M R. CHAMBERLAIN landed in Ulster on Tuesday, and received a most enthusiastic reception. The harbour of Larne was dressed with flags, crowds welcomed him in Belfast, and his...

on a technical point, of the Lord Mayor of Dublin, on the charge of having published in the Nation reports of the proceedings of the suppressed branches of the League, notwith-...

moment illuminated by a genuine touch of Dish humour. An immense gathering took place in the Rotunda to protest against the Press prosecutions and the suppression of free speech...

and, we believe, will greatly influence Scotch and English electors. It was intended to show the absence of any justification for the Home-role hope of an Utopia in Ireland to...

their verdict. It was to the effect that County-Inspector Quin John Brownrigg, Serjeant William Kirwan, Constable Patrick Gavin, and Constable Peter Brennan "did feloniously,...

of the last day having been to discuss Canon Taylor's extra- ordinary address on "Islam," on which we have commented elsewhere. The address was received for the most part...

overwhelming majority for the Government. Out of 292 seats, the Government has obtained 260; and the Opposition of all sorts, only 32, MM. Radoslavoff, Karaveloff and Zankoff...

Bradford on Monday, to express the exact condition of the Liberal mind as to the proper relations between an Imperial and an Irish Parliament with an accuracy we have not seen...

marked by more of the fire of the true orator than he usually permits him- self to display, he declared that the prospect of Home-rule had ' never been so alarming. All that was...

for the great cheerfulness and confidence of the speakers, the most conspicuous of whom were Lord Selborne and Mr. Courtney. A letter was read from Lord Hartington, in which be...

Captain Steed, of Clonsilla, County Dublin, consisting of thirty-eight horses, was poisoned. The animals were fed as usual on Satur- day night, but on the following morning one...

Colne Division of Yorkshire, and Mr. Arnold Morley, M.P., the Gladstonian Whip, published in the Times of Saturday last, brings out in a startling manner the influences at work,...

Caffarel, who was appointed by General Boulanger Deputy Chief of the Staff, is accused of having taken bribes to procure decorations through the agency of Madame Limousin, a...

the Emperor of Morocco, who is said by one set of reporters to be dead, and by another to be slowly recovering. The French, English, Spanish, and Italian Governments have all,...

Consols were on Friday 102f to 102g.

cholera, it seems, though now "normal," has recently been severe in the North-West Provinces of India, thirty-eight thousand persons having died of it in the month of August. As...

the ancient estimates of the population of China ; but the North China Herald, a well-informed journal, publishes statistics which strongly support them. It appears that the...

One is that in France the Government is held re- sponsible for all things, and the other is that M. Gr6vy may be goaded into resignation. One main object of attack is M. Wilson,...

THE SENSITIVENESS OF OPINION. 11DECAUSE the Dublin Metropolitan Police-Magistrate has .113 given a decision unfavourable to the contention of the Crown solicitor on a subtle...

T HERE is little new in the Caffarel incident in Paris, but it may, nevertheless, prove to be of serious importance. For fifty years past, at least, it has been believed in...

TEET central idea of Mr. Chamberlain's campaign in Ulster S a most excellent one, and is being admirably worked out. The mere fact that he can speak in Ireland at all, still...

MBE way in which the jealousies of the " civilised" world _ arrest the progress of civilisation is about, we fear, to be illustrated once more on a great scale. But for those...

THE changes in the international kaleidoscope are so sudden and so various, that to be dogmatically pessimistic is often to be merely misled by the shadows of diplomacy. Still,...

I N an age of vast projects, the resolve of the Russian Government to construct a railway to the Pacific attracted at once the notice of politicians, but created no surprise...

I N the Times of Wednesday there was a long account of the French occupation of the New Hebrides, part of which deserves more attention from the English Government and the...

D R. ISAAC TAYLOR, Canon of York, has, we think, reached the ultimate limit of devotion to the cause of 'progress." Although a Christian minister, and, as we have every reason...

" rpHE song is to the singer, and comes back most to him," says somewhere Walt Whitman ; and who can doubt that this in reality is the characteristic of the true poet ? His...

