the vessels available for action at a particular moment. Rather it is like an Army Corps, made up of certain necessary constituent parts; and just as the Army Corps wants...

the Royal yacht, if not the most imposing, at any rate the moat formidable Fleet that has ever been assembled. The ships, to the number of 135, consisting of every type and size...

Mr. T. Healy was called to order repeatedly by the Chairman of Com- mittees for loudly inviting some Member, whom he accused of interrupting the debate, to get up and say what...

T HE Government have proclaimed Ireland generally to be under the provisions of Sub-section 3 of Clause 2 of the Crimes Act,—i.c., so for as regards rioting and unlawful...

week have turned chiefly on Clause 4, which empowers the Court to let a notice given in writing serve the purposes of an actual ejectment, the time during which the tenant can...

the strenuous etignettes of a Court may make important. It appears that Lord Charles Bereeford, who was on the Royal yacht, finding that he was likely to be retained longer than...

case.

of Mr. Evelyn Ashley's candidature for the Bridgeton Division of Glasgow. "To me it seems," says Mr. Bright, "that Sir George Trevelyan thinks no sacrifice too great to restore...

be daily placing Sir George Trevelyan in greater difficulties. Apparently Sir George still accepts Lord Hartington's four points, but somehow considers them perfectly compatible...

day to the Norwich Central Conservative Association, which be commenced by a survey of the foreign relations of the Govern- ment, taken, not, he said, in boastfulness or by way...

effective replies to Mr. Gladstone. In the first place, as Mr. Gladstone laid so much stress on the opinion of "the civilised world," would he accept the opinion of "the...

under the title of Baron Addington, left a vacanoy in the City of London, which was filled up on Wednesday without a contest by the election of Mr. Thomas Charles Baring, eldest...

light-minded,—as usual in his speech at Chelmsford on Wed- nesday. Referring to Lord Randolph Churchill's imprudent sneer at Lord Hartington as the " crutch " of the...

him- self and to his then colleagues, for his and their conscientious- ness. Why cannot he believe that the Liberal Unionists are still inspired by similar motives P They...

Evelyn Ashley on the Round Table Conference, which confirms the view we have just taken. It is true, he says, that Mr. Morley and Sir William Harcourt have always represented...

of the Vosges, was made by M. Jules Ferry the occasion for a very remarkable attack upon General Boulanger and his supporters. The speech, which, by-the-way, has not been done...

there can, we think, be no reasonable doubt at all that the case against the policeman Endaeott of having arrested a perfectly innocent woman has been established by it. The...

Consols were on Friday 104 to 101i.

he addressed the Hackney Reform Club on the subject of the day. He crowed very loud over the humiliation of the Govern- ment in accepting the policy of Mr. Parnell on the laud...

in force in the House of Commune yesterday week. They took their ground feebly, and hardly held it at all. Mr. Piston was almost the only man who seemed to think that the vac-...

marriage, now before Parliament, raises some very important legislative problems. When the regulations made by Parliament for the marriages of British subjects abroad are not...

days ago the ironworks at Terni,—where the water-power is furnished by the famous waterfall,—the Bishop of Terni paid his respects to the Ring, along with the other civil...

the death of Mr. Verdin promises to result in a very fierce struggle for the seat. The Gkdstonian candidate is to be Mr. Brunner, who was defeated by Mr. Verdin at the election...

THE GREAT DANGER OF THE SITUATION. w h doubt whether either the Government or the public duly appreciate the chief danger of the situation. The longer we study the events of...

T HE second suspension of Mr. Healy during the present Session,—in this case, at all events, a suspension which there can be little doubt that that able Nationalist was deter-...

I T is not easy to follow Sir George Trevelyan. On the first reading of Mr. Gladstone's Bill for the better government of Ireland, he held that "the confession that the Liberal...

Nr see no reason to doubt that Lord Salisbury was stating what is an actual fact when he expressed, as he did on Monday night, his conviction that the chances of a general...

T HE great Review at Spithead was not required to impress on us the vast change which has occurred in the con- ditions of naval warfare and in the position of England as a...

