11 FEBRUARY 1882

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extraordinary right to a popular Assembly, subject to all sorts

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of political passions, to interpret the meaning of a statute by no means one of the simplest in the Statute Book, and for the proper exposition of which public opinion is...

Lord Granville, in his reply, after censuring the Conserva- tives

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for "heaping vituperation upon the law of the land which they themselves had agreed to pass," declared that he remem- bered Ireland in a mach worse state during the anti-tithe...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Session opened on Tuesday, and the Royal Message informed the Houses that the country was in cordial rela- tions with all Powers, and that the Treaty for the cession of...

In the House of Commons, the first business was the

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ques- tion whether the House should or should not interfere to pre- vent Mr. Bradlaugh from taking the oath, Sir Stafford North- cote moving a resolution that Mr. Bradlaugh " be...

In the Lords, after Lord Fingall had moved the Address,

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in a formal speech, and Lord Wenlock had seconded it, in one equally formal, but a little better, Lord Salisbury rose to attack the Ministry on all points. They "had expanded a...

*.** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript in any

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case.

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The House even then could not proceed to debate the

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Address, for on the Speaker announcing the arrest of the three Irish Members, Mr. Gray raised the point of privilege, and there was a sharp debate on the motion that the arrest...

Mr. Marjoribanks and Mr. Firth performed the difficult and somewhat

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ungrateful task of moving and seconding the Address in the House of Commons, with the usual measure of success, —the latter, perhaps, with an ability beyond the ordinary mark,...

It is worth while to quote Mr. Gladstone's exact words

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with regard to Mr. Forster,—generous words enough, but not in our estimation at all too strong to mark the place of a states- man whose calmness, gallantry, and fortitude have...

On Mr. Smyth's amendment to the Address, which assure/ her

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Majesty that a repeal of the Legislative Union is the only remedy for the deplorable state of Ireland, the Prime Minister made a very clear and satisfactory speech, which has...

The further progress of the debate was marked by a

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strik- ing speech from Mr. Forster, on an amendment moved by Mr. Justin McCarthy, which denounced at unusual length the tyranny of the Government in Ireland. Mr. McCarthy's...

Mr. Gladstone's speech, in reply (which, by the way, is

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far better reported in the Daily News than it is in the Times), was one of the most brilliant and effective he has ever made. He balanced Lord Salisbury's warnings against too...

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A statement has been published at Vienna which, transmitted as

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it was through Renter, has attracted attention from all Europe. The Preen there states that Prince Bismarck had directed General von Schweinitz to ask M. de Giers for explana-...

This day week, Lord George Hamilton made a speech to

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a Conservative meeting at Sevenoaks, from which we extract the dollowing words :—" They all remembered the agitation which was carried on against the late Government with regard...

The proposals of the Government as to the change in

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the procedure of the House of Commons were published on Wed- nesday. The most important concerns the closure of debate by an absolute majority, whenever the Speaker or Chairman...

Consols were on Friday 991 to 99:.

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Lord Zetland made a speech at a Conservative banquet at

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Richmond (Yorkshire), on Monday, in defence of his desertion of the Liberal Party. He declared that the North Riding contest was a purely political and not at all a social...

The other proposals are less important. The motions for adjourning

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the House, in order to raise a new ques- tion suddenly, are to be forbidden ; the motions for ad- journing a debate are to be discussed solely on the question of adjournment;...

A telegram has been received in London this week which

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may prove to he valueless, or of the last importance, according to events. It is asserted, and at Constantinople believed, that a powerful tribe in Yemen, the southern Red-Sea...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE NEW RULES OF PROCEDURE. W E have only three criticisms to make on the proposed New Rules of Procedure, which are, in effect, very like those proposed last year by Mr....

LORD GRANVILLE'S EGYPTIAN POLICY.

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W E have never concealed our opinion that the best solu- tion of the Egyptian Question, in the interests of the world, of Egypt herself, and of Great Britain, would be that the...

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THE LATEST PHASE OF THE BRADLAUGH CASE. T HE Prime Minister

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is accused by the Times of dealing with the Bradlaugh case on what it calls a " doubtful speculative issue." To our minds, however, Mr. Gladstone dealt with the subject on the...

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MR. FORSTER AND THE IRISH DEBATE.

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T HE general effect of the debate on the situation in Ireland, which has been, of course, the main portion and con- necting-thread of the debate on the Address, will, we...

