broke out at Bombay on Friday, August 11th, and lasted till the following Monday. Over thirty-five persons were killed outright, and many more have since died from their...

much im- portance to the victory at Hereford, but for the fact of Sir Joseph Pulley's immense local popularity. Hereford, no doubt, is one of the places at which it is the...

case.

Pope in view of the French elections, in the form of a letter to the Archbishop of Bordeaux. Its contents are strongly in favour of the Rallied, and against those who still...

nificent courage, must often rue the day when he undertook again labours to which those of Sisyphus must sometimes seem trivial. He has not yet got his Home-rule Bill up its...

T HE award t the Court in the Behring Sea Arbitration was given i... Paris on Tuesday. The net result is,—(1), that America cannot claim any special control over the waters of...

of the eight-hours mining day, Mr.. Gladstone says expressly : " We shall propose autumn sittings for business ; " and not merely as last week that the Government is " disposed"...

clause for leaving the appointment of the Land Commis- sioners in the hands of the Imperial Government. Mr. Chamberlain put the matter thus. Assume the L•ish land- lords to be...

Dalziel proposing to leave out the words under which it is constituted. Mr. Gladstone declared that the matter was not vital to the Bill, and that the Government were willing...

Courtney's proposal that the Members of the Irish Cabinet should be able to attend and speak in both Houses,. considered by us at length elsewhere, entered upon Lord Wolmer's...

last Saturday (though he need hardly have said so much in favour of that very crusty politician of a former generation, Mr. John Arthur Roebuck, who believed " in the contrary "...

we do not know,—has written a letter to the chairman of the Radical Association at Northampton which has in it some of the ring of a political farewell. Mr. Labouchere frankly...

confine the powers of the Irish Parliament to little more than County Council subjects. Mr. Morley was ironi- cal and indignant at this proposal for turning the Bill topsy-...

and signed by 103,000 women belonging to all classes and creeds in Ireland, was forwarded to the Home Secretary, who, perhaps not unnaturally, refused to receive it in person...

coal- strike and its many ramifications, the newspapers publishing the most confused accounts. In the Ebbw Yale—the only district in South Wales in which the men remain at...

morning of last Saturday, after about a couple of years of serious illness, robs England of one of the ablest writers as well as of one of the most scientific soldiers in the...

listening to inflammatory speeches from Mr. John Fitzgerald, of Boston, and Mr. Finnerty, unanimously passed a, resolution declaring that " the Home-rule Bill-will not satisfy...

letter. He points out that though Parliament has been sitting for six months, and since the end of March has had the whole time of the House, all it has done has been to pass a...

from all parts of the House, that there was no inten- tion of releasing Dr. Gallagher, the dynamiter, the House considered Mr. Gibbs's proposal to add "currency " to the list of...

gives some quotations from the speeches of the Irish leaders, which are very significant in view of Mr. Gladstone's declara- tion that the imputation of " general...

• THE HEREFORD ELECTION. W HEN Sir Joseph Pulley said, after his defeat, that be bad fought his battle against enormous odds, he was right if he included in the estimate of...

" yES, Gentlemen, it's the King's Army and the King's. Navy,—but it's the National Debt." This in- • flammatory outburst of Cobbett's represents a feeling. which has, we fear,...

M R. GLADSTONE probably knows by this time that, huge as were the difficulties which he foresaw - when at the age of seventy-six he undertook to reconcile the English people to...

on the decision of the tribunal created under the treaty of Washington, to decide on the merits of the seal controversy. We say this, not merely because the United Kingdom has...

T HE letter of " Senex " in last Saturday's Times, on "Royal or Ministerial Prerogative," was fortunately followed by a very admirable speech by Sir Henry James at Sheffield,...

moral interest over and above their political importance. Will the proved corruption of the Opportunists, and the suspected corruption of the Extreme Left, induce the electors...

W HATEVER the results of the harvest may be in the United Kingdom as a whole, the condition of the grain and the late hay secured during the recent glorious weather will be...

I N the progress of the debate on the Report stage of the Home-rule Bill, Mr. Gladstone has given us another curious illustration of that side to his character which goes so far...

M R. J. W. MA.OKATL, "sometime Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford," has certainly a very happy gift for so rendering some of the most simple and striking of the narratives of the...

T HE Pall Mall Gazette publishes the result of an interview with Mr. J. McDougall, of the London County Council, which will be good news not only to those London anglers who...

T "pillow-problem is one of practically universal interest s for he must be healthy and happy far beyond ordinary human experience who can say that he never remembers to• have...

THE air is warm, the hot sun draws out the pleasant resinous scent of the pine-trees. Outside the wood the commons are covered with heather and ling, cornfields are golden and...

