the Home-rule Bill through its second reading before the Easter holidays They are not anxious for much discussion of the measure in the electoral districts, and, besides, want...

bury, was held on Wednesday in the great room of the Carlton Club. It was largely attended, Mr. Goschen, among others, being present, a formal evidence of his adhesion to that...

T HE new American President, Mr. Cleveland, took the oath on March 4th, in front of the Capitol, Washington, in presence of a splendid gathering of notabilities, and de- livered...

case.

are signs that it will be accepted. The Deputies of the Centre refuse to declare themselves, and a section of the National Liberals, led by Major Hinze, decline to take the...

of Deputies for being bribed, opened on Wednesday, but is, of course, not yet finished. M. Baihaut, former Minister, has confessed ; and M. Sans-Leroy, ex-Chairman of the...

itself with discussing the Navy Estimates. Sir Ughtred Kay-Shuttleworth announced that 76,700 men and boys would be asked for for next year, an increase of 2,600 in excess of...

thought it, for instance, perfectly natural that a people immersed in their own business, and accustomed to confide in Mr. Gladstone, should, in the midst of the wide division...

yesterday week on the state of Clare, from which it resulted that the state of Clare has been bad ever since the expiration, in 1885, of the Crimes Act of 1882; that it improved...

Report of the Evicted Tenants Commission, That Commission, pre- sided over by Mr. Justice Mathew, decided, it appears, that "the combinations into which the tenants entered...

Wednesday, was full of good points. After remarking that the Bill was "a Bill for the worse government of Great Britain," he went on to show that the clause forbidding the...

on Friday week, when the vote of £600,000 for the completion of the Irish light railways came on. Mr. John Morley was not present ; and Mr. Chamberlain declared that,...

the popular campaign against the Home-rule Bill with a speech of which the only fault is its condensation. Every sentence is an argument, and every paragraph a final reason for...

not raise revenue except by taxation ; but is that quite so certain ? We find nothing in the Bill to prevent their establishing a lottery which, with all Europe subscribing,...

on Saturday evening with a misfortune which, although unattended by loss of life, involved almost as much ruin as an earthquake could have caused. The rows of houses facing the...

of diabetes and pulmonary phthisis, from which he had been suffering for a year past. A fortnight ago, on the advice of M. Pasteur, recourse was had to a Brown-Sequard injection...

every person appointed wWheolshsigSnusspheinnisoserlfy to preferment in the Church of Wales and Monmouthshire, after the passing of the Bill, to "hold the ak emoluments subject...

New Consols (2f) were on Friday 981.

ject of Home-rule, has produced some very remarkable letters. One published in Tuesday's issue, signed "An Irish Manu- facturer," is of special interest. The writer says—and...

for the Liberal Unionist, Mr. Heneage, who was returned on Monday by a majority of 964 votes over Mr. Broadhurst, the Gladstonian candidate (for Mr. Heneage, 4,427 votes ; for...

Federation asking for an eight-hours Bill; and in reply to their representations, expressed a unanimity view that, until there is a "very near approach to mmity," there ought to...

obstruction, by a minority, of the de- liberately expressed will of a majority, is one with which we should always feel the deepest sympathy, whether it were on our own side, or...

THE CONSERVATIVE MEETING. T HE meeting of the Conservatives at the Carlton Club on Wednesday was a most timely one. It is quite use- less to deny that the whole Unionist Party,...

M R. CLEVELAND'S inaugural Address, delivered on March 4th to the crowd in front of the Capitol, is one of the most noteworthy speeches ever spoken to the American people, and...

I F Mr. Gladstone has seen and read Mr. Gee's draft of a Bill for the disendowment and disestablishment of the Church in Wales, be must have felt, as Ophelia felt when...

W HETHER the Protestant counties of Ulster will rebel against an Irish Catholic Parliament seated in Dublin is, of course, doubtful, quiet industrials being slow to take up arms...

B Y the death of M. Taine, Europe loses her greatest critic. That is the thought that is this week in the minds of most well-read and intelligent men. And yet, in many ways, M....

is a very modest measure compared with some of its predecessors. Episcopal legislators have learnt something from their past failures. They have come to see that if they want to...

N OTHING is more remarkable in the present day than that with the growth of the sense of obligation towards the weak and dependent there has been growing almost pan i passu a...

W E watch nowadays, with a new and separate interest, any public manifestation of the passion of pity. Next, perhaps, to self-interest, that is the dominant emotion of the hour;...

P ERR-A-Ps the rarest, certainly the least• known to man of all the creatures which, by a strange chance, find their way to the Gardens of the Zoological Society in Regent's...

T HE 5th of March is past and gone. The sun rose, set, and rose again ; the earth turned round after its usual fashion ; its hundreds of millions of inhabitants got up, went...

[TO TIER EDITOR Or TRH " SPECTATOR.'] SIR,—The direct negative is most welcome, I am sure, to all Irish Unionists. But though a qualifying amendment to the second reading...

MR. GLADSTONE AND IRISH CABINET MINISTERS. [TO THIO EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR."] [TO THIO EDITOR OP THE SPECTATOR."] SIR,--I have to request you to amend my letter of the 27th...

