T HE Explosives Bill introduced by the Home Secretary passed both Houses on Monday night. In the Commons, although the Bill authorises judicial inquiry, with witnesses on .oath,...

retrospective, in other words, to make it apply only to persons elected after the passing of the Bill. This was the course taken in relation to the Catholic Relief Bill of 1829,...

from China, and published in the Times. The writer, supposed to be the head of one of the greatest houses, believes that, with the recall of M. Bourree, the French Minister at...

Northcote and in favour of Lord Salisbury in Monday's Times, which would not have done much execution in any case, but being followed, as it fortunately was, by Lord Salisbury's...

case.

further arrests have been made, but the police have been busily collecting evidence, and there are rumours that the person who can tell most has agreed to turn Queen's evidence....

presented, the former with the freedom of the City of London, and the latter with an address of congratu- lation, enclosed in a gold casket. They were subsequently entertained...

of Lords on one point which is probably not an unimportant point for him. The House of Lords have decided, by three judi- cial votes against one—for we do not count Lord...

left his general policy less intelligible than ever. After making the Parliamentary but perfectly useless points that Mr. Glad- stone, who supported local government in Ireland,...

Childers's Budget speech on Monday. Indeed, their reply was not to his facts, but to inferences which they feared that the country would draw from his facts. The simple truth...

Elective Councils for Irish Counties, giving them full powers of local taxation, and the right of nominating Sheriffs, Sustices of the Peace, and all other county officers. The...

which took place last Saturday, Mr. Bright, who answered for the House of Commons, made some remarks on the inconveniences of doing work in an assembly of which a large minority...

proposals for an extensive scheme of Irish migration,—i.c., for removing the Irish peasants from the bad land in the west to better land elsewhere in Ireland which they are to...

destroying Borrowdale, has been withdrawn. The promoters persisted till they reached the Lords, but at last even they felt the indignation of every educated man in England.

in place of Lord Justice Brett who has been made Master of the Rolls. Sir E. Fry is one of the soundest lawyers on the Bench, and will make a very good Judge of...

letter to the Paris Correspondent of the Standard. In it he declares that if the defenders of the dynamite policy can only be crushed speedily, the Parnellites and the Irish...

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Czar of Russia. Europe and Asia are being ransacked to increase the splendour of his coronation, the church where the ceremonial is performed will be entirely filled with...

the use- less and futile Bishopric of Jerusalem, on no ground whatever that we eau understand, except that a few English tourists might like it, and that it will be a lasting...

visit to Constantinople and to England, will not return to Egypt. That would be a grave misfortune to that country, as any diplomatist who might take his place—say Sir R....

bringing up the address against the Affirmation Bill, signed by nearly 14,000 of the Clergy, but his Grace's reply was 'very guarded. He reserved the chief part of what he had...

T RANDOLPH CHURCHILL'S Monday letters are I likely to obtain a certain success, if one may call it success, as fiascos. Last week, his Monday letter in favour of Lord Salisbury,...

THE DYNAMITE BILL. T HE living force remaining in our Parliamentary institu- tions was severely tested on Monday evening. The Houses were called upon to act rather like a...

I T is worth while to consider the arguments for paying-off English Debt, for there is more latent distaste for Mr. Childers' proposals in that direction than their reception in...

T HE discussion which has been raging this week upon the Continent as to the alleged Tripartite Treaty between Germany, Austria, and Italy, has thrown a flood of light upon...

W E are not particularly well pleased—except so far as the change promises a speedier, though a scantier measure of justice—with the decision of the Government that what is...

work of the House of Commons to Grand Committees has now been on trial for a week. The Standing Committee on Trade meet on Mondays and Fridays, the Standing Com- mittee on Law...

T HAT Dynamite should be greatly dreaded is natural, because anything which will destroy great numbers at once is greatly dreaded. The sympathy between human beings is so...

M R. BRIGHT'S speech at the Institution of Civil Engineers, on Saturday, in Kensington Town Hall, evinced a strange sort of unreasoned, not to say almost superstitions, con-...

W HAT is the real influence of stimulants and narcotics upon the brain P This is a question which has sug- gested itself to every man who has had much intellectual work to do,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "Spircroyeir."] SIR,—I understand your article of March 24th, on "The Dyna- mite Danger," to maintain that the sudden arising of this danger is not so...

"A LAYMANON ANGLICANISM." [To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—In confirmation of your remarks in your review of " Romanism, Protestantism, Anglicanism," by "...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR, —I am afraid you are mistaken, though I should be glad to- think you are not, in ascribing the diminished consumption of alcoholic...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " ] SIR,—In last week's Spectator, third page, it is stated that the late- embarkation of emigrants in Blacksod Bay, County Mayo, was. a...

