Ulster and the rest of Ireland. " It would be an outrage on the principle of self-government to place them [Ulster] under the rule of the remainder of the population." He quoted...

over the Crown, peace and war, foreign affairs, the Navy and Army, defence, treason, foreign trade, merchant shipping, wireless and cables. Until the Irish Parliaments were...

see in the Lord Chief Justice's words, and also in the words of " Mr. Macpherson and his troupe," an accusation against the people of Clare that they are given over to every...

letters submitted to him, but when stamped and addressed envelopes are sent he will do his best to return contributions in case of rejection.

The atrocious attempt on the life of Lord French naturally recalls the assassination in 1882 of Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr. Burke, almost on the very same spot where Lord...

T HE chief event of the week was the speech ,in the House of Commons on Monday in which Mr. Lloyd George an- nounced the nature of the forthcoming Irish Bill. We have written...

two Irish Parliaments would have all the Irish taxes, less a fair contribu- tion for Imperial services calculated for the time being on the figures for the present year. Out of...

recommend the establishment of two Parliaments in Ireland, one for the North and the other for the South. He mentioned four different ways of defining the " North "—Ulster as a...

written by Bishop Fogarty, Roman Catholic Bishop of Killaloe, in the Dublin Evening Telegraph. It is bad enough, and certainly a very significant sign, that the Sinn Fein...

Powers. We passed sentence, and rightly so, but the course of events, which could not then be foreseen, makes it appear now that Germany and Austria cannot recover within a...

of Central Europe, Mr. Lloyd George said : " I do not see for the moment what can be done unless America comes frankly in with us." Great Britain, he pointed out, was almost at...

in which what others might regard as moderation would be in us ignoble compromise. We refer in particular to Turkey. If we may judge by the French Press, Franco is leaning more...

thinking that the Viceroy was in the second car, threw bombs at it and damaged it, but the car was empty and the driver was not hurt. While they were thus engaged, the third ear...

week made their attempt while he was driving through Phoenix Park to the Viceregal Lodge. They assembled at a public-house near Ashtown Station and openly prepared an ambush....

week made a capital speech about his long tour in Canada and the United States. His anecdote about the woman who spoke to him at a wayside station in Canada, saying, " My...

necessity of setting Central Europe on its feet if it is not to become a diseased body communicating political and industrial contagion to all the world, that we think the...

in its issue of Saturday last described Savage as a would- be assassin. On Sunday night its offices were invaded by a band of armed men, who told the editor that he ought to...

George reviewed the situation abroad. The Italian Prime Minister had been invited to meet him and M. Clemenceau in Paris in a few days, " but," added Mr. Lloyd George, " it is...

heads of the House of Commons to France and Italy seem to us to have been prudent and necessary. The less help we get from America, the more careful we must be in supporting...

Thursday week insisted on maintaining Lord Newton's amendment to the Aliens Bill. The wholesale deportation of all remaining enemy aliens, except those who by luck or favour...

fresh decision about the Peace Treaty. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Taft have declared themselves in favour of ratifying the Treaty with some reservations, but the President has again let...

of the action of General Dyer at Amritsar, and stated that the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir Michael O'Dwyer, also approved of it. Colonel Johnson, who was in command at Lahore,...

Syria, has already got into difficulties. Its Governor at Rakka, on the Euphrates east of Aleppo, began his rule on December 11th by attacking the town of Deir ez Zor, further...

ation have won the General Election. Mr. Massey, the head of the Reform Ministry, is maintained in office by a large majority. Sir Joseph Ward, the Liberal leader, who left the...

try to come to terms with the newly formed border States in order to present a united front to the Bolsheviks. It is most unfortunate that the attempt has been so long delayed,...

an eloquent appeal in Monday's Times for help for Southern Russia. They ask not so much for money as for personal service in that distressed country, where civilization has, so...

ex-Service men who are being selected for Government employment in India are asked : " (a) What they think of the Montagu Reforms ; or (la) Are they prepared to carry them out...

mantle retained the seat for the Unionists. He had 9,621 votes. The Labour candidate, Mr. Brown, was second on the poll with 8,908 votes. The Independent Liberal, Mr. Milner...

the Adriatic question is still unsolved. America has been unable as yet to accept the very moderate compromise over Istria and Dalmatia proposed by Signor Tittoni, and the dis-...

6, 1919.

its stages a Bill to increase old-age pensions to 108. a week for persons over seventy whose income from other sources does not exceed £31 10s. a year. The weekly pension was...

THE TRIUMPH OF EXCLUSION. I T would be impossible to imagine more depressing conditions than those under which Mr. Lloyd George explained in the House of Commons on Monday the...

1 his speech in the House of Commons on Thursday I week Mr. Lloyd George, when talking about the future of the League of Nations, took what seems to us to be the only right...

safe to wager that any given play in London—excluding perhaps those performed by the Birmingham Repertory Company and their peers—would have a drunken man in it. In the Middle...

been vindicated by the Royal Commission on Agriculture in its interim Report. We could have wished that more than a bare majority of the members had recommended the con-...

r 1 IILERE is a wonderful fascination about children's toys. Does any one ever quite outgrow their charm ? The shop- windows of London illuminate the City and cause untold...

