a loss of support in the constituencies as striking and as sudden as his original accession to popularity. In the Ardeche,...

court charged the Government with wishing to make this Com- mission subsidiary to the Crimes Act, and to putting down politi- cal opponents. In fact, the Government were "racing...

again, and be very fierce, when the Bill gets into Committee. All sorts of amendments proposing to limit its scope have been proposed, and as one of the leading Gladstonian...

Attorney-General for his conduct of the Times' case. His grievance, apparently, was that the advice given by eminent Gladstonian Members to Mr. O'Donnell had not produced the...

at length rose to express his astonishment that the Government should not answer him ; to remind the Government that they might have forced Mr. Parnell to accept a jury if they...

the Attorney-General had linked his party and the Government with the Times' accusations. The Attorney- General had sedulously kept within the bounds assigned to him by his part...

that the large powers given to the Commission are absolutely necessary if the truth is to be discovered, and pointing out that in the Sheffield Commission, without these powers...

ment Bill was taken. A new clause was moved by Mr. Ritchie entirely changing the mode in which the Probate-duty is to be distributed among the local authorities. Instead of...

- working of the system of devolution to Grand Committees, the Railway and Canal Traffic Bill passing the stage of the Report and its third reading by almost universal consent,...

Wednesday,—Lord Rosebery, at a new Liberal Club at Stanstead (Essex), built by Mr. Gilbey for the Liberal Association ; and Mr. Balfour, at a banquet of the Worship- ful Company...

by the public, promise some really valuable results. War was declared at noon on Tuesday, and since then there have been a considerable number of small operations. The general...

present the real nature of the tenants' position, he received an answer such as could have been made nowhere but in Ireland, —" Yes, but you must bear in mind that the ' Plan'...

presents on occasion of their golden wedding,—or, at least, on occasion of "entering on the -fiftieth year of their married life," which we should have supposed to be a year...

of the "conspiracy of silence" with which the Duke of Argyll's speech of last Thursday fortnight (July 12th) was received in the House of Lords, whereupon Lord Granville said...

W. Russell gives a most striking and valuable account of his experiences at Kilrush, County Clare, where he witnessed some of the evictions on the Vandeleur estate. Mr. Russell...

New ConEols (24) were on Friday 99* to 99.

THE DEBATE ON THE COMMISSION. attitude of the Parnellites and the Liberals in the debate on the " Members of Parliament Allegations and Charges " Bill, appears to have but one...

W 1i are perfectly willing to admit that a good deal can be said against the decision of the Speaker to allow the Closure to be moved in the debate upon the Bann Drainage Bill....

G ENERAL BOlTLANGER'S chequered career remains the most curious phenomenon in the world of French politics. Deprived of his command, struck off the rolls of the French Army, he...

as dignity in Lord Granville's speech at the City Liberal Club on Thursday. It gave a quite new meaning to the so-called " conspiracy of silence," which in the House of Lords he...

T HOUGH the condition of affairs in Zululand is without question serious enough, it would be by no means - wise to adopt too readily the extremely pessimistic tone of some of...

T HE House of Lords played an odd and unexpected part on Tuesday in reference to the Libel Law Amendment Bill. The Bill came into the House of Commons a very bad Bill indeed ;...

impolicy of persecution is one of the plainest 1 lessons of history. Even when it appears most successful, it provokes a Nemesis which sooner or later overtakes it and "slowly...

I F we were asked what appears to be the most characteristic feature of our own day, at least in England and the 'United States, we should say the remarkable monotone,—a...

TEr Y anxiously, I suspect, had all who had taken part i t n the bonfire preparations for "Armada night" on Skiddaw Top scanned their barometers. An inch and a half of rain was...

M R. PROCTOR has done himself injustice by the title* he has given to his little essay on " Edwin Drood." He has given us nothing sensational, but a convincing demon- stration...

