moved for leave to introduce a Bill, " to inquire into the charges and allegations made against certain Members of Parliament and other persons by the defendants in the recent...

on the principles adopted in the Sheffield case of Trade-Union terrorism, when Broadhead's doings were brought to light. It proposes to appoint three Commissioners (whose names...

indignation, to protest' against being asked to accept or reject the Bill without being told anything about it. " A more monstrous proposition," he said, " was never made by a...

T RE much-talked-of meeting between the new Emperor of Germany and the Czar took place on Thursday at Peterhof. When the approach of the German squadron was expected, the Czar,...

of the Treasury on the subject of the " Charges and Allegations Bill," which Mr. W. H. Smith proposed to introduce (with the consent of the House) after 12 o'clock, and...

Mr. Parnell was, he still maintained, as the Government had always maintained, to go to the Courts of Justice. Mr. Parnell had declined this remedy, on the ground that he could...

case.

course of the last sitting, an important amendment, moved by Sir Lyon Playfair, requiring medical officers of health to be legally qualified medical practitioners, and declaring...

by Mr. Hobhouse, with a view to secure the election of the County Aldermen by a system of minority voting. The House, however, negatived the proposal by-ninety-nine votes to...

occupied in discussing the extent of the borrowing powers to be con- ferred upon the County Councils, and in debating whether those bodies should be allowed to raise money to...

W. H. Smith on the subject of the "Allegations Bill," the apparent intention being to do all in their power to discredit the Bill while affecting to accept it. The chief point...

party of Sir Wilfrid Lawson's to the Northumberland and Cumberland Members. He spoke with satisfaction of the Local Government Bill, denuded though it is of many of its...

of the Local Government Bill were agreed to, a very important amendment transferring the appointment of the Recorder, Common Serjeant, and Judge of the City of London Court from...

and Sir Joseph MacKenna (one of Mr. Parnell's party) has given notice that he will move the rejection of the Bill; while Mr. Parnell, on the other hand, threatens the Government...

stand on the Hoe to commemorate the destruction of the Armada, was laid by the Mayor of Plymouth. Over twenty thousand people assembled to witness the ceremony and to take part...

was devoted to the old problem of how the Irish Members are to be retained in the Parliament at West- minster consistently with the satisfaction of Irish demands, with the...

to an address presented to him by Paris workmen who wish to see the Monarchy restored. In his reply, the Comte says that the incapacity of the present rulers of the French...

annexed during the last ten days, cannot very well be reckoned as a new jewel set in the Crown of England, be its strategic uses never so important. The island consists largely...

New Consols (24) were on Friday 994 to 994xd.

Mr. Herbert Gladstone which took place in 1882, before and after the murder of Mr. Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish. The correspondence, so far as it had proceeded before Mr....

died last Saturday. His death is a calamity to the State of which he was a wise and thoroughly high-minded ruler, and a misfortune for this country, to whose policy he was...

deeply certain classes in the greatest city of Western. America are imbued with the anarchist doctrines. On Tuesday last the police made a raid on a suspected house, and there...

ME. PAENELL'S GRAITruDE. RE is a story of an Irishman who had been I RE is some small official appointment by the late Lord Derby, and who, at the moment of the vacancy, was...

tercentenary of the Armada,—the event which rperhaps first fully awakened the national self-con- sciousness of the English people, —has forced on us a com- parison between the...

EE MIGRATION is usually a subject upon which the House of Commons is, above all others, unable or unwilling to come to a decision. Every Session sees the subject crop up in some...

A SINGULAR calm has come over the aspect of European politics. The contrast between the excitement, agitation, and anxiety of three, and still more of six months ago, and the...

WHA TEVER we may think of the policy of the Church Association, its last onslaught is, in one respect, a commendable improvement on its previous tactics. Hitherto it has...

T HE happy ending of the strike at Messrs. Bryant and May's factory has relieved us of the disagreeable duty of weighing the statements of the firm against the statements of the...

