'WITH much sorrow we record a terrible shipping disaster —comparable with the loss of the ' Titanic '—which 'WITH occurred in the St. Lawrence in the early hours of Friday...

by the controversy that arose after Captain Kendall had made his statement at the preliminary inquiry at Rimouski. Captain Andersen of the Storstad' has contradicted all the...

that Mr. Roosevelt, before sailing for Spain, made a statement as to his political intentions. He declared that Mr. Wilson had failed to give the nation what it wanted; the...

Carranza, the leader of the Constitutionalists, has refused to agree to an armistice, which is regarded as the indispensable condition of receiving his delegates at the...

the Times of Friday that there will probably be a majority in the United States Senate for the Bill repealing the discriminatory clause of the Panama Canal Act. The improved...

Father Point a bank of fog crept out from the land. The Storstad' was sighted about two miles away coming towards the 'Empress of Ireland.' When the fog drifted between the...

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the Hindus, who recently arrived at Victoria (B.C.) on board the ' Komagata. Mara,' to unrestricted entry into Canada on the strength of their British citizenship, but the...

action of the Governor, Sir W. Ellison-Macartney. The Liberals bad been defeated in the Legislature early in the year by the transference of one vote to the Labour Party in an...

The idea of sending a joint international force has apparently been abandoned. There is now some talk of a naval demon- stration by the Powers. The purpose of this would be to...

to Australia would be abandoned, and now it is said that the North German Lloyd may continue the service in return for a heavy subsidy. The most interesting recent fact is the...

published in the Times of Tuesday. A direct German service to New Zealand is projected by the German Australian Company, and is only part of a general scheme to make German...

a letter from a correspondent near the Dardanelles, dated May 27th, giving a lamentable account of the invasion of the Greek villages in the Troad by Moslem refugees from...

the argument that Home Rule would bring peace and contentment to Ireland, observed that the country saw one section of Irishmen armed to the teeth to resist it, and another...

is only fair to quote the statement attributed by the Dublin correspondent of the Daily Chronicle to a prominent official of the National Volunteers. "They are non-political and...

on Thursday, when it was decided to try to form a working alliance between the Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the National Union of Railwaymen, and the Transport Workers'...

on as essential to settlement are the recognition of the London Building Industries Federation and the total exclusion of all non- Unionists from building operations. If these...

from the masters' point of view by a correspondent of the Times in Tuesday's issue. In January the London master builders, irritated by the " lightning " strikes—i.e., strikes...

mittee of the Secret Commissions and Bribery Convention League (9 Queen Street Place, E.C.) appealing for support in their campaign on behalf of commercial purity. The value of...

Wargrave-on-Thames was almost completely destroyed by fire. The incendiaries, whose connexion with the militant suffrage movement is established by messages left outside the...

Unions properly conducted, but decline to recognize the London Building Industries Federation—consisting of representatives of the eleven largest Unions connected with the...

describe the visits of numerous political deputa- tions from Great Britain, and the remarkable effect which direct contact with the Irish problem appears to exercise on the...

Jan. 29th. Consols (21) were on Friday 731—Friday week 7411.

THE LOSS OF THE 'EMPRESS OF IRELAND.' MHE prevailing feelings of all thinking persons, after the J. first shock of intense horror and pity excited by the loss of the ' Empress...

T HE Times on Tuesday published two very illuminating 1 articles from Labour correspondents criticizing the Trade Union movement as at present organized. One deals with the...

F RENCH statesmen have a faculty, amounting to genius, for making accommodations, but the present situation will tax the ingenuity of the most resourceful. M. Viviani, the...

E NGLISHMEN have learned for some time to look upon the acceptance of Collectivism as a grave dange r to the State. But they have not yet realized in how large a measure it is...

.AL PORTRAIT is seldom altogether pleasing to the immediate circle of the sitter. However much relations and intimate friends may admire the painting as a picture, they seldom...

SOMETIMES wonder at the way the people in the hospitals trust us," said our friend the consulting surgeon, the last time he paid us a visit. "The other day a woman asked me if...

L ORD WILLIAM CECIL'S recent letter to the Times on the destruction of the beauty of the countryside deserves to be read with attention in a utilitarian age. He writes with...

THE SURREY NATIONAL RESERVE IN CAMP. [To Tax EDITOR Or TRY "SPRCTATOR....1 Sin,—As an eyewitness who carefully followed the proceedings at the Whitsuntide Camp of the Surrey...

MISTRUST OF DESPOTISM. [To tin Linos or tits “Srsersros."] Sns,—Many years ago there appeared (in The Man v. the State) an acute aphorism by Herbert Spencer. It ran as follows...

[To MP Erman OP 2911 ..9190TATOP.."3 Srn,—Your correspondent Mr. Tyrrell, whose letter appears' under the above heading in your last issue, seems to have some difficulty in...

