M. Carnot, on the 3rd inst., and was at once conveyed across The frontier to Switzerland. He had been imprisoned for four months, but under regulations of the mildest character,...

M R. JOHN MORLEY has given notice of the following motion as an instruction to the Committee on the Irish Land Bill,—" That it be an instruction to the Committee that they have...

a verdict of guilty. The Court-Martial passed sentence of death, but added a recommendation to mercy; and it is believed that if the appeal to which the criminal has a right is...

since the Whitsuntide vacation, and it is announced that he is suffering from eczema, and is only the worse instead of the better for his Whitsuntide cruise. Still, it is hoped...

case.

Tariff, and are besieging the Senate with evidence as to its ruinous effects. The Senate listens, and seems to be a little moved by the argument that if tariffs are heavy Trusts...

With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, June 28th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

cessions which to-day will form part of the great demonstration of the friends of temperance against the Bill authorising County Councils to buy up and suppress small...

a special speech for Sir E. Watkin's Channel Tunnel Bill. It was a lively speech, not a little contemptuous to the alarmists who think that the Channel Tunnel would take away...

he rose to second the motion, at which there was a roar of laughter. After the motion had been seconded, Sir Wilfrid opposed it, and said that horse-racing was most popular with...

made amusing speeches on Tuesday, on the proposal to adjourn over the Derby Day, a motion which was moved by Lord Elcho. Lord Elcho justly said that if any member was to consult...

in another column, occurred in Italy on Saturday. An imaginary coalition of groups, which was to have overthrown Signor Crispi, or at least to have seriously weakened his...

that they have received many telegrams from America assuring them that a Silver Bill will pass within three weeks at farthest. This is corroborated by a telegram stating that a...

County Council on Tuesday in reference to the character of the Intermediate schools which he would desire to see established in Wales. Of the greater part of his remarks we have...

some of their fishermen from plying their trade, and threaten to pay no taxes, or even to annex themselves to the - United States. They have, moreover, sent two delegates home...

the New Education Code. Instead of abandoning the pupil. teacher system, the object had been to strengthen it ; to dblige managers to keep the pupil-teachers under an efficient...

of the Free Church of Scotland passed, by a majority of 155(392 to 237), the resolution which virtually declined to censure Dr. Bruce for using language concerning the life and...

Friday 97t to 971 xd.

Bill on Thursday, Mr. Stevenson moved an instruction to the Com- mittee empowering them to provide an equitable revision of tithes in accordance with the altered conditions of...

at the advanced age of ninety-five. He was a great person in his way, having been the real organiser of steam navigation between Britain and America, though Samuel Canard, of...

Dr. O'Dwyer, to Archdeacon Halpin, urges the tenants on the Glensharrold estate to accept the last offer of the Landed Estates Court, which reduces their rent by 30 per cent.,...

at Ormskirk, on the present state of English agriculture. It was the annual show of the Ormskirk and Southport Agri- cultural Society, and alter referring to the local...

A RELIGIOUS DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE LICENSING BILL. W .N1 can understand. the ardour with which the fanatical teetotalers oppose what they call the Publicans' Endowment Bill....

Crispi on Saturday in the Italian Chamber, was of much more importance than has as yet been perceived in England. His fall would have broken up the League of Peace, and brought...

W E do not blame Messrs. Pickersgill and Cremer for moving the adjournment of the House, as they did on Tuesday, in order to discuss Mr. Monro's orders regulating the march of...

hearing Mr. Gladstone talk on a subject on which he is not deeply pledged to a revolutionary policy. His conversa- tion with the members of the Flintshire County Council on the...

would almost the high tariffs. The entire body of consumers, unable to seem, no power of giving genuine attention to any view of buy the article abroad because of the tariff,...

F ORTUNE favours the persistent, and the French Pro- tectionists are about to enjoy the success which so often comes to men who do not know when they are beaten. Yet France is...

I N the play by M. Alphonse Daudet, which is now acted at Her Majesty's Theatre, "La Lutte pour in Vie," M. Daudet's object is to run down the doctrine that the conflict for...

" Q W /JET reasonableness" is supposed to be one of the ideals of modern life, and all cultivated people resent the imputation of controversial unfairness. It is so...

that the opposing Churches bear to each other is certainly more after the manner of St. Jerome than in imitation of the Fotmder of the common faith. As Bethlehem shows us the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —No Co-operator can object to your conclusion, that "very little has been done to put the principle of profit-sharing in productive...

