Wednesday addressed to the Conservative Association of Battersea, delivered a most crushing reply to Mr. Gladstone's address to the Noncon- formists, on which we commented last...

to the Colonial Office a despatch which, to speak plainly, insists that the Mother-country shall obtain a treaty from China prohibiting the emigration of Chinese to Australia....

phenomena of our age, the steady movement of the surplus population of Europe across the seas, is likely to receive a check. The reluctance to receive more immigrants is not...

affecting the Irish County-Court Judges. Mr. Glad- stone spoke of the increase of a sentence on appeal as a per- fectly monstrous iniquity, whether it were or were not legal...

week. It appears from the detailed reports that General Boulanger's tour in the Nord was fairly successful, the populace everywhere showing itself on his side; but the oppo- •...

case.

on a proposal by Mr. Bradlaugh to require the Speaker to call Members elected at by-elections to the table to take the oath, "unless the House otherwise resolve." His object was...

"Imperial Defence." His object was not to obtain money for Imperial Defence, but to strengthen the squadron to be per- manently maintained in Australian waters under an...

had never heard of Lord Wolseley's opinion before, but answered, on the whole, in a conciliatory spirit. He denied that his own Government had neglected defence in order to save...

recently, at a dinner given to Sir John Pender, made some remarks implying that England was not safe in the event of invasion, and attributing her insecurity to government by...

salary of Mr. King-Harman, the Irish Parliamentary Under- Secretary by whom Sir George Trevelyan's political brain is so painfully haunted. On Monday night, Mr. Heneage, a...

piece of obstruction,—the debate which arose on Mr. Healy's attempt to declare the letter from Mr. Am/0ton, an Irish Resident Magistrate, announcing the conviction of Mr. Dillon...

second reading on Thursday night, would, if carried in its present form, effect a considerable improvement in the law as it at present stands, but not nearly as much as might...

Mr. Wright, a bank clerk, is away at his business all day, leaving his wife, seventy-one years of age, at home alone. Between 2 and 4 o'clock in the afternoon, two men, both...

the London Chamber of Commerce on Tuesday. He maintained that our policy in that vast system of Colonies had hitherto been one of shirking responsibility, and that if we in-...

Frederick Cavendish in the Mechanics' Hall, Keighley, on Wednesday, and delivered a very graceful speech on the occa- sion, marked by all his literary ability and insight. "I...

the People's Palace, which he had himself presented to the Beaumont trustees. The bath stands at the western side of the grounds, behind the technical schools, and measures at...

the Irish Catholic Members against the Pope's Rescript on Thursday, will have no effect. They evade the Boycotting question altogether, and ignore the essential feature of the...

Friday 99 to 99:

Wednesday, full of cleverness and egoism. He ventures to predict that Irish agitation is dying away, and thinks that had Rome not known this to be the case, the action of the...

THE WOLSELEY AFFAIR. debate of Monday in the Lords on the dispute Ti between the Premier and Lord Wolseley, has on us something of a depressing effect. The scene, it is true,...

I T has often seemed to us that neither British Govern- ments nor British Oppositions adequately value the virtue of magnanimity. We are far from saying that they never practise...

W HETHER in deference to the sentimental outcry against political exile to Siberia, or from a sound perception of the true requirements of that vast portion of the Czar's...

A GOOD many French Republicans are in favour, when the Revision comes—and for all the resistance of the moment, it is certain to arrive—of abolishing the Presidency altogether....

W E do not suppose that the Australian quarrel with the Chinese, although it looks so grave, is of any- great importance, for the Government of Pekin has allowed its subjects...

A NY scheme that has for its object the creation of small landed proprietors, must in principle meet with sympathy from those who are opposed to the spread of Socialistic...

T HE Lords' Committee on the Sweating System are. doing a very useful work. It is not premature to say this, because it is true without reference to the Report that they will...

T HE handsome swimming-bath which Lord Rosebery has presented to the Beaumont trustees for the People's Palace at the East End, will add greatly both to the enjoy- ment of the...

M RS. CRAWFORD, a clever woman of letters who resides in Paris, and is correspondent of a leading English journal, endeavours, in the first number of the new magazine, the...

THE "VICTORIA," NEW CUT. Sfit,—Of all the healthy signs of real social progress in this remarkable age, I know of none more striking, or, I will add, more thankworthy in a...

LORD MINTO ON SCOTTISH CHTJRCH PATRONAGE. rro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sr,—In the year 1874, when the" Church Patronage Abolition Bill (Scotland) " was passing through...

THE Grosvenor Gallery must still be considered one of the foremost picture exhibitions in London, though it has to some extent lost its most original characteristics, and no...

[TO THZ ED/TOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] trust that you may be able to find space in your columns to insert the contradiction of a calumnious charge brought against the Rev. Otto...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Owing to absence from home, I have only just seen the paragraph, in your issue of May 5th, referring to the meeting at London House on...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Accept my best thanks for your kind insertion in the Spectator of my appeal on behalf of Hannah Connell. Your readers will be glad to...

SIR HENRY TAYLOR'S CORRESPONDENCE.* INTERESTING as was the autobiography of the author of Philip van Art evelde, this selection from his correspondence is even more...

THIS volume as a whole is even more impressive than an single sermon in it. It gives an impression of a manly, simple,, healthy piety, at once fresh and thoughtful, wholly...

WIDELY differing in many particulars, the two books we have bracketed together under the above heading have at least one point in common. They both paint in the most unmis-...

out of our power to praise these valuable and interesting volumes with any enthusiasm. He has a story to tell that was well worth telling, and in essentials he has told that...

a good repute. Fevers and earthquakes, revolutions and robbers, are the ideas which naturally suggest themselves in connection therewith. But, as far as Guatemala is concerned,...

Bout-well. (Appleton and Co.)—These pages certainly display "the marks of friendship" more than "the skill of the biographer." Nor need the result surprise us. The personality...

The Universal Review. Edited by Harry Quilter. (Swan Son- nenschein and Co.)—The Universal Iteriew is a new illustrated monthly magazine, to appear on the 15th of every month....

(Blackwell, Oxford.)—This is an interesting essay, even though, after the manner of prize-essays, it contains little that is new in the way of facts, criticisms, or ideas. On...

and Oates.)—This is a third edition, and presumably, therefore, has found many readers. Doubtless it has its value, but it requires a previous education to appreciate it. The...

and Marshall, London.)—There can be ne doubt but that Mr. Hayes's blank verse is of very good quality indeed. He has learnt in the Tennyson school, and no disciple has caught...

mouth.)—This is really one of the most interesting publications of the year, being, in fact, the only means by which we can obtain an insight into naval architecture and...