power of the Government in dealing with Anarchists. One assigns fresh funds, 232,000 a year, to the police, another authorises interference with all Anarchist meetings, a third...

a tedious and complicated business. The Bill introduced will not be a simple one fixing the same rate of ad valorem duty for everything, but will fix the impost on every...

not only with their peers in the House of Com- mons, but also,—and especially, perhaps,—with the Peers in the House of Lords, on the subject of the Lords' amend- ment to the...

to Wednesday week (December 27th), and then to renew the debate in Committee on the Parish Councils Bill, which they will send up to the Lords and ask the Lords to consider in...

party of thirty-five men under Major Wilson, who are in close pur- suit of Lobengula. They reached his waggon on 4th inst., but were attacked by a body of Ma.tabele, and...

A LL Europe has been affected by a crime committed in Paris on Saturday. The Chamber was sitting at 4 o'clock discussing languidly the validation of an election, when a slight...

ease.

amendment to the Employers' Liability Bill. It proposes that the clause forbidding contracting-out shall not apply to any agreement for assurance against injury which has been...

that in relation to Mr. Balfour's first motion to report progress, in the course of which Sir Henry James insisted that these prolonged Sessions tended inevitably to a very...

at the Cannon Street Hotel, convened by the London Chamber of Commerce, under the chairmanship of Sir A. Rollit. The Lord Mayor was to have presided, but at the last moment was...

is usually called, the Parish Councils Bill) has, of course, not been rapid since the extraordinary surrender to Mr. Cobb, which turned the thirteenth clause into a field of...

at one point. It was hoped that the " drawings " on India would be made easier, but from causes discussed elsewhere, the demand for India Office bills has practically ceased. It...

Alfred John Monson, of having murdered Lieut. W. D. C. Hambrough, at Ardlamont, in Argyllshire, in order to benefit by policies of insurance for £20,000, commenced in Edin-...

days in all, in hearing the Zierenberg case, returned a verdict for Mr. Labouchere, the defendant. It will be remembered that Truth, in an article headed " Is Zierenberg's a...

Mr. Shaw-Lefevre's Select Committee, appointed to inquire into the manner in which the Railway Companies have fixed the new rates, and to consider whether any other than the...

Town Hall, Braintree, Essex. He maintained that the Government were arranging matters for a quarrel with the House of Lords upon whieh they could go to the country. They wish to...

winter cruelly, especially while an extortionate price con- tinues to be demanded for coal, begin to be violent in their lan- guage, and may possibly force Government most...

the most impressive speeches against the Irish policy of the Government which we have read for many years. He first urged that the danger of the passing of a Home-rule measure...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 9Ble

THE ANARCHISTS IN PARIS. MHE active Anarchists of the Continent are for all prac- tical purposes dangerous lunatics, and should be regarded as such, both by Legislatures and...

IBERALISM is not only disappearing from the 4 Gladstonian creed, it is becoming the distinguish- ing mark. of political unfaithfulness to the new Radicals. Mr. Cobb's victory...

days the air has been full of a rumour of an early Dissolution,—of a Dissolution at the close of the Autumn . Session itself. And Mr. Glad- stone's replies on Thursday to Mr....

W E know of no reading more depressing than a Debate in the House of Commons on the condition of the unemployed. The contrast is so striking between the good feeling shown on...

I T is to be hoped that before these lines appear, Mr. Gladstone will have announced that the Government are ready with a definite scheme for maintaining the supremacy of our...

S IGNOR CRISPI has formed a Ministry. That is good news, for though he has plenty of faults as a statesman, he is the one man of whom it can be said that there is a fair chance...

I F is not only the remarkable outburst of anarchy which gives the characteristic colour to the crime of the present day, whether in England or on the Continent of Europe, or in...

T HE very bold experiment of the Government of India, in ceasing to coin rupees has partially succeeded, or at all events has appeared .to succeed. The fall in the value of the...

I T is a pity not to dwell for a moment upon the scene pre- sented by. the French Chamber immediately after the explosion of Vaillant's bomb. Events nowadays so often leave a...

A LEADING article in the Daily News of last Tuesday, commenting upon a text furnished by an American writer, deplored with much humour and good sense the human failing of...

below freezing-point. On the following morning, though the sun broken feather, and could hardly present a finer appearance was shining brightly, every pool and pond was sheeted...

THE AUSTRIAN TAAFFES.* Ausraia., like France and Spain, owes much to the Irish and Scotch officers who cast in their lots with her during the- seventeenth and eighteenth...

THE HAWARDEN HORACE. I. exxvie. Ad Pyrillum Plosculum. PERSICOS odi. puer, apparatus, ORIENTAL flOWCTS, my Cyril, Displicent nexaephilyra coronae; (Save of language), I...

Facts Stranger than Fiction. By Dr. Withal* Wright. London, Hodder and Stoughton. MRS. GASKELL, in her very interesting, if somewhat somicre, Life of Charlotte Bronte, has long...

preliminary essay on "The Time-Spirit" (or Zeitgeist), have been published before, and several of them have received separate notice in these columns, especially the long one on...

four, if not five, pseudo-Dauphins of the first class. How many lesser incarnations,—may be calcu- lated according to the general love of looking for mares'-nests. The line may...

and most important of all to hie owner are his legs and feet. The utility of man's indis- pensable slave is limited by his limbs ; when these are worn out, how sound soever may...

Ilan Walters. London : Bentley and S. 1993. the panorama from S. Maria di Soccorso of Capri, or of the WE fear that Mr. Walters' book must, on the whole, be ranked somewhere in...

Paul Renouard, H. W. Brewer, and other artists. With descriptive letterpress by Harold W. Cox. (Sampson Low and Co.)—This volume contains the illustrations of Parlia- mentary...

ance are Dante's Purgatorio and Paradise, translated by the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, with illustrations by Gustave Doril (assell and Co.) ; Lamb's Tales front Shakespeare, with...

is a book of verses intended for little renders, and seeming well suited to them, with illustrative pictures not quite as good as the letter- press.—From the same publishers we...

an illustrated book of extracts from religious poetry, old and new. The names of Spenser, Charles Wesley, Keble, Sic., are among the authors. Some texts, too, are taken from the...

Home. By H. W. Longfellow. Illustrated. (Longmans.)—Among the other poems are "The Children's Hour," "Maidenhood," and "The Golden Milestone." The illustrations are eight in...

GIFT-BOOKS. Cassell's Family Magazine. (Cassell and Co.)—It is difficult to differentiate the magazines, even those published by one firm. How does the Family Magazine differ...

(Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—Miss Sichell takes for her motto, "La faiblesse eat plus opposee a In vertu que is vice," and pro- ceeds to illustrate it by means of two stories of...

(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—This story is somewhat after the manner of M. Jules Verne. There is science with a considerable element of the marvellous mixed with it, and...