the Speech from the Throne was moved by the Earl of Onslow and seconded by Lord de Ros, after which Lord Granville asked Lord Salisbury why he had not waited till October to...

avail himself of the powers given by the law to keep order in Ireland, but that " the law was insufficient for the purpose." Further, he did not think that there was wisdom in...

the rumour that President Gr6vy, who has just entered upon his eightieth year, is thinking of retiring, and of naming M. de Freycinet to the National Assembly as the most...

to the late Government would expire on November 1st, and that had he waited till October to summon Parliament, he might have been in great danger of leaving the Government...

by no means come to terms as to the boundary at Khoja Saleh, the question being as to a small portion of territory included in a bend of the Oxus at that place, which the...

T HERE seems to be little doubt that Russia is at the present moment both restless and irresolute. She is dissatisfied with the state of things both in Europe and in the East,...

case.

of Commons, Mr. Bradlaugh raised a preliminary skirmish by proposing to abolish the Sessional Order prohibiting the interference of Peers in elections as " a high infringement...

but as a United Kingdom question, and held that it must be dealt with "on lines generally similar at the same time over the whole country,"—the most dangerous principle, in our...

islands off the West Coast of Ireland, from Achill southwards, has been published ; and as it contains an account of his eighth visit daring recent years to this...

officers have been challenged for re-election. Thus, Mr. Henry Matthews was returned without a straggle on Wednes- day week ; and yesterday week Mr. Ritchie was returned for the...

that the very fact that Mr. Gladstone was now at the head of the Irish Party afforded a guarantee that that party would not use its power in Ireland to stimulate illegal methods...

Mr. Maclean, who assured Mr. Gladstone that Isla Home-role Bills were dead, and that no one would try to succeed where he had failed. Mr. Gladstone then rose, and in a speech of...

the Act of 1881, and to enforce the law giving the landlords the judicial rents, would not scruple to inquire into the alleged inability of a certain class of tenants, since the...

severely the feelings of the Home-rulers of Nottingham, who have accordingly fallen foul of Mr. Alderman Acton, who did his best to aid Mr. Wright in his canvass. The result has...

light rifle-duel between the Orangemen and the Roman Catholics, which resulted in two or three deaths and several injuries. It is said that the duel went on for several hours...

the Congress on Irish affairs, and then in the manipulation of them. The first great event was Congressman Finerty's speech of this day week, which greeted Mr. Davitt on his...

in India, announcing that the Viceroy had been satisfied that the charges brought against Colonel Hooper, late Provost-Marshal at Mandelay, of photographing condemned criminals...

in the Daily News, on how to restore the Liberal Party to its ascendency. It began with a letter of Mr. Labouchere's last Saturday, and has since been continued by Lord...

of the age. We take up so much time in admiring ourselves for what some of us were exactly fifty, or a hundred, or some hundreds of years ago, that we have none left to do what...

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. T HE attitude taken both by the new Government and by the Leader of the Opposition on Thursday was, on the whole, fairly satisfactory to impartial...

N OTHING strikes us as more grotesque than the spasmodic efforts of Liberal politicians to put the Liberal Party together again, and the dismay and even bewilderment with which...

eetings,—or shall we call them acts of a which began in Chicago this day week rehearsal of the main interest of the melo- unter between Congressman Finerty and will be very...

T HERE is something piteous about the demonstration of working men which was held last Sunday in Brussels. It was a quite orderly procession. There was not so much as a...

I N English local politics there is no more potent cry than that to be raised against imposing a burden on the rates. In France, apparently, no such sordid considerations weigh...

D IVERSITY is what is wanted in our agriculture. The monotony of the rack-rent system has been an injury to the country. Too often English villages bear abso- lutely the same...

articles. Now, it is notorious that articles are frequently signed by men who do not join, or, indeed, intend to join, the ship. In fact, one of the chief reasons assigned for...

T WO records of crime which have come in successive days from France, the country in which the relation between the child and the parent is believed to be almost truer and...

" 1)0E11S, short stories, essays, sketches, also a serial story, wanted from amateur authors for an established maga- zine; also for book publication. Remuneration,...

