Procedure, the Opposition having opposed mildly, and Mr. Smith having yielded to any reasonable demands. The first rule, which fixed 3 as the hour for commencing and 12.30 as...

T HE intelligence from San Remo is becoming hopeless. Dr. Knssmaul, the Strasburg specialist in lung-disease, reports that while lung-disease does not exist in the Prince,...

the omen furnished by the Doncaster election. At Hampstead,— vacated by the Colonial Secretary, Sir Henry Holland, who has been raised to the House of Lords as Lord...

With the "SPECTATOR" of Saturday, March 10th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. Advertisements...

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indication that the country is not going to take the leap in the dark which the Home-rulers advocate. In the Deptford contest no pains had been spared to carry the seat, and a...

The strongest weapon of obstructives is their power of demanding useless divisions, which may consume hours and it is therefore proposed that the Speaker should, in his...

foreign affairs, a new Parliamentary figure appeared. The Marquis de Breteuil, a Royalist Deputy from the Hautes Pyrenees, not yet forty years old, made a speech which riveted...

accept M. de Breteuil's advice—at least, as regards Italy—and the two Governments have engaged in a war of tariffs. The French Chamber has passed a Bill placing a duty of 50 per...

should be close allies ; but it is of even greater importance that England should keep her word with little people, and apparently we have not kept it towards the Negus of...

in making a speech to the Oxford Union, though in this case the great majority of the audience was opposed to the speaker, instead of being partisans of his Irish policy. Mr....

M. Wilson. The Judge found him guilty of obtaining money under false pretences, and therefore condemned him to two years' imprisonment, a fine of £120, and deprivation of civil...

the Sons of St. George, the British Association formed in America to induce British immigrants to naturalise themselves, and so counterbalance the Irish vote. Mr. Chamber- lain...

a Committee of Inquiry into the conditions subject to which meetings may be held in the Metropolis, and the limits of the right of the Executive Government to interfere...

and Navy Estimates will this year show a reduction, the true net total demand for the Army for 1888-89 being £16,700,000, and for the Navy, £13,082,000. This shows a saving of...

point of no little importance to railway-travellers, in the case of "The Great Western Railway Company v. Bunch and wife," —namely, that luggage entrusted to a porter, either...

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that Trafalgar Square is a freehold of the Crown held for public uses, but that those public uses are expressly subject to the regulation of the Commissioner of Police, and that...

who never boasted of having driven the National League into secrecy, but who said only that small and insignifi- cant meetings of the League held secretly are not calculated to...

£25,000 offered by New South Wales for the destruction of rabbits, and as a competitor has exported, it is stated, chicken- cholera to that Colony, with agents to ensure its...

petition from the Lord's Day Observance Society, complaining of the frivolous Sunday amusements of the rich, and suggested that as the Bishops in 1862 protested against Sunday...

MR. GLADSTONE'S "NOTES ON THE IRISH DEMAND." ir R. GLADSTONE'S paper in the Contemporary Review -_1. is as free from any admixture of political prejudice or moral partisanship...

W E do not wonder that French parties and French journalists are disconcerted and perplexed by the miniature plebiscite given on Sunday in favour of General Boulanger. No more...

by-election, and by- elections prove little ; but it had a certain importance of its own. The leaders of the Home-rule Party are men wise in their generation, and they know...

S IRCHARLES RUSSELL took such very narrow ground on Thursday night in asking for an inquiry concerning the right of meeting in the Metropolis, that he must have greatly...

P ERHAPS the most discouraging feature of modern Parliamentary life is the callousness with which, in the House of Commons, official statements of fact are specifically denied,...

T HE rapid passage of the new Rules of Procedure through the House of Commons with little serious opposition and no scenes, points to a decided change of opinion, either within...

T HE Government have done wisely in accepting Lord Dunraven's motion to appoint a Committee of the House of Lords to inquire into the " sweating " system. Not, indeed, that...

T HE death of Mr. Cotter Morison has deprived the English literary world of one of the most learned and brilliant of that paradoxical group of men who may properly be termed...

W E commented last week, rather too briefly perhaps, upon the singular position taken up by the philanthropists of the day, the men given to " tenderness " and agrarian laws, in...

HOME COLONISATION. TO THE EDITOR OF THE " EFECTATOE."1 Stn,—Your article on this subject supplies new evidence of the practicability of the experiment which our Society is...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —Mr. Jesse Collings has received a large number of letters from Associations and from gentlemen of all shades of politics, including...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Having expressed my opinion on what appeared to be the great mistake of an " Anglican Mission to Italy," I had hoped to leave the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — Mr. John Morley at Oxford, on the last day of last month, urged once more the favourite Gladstonian contention that "Coercion only...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] S111, — Are animals able to think over and carry out a plan ? The following anecdotes will answer the question. When in India, I had a small...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sia,—The inference that by-elections are no true forecast of the succeeding General Election, because the Liberals rapidly lost seats from...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] 8.0, — In reply to "A Constant Reader," I was, of course, aware that the " Girls' Public Day-School Company " encouraged a certain amount of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] BIR,—The interesting article on the above subject in your issue of October 8th last is very reassuring to those who advocate such an...

BLEAK is the wind and all the woods are bare, No rift of blue gladdens the wintry sky ; But Nature mourns her lover with a sigh, Hiding beneath a snow-white veil her care ; Ah...

DR. MARTINEAU'S " STUDY OF RELIGION."• [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] THE latter part of Dr. Martinean's second volume is occupied first with the controversy on human free-will, and...

IT is not easy to write, and, with reverence be it spoken, not always easy to read, the life of an Indian civilian. There is, however, one mode of composition which seldom fails...

good service to English history by pub- lishing a new edition of her husband's epoch-making work, the Short History. It is a book the world will not willingly let die, and new...

of Captain Hawley Smart'e novel, Saddle and Sabre, of the recent discussion on alliteration, when a well-known writer brought a charge against Vera Cruz and Valparaiso...

CHINA becomes from year to year of more weight and importance on the political chess-board, as well as in the arena of capital and commerce, and we may assume that the circle of...

Book-Lore : a Magazine Devoted to Old-Time Literature. (Elliot Stock.)—This is the sixth volume of this very readable magazine. It does not, we see, rigidly limit itself to the...

Edwin Chad- wick, with a Biographical Dissertation. By Benjamin Ward Richard- son. 2 vole. (Longmans.)—Mr. Chadwick was a most industrious worker and most prolific writer. Dr....

an accident to his carriage, and we have here related to us his experiences after death. He is a man who in life has taken no heed of things not temporal, and launched into the...

Owen, reviewed in our last issue, the editor wishes us to state that the line on the over-length of which we commented last week, has, by some mistake, been misprinted in the...

Son.)—This is a readable story of the old-fashioned sort, a story of honesty discredited by false accusations, villainy triumphant for a time but ultimately punished, and love...

W. Hillhouse. (Swan Sonnensohein, Lowrey, and Co.)—The title of this volume should have been "Practical Microscopical Botany," as it deals only with the histological department,...

things that strike us in this book is the conclusion, This is meant for a wealthy student." The gorgeous apparatus recommended by the writer almost makes one's mouth water. That...

(Alabaster, Gatehouse, and Co.)—Mr. Kennedy gives us a short historical account of the various devices which have been invented for the purpose of overcoming the great...