has been holding his Court in County Clare, and has found juries so terrorised that they will not find verdicts of guilty, even in the clearest cases. He said, therefore, in...

Pope on the occasion of his Jubilee, contains curious items. France, supposed to be irreligious, sent his Holiness £90,000; Austria, the pious, £60,000; Great Britain, which...

"pharisaic language," and had made his motion only because the Unionist Press had taunted Unionists with their inaction. He admitted that the first duty of Government was to...

M JULES FERRY was elected President of the French • Senate on Friday week, receiving 148 votes against 39' given to a Royalist, M. de Kerdrel, and 28 to a Republican of the...

let out the truth. It seems he affirmed before the investigating - Magistrat e that M. de Freycinet, M. Floquet, and M. Cl6men- 'watt combined to press M. de Lesseps to grant to...

ease.

Belfast was held on Tuesday evening in St. George's Market to protest against the Home-rule Bill, under the presidency of the Lord Mayor, Sir E. D. Dixon. The Lord Mayor said...

the Opposition in regard to the manner in which the money required for the Evicted Tenants Commission. will be provided. The Government's answers were vague, but it seems that...

important declarations. In regard to Mr. Barrow's motion for equalising the rates throughout the Metropolis, they announced their intention of bringing in legislation to effect...

bring in a Bill establishing the plan of "local option" in dealing with the sale of liquor. Ten per cent. of the rate- payers in any country parish, or any small borough, or any...

appointed with Mr. Cleveland's government. He declares, it is said, that there is no hurry for reductions in the tariff, though reductions will be made, and that he does not...

two in "debating what they should debate." Mr. Gladstone moved a resolution under which, until Easter, the Govern- ment is to have morning sittings on Tuesdays and Fridays, and,...

death of the late popular Member, Sir Walter Barttelot, went, of course, for the Unionists. Mr. J. H. Johnstone (Conservative) was elected by a majority of 1,484. But the...

a great deal too compassionate to criminals and a great deal too indifferent to the sufferings of their victims. The suicide of Mr. Hilton Barker has, it seems, led to the...

changes of method in recruiting, and the slight improve- ments in the treatment of the soldier, adopted on the recom- mendation of Lord Wantage's Committee, have had, the result...

great struggle on Thursday. He declared that, in discussing a supplemental vote, you could not raise the policy of the original vote, but only the question of how far that...

Wednesday, which was at once amusing and wise. He gave a laughable description of the burdens imposed on a Foreign Secretary by Colonial extension, declaring that he had at this...

4' conqueror of Dahomey," declined as rapidly as it rose. He has reported to his Government that he cannot dispense with any of his troops until King Behanzin is captured, which...

Commons, on Lord F. Hamilton's National Education (Ire- land) Bill, the object of which was to require the rules of the National Education Board to be, on the demand of any...

Friday 981.

THE ROUSING OF ULSTER. T HERE is an old. Irish legend, the subject of a poem written long before the Christian era, that at one time the whole of Ulster,—Uladh, as it was...

find it easy to discuss Sir W. Harcourt's Liquor Bill. As a rule, in previous discussions, we have been hampered by an entire disbelief in the grand premiss. We do not believe...

p ROBABLY too much has been said of the weak attendance of Unionist Members in the preliminary divisions of the House of Commons. It is not usual with the Whips to strain the...

week in regard to what an Irish Parliament may do under Mr. Gladstone 's Bill, seems to have brought home to some of our readers the true significa i nce of the step which...

T is pleasant, in a day when every one is anticipating .2.1_ misfortunes, and a pessimism which is not entirely - superficial governs every department of thought, to read a good...

T HE real importance of the election of M. Ferry to the Presidency of the Senate, which was finally accom- plished last Friday week, consists in the evidence it affords of the...

the Lincoln judgment, which appeared this week in the Times, shows to advantage by the side of some of the hasty utterances which the decision of the Privy Council at first...

yr RS. WELD, in the short but interesting paper which she entitles " Talks with Tennyson," in the March number of the Contemporary Review, tells us that, in his conversations...

belief, which we own to have long held ourselves, that William Cobbett was not only among the most interesting characters of the century, but also possessed in a singular degree...

I T is useless to attempt a criticism of Ibsen's work, and at the same time ignore the fierce controversy that is waged over his merits by his admirers, and those who fail to...

THE ALTERNATIVE TO HOME-RULE. [To THE IC DITOS OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin, —Let me, as an Irish Unionist, thank you for your special recognition of Mr. Courtney's...

