Mr. Asquith might now give some further information about the Amending Bill. Mr. Asquith met the Speaker's request in form without throwing much fresh light on the subject....

O N Monday the Home Rule Bill passed its final stage in the House of Commons, and was read for the first time in the Lords. A group of cheering Nationalists accompanied the Bill...

third reading of the Home Rule Bill, though so far no out. break has occurred. A large number of extra police have been sent to Ulster to guard against disorder, and the...

Glamorganshire, on Thursday night, said he was an Ulster Covenanter who was going to keep his covenant to the bitter end. They were told that, to suit political exigencies, they...

gave his views on the progress of the Home Rule Bill :— " The Union as we have known it is dead. . . There are only two eventualities, and both of them are impossible, which...

and we fear that this has turned out to be only too true. A fighting people yield their respect only to a very strong and self-confident man. Meanwhile the country is in a state...

mediators, have drawn up a proposed settlement of the Mexican question with the consent of the delegates of the United States and of General Huerta. The plan, says the Times...

were issued on Tuesday. In dealing with the condition of the peasantry Lord Kitchener insists on the need of eau- . eating them in the elements of hygiene and the relation...

that the Government held to their decision not to take park in the Panama Exhibition at San Francisco. They were not convinced that there was any widespread desire that they...

Oil Company, concluded on May 20th, are given in a Blue Book issued on Tuesday. The Government are to subscribe for £2,000,000 in ordinary and £1,000 in preference shares, and...

which sentiment is so strong or the need for courtesy so great that it must override mere commercial considerations. The present case is, to our mind, obviously one of these....

Lord stated in Parliament last July that a necessary part of the ultimate policy of the Admiralty must be that the Government "should become the owners, or at any rate the...

Sudan by the low Nile of 1913, disaster was avoided by the completion of the Assuan dam, and the consequent storage of sufficient water to mature the cotton crop. The Adminis-...

four thousand persons at the National Geographical Society in New York on his discoveries in Brazil. He described the "Davide," or river of doubt, which be had "placed on the...

the Overseas Club in Aldwych. A large number of well-known public men were present, including Lord Northcliffe (the founder and President of the club), Lord Selborne, Lord...

two postmen, both aged eighteen, to six weeks' imprisonment for conspiring to obtain money by fraud. It appears that they sent bets on known winners to a bookmaker through the...

Mr. Ganzoni, the Unionist candidate, capturing the seat from the Liberals, defeating Mr. Masterman, increasing the Unionist poll by 959 votes, and securing a clear majority over...

in to supply the deficiency. Over 13,000 men of the National Reserve have undertaken, out of pure patriotism and without pay or reward, to serve, in case of a general...

Mr. Gustav Hamel, the most brilliant and popular of British airmen. Returning from France on a new monoplane last Saturday, be disappeared in a fog in the Channel, and has not...

the Army were as follows: Regular Army (May lat), 10,932; Special Reserve (May let), 14,629; Territorial Force (April let), 51,097. As compared with the position on January let,...

dispute in the London building trade was announced. The proposals for a settlement were rejected by 21,017 votes to 5,705. The dispute began last January owing to the series of...

that the preamble of the Bill to confirm the Order made by the Commissioners of Works to preserve No. 75 Dean Street, Soho, as an ancient monument was not proved. The Order was...

Jan. 29th. Consols (24) were on Friday 74H—Friday week 74i.

THE DUTY OF THE LORDS. S OME years ago an Irish Roman Catholic Bishop with Unionist views is said to have asked a Home Rule colleague whether, if he could get Home Rule by...

A FTER lasting nine days, the very unpleasant Canteens Trial came to an end on Wednesday, when Colonel Whitaker was found guilty of receiving money as an inducement to show...

A FEW days ago Lady Bryce drew attention to the attitude of lawlessness and of resistance to legisla- tive authority which marks the present time. No impartial observer can fail...

THE most impressive lesson to be drawn from the A. Unionist victory at Ipswich is the failure of " Lloyd- Georgian)." That Mr. Masterman was altogether a popular candidate no...

W E cannot imagine a more striking instance of how publicity acts as an antiseptic, and enables the most awkward wounds to heal themselves, than the naval case which has just...

MICE fierce light which beats upon a village makes it 1 inevitable that its inhabitants should sit in judgment upon one another. Fierce lights are not becoming. Men sitting on...

I S there an increase in the percentage of crimes of which the authors remain undiscovered There are probably no available statistics dealing with the subject, but there are...

