Mr. Gladstone returned once more to the Plan of Cam- paign," saying that he had never vindicated it. or vidicated breach of the law in any shape whatever, but that there are...

The Irish delate was brought to a conclusion yesterday .LtIle J16-lbl vred inb. .. weeks, Mr. Gladstone opening with a speech delivered in his best manner, with great dignity,...

I The debate on the Address was brought to a close at last on Wednesday, after occupying no less than ten Parliamentary days, Mr. Conybeare having himself occupied two hours...

Later in the evening, Mr. Asquith made a great effort to show that everything done by M r. Balfour widened the gulf between the two countries; Mr. Parnell, in a speech of...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied in a speech of great force. He pointed out that Mr. Gladstone, if he takes such a strong view of the iniquity of refusing Mr. Parnell's...

I Sir George Trevelyan delivered an address at Cambridge on Wednesday, at the request of the Liberal Club and the Town Liberal Association, in which he spoke of it as "a proud...

The Special Comnmission has been chiefly engaged this week on the consideration how far the Irish Land League was or was not responsible for the doctrines preached by Mr....

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. LEGISLATIVE INDEPENDENCE AND A UNITED KINGDOM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THrE " SPECTATOR."] .Sin,-May I ask for some explanation of a phrase in your issue of...

DR. LEONHARD SCH3I1TZ. [To TKE EDITOR OF TUE "SV'ECTATOR. SIR,-I beg permission to state in your pages that in consequence of the serious accident which recently befell Dr....

BOULANGISM IN ENGLAND. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."', SIR,-In criticising the article on " Boulangism in England," which appears in the March number of Maci)illan, the...

AN IRISH -'BULL." [TO TIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.' SIn,-I observe that you have been publishing specimens of Irish " bulls." Possibly the following definition of a Land...

General Harrison, the new President of the United States, I was sworn in on Monday, March 4th, in the presence of a vast concourse of people, and read his first address, amidst...

A financial crash has with difficulty been postponed in Paris, and it is not certain that it will be avoided. The Syndicate which has monopolised copper now holds 130,000 tons...

The French Chamber on Saturday approved the action of M1. Constans in dissolving the Patriotic League, by a vote of 339 to 195. M. Laguerre. a Director of the Association,...

Lord Salisbury was very happy on Tuesday in bis reply to the deputation which urged on the Government the great importance of getting the Agricultural Department of the Privy...

I The French Chamber -on Thhursdcay finally refused to have anything whatever to do with the Panama Canal. M. Gaudin de Villaine brought forward the matter in a distinct way,...

I Rumours have for sonic (lays been prevalent that a conflict recently occurred off Samuoa between the Germlan frigate 'Olga' and an Anierican war-ship. The rumour has never...

I Lord Randolph Churchill protested against binding Parlia- ment for any longer time than the year for which it votes the Estimates, to which Mr. Goschen replied that of course...

Lord George Hamilton made his statement of the Government scheme of naval expansion on Thursday night. He proposed to aim at making our Navy the equal of the united naval...

| Richard Pigott, the wretched Nationalist who betrayed the Times into the publication of the formed Parlell letters, committed suicide on the 1st inst., in Madrid. He had fled...

We have endeavoured elsewhere to explain the importance | of this event to Europe, but we may mention here that it has caused great alarm in Sofia, and is in Vienna considered...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. ATIIUNDERBOLT has fallen in Eastern Europe. On L. Tuesday, a correspondent of the Daily News at Belgrade transmitted to that journal a telegram positively...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Ilthat Must I Do to Get Well ? and How Can I Keep So ? By " One I who has Done it." An Exposition of the Salisbury Treatment. i (Sampson Low.)-This is a...

The Student's English Church History. Third Period. By C. G. Perry, M.A. (John Murray.)-In this volume Canon Perry com- pletes his work, carrying down the history from the...

I Poultry Chit-Chat. By "M Major B." (Eyre and Spottiswoode.)- This volume-which might, by-the-way, have been of a more handy shape-contains the outline of the writer's...