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A CLEVER DEFENCE. also missing, but its absence is easily

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accounted for by the circumstance that Kate Dover burnt certain of Mr. Skinner's papers after his death, and before she could have foreseen that the production of a will which...

PRINCE BISMARCK AND M. DE GLEES.

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T HE official journals in three capitals have been instructed flatly to deny the report that Prince Bismarck has - threatened to withdraw the German Ambassador from St....

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MR. GALTON'S PICTORIAL AVERAGES.

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M R. GALTON and Dr. Mahomed have been studying the physical signs of consumption by the method of what Mr. Galton has named " pictorial averages." This very in- genious and...

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GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOLS.

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W E do not often mention the reports of Companies which declare a dividend, not caring either to praise or blame concerns which are mercantile speculations, but we have one...

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE PARLIAMENTARY OATH. [To THE EDITOR OT THE " &ROTATOR."] Srx,—As it is obvious that the vote of the House of Commons has by no means disposed of the Bmcllangh...

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VIVISECTION AND AN/ESTHETICS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:1 Stn,—In the Cornhill Magazine for February, Mr. Edmund Gurney, in "An Epilogue on Vivisection," pursues a line of argument with which,...

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THE ASTRONOMICAL NOTICE TO QUIT.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Six,—The subject referred to in your issue of the 28th ult. is exciting some little attention in Manchester, both among men of faith and...

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MR. BROWNING AND " STRADIVARIUS."

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[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR,—In a contribution to the correspondence on the subject of the " Glory of God," your correspondent, " E. M. Lynch "—I do not know...

ARE THE IRISH EASILY RULED ?

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fro THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—When Mr. Cowen says the Irish are as easily ruled as any people, if only justice is done to them, be is but echoing the words of the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

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SIR,—In your last week's issue you question Mr. Cowen's state- ment that " no people " " are more easily ruled than the Irish, if you do them justice and treat them as equals ;"...

THE WISH TO BELIEVE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TEE " SPEOTATOR."] Sta,—A very forcible illustration of the truth of Mr. Wilfrid ' Ward's thesis in the Nineteenth Century (which you support), that a. wish...

THE FARMERS AND LIBERALISM. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "]

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SIR, —You seem rather vexed at the Farmers' indifference to. Liberalism. The son of a farmer and country hotel-keeper, in an agricultural district, I will give you the reason....

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THE VALUE OF IRISH LAND.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In answer to my challenge, and to my letter generally, Mr. Murrough O'Brien has produced, from Parliamentary Returns, four instances of...

AN EXPLANATION.

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(TO Tar EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR...I SIR,—Will you allow me to explain two matters on which I see I have been misunderstood by critics, both of whom I know to be perfectly fair...

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

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(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") your article on "The Channel Tunnel," you make the following statement :—" It was Pitt who ordered and Nelson who carried out the...

AN EAST-LONDON EXPERIMENT.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Many readers have asked me in what way I want help in providing the "hour of worship " of which I wrote last week. Will you let me...

RELIGIOUS RIOTS.

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(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPEcrATort."1 SIR,—Every word of Mr. Hansard's letter with regard to the riots at St. George's applies most aptly to the disturbances which have taken...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

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SIR,—Mr. Barnett's experiment will, I trust, meet with all success. A non-Prayer-book service always, as a rule, attracts those whom the ordinary service fails to affect. Many...

BOOKS.

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SIR THEODORE MARTIN'S HORACE.* SIR THEODORE MARTIN'S work will probably hold its place as the popular translation of Horace. Scholars doubtless will commonly prefer Professor...

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SANITY AND INSANITY.*

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DR. Guy's volume, which contains only about 250 pages, is one more attempt to classify the different forms of insanity, and to solve the problem of the proper legal treatment of...

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MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, IN CAPTIVITY.* Tuts contribution of six

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hundred pages to the story of the hap- less Queen of Scots is a useful and interesting addition to what has already been published on the subject. It is not put forward with the...

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THE BIBLE AND SCIENCE.*

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WE hold it to be no valid objection to this book that Dr.. Brunton's method is the reverse of dogmatic. He does not- draw hard-and-fast lines. He is tentative, suggestive. And...

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THE GARDEN OF INDIA.* THIS is a very interesting book.

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It is far from being without faults, and some of them are apparent enough ; but we never take a pleasure in playing the part of the carping critic, when an author who has...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE Magazines for February are so full of good papers, that we must make our account of them unusually brief. In the Nineteenth Century, Lord Sherbrooke takes advantage of the...

