very great effect by the extreme moderation of his language, and by the promises which he lavishly gave that all Irishmen, whether in Ireland or America, would accept this Bill...

Home-rule with great and wise moderation. He did not believe in the revival of formal persecution, but he did believe that under Home-ride the Protestants would be "elbowed out...

Home-rule appears to be complete. No one who voted against the Bill will be opposed by the Tories, who in return expect that Unionist candidates shall not be started against...

to the less-known men, and we need only say that Sir Joseph Pease so explained the conditions under which he would vote for the Bill,—which he actually did,—as to convince the...

made that demand when a Tory Government was in power, and that he should never have thought of demanding it at the hands of a Liberal Government,—a very singular assertion. He...

T HE" waverers " did not waver when it came to the point, and early on Tuesday morning the Home-rule Bill was rejected, amidst a scene of surpassing excitement, by a majority...

any case.

people and the promise of the future with him :—" As to the people's heart, you may dispute it, and dispute it with perfect sincerity. Let that matter make its own proof. As to...

Eighty Club on Tuesday evening, the evening after the great division. If any one were in the humour, he said, he might make over the Gladstonian umbrella a speech closely resem-...

Mr. Cowen in favour of Home-rule, Sir Michael Hicks- Beach rose to reply on the part of the Opposition ; and on this statement of Mr. Parnell's, he said :—" I must, for myself...

was one of the best he ever delivered. Mr. Gladstone's second reading, to be followed by a withdrawal of the Bill, would have the effect, he said, of discrediting the existing...

to Home-rule, upon two grounds. The Radical and Romanist papers think it would be either a democratic victory or a victory for Catholicism, while the Conservative journals, and...

consists of 670 Members. The Speaker, of course, did not vote, and thirteen Members were absent, four from illness (three Liberals and a Tory), and nine others (eight Liberals...

as any he has delivered for years. His attack on Mr. Chamber- lain for providing something to say for himself whichever way the wind of popular feeling may blow, was an unduly...

a telegram announcing that two French ships-of-war had left Noumea, in New Caledonia, for the New Hebrides, with sealed orders and soldiers on board. It was supposed at once...

Hungary. Some officers at Pesth recently placed a wreath on the statue of an officer who distinguished himself in "putting down" the Hungarians, and the Magyars were very angry....

has produced serious rioting. Some shipbuilders and navvies quarrelled, a boy was killed, and on Saturday the Catholics, while marching to his funeral, attacked a Protestant...

dead set at all concerned in the administration of Burmali. They now declare that Sir Charles Bernard is incompetent to organise, and that Lord Dufferiu has sold the ruby-mines...

late years busied himself exclusively in castle-building, has spent his accumulated fortune, and has pledged his Civil List of 2245,000 a year for debts exceeding a million...

Consols were on Friday 100i to 10Nixd.

Comte de Paris and his son, and Prince Napoleon and his son, and leave the other Princes within France. Prince Napoleon, there- fore, has published a protest, in which he makes...

a personal explanation, the general effect of which we have described elsewhere. He denied absolutely that he was the Minister who, as Mr. Parnell affirmed, had conveyed to him...

THE GREAT DIVISION. T HE debate on the Home-rule Bill ended on Tuesday morning in a division without a parallel, either for its numbers or its accompanying excitement. The...

T HE division in the House of Commons has exceeded our highest expectations. When such a House as that gives a majority of thirty against Home-rule, it will at least be...

N OTHING has been more remarkable throughout this long debate than the steadiness and, as it were, the design with which all speakers, small and great, have avoided two...

T OED CARNARVON'S frank explanation in the House of .4 Lords on Thursday night does not in any way account for Mr. Parnell's statement of the previous Monday. Nothing can be...

I F to be often sending Members to Parliament is to be happy, Belgium is a singularly fortunate country. Besides the occasional rapture of a dissolution, one-half of the Chamber...

T HE freeholders of London and of the great cities are not, we fancy, in much real danger from the Leasehold Enfranchisement Bills proposed by Mr. Broadhurst and Lord Randolph...

T HE fascination which Mr. Labottchere's speeches seems,to exert over the mind of the reading public in general, as well as over that particular class of thorough-going Radicals...

M R. BOSWORTH SMITH, while writing his little book on "Rome and Carthage," one of the best of an ex- cellent series, "Epochs of Ancient History," was struck by the difficulty...