R EADERS of "My Novel" will remember the astonished delight with which Dr. Riccabocca listens to Parson Dale's explanations of the system of Life Assurance. It was a novelty to...

SOME SUPERSTITIONS OF THE SYNAGOGUE. [To ma Rom, or tan "sncr.trOa."J Sue,—Tho article under the above beading in your impression of October 1st, affords another proof of the...

(To vas Berms or rat Betz...res."' Si,—In reading Canon Trevor's letter in the Spectator of October 1st, on "Mr. Sayer's Hibbert Lectures," it occurred to me that some readers...

[To THY Enron OP 2212 EIPICTILTOlt.") Sra,—The following passages are taken from a letter of Pliny the younger's, describing an election in the Roman Senate ; they are...

vss ..Srserares."1 Sts,—In the Spectator of October 1st, p. 1,289, you quote as from Byron,—" The pathless wilds of Connemara." The epithet is not "pathless," but " hooseless ;"...

[To THZ EDITOR OP TIM SPZOT.T0201 SIE, — Your well-known fairness forces me to think that you will allow me to endeavour to remove a false impression under which a reviewer in...

[To ram Erma or ran PErsersros."] SIR,—A few days ago, not far from this county (Sligo), a certain- agent attended to receive rent. Tenants were all asking for and receiving an...

[To mg Berms or THE fireCTATOII-"J 8ia,—In the Spectator of October 8th, speaking of the meeting at Templecombe on October let, you say,—" There were provided, besides Mr....

[To TH1 EDITOR OP TH1 SPECTATOR:'] SID,—No doubt a sheathing of aluminium could he made ; but will you allow me to point out the probable result P I will suppose that such a...

POPE LEO =A IT is scarcely possible to write in a judicial spirit, or with a complete knowledge, the life of any living man. And when the subject of the memoir is a reigning...

[To IDS EDITOR 07 THZ SPECTATOR:") Ste,—When in Ireland in the summer of 1886, I thought it prudent to give Belfast a wide berth, owing to the free shooting going on in its...

IN A GLEN. WILD hollow deeply cloven in the hills, Oh, faint,-lit cloistral harbourage of rest ! Where silence, drowsing on thy placid breast, Is lulled with low,...

Tuts is a really remarkable work, a monument of industry and research in new and most interesting material. History, guide-book, architectural and antiquarian treatise in one,...

Da. HOLMES makes a modest excuse for the publication of these pages, observing that they am written for friends rather than for a public which cares nothing about the author....

MR. LEWIS MORRIS is a poet who has been fortunate enough to win a considerable amount of popular favour. This, of course, is not in itself a proof of high achievement ; but in...

Tam book contains useful statistics and valuable discussions. The writer is an optimist as regards the prosperity of the labourer, a pessimist as regards his industry,...

FaeNcets DE &BREAUX, Sire de Vieilleville, whose life, lasting from 1509 to 1571, covered the greater part of the sixteenth century, and who served three French Kings—Francis L,...

Independently of an article on "The Afghan Boundary Com- mission," by " Asiaticus," which, though by no means uninteresting, has a belated appearance, there are three papers of...

burgh.)—This is a charming little volume of some charming little tales by the author of that immortal piece of domestic humour, "Rudder Grange." These tales have not, indeed,...

(a number which, by-the-way, has almost too mach of a Jubilee look) that the layman will find most readable are Fifty Years of English Art" and "Shelley and the Shelley...

the first volume of this magazine, containing the numbers from January to September. To see the eight numbers, together costing two shillings in all, makes us sure that we were...

Quarterly Review is, on the whole, one on Dr. Booting, who ia described as "the greatest and wisest man, the grandest character which [sic] Methodism has produced since the...

varied, including, in addition to interesting "discussions" and notes —one note on cases of amnesia- is especially intereeting—papers on "The Physical Conditions...

Drawing.Books. (Blaokie and Son.)—The series may be described as divided into three parts :—(1.) Two books of "Freehand Elementary Deeigu," containing respectively "simple...