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Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute, 1880-81. (Sampson Low and

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Co.)—There are some very instructive papers in this volume, together with the discussions, often not less instructive, which fol- lowed the reading of them. Sir Richard Temple...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Philosophical Fragments. By J. D. Morell, LL.D. (Long- mans and Co.)—These "fragments" strike us as rather beyond the ordinary reader, and, at the same time, hardly satisfactory...

by Mr. Clouston's friends as a storehouse of specimens in

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Eng- lish of various species of Arabic verse, chiefly from an early age, collected by a lover of that literature, concerning whom our only regret is that he is not an Arabic...

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Afar in the Desert and Other African Poems. By Thomas

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Pringle. With a Memoir and Notes. Edited by John Noble. (Longmans.)—Both memoir and poems have a special interest, when we think of the South Africa of to-day. In Mr. Pringle's...

Stanford's London Atlas of Universal Geography is a most credit-

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able and useful publication. It is not too heavy to use, but contains forty-four quarto maps and a most elaborate index of places. The maps, based upon Mr. Arrowsmith's plates,...

A Discourse on Scottish Church History, from the Reformation to

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the Present Time. By Charles Wordsworth, D.C.L., Bishop of St. Andrew's. (Blackwood.)—The greater part of this volume is occu- pied with a critique on certain lectures, which...

The Christ ; Seven Lectures. By Ernest Neville. Translated from

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the French by the Rev. T. J. Despres. (T. and T. Clarke.)—Mons. Neville states, with much force; and eloquence, the claims which the Christian Church may make of having...

Through Cities and Prairie Lands. By Lady Duffus Hardy. {Chapman

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and Hall.)—There is very little to be said about a book of this kind, except to say whether or no it is pleasant to read, and to hazard an opinion, which for a writer on this...

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE 14 LEK.

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Auld Ac q uaintance: a Birthday Book, 16mo (Nimmo 3/0 Ayre (A.), A German Grammar, or Svo (Stewart 2/6 Bird (H. E.), Chess Practice, Svo (S. Low & Co. 2/6 Birthday Book of...

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SCALE OF CHARGES FOR ADVERTISEMENTS.

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OUTSIDE PAGE, TWELVE GUINEAS. Page 210 10 0 Narrow Column 28 10 0 Half-Page 5 5 0 Half-Column 115 0 Quarter-Page 2 12 6 Quarter-Column 017 6 Six lines and under, 5s, and 9d per...

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LONDON: Printed by JOHN CAMPBELL, of No. 1 Wellington Street,

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in the Precinct of the Briny, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, at 13 Rester Street, Strand ; and Published by him at the "Sercraroa " 021:e. Na. 1 Wellington Street, Strand,...

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SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

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the tp,ertator FOR THE No. 2798.] WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1882. [T.47.7.71"ABTID.} rg

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BOOKS.

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FAUCIT OF BALLIOL.* Ma. MEarvALE will think us captions critics. Last week we said of his play that what was wanting to make it natural was the element that might be supplied by...

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BOOKS ON EGYPT.*

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Du. EBERS' great work is in every way worthy of its subject. Its learned author has already made considerable contributions to the knowledge, whether scientific or popular, of...

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DR. FARRAR'S MERCY AND JUDGMENT.*

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THESE " few last words" may be taken as the summing-up by Dr. Farrar of a long and protracted controversy. They ought to represent his calm and deliberate judgment on all the...

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ALARIC SPENCELEY.* IN noticing a book by the authoress of

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George Geith, we are not dealing with the work of a tyro. Mrs. Riddell has tried her skill as a novelist long ago, and has shown both power and ten- derness in her treatment of...

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MR. JEFFERSON DAVIS AND SECESSION.*

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Ii these ponderous volumes Mr. Davis claims to have vindicated the action of the Southern politicians in connection with the American Civil War. His fundamental argument is...

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KAMILAROI AND KURNAL* Tim chief object in writing this book

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with both the authors has been to support the theories of the American author, Mr. Morgan ; but Mr. Howitt has done something more useful than that, for he has given a very...

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The Fifty Years' Work of the Royal Geographical Society. By

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Clements R. Markham, C.B. (John Murray.)—Mr. Markham re- views the progress of geographical knowledge, and makes certainly an impressive statement of the results. Notices of the...