M CA.RNOT has avoided summoning M. Constans. After • two failures in the endeavour to form a Ministry, he has succeeded in inducing M. Duprey to accept the Premiership, and...

on Tuesday, and was even more successful than had been expected. The people from the surrounding counties had swarmed into the city, and half-a-million of persons were abroad in...

not argue about Home-rule. That with such an audience would have been energy thrown away. He strove rather to express for English benefit the true meaning of the demonstration....

ineptitude. M. Dupuy declares that the Panama scandals prove " that ease and fortune are acquired only by industry, and are preserved only by propriety of morals and dignity of...

case.

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, April 29th, will be issued, , gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

brought out very strongly the inconvenience which Great Britain would suffer from having "a bankrupt Ireland" beside her, and also the very great probability there would be...

against the Direct Veto Bill, was held in Birmingham, on Thurs- day, at the Bingley Hall. Mr. Chamberlain, who presided, stated that there were probably two million persons...

rowdyish, but extraordinarily vigorous and effective,. onslaught on the Home-rule Bill, delivered to a huge meeting in Liverpool. After declaring that the Gladstonians "exhibit...

hearing some preliminary arguments of counsel in regard to the admission of evidence. On Wednesday, Mr. Phelps, on the part of the United States, vehemently insisted on the...

on Thursday, insisted on a point to which he has often called attention before,—the necessity for the agreement of both partners, if there is to be a dissolution of the Union...

in his old oratorical charm. Indeed, it is astonishing how much of it he can still pour into his greater speeches. But it was singularly wanting in appositeness to the political...

the Guildhall at Plymouth, to hear Lord George Hamilton, Mr. Leonard Courtney, and Sir Edward Clarke speak on the same subject. Mr. Courtney's speech was perhaps the most...

Khelat, the head of all the chiefs of Beloochistan, and in some sense Sovereign of the country, is now under British protection, and has for some years been described as ruling...

shows in a very striking manner what the will-o'-the-wisps are which are misleading the Irish people to desire Home-rule. " Scrutator " directed his agent to find out so far as...

which it is said that the strikers have resorted to American methods of in- timidation. Nearly a score of the free labourers working on the Plato were, it is alleged, seriously...

the suspension of the Commercial Bank of Au stralia, which stopped business on the 4th inst. The Bank had a nominal capital of £3,000,000, of which only £1,200,000 had been...

some very remarkable figures as to the withdrawal of money from the savings-banks which is going on in the North of Ireland owing to the sense of insecurity occasioned by the...

clergy in which he makes it the chief guilt of the Welsh Suspensory Bill that it is a robbery of God,—a " sacrilege,"—inasmuch as it takes from Christ what was dedicated to...

Friday 98-1.

THE LA VENDEE OF IRELAND. T HE first of the many answers to the Irish demand for national self-government is that Ireland is not a nation, though it may become one ; that it now...

M R. GLADSTONE began his speech on Thursday by asking how this great controversy, once opened between the English and the Irish peoples, could be decided in any sense except...

M R. GOSCHEN'S admirable speech at Glasgow on Tuesday should be widely read. It makes it quite clear that the Irish will not hear of true Home- rule in any financial sense at...

T HE annals of France are never dull, and though nothing dramatic is occurring there, her position is one to excite keen intellectual interest. A great experi- ment is being...

the main contention of Mr. Chamberlain's letter to Wednesday's Times, we cannot help wishing that he bad eliminated the element of stinging scorn with which it is surcharged. It...

N O class has suffered more severely of late years than middle-class investors,—that is, men who have no fortunes, or small fortunes, but who steadily, through their working...

evidence. Because a man speaks with a bias, it is often assumed that he has no claim to be listened to. People forget that speaking with a bias and speaking with knowledge are...

I N the April number of Blackwood's _Magazine, there is a new story of " The Seen and the Unseen," which, we suppose, we may safely attribute to the same unique imagi- nation...

A WRITER in the Daily News of Saturday asks a literary question which involves a jest that has for us more than a passing interest,—" Who was the modest husband who begged his...

rule, to be recommended for light reading. A paternal Government issues them to afford information, not entertainment ; and anxious, like the Oxford Town Councillor, to be...

C ERTAINLY the promoters of the Chicago World's Fair deserve some credit for the thoroughness with which they are carrying out their original conception. It was pro- posed, we...

A SCAMPER AT EASTER. [To TEM EDITOR OF TRIG "SPECTATOR...] SIR, --No one can dislike more than I the habit which has become so common of late years amongst us—thanks, or rather...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—May a lover of Matthew Arnold's poetry, while thank- ing you much for the article thereupon on March 25th, point out that through a...

MR, GLADSTONE AND LORD MELBOURNE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—In a reference in the Spectator of April lst to Mr. Glad- stone's comparison of his own majority to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "'] Sin,—You may think another instance worth having. One of our Heads of Houses, an old man, once told me that sixty years ago, "correct"...

[To THE EDITOLE OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin, — In your notice of " Eton of Old ; or, Eighty Years Since," in the Spectator of April 1st, a serious question is raised as to the...

A REPLY TO MR. RICHMOND. TliE examination-paper set by Mr. W. B. Richmond, and printed in the correspondence of the Spectator of April 1st, may be thought to call for some...

HEINE'S LETTERS.* WE cannot but be grateful to Heine's nephew for this delight- ful volume. Consisting, as it does, of Heine's letters to his mother and sister, with a few to...

the most provoking even of present-day biographers. Full of enthusiasm for his hero and for Scottish Law, of which that hero was the head and orna- ment, he has nevertheless...

THESE tales are remarkable less for their knowledge of life and the skill with which they sketch it, than for the fresh- nese and originality of • the idealism which is...

AT the present time, Victor Hugo is rather out of fashion among the literary leaders of young France. He is too strong, too violent, too noisy—if one may say it, too...

discussing, on the present occasion, the question of the criticism of the Hexateuch. It is a very large subject, involving a great number of technical details which it would be...

THE only political paper of importance in the Reviews for April is Mr. Chamberlain's upon Home-rule, called the "Bill for the Weakening of Great Britain," in the Nineteenth...

monthly repository of careful criticisms in literature and art. There are at least half-a-dozen of such in the April number— notably, Mr. Arthur Waugh's appreciative paper on...

Translated by Katharine Gould. (Bentley and Son.)— These "Conversations " are certainly not so good as some of the books of table-talk which could be mentioned. Still we see...

sort in the new number of Belgravia,—" Fanny Kemble," by Ella MacMahon, and " A Holiday in the Australian Tyrol," by Alison McLean. The stories, both short and serial, are...

with Mr. George Alfred Townsend's ambitious but heavy and long-drawn-out romance of " Columbus in Love." Although the historical draperies in it are irreproachable, and although...

a magazine which maintains so uniform a standard of excellence as the Boy's Own Paper, and to which such well-known writers as M. Jules Verne, Mr. Talbot Baines Reed, and Mr...

eccentric quarterly, the Heretic, whose self-appointed function is to oppose Jesuitry and Ritualistic Mummery," is the best feature of it. It is full of information and...

" The Bishop of Winchester at Farnham Castle " is a paper essentially of the "interview" kind, but written in better taste than aro most articles of the sort. "The Graves by the...

and readable miscellaneous papers, such as the third of a series by Isabella Bishop, entitled " Among the Tibetans ;" " The Polar Problem," by P. R. Benyon ; and "Archbishop...

The new number of the Economic Journal is an exceptionally interesting one. Nor is it the less interesting that the chief articles are notable more for the information they...

Street, Strand.)—This is the fifth volume of the "Ragged School and Mission Union Record. "