a speech in Dublin delivered on Tuesday, one from the Birmingham organ of Mr. Chamberlain. Mr. Parnell simply answered by a threat. If self-government were refused to Ireland,...

T ORD HARTINGTON'S speech at Waterfoot this day I week,—the first speech in the new Parliamentary campaign 'carrying any authority with it,—was very calm, clear, and sagacious....

admitted to the fullest extent the necessity of reform, declaring that landlords who could find no purchasers, farmers who were losing money, and labourers who were driven into...

case.

Hartington spoke strongly ; but he did not wish to see powers given to the Local Authority to purchase land for the purpose of artificially redistributing it among the labourers...

angry with Lord Hartington for condemning free education, graduated taxation, and the proposal that Local Government Boards may acquire land (under sufficient safe- guards) for...

Stead of the Pall Mall Gazette, Mr. Jacques, and others, for the abduction of Eliza Armstrong. The case will come on on Monday, when Mr. Stead, who was in Switzerland last...

Wight on Thursday against the Liberal Party. Not having what we may call a very lively political mind, Sir R. Webster is reduced to a very common resource amongst politicians...

was that the last Russian arrangement about Zulfikar com- pletely satisfies Lord Dufferin, who knows precisely what the Ameer wants ; and that in the opinion of the India Office...

of Olivier Pain, and on Saturday held a meeting of five thousand Communists, which "branded Wolseley, Kitchener,. and the other agents of the British Government" as assassins,...

lucid intervals. He was quite sane at Sheffield on Thursday, and consequently rather dreary. He affirmed that the present Government had found the country in financial...

week with every demonstration of cordiality, and after receiving a telegram from the Emperor of Germany that be "was _ with them in spirit." The elaborate precautions taken to...

of the Caroline Islands shows no sign of abatement. All classes of the population protest that the islands are Spanish, and must be retained even at the risk of war, while the...

teachers to various parts of London, wherever evening- classes of working-men can be formed. The working population being scattered over such an enormous area, it is impossible...

Lord Ebury, who had told him that he did not see what there was to defend in the English Church, so long as such appoint- ments were made as the recent appointment of Dr. King...

on the heels of his able predecessor. His speeches are popu- lar, short, and sagacious ; and though they have not the literary stamp of Mr. Lowell's, they are always...

before the public the fact which those who write on the depression of trade habitually forget, that a great harvest must be followed by a decline in our foreign trade. If the...

obtained currency in England about a colony of English gold-diggers who are working gold-mines on Chinese territory south of the Amour. The Siberian paper de- scribes these men...

Ireland, made a discouraging speech to his shareholders on Thursday. He is a determined Tory and a very keen man, and he says all industries in the West of Ireland are in a de-...

M.P., which occurred after his inspection of his Volunteer regiment on Monday last. His horse, which was an unruly one, and is said to have had a sore mouth, was frightened by...

LORD HARTINGTON AND THE LAND. T J ORD HARTINGTON'S remarks upon the Land Question have a special value just now, when the election is so close at hand. There can be no doubt...

I N his speech at Waterfoot this day week, Lord Hartington took up a perfectly clear line on the Parliamentary questions of the future,—those which must arise so soon as it is...

M R. GLADSTONE'S position is certainly unique. Since he resigned office he has spoken only once,—and a magnificent speech it was,—to review the position of affairs, and to...

T HERE is one explanation of Prince Bismarck's action with respect to the Caroline Islands which nobody ever -offers, but which deserves to be considered. May he not have...

M FERRY'S position is one which perhaps no politician • before him has held. He is without a party, and he has immediately behind him the memory of a signal defeat. His chief...

N OW that the question of the morality of political lying has brought prominently before the mind of the voter the possibility of his being subjected to pressure from those in...

I N that remarkable series of sermons which the Dean of St. Paul's has preached in his own Cathedral daring the month of August, the most remarkable perhaps was the one on "The...

and London Reform," the amount of the coal-duties collected by the City Corporation was misprinted as " Ls. 3d." instead of "13d." per ton.

T HERE is something about the misfortune which occurred on Saturday last to a clergymen of Cheshire which appeals strongly to the imagination. We hardly remember an occurrence...

V ISITORS to Birmingham last week cannot fail to have been struck, apart from the musical proceedings, by the remarkable facilities which the local authorities afforded to...

T HE recent advice given by two clergymen to the farm- labourers of England, respecting their vote in the ensuing election—advice on which we have already commented, and to the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.".1 SIR, Many persons will dissent from the opinion expressed in your article of the week before last, that the Church holds a stronger...

!To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, - 1 . 1118 controversy may be briefly summed up. To lie about the vote you have given, is evil. To give a dishonest vote, is evil. To...

THE CHARITY COMMISSION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j 8111,—I am one of a body of trustees who until recently, like yourself, laboured under the delusion that the...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Hasty generalisation is the common fault of untrained minds. Yet it is precisely that into which the Spectator continually falls...

VOTING BY BALLOT. THERE'S Mister Ball down in these parts, an ' a fine ole gent he weer, An ' he ' s served in hevery Parlament for well nigh thirty year ; An ' there ' s Simon...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, — Will you allow me to offer a remark upon the letter of Mr. W. Herbert Hill in the Spectator for August 22nd, and your comment ? The...

[To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPECTATOR "] have only to-day seen the letter in your columns from Mr. Lee-Warner, of Townt GonviNe, - Dorsetshire, in which he writes :- "Si,—Here, in...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR. " ] Sra, — Mr. Williams will, I feel sure, pardon me if I point to an inaccuracy in his letter on the above subject in your issue of August...

OP THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In the very interesting review of Volume II. of Mr. R. P. Graves ' s " Life of Sir W. R. Hamilton, " is one assertion which is likely to mislead,...

MR. LLEWELYN DAVIES ON SOCIAL QUESTIONS.* THE main characteristic of these contributions to the theology of social questions is their wisdom. Sometimes they may appear to the...

IT is something to be able to say of a book on so bewritten a subject as South Africa that it contains elements of freshness, and that it treats of certain of the questions...

A BOOK of comfortable aspect, well printed on thick paper, charmingly illustrated, and delightful to read ; above all, on a hot summer afternoon, when you can sit under the...

IN the nomenclature of novels two opposite sins are occasionally committed, whereof one occurs chiefly amongst English, and the other amongst French authors. The English fault...

TWRRE is nothing very suggestive or nourishing in the magazines this month. Perhaps the most important article is Earl Cowper's, " What is a Moderate Liberal to do P" in the...

The story of Cara Rome is not very much. As from the beginning it is tolerably evident to the reader how it will end, there will be no harm in epitomising it by saying that...

The Works of Shoshee Chunder Dutt. Vol. II. "Realities of Indian Life." (Lovell, Reeve, and Co.) —Here is a " Newgate Calendar " compressed into a single voluke. Very ghastly...

Edwards and other writers who have been warning us for we know not how many years past of Russian aggression, have certainly the best of it, while the jokes about "big maps,"...

Mason, Tenby.)—The "parson" spent his holiday much in the same way as an actor spends his off-day, that is, by going to see other actors perform. He went, that is to say, to...

—Dr. Roberts begins by giving a brief description of the human body, speaking of the skeleton, muscular and nervous systems, circulation of blood, respiration, &o., and...