yesterday week to the people of Londonderry in their Guildhall. He began by expressing his wonder that when British colonies had been expressly planted in the North of Ireland...

which, as yet, no information is forthcoming. One is the popular feel- tug . in France as to the expediency of war. It is not easy to believe that the people who cannot forgive...

in the Constitution by 94 votes to 48. The only exemptions allowed are for sickness, debility, and absence from the country, the capable voters who abstain being visited with...

T HE news from Siam has become more serious this week. The French, moving from the Tonquin aide, have occupied Khong, an island in the Mekong, below the rapids of the same name;...

yet fully confirmed, that the British East Africa Com- pany has abandoned Uganda, and that Sir Gerald Portal has hoisted the British flag and proclaimed a Protectorate. The...

With the " SPECTATOR " of Saturday, June 24th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

amendment, and by it elicited one of the most helpless speeches,—if it were fairly reported,—from Sir John Rigby, the Solicitor-General, which we ever remember to have read. Mr....

power of the Irish Government to organise a police force other than a local police force. Mr. Gladstone declared that he had no sort of desire to give the Irish Government the...

to call attention to the condition of Clare, Kerry, and Limerick, in which, according to him, crime has lately so much increased that it will not be long before the point of...

House of Commons. Lord Wolmer moved to add words to the Third Clause which would prevent the Irish Parliament entertaining or granting votes in supply, "except on the...

the first Epsom races, and partly to an assembly at Lady Aberdeen's. On Captain Naylor. Leyland's amendment to postpone Clause 3 (defining the powers of the new Legislature)...

the changes in the Constitution of Bulgaria, including the acceptance of a Catholic dynasty and the reduction in the numbers of the Bulgarian Parliament. It was supposed that...

the election of Sir Henry Haworth by the Fellows of the Royal Society, has failed, and that Professor Ray Lankester and Mr. Romanes are not likely to succeed in turning the...

detail the persecution of Mr. Bindon Blood. Mr. Blood, "an eminent civil engineer," was made Professor of Engineer- ing at the Queen's College, Galway. In an unlucky moment, a...

has been signed at last ; and orders or permissions based upon it, after being considered by the India Office and the Cabinet, will be forwarded to the Viceroy, who will then...

of its members recently passed a resolution that no more ladies should be admitted Fellows, and caused a discussion so bitter that at the meeting on the 29th ult. Lord Mayo...

New Consols (21) were on Friday 98i.

tainly has not succeeded in its efforts to expel the Chinese. Whether influenced by fear of reprisals or by the large expendi- ture involved in carrying out the Excluding Act,...

members of the Roman Catholic Church have put out a very powerful Memorandum showing their reasons for disbelieving that Home-rule in Ireland will really benefit the Catholic...

W HEN the plan of acquiring and administering a new Empire in Africa by means of Chartered Com- panies was first mooted, we expressed our dissatisfaction, and recorded our...

IRISH IRREPRESSIBILITY. S INCE the Home-rule debate began, there has been no more important discussion than that of Tuesday, "lopsided" as it was. On the Government benches,...

taking a dose of Mr. Gladstone'a speeches, with too much effect. The Premier has told us rather frequently of late that the classes are usually wrong in politics and the masses...

best speech in - Ulster .4 for the city of Londonderry. Probably the historic associations of the city had kindled his imagination, for he quoted Macaulay's saying in summing up...

W E do not quite like the news from Siam, and especially the news of Thursday. Great Britain and France have no wish to quarrel about Indo-China it it can be helped ; and if the...

E XPERTS seem to be dangerous advisers, whether they tell you to buy, or criticise what you have bought. In the one case, they may saddle you with a bad bargain ; in the other,...

I T is curious to note the mild recrudescence during this last week of the feeling which took such complete possession of England forty-three years ago, when Cardinal Wiseman...

T HE Duke of York, we see it officially announced, is to be married on July 6th without application to Parliament for any allowance either for himself or his bride. They are to...

'E ARLY in the present spring, the Marquis of Hamilton brought with him from Trinidad a number of little fish, less in size than a half-grown minnow, which were pre- sented to...

SANTA FINA OF SAN GIMIGNIANO DELLE BELLE TORRI. CRADLED among the stern towers and fortresses of San Gimigniano, the "San Gimigniano delle Belle Torn" of former days, in the...

