Treene are an unusual number of interesting articles in the Sutmrday and Spectator, but the claims on our space to-day will allow us to do little more than indicate them. In the former Mr. Dunning Macleod, the London barrister, gets rather a severe handling for his letters on real propert which appeared in the Times and were answered by Lord Bramwell. Mr. Macleod aust have known, the writer says, that his denial of the existence of absolute property in land was wholly nominal. The next article on Our Weapons of War" will at east strengthen the doubts which have been growing in many minds of the value of the torpedoes, except in the smooth waters of a harbour, and the last reported experiments at Portsmouth, given in the Times of the Ath of June, when the old Resistance searcely received any damage from the explosion of 200 pounds of gun-cotton under her, did not jump in the least, though the shock of the explosion was terrific, and was afterwards found as tight asa bottle. The new steel booms enabled her to come out scatheless. and were only 1 little bent, quite unbroken and position with their joints uninjured. Egypt" is unfavourable to the Conven: tion, which scorns to have no friends anywhere, and goes a step further in advocating retention of that country, the article con: eluding Military men who have reaped no glory in Fuypt, non-political persons who do not understand the circumstances, sentimentalists who are only anxious to wash their hands of a country stained with such bloody and disgraceful memories, non-intervention maniacs, and others, may be favourable to: drawal but "J'y suis; j'y reste," is and must be the motto of well-informed and patriotic English statesmen.
That brag did no good to the last man who publicly used it, and the Saturday might have stayed its hand before repeating "Thou shalt not steal," is on the re appeal! by Professor Caird to the House of Lords against a decision of the Thirteen of the Court of Session which had deprived him of property in his lectures in. d The Lords overruled the Seats Lords decision. The Two Voices" contrasts speeches of Lord Rosebery and Mr, Chamberlain is a bright and able article. In "Racing at Ascot," we find it stated that Minting was more admired than the great Ormonde by many good judges and has grown into a grand colt. The "Military Resources of Englind" and the Present attitude of the Pope" will well repay reading.
The Spectator has a note on the voyage of the Abyssinia to Vancouver, in which it sees a possibility of sending letters fromEnglind to Japan in twenty-four days and " tree might be sent the distance within a month" it therefore records the voyage with a cet tain pleasure, though it doubts if Japan well be the better for rush of tourists, knowing that England would not be the botter fora rush of Japanese. The Bodyke evictions are the subject of one article and on the attitude which English radicals have taken up on them the writer says:—
If the tenants of Bodyke can insist with impunity that 10s, an acre is a proper rent, instead of the 20s., or whatever it is they now pay, then, next year, they may fix half. crown,—that is, they may deprive Colon O'Callaghan of his whole property by steady resistance to the law. It is a huge contis tion with which the English Home-rulers are were allowed, neither could be nor should ntly s} thi x, a confiscation which, be confined to the owners of the soil. The butchers' and bakers' debtors have a much better case, for butchers and bakers actually sell life; and the debtors of the Water Com-nies have the best case of all. Yet the English Home-rulers, who would exact a water-rate without mercy, are ready to vote down a Government because, when the civil force is unable to protect " legal eviction, it calls in military aid. In other words, it allows its sympathy fora class, some of whom are miserable and some dishonest, to induce it to support an anarchy which, if it prevailed, would within six months pauperism, and pos: sibly even starve, one-half the population of Treland.
The Home Secretary's very able reply in the debate on this subject put the position of the Government in a nutshell. It does not rest with Government, this country, he said, to deprive a man like Colonel O'Callaghan,—who by the way is said to have nothing to do with the evict tions, which were carried out by a creditor of his, an English insurance company—of his rights because they dislike his opinion: his manner or the colour of his hair. The Spectator cautions the English public about believing telegrams from Bombay or Cal-cutty on affairs in Afghanistan, and article on Herat, regards the news of the mutiny of some 500 of the Ameer's troops as serious. It dues not yet consider his position as jeopardised. A paper on Keats is very good and pleasant readi The Pall Mall Budget is much occupied with the Jubilee pageant and gives many illustrations and parti But the article entitled 'How Long' is disfigured by the worst faults which have of late degraded this paper. The St. James's is a good number with many interesting vnd amusing articles. One on the Canadian-Pacific line advocates the granting of a subsidy and shows how keenly German merchants and onomists are watching the effect. which England's new road to the East well have on trade, The slthencenm rev ws favourably "The Reign of Queen Victoria," edited by Ward, and written by eminent men; says. that Mr. Pater's " Imaginary Portraits" should he rad by all lovers of payevlogica, pro-Dlems, and has much praise for Dr. Hill's Boswell's Life ut Johnson. The editing vf the new "Pickwick," we are informed in the Literary Gossip, has been committed to Mr. ©. P. Johnson, and it will have hitherto unpublished drawings by R. W. Buss, "Phiz" and Leech, Of Mr. Rider Quartermain?
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