31 OCTOBER 1885, page 16

Allotments.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—IS not your comparison of the action of King Ahab with the compulsory power of the representatives of the community to acquire land,......

The Bechuanaland Expedition.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Owing to the absence of bloodshed from the operations of the expedition to Bechuanaland, public attention has been but languidly......

The University Of London.

[The following communication has been addressed to Members of Convocation of the University of London. It will, we believe, interest a great number of our readers.—En.......

Poetry.

IN MEMORIAM—BISHOP FRASER. INTO that great, strong city of strong men, Whose pavements ring with ever-passing feet, One of the strongest will not come again, Where all those......

Ireland And Home-rule.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."1 SIRA.E an Irishman, I wish to thank you for your article of October 24th on Mr. Childers's speech. Control of the magis- tracy and police by......