and Allegations " Bill has been even more prolific in discreditable scenes than the stage of second reading. First there was a warm debate on the number of Commissioners, which...

P ERHAPS the only visibly good result of the bad weather has been that Mr. Chamberlain made a masterly speech at Highbnry last Saturday to the Liberal Unionists of West...

Allegations " Bill, Mr. Chamberlain contended that it is absolutely necessary to investigate who had been the colleagues or agents in this country of the dynamite party in the...

case.

received this letter from Mr. Adams at midday on Satur- day last, but that, instead of communicating it at once to the Government, that they might take Mr. Justice Day's impres-...

far easier escape from our difficulties than at first seemed possible. The surrender of Somkeli, one of the principal chiefs, and of three minor chiefs, was announced on...

attack by Mr. Parnell on Mr. Chamberlain for betraying the secrets of his colleagues in the Cabinet to Mr. Parnell and his friends. In the middle of this attack, the debate...

in a leader of that day, in accusing the Parnellite Members of blackguardism, was called attention to by Mr. Labouchere, and admitted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who,...

time from his release on December 24th, 1887, till the first week of July, 1888, when he sickened—a period of six months —not in any sense as an invalid. He attended and spoke...

his release from Tullamore Gaol, where he underwent two months' imprisonment—which was formally opened on Thursday, July 12th, concluded on Saturday, July 28th, with a verdict...

the Leader of the House, and the various badgerers on the other side, of whom Mr. Labouchere, Sir W. Harcourt, and Mr. Healy were the chief, in relation to Mr. Walter's call...

yet heard, were reported from Ireland on Monday. John Forhan, sixty years of age, was shot dead as he was bringing three labourers from Tralee to work on his farm, from which a...

Times by Mr. J. Redmond for not publishing a letter in 1882 explaining why he had not condemned the assassination of Mr. Burke in his Manchester speech of/Sunday, May...

on the Government, furious at least outwardly, though it is not very easy to say how much inward passion it represented. It was apparently directed against the Cabinet for...

enor- mous trout, weighing over a stone, and measuring nearly three feet in length, which was caught last week in the River Itchen near Winchester. The poor beast had haunted...

Irish havens is still continued. Though he has made repeated attempts to get out, and though his torpedo-boats have done a certain amount of damage to the blockaders, none of...

cluded in the House of Commons on Friday, July 27th, the following Commissioners being appointed to settle the financial questions at issue between the counties and the new...

-Cork Constitution, which lasted three days, and was tried before a special jury at the Cork Assizes, ended on Monday in a verdict of £100 damages for the plaintiff. The cross-...

in severe straits for food, and whose surrender the psendo-Mandi at Khar- toum has demanded, threatening an immediate advance against him in case of his refusal. Emin was...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 9c.1 to 992.

vast audience at the Alexandra Palace last Saturday, Mr. Baldwin leaping from a balloon which had risen to a height variously calculated at from 800 ft. to 1,200 ft., and...

of " Wilful murder " against Gellatly, a youth of seventeen, who struck the blow. His comrades have mostly been found guilty only of conspiring to assault and of unlawful...

THE DEBATE ON THE COMMISSION. T HE country is thoroughly weary of the long wrangle which terminated on Friday morning,—not a moment too soon. We suppose that even now the...

I T is quite clear that the dignities are vanishing from the House of Commons, and, indeed, are fast disappearing from almost all the Representative Assemblies of the world. It...

THE verdict in the inquest on Mr. Mandeville requires 1 us to believe that the deceased met his death owing to the brutal cruelty with which he was treated while in prison. Let...

"E UROPE has not had to wait long for a fresh symptom of unrest, which has appeared abruptly as if to remind her that the crust of tranquillity is rather thin, and, indeed, not...

T HE anti-slavery meeting held at Prince's Hall on Tues- day was noteworthy for more reasons than one. The principal speaker, on whose behalf, indeed, the meeting was got up,...

at first to be merely one of the ordinary disputes between masters and workmen, with a little additional violence derived from the political environment of the workmen. When it...

O NCE again the old controversy, Is Pope a poet P has burst upon us with full fury. The celebration of the bicentenary of Pope's birth which took place at Twickenham on Tuesday...

