as to the business which will be placed before it. In reality, probably nothing will be talked of but Ireland— how Ai you discuss patiently with a grain of sand in your eye...

It is our intention occasionally to issue gratis with the " SPECTATOR " SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENTS, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. The...

is at last at hand. Not only is the revenue improving in every branch except the Excise, but the railways are declaring better divi- dends, and the banks report that their...

T HE belief in a great war in spring has perceptibly increased all the week, and has begun at last to affect the calculations of financiers. A fall has taken place on the Bourse...

violently excited by the refusal of the Reichstag to pass the Septennate Bill, regarding their conduct as a direct defiance of his authority, and almost an insult to himself. He...

Hen- gler's Circus, Liverpool, as candidate for the Exchange Division of that great constituency. The chair was taken by Mr. For- wood, M.P., and Mr. Goschen received a very...

case.

leading idea in them is that the Porte has been asked to. inform the Regents that their authority is illegal, and request them to resign. A Commissioner would then be appointed...

say on the subject of reforms in our great Spending Departments, but he deprecated the shortsightedness of economists who, having decided that it was a national duty to achieve...

yard of Upton Pyne, in Devonshire, near his country-seat, " Pynes," in the presence of a great assembly, on Tuesday; and a memorial service in Westminster Abbey was held on the...

made a reference to Mr. Parnell's reticence in relation to the "Plan of Campaign" which was significant enough. "During the winter," he said, "the leader to whom I owe...

the United States about fishery rights. The Canadians are pressing those rights hard, or, at least, New England thinks so, and American feeling is growing excited. The Foreign...

strangely obvious this week. There is a club, it appears, in Spitalfields, where dramatic performances are given to Jewish audiences in Hebrew, and on Tuesday night, a little...

limits. On Tuesday, a motion was made for the abolition of all Prison Chaplaincies, and but for the Reactionaries, who for once voted with the Government instead of abstaining,...

what it is about, or it will lose caste as a body of learned men. Anything more puerile than the debate of last Tuesday as to the motto that would best suit the University, can...

folly of using towards Mr. Gladstone terms of con- demnation so unlimited and so extravagant as some even of the abler Unionists adopt. The Conservatives are guilty of the same...

is a strict monometallist, and ventures even to advise that gold should be made the only legal currency of India. He does not, however, suggest where India is to obtain all the...

Royal College of Surgeons was published in the Medical Press of last Saturday, which will give a great shock to all who dread the rapid diffusion in England of the methods of...

which is to be brought in to strengthen the Administration in Ireland will empower the Crown, in certain cases, to summon special jurors, and when necessary, to change the venue...

to his denunciation of the Coal-duties. They show that Lord Randolph, in talking of their indebtedness, was careless as to his figures; but they do not make much of their argu-...

peated the nonsense which he is now always talking about the Radical majority in this country. If there be such a majority, why are not the Radicals in power ? Mr. Labou- chere...

MR. GOSCHEN IN LIVERPOOL. I T has been objected to Mr. Goschen's eloquent speech on Tuesday, that it did not contain anything showing what the Government policy would really...

T HE Report of the Royal Commission on the Depression of Trade—of which Lord Iddesleigh was Chairman, and of which so much was expected—is not very interesting, because it has...

E NGLISHMEN, when discussing the situation in Germany, are in danger of forgetting some of their own first prin- ciples. They are so unwilling that Germany should be defeated,...

A PROPOSAL is put forth in the last number of the Medical Press which shows a delicacy of feeling among our medical men for which it is not easy to find any adequate expression....

I S the idea of law, as well as respect for law, dying out in Great Britain? We ask the question because of an incident which has occurred this week, and which is to us utterly...

acquiescence on an adverse claim. No condemnation, therefore, directed the part of the Vatican ; and even if his calculation had against Mr. George will be of any value as...

M R. COTTER MORISON has published a very vigorous book on "The Service of Man," which will make a sensation, and a sensation of a highly complicated kind. Its object is to...

A N incident occurred in London on Sunday which, though in itself unimportant, may be quoted by the future historian as marking the beginning of a new phenomenon in English...

I N Faris, in 1792, in the very middle of the great Revolution, "Frilled promenaders saunter under the trees ; white. muslin promenaderess, in green parasol, leaning on your...

LORD IDDESLEIGH AS A LEADER. go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 your otherwise appreciative article on the late Lord Iddesleigh, I think you have hardly done justice to his...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—May I, as a Liberal Unionist, be allowed to make a short comment on Canon MacColl's letter, printed in your issue of January 15th? It...

