House between Lord Londonderry, the late Viceroy of Ireland, and Lord Spencer. Lord Camperdown commenced the debate by describing the intimidation practised on Mr. Smith-Barry's...

made a furious attack on the Roman Catholic Bishop of Limerick, and also, if the report of the Freeman's Journal can be trusted, on the Pope, for the line they have taken in...

is issued, gratis, an Eight-Page Supplement, containing the Half-Yearly Index and Title-Page,—i.e., from January 4th to June 28th, 1890, inclusive.

of an article in La Patrie—a paper believed to re- present the opinions of M. Laurier, the leader of the Opposi- tion in the Dominion Parliament—declaring in favour of breaking...

he had received information from an authori- tative source, that though the French Government did not intend to mix up the questions of Zanzibar and Egypt, they considered that...

T HE country was somewhat alarmed on Wednesday by a report in the New York Herald that President Harrison had intimated that the United States cruisers must continue their...

between King Leopold and the Belgian Parlia- ment in regard to the Congo Free State, an excuse for the publication of a Yellow Book including documents intended to assert that...

ease.

reading of the Western Australia Bill, which took place on Monday, left nothing to be desired in regard to the manner in which the subject was approached. The speeches of Lord...

passed off without any noticeable occurrence, except that the President was fired at by a mad inventor with a grievance, whose revolver, however, was not loaded, and whose only...

under the presidency of Mr. T. B. Potter, at the National Liberal Club, Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Mr. Esslemont, Sir George Campbell, and Mr. Searle-Hayne being the only persons pre-...

in spite of Mr. Dillon's high-flown and tremendous denunciations of the Irish Secretary, he has to admit that, as he represents "a very poor district," he cannot repudiate...

insisting on "the iniquity" of Mr. Balfour's administra- tion of Ireland, and the unexampled " sufferings " of the Irish people under his rule. He paraded his dislike of the...

met in the Memorial Hall, Farringdon Street, on Wednesday, to protest against the Bishop of Peterborough's Bill on the subject of children's insurance, and to condemn the...

it would, in the return of the Gladstonian candidate by a very large majority,-2,094,—Mr. Wilson (Gladstonian) polling 5,469 votes, against 3,375 given for Mr. F. Adolphus...

agreed as to the new taxation. M. Leon Say has carried the Chamber with him, by 265 against 247 votes, in proposing to exempt agricultural houses not worth more than 50 fr. a...

and made a very amusing speech, in which he commented on the wealth of metaphor in Sir W. Harcourt's letter to Monday's Times, comparing the House of Commons to a horse, a ship,...

ever, an attempt to make a great deal of the supposed wish of the Government in the Procedure Committee to give the House of Lords new advantages over the House of Commons. We...

Wednesday, on the subject of the Registration Bill, which it would be, he said, the first duty of Mr. Gladstone's Govern- ment to pass the moment it came into power, and which...

reading of the Directors' Liability Bill showed that the measure is one which requires very careful consideration. Lord Herschell, who moved the second reading of the Bill,...

Thursday afternoon. This is an institution which, owing its origin to the magnificent bequest of Sir Joseph Whitworth, appears likely to obtain the control of even much larger...

of that delight in literary insolence which distin- guishes his style of invective. With the intemperance which characterises most amateur architects, and always this one, he...

we fear, he is ousting Mr. John Morley from the prospect of the succession to Mr. Gladstone. There is no limit to his energy, his elephantine pomp, his elaborate and calculated...

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S IR WTT,TJAM HARCO1TRT is always magnificent. He always outshines those who have gone before him in the same field. And now in his political estimates of the situation, he not...

T HERE has been a great deal of nonsense talked about Sir William Harcourt's letter to Monday's Times having " pulverised " the proposal of the Government to bold a Winter...

good men have to struggle, one of the chief is unfamiliar labour. Probably Lord Hartington would rather have made twenty long speeches about Home-rule than the one short speech....

I T is too much the custom of Mr. Parnell's critics to give him credit for deep designs to entrap the Govern- ment to their destruction, mainly because he announced before the...

I N "England's Case against Home-rule," Professor Dicey did a signal service to the cause of the Union. He exposed beyond the possibility of reply the constitu- tional...

contains a retro- spect of the last twenty-five years in the United States which is well worth the attention of all Englishmen who are interested in the social and political...

his best to put a stop to the most offensive of the many theatrical forms and ceremonies connected with the administration of criminal justice in France, will be received with...

T T is interesting to observe that, according to the Times' reporter of the Salvation Army's fete on Tuesday, " General Booth takes as much pride in his musical as in his more...

I F there is a custom which is supposed by our neighbours on the Continent to be essentially British, it is that of shaking hands. They speak of the English " shake-hand " as if...

A COMMENTARY IN AN EASY-CHAIR : THE CIVIL LIST-WITHOUT MEANS OF ADEQUATE SUPPORT -THE POSTMEN AND THEIR STRIKE. I HAVE not for a long time seen a more pathetic document than...

Sin,—In your review, in the Spectator of July 5th, of Sir G. F. Bowen's " Thirty Years of Colonial Government," attention is properly directed to the conversation he had with...

• [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."' SIR, Will you allow me space for a word in reply to what seems almost to amount to a challenge from the writer of the letter signed " A...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Dr. Kay, commenting on Psalm civ., 17, tells a story about the stork similar to that published in the Spectator of July 5th. He says...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—But for a way I have of never doing to-day what I can do to-morrow, you would have received long ago an account of my tame rook, for I...

MEANING IN MUSIC AND ART. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Is there not some obliquity of vision about " the literary point of view" common to your Arm-Chair•...

ROLLICKING IRELAND.* IT is a pity that Sir Jonah Barrington's Personal Sketches of his Own Times has become a rare book, for nowhere else can be found so vivid a sketch of...

MOSQUE'S THRESHOLD. A COMMON woman of the ashamed East, lirermilion'd, henna'd, filthy, and unchaste, Sat in the dust o' the vulture-cleansed bazaar With her brown weanling,...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") am most grateful to you for printing my appeal for the sufferers by " a Tyrolese tragedy." May I thank Mrs. Overend in your columns for her...

DURING his long tenure of the Camden Professorship of Ancient History at Oxford, Canon Rawlinson wrote a History of the Ancient Monarchies of the East. It filled four large...

Catholic Bishop in Ireland who thinks that the time he can spare from the administration of his diocese may be devoted more profitably to learning than to politics,—an opinion...

of Mr. Ruskin's, that the Liber Studiorum of Turner might be used as a school of landscape art, has been taken up by Mr. John Ward, F.S.A., and an attempt is made in the...

DR. RUTHERFORD'S edition of the Fourth Book of Thncydides is the boldest and most original work put forward by an English scholar for many years, and were his views to gain...

THAT the game of Curling should have its history written, and that the history should come forth under high auspices. was a thing to be expected sooner or later. A fitting...

Edwin Smith has a vein of genuine poetry in him, but it is a good deal mingled with a genial and kindly sentiment that often misleads him into treating subjects which have not...

The Universal Review for July has a paper by Mr. Laurence Housman, " The Green Gaffer," which might be called a poem if, which we do not admit, poetry can be indepen- dent of...

and Stoughton.)—This is the first volume of a new (a fourth) series. There are three powerful papers from the pen of the late Bishop Lightfoot, dealing with " The Internal...

Brothers. (R. H. Somerville, Edinburgh.)—These vignettes of Edinburgh life are drawn with extraordinary vigour and pre- cision. Nothing could be better than the story of the...