ECOLESIASTICUS. [TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] Stu,—It is seldom that I disagree with your literary criticisms, and I do not remember ever before to have remonstrated ;...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your interesting article on the above law in your issue of July 14th, you say truly that the proposed legislation is not "what even...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] enclose an extract from a letter which I have just received from a friend in the North of Ireland. He is of the middle class, and a...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — A recent anecdote from one of your correspondents about a dog and a hen brought to my mind an incident, related to me by an...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Silt,—As one who has suffered much from insomnia, I read with interest " F. P. C.'s " letter in the Spectator of July 21st. His theory that...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR, — A few days ago, as I was walking up Market Street at noon, there was a lightly laden lurry in procession, whose driver sat in...

years used the fag-end of the dream from which I have just awakened as a means of getting to sleep again. But this I find often fails if the dream happens to be an unusual one :...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your reviewer of the " Life of Lady G. Fullerton " is unjust to my valued friend, Mrs. Craven, in supposing that she could possibly...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I read the letter of a " West-Countryman," in the Spectator of March 31st last, with mach interest. As the result of the efforts of...

SONNETS IN MY LIBRARY.-1V. THE HEREAFTER (concluded). [The writer's purpose cannot be fairly judo d without taking into account the wLole collection of ties° sonnets on " The...

MISS VELEY'S POEMS.* MR. LESLIE STEPHEN has prefixed to these poems by the novelist who wrote For Percival, Mitchelhurst Place, A Garden of Memories, and others, a very...

[To THE EDITOR ON THY " SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—I think this is the best historical essay that has ever been produced by the mind of muddled schoolboy of thirteen. May I commend it...

of the English, the advance towards, and so far as Sir Charles Wilson's ascent of the Nile in a Gordon steamer was concerned, to Khartoum, will long live in men's memories. Some...

THE title of Mr. William Black's latest story will carry the mind of many a middle-aged reader back to the time—surely some twenty years ago—when one of his prime literary...

are pessimistically or optimistically inclined, Sir Robert Morier's admirable little book will suggest a series of very different reflections. The pessimists will feel drawn to...

published, in two small volumes, a collection of five stories which he tells us on the title-page we may expect to find strange, lively, and common- place. Strange, and in a...

The English Historical Review, under the able and judicious editorship of the Bev. Mandell Creighton, is now firmly estab- lished, and has become indispensable to the careful...

Grant with a series of subjects for his military novels. His plan was to mix the ingredients of love and war, and to mix them in such a proportion as might seem to suit the...

Incorporated Trades, by Ebenezer Bain (J. and J. P. Edmond and Spark, Aberdeen), is a very interesting contribution to the municipal history of Scotland. Its author was for a...

Scottish Review--containing we may mention in passing, a most valuable historical paper on " Giordano Bruno before the Venetian In- quisition "—is a mass of hitherto unpublished...

wood), of whose work, "Culross and Tulliallan," giving the topography and history of two Scotch parishes adjoining each other, we had occasion to speak very favourably a year or...

scenes of this medisival romance are laid in and about Wallingford Castle, about the middle of the twelfth century. Brian Fitz-Count is the type of a Norman baron in the darkest...

Stanford.)—This guide is one of a series which has been fully appreciated by a numerous public, and will doubtless be found as serviceable as its predecessors have...

make us think. There are people in the story who behave well, and people who behave ill. There are various characters,—an accomplished young diplomatist, a somewhat boorish...

Organisation," "Tudor's Philosophy of Church Life," and other papers, there is so much controversial force and fire in the July number of the Church Quarterly Review as to...

is impossible to accept the writer's portrait of Madame de Maintenon as a true likeness of the original, and still less are we able to adopt her judgment of Louis XIV. and of...

—This is a thoughtful, suggestive book. The socio-political questions of the day are treated historically and practically. Mr. Newton tells us what has been done or is now being...

James Heron. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Mr. Heron examines, to quote from the title of his work, the "life, worship, and organisation " of the period succeeding that in which the...

George St. Clair. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)— Some sixty lectures are collected here, lectures on all kinds of subjects ; for do they not begin with Shakespeare and end with...