(To THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR.' I Sin,—May it not be permitted to a Tory Democrat to traverse some of the powerful reasonings of the Liberal Spectator ? You write, I venture...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR') Ste.,—In your article on the Dillon prosecution, there is a- notable confusion. The point is not whether the Government would have been...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sta,—Your reviewer, in his very flattering notice of "She," takes exception to the manner of Ayesha's end. Looking at the work from his point...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.".1 Sta,—It is bad omen for the reunion of the Liberal Party that the virulence with which Mr. Gladstone is attacked by those Liberals who...

[To THE EDITOR OF T'RE "SPECTATOR."] SIR, —Although the untenablenesa of the comparison between. the projected Home-rule and the Dual Government of Austria- Hungary has been...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—While as a Liberal Unionist I heartily support the Con- servative policy "that fulfilment of contract must be the basis of society in...

ITO THR EDITOR OF TIER "SPECTATOR."] &11,—." It is quite certain that all the Christianity which Augustine found in England was Latin." (Spectator, p. 84, January 15th.) Whence,...

THE "SpEcri.ToR."1 Sin,—Your reviewer is in error in stating that Mr. Wicksteed "became a lecturer for an Association formed to disseminate a knowledge of Unitarian tenets." Mr....

[To Tea EDITOR OF THII ..srac-ranaa.-J Sin,—Though the editorial note on Mr. Storr'e letter was so worded as to leave some readers in uncertainty, I have no more doubt that you...

THE OWL. BRIGHT gleams from yonder moated hall The ruddy glow that strikes the rafter ; Like Dreamland's twilight echoes, fall The strains of music, and the laughter : Soft...

THE TURNER DRAWINGS AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY. TilE exhibition of the Old Masters at Burlington House this year is probably one of the least interesting, as far as oil. paintings...

PROFESSOR KNIGHT'S " HUME."* HUMS is, perhaps, to English readers, the most interesting subject,. except Bishop Butler, with whom Professor Knight's valuable , series has had...

belong to any school or class of novelists; he is unique. If there be persons who do not care about his works, who even cannot read them, those persons will be found among the...

and second of an intended series of five, may be conveniently treated together. The third is to deal with the personality and work of St. Paul ; the fourth will sketch the...

charm and the interest of Mr. Spencer Walpole's book. All records of those astonishing years of social, political, and material development which elapsed between the close of...

B. Brownhall. (Morgan and Scott.)—The first part of this volume is devoted to extracts from the letters sent home by missionaries in China, especially by the seven young men who...

carried on largely, though not entirely, by Volunteer officers and men, was afforded by the prolonged and eventful contest between the Slave and the Free States of the North...

V. White and Co.)—Mr. Collins gives us here an elaborate argument on the doctrine of "design." He has evidently an extensive acquaintanoe with the facts of natural history, and...

The First Century of Christianity. By Homersham Cox. (Long- mans.)—Mr. Cox has, we think, somewhat overloaded his book with matter, not indeed without value, but, for his...

Thomas Michell, C.B. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—Mr. Michell, who is the British Consul-General for Norway, tells the strange story of the "Skottelog." A brief story it is, and full...

LL.D. (T. and T. Clark.)—This is a second edition, brought up to date, of a most useful handbook of missions drawn up by Dr. G. Smith, the present Secretary to the Free Church...

Davies, who will be known to many of our readers for his "Norfolk Broads and Rivers," planned and executed an expedi- tion through Holland. His first idea was to transport a...

contains a history of the great expedition and its defeat, with lists of the two armaments that were Opposed in the Channel. We have also an account of the two great...

well for a writer of naval stories to gat afloat as soon as he can. Mr. Moore's "great cricket-match" cannot fail to excite criticism. The captain of an eleven would not mutter...

of Georgina F. Jackson. Part III. (Triibner and Co.)—Miss Berne concludes in this part an interesting and valuable work, a monument of piety, first towards the friend whose...

F. Simpson. (F. Warne and Co.)—This story reminds us of " Ouida " in her sober moods. The Marquis Miraldi, a roué who has little character or fortune left to him, marries, much...

book is written in a style that makes one think that there is a good deal of leisure on the other side of the world. It is in an eminently leisurely way that "Old Boomerang"...

we have collected a number of accounts, more or less authentic—or shall we say authenticated ?—of great marine animals. We read about the sea-serpent", as seen by the '...