O N Monday Mr. Asquith will speak the words upon which the nation's fate depends. He will tell us whether we are to have peace or civil war. Pending Mr. Asquith's pro- posals,...

this declaration will cut it out, sign it, and at once forward it to The Union Defence League, 25 Victoria Street, London, S.W. We may point out that the signing of this...

of the words used by Tennyson in a letter to Queen Victoria : "Since your Majesty touches upon the disastrous policy of the day, I may say that I wish I may be in my own grave...

of Albania is clearly shown in an interesting article in Wednesday's Times. The writer, who crossed from Dibra to the Mat country before the Balkan War, gives a vivid picture...

in which he begged for the repeal of the clause in the Panama Canal Act exempting American coastwise trade from tolls. He said that exemption was not only a mistaken policy on...

Progress have laboured since the attempted assassination of Sherif Pasha in Paris are not likely to be dispelled by the treatment of Colonel Aziz All Bey. This officer, an...

who explained that his anxiety for the defenses of the country compelled him to afford the people an opportunity of expressing their opinion by means of fresh elections to the...

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to form the backbone of the defending force, Lord Roberts recalled the fact that during the Boer War he was specially told that he must not ask for more Regulars, as there were...

Monday Lord Lansdowne will move the appointment of the following Peers as the Committee to inquire into the charges against Lord Murray: Lords Halsbury, Lorebarn, Desert,...

National Service League was received by the Prime Minister. Among those introduced by Lord Roberts were Lord Curzon, Field-Marshal Lord Grenfell, General Elise, Lord George...

ridiculous it was to denounce the policy of the National Service League as anti-democratic when it bad been adopted by two countries so strongly democratic in their Constitution...

the second reading of a Bill providing that all Parliamentary elections shall take place on the same day, and that the day he fixed by the Royal Proclamation summoning the new...

deputa- tion, but be was like the lady of whom Congreve sang :— "Whom she refuses she treats still With so much sweet behaviour, That her refusal, through her skill, Looks...

Supplementary Estimate of £2,500,000 over and above the sum of £16,309,300 voted last year. The statement was notably lucid and well arranged. The first item was £500,000 for...

known, released Mr. Bowskill, the Baptist missionary whose courage and devotion saved them from destruction at the hands of the natives who had been driven to insurrection by...

a Select Committee to consider proposals for the redistri- bution of seats and report thereon. Major Morrison-Bell proposed as an amendment that the word " immediate " should be...

E28,845,000, compared with £28,220,000 last year—a rise of £625,000. The establishment provided for is 186,400 men— an increase of 800. The increase in numbers is accounted for...

Lloyd George whether it was true that the Chief Actuary had reason to consider that a large number of approved societies would be unable, on valuation, to pay the minimum...

sixty-eight, was a famous sportsman, a fine soldier, and an energetic and capable administrator. He saw a great deal of fighting in his earlier days—in Paris during the Commune,...

unexpected progress made by contractors in the building of ships authorized by Parliament. Work was now in pro- grew; in all the shipyards of the country on fourteen great...

labourers have been locked out because they have joined the Agricultural Labourers' Union. There is also a move. merit among agricultural labourers in several other counties,...

thousand Welsh Nonconformists who had signed a petition against the treatment of the Church in Wales. Mr. Ormsby-Gore, M.P., who introduced the deputa- tion, said they were all...

WHAT MR. ASQUITH WILL PROPOSE. Q INCE wo wrote last week a great change has come 1.7 over the political situation. On Monday Mr. Asquith, with the object of avoiding civil war,...

W E give below a draft of the amendments which it would be necessary to make in the Government's Home Rule Bill, provided that Mr. Asquith, in order to avoid civil war—which, of...

W E are glad to be able to record a considerable change in the tone of Sir Edward Grey's language about the murder of Mr. Benton in Mexico. His first statement was, in effect, a...

T HEjudgment which Mr. Justice Scrutton delivered last week in a test land valuation case is a political event of very great importance. In the first place, it shows the...

W ITH what Mr. John Galsworthy says in a letter to the Times of last Saturday about the irrelevance and ineptness of Parliament we shall all in a sense agree. We should elflike...

S OME of the greatest of men, notably great commanders and great religious teachers, have believed in "leadings." They have regarded the suggestion of circumstances in the light...

I T is becoming clear that the best, and probably the only, way to put a stop to the slarighter of rare and beauti- ful birds for the purposes of decorating women's hats is to...

WHAT I SAW IN ULSTER. (BY A. COLONIAL VISITOR) Eta vs. Bones Or Ism "Srscrnss."] Sts,—It occurs to me that I may be asked at the outset by what right I, a Colonist born and...

observe, still plainly believing that the talk of civil war in Ulster is bluff, and unwilling to face facts, make much of the objections of the Irish Times, Sir Horace Plunkett,...

THE ALLEGED BETRAYAL OF THE SOUTH. [To rine Eons. or TIM "Srsorams.') S18, — May I, as a Southern Unionist, say how strongly I agree with your views on the above subject? When...

a moment that you will publish this letter, but none the less I venture to ask whether it seems to you fair to hold the Bishop of Zanzibar up to ridicule and reprobation by...

[To vu EDITOR or Ts. SIMCMOB...1 Sin,—Permit me once again to protest against the suggestion, repeated in your issue of February 28th, that, in the event of "Exclusion," "the...

