13 JULY 1889

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Mr. W. O'Brien asked leave on Monday to move the

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adjournment of the House on a matter of urgent public importance, in order to give his own account of the brush between the police and the people at Charleville on Sunday week ;...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE new movement of the Dervishes has become alarming. Their numbers have evidently been underrated, and pro- bably considerably exceed six thousand men. Though they lost five...

Before the Special Commission, the main interest of the week

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has been the examination and cross-examination of Mr. John O'Connor, M.P. for South Tipperary, who admitted that he began his political career as a Fenian, and that he joined...

The new Radical Party is asserting itself more and more

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defiantly. On Tuesday, Mr. Smith moved that the Committee on Royal Grants consist of twenty-three members, and as Mr. Gladstone had assented and helped to settle the list, and...

All this was clearly explained by Mr. E. Stanhope in

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the House on Wednesday, in =ewer to Sir W. Lawson, and Sir J. Fergusson added that the Dervishes were "enemies of the human race." When in May last they captured a port on the...

Dr. McInerney, the second supposed victim of the Clan-na- Gael,

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has not made his appearance, and is now alleged to be travelling for the benefit of his health. His continued silence gravely increases the suspicion that he has been made away...

Il i ,* The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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ease.

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Mr. W. O'Brien proclaimed on Wednesday, with a great flourish

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of trumpets, a new Irish Tenants' Defence League, which is to command "the assent of the most honoured and illustrious names in Ireland, and the united strength of the whole...

Mr. Morley made a speech at Durham on Saturday in

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which he had to deal with the question of Royal grants, and found it not very easy to manipulate. He was as complimentary to the Prince of Wales as he could afford to be, saying...

Cardiff, in which the Conservatives had a municipal majority when

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Mr. Gladstone visited South Wales some two years ago, has now been recovered by the Gladstonians, and the Town Council has consequently presented the freedom of the borough to...

The French Parliamentary atmosphere grows hotter and hotter. On Thursday,

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M. Laguerre, a leading Boulangist Deputy, asserted that the High Court was "a hateful farce," and when called to order, declared that he should remain in the tribune as long as...

In his political speech on the same occasion, Mr. Gladstone

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repeated that all Europe condemns the policy of England to- wards Ireland. But what does he mean by the policy of Rngland towards Ireland? If he means the policy of the last...

Friday week's polling for West Fife resulted, of course, in

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the return of the Home-ruler, Mr. Augustine Birrell, by a considerable majority over the half-and-half Unionist, Mr. Wemyss. The majority, which was 793 (3,551 for Mr. Birrell,...

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The Americans object to resistance to the police. Sullivan, the

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prize-fighter, contrived to elude the authorities in the State of Mississippi, and to conquer his opponent, Kilrain, after a three hours' battle. He then retired to Tennessee,...

The discontent in Crete which flames out from time to

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time is again growing active, and Turkish troops have been pre- vented from collecting the "tithes," which, we may remark, are the Imperial land-tax. The Turkish Government is...

We call attention to a letter published in another column

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on the muzzling of dogs, and the mischief to which it leads where the muzzles are provided, as they are in nine cases out of ten, by people who are either too careless or too...

Lord Charles Beresford has resigned his seat for Maryle- bone,

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in order, as he tells the electors, "to apply for the com- mand of one of her Majesty's ships-of-war at sea, in order to qualify myself for the high position of a British...

The French Chamber has passed the new Army Bill by

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386 to 170. Under this Bill, the years of service are reduced from five years to three ; but all exemptions are abolished, and the age of liability in extreme cases raised to...

The Lords, as was expected, have flung out the Land-

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Transfer Bill, and on the distinct ground that they will not have realty assimilated to personalty. On Friday week, Lord Bath moved the omission of Clause 74, because it directs...

In discussing the Scotch Local Government Bill on Thursday, the

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Government made a concession to Free Education in the case of the poorest districts of Scot- land, which Mr. Mundella and others treated as fore- shadowing a general concession...