GOOD FRIDAY AMONG THE MEXICAN PENITENTES. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] THE godlessness of the Western States of America is too well- known to need description again, and I am told...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."j am really reluctant to trouble you again about my ill- fated sonnet to Mr. Watts's picture; but in your last issue, while the writer of the...

[TO THZ EDITOR or THE " spEcrATos."1 SIR,—I should be glad if you would allow me to correct two slight mistakes in my letter of the 5th inst. under the above heading. I find...

ULSTER AND HOME-RULE. [To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 Sia,—Is not your correspondent "A Son of Ulster's" letter a testimony to the mischief of the policy he advocates ? He...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPRCTATOR.' . 1 Sia,—Guided greatly by your thoughtful teaching, I have been familiarising my mind with the most disagreeable possibility that it might...

LTO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR,—The original of the "Melencolia " so powerfully described by Thomson in "The City of Dreadful Night," is to be found in a strange and...

DOLON, Eumedes son, was swift of foot, But mean of form, nor in the battle-field Of count, nor in the councils of the chiefs, And greed possessed his soul. Though countless...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF PAINTERS IN WATER- COLOURS. [SECOND NOTICE.] WE just mentioned in our first notice of this Exhibition, Mr. E. F. Brewtnall's imaginative landscape work. Of...

W. STANLEY JEVONS.* IN this volume Mrs. Jevons has done her best to bring the reader into direct contact with her husband's mind and heart. His impressions, feelings, and...

Mehalah and John Herring have already proved their author to be a novelist whose force, ability, and originality raise him above the common run. Taking it for granted,...

DR. CAZENOVE'S thoughtful and learned little book, of which the appendices and notes are almost as interesting as the lectures themselves, labours under this disadvantage, that...

IT is agreeably significant of the spread of higher education among women, that the efforts made of late years to remove the stigma of indifference which attaches to English...

" I Au quite convinced," said Sheridan, nearly a hundred years ago, in the English Parliament, "that the misery of that im- portant class [the Irish peasantry] has had its...

SOME years have elapsed since we had a novel by Miss Pollard before us ; but the quality of those stories which preceded the present by so wide an interval abides in our...

who have made acquaintance with the charming Queen of Sheba who gave her name to a charming little volume by Mr. Aldrich, the present work will be a disappointment. The rage for...

Carlyle, and the Open Secret of his Life. By Henry Larkin. (Kegan Paul, Trench, and Co.)—The "open secret" of Carlyle's life appears to be, in Mr. Larkin's estimation, Carlyle's...

Le Rai de Thessalie.") (Remington ind Co.)—We cannot affect the ignorance of the reviewer in the Times on the Beene and persons portrayed in this translation of "La Roi de...

Years. By T. Westwood. (Printed at the Chiswick Press.)—Mr. Westwood is an "old hand" at verse-making, and it is, we believe, more than thirty years ago since he published his...

of Jonbert de Saint-Arnaud. (Remington and Co.)—We cannot think that there is room in the world for such a book as this, particularly as this volume, a large octavo of more than...

Stott.) —Elections are bad enough ; but they mast be endured, at least till we get the strong man who is to turn the talkers out of doors. Bat why must we have their horrors...

White and Co.)—This is a very old story told again with a certain change in the circumstances. A young wife in the Black Country leaves her husband in a fit of rage, and leaves...

Popular Gardening. Edited by D. T. Fish. (Cassell and Co.)—Mr. Fish, who is assisted in one of these volumes by twelve, and in the other by thirteen collaborateurs, continues to...

some interesting reading in this book ; but we are inclined to think that the author might have made more, by a judicious selection, out of his subject. An excellent chapter...

is a sad story of a good woman's heart given to a man who was un- worthy of her, and broken by trouble and neglect. There is some skilful painting of country life in it. Meta,...

fourth volume of The Great Commentary of Cornelius a Lopide, translated by Thomas W. Mossman, BA. (Hodges). This volume is the first of two which will contain the Gospel and...

con- troversy between belief and unbelief, we may mention The Scientific Obstacles to Christian Belief, by George Herbert Cartel's, M.A. (Mac- millan). This volume contains the...

D.D. Edited by W. T. Arnold, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.) —Dr. Arnold's chapters on the Second Punk War (they carry on the narrative as far as the final loss of Spain by Carthage)...

The Family Lesson Book. (Wells Gardner, Darton, and Co.)—This is "a selection of Morning and Evening Readings for the year," and is "based upon the Lectionary," i.e., from the...