A FEW years ago the writer found his way along the curving shore of Galloway to the cottage of a grim old. Scotchwoman, Grace McCredie. She was the survivor of what had become...

of Derry, in a fi ne sermon preached in London -I- shortly after the death of the Emperor Frederick, devoted a considerable part of his sermon to the special allowances which...

W E suspect that, if the truth were told, there are a very considerable number of men and women who, even though they hate fighting and bloodshed, and would invariably cast...

A VILLAGE FESTIVAL. Pan - is dead !" So, at least, those who claim to be teachers of us English on such subjects have told - as ; and if our poets cannot be trusted about them,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR ,—For cool assertion, combined with dense stupidity, commend me to a bigoted society. I have just read in the City Press a long, earnest...

MR. PARNELL'S NEW DEPARTURE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —In the excitement caused by the recent trial of O'Donnell against the Times, the public is likely to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Japp is certainly entitled to speak with authority on all matters relating to the life of De Quincey ; but I can- not help thinking that he...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—My knowledge, all told, does not amount to much ; but the best part of what it is has been learnt in discussion, or gained in reading...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The terrible evil of insomnia has so many different sources, that the utmost we can hope from any single artifice is to afford relief...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] do not think that it was superior intelligence in the Alpine dog over other intelligent dogs which induced him to wait to eat the biscuit...

MR. WEMYSS REID'S LIFE OF MR. FORSTER.* [SECOND NOTICE.] THE political portion of this admirable biography,—we might even call it a perfect model for all the biographies of...

SONNETS IN MY LIBRARY.-111. THE HEREAFTER. [The writer's purpose cannot be fairly judard without taking into account the whole collection of these sormets cn "The Hereafter."]...

IT is difficult to review in connection this characteristic work by the author of Le Molt d'une Saner, and the volume which is so very " free " a rendering of it. We do not...

Tan nature of this admirable selection may best be defined in the words of the Editor as the story of Southey's life" told in his own words and linked together with a few...

In regard to style, indeed, it has no special merit, and reads like the contribution of a second-rate newspaper correspondent; but the volume is full to overflowing of...

of Bibles annually published in this country contain the Apocryphal books would probably result in an almost startling answer. For, speaking at least from the Anglican point of...

might mislead, were it not followed by the frank limitation that the India referred to is bounded by the vision of the professional agriculturist. It is desirable also to state...

The Universal Review. No. 3, July. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This is a very good number, the illustrations being, to the eye of the present writer at least, unusually good and...

be made of, the journals of the various Societies that are doing such genuine though unostentatious labour in our midst. These journals, published monthly or quarterly as the...

(Trabner and Co.)—The minerals of New South Wales, excluding gold, of course, have only of late years been considered by their possessors worth the trouble of mining, and New...

attaches to the July number of that spirited little periodical, The Anglican Church Magazine; the first paper is " Echoes " of that Conference. The same number contains the...

A. Coghlan. (George Robertson and Co., Sydney.)—The Columbus of Australia, De Quiros, like his great predecessor, imagined he had discovered a continent when he had only chanced...

and Co.)—This book has considerable merits, both of substance and of form. The author has evidently read widely in the domain of history, and he expresses himself with no little...

glad to see that the craving for physiographical knowledge is getting to be more fully recognised. Most teachers are willing enough to devote plenty of time to the subject in...

ford.)—The usefulness of this work is shown by the issue of a third and revised edition. Baths and wells may be, indeed, are, of great value in themselves, but the majority of...

writer has endeavoured to portray in the form of a romance, sketches of Welsh life and character, with some of the customs which are strange to English ears, such as the "...

By Rev. G. Henslow. (Began Paul and Co.)—The Rev. George Henslow prefers to follow Saint Hilaire's monde ambiant as the primal cause of change, and refers the origin of floral...

Edition. (Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School Union.)—The startling con- trast is between the father, who becomes a confirmed drunkard, and the son, whose linen are cast in very...