The usual "Massacre of the Innocents "began on Thursday, when

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Mr. Smith, in asking for the whole time of the House, postponed the new Education Code till next year, and abandoned the Irish Drainage Bills. He was not very con- fident,...

Bank Rate, 2i per cent.

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New Consols (219 were on Friday 981 to 98i.

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TOPICS OF THE DAY. • THE ADVANCE OF THE DERVISHES. T HIS

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Egyptian business is serious. We suppose General Grenfell knows, but the Intelligence Depart- ment has not been the strong point of our Egyptian administration, and nothing in...

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WHERE IS THE ENTHUSIASM?

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ATR. WYNDHAM'S walk over the course at Dover yesterday, if it proves, as we think it will prove, to have been a walk-over, was sufficiently remarkable. There was a considerable,...

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MR GLADSTONE AND 111E NEW PARTY.

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W E are inclined, for reasons stated below, to attach some importance to the deep fissure which revealed itself on Tuesday night between the Liberal and the Radical sections of...

MR. J., O'CONNOR AND HOME-RULE.

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_ L A I ! incident which happened on Tuesday in the cross- examination of Mr. John O'Connor, M.P. for South Tipperary, before the Special Commission, is very well worth...

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THE PAPACY AND ROME.

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I T seems generally believed that in the Secret Consistory held the other day the Pope finally determined to leave Rome so soon as war becomes really imminent, and. to seek a...

A BRITISH COLONIAL ARMY. T HE French Government is about, it

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is said, to organise a Colonial Army for service in Indo-China, New Caledonia, and its West Indian possessions, and it is worth while to consider for a moment whether Great...

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M. GAMBETTA'S PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE.

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T HE subtle and vigorous art-criticism which M. Gambetta wrote in 1873, but which has only just seen the light, is much more than an art-criticism, though it is far more...

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THE F17RY OF SQUANDERING.

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p EOPLE are writing and talking about the case of Mr. Ernest Benzon, the young man who has spent a quarter of a million, or some such sum, in less than two years, as if it were...

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ENGLISH FANS .AND ENGLISH HISTORY.

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T HE fan, which has been described by an amiable enthusiast as "the sceptre that rules the world," appears in Lady Charlotte Schreiber's collection* as chorus to the play of a...

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T . public are from time to time entertained by choice

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collections of blunders which examiners have found, or profess to have found, in the written or vied voce answers of examinees. I say "profess to have found," because some of...

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JOHN WESLEY ON THE COLONIES. LTO THE EDITOR OF THE

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"SPECTATOR." • have just come upon a passage in Southey ' s Life of Wesley which seems to show that the doctrine that our Colonies should be encouraged to look forward to the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I be permitted

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to make a suggestion, founded upon the last paragraph of your able article last week on the Delagoa Bay difficulty ? It appears to me that the present moment might be opportune...

HOPE FOR WORKERS.

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[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:9 Srs,—Referring to your interesting article in a recent number on this subject, I was talking to a superior and intelligent factory worker...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE CRUX OF FEDERATION. [To Tnic Eorroa or THE "srscrAzos.."] Szs,—It is now as good as admitted by at all events British Home-rulers, that Irish " Home-rule " involves...

THE DELAGOA BAY RA.TLWAY.

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[To THE EDITOR OY THE " SPECTATOR:] SITC, — Will you of your courtesy allow me a little space in which to submit that the view taken in your article of the position of the...

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THE MUZZLING OF DOGS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—I travelled a considerable distance last Saturday in order to attend a meeting at St. James's Hall, convened under the chairmanship of...

PASTEUR'S PROPHYLACTIC.

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[To THE EDITOR OF TRH "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Mr. Victor Horsley evidently seeks to weaken the force of my remarks by suggesting that I do not believe in the existence of rabies at...

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SUN-DIAL INSCRIPTIONS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—To the inscriptions mentioned in Mr. MacLeod's letter in the Spectator of July 6th, allow me to add two, one serious and one jocular,...

BOOKS.

