'The Chamber of Representatives has twice defeated the Government within a few days of the end of the Session. On Thursday week, the Chamber refused by 286 to 203 votes to...

was the occasion for the display of great Russian enthusiasm. 'They were received with every demonstration of respect by the Russian fleet under the Lord High Admiral. And even...

of some importance, one that he trusts Mr. John Morley's Irish policy, though he does not trust Sir Williarn. Harcourt's, or even Mr. Gladstone's ; but it is very doubt- ful...

Character of Mr. Blaine's illness authoritatively confirmed. He is stated to be suffering from Bright's disease, a complaint which renders it imperative that all strain and...

popula- tion of the West of Ireland, sent a very interesting letter to the Times of Thursday, on the really magnificent proportions of that part of the Govetament Land Bill...

T HE most important event of the week has been Mr. Balfour's virtual announcement that the business of next Session will be an Irish Local Government Bill, constructed on "the...

the archteologists. It is there stated that "Mr Theodore Bent, who is exploring the ruins and historical remains in Mashonala.nd, has discovered some images and pottery at the...

Cook's great undertaking for lightening the responsibilities- and difficulties of travellers, Mr. Cook was treated as- a star of quite the first magnitude. His services to the...

decision by thirteen of the jury that Mrs. Cathcart is sane, and com- petent to manage her own affairs. For this decision Sir Charles Russell may fairly take credit, for he...

London by a unanimous judgment in the exercise of his dis- cretion to stop the litigation directed against the reredos in St. Paul's. Lord Herschell was as confident as the Lord...

Wed- nesday :—" If the Pope thinks we have reached an epoch when democracy is becoming more important, and the principle of the Republic is daily making progress, and if he...

Stanley of Alderley's as to the conduct of the Chantrey Trustees in purchasing for the nation Mr. Calderon's picture of St. Elizabeth of Hungary naked before the altar, to the...

on Monday, that of "The Income-tax Commissioners versus Pemsel," in which the freedom of religious as well as charitable trust-funds from liability to be assessed to the...

a remarkable story telegraphed to Thursday's Times from San Francisco with reference to the war in Chili. Sefior Lastarria, a former Senator and Cabinet Minister in Chili, was...

Justice Denman and Mr. Justice Wills in favour of the Company which refused to pay an insurance policy effected on the life of Mr. Maybrick. The ground for this decision is one...

expressed, on his return to America, a very interesting opinion in regard to the condition of the cotton operatives. His actual words are worth quoting :—" The United States...

vote a monument to Mr. Pitt, an opposing Member declared :—" Mr. Pitt needs no monument. Eight hundred millions of irre- deemable debt are his everlasting monument." In much the...

Cottle and Police-Constable Bradbury was concluded at Aldershot Police-Court on Wednesday, and the defendants were committed to take their triaL The strongest possible evidence...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 951 to 95f.

MR. BAT,FOUR'S ANNOUNCEMENT. announcement, as we understand it, which Mr. Balfour made on Monday night during the discussion of the Irish Estimates, that the Government hope to...

T HE French Chamber that now is, seems, after all, determined to model itself on the Chambers that have been. For a time it was differently minded. It had realised, to all...

extraordinary ability of the man there can be no doubt. Lord Dufferin rightly sees proof of that ability "in the even tenor with which during recent years Canada has pursued her...

T HE discussion on Wednesday as to the expediency of limiting the Law Officers of the Crown to their official duties, did not result in any very definite addition to the data...

Paul's reredos case is at least very satisfactory as affirming in the most positive and unanimous manner the discretion of the Bishop in a case brought before him under the...

Edinburgh _Review contains an article on "Colonial Independence" worthy in every way of the best traditions of the senior quarterly. The editor has had the courage to publish a...

of harvest in the early districts, the corn-crops are so backward that no wheat of any consequence is likely to be cut for at least another fortnight, even if we are favoured...

N 0 one can read the Life of either Mr. or Mrs. Carlyle without being struck by the extraordinary genius for self-tormenting which both these remarkable persons pos- sessed. Not...

W HEN that supremely self-conscious and dissatisfied personage, Childe Harold, related the story of his pilgrimage in several cantos for the benefit of his despised...

W E have long expected a reaction in regard to the habit of washing, and it would seem that at last this re- action is beginning. We have seen in hundreds of previous instances...

London, "how you can think of toiling yourself to the end of the chapter, and let the opportunity slip of contemplating at your ease the beauties of Nature For my part, I am...

LTO TILE EDITOR OP TER " SPECTATOR:1 Sin,—The able article of your contributor on this subject reminds me of what I once read in Washington Irving's "Sketches." That was (I...