W ILL some one please kick me ? I understand that I have lately been giving off some high-toned thoughts about the sea and its attractions, and now I am sampling the practical...

[Letters of the length of one of our leading paragraphs are often more read, and therefore more effective, than those which fill treble the space.] RED CROSS WOMEN. (To TEE...

" SPECTATOR.") want to ask for the Spectator's help as well as that of other journals. I am a missionary from Southern Rhodesia, and I landed back on December 2nd. I began work...

[To THE. EDITOR OF TEE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In the forcible criticism of the proposed scheme for railway control which, under the above title, appeared in your issue of the 6th...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECFATOR."] Stn,—In your comments in " News of the Week" on the Amritsar riots you seem "inclined to believe that General Dyer lost his head." Being in...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I reply shortly to Sir Henry Knollys's letter ? Of course the fact of his having been killed adds nothing to the value of my son's...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] gin,—Your correspondent Mr. A. T. Rogers asserts in his letter in your last issue that " at the last General Election 75 per cent. of the...

SIR,—Your article of November 1st on anti-British feeling in America is full of interest. You are puzzled to know the exact cause of the reappearance of illwill apparent at so...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sue—We, being clergy and ministers of religion in the city of Carlisle and the immediate neighbourhood, desire to place on record our...

of reducing the inefficiency and loss of health resulting from the pushing of the drink traffic. hesitate when they learn that a necessary first step is the elimination of...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—An English man of letters, not unknown to you, wrote to me more than once from his quiet home, his sanctuary in Surrey, concerning...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.") 5ie,—It was surely not wise policy on the part of the miners to put forward, on the eve of their campaign in favour of a scheme of...

ITo TILE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR.") &R,—The Excess Profits Duty, defensible as a war measure, is indefensible now. It hampers production and is useless to abate...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—I replied lately to a correspondent of yours on this sub. ject, and he suggests that I address you. The rings which often occur here...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] Sitt,—The letter about the Bloomsbury grocer's cat that bought her own cat's-meat in your issue of December 6th is interest- ing, but I can...

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTLTOR."] Sea,—Referring to your correspondence on " English Words in the French Language,"I notice, in reading General Ludendorff's memoirs in...

[To THE Faeroe or TES SPECTATOR."] Set,—I well remember an experience exactly like that which Lord Walter Gordon Lennox describes. In 1885 I was in camp outside Suakin when at...

Sta, All lovers of our galleries and museums will thank you for your article in support of the National Art-Collections Fund. Might the attention of private owners be drawn to...

Present in Peace or War than an Annual Subscription to the Spectator. He or she who gives the Spectator as a present will give a weekly pleasure, as well as a weekly reminder...

SIR VICTOR HORSLEY.* No happier selection could have been made than that Mr. Paget should become the biographer of Sir Victor Horsley. The author, a man of letters, also...

CLOUDS OF GLORY. WHEN may I ever hope to see A sight like my first Christmas tree? I came in from the dark and cold Prepared for gifts and games foretold, But not for that...

[To THE ED/TOR or rim " Sracteroa."] Sm,—Now that at last a determined effort iS being made to rid this country of the rat plague, may I urge that the example of Japan may be...

name or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked " Communicated," the Editor must not necessarily be held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the...

war is, from the military standpoint, a much more serious production than General Ludendorff 's memoirs, though it does not appeal in the same way to the natural man's desire...

an Archbishops' Committee, instead of owing its origin to the initiative of certain unofficial members of the several Churches, and to the generous support of the Y.M.C.A., its...

to what might be called the " magic carpet " division of literature. The book evokes the strange landscape, the alien sounds, so strongly, so clear is the reader's impression of...

Every Man in his Humour is undoubtedly a dull pla y , even though Ben Jonson in his last version spared us the Italian setting in which the play first appeared, and for "...

charming book about this little- known part of Italy, and the photographs, maps, and sketches which illustrate her volume arc particularly good. They give a wonderful impression...

[Notice in this column does not necessarily preclude subsequent reeqne.1 The London Mercury for December (2s. Od. net) reached us somewhat late in the month, but it was worth...

MOUNT MUSIC.• Tuotort the long and fruitful collaboration of the two famous Irish cousins was severed by death four years ago, Mount Music, as the survivor tells us in the...

satirical story dealing with two sets of country neighbours—i.e., a county family and a tradesman with a beautiful daughter. There is also a rich young lady of Socialistic views...

the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge in small pamphlets at a low price, deserves to be widely known. These concise essays, written by scholars for intelligent...

several of their " Onoto " diaries for 1920, which are small, neatly printed, and strongly bound as diaries should be. The Medici Society publish more of their attractive...

Stoughton. 21s. net.)—Lord Fisher's new book is a collection of reminiscences and old papers of varying dates, with some pungent criticisms of the Admiralty's war policy at the...

Black, 40s. net) has appeared already in the edition for 1920. It is larger than ever, like the national expenditure, and runs to nearly three thousand pages for ten times as...

book of travel that makes one wish to visit the country described is a success. Miss Savory will unquestionably send many of her readers to the Eastern Pyrenees to explore the...

record of the Exhibition of war pictures at the Royal Academy. It is a comprehensive selection, with an index. The pictures are carefully reproduced and well printed.