on Thursday, the friends of Mr. Parnell received another defeat, and probably the most disastrous defeat they have yet met with. Mr. E. D. Gray proposed a vote of censure on the...

O N Tuesday, at a banquet at Merseburg, in Saxony, the German Emperor delivered a characteristic speech. It was, however, somewhat more gloomy than his usual harangues, and even...

had received information of what passed at Cronstadt from a very trustworthy source. According to this information, Admiral Gervais carried with him a document, drawn up by...

in support of those shareholders in the Freeman's Journal who are endeavouring to snatch the paper out of the hands of Mr. Parnell's allies. He dilates on the great injury to...

Unionists, though not so heavy a majority as on the light poll in 1886, when Lord Lewisham beat Mr. Offor, the Glad- stonian, by 2,151,—the poll, however, being only one of...

those of the Congreosist party, close to Valparaiso, on the 24th, 25th, and 26th of August ; but it is not as yet easy to make out what has been the result, or whether, indeed,...

case.

of Lewisham on Monday. Of his conception of Irish Home- rule, on which we have commented to our readers in another column, we need only say here that, while it goes a long way...

deprives the country of one of the very few re- maining officers who fought at Waterloo. When the General went to Belgium, he was, however, already a veteran, for he had served...

review,, proved a great success, the officers being delighted with their reception by the Queen at Osborne, and with the ball and other festivities on land, and the men with the...

to a close, the past week having been occupied with the concluding speeches of counsel. We are glad to note that the Government intends to take serious action in the matter. On...

that Mr. Gladstone will win the General Election, and that Lord- Salisbury is so much of a recluse that he knows no more of the drift of British opinion than Lord Randolph...

house, Llwynegrin, Flintahire, of inflammation of the brain, due to overwork. He was a very clear-headed and firm, if not a very popular, member of the Government, and our...

to supply Mr. Raikes's place by a, Conservative of rather more specially academical reputation than the eminent man who is just dead. If the Universities are to justify their...

New Consols (2k) were on Friday 9511 to 94t.

British Association on an Electrical Parcel Exchange. His notion is that the blocking .of City thoroughfares is becoming a more and more serious matter, and that the only way to...

Society was held at Plymouth on Tuesday, the President giving, in his opening address, the usual review of the legislation of the year. After throwing doubts on the utility of...

has been done to realise Mr. Blaine's dream of an inter- continental railway,—a railway intended to string the Re- publics of Northern, Central, and South America on a line of...

execution at Liverpool, the drop was made somewhat too long for the purpose of merely breaking the neck, and resulted in something like a partial decapitation, and flow of blood...

of his intended book, and, it is added, has asked Professor Geffcken to write from his dictation, a remarkable instance of the lion lying down with the lamb, when we remember...

an interesting account on Tuesday of her visit last year to the Bakhtiari country, in South-West Persia. Perhaps the most interesting part of her remarks was her account of the...

MR. STANSFELD'S FORECAST OF HOME-RULE. M R. STANSFELD spoke to the electors of Lewisham at Sydenham on Monday ; and though there is no reason to suppose that he is specially in...

T HE Lewisham election has resulted satisfactorily enough. When the Gladstonians say that they have reduced the majority by nearly 460 from the point it reached in 1886, they...

week on the situation in China, we dwelt upon the importance of the part played by the great Secret Societies in modern Chinese politics, and alluded to the hatred entertained...

of Councils elected by the parish itself, have found a powerful advocate in Mr. T. W. Fowle, who has lately stated his views on the subject in great detail, in a letter to the...

T HE old controversy as to whether we should punish or coddle our criminals, was revived this week at the British Association by Dr. Strahan. Dr. Strahan is alto- .gether for...

T HE most valuable contribution to the Licensing question which we have met with for a long time is a report presented to the Cheshire Magistrates by a com- mittee of their own...

all students of history—What is the value of those dreams of a changed condition in the organic relations of society and of the individual whereby man may be enabled to live a...

I F one wants popular interest,—and the British Association, we may remark, needs a good deal of that article, the learned men getting as technical as if they were addressing...

T HE British Association seems to have come to the con- clusion that it is necessary to provide some kind of light fare for the entertainment of its audiences, and more...

I F the impression produced on mankind in general by the perusal of Dr. Huggins's Presidential address to the British Association could be truthfully disclosed, we expect it...

-" A WOMAN'S WOMAN : " FROM HER POINT OF VIEW. [AN INTERCEPTED LETTER.] MY DEAR VI,-I have no news whatever to give you, but, upon this very showery afternoon, feel rather...

THE IRISH TRAINING COLLEGES. pro THE EDITOR OF THE " EPECTATOR."1 Sin,—Mr. T. W. Russell, in his letter on the Irish Training Colleges (for National-School teachers) in the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " ErECTATOR." . 1 Siu,—In connection with the revival in your columns of a. Pentateuchal controversy, there is one very important point which is very...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR ."f SIR, —My knowledge of Kuenen and Wellhausen, and especially of the former, leads me to affirm that no one, not even the Spectator, would...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —I am a layman, and I write as a layman. But I cannot refrain from making a few remarks on the subject of the letter of Mr. G. D....

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I did not say, as you allege, that the Lambeth Judgment " sanctioned " an abuse which none the less would be " per- fectly legal under...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIR,—Will you kindly allow me to point out to your readers that the tickets (price 6s. each) for the Rhyl Church Congress, which will soon...

YES ! urban is your Muse, and owns An empire based on London stones. Yet flow'rs, as mountain violets sweet, Spring from the pavement 'neath her feet. Of wilder birth this Muse...

[ro THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 Sra,—Seeing that natural history finds a place in the Spectator, I venture to send you the following incident in bird- life, a common...

SAINT-MARC GIRARDIN.* How far the pendulum of literary appreciation has swung since Sainte-Beuve gave his first causerie to Saint-Marc Girardin is worth considering, now that...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.1 SIR, In a review of a new edition of Mendez Pinto's travels, in the Spectator of August 22nd, you accept Professor Yam- lAry's testimony in...

about the wisest brief estimate we have yet read of the present state of Old-Testament criticism. Mr. Thomas Hodgkin is well known to all critics as one of the most careful and...

CANON KNOX LITTLE is known as an eloquent preacher who excels in appeals to the emotions ; but in this volume, though delivered in substance as a course of lectures, there is...

UNDAUNTED by the failures of all previous critics and metaphysicians, Mr. Howells has attempted to construct a. philosophy of art and beauty. In his little book, he plunges and...

For God and Humanity is distinctly a novel with a purpose ; but it is a purpose which is primarily biographical, and only secondarily didactic. Mr. Haskett Smith is an ardent...

description of the Voice-Figures with which her name is associated, Mr. Walter Besant says :—" I have looked anxiously for some printed account of the phenomena : I have hoped...

is a romance, yet it is a romance that faithfully portrays Indian life and customs. To say it is fascinating is hardly doing the vivid detail and vigorous characters of the...

Songs of the South. By John Bernard O'Hara, M.A. (Ward, Lock, and Co., London, New York, and Melbourne.)—These are songs of considerable promise, being evidently the work of a...

and Marshall), contains a considerable amount of curious and in- teresting information about ships, the personnel of the Navy, regulations, &e.