[To ins Emma or ism "Bernal's."] Stn,—As a landowner, living on and managing my own estate, allow me to say how much I appreciate the proposal of the Chancellor of the...

[To TER EDIPOZ or TOP "Srserwrox.'q Snt,—If we are to have a General Election in July, your. remarks last week as to the position of the Unionist Party in regard to the payment...

[To Tall EDFFOI OF TH1 .SPNOTAT03."1 Six,—In your admirable leader of May 30th (p. 903) you refer to the "abolition of the Governor's veto," and to the establish- ment "of the...

"Srecraros."] Sic, — Your first leading article on the above in last week's issue is evidently written under the assumption that the House of Lords will not accord a second...

[To mom Eorros or Tua - sysymvos.1 Sis,—It will, I think, be found very difficult to find a definition of gambling which will make it possible to condemn gambling itself, not...

[To TON EDITS. OF Tss " SPFCT■7011...] SIR,—Three years ago, just at this season, I landed at Rimouski from a liner which halted at 1.30 in the morning. Your readers may be...

[To nix Enna or rna .. /Ipseuroo."] Sin,—During the trial of Colonel Whitaker on the charge of accepting bribes from contractors, Mr. Justice Darling made a pointed attack upon...

[To THE Eorros Or THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The verses in praise of New Gardens composed by your correspondent in last week's issue recall the lines of an old English ballad which,...

Sra,—Perhaps my letter in your last issue was not quite clearly expressed. In the case you submit the transaction is obviously a bet, each participant acting without knowledge....

SIR,—The rule of your correspondent "A. B." on this subject is incomplete, as he himself seems to feel, and as your illus- tration quickly showed. But your own rules seem to me...

wish to have a monopoly of any place they may prefer to live in. They do not want to have the people whose labour and means allow them a holiday for only a day, a week, or a...

Sfa,—I have read the article in your issue of May 23rd in which you say you do not think there is any abstract argument against betting except the argument of excess. I do not...

ITO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR:1, Sia,—Yonr reviewer in his sympathetic notice in last week's Spectator of Dr. Sanday's answer to Bishop Gore speaks of the immaculate...

[To ins ED1108 07 TIM EirreTAT014 - ] SIR,—May we ask you kindly to correct an error which appears in your footnote to the letter from Mr. C. Williams-Ellis in the Spectator of...

[To ins EDITOR. OF MI .'SPECY.o8. "] Sin,—In your issue of May 23rd you state that the King when recently at Aldershot watched flights of a new Army aeroplane which is...

[To Ills EDITOR or rat ..SPPCPAP08.1 SIR,—In the notice of my book, Edmund Spenser and the Impersonations of Francis Bacon, in your issue of the 30th ult. your reviewer...

[To rns EDITOR or ran "Sp.-room" J venture once more to beg you to find room in your columns for an appeal on behalf of the Naples Society for the Protection of Animals. During...

"Srscraroa."] SIR,—You will, I am sure, be glad to hear that the appeal from me for the Boys' Country Work Society which you were kind enough to insert on May 16th has already...

[To MP Horres or PUN "Sr.-mm."] S111,-1 am engaged in the preparation of a definitive edition of the correspondence of Edmund Burke, and seek the hospitality of your columns in...

run "SPXOPPPOP:1 Sim—Inquiry shows that in most of our thickly populated districts more than half the poorer mothers go out to work either in factories, laundries, or Charing,...

[Concluding Notice.] Ire the autumn of 1881 Parnell was arrested and imprisoned in Kilmainham, where Ile remained up till April, 1882. During that period he shows in his...

"Srsorarea"1 Sus,—May I call the attention of your readers to the forthcoming United Sunimer School of Social Service Unions, to be held at Swanwick from June 20th to 29th, an...

PADDINGTON. THERE'S a West that's London's folly ; there's a West that's London's pride; But the West that fills my senses is the oozy countryside, Where the fat cows crush...

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 mode of...

THE chanty (pronounced " shanty ") is a song of labour on board a sailing ship, and is to be distinguished from a sea song, which is a song about the sea, and has never been...

AN economic history of the Highlands, written by some one who is free from bias and who understands the meaning of evidence, is a much-needed undertaking, for the changes of the...

MANY romancers have been attracted by the possibility of making a trip to the moon. Lucian and Cyrano de Bergerac invented only impossibilities. Poe's method was frankly meant...

Fitz- maurice-Relly points out in his preface, both have their roots in France and Italy. Yet no one denies the original growth of these literatures. They have, indeed, much in...

THE " ideal Alliance" which Sir Bampfylde Fuller advocates in the Nineteenth Century is between Germany, England, and the United States. He urges it on the ground of a community...

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