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FINAL MEMORIALS OF EDGAR QUINET.* THERE are few more touching figures in the history of con- temporary literature than that of the Roumanian lady who became the second wife of...

A PRAIRIE FIRE.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I send you a few details, supplied by a later letter, of the prairie fire described in the Spectator of May 25th.—! am, "Dick was...

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ARDATH.*

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Miss MARIE CORELLI'S latest contribution to literature is a very powerful, very fascinating, very faulty, and very irri- tating romance. As we are aware that this must sound a...

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THE " CENTURY " SECESSION WAR PAPERS.* COLLECTED and bound

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up in four stout quarto volumes, the papers on the American Civil War, as the editors prefer to call the prolonged conffiet, which have appeared in the Century form what we...

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THE CONGO STATE.*

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WHEN a trader remarked to Tippoo Tib that the Congo Free State was a large country, he replied, reports Mr. Werner,— " Yes, it is a large country, on paper." It does not appear...

MRS. WOODS' LYRICS AND BALLADS.*

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THE reader of these poems would hardly, perhaps, be able to infer from them that Mrs. Woods possesses the kind of power which was shown in her Village Tragedy, but he would be...

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SOME VOLUMES OF SERMONS.*

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Da. WEBTCOTT attempts in this volume the gravest of all theological problems, the doctrine of the Atonement. It marks no little advance in the tone of thought on this subject...

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The new number of the Law Quarterly Review contains an

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exceptionally large number of articles that are either of general or of special professional interest. Of the latter character is Lord Justice Fry's on "Specific Performance and...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

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Though the July number of the London Quarterly Review contains no article which has the note of distinction, there are in it several papers of more than average merit. Its...

The law bearing on the assessment of mill machinery for

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the relief of the poor is very clearly and pithily stated in The Rating of Textile Mill Machinery (Cousins and Co.), which is reprinted in the form of a penny pamphlet from the...

The Story of the Nations : Persia. By S. G.

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W. Benjamin. (T. Fisher Unwin.)—Mr. Benjamin is a well-known authority on this subject, and he has put into this volume a very considerable amount of knowledge. In the earlier...

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A History of Scotland, chiefly in its Ecclesiastical Aspect. By

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M. G. J. Kinloch. (R. Grant and Son, Edinburgh.)—The fact that this history, originally introduced to the public in 1873 by the late Bishop of Brechin, has reached a second...

Four Famous Soldiers. By T. R. E. Holmes. (Allen and

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Co.)— Sir Charles Napier, Hodson of Hodson's Horse, Sir William Napier, and Sir Herbert Edwardes are the soldiers whose lives Mr. Holmes relates in this volume. The book is not...

Professor Eric Robertson, of the University of the Punjab, Lahore,

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has, in Children of the Poets (Walter Scott), made a selection from what has been written about children by the English and American poets of the last three centuries. The...

The third part of Mr. H. H. Howorth's History of

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the Mongols (Longmans) is devoted to "The Mongols of Persia." It is an ill return for the vast labour expended upon this work, for the reviewer to pass it over in a few lines....

Gilbert Preethorne's Heritage. By W. C. Alvary. (Sonnenschein.) —This is

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a decidedly ambitious and promising, though not quite successful attempt to give us a romance of Scotch clerical life, to weave mystery, heresy, love, money, and parish gossip...

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Glasgow is, like his friend the late Principal Shairp, above

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all things a Wordsworthian. At all events, it is tolerably safe to say that, but for Wordsworth, neither the bulk of this volume nor of "Hillside Rhymes," which preceded it,...

Subjects of Social Welfare. By the Right Hon. Sir Lyon

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Play- fair, M.P. (Cassell and Co.)—Sir Lyon Playfair is much more than a politician ; he is primarily and principally a publicist and a man of science, as the essays and...

The New Judgment of Paris. By Paul Lafargue. (Macmillan.) —There

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is a good deal of cleverness, not a little very high art, and an immense amount of artificiality, in these two volumes by a new and (in all probability) female writer. There is...