A N incident in the recent intelligence from France, and still more the name, not very happily chosen we should say, which was applied to it in the English newspapers, assumed...

LORD RANDOLPH'S STRATEGY. [To THR RDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."1 SIR, — You ask why should Lord Randolph Churchill, whom you justly style a clever tactician, and among the least...

SPECTATOR: 1 Sin,—I observe that Home-rulers who cannot deny the existence of two nations in Ireland, are now greatly exaggerating the preponderance of the so-called "...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—Your correspondent, "A Country Parson, L.U.," says :— " If he [Lord Salisbury] wishes to do nothing [in Ireland], leaving our great...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—I am surprised to find that your journal is satisfied with Lord Salisbury's declaration that he means to deal firmly with the...

ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." J SIR,—I read with interest the letter of your correspondent from Belleek Rectory, Fermanagh, in your issue of August 7th. Had he supplied...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sia,—In your issue of August 14th, Mr. Smart, of Kidwelly, accuses Mr. Chamberlain of having misrepresented Mr. Camp- bell-Bannerman and...

ospscrArov..”i SIR, —It is a satisfaction to those who like myself are workers in the cause of the higher education of girls, to see the sound and sensible line which the...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I see from the letter of "Emeritus," in the Spectator of August 14th, that the Governors of Christ's Hospital are about to appoint...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I find in the Spectator of August 7th a short criticism on Vernon Lee's article in the Contemporary, " Perigot ; or, Random Notes on...

read a letter in your paper of August 14th, from "Emeritus," on which I, as an " Old Blue," for many years most intimately acquainted with Christ's Hospital, feel myself in duty...

NATURE has fashioned as fair Which of her posies ? Man in his choicest parterre Treasures his roses. Rose of the garden, by man beguiled Thou hast grown double in art ; Sweet,...

THE ACADEMY, AND ITS REFORM. THE complaints against the administration of the Academy which have been of late years gathering volume, though they have received little attention...

SIR SAMUEL FERGUSON. STRONG son of Fergus, with thy latest breath Thou hast lent a joy unto the funeral knell, Welcoming with thy whispered "All is well !" The awful aspect of...

THE WORKS OF THOMAS MIDDLETON.* THE glories of the Elizabethan drama have been the theme of much eloquent writing in the present century ; yet, with the exception of...

books on Spain—they are positive marvels in point of paper, type, and illustration— testifies to the reality of what Lord Beaconsfield in his Coningsby terms " The Age of...

" 'Tts a mad world, my masters," is the obvious reflection that occurs to the reader of this book, the production of which, except on the assumption of a secular tendency to...

THE instinct of the masses is at one with the forecast of states- men in believing that the depopulation of our villages, the over- crowding of our towns, the poverty and...

AT the age of seventy-six, Mr. Tupper has published the story of his life. He begins it with a Emmet, in which he refuses to do what he has done on the plea that his life is in...

THIS little book is a fragment only of a complete treatise under- taken jointly by the authors, and interrupted by the death of the elder of the two. The portion now...

a me adienum puto, might very well be the motto of this volume, for although the papers here collected relate chiefly to the British Empire, they do not deal exclusively with...

(Swan Sonnensohein and Co.)—This is a very clever tale of a certain sort. It would be unfair on the authors to reveal the plot, for the story is essentially one of action, with...

Louisa M. Gray. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—This is a very simple story. A young Scotch clergyman goes to be tutor to the six-year-old son of a High- land laird, falls in love with...

The Philosophy of Art : Hegel and Michelet. Translated by W. Hastie, B.D. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—The philosophy of Hegel has undoubtedly exercised a powerful influence...

2 vols. (F. V. White and Co.)—Mrs. Lovett Cameron is a good story-teller, and she has given a wonderful exemplification of her power in these volumes; for although the...

M.A. (Richard Bentley and Son.)—In 1884, the Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund determined to send an expedition to undertake a geological reconnaissance of Western...

people will be grateful to Mr. Barrow for publishing these notes taken during his visits to the Lakes. They are of just the kind to entice people who have not made up their...

and R. Maxwell.)—One of Mrs. Spender's characters had christened the town of Middleton, " Muddleton," a joke which, as the authoress remarks, was neither original nor...