I N a speech at Arklow on Thursday week, on which we have commented more at length in another column, Mr. Parnell explained how he had persuaded the Dublin Corporation not to...

Dublin last Monday, Mr. Parnell made a speech, partly of self. congratulation, but still more of exultant prophecy, in which he declared that the triumph of his policy and the...

Sir Charles Warren from Bechuanaland, and have appointed a pnisne judge at the Cape, by name Mr. Shippard, to succeed. him. This means, we fear, a triumph for the policy of...

making as much as they could of the meeting of the Emperor of Russia with the Emperor of Austria at Kremsier on Tuesday, but even that much was little. There was the usual...

the National League, explaining that the Irish farmers had not supported him as they ought with funds for the purpose of sustaining evicted tenants, and that this part of the...

of children should have accompanied the procession to heighten the melodramatic effect is simply revolting. There are great disputes as to the actual numbers of the demon-...

Times, suggests the propriety that all the correspondents of English newspapers who were in Egypt or the Soudan, should send either to the International Arbitration and Peace...

a speech to his constituents which is interpreted by M. Clemen- ceau and the Radicals as a declaration in favour of their views of the policy of the future. He asserted that the...

consider the best mode of enforcing the Criminal Law Amend- ment Act was not, strictly speaking, a conference at all. It was too numerous and miscellaneous for real deliberation...

wickedness of our Government and our public men in offering a price for the head of Olivier Pain, with his own peculiar timidity. After he had got an immense meeting together he...

with respect to the Zulfikar Pass, which, so far as Lord Salis- bury and Lord Randolph Churchill can judge, are likely to be satisfactory. These concessions are, however,...

claim to the Caroline Islands against Spain. The angry feeling in Spain has been so well-marked and so genuine, even in the midst of the panic about cholera, that the German...

promises that, " in the event of any one of my clergy tendering to employers advice which appears to me as mischievous as that which has been tendered to the employed, I will...

Consols were on Friday 1008 to 1008.

speech at Shanklin to the Conservative Association there, from which it appeared that he had not very much to say. He chiefly taunted the Liberals with the ill-success of their...

for the paper published in the Times of yesterday week. " His Excellency," says Sir R. G. Hamilton in the letter which he has been instructed to address to the Melt Press on the...

in the calmest possible terms to Lord Randolph Churchill's indecent attack on him in the House of Commons. He showed that the retirement from Candahar was a step essential to...

by the police, amidst a great popular demonstration of satisfaction, but the accounts put forth concerning both her mother and her- self by different authorities are so utterly...

has withdrawn his name from the Commission of Inquiry into the Depression of Trade, which leaves Professor Bonamy Price and Mr. Jamieson almost the only known economists on it....

• MR. PARNELL'S NEW POLICY. M R. PARNELL has been described by the best judge of speakers among the statesmen of the day as the man who always succeeds best among our...

M R. PARNELL made an important speech at Arklow yesterday week. It is his good-fortune to find the profession of patriotism, thoroughly genuine we are sincerely convinced, very...

I T is very curious to observe the embarrassment of the leading Conservative organ in dealing with the recall of Sir Charles Warren, and the appointment of Mr. Shippard in his...

W E do not suppose that the meeting at Kremsier between the Austrian and Russian Emperors has any new political significance whatever. It undoubtedly means that Russia is not...

MR. CHAMBERLAIN'S letter on this subject, which we _1.11 published on Saturday last, arrived too late to be dealt with at length last week, and our answer to Mr. Jesse...

that the changes effected by the Redistribution Lord Bandon wished to thrust into the Endowed Schools Acts, Act are far greater in London than in any other part of the and so...

I F we may believe the Manchester papers, the Cotton Trade is in a condition of acute crisis. Their market reports read like jeremiads. The hitherto unfailing remedy for low...

A WRITER in the Times, whose communication was honoured with large type, suggests that some of the many holiday-makers who will spend their vacation abroad should give us an...

T HE interesting dissertation on himself, which M. Renan delivered last week in his speech to the Celtic Society at Quimper, in Lower Brittany, was in every respect...

I N a paper published by Mr. Llewelyn Davies in the volume of very thoughtful sermons on social questions which he has just published, is contained an address to a Church...