SIR, — Your correspondent, Mr. Sherlock, does not seem to have apprehended my reason for objecting to the discussion of the subject, "Ulster after Home.rule." My reason was...

[To TIM EDITOR OF THE "?ROTATOR.'] Sin,—Calm consideration of the text of the Home-rule Bill— Mr. Gladstone's last will and testament on the Irish Question —has removed...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—The writer of the article on my address at "the Wesleyan-Methodist Chapel " (where, by-the-way, I merely discharged a function which...

THE " SPECTAT311."] Sin, — Your correspondent, Mr. Edward Stanley Robertson, doubts that Mr. Gladstone sat in the Cabinet with the Duke of Wellington. It is not probable that...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR,"] Sin, — There are certain points which need to be emphasised in such schemes as you alluded to in an article for the relief of clerical...

THE " SPEOTAT011,"] SI E,—With reference to Mr. E. Stanley Robertson ' s remark anent Irish nationality and the Duke of Wellington, in the Spectator of February 25th, I ask...

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—A cat carried a hundred miles in a basket, a dog taken, perhaps, five hundred miles by rail, in a few days may have found their way...

OPFOTATOIL"j with your kind permission, a word or two further might be said upon this interesting subject,—does not a con- sideration of the spelling of words in old English...

that in the discussions of "The Change in Pronunciation," which have lately appeared in the Spectator, no one has cited Cowper's familiar hymn :— "God moves in a mysterious...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sut,—In the Spectator of Februarfllth, on p. 197, you say that Old Michaelmas Day is on October 10th, and not on September 10th. May I...

DOLLY. DEAR little Dolly, pink and white, Plays with her kitten from morn till night. Over and under the chairs it steals, Wars with a handkerchief, runs with reels, Purrs as...

RA.BELA.IS.* WHEN we look at this book in a literary sense, there comes over us the same feeling of disgust as there does when we recall to mind some of those nasty nightmares...

Taus edition of Cynewulf's Christ appears very opportunely. Mr. Stopford Brooke, in hie recent History of Early English Literature, has made Cynewulf known to many readers, and...

in English literature, and is clearly an accomplished critic, though to the mind of the present reviewer his preferences in poetry incline too much towards what we should call...

and eighty-two pages, we have a most elaborate treatise on the microscope and its mechanism. Dr. Van Heurck, the author, is an enthusiast on the subject, which has occupied much...

in The Apologia, " to point out a straightforward Englishman, I should instance the Bishop who has, to our great benefit, for so many years pre- sided over this diocese." This...

Tun articles in the dearer Magazines on the Home-rule Bill are not of enthralling interest. The article in the National Review against it, is a little too fierce in expression;...

Ernest F. Henderson. (Bell and Son.)—It is an excellent idea to publish an English translation of some of the most important historical documents of the middle ages. The...

An Old Woman's Outlook in a Hampshire Village. By Charlotte M. Yonge. (Macmillan and Co.)—There are no signs of old ago, if we except experience, in this pleasant note-book of...

Or a's Promise is a temperance story of perhaps rather more than the ordinary average of merit. The hero is Scotch, and the national character for religious steadfastness is...

C. A. Blew, M.A. (J. C. Nimmo.)—It is astonish- ing how much we have learnt about horses since the year in which Radcliffe's book was published. Our author records, as an...

Nisbet and Co.)—This volume consists of ton thoughtful lectures, delivered to a New York Theological College, dealing with Hindooism in its successive developments, Buddhism,...

Grant Allen is one of those writers who have the scientific- habit of thought united to a literary expression of an at- tractive kind. It has been said that Science has lost as...

(T. B. Browne), is a book of reference for advertisers. The headings are "London Newspapers," "Provincial Newspapers," "Magazines, Reviews, &c.," and "Colonial and Foreign." A "...

authors of "An Irish Cousin." (W. II. Allen and Co.)— There are some delightful touches of the Irish peasantry scattered here and there in the journal of the expedition made...

under Arms" is as interesting and attractive as ever in describing the gold-rush and Ballarat in the "fifties." His first chapter is laid in the Old Country ; but we miss the...

writer of this tale might have made his point more effec- tively within a smaller compass. There was something heroic in Sutherland's steadfastness to an affection that was a...

gives, in alphabetical order, some account of all persons who have rank or position, hereditary or acquired, in the United Kingdom. Distinctions of every kind, whether of the...

Co.)—Mr. Aubertin again presents the world with another "fight with distances," but we cannot say that it possesses any vital interest, or that the style is attractive ; it is...