Tuesday,—it is called a "conference," we suppose, because there is not even a semblance of " conferring " on the policy to be adopted, every resolution being cut and dried...

before his eyes the great danger of disgusting permanently the Liberal party by playing into the hands of the Tories, insisted that the cause they had at heart was in no respect...

T HE suicide of Mr. Justice Willes, which took place at eight o'clock on Wednesday morning, at his residence, Otterspool, wear Watford, has thrown a gloom over the week. The act...

-of the present month, and is to be succeeded, as all the world expected, by Sir Roundell Palmer. We have given our estimate of the new Lord Chancellor elsewhere. In Lord...

up by his somewhat unruly followers. The Rev. H. W. Crosskey expressly urged on the Conference that they should vote only for candidates who were 'sound' on the subject of...

primary visitation, with a view of showing that no Church can really - be independent of the State and of the State laws, and that it is- a mere question of degree how far the...

announce- ment of Lord Robert Montagu's conversion to Home Rule,—for the legislative sanction of which Mr. Butt says that Lord Robert sub- mitted a Bill to the last Tory...

very striking and weighty speech of the Vice-President of the Council at Bradford yesterday week, that we need only add here that the meeting, which was a very large one, in...

to his Limerick constituents on Thursday. He was naturally most bitter against Mr. Lowe, who does seem to make it his object to stick pins and needles into the most sore and...

built by Philip II., in the form of an up- turned gridiron, and dedicated to St. Lawrence, some thirty miles from Madrid, has had even a narrower escape from destruc- tion than...

no reason at all to doubt that the award of the Geneva Tribunal has been received with great satisfaction in the United States, nor that it has really answered the purpose of...

"political prisoners," making light of the plea that the soldier's mutiny in entering a disloyal association is a very different crime from a civil conspiracy, and asserting...

to hold its annual meeting on Wednesday next, when we hope there will be a better disposition manifested to give a fair hearing to the Roman Catholic minority than there was...

Railway, in which eleven persons were killed and sixteen seriously injured. A passenger train had been detained two hours at Oxenholme junction, in consequence of an accident...

subject of very vivid excitement in France during the present week, and has elicited comments at least as warlike and dangerous as anything of M. Gambetta's. But the speech was...

Peers, the Earl of Rombery, speaking at Queensferry this day week, after treating with force and wit of the agricultural-labour question and the Bishop of Gloucester's...

we have as yet no authentic statistics as to the number of emigrants. It seems certain that on the last days of the option the roads and railways to France were crowded with...

Church in Ermeland seems to be complete. The Minister of Public Instruction, Dr. Falk, has intimated to the Bishop of Ermeland that the State cannot pay the salary of a Bishop...

City Hall, Glasgow, to a very thin audience, on class government. He no- ticed the rejection of the Birmingham Sewage Bill last Session as an instance of class legislation, and...

MR FORSTER. AIR. FORSTER'S speech at Bradford yesterday week is not .1.11 one that can lose significance by one week's or indeed by many weeks' interval. He had nothing very...

ex- Bat perhaps the most important passage in Mr. Forster's pected to give way. He gave the most serious trouble to the speech,—that which gives it its tone of singular weight...

\A TE fear that Gambetta has not helped himself, we trust he has not hurt the Republic, by his splendid speech at Grenoble. He seems to have achieved one of his best efforts,...

T HE Liberationists,' as they call themselves,—we wonder they don't shrink from a title which requires a small essay to explain it,—finding that secular education is not a very...

T HE Agricultural Labourer has come forward with his claims at a very opportune moment ; he gives the news- papers something to write about and politicians something to talk...

" ATIDDLEMARCEI" bids more than fair to be one of the great books of the world. There are, as we have often noted, tones and undertones in it that are not to our liking, and...

T HERE are few subjects less satisfactorily treated in scientific treatises than that which Humboldt calls the Reaction of the Earth's Interior. We find, not merely in the...

THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURER. [To ms EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") have read with deep interest the various letters on the Agricultural Labourers' movement which, with the...

propositions are both desirable and , practicable, but is the sixth practicable, or altogether desirable ? Its object is good,—to make unlawful those perpetual re-settle- ments...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] Sin,.—Your correspondent Mr. Charles W. Stubbs has scarcely, I think, divined the real cause of the indifference which is exhi- bited by the...

of your correspondents, "Another Radical Squire," invites discussion and correspondence upon the subject of labourers' cottages. As it is a topic upon which a good deal of...

'CANTON.* IF anything can surprise the traveller who has seen Siam, it is the city of Canton. He has to see Hong Kong first, but Hong Kong is a common-place spectacle for those...

Dr. Maguire's letter to Mr. Fawcett you say that "the numbers of the Roman Catholic and Protestant middle-class in Ireland from whom the Universities ought to be recruited being...

[To THR EDITOR OF THR 4 .• SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Allow me to make a few remarks on your notice of my letter to Professor Fawcett. You state that the statistics which I quoted, and...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the very able series of letters which Mr. Fry has addressed' to you under the above heading, he appears to me to present one point far...

so many good things in this volume, we confess our mental attitude towards it was rather that of -disciple than critic. Yet if enjoyment should be the highest form -of...

LET no one suppose that Madame Von Oppen has written a touching story of a homeless outcast, or a dashing one of a citizen of the world. Her book is—or, at least, reads like—the...

successes, there is always a certain risk of servile imitation on our part. The great principles of warfare hold good for all time, but the forms and • Cavalry Field Duty. By...

GENERAL HAZEN found King William at Ferrieres, which ha- describes as a splendid domain—the country seat of the Paris. Rothschilds—with roads, drives, walks, deer-parks, lakes...

scoundrel of a cousin to the very respectable and wealthy suitor who presents himself, backed by parental authority, in the person of Squire Eadaile,—" hence these tears." The...

Outlines of Textual Criticism Applied to the New Testament. By C. C. Hammond. (Clarendon Press.)—" The following pages," says Mr. Hammond of his little book, "have no claim to...

are inclined to think that there is very little good in criticising Mr. Grant. Moat novel-readers are acquainted with so veteran a writer, and, if they happen to like his...

—We feel no call to defend the teetotallers, the doctrines of the United Kingdom Alliance, or the policy of the Maine Liquor Law. We have had occasion more than once to express...

Hall.)-. Lady Wood's novel is, at all events, harmless and unobjectionable. We may go further, and say that it is readable ; nay, more, that it contains one character which...

Howson, D.D., Dean of Cheater. (Murray.)—To review this book at length with the attention which the several essays deserve would be to discuss a very wide subject. We can do...

Addis. (Barns and Oates.)—We have not had the advantage of seeing the pamphlet to which this is a reply, nor if we had seen it should we have cared to discuss the questions in...