HOME-RULE IN IRELAND. ITO THE EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOH."] `Sin,—Yon were formerly willing to publish letters strongly opposed to your own views, being celebrated for your...

to make one or two remarks anent your article under the above heading ? You say that Dr. Goodwin was " extremely remiss in not appending to his stern disappro- bation of Mr....

[TO THY EDITOR OP TH1 " SPICTATOIL."] SIR,—The vehement rhetoric of Mr. Kennedy, Mr. Tuckwell, and Mr. Evans makes it easy to condemn them, and yet pass by without an answer...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " Syscrseroz."] think you must have overlooked, amidst the mass of reading matter which no doubt comes under your notice, a letter from Mr. Chamberlain to...

had occasion to look into the question of Disestablishment, and was rather struck with the following fact. In the time of Elizabeth there were in England and Wales about 9,000...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.''] Sra,—The public is constantly reminded by Sir J. B. Lewes and other authorities that the average yield per acre of wheat is vastly greater...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTLTOR.'l Sra,—I heartily hope and somewhat confidently believe that sour article on "The Cry for Disestablishment" will give pause to some who are...

"SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your remarks on the ostracism of Dr. Liddon express only too truly the feeling which will almost universally prevail amongst thoughtful members of the...

pro THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In your editorial note, appended to Mr. Hill's letter on this subject, you assert that " the Channel Islands are not more thickly...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR. "] believe that some five or six years ago the Peninsular and Oriental Company supplied its medical officers with am- hydrate of amyl or...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.''] Sur,—Your review to-day of Dr. Hertel's work on "Overpressure in High Schools in Denmark" and of my introduction thereto, contains,...

MEMORY. L—IDEAS FADING IN THE MEMORY. QUICKLY they vanish to a land unlit, Things for which no man cares to smile or mourn, Forgotten in the place where they were born; Each...

THE LIFE AND SPEECHES OF THE MARQUIS OF SALISB1TRY.3: THE writer of this book, of whom we never heard before, has done an unkind service to Lord Salisbury. He makes no attempt...

and unpretentious book is the minister of the parish of Manchline, and he very truly says:-- "Stith a centre of classic ground as the old kirkyard of Manchline will scarcely be...

volume of Mr. Graves's fall, laborious, and deeply interesting memoir of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, and it is to be followed by a third, which will complete the work. Probably...

Ix some respects Liss Fleuron reminds us of a recently pub- lished English novel, A Mummer's Wife, by Mr. George Moore, which was reviewed in these columns a few months ago....

work ' Longinus o'er a bottle, Or every critic his own Aristotle." So Byron wrote in jest; bat in plain truth every critic is always his own Aristotle. Now, Mr. Holland's...

THE ordinary novels of the day may be divided into two classes. There is the what may be called " the course of true love never does run smooth" class. The characters are quite...

The Scottish Church, which has recently been started to defend the Northern Establishment,, and still more to give expression to the literary talent that exists in, or is not...

R. Haweis, M.A. (Isbister.)—This is the writer's seventh volume of sermons, and like his former publications, treats in great measure of subjects rarely mentioned, except...

and Co.)—Lord Granville Gordon has a decided talent for ballad-writing. He has an excellent ear for melody, and a considerable command of rhythmical language, which he can...

(Elliot Stock.)—The author is cheerfully and unaffectedly didactic. Though he does not give much point to his remarks, and is, for such a topic, somewhat deficient in...

may be safely left to satirise themselves. Aaron Grimetone, a millionaire, wants to buy an hotel. His price is refused, and he builds an opposition house which ruins the old...

—Madame de Presnel gives a conveniently distinctive name to this novel, but she is not the heroine. Rather, we may say, she is the 'chorus, distributing praise and blame,...

Unwin.)—Mr. Ritchie went out, as he says, "to ask the emigrants how they were getting on, to judge for himself whether it was worth any Englishman's while to leave home and...

lished in such numbers that it is impossible to give them anything like adequate treatment. From Messrs. T. and T. Clark, to whom theological students certainly owe more than...

the third) series of The Expositor, edited by the Rev. W. Robertson Nicoll, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton). The contents are varied and interesting, and, though we cannot but...