M R. LILLY'S eloquent essay, in the August number of the Nineteenth Century, on " What is Left of Christianity ?" is intended, if we rightly grasp its meaning, to show that, in...

history, its unsolved riddles and mysteries, its Caspar Hausers, its Men with the Iron Masks, although of a more harmless kind. The source of many a drama, and the simultaneous...

QUEENSLAND AND THE NAVAL DEFENCE BILL. [To THE EDITOR OT THE " SPECTATOZ."j SIB,—Public attention has rarely been directed towards the politics of Queensland. It is well worth...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Sia,—Mr. Parnell believes that Ireland will " save the Empire" by its claim to self - government. A year before he said so, you allowed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sia,—" F. P. C." seems to me to suggest a remedy that does not touch the real disease. I am quite familiar with the relapse into the dream ;...

Sin,—A more effectual method of curing this evil than that suggested by your correspondent, " F. T. C.," I discovered some years ago, though I have never heard it advocated....

EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The storm and consequent floods on Monday have had disastrous effects in Poplar, especially in the Isle of Dogs district. The neighbourhood is...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—During a recent journey in Canada, I met with a striking instance of reason in a dog. I was staying at the Mohawk Indian Institution,...

BISHOP STEERE.* EDWARD STEERE was born in London in 1828, the son of a Chancery barrister. He was educated at a day-school at Hackney, and afterwards at University College...

I CHIDE NOT AT THE SEASONS. I CHIDE not at the seasons ; for if Spring With backward look refuses to be fair, My Love even more than April makes me sing, And bears May blossom...

strange and fascinating illustrations, its startling ideas—amounting often to discoveries and new departures in the world of religious art—its criticism, full of knowledge and...

THE genius of our day has a great tendency to thin off into the finest possible layers of impressionism. Mr. Henry James himself becomes thinner and thinner in his studies,...

THE gifted little gentleman who figures in French and English war-books as Prince Eugene, who in the old German ballad is styled " Prinz Eugen der edle Ritter," and who...

THE remarkable feature of this book is its violent and out- spoken protest against various Christian dogmas,—notably the doctrine of sin. The writer adopts in substance the...

THE Fortnightly is decidedly the most readable of the magazines this month, though not so much on account of the general level of its articles as owing to the extremely bright...

Powell. (David Stott.)—There is plot and good material enough in this novel to make its numerous shortcomings disappointing. It reads like the work of a young author whose...

Widney. (D. Appleton and Co., New York.)—This is a curious sample of American enterprise. It is, in fact, a glorified guide-book and advertisement of Southern California. But it...

Masson. (Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh.)—We had occa- sion, when Professor Masson's monograph on De Quincey in the " English Men of Letters " series appeared, to speak very...

The July number of the Edinburgh Review has a somewhat cranium gatherum look, but it is all the more rather than all the less interesting on that account. It does not contain a...

August supply their readers with useful essays and interesting illustrations, but in neither is there any article of distinction. Miss Mabel Robin- son's paper on Hadrian as an...

according to the Authorised Version, together with New and Revised Helps to Bible Study, a New Concordance, and an Indexed Bible Atlas. (S. Bagster and Sons, Limited, London ;...

Neither of the two political articles, "The House of Lords" and "The Local Government Bill," though carefully written, is in any way striking, and even "The History and Reform...

and nothing more ; and even as such it is poor and schoolgirlish. The only thing that we have been struck by in it is the innocuous realism of a new serial story, " Comrades...

vine. Translated by M. Baude. (Elliot Stock).—Some charming selections from the well-known " Evenings," forming, indeed, a fairly representative collection from a graceful and...

a somewhat new departure in atlases. It is a collection of physiographical maps of the United States and the world in general, containing some very fine relief maps, and...

Paul and Co.)—Mr. Smeaton, of the Bengal Civil Service, has taken great pains to present to his readers a strong and effective case for the Karens, a race which is generally...

Union.)—This episode of the Reformation deals with the life and character of Renee, Duchess of Ferrara, the unhappy daughter of Louis XII. of France. Those were indeed unhappy...

this volume the author has urged, to the utmost of his power, an ideal plan, the union of the fifteen West Indian Colonies. He sketches first the history of the African race, in...

Society.)— There are some two or three heroines and as many heroes in this tale. The heroes, indeed, seem to be all of them in love with one lady, who eventually chooses the...

Frederick McDermott. (Long,mans.)—The great railway contractor was born at Bishop Auckland, Durham, in 1819, and laboured at a colliery till his twenty-second year. In 1841 he...