D. Wolff, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Mr. Gibson, and others, as to the source of the information on which the political prisoners had been released, which Mr. Gladstone declined...

negotiation or transaction of any kind with the released prisoners. The Government were convinced that there was evidence that if released they would no longer use their...

case.

by Lord Granville, and in the Commons by Mr. Glad- stone, who told the House that the Government, acting upon information and on its responsibility, but " without any nego-...

Lord Kensington, who moved for a new writ for the Northern Division of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in the room of Lord Frederick Cavendish, who had accepted the office of...

T HE week has been one of much political excitement. It was whispered on Monday, and known on Tuesday, that the Government intended to abandon Coercion, to release the political...

making it his chief point that, while persons accused of "crime" were left in prison, persons "reasonably suspected of treason- able practices," like two of the arrested...

America. Two parcels filled with powder were recently sent by post to the addresses of Mr. Cyrus Field and Mr. W. H. Van- derbilt, and exploded in the railway en route. They...

Land Act submitted a formal Report in favour of extending the purchase clauses of the Land Act, by a scheme under which the State would advance the whole sum at 3 per cent. ;...

chiefs and a large portion of the people dislike John Dunn, who, they say, is intent only on making a purse-for him- self, and a considerable section of them are desirous that -...

between the advocates of five years' service, with exemptions for those- who pay their own expenses, and those who defend three years' service without exemptions. M. Gambetta is...

adhered to the new policy of the Government. He made a long speech on Wednesday night to the Herts Liberal Associa- tion, and, after denying all current reports, said it was...

O'Donnell and Lord George Hamilton to the first resolution concerning Parliamentary procedure,—the resolution as to the closure of debate,—was not very important, for those...

the Home-rule speeches confirmed the impression pro- duced by Mr. Parnell's, and so irritated Mr. Gibson that, in a speech of " unmuzzled " eloquence, he assailed his late...

is believed for being too compliant to Russia in the matter of the war indemnity. His successor is Ahdurrahman Pasha, who has governed one or two provinces with success, who is...

Freemasons' Tavern on Wednesday, the chair being taken, first, by Mr. Browning, the poet, and later by Lord Coleridge, who was the president of the year. Several papers were...

a success that may make the Oxford com- pany who acted the Agamemnon tremble for their laurels. Probably, nowhere, except at Harvard, where the wealth, as well as the...

(whose central offices are at 14 Grosvenor Road) was held at the official residence of Sir Henry Brand, the Speaker of the House of Commons, last Saturday, at which the Speaker...

of the greatest statesman of our time should go to the covered building on the Embankment, in the immediate neighbourhood of St. Stephen's Club, to see the clay model of Mr....

baying murdered the child Georgina Moore, at Yalding, on December 20th, after a short consultation by the jury. Every one who had followed the case foresaw this result. The...

in aid of the Royal Literary Fund, at which, however, he did not make a very gracious speech. Con- sidering that Lord Salisbury has been himself a frequent and very able...

THE NEW DEPARTURE. N O one, we imagine, will doubt the courage of the Cabinet in taking its new departure. The mere loss of Mr. Forster is a great blow, every secession, and...

T HE difference between the tone of the House of Com- mons on Tuesday night, when Mr. Forster's resignation was first announced, and on Thursday night, when he made the...

A LITTLE light at last, upon the Nihilist conspiracy. The history of that movement furnished this month to the Fortnightly by Prince Krapotkine, may not be complete, and may...

W E have never concealed our own strong conviction that the proposal to close a debate ought to originate with the responsible Ministry of the day, and to be subject only to the...

I T is strange that just when the public have been excited about murder by means of a poison which was supposed to be almost beyond discovery, and which yet yielded in the end...

HE coming discussion on the expediency of establishing a T peasant proprietary in Ireland will, we have little doubt, turn mainly on the social aspect of the change. One side...

T HE so-called "revised draft" of the Landlord and Tenant Bill, prepared by a Special Committee of the Farmers' Alliance, will be issued in a few days, its publication being...

spontaneously visit her. Yet the prose, both of Car- lyle and of Emerson, falls at times into that poetic rhythm which indicates the highest glow of a powerful imaginative...

M PASTEUR'S repudiation of the Positivism of M. LAW, • in the session of the French Academy on Thursday week, has been seized upon by religions men with more of eagerness,—one...

T HE Royal Academy Dinner this year was comparatively a failure, and that is odd, because the conditions which make up an interesting occasion were present in profusion. There...

THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN TENANT-RIGHT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sta,—The Duke of Argyll and Mr. Bear have discussed in your columns and elsewhere the existing...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] replying to your editorial comment, I do so fully- recognising the force of a remark by a friend of mine, that "a. man who can hold his...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—By way of appendix to the highly interesting essay on " The Fort de l'Ecluse," in your last number, permit me to point out that in the...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FIRST NOTICE.] THE clatter of wine-cups and the murmur of complimentary speeches has died away, and once more Burlington House settles itself down to...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Your interesting article upon " The Royal Wedding" hardly seems to me quite to solve the problem. There are a great many people who...

THE " spEcuerort.-1 'Sia,—Professor Jebb, in the first chapter of his admirable -" Life of Bentley," in the " English Men of Letters " series, sketches the preliminary history...

MR. SCOTT HOLLAND'S SERMONS.* THERE is a great difference between the power of the different sermons in this volume, but some of them are as powerful as any preached in this...

As a novel, The Bloom, off the Peach has many merits. It is carefully put together, it is entirely free from all mannerisms, its characters are sufficiently life-like, and in...

THE author of this book is an excellent representative of the Jingo school. He is an able man ; he is well read ; he is a vigorous writer ; and though he does not shrink from...

THE Lord Mayor was placed in a position of some difficulty on Tuesday last, from which he extricated himself with no little tact and skill. Be was then presiding at the annual...

Tux Magazines are of interest this month. The Contemporary, for example, gives us an eloquent and able history of the deal- ings of the House of Hapsburg with the Slays of the...

be more judicious than the remark that " Every home should have some musical instrument ? " Why not have followed it up by the sugges- tion that if you can have but one, you...

20schylus : Agamemnon. With Introduction and Notes. By A. Sidgwick, M.A. (The Clarendon Press, Oxford.)—There have been many editions of the Agamemnon, but none whioh, on the...

—We are inclined to traverse Professor Mahaffy's fundamental asser- tion, and to contend that it is not preaching which has decayed, but the power of listening to preaching....

Co.)—This, the last novel by the late Mr. Ainsworth, is not, as we fondly hoped, an historical romance, bright with the colour of a picturesque age, and flowing with the...