[To sae Homo or SRN ..ersorrroz."] SIR,—In an article in your issue of last week reference is made to "the six Plantation counties, Down, Armagh, Antrim, Londonderry, Tyrone,...

Sin,—In the Spectator of February 28th Mr. A. J. Mackey raises an interesting point on the employment of the Army to put down disorder or commotion. Whether to mobilize—that is,...

[To nog Roma or raw “SrEcrrroa,1 SIR,—I write in the interests of comprehension. Is it not devoutly to be hoped that a too definite answer will not be given ecclesiastically to...

[To VIZ Roma or wis “Srronror..") Sue,—Will you quote for the benefit of Lord Reading, L.C.J., Mr. Justice Scrutton'e remarks in the Times of Monday, " Com- missioners of Inland...

[To in Servos or wor "Sncraron."1 Brik—It may, I think, be safely predicted that not much will come of the Memorial about which Mr. Gamble has written to you. It seems to...

the High Churchmen to abandon the "Zanzibar" attitude in this question as long as they consider the " Apostolical Succession" and the "Three Orders" essential parts of a...

[To ran Ronne or in “Sraczaroa.-] Sxa,—A young man commits a most atrocious murder, is condemned, and almost to the last vehemently denies his guilt. With the terror of the...

[To THE Sane. Or TIOS "aPBCr/r0s.1 is to be hoped that the general amnesty now given by the Portuguese Government will mark the beginning of a second and more peaceful phase of...

[To ras Emma or rim "Srsoraroa."] SDI,—Your reviewer, in his excellent and interesting article in last week's Spectator on Mr. R. E. Francillon's Yid- Victorian Memories,...

Ito SHP ED1708 OP Tel " SPEOTAT0114 . 1 Sru,—I agree with your reviewer (Spectator, February 28th) of Sir Arthur Clay's excellent selection of articles contributed by the late...

Sra,—In your comments on my letter regarding "The Hundred Years' Peace," which you were kind enough to publish last week, you suggest that n person may be a natural- born...

Srn,—The writer of the article, "The Neo-Hinduism of -Bengal," in your issue of February 14th, charges Mr. Rabindranath Tagore (in his recent volume of addresses entitled...

[To rail EDITOR or Tea "Sracraroa."] §rE,—Colonel A. 0. Yate, writing in the Spectator of February 14th, asks whether the old Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem,...

1.1 . 0 THB EDITOR or 77171 Eirscurox."1 Sut,—Your correspondent "F. M. M." (February 21st issue, p. 302) inquires about skyveres, and mentions the word skivers as in use in...

[To in EDIT. or TIM ..Belsorrims.1 SIR, I told our Vicar this rooming the dog story in your last Saturday's issue. He at once related to me an experience of his own. He had a...

[To Ts. Bones or Tor ..BrscrATOS.”1 Sts,—In reference to your desire to collect information to enable a cheap, comfortable house to be erected in the country, 1 notice that Pise...

[To rim Eorron or mu “Srscraroz."7 Sea.,—The Committee of the Medical Aid Society venture to hope that you will allow them to make known through the medium of your influential...

(To TM EDITOR o1 THa ..8../TO61 have read your article entitled "Sensationalism in Profit-Sharing" in the Spectator of January 17th. Will you pardon me if I call your attention...

Sin,—I send you herewith an authoritative statement with regard to the Summer Festival at Glastonbury in order that the publics generally may know that the scheme for a National...

or initials, or with a pseudonym, or are marked "Communicated," the Editor mast not nererreriiy is held to be in agreement with the views therein expressed or with the mode of...

THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY. WOULD yon, my friend, a modern Idol be ; Sit high enthron'd for all the world to see; Shoot regal tigers in far Eastern lands Or sip your wine to...

°AYOUB" MODERN Italy, during the long agony of her making, was prolific of heroes. Such were Poerio, who refused to purchase release from a loathsome dungeon by asking pardon of...

PORTRAIT EXHIBITIONS. AT a moment when the tendency for the younger men in the older art societies is to break off all connexion with parent bodies, and for the old...

VOLUMES of Arctic travel are apt to be somewhat dull when the traveller's interest is purely geographical, for movement in nnfeatured wastes of snow can have little of the...

Norton's letters have shown a wise self-restraint. Hia career furnished no materials for a biography except what were to be found in his correspondence, and they bare refrained...

which the present work forms the first instalment, is intended, as Professor Burkitt informs us in an interesting preface, to teach the non-specialist in theology what the...

Twis record of a distinguished man's opinions is both an incomplete and a saddening book. The title does not describe it correctly. Goldwin Smith's "Life" fills only five pages,...

IT is an interesting and significant fact that precisely at the moment when Indian thought is feeling the impact and influence of Western ideas on manners, morals, administra-...

the first volumes of selections from Hazlitt's works yet published in the United States. It is curious that the publication should have been so long delayed, for Hazlitt is one...

THE most interesting of the papers in the Nineteenth Century which deal with the present crisis in home politics is that by Bishop Welldon on " The Home Rule Bill and...

of all let us give high praise to Mr. Peto's illustrations of Simple Simon: he has left us in no doubt regarding the physical attributes of Simon'e mother, and Mr. and Mrs....

THE CITY OF HOPE.* WE remember years ago reading a notice of a novel dealing with life in Cornwall, in which the reviewer expressed regret that the author bad not given a...

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