AN UNMANNERLY CORRESPONDENT. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.') Sin,—Your comment upon my letter might be convincing but for the fact that your quotation from the Times—which...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." j Sin. — Surely the Paris correspondent of the Tinies has fallen into an error in attributing to Dr. Cha,rcot the astounding statement that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many of your readers, and those especially who have been troubled by certain passages in "Lux Mundt" will be grateful to you for your...

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR. " ] Stn,—Within the last month I have made an interesting experiment with a fowl. Some choice eggs being sent me for hatching purposes (having...

TEE NIGHTINGALE. "BELIEVE ME, LOVE, IT WAS THE NIGHTINGALE." WITHIN a roadside dingle late I stood, In the deep hush and middle of the night, Beneath unwhispering birches,...

ARCHITECTURE AT THE ACADEMY. FEW people reach the Architectural Room at the Academy before they are blind with pictures, and outside the profession very few, even if they go...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — In a notice of Miss van Alstine's "Life of Charlotte Corday" (Spectator, May 31st) the writer says :—" We do not remember to have seen...

1To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I appeal again this year for the Women's Club in Tabard Street, which draws so much of its sustenance from readers of the Spectator...

LUX MUNDI.* [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] WE have called the attention of our readers to the chief defect of this thoughtful book, which is, in our opinion, that it does not grapple...

this remarkable literary experi- ment by the author of Hurrish, that distinct and original genius which in her well-known story of West Irish life she so brilliantly revealed....

MR. J. M. BARRIE has not the vision and the faculty divine of Mr. R. L. Stevenson. Yet somehow the critical section of the public looks forward to new works of art by these two...

ABE nineteenth-century letters so far inferior to their more immediate predecessors as some would have us believe ? No one doubts that, whatever becomes of it, there is more...

IN this immense scheme of MM. Perrot and Chipiez, not yet carried to completion, the history of art in the ancient world is dealt with, from Egypt down to Rome. In the first two...

THE larger magazines are dull this month. There are plenty of useful papers, but nothing specially striking ; while the padding is generally a grave disquisition on some subject...

Paul and Co.)—This is a decidedly misleading title. Scarcely a quarter of the book is devoted to history, and that of a rambling and wholly inconsequential nature ; the rest is...

and Co.) —This we presume to be the third and concluding volume of the series. Our Earth contains a great quantity of interesting matter, is plentifully illustrated, and is...

Co )—Dr. Kate Mitchell is a very earnest and enthusiastic exponent of total abstinence principles, and does her utmost to deal a heavy blow at the use of alcohol. All that she...

Sons.)—This is done on the basis of the "London Catalogue," there being three side-columns, referring respectively to the number in the "London Catalogue," the figures in...

and Co.) —Health is always an interesting subject, even to the naturally strong and vigorous, and to a great many of us it is liable to become too interesting. Since the English...

(Henry and Co.)—This is a good story of its kind, a mixture of the real and the romantic. Both elements are well worked out : the real is so like to Nature, that we are ready...

We have received the second volume of The Century Dictionary. (T. Fisher Tinwin.)—This contains from " Conocephalus " to "fz,"—that is, it completes the first six letters of the...

Thorpe. (Longmans and Co.)—Professor Thorpe deserves to be congratulated on the appearance of so useful a work. It is a pleasure to refer to a technical work of this description...

of lectures which Sir R. Ball delivered in 1881 and 1887 to young people at the Royal Institution are here published, with illustrations, in the form of an introduction to the...

Little. (Chapman and Hall.)—We cannot help thinking that, as Mr. Stanley is going to publish his own account of his explora- tions, it would be better to leave the field clear...

(Whittaker and Co.)—We find some very sensible remarks on different batteries, and their value for domestic and workshop use. The varieties of bells in use for mines, and...

many travellers to Palestine have declared the disappointment which the appearance of the Holy City, following their precon- ceived idea of it, has produced, that it is a...

Elder, and Co.)—The author of this story, whose curious pseudonym looks like an anagram, is in all probability an officer who has been through the Soudan Campaign, and who...

not a little flippancy. Moreover, he speaks with the assured confidence in his opinions that spares his auditors the trouble of thought. Whether he has done wisely in filling a...

and Co.)—" A ballooning story" is certainly a novelty. Never before, we fancy, in fiction—not to speak of real life—has the heroine made the acquaintance of the hero by...

(Ward and Downey.)--No one could wish for a better guide to the folk-lore of the Irish than Lady Wilde. And, indeed, the remarkable superstitions which she prints are in...

Washington Moon. (Routledge and Sons.)—Mr. Washington Moon is anxious to have the words which form the title of his story struck out of the Marriage Service. They are false, he...