itself, as we predicted it would, round the clauses reducing actual service in barracks to two years. That is so great a boon to the mass of the electors, that they will not...

spite of the burden of eighty-three years, Mr. Gladstone passed to a sketch of his proposed measure. The statutory Irish Parliament was to involve no dissolution of the - Union....

House every nook of which had been secured for nearly four hours by a most eager crowd, Mr. Gladstone referred to the assertion which he had made seven years earlier, but which...

In the Diet, on Monday, Dr. Bosse, the Minister of Public Instruction, defended the Ministry, who, he declared, desired only perfect freedom. Every parent who sent his son to...

T HE French Government had what it esteems a victory on Thursday, but the meaning of its triumph is not clear. The Opportunist party in the Chamber wished, it would seem, to...

case.

any of those who at present represent Ireland, has given his opinion of the Home-rule Bill. He likes it, with large. amendments, holding, as any genuine Nationalist would, that...

a very effective speech. He denied that there was any excuse for the Bill. Even Ireland herself seemed to be of that opinion, inasmuch as, instead of increasing the Home-rule...

Atherley-Jones, who, though he supported the Bill generally, declared that we might as well import into this House eighty French Deputies, or eighty Members of the Reichsra,th,...

when he sat down, the late Solicitor-General, Sir Edward Clarke, followed him with a very skilful criticism, pointing out how little excuse there is in the present state of...

the fate of the Home-rule Bill; but it is interesting to see how the new plan strikes foreigners at first sight. The Americans are favourable, conceiving that the rights granted...

before extending Household Suffrage to Ireland, Mr. Gladstone had met the argument that it would involve an immense Home-rule majority by saying that the English majority the...

House of Commons on Thursday. Lord Wolmer, on Tuesday last, said at a banquet given by Unionists that, as the Irish Members must be supported by the Party now in power, Mr....

119, • rejected Mr. James Lowther's amendment in favour of legis- lation to restrict " the immigration of destitute aliens into the United Kingdom." Mr. Lowther stated that,...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 94.

moral weight of the charge made P That a Member should not take a bribe, or a party be supported by foreign money, is perfectly clear ; but why should not rich politicians...

in St. James's Hall, given by the Liberal Union Club in honour of Lord Wollner, declared that the new Home-rule Bill "fails in every respect to meet almost every one of the...

by Mr. Asquith and Mr. Herbert Gladstone, is a step decidedly in the right direction, as recommended in this journal (January 21st). It aims at assimilating, on various points,...

Ambassador in Paris, Lord Dufferin and Ave, have this week defended themselves in public against calumnies. M. Waddington, attending the annual dinner of the French Hospital on...

THE NEW HOME-RULE BILL. M UCH the most remarkable portion cf Mr. Gladstone's speech on Monday, the most remarkable feature of Mr. Bryce's speech on Tuesday, indeed, the most...

Mr. Gladstone's proposals are carried, to place Ireland under an entirely new internal Government; and it is worth while to consider carefully what that new Government will be...

TR. GLADSTONE has always shown a curious — ILL inability to grasp historical facts. Again and again he has been betrayed into supporting his political con- tentions by appeals...

W E heard. a politician asking the other day in which of the Unionist speeches it was that the great passage on the paramount importance of insisting on perfect equality as...

A N endowed Church has its drawbacks. In theory- nothing can be better. In every parish in the country there is at least one resident clergyman secured against poverty, and...

T HE recent speeches of M. Waddington in London, and Lord Dufferin in Paris, mark something of a new departure in diplomatic ways. Ambassadors have often spoken before at public...

T HE Westminster Gazette on Tuesday published some long bills intended to show what rich ladies of fashion spend upon their dress,—not, indeed, the most extravagant of all such...

A PHILANTHROPIC controversy of long standing has this week "descended into the streets" in a rather odd way. The Greek island of Zante has, within the last fort- night, been...

[" Hic habitant Zeones."—Old Map of Central Africa.] F EW public characters are "at home" to visitors during so many hours of the day as the inmates of the lion- house at the...

that we are compelled to use a French word for lack of an English equivalent. The profession of the spy has been hitherto BO little known in England that there is no English...

IRISH AND CONTINENTAL CLERICALISM. [To THE EDITOR OP THE 45 SPECTATOR' Stn,—During the debate on clerical intimidation in Ireland , on February 10th, Mr. John Morley,...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " STECTATOR.".1 SIR,—Allow me to supplement "W. H. B.'s " letter on "The Change in Pronunciation," in the Spectator of February 11th. In 1851, being in the...

just drawn for him) that in "The in Pope's day like the French " th6," because of the rhyme,— clusions drawn from this as to the pronunciation of his day. Every schoolboy has...

Cobb ought to sue the Railway Company for damages on account of over-crowding his carriage, without any reference to non-assistance. Jury will give him plenty. am, Sir, &c.,...