N O county in Scotland has passed through more notable vicissitudes of fortune than Sutherlandshire since one moiety of it came into the ownership of the Gower family through...

S IR JOHN LUBBOCK, in the pleasant little book, to which 1.3 we have once before referred, on "The Pleasures of Life," has produced what we may regard as a very taking picture...

W HEN, on Saturday last, the Queen, anchored in the very centre of her Fleet, signalled to the commanders of all the vessels to attend on board her yacht, the spectacle was not...

T HE Bishop of Oxford has published in the form of a tract the introductory portion of his recently delivered charge, in which he deals with the prosecution and imprisonment of...

THE TANNER INCIDENT. [To THI EDITOR OP TITS 94PRCTATOR."1 am an old reader of your paper, and think I feel fully the strength of your position against Mr. Gladstone's, and yet...

[To TIM EDITOR OP THR n SPECTATOR."' SIR, — Under the heading "News of the Week," I find it stated that "in Hornsey the Unionist vote was very much larger than in 1885." The...

Sin,—Steadily reading you, and seldom troubling you with comments, may I ask a small space for a remark on the letter of the Rector of Kinwarton in the Spectator of July 23rd,...

[To THE EDITOR OP THX."SPRCTATOR."] SIR, — Lord Hartington and Lord Salisbury do not take your view that a rich tenant is bound to pay judicial rents. Lord Hartington has...

[TO THE EDITOR or rue Brae...M . ] SIR, — The Spectator of July 23rd speaks of Mr. Gladstone's sacrifice of office because Sir Robert Peel proposed the endow- ment of...

[To 78R EDITOR OP THE " srEctaros...3 Sza,—Your correspondent of Jane 23rd quotes the following passage from your notice of my work on "Future Retribution," in a letter entitled...

you, in your review (Spectator, July 16th) of Prebendary Row's book, that there is any ambiguity in that classical passage of the 15th Chapter of St. Paul's First Epistle to the...

ge me EDITOR Or THII 8PECTATOL1 SIR,—The following story of equine 'cuteness may interest your readers :—A friend of mine, having more horses than his normal amount of stabling...

[To Tax Eorront Or roe Senorsnort." J STR,—Your dog-loving readers may be interested to hear that there is (or was till lately) in South Africa a rival to the well- known...

go vex EDITOR OP TICE"SPECTATOR."] Era,—In your issue of July 23rd, your correspondent " Scotus " makes the following astounding statement :—" There are more Scotchmen in...

SIR CHARLES DILKE'S SURVEY OF EUROPE.* fx is now authentically known that the lively and suggestive series of articles published in the Fortnightly Review were written by Sir...

the social point of view, this book, based chiefly on family papers, is very valuable as a contribution to, and an elucidation of, the history of Scot- land. Yet, in a sense, it...

be to show that in their dealing with Irish affairs Peel was almost invariably wrong and O'Connell was almost invariably right; and that, therefore, Home-rule ought to be...

A Tory Loroffing is a political novel, the general tone of which may be inferred from the fact that it is dedicated to Lord Randolph Churchill, of whom the author is presumably...

Americas, the discovery of the Genoese sailor of fortune is undoubtedly the greatest event in history ; but in the history of mankind, the famous voyage of the 'Santa Maria,'...

worth reading, for various reasons. Some men are exceptionally great, and their example • Recollections of a Chaplain is ths /Loyal N.V. Compiled and Edited by his Widow....

great mistake. To write a copious biography such as this, and to publish it without an index or table of contents, will excite at the outset the irritation of his readers....

Mas KATHARINE TYNAN and Miss Constance Haden, whose new volumes have issued from the same press almost simultaneously, stand one to the other in marked and striking contrast....

Prom the Pyrenees to the Channel in a Dog-Cart. By C. E. Aoland- Troyte. (Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey, and Co)—At this time of the year, when we all are taking, or just going to...

Vol. IV. (Blackie and Son.)—Mr. Archer's fourth and concluding volume takes up the narrative at the time which immediately preceded the Battle of Abu %lea, and carries it on to...

readable as its predecessors. The leading Scotch articles are a learned but dry paper on the coronation of Charles II. at Scone, and a very readable one, "The Burning of...