[TO THE EDITOR OW THE " SPECTALTOR."1 SIR,—Your reviewer has deeply understood my book, even to the laying his finger upon the very text of Scripture which brightens on my...

[TO TH10 EDITOR. Or THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin,—Your correspondent, "C. W. H. K.," in the Spectator of March 4th, says that" the suggestion that the better-endowed clergy should...

[ ro THE EDITOR ON THE "SPECTATOR.."] SIR,—Do English statesmen, like Lord Rosebery and Mr. Bryce, thoroughly understand that their Home-rule policy is, stirring up bitter...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In the Spectator of the 25th ult., referring to a state- Ment of mine that the amount of capital belonging to new Companies registered...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] hope, although the incident may be trivial, that the little fact may interest your readers as much as it did myself when I was listening some...

[To THE ED/TOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Your comment upon my lecture on Cobbett is founded —BO far as regards the court-martial business—on a pbraee in the report which I...

70 THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."3 SIR,—May I be permitted to add another "supplement" to the letters which have already appeared in your columns on "The Change in...

[To TUE EDITOR OF TEE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin,—The following paragraph appears in the Spectator for Saturday, March 4th :— " The official account of the special subscriptions sent...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sin,—Mr. Fletcher, in his letter to you, makes the following remarks :—" The first Beatitude I regard as the text of the Sermon on the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."3 Sin,—In your article, headed "The Sources of English , Prosperity," in reference to the failure of our coal, in the Spectator of March...

[To THE ErnToIi OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Slit,—In the Spectator of February 18th, you alluded to the Mormon elder whose notion of fulfilling a well-known in- junction was that he...

[To Tit H EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I should like with your permission to mention a few truths, which are intimately connected with the health and well-being of my...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Now that the Labour Party is much to the fore at home, the following extract from a letter from my son, a " globe-trotter " in New...

WAITING. As those who, on some lonely mountain-height, Watching through all the weary hours of night, Await the pale rose of the morning-light, I wait for thee. As one who,...

the dark waters into starry spray, And thrilled the soul of many a seaside town. Ah, cruel are the hungry tides that drown ! They kill, yet cast ashore their tender prey ;...

MRS. MEYNELL'S POETRY AND PROSE.* IN 1875, Miss Thompson (now Mrs. Meynell) published a volume of poems under the title of Preludes, which was illustrated by her sister, the...

LAND QUESTION.* EXTREME rancour in a controversialist is generally a rather auspicious symptom. When Mr. Herbert Spencer is attacked as the "Lost Leader" of Browning's noble...

of John Ward, Preacher, excelled any of her previous works—so far, at all events, as style is concerned—in this volume; she has produced the most remark- able and most...

THE success that attends British rule in Oriental countries has long been a source of pride to the Englishman, and of envious wonder to the rest of the world. The reason of this...

a series called "Preachers of the Age." The title is correct in that all the volumes consist of sermons ; but objection may be taken if it is to be assumed that all these...

who went out to Queensland as Aide-de-Camp to Sir Anthony Musgrave, and remained in the same capacity two years more under Sir Henry Norman. Mr. Baden-Powell probably has a con-...

sustain its reputation as a mélange of criticism, gossip, and original articles on writers and books. The best of the contents of the March number are, perhaps, "New Writers...

Mr. Beesly, and of which the third number is now published, will probably be found of interest, solely on account of its giving the opinions of eminent Positivists on leading...

surely the Globe Quarterly Review of Literature, Society, Religion, Art, and Politics. It is published in Chicago, and is conducted and apparently, also, is mainly written by...

The contents of the March number of the Atlantic Monthkg- which, as has been said here before, only requires to be illustrated to be quite on a platform of equality with its...

magazine. In it the well-known writer says a great deal about himself in a free and open way, and also—which is, perhaps, more to the point—about the old and interesting...

Magazine are considerably above even the high average of style and of variety generally sustained in it. It is a far cry from Mr. C. Parkinson's "Adders or Vipers" to Mr. Owen...

of the Girl's Own Paper, and the teaching by example, in the shape of the stories, is always of the soundest. In the March number, moreover, there are some really good papers,...

annals may be described as dull, because it simply holds on the even tenor of its way. It is full of reliable information, and, on the whole, of judicious advice, The March...

are some useful little stories in this volume, each with a moral sufficiently forcible to be impressed on children's ears, and fairly well told as well.

8 Maps and 111. Illustrations. "The International Scientific Series." (Kagan Paul and Co.)—Professor Wright has followed up a The Tee Age in North America," &c., by a...

(irrowsmith.)— The old incidents of an enforced signature to a will, and a fly in the dead man's mouth, are made to do duty once more, but we must say a very good story has...

Chambers's Encyc/opcedia has now been issued, and thus the work is completed within less than five years of the publication of the first in- stalment. In an "editorial note,"...

Tribes of East Africa. By M. French-Sheldon, " Bele6 Bwana." (Saxon and Co.)—Few women have had the courage and commanding determination of Mrs. French-Sheldon, and none have...

With Illustrations by Rosa La Quesne. (Sonnenschein.) —These two ladies made a highly successful tour in Hungary, where they encountered many hardships and much kindness. They...