The Works of Alfred Tennyson, Poet-Laureate. (Macmillan and I Co.)-This is a complete edition of Tennyson's poems, in the same form as the edition recently published by the...

I A Thought-Reader's Thoughts. Being the Impressions and Con- I fessions of Stuart Cumberland. (Sampson Low and Co.)-That this is a very readable and entertaining book, need...

Cressy. By Bret Harte. 2 vols. (Macmillan and Co.)-This I is a story of life in the South-West of the States. The heroine, from whom it takes its name, is, at first sight-and,...

Remnmiscences of a Rambler. By W. Lerwick Fermor. (Wyman and Sons.)-Some sporting reminiscences in various parts of the world, as North America and North Africa, some...

PRESIDENT HARRISON'S FIRST MESSAGE. I PRESIDENT HARRISON'S first Address may be full, P as the Tiimes says, of -'glittering generalities ;" but it is also full of particular...

CORRESPONDEN CE. WINTER IN CALIFORNIA. HERE in our remote home in the West, every mail brings us accounts of the fog. darkness, sleet, and general misery of winter in London....

DR. BUCHHEIM'S EDITION OF " NATHAN THE WISE."* DR. BUCHHEIm has improved even on his first scholarly and excellent edition of Nathan der Weise, in the second edition which he...

AGRICULTURE AND THE GOVERNMENT. I EVER since the beginning of the depression in agriculE ture, there has been a vague, uneasy feeling among tenants and landowners that somehow...

THE LITERARY PENSION LIST. THE Incorporated Society of Authors, by the hands of T Mr. Colles, have published a curious and, in its way, interesting analysis of the Pension...

ART. EXHIBITION OF OLD MASTERS AT THE ACADEMY. THE public, naturally enough, have very different ideas as to what constitutes a good exhibition of Old Masters. This is...

The Rev. Joseph Parker, D.D., publishes a devotional work, " First Thoughts for First Hours," under the title of Every Morntinig. (Charles Burnet and Co.)-We have also...

Protestant Missions in Pagan Lands. By the Rev. Edward Storrow. (John Shaw.)-On both sides of the misssionary controversy it will be conceded that it is wvell to know the...

MR. PIGOTT'S SCAPULAR. C ARDINAL NEWMAN, in the lecture on " The Political C State of Catholic Countries No Prejudice to the Sanctity of the Church," insists very strongly on...

THE INEFFICIENCY OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. THE Right Hon. H. H. Fowler, who under the last T Government was Financial Secretary to the Treasury, and who is an excellent...

B OO I KS. WITH SA'DI IN THE GARDEN.-Y- THE plan of Sir Edwin Arnold's latest poem is simple but ingenious. After an elaborate description of the tomb and gardens of the...

KING MILAN'S ABDICATION. TIHE Russian Government is scoring success after T success in the Balkan States. It has, it is true, according to the ideas of diplomatists, received a...

GOVERtNMENT BY ORATORY. IT may be said with verbal truth that the government of this country at the present time, so far from being government by oratory, is government in...

TOPICS OF THE DA Y. THE GOVERNMENT'S PROPOSAL FOR NAVAL DEFENCE. L ORD GEORGE HAMILTON'S speech on Thursday night certainly gave rather a magnified than a minimised view of...

TWELVE YEARS' TRIAL OF THE VIViSECTION ACT.* FEW volumes contain more that is saddening than the littlepamphlet of twenty-two pages with this title, which we would commend to...

THE MEMBER FOR SCOTLAND.* AMONG the certanlinis gaudia which even in these busy days linger in the memory of middle-aged Scotebmen, there are probably none that are more...

PECUNIARY FORESIGHT. THE Standard of Tuesday published, apparently without any idea of its importance, an item of news which will strike many of the graver philanthropists, men...

THE MAGAZINES. WE have already noticed the principal article in theNineteenth Century, the defence of her opinions by the authoress of Robert Elsatere; but the number, though...

THE ROYAL ENGINEERS.* MAJOR-GENERAL PORTER has put together a history of his corps, which we can only regard as the complement of Conolly's book. giving a minute and...