in criminal cases—though open to some objec- tions, the most serious of which are that juries may rely too much upon the Appellate Court to correct their own errors and that the...

about the Tory leadership,—commencing with a manifesto of Lord Randolph Churchill's in last Monday's Times, in which he bitterly condemns the management of the Tory Party in the...

police on Thursday arrested a young man, named Norman, at a hotel in the Strand, who had in his possession 11 cwt. of nitro- glycerine, so pure that its force would be equal to...

case.

lows :— Estimate of Expenditure.-1883.84. E.timate of Resenue.-1883-84. Consolidated Fund 231,319,000 Customs £19,750,000 Army 15,607,000 Excise 86,900, 000 Indian Charges...

M R. CHILDERS made a very interesting and clear Budget statement on Thursday night, the first interest of which was in its striking exposition of the remarkable decline in the...

:- Estimates (as modified in July). Receipts. Customs £19,300,000 £19,657,000 Excise 27,230,000 26,930,000 Stamps 11,145,000 11,841,000 Land-tax and House-duty... 2,775,000...

Members should be appointed to form, with five Peers, a Joint Committee of both Houses to inquire into the expediency of sanctioning the Channel Tunnel. Mr. Gladstone explained...

plunged yesterday week int) that of Lord Bo:ebery and Mr. Chamberlain, Their addresses took the form of speeches to the Birmingham Junior Liberal Associ- ation, delivered in the...

trumpeters, and, above all, on their peacocks,—and generally on " the mediaeval mummeries which formed the fitting reception for a statesman who was two- hundred years behind...

cases, Sir H. James admitted that he hoped to proceed much further by degrees, and the debate turned almost exclusively upon the general principle. The Tory lawyers contended...

Ripon, and the Times contends strenuously that the visit should be allowed, and that the Ameer's requests should be heard in a. " sympathetic " spirit. The Ameer, it is alleged,...

by Mr. Jacob Bright. He objected to a design attributed to the Foreign Office of recognising Portugal as Sovereign on the Congo, the giant river which it is now known flows from...

did say on the subject of the representation of minorities, and says something very different. What it asserted was that the battle would have to be fought against the principle...

the West of Ireland is succeeding admirably, not only in its prac- tical working, but in the popular favour it commands. Yester- day week, 350. souls were embarked from...

is not without significance. General Galliffet, who suppressed the Commune with such severity, had been appointed to command the cavalry manoeuvres-of the year on the eastern...

'not a good colour for Army uniforms. It is unusually visible to the enemy, as are also black and white. The Commission, therefore, recommend that either mud-colour, the...

Dashwood House, New Broad Street, there is a smokeless fire-place which is worth notice. We know nothing of its merits, but it is said to succeed, and the inventor, named....

Bill for the total abolition of vivisection, from which he would have done well, we think, to exclude all the ordinary experiments on inoculation intended for the benefit of the...

—not, however, without opposition,—a resolution petitioning Parliament against any Bill which will have the effect of -admitting Atheists to either House. Why, then, do they not...

Conservative party, delivered on Monday, has not been. without result. It produced the most emphatic demonstration of enthusiastic support which the Conservative party have yet...

THE BUDGET. M R. CHILDERS made a much greater impression by his Budget speech than he had led his audience at its commencement to expect. There was visible throughout it the...

T HE Debate on the Sovereignty of the Congo on Monday was really a very important one, and thirty years ago would have excited as keen an interest throughout the country as it...

W E have no desire to gain victories on false pretences, ce and therefore decline Lord Dunraven's assistance in abolishing or transforming the House of Lords. He is a man who,...

T HE great experiment lately made by the Italian Govern- ment, the introduction of a low suffrage, together with scrutin de liste, has, we fear, failed, and the circumstances of...

T HE Times of Wednesday contained a curious and sugges- tive account of the rival systems of education under which French boys of the middle and upper classes are brought up....

I F Mrs. Carlyle married for ambition, as Mr. Froude reports,. it is probable that she has gained what most ambitious people hope to gain,—whether they ultimately value what...

T HOSE who believe that the suppression of self is in and by itself a great virtue, or as some of the more fanatical " altruists" say, is the sum and substance of Christianity,...

THE PAYMENT OF AUTHORS. ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Kegan Paul, in his article in the Fortnightly Review "The Production and Life of Books," tells us many things which...

" SPECTATOE."] Sts,—From the discourteous and thoughtless nature of Dr. Cyon's article in the - Contemporary Review of this month, and the naivete of the doctor's statements, it...

Sta,—That secrets which have been whispered in the ear should be " proclaimed on the housetops " has, no doubt, always been -an nnpleasing prophecy for guilty consciences. It...

SIR, — In commenting on my speech in the Vivisection debate, you are good enough to say that my " psychology is as crude as my mis- statement of the facts is glaring." Now, this...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—I was surprised to see it stated some weeks ago, in a review of Mr. Romanes' book on "Animal Intelligence," that the female ostrich...

St. Giles's, Edinburgh, on July 23rd, 1837 (as Carlyle tells us), when " Land's pretended Bishop " tried to read the Collect for the day, Jenny Geddes' stool and shriek, " Deil...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] SIR, —The Times of yesterday, in an article on the Vivisection debate, had these words :—" Mr. George Russell `maintained that a man in whom...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] you allow me to remind " A Scotchman," whose - letter on "The Duty of the Government" appeared in your last issue, of what is the duty of...