THE PENALTY ON THRIFT. [To asp EDITOR 01 T217 . 93111C1A100.1 Sur,—I desire to bring to notice some points in connexion with the Income Tax, which involves much injustice in...

SIR,—One statement of the moral wrong of gambling seems to me worth considering. It was suggested to me twenty years ago by a friend. " Gambling is a gratuitous stimulating of...

Sin.,—Perhaps the best answer to " What is the ethical arga. ment against betting?" is another question, " Why has betting such a deteriorating influence on the mind and...

argument against gambling ? This is the question your correspondent " A.B." asks in your last issue, and he answers it by saying that no one should seek to acquire wealth except...

SIR,—Are you sure that there is not any abstract argument against betting except the argument of excess? Will you consider the following suggestion? If A makes a bet with B that...

"sreczetoe. - ] Susc,—I have read in your current number a letter from a correspondent who evidently thinks himself entitled to speak for the Quaker community. My knowledge of...

[To THZ Emma 07 1177 - srzerzroa. - ] Sxa,—The reference in your issue of May 16th to the murder of British officers at Tank recalls the similar murders in February, 1905. of...

[To TH. EDITOZ or ram ..Sreerrroa...1 Sxu,—In the beginning of the year you published some letters on the traffic in worn-out English horses, describing the fate of those...

"nracrwroa."1 SIR,—The Portsmouth Conference of the Federation Aboli- tionniste Internationale will not receive the public attention which it deserves unless its name and aim...

(To Tax EDITOR 07 THE "Srserrroa."3 SIR,—I notice that in a speech in the House of Lords on Wednesday week Lord Sudeley, referring to the good work done by the official guides...

[To rum EDITOR or ram "Srrerrror."1 SIR,—In the article entitled "More Howlers" published in the Spectator of April 18th occur the words "And we are suspicious of that...

[TO THE EDITOR or rra "SrwrAron."1 Sin,—Let us further sing, to the glory of England's oak, first, that that part of him that could not be cut for the timbers of our ships yet...

[To THE EDITOR 07 THE "Erreraros..,"] SIR,—It is perhaps an ungenerous task to correct the corrector. But Mr. Searle will probably be glad to be reminded that what Garrick...

Thomas Tresham, who died in 1605, and whose eon was implicated in the Gunpowder Plot. The Trust has secured an option of purchase of the house and twenty-ei g ht acres of land...

Barrington, in her recently published Life of Walter Bagehot, prints (twice over, pp. 25 and 103) an extract from a letter written by Bagehot in early life, in which he quotes...

SOME MINOR LONDON SHOWS. BOND STREET and the other purlieus of art are now brimmin g with exhibitions to fit every taste or lack of taste. Amon g the new ones the most notable...

ITO 1111 Earroa or 21111 "BrEorrror."1 Sts.,—In your issue of May 23rd your reviewer of the Journal of a Cavalry Officer in the Corunna Campaign writes of "mis- jud g ment,...

[To Tax Emma or Tar "Sesencos."] SIR,—I am preparin g a new edition of the Miscellaneous Works of Joseph Addison (to be published by Messrs. Bell), and I am anxious to make the...

ENTRANCING STREAMS. BY His Great Name who fashioned it I know your face more ex q uisite Than Dante's love held in one phrase Of fierce Italian, sun-drenched praise That his...

THE BOURNEMOUTH MUNICIPAL ORCHESTRA. Ix London one may easily fail to see thin g s musical in their true perspective. We are apt to attach undue importance to Metropolitan...

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Viral Notice.] IT is more than twenty-two years since the Parnell scandal - and its subsequent tragedy occurred. To most of us it would seem a pity now to raise the curtain for...

TM: publication of Dr. Sunday's reply to the Bishop of Oxford's recent Open Letter is an event. Its effects will be far-reaching. The Bishop of Oxford wrote on the " Basis of...

THE distinguished French thinker who writes under the name of Leon Hendryk has published a new volume in which he develops on philosophic lines the teaching of his romance, Le...

Sta ROBERT Halms prefaces his narrative with the modest hope that it may show "what a very pleasant, healthy, and engrossing life it is possible to enjoy in a man-of-war," and...

WIIEN the Roi Soleil was gathering into his own hands the threads of government, and was becoming the social, adminis- trative, and military head of an Imperial France, thereby...

of the "Loeb Library" have done well to add to their publications this very interesting book. J3arlaam and Ioasaph is a Christian tract written in the eighth century by some one...

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