5 APRIL 1890

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Mr. Sexton yesterday week called attention to Sir W. Marriott's

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speech at St. James's Hall of last Wednesday week, as raising a question of privilege. Sir W. Marriott had sug- gested that the forged Parnell letter might have been nothing but...

NOT/CE TO ADVERTISERS.

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With the " SPECTATOR" of Saturday, April 19th, will be issued, gratis, a SPECIAL LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, the outside pages of which will be devoted to Advertisements. To secure...

pared to make in Committee on the tithe-redemption clauses, the

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rateable value clause, and others. He wished to make tithe. redemption compulsory within a certain number of years, but he thought that with certain considerable amendments in...

The Berlin Labour Conference has concluded its task with unusual

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promptitude, having sat only a fortnight. Its de- cisions were drawn up as resolutions which it was advisable for the nations represented to adopt, and are, briefly, that women...

The first effect of the departure of Prince Bismarck has

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been an increase in German Colonial activity. The Emperor is known to be in favour of an extension of Colonial enterprise, which, as he thivikS, brings wealth, and Major...

NEWS OF THE WEEK

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P RINCE BISMARCK quitted Berlin on Saturday, the 29th ult., amidst unparalleled demonstrations of grief and respect. All Berlin was in the streets, and all Berlin behaved as if...

*** The Editors cannot undertake to return Manuscript, in any

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case.

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Lord Rosebery made a very genial and pleasant speech at

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the first house dinner of the Scottish Liberal Club, in their new club-house in Princes Street, Edinburgh, on Wednesday. He congratulated the Club on its new and stately...

Mr. Labouchere did what in him lay on Tuesday to

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shorten the Easter holidays of the House of Commons, but the First Lord of the Treasury was equal to the occasion, and Mr. Labouchere did not find much help on the Radical...

The Government Bill for transferring Scotch Private-Bill business to a

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tribunal is an able one. The tribunal is to consist of four Commissioners, one of whom will be the Judge of the Court of Session under the Railway Act ; another, an assessor...

The Windsor election on Wednesday resulted in a very satisfactory

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majority for the Unionist candidate, Mr. Barry. He was returned by 1,522 votes against 972 given to Mr. W. H. Grenfell, the Home-ruler ; majority, 550. The poll (2,494 votes in...

It appears from Lord Lingen's statement of finance made to

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the London County Council on Tuesday, that this body distributes altogether £2,215,000 a year, of which £1,632,000 comes from the rates. These rates will in 1890 be, for the...

The Times of Friday publishes a long paper on Count

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Kalnoky, the ultimate drift of which is that he is probably a second-rate man, though a good diplomatist, exceedingly well- informed, and industrious beyond precedent. He is...

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Sir J. Lubbock, who is an experienced banker as well

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as a man of science and a politician, evidently believes that the cycle of lean years has fairly passed. He told the London Chamber of Commerce on Monday that prices were rising...

Professor Sir G. Stokes, the President of the Royal Society,

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delivered an interesting lecture last Sunday at the Finsbury Polytechnic on " I." We have given a careful account of the principal drift of the lecture,—so far as the Times'...

The Viennese correspondent of the Times adheres to his view

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that a quarrel is brewing between Servia and Bulgaria. Diplomatic intercourse between the two States is now practi- cally at an end, an alliance is believed to have been...

We have referred in another column to the curious views

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on the Tithe question which are now being promulgated by the malcontents with the Government Bill. Take as an illustra- tion the letter from Foots Cray, Kent, signed " Charles...

The disappearance of the Earl of Shannon would make a

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good plot for a sensation novel. Seven years ago, Viscount Boyle, now the Earl, went to Canada.; three years ago his brother, who accompanied him, left him there ; and two years...

Bank Rate, 4 per cent.

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New Consols (24) were on Thursday 97i to 98.

A correspondent of the Times says that a cuckoo was

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heard as early as on Thursday week, in the neighbourhood of Surbiton. Even if the cuckoo heard was a real cuckoo, and not a boy mimicking his cry, or a good cuckoo-clock, we...

The increase of the population in England and Wales is

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still very rapid. According to the statistics for 1889, just published by the Registrar-General, the births in that year were 885,179, and the deaths 517,968, an increase of...

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TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE OVATION TO PRINCE BISMARCK. P ERHAPS the most surprising incident in the series of incidents which have attended the resignation of Prince Bismarck, is the popular ovation...

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LORD ROSEBERY ON LIBERAL RECON- CILIATION.

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-L ORD ROSEBERY'S kindly little speech on Wednes- day in Edinburgh, indulged in a hope which is, in our opinion, over-sanguine, as to the early reunion of the Liberal Party. His...

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THE RUSSIAN RUMOURS.

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W E do not suppose there is much in these rumours from Russia, though they are widely spread by -unconnected correspondents who presumably believe them. Stories of the...

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THE NEW SOCIAL SYSTEM IN IRELAND.

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ril RE is not much chance, we should say, of any ce anger to Mr. Balfour's Bill in the Commons. The Tories of Ireland, it is asserted with some authority, threaten to resist it,...

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just as good an influence as squires, and it is

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to them inherited or bought by its present owners, is a tax that, if the landlords depart, their place among the people which they have a right to appeal to Parliament to will...

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THE FRENCH INDEPENDENTS. G ROUPS are so common a feature of

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French Parlia- mentary life, that the appearance of a new one seldom excites any interest. There is enough, however, that is distinctive about the latest addition to the list—...

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THE NEW CODE.

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E public have been informed so persistently during the past week that payment by results has been entirely abolished, that it would not be at all astonishing if they have begun...