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ON HOME-RULE. [To TEE EDITOR OF THE 4. SPEOTATOR."1 SIR,—In reading an copy of the old novel " Thinks-I-to- Myself," I came across the following passage....

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — I should be inclined to fear that the great drawback to- Liberal Unionists—or "Dissentient Liberals "—calling them- selves...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—With reference to the interesting letters on the Referen- dum which have appeared in the Spectator, it seems important at the present...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEOTATOII.1 SIR,—I have not yet seen the new "Life of Sir Richard Burton," but I find from the letter signed "J. W. 0.." in the Spectator of August...

THE LIFE OF SIR RICHARD BURTON.* SIR RICHARD BURTON was born on March 19th, 1821, at Barkbam House, Herts.f After an irregular education on the Continent, and at a private...

LTO THR EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] see by your article in the Spectator of August 12th, on "The Silver Crisis," that you are a monometallist, but dis- posed to make...

nearly nine hundred pages, Mr. Macdonald has apparently garnered up not only all the poetry he has written, but every scrap of rhyme that may have fallen from his pen in idle...

MIOHELET is known chiefly in this country by his History of France, Life of Luther, and his pleasant and interesting books, L'Inseete and L'Oiseau. A new edition of his works is...

'CANON RAINS, in the history of York, has had one of the best subjects among "Historic Towns," and he has certainly handled it in the best manner. His book ranks with that of...

in every country that there is no man who can be reckoned exactly in the first class, as far as is shown at least by his present work. We have perhaps a right to plume ourselves...

Chtuton Cole, at d 6h:11VAILlu?. Mn. COLLINS considers the Dean a greatly maligned man, and it has been his endeavour in this Study to "vindicate the consistency of his...

Tins is a work of sterling value. One can only regret that the author began dealing with his subject on too vast a scale to complete the survey of it. Two large octavo volumes,...

Three Letters and an Essay. By John Ruskin, 1888-41; found in his Tutor's desk. (George Allen.)—Selections from .Ruskin: Second Series. (Same publisher.)—The tutor was the late...

Humphry describes herself by the nom. de plume of " Madge," which she is accustomed, it seems, to use in the pages of a well- known weekly contemporary. Whether any of the...

by George A. Aitken. 3 vols. (George Bell and Sons.)—These three cheap volumes constitute a very convenient edition of Burns's poems for handling, and contain everything of the...

Long, and Co.)—In those times, when literary conceits are all the vogue, it is a genuine pleasure to come across such an old-fashioned story as The Laird's Deed of Settlement,...

Robert Howie. (Bryce and Son, Glasgow.)—Mr. Howie gives thirty-nine elaborate tables, and a not less elaborate introductory statement explaining and modifying those tables. Ho...

vole. (A. and C. Black.)—This is a " third " edition. Some rearrangement has taken place, the order of the studies being now chronological. The mimiambi of Herondas have been...

seen on whom the mantle of the late Mr. Hawley Smart, in his character of " sporting " novelist, has fallen. Meanwhile, it may bo allowed that Mr. Finch Mason is making a bold...

have a tale of college life in America. If it is approxi- mately correct, we must say that some of the New England manners and customs are as much survivals of the seventeenth...

—This is among the best of Mr. Clark Russell's stories. It is skilfully opened, the comic rascality of the Yinkee skipper being artistically contrasted with the tragedy which...

Ursula Carlton tells her story,—a love-story, of course, and there- fore, equally of course, a story of cross-purposes. Lovers in fiction, it is well known, entertain a...

(Watkins and Osmond.)—This massive volume contains ton distinct guides ; six of them are Australian ; the seventh takes in India, Siam, and Java ; the eighth, China, Japan, the...

(Longmans.)—Major Hopkins began his career as an angler very well by catching a three-pound trout in a Cambridgeshire mill-pond, and he has pursued it with much success. The...

in the Solent and the neighbouring seas, will find a useful guide in Nineteen Charts of the Isle of Wight and Solent Tides, by T. B. C, West and F. Howard Collins (J. D....

Fisher Unwin.)—Some of the circumstances of the Fishguard Invasion are given in a, carefully - puttogother introduction. The invasion was a scheme of Hoche, though Carnet was...

Antiquary : a Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past (Elliot Stock).—Of the publications of the British Museum, we have the Catalogue of the Greek and Etruscan Vases in the...

who calls himself " Anthony Hope " continues to improve. The hero of his latest tale is a minor poet, whose gains, by-the- way, are described with a Monte - Cristo-like...

are clever stories, but of the unoheerful kind, with which it is now the fashion to try a reader's patience. The most pleasing is the last. This has the special interest of...