T HE negotiations between the Irish factions, have broken down. Mr. Parnell announced the fact to the world on Thursday by publishing a letter, dated February 11th, to Mr....

case.

in 1886. In 1886, Mr. Labouchere polled 4,570 votes, while the highest Conservative, Mr. Richard Turner, polled 3,850, leaving a majority of 720 for the Radicals. On Thursday,...

has made an appeal to the country to give him a majority in the new Parliament which does not seem to us particularly prudent. He declares that while his policy of promoting...

The former, as usual, drowns his meaning in a flood of words, but he thinks apparently that Mr. Parnell will win, and is 'bitter on the " responsible persons" who, under some...

in Ireland are probably useless, as they will be greatly affected by future events, and especially by the operation of the Purchase Bill. They are, however, freely offered, with...

Rumours were spread at the end of last week that the King wished to restore him to power; but if this were ever true, the negotiation failed. Signor Crispi has recommenced his...

Commons, delivered a striking lecture on " The Difficulties of Socialism," at University College, London, on Wednesday night. First of all, he said-it would be necessary to...

journal as specially well informed, states that the situation in Servia is growing dangerous. The Radicals are -determined that Queen Natalie, whom they accuse of seeking power...

day was very poor, and even the division showed little interest in the matter, as the second reading was carried by a diminished majority as compared with last year,—namely,...

silver have probably increased during the week. The American Chambers of Commerce and experienced financiers are, it is true, protesting against the measure, and General...

as ascertained by the new Census, is 314,650, of whom 249,273 are more or less uncivilised, 52,065 belong to the five civilised tribes, 5,034 form the quiet relic of the old Six...

of Commons, and if the Lords are prudent, may be regarded as past its perils. It does not settle all the great issues in- volved, and the Welsh Members maintain that it will do...

the Times, in which, amidst much that is fanciful, there is much of social and even political interest. He says that, aLecording to the " Rewa. Purana," the special sanctity of...

for the year 1890 show how very mild and how very effective that much-reviled Act has been. There were in all .530 persons proceeded against, of whom 139 were discharged. Of the...

'no limit. A few years since, half Naples was robbed by a swindler who offered 48 per cent,for deposits ; and this week a man named Berneau, who traded as V. Mac6 and Co., has...

Wednesday's Daily News, of M. Lippmann's discovery of a mode of photographing colours, which, however, ho has as yet only got as far as applying to the photography of bands of...

New Consols (2) weTo on Friday 971 to 971.

of Arts on Wednesday, on the proposed channel tunnel between Ireland and Great Britain. The most hopeful route he held to be the one from the Island Magee, north-east by east,...

on " Four Years with Hard Labour" in the House of Commons, writes to the Times of Tuesday a letter in which he expresses, first, his perfect belief in the loyalty of Roman...

the Ripper" have commenced again, after a cessation of seventeen months, the last, or seventh, having occurred on September 10th, 1889. At 2.15 a.m. on Friday, the body of 'a...

• THE FAILURE OF THE IRISH NEGOTIATIONS. T HE Irish are not quite so clever as we fancied. The leaders of the contending factions had arranged the astute scheme, which we...

electoral inequalities and anomalies, we are entirely in favour of the prin- ciple of " One man, one vote." It is, we hold, not only most unfair, but in the widest sense most...

W E know of few puzzles in politics more perplexing than the failure of the Spanish Americans to found orderly Republics. The usual English explanation, that they are Spanish...

M R. RADCLIFFE COOKE, the clever Conservative who represents West Newington, and who wrote the amusing pamphlet on "Four Years in Parliament with Hard Labour," sent to Tuesday's...

filled so prominent a place in our newspapers during the past week, has led one of our ablest contemporaries to a most lugubrious estimate of the condition of our social...

D'HAUSSONVILLE is a politician of a very • different calibre from the ordinary members of the Irreconcilable Right. Ho is a distinguished man of letters, one of the Forty, and...

O N Tuesday, Sir George Baden-Powell read an in- teresting paper before the London Chamber of Commerce, in which he dealt at length with the new mail route to the Far East. His...

their own race as the most typical of all races of men" in their eager attachment to life, to business, to affairs, to the various transactions of commerce, of society, of art,...

T HERE seems to be a certain tendency among the scientific men of to-day to carry their investigations from the field of natural objects into that of abstract ideas. Having...

S IR AUCKLAND COLVIN, the Lieutenant-Governor of the North-West Provinces—the great region between Bengal and the Punjab—made a speech at Lucknow last week which, if its...