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PROFESSOR STOKES, M.P., ON PERSONAL IDENTITY. Nv -E hope that the

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President of the Royal Society intends to publish at length the lecture delivered at the Finsbury Polytechnic Institution on Sunday, of which the Times gave a short report in...

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BODIES AND BRAINS IN EXAMINATIONS.

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W E are not quite sure that we comprehend the precise object at which Mr. Francis Galton is driving in his recent papers. Apparently he begins by laying it down as doctrine that...

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CORRESPONDEN CE.

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SEQUAH'S " FLOWER OF THE PRAIRIE !" They also were clad in fringed leather coats, and wore sombreros over their long black locks. The sides of the wagon, where not gilt, were...

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*** We ought to state that the magazine quoted from

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by our " Correspondent in an Easy-Chair " on March 29th, in which specimens were given of some very remarkable essays by the children of our elementary schools, was Longman's...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

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THE DESTRUCTIVE CRITICISM OF THE OLD' TESTAMENT. go THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR." j SIR, — It is never without regret that I differ from the Spectator,. especially on...

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THE RADICAL PLAN FOR PARISH COUNCILS.

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ITO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—Your article and Mr. Fowle's subsequent letter upon my Parish Councils Bill induce me to ask you to publish a few observations upon...

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IGNORANCE OF ENGLAND.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Your view of Miss Betham-Edwards's book makes me wish to follow her footsteps to these newly discovered regions where she has been...

THE TITHES BILL.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIB,—Tithe, in the opinion of agriculturists, is unjust in its incidence, and in the opinion of Nonconformists, is unjustly applied. I am...

THE AYR ELECTION.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " BPECTATOR."1 SIR,—One factor in the recent Unionist success at Ayr and Glasgow has, I think, been generally overlooked, at least on this side of the...

LAND ALLOTMENTS.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THY " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Both parties in the State appear to agree that allot- ments of land to the poor are so desirable, that if they dt not come into...

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ORIENTAL JEWELLERY.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—May I be allowed to supplement the delightful and informing article on " Oriental and English Jewellery" in the Spectator of March...

" HOLY-STONES."

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIB., —In the review of Mr. J. J. Hissey's " Tour in a Phaeton," in the Spectator for March 22nd, you quote his statement from some old book...

PEAT FOR FUEL.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] can confirm your statement in regard to peat that "the accessible stock is not really large." In moving through Donegal last summer, and...

POETRY.

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THE SUNDAY BAND ON HAMPSTEAD HEATH. (SANCTIONED BY THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL.) ANOTHER smiting of poor Nature's cheek ! The Sunday Band, with its unceasing blare, The...

SCHOOL FEES AT SALISBURY.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—In the Spectator of March 29th, you comment on Mr. Mundella's speech on the educational matter in York and Salisbury. As to the latter...

A WASP POLICEMAN.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR,—The letter from Eastbourne of March 26th reminds me of an incident which interested us very much last summer. My house is close to a...

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ART.

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THE NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB, AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. ALL readers of the Spectator who are interested in the present and future of English painting ought to pay a...

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BOOKS.

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LYRICAL BALLADS * THIS reprint of the first edition of the joint production of Wordsworth and Coleridge is valuable, of course, more as setting up a visible monument of a great...

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THE PROSE WRITINGS OF THOMAS DAYIS.*

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THERE was a peculiar fitness in entrusting to Mr. Rolleston the editing of Thomas Davis's literary remains, inasmuch as of all living Irishmen, there is perhaps no one who is...

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OLD AGE.*

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Vanrous writers have attempted, from time to time, to teach mankind how they may attain to old age. Lewis Corner°, the famous Venetian, for instance, recorded his experiences...

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A CENTURY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.* THE first century of the

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American Republic, which, as Mr. Smith's preface reminds us, came to a close last year, though it cannot boast a single imaginative writer of colossal propor- tions, has...

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LES TROIS CCEURS.*

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PERHAPS if the same self-restraint we acknowledge to be necessary in governing our physical passions were regarded as equally necessary in directing our intellectual faculties,...

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THE MAGAZINES.

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THE Reviews, with the exception of the Fortnightly, are fall of Prince Bismarck, but we do not see that they add to our information much. The Contemporary gives the first place...

MARK TWAIN'S CAMELOT.*

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NOTHING in its way could well be more deplorable than the latest and certainly not the least ambitious example of Trans- atlantic hamour, - 21 Yankee at the Court of King...

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CURRENT LITERATURE.

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We are glad to see that the United Service Magazine—a name once famous through many decades—has taken a fresh lease of life, and entered on a line suggested by existing...

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Folk - Lore and Legends. (W. W. Gibbings.)—The four volumes of this

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series which we have before us are respectively "Germany," " Oriental," " Scotland," and " Ireland." Some capital selections have been made from the various folk-lore, and the...

Three People's Secret. By G. Manville Fenn. (Simpkin, Marshall, and

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Co.)—We did not expect a tale of this type from Mr. Manville Fenn. It is not worthy of him in any sense of the word, for it is neither a good " shocker " nor a good story, and...

The Backslider, and other Poems. By " Anbmus." (Printed for

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the Author, and sold by Elkin Matthews, Vigo Street.)—" Antzeus " has chosen a very unfortunate nom de plume. There is nothing at all like Antteus in these verses, which are so...

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Recollections of Travels Abroad. By A. J. Duffield. With Map.

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(Remington.)—This is a very interesting book, deserving a much fuller notice than space enables us to give it. Mr. Duffield is a keen observer of men and men's ways, and in the...

Dr. Hermione. By the Author of " Lady Bluebeard." (Black-

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wood and Sons.)—A clever story this, and eminently readable, but not, we should say, particularly well constructed. If, how- ever, the author's intention was to show that...