THE CO-OPERATIVE CONGRESS. [To THE EDITSOZ OF THE " SFICCTATOR."1 cannot pretend to be surprised at the brevity, and slightly contemptuous tone, of your reference to the yearly...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIB,—Your somewhat discourteous correspondent, Mr. Hall, misunderstands what I said about the public service in Ireland. I said that the...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR."] &n,—Allow me a short rejoinder to my friend Mr. Crosskey's reply to Mr. Diggle on "Religious Education in Board- .schools," in the Spectator...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Si,—The subject being so important, permit me, though a week late, to comment on your remarks in the Spectator of May 20th, occasioned by...

[TO THE EDITOR OP TED " SPECTATOR." J Sin,— Some of your readers who, like myself, were interested by your article in the Spectator of May 27th, on the "Prison Life of Marie...

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR:] Siu,—Yonr article on "Professor Huxley and Cosmic Forces" reminds mo of a story told me by my old friend Frederick Manners, more than fifty...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] have only just seen the criticisms of "D. S. M." on modern English architecture in the Spectator of May 13th; and it is refreshing to find...

rTo THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Singular as it is, I doubt whether Mr. Simcox Leafs , nest is so remarkable as one I have here. The striking-post of my entrance-gate...

To THE EDITOR or THE " Brscrwron."1 SIR, — Your correspondent's tomtit nesting letter, in the Spec- tator of May 27th, was most interesting. But the problem in gymnastics to be...

THE SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT-PAINTERS AT THE GRAFTON GALLERY THE Society of Portrait-Painters contrives, each year, to exhibit, alongside of a mass of commonplace painting, a cer-...

[TO TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOIL."] SIR,—The letter signed "F. Simcox Lea," which appeared in the Spectator of May 27th, induces me to give you an account of a similar...

WILLIAM GEORGE WARD AND THE CATHOLIC REVIVAL.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THIS is a most amusing, as well as an extremely able and in- teresting, book. It is at least as lively, and at...

Tun late Mr. Proctor, it appears, planned his Old and New Astronomy a quarter-of-a-century ago, but in a more elaborate form, as he intended to devote separate treatises to the...

THE English public never succeeded in understanding Robert Lowe. And for this reason. For a man to be intelligible to the mass of mankind, he must be capable of being ticketed....

AMONG the literary puzzles bequeathed to us by antiquity, there are none greater than those which cluster round a frag- mentary work variously designated, but more generally...

with pleasure in his former wayfaringa, this second book will have an even stronger charm than the first. His peculiar spirit and fashion of tr "elling—walking through the...

NONE of the half-crown magazines are very striking this month, and none are entirely without those papers which, if they could be concentrated in one periodical, would make it...

author chooses to call this a "psychological romance ;" why, we cannot imagine. It seems to us a somewhat squalid, commonplace story, with a quite unusual number of absurdi-...

Tho Universal Bible Dictionary. By the Rev. John Macpherson, M.A. (Hodder and Stoughton.)—Dr. Macpherson's volume. will doubtless be found useful, but scarcely by students of...

introduces us to some very weird beings. These are malevolent creatures who, among other mischievous functions, spread abroad pestilences on the earth; hence the name which...

bereaved of her mother at the age of two, is brought up in a French convent till she is eighteen. Then, summoned away by her father, who does not approve of her desire to become...

Massey is a clever sketch. She is a worldly woman who contrives to impose for a certain time on her daughter, and always on the world. Dolly, the daughter, on the other hand, is...

(Hutchin- son and Co.)—Mr. Moore has discovered a novel motive for a story. Commonly, it is the hero who tries to avoid the bondage of matrimony ; in I Forbid the Banns (a more...

Edward Grey. 2 vols. (Printed for the Hakluyt Society.)—Pietro dell& Valle visited India in the earlier part of the seventeenth century, about ten years after the establishment...

Frowde.)—Mr. Shadwell gives in his preface a brief account of what we should now call the undergraduate element in a, college. This is of more recent origin than is com- monly...

treatise on property naturally follows on M. Letourneau's "Evolution of Marriage and of the Family ; " in- deed, some of the same ground has to he traversed again. That the...

Dr. Wilhelm Moeller. Translated from the German by Andrew Rutherford, B.D. (Swan Sonnenschein and Co.)—This is a study of the subject of a highly philosophical kind. The...

(Macmillan.)—This volume exhibits throughout sober judgment expressed in clear terms. Nothing, to take one instance much discussed of late, could be better than what the Bishop...

on this map," writes Miss Hensman, "those places only which (1) are named in the poet's writings, or (2) which are supposed to have been visited by him in his exile," Two...

—This is a tale of love-making within academical precincts. Affairs are entangled by the not uncommon complication of a heartless young fellow whose extravagancies have to be...