CARDINAL NEWMAN AND THE "ORIEL QUARREL." [To TEM EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—Your reviewer, in his notice of " Cardinal Newman's Anglican Letters," refers in two places,...

[To Vis EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Whilst fully sharing the views put forward in your• admirable article on the " find " at the British Museum, I would venture to...

[To MR EDITOR OP TILE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—A letter of no importance in itself may sometimes: gather a fictitious importance from the fact of its admission• into a paper of...

[To rue EDITOR OF Tula " SPROTikTOR."] : SIR, — Rising from the perusal of your admirable notice of Ivanhoe, I lighted upon the following entry in Sir Walter Scott's...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THO "SPECTATOR." zSin,—Your terse and timely article on this subject in the Spectator of February 7th, reminds me of an incident recently wecorded somewhere...

pro rue EDITOR OF TRH SPECTATOR, "] ;Stn.,—In addition to printed books, we have had embossed by hand over one thousand different works, including Shake- speare, Dickens,...

THE ENGLISH WATER-COLOURISTS. THERE has been brought together at the Academy this winter a historical collection of English water-colours, ranging from Paul Sandby to Frederick...

CARDINAL NEWMAN'S ANGLICAN LETTERS.* . [CONCLUDING NOTICE.] .SOME day we hope that Miss Mozley will give us a selection from her own volumes, leaving out of it all those...

WE have only one fault to find with Mr. Smalley's London Letters. They are so full of good things, that half-way through the reader is apt to suffer from mental indigestion, and...

THIS is a very fair and impartial estimate of the character and career of a politician who has seldom been discussed with fairness or impartiality. This fairness is the more...

of this exposition of Mr. Smith of the Book of Isaiah was reviewed in the Spectator of December 15th, 1888 ; and we might repeat, in regard to the present volume, all that was...

IP continuations seldom succeed, what are we to expect, from a continuation of the Odyssey ? This " vaulting ambition" is sure to " o'erleap itself." One cannot help speculating...

WE cordially welcome the reissue of the " Aldine " Coleridge, with its useful memoir, its apparently exhaustive bibliography, and its abundant., but never prolix, and seldom...

Shepherd. 2 vols. (Fisher Unwin.)—This book is not one which can be easily placed under any accepted literary heading with any assurance of accuracy in classification ; but we...

originally in 1874, is now republished in the collected edition of his works (Macmillan and Co.) This powerful, but, in our judgment, far from faultless poem has boon carefully...

The fourteenth and final volume of the Collected Writings of Thomas de Quincey, by David Masson (Black), consists of miscel- lanea, much of which are of moderate interest, while...

2 vols. (Bentley and Sons.)—The "Light" is "seen," says the writer, "through the wrong end of an opera-glass." This explains the nature of his book. The author tells us about...

and Co.)—Mrs. Banks reminds us a little of Maria Edgeworth. This story especially has much of the simple and homely charm which we have been accustomed to find in the "Moral...

Marylebone," according to Mr. Clinch, is " Mary-le- bourne," the old church, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, having given place early in the fifteenth century to one...

and Co.)--Mre. Meade has a decided taste for plots which she is not able, wo suppose, to gratify as she would wish in the tales which she commonly writes. She has found an...

Trench, and Co.)—The Jesuit Father Hardouin put forth the strange hypothesis that all the classical writers were forgeries of mediaeval monks. This lead was followed not many...

hauer. Selected and translated by T. Bailey Saunders, M.A. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—A reader may certainly got a good idea of what Schoponhauer thought from this little...

Co.)—Mr. McRae is quite right when he says that students of science have " a tendency to imaging that the facts with which they are now being made familiar have all been...

Fisher Unwin.)—This volume of the " Story of the Nations" series, if it does not add much to our knowledge, summarises very clearly the results of recent research in regard to...

it is intended to complete in six volumes, of the Life and Writings of Joseph Mazzini. The odd and even volumes are to contain re- spectively the " Autobiographical and...

(William Hunt and Co.)—Between 1874 and 1876, Mr. Price was engaged by the Church Missionary Society to establish a settle- ment on the East African Coast for the reception of...

Robertson, M.A. (William Paterson.)—Towards the end of his by no means long life, Douglas Jerrold collected from his in- numerable writings, and published in eight volumes,...

of "Our• Own Pompeii." 3 vols. (D. Stott.)—If there is nothing very profound or original in thought about George, nor anything very striking in the construction of the plot,...