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sra,—Your very interesting article on Lord Dunraven's paper does not seem to reach the root of the English love of aristo- cracy,—i.e., of...

OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In your article of Saturday last on "The Sovereignty of the Congo," criticising my speech, you say, "Mr. Jacob. Bright, certainly no Chauvinist,...

THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Your notice of the Earl of Aberdeen's article on the Affirmation Bill in the Fort,zightly leaves the impression, which I am sure you could not have...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SER,—If not too late, the following might he useful, in the way of indicating a common, perhaps the common, interpretation of our...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR.'] 7 8173,-1 was much obliged to you for publishing my letter on vivisection last Saturday. Had I longer deferred writing to you, I should have...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " EFFCTATOR.7] SIR,—You did well to correct Mr. Nichol's misquotation, in his ' 4 ' History of American Literature," of the above poem ; but there is still...

MRS. CARLYLE'S LETTERS.* WITH a little suppression of the innumerable repetitions con- cerning bad nights, digestion, insect annoyances, and other * Letters and Memorials of...

[To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—We have heard a good deal lately about "rational dress," and we are promised one, if not two, exhibitions of it this year; but as...

philosophers is a remarkable production. It is subtle, learned, and eloquent. He brings to the illustration of his proper subject information gathered from the most varied...

Tux realism which is the key-note, and also in some measure the bane of our modern spirit, in its artistic expression, has in Germany, in the domain of fiction, not yet...

LORD H &TFIERLEY'S character, apart from his work, was so high, that he deserved a memorial in the shape of a biography, dis- creet, modest, and just, like himself. Mr....

instead of criticising, we feel rather disposed to encourage the reading of, and mainly on account of the obvious earnestness of its anther, who belongs to the philanthropic,...

and after reading on its title- page that it is merely " a simple story of a quiet place," no one will expect to find therein startling incidents, passion torn to rags, scenes...

British Quarterly Review. April. (Hodder and Stoughton.) —This number is in a great measure occupied with ecclesiastical and politi- cal controversy. The article on " Welsh...

Tehillim. (Andrew Elliot, Edinburgh.)—The author of this translation thinks that "to chant a prose version is an absurdity; music, being rhyth- mical, needs a rhythmical...

Feilden, B.A. (B. H. Blackwell, Oxford.)—" A Short History of the Constitution " would have been a better title for this book. It does not, as one might expect, give a...

Student's Hand - book of Philosophy — Psychology, by Professor Cocker, D.D. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—The first book, entitled " Prolegomena," gives in out- line the views of...

Nicholson (Griffith and Farran), is intended to set forth in an allegorical form varying states of growth in the mind of a thinker of the nineteenth century. The narrative is...

T. E. Page, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Page shows us that there is still something to be done for Horace, after all the labour which commentators almost without number have...

Gospel. By the Rev. G. F. Maclear. (The University Press.)—It is scarcely necessary to say more than that Dr. Maclear's contribution to this excellent series is worthy of its...

(Remington.)—If we cannot accept this volume as history, and to do this would be to pronounce definitely on some very obscure and diffi- cult questions, we may say without...

Paul, Trench, and Co.)—There is some really fine verse in this volume, though the author's feeling for rhythm seems uncertain. He has caught, too, something of the spirit of the...

Low and Co.)—Wood engraving, if we take no account of certain mythical stories which give it an earlier origin, seems to have preceded printing by about a quarter of a century....

and Co.)—This is certainly the most complete book on New Zealand that has yet come under our notice. The author describes the country, the population, the life which they lead,...

Sober Earnest. With an Introduction by James Millington. (Field and Tuer.)—This is not the first time that fun has been made out of the ingenious Seiler Caroline's attempt to...

Brothers.)—The story of the siege of Paris is told in these two volumes with much detail, gathered, one may safely conjecture, from personal knowledge and experience. There have...

"Recommended to Mercy" (White and Co.), is the story of an octoroon, who in the old days of slavery loved "not wisely, but too well," an impulsive young Englishman. We are...

Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Notes, illustrations, and glossaries help to make what seems a careful selection of extracts, both prose and verse, attractive and useful. There are...

Ross. (Chatto and Windae.)—Here we have sketches of the inmates of a boarding-house, a numerous company, among which a dismal cynicism permits us to see few that are not knaves,...

By George Falkner. (Elliot Stock.)—Mr. Falkner describes the " Holy House," the gorgeous church in which it is enshrined, and its treasury, rich with the offerings of many...

Defenders. B y C. Edmund Maurice. (Bell and Sons.)—Mr. Maurice wishes to " popularise " the work of the Commons Preservation Society by presenting to the public "some of its...