of Birmingham is one of great dignity and power. He declines to pledge himself to the " principle " of the Home-rule Bill,—a principle "which may be innocent or most dangerous,...

at Leeds, in which he endeavoured to explain his indiscreet utterance about twenty years of repression. He declared that he had not recommended anything to be made punishable...

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...

yesterday week. Arguing that of the 250 Conser- vative seats, 40 were due to the Irish votes, he held that if the Irishmen in the constituencies had not voted for those who...

p ARMAMENT is to be dissolved to-day, the writs will be out in the evening, and the first pollings should take place on Friday, the elections then proceeding continuously for a...

insisted that Ireland had forced herself again upon Parlia- ment, just as an obstruction on a line of railway forces the removal of that obstruction on the railway authorities...

case.

on Saturday, and on Thursday at Barrow—besides minor ones, all so full of matter that it is hopeless to condense them. He adheres in the main to his well-known scheme and his...

discern in them too often the endeavour to offer shadowy substitutes for Mr. Gladstone's promisee,—substitutes which would not satisfy Ireland, and which would lend the National...

He went in strongly for both Bills, declaring that he for one would never consent to leave the Land Question to the Irish, because the land system of Ireland, "the vilest and...

with a quotation from Dr. Chalmers eulogising the Irish character. Mr. Gladstone then went on to admit that the Government could think of no new security for Ulster, and that...

openly and daringly for Mr. Gladstone's Bills. At the former place, for instance, on Saturday, he declared they were not dead, but would be revived. He thought criticism of...

our command, give even the chief points of his speeches this week at Darlington, Newcastle, and Edinburgh ; but this we note, that they have shown in him a great popular power...

137 to 122, after a speech of much oratorical force, in which M. de Freycinet urged that the Princes had not lived innocuously in France, for their chief, the Comte de Chambord,...

when the Rev. Dr. Martineau, the President, delivered an address at Willis's Rooms on the history of the Noncon- formist Theological Academies and Colleges, and on the prin-...

Consols were on Friday 101k to 101ixd.

present suspended animation of government in Ireland, we may mention an instance of the action of the tenantry in relation to rent which we know to be true, and which we believe...

the refusal of the people of Ireland to provide any money for carrying it on. The farmers acknowledge that they have saved three millions a year by it, the classes which vote...

Mr. Hodgson Pratt, to whom the Union owes a vast debt of gratitude for indefatigable energy and work, delivered his annual address this day week, in which he insisted on the...

MR. GLADSTONE'S SCOTCH CAMPAIGN. IVI R. GLADSTONE'S Scotch campaign has been as trium- phant as the most enthusiastic of Home-rulers could desire. He has been welcomed with...

O NE of the considerations which seems to discourage the Unionists more than any fear for the immediate future, is the dread that the victory, if they gain it, cannot be final....

I T is a relief, amidst the deluge of electioneering speeches in favour of Home-rule, to read those of the Secretary for Ireland. Whether it is from literary habit, the habit of...

C ORRESPONDENTS are asking us every day whether, if no Unionist candidate is offering himself or is likely to succeed, Liberals who uphold the Union may honourably at this...

D URING the week that ends to-day, six meetings have been held in London by way of preparation for "Hospital Sunday." The object of each meeting has been to stimulate local...

T HE Manifesto issued by the Comte de Paris on his expulsion from France, indicates with curious precision the kind of mistake into which M. de Freycinet and his col- leagues...

T HE second of the big Blue-books which the Royal Com- mission on the Depression of Trade and Industry are engaged in flinging at the heads of the public has now been issued....

T HE Queen's Jubilee Year commenced on Sunday, and everybody is writing about the wonderful events of her long reign—the period, perhaps, in all history most distinctly marked...

T - T would be a tnistake to say, as many no doubt have been saying this week, that Lord Randolph Churchill is a master of insolent speech. Very likely that is what he aims at....

HOW AM I TO VOTE? PrO TER EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."1 you answer me a plain question P I am a staunch Liberal, but I do not like Mr. Gladstone's measure. Neverthe- less, I...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 cannot share the indignation which I hear f reely ex- pressed on all sides at the American subscriptions to the Parnell Fund. Such...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SFECTAT0R."1 Sia,—The Spectator may have occasionally tried the patience of its " Gladstonian." readers by the severity of its strictures on the Irish...

[FOURTH NOTICE.] CONTINUING our survey of the Royal Academy with the seventh room, the most noticeable picture is the " Habet " of Mr. Deady Sadler. This represents a monk who...

THE YEAR OF JUBILEE. NINE-AND-FORTY years, Mary ; how far it seems away ! And yet I well remember all the sunshine of that day ! Then you were a little girl, dear, and I bat a...

LETTERS FROM DONEGAL.* COLONEL M.kuarcz has done well in publishing these very interesting letters, written by the wife of a Donegal landlord to- a confidential friend, and...

THE son of the Annecy bourgeois who was to become Bishop of the fairest See in France, thus describes his first confession at St. Sulpice " When I saw M. de Keravenant come into...

To all who live upon fiction—and the keepers of the circulating- libraries, which Coleridge dubbed "the ordinaries of literature," tell us their name is legion—Mrs. Hoey's new...

THE late Mr. Fargus's last-published book, like that which lifted him into popularity so sudden and immense, has a mystery at its core. But the mystery is slighter and more...

first volume of General Grant's mili- tary autobiography was but slight, owing to the self-effacement of the author ; personal interest in the second is still slighter, owing to...

with pleasure Mr. Buchanan's return to the former ways of pleasantness which we have so often trodden with him in amicable companionship. He strayed from them widely for a time,...

Letters by the late Frances Ridley Havergal. Edited by her Sister, M. V. G. H. (Nisbet.)—These letters include a period of about twenty-seven years (1852-1879). They are...

gives his readers a very full and complete account of Sardinia as it is. The historical sketch which he prefixes might be better. It is a strange notion, for instance, to...

P. Mathew, Dundee.)—Mr. Elliot has been at great pains to together a number of facts about the poet's kinafolk, and about the time which, for health's sake, he spent in Dundee....