THE "CLERICAL CONSPIRACY." pro TIM EDITOR OP TER " SPRCTATOR.".1 SIR,—I quite agree with the Spectator of July 18th, that "the demolition of Mr. Parnell's personal ascendency...

pro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.".1 Sin,—For several days past, my proceeding to the strawberry.. beds in my garden has been most noisily and vigorously denounced by a grand...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT•TOH."] SIB,—A candidate has called to solicit my vote at the next .election. I replied that I never promise my vote, and am not a party man, but...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—It may interest lovers of birds to be told of what a friend calls "a memorable ornithological event." I read in a well- known book on...

LTO THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR." J Sin,—Recently I wrote to you on another subject. That letter brought me, among other communications, one from a very influential...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIE,—May I venture to remark that the past week offered, and the present one still presents, to us Church people, a fine opportunity of...

DARLING, with those big eyes of blue That stare me gravely through and through In babyhood's undaunted wise, Whence came their colour and their size ? Did Nature, kind to...

SHADOWS. SHADOWS of the morning, on the way ! Shadows of a morning, fresh and gay! Shadows of the morning, like a maiden's tears adorning For her bridal,—oh ! how soon ye pass...

BOOKBINDINGS AT THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB. THERE once was a pure palmographer who regarded with con- tempt and loathing any dealings with the "merely literary" side of a...

MRS. CARLYLE.* IT is impossible to read afresh the now well-known story of Mr. and Mrs. Carlyle's life together, with anything approaching to weariness. They tormented each...

THE chief characteristic of the Japanese nitsuke, those little figures that are fashioned out of ivory or jade with such infinite pains and care, apart from the extraordinary...

THESE Hibbert Lectures are a natural corollary to Dr. Hatch's Bampton Lectures. In the latter we have an elaborate attempt to prove that the Christian ministry is not a divine...

ME. WILMA 31 BLACK'S hand and heart are still in the High- lands, and as long as he can send southward stories like Donald Ross of Heimra, his readers will be quite content that...

THE two volumes before us, respectively introduced to the public by Professor Dicey and Sir Frederick Pollock, the most eminent of living English jurists, can be described from...

Englishmen find an undying interest in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Dart hur. The learning and enterprise of Dr. Sommer and Mr. Nutt have given us a splendid reprint of our old...

The current issue of the Quarterly Review (John Murray) con- tains no article of special merit, though several deal with interesting subjects. The best, in our opinion, is that...

IC Spence, D.D., and the Rev. Joseph S. Exell. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The present volume deals with Ezekiel. Dr. Whitelaw furnishes the Introduction. The Exposition is...

W. Cook (C. R Shipton), appears under the auspices of the. The British Road-Book, VoL I., compiled and edited by Frederic W. Cook (C. R Shipton), appears under the auspices of...

of Professor C. Witt by Frances Younghusband. (Longmans.)— Professor Witt has made a few omissions, as, indeed, was neces- sary; he has interspersed some illustrative...

J. Y. W. MacAlister, F.S.A. (Elliot Stock.)—This is the second annual issue of an interesting magazine. The free- library movement, with its successes and reverses, is...

Gertrude Franklin Atherton. (W. Heinemann.)—" Fame," cries Miss Atherton's hero, in a fine passion of scorn, "that rescues a Jane Austen and passes an Emily Brontë by !" Yet a...

is a story with which no reasonable person can find fault, except, indeed, it be to question the soundness of the political economy. A mysterious stranger comes into a place...

uneventful. The modern "king-maker," if we may call Prince Bismarck so, resigned, and "Le roi me reverra" was not a true prediction. We quarrelled with Portugal, or rather,...

the Public Record (*ce. By S. R. Scargill-Bird, F.S.A. (Printed for H.M.'s Stationery Office ; Eyre and Spottiswoode.)—The delicta majorum had, at the beginning of the present...

Magnusson, Professor J. E. Thorold Rogers, and others. (T. Fisher ITnwin.)—This volume contains twenty-one lectures deli- vered on Sunday afternoons at the South Place...

(Cambridge University Press.)—The "Prolegomena," with a full account of the Homeric forms, are particularly useful.— In the series of "Cambridge Texts, with Notes," we have...

(Fisher Unwin.)—Mrs. Hort is not without skill in describing places and scenery, but her pages are overweighted with stories, many of them scandalous, of people whom she met...

Co.)—This is a well-written account of a remarkably interesting life. Charles Macklin was born in the last year of the seventeenth century, and lived to within four years of the...