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THE GREAT REMEDY For HEADACHE, SEA or BILIOUS SICKNESS, CONSTIPATION, INDIGESTION, SAVED MY LIFE, for the Ferer had obtained a strong hold on me. In a few days I was quite well.'—Extract froni letter of C. FITZGERALD, Faq, formerly Correspondent of the Manchester Guardian in Albania, referring to LAMPLOUGH'S PYRETIC SALINE. 'SMALL-POX.-PREVENTION AND CURE.'- Any person taken with this dread disease should be kept in a cool darkened rooin to prevent disfigurement, and take nothing but Lamplough's Pyretic Saline. This simple treatment, after years of observation, has proved more effective than any other. Sold by all Chemists and Patent Medicine Dealers, in Bottles at 2 s. 6d., 4s. 6d., 11s., and 21s. each. H. LAMPLOUGH, 113 HOLBORN, LONDON, E.C. PERILS ABOUND ON EVERY SIDE! THE Railway Passengers Assurance Company INSURES AGAINST ACCIDENTS OF ALL KINDS, ON LAND OR WATER, Apply to the Clerks at the Railway Stations, the Local Agents, or WEST END OFFICE, 8 GRAND HOTEL BUILDINGS, CHARING CROSS, OR AT THE Head Office :-64 CORNHILL, LONDON WILLIAM J. VIAN, Secretary. SPOTTISWOODE ASD CO., PRIA TERS, NEW-STREET SQUARE AND GRACECHURCH STREET, LOXDON. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY A MONTHLY REVIEW EDITED BY JAMES KNOWLES. No. 90, AUGUST 1884. PAGE 169 210 1. The House of Lords and the Country 1. By the DUKE OF ST. ALBANS. 5. By VISCOUNT LYMINGTON, M.P. FORBES. V. A Limit to Evolution. By ST. GEORGE MIVART IX. English Sisterhoods. By MARIA TRENCH 228 238 263 281 301 320 339 KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, & CO., LONDON. S PARIS: LIBRAIRIE GALIGNANI, 224 RUE DE RIVOLI. Price Half-a-Crown. All rights reserved. Warranted good and serviceable at a very moderate price : 3 ft., 28s.; 3 ft. 6 in., 32s.; 4 ft., 36s.; 4 ft. @ in., 40s. A Catalogue of Bedsteads and Furniture, with Price List of Bedding, free by post. 195 to 198 TOTTENHAM COURT ROAD, W. THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. No. XC.- AUGUST 1884. THE HOUSE OF LORDS AND THE COUNTRY I. Since Runnymede the Peers have scarcely been in a more perplexing and difficult position. This difference, however, exists in the two situations : the Barons established the liberties of the people; the Lords now seem inclined to upset the ancient institution they then founded. The Franchise Bill remains hung up midway between being blessed and damned—between being passed and rejected; while Lord Salisbury watches its paralytic state as a cat does a mouse, ready to put his paw down should it show any signs of returning animation. It is difficult to understand, when it was argued in opposition to the Franchise Bill, that the farmer would be swamped, and the vote of the present electors be so diluted as to become comparatively power less, how the Conservative party could, without even a grimace, swallow Lord Dupraven's amendment, accepting the principle of the Bill . The explanation, however, may be found in Lord Salisbury's interruption of Lord Granville on the 18th of July. 'I spoke of enfranchisement without redistribution,' he said. This, then, is the issue-unless Lord Salisbury can so cut and carve the constituencies that the farmers' vote shall not be swamped, and the vote of the old county elector shall not be discounted; unless Lord VOL. XVI.No. 90. N |