A SCOTTISH PEPYS.* THIS is perhaps the most important—certainly it is the most interesting—book relating to the history of Scotland which has recently seen the light. It is...

Tr Mr, Gore has not always been prudent,—and the essay on "Inspiration," whicli was the most remarkable and the most vehemently attacked in Lux AI undi, was certainly not...

THE Essays in this little volume are well selected, and the prefatory notice of Montaigne is just what it ought to be, containing a short life of the author, and pointing out...

of Pushkin's shorter stories has been stimulated by the great success which two or three Russian novelists have achieved of late years. Readers of Tolstoi and Tourguenief must...

PEOPLE who are well on in middle age will remember some- thing of the name and fame of the Rev. George Gilfillan. He was a mighty hunter after new poets, and his season seemed...

of Doctor of the Universal Church to the Savoyard Saint whose manual of ascetic yet social perfection, the Introduction a in Vie Devote, is known to so many even outside his...

a very useful work,— one which all students of the most famous and important portion of English history will henceforth use and consult. It is true that the book is a...

and Notes, by Arthur Wollaston Hutton. 2 vols. (Bell and Son.)—Young's Tour has been re- printed for the first time without any omissions, and the editor has added various...

Co.)—This, the editor tells us, is a new book," rather than a now edition. Five out of the nine chapters are entirely new ; three have been revised and added to ; one, the...

is a most excellent history of the coal trade and coal legislation, succinct, clear, and readable, in the compass of a little over two hundred pages. The condition of the miners...

The Saghalien Convict, and other Stories. (T. Fisher Unwin.) — This volume has for its sub-title, "Russian Stories, Vol. II.," and belongs to the series of the "Pseudonym...

M.A. (A. and C. Black.)—This volume is "intended," we learn from the preface, "as well for laymen as for the profession." This does not, of course, mean that it is meant for the...

by William Oliver Ropes. Vol. I. (Printed for the Chettam Society.) —Here we have printed the Charters of the Priory of Lancaster, granted by Roger of Poitou, the Founder, John,...

McIlvaine, and Co.)—It is difficult to give any idea by description or criticism of the power of these tales, or rather "studies," for a conte is, perhaps, more of a study than...

known, and therefore, in one respect, the most interesting chapters in this book, will be those that give us sketches of Susanne Kossuth, sister of the Hungarian patriot, and of...

IL Allen and Co.)—There are two points of vital interest in Mr. Williams's work,—the raising of the standard of universal efficiency, and the efficiency of naval machinery at...

and Hall.)—Allan Gordon's narrative is a faithful description of life on board ship in the Indian Ocean. The working of a sailing-vessel is always well rendered by Captain...

By Dr. Spence, Dean of Gloucester. (Isbieter and Co.)—When we have praised Mr. Railton's beautiful architectural illustrations, we have praised all that can be praised in this...

Alice Havers, Gertrude D. Hammond, and Harriet M. Bennett (Hildee- heimer and Faulkner), contains extracts from Keats's "Isabella;. or, the Pot of Basil," "Una and the Lion,"...

Unwin.) —The heroine marries an old millionaire because her lover having become suddenly poor, she is forbidden to marry him, and she thinks she may got the old man's money. It...

C. Black.) —Lady Grisell, heiress of a Scotch earl, grows weary of her Northern home, and answers the advertisement of "a lady of title" who wishes to chaperone "a young...

a volume of extravagances of pen and pencil which are mere really amusing than such things often are. The artist fairly rises to his subject. There is no arrike-pensde of sense...

By E. N. Buxton. (Stanford.)—Mr. Buxton's book is one of the best descriptive books of big-game hunting in many lands we have ever read. He has tried for most of the trophies of...

(J. Clark and Co.)—This is one of our author's strongest and sweetest stories, dealing in well-defined characters, but made charming by the delicacy and insight into love's...

Co.)—This is a sea-story, told with all the spirit which Mr. Collingwood knows how to throw into a tale. The materials are familiar enough. In this respect, indeed, there can...

W. Thacker and Co., London.)—Miss Edwood wishes the public to know that "the life of the English in India is, in the main, as pure and good as it is elsewhere," and in this...

R. Chambers.)—This is not a very pleasant story ; but it is well in- tended and well worked out, and may, not impossibly, do good. A plot is laid, half in malice, half in...

Co.)—This is a really charming story. Gerald Graham, the little son of an officer living in Aldershot Camp, saves a dog ; and the creature becomes, so to speak, the preserving...

Jack Umberville has a father, an African explorer, whom every one else believes to be dead, but in whose return he retains an unfaltering faith. How he and his bosom friend at...

be understood that the main interest of this book is not literary, and that it is one the substance of which it is better for a reviewer to describe than to criticise. Mr....

Co.)—This is a series of "Scenes from Roman Life," and very striking and effective these scenes are. The Prince and Princess Astalli are Romans of the old type,—nobles who...