the honorary Cambridge degree of LL.D. It was conferred on yesterday week, the day after the Prince's degree and those of his suite, amidst cheering almost as warm as greeted...

Hawthorne was found dead in his bed in a country house at Plymouth, New Hampshire, whither he had gone to recruit failing health, on the 19th May. General Franklin Pierce, the...

T HE diplomatic news of the week is important, but uninteresting. The Danes, it will be remembered, objected to extend the armis- tice to more than a fortnight, on the ground...

Ascot, the Grand Prix de ,Paris, but one incident remains ; to be recorded. When the jsaine of the French_ whiner ; was announced, the Duo de Mbrny, President °Utile...

Lee has retreated again from Spotsylvania Court House to a point in the angle between the North and South Anna Rivers, where he is supposed to be defending the junction between...

and ex- cellent - letter_ to the limes on the attempt of Lord Robert Cecil and the Oxford _Conservatives to identify the Church with the Con- servative party. ; He thinks that...

proceedings of the Conference, the Conservatives complained; : justly enough, of the treatment of the Government, Wlicl tee- assuring the House that the Conference was to be...

rule will this year cost the army about 12,000 men, and the Commander-in- Chief has issued a circular calling on all recruiting officers to be active. The Indian papers add that...

was of course, less brilliant than last year. The undergraduates cheered Lord Derby, hissed the name of Mr. Bright, were bitterly divided about that of Mr. Gladstone,...

General Cameron's in New Zealand, and an unofficial account from Melbourne of an Eng- lish reverse. The success is important-. Brigadier-General Carey had on the 31st March...

articles for which the Confederacy has received so much credit in this country on the most questionable authority, on the subject of two Federal Generals made prisoners in the...

siderable grants,--500/. a year to the widow of Sir JohnInglis, who defended Lucknow, and. who died too early to reap the profits of his consequent promotion, 1,000/. a year to...

on if desired by a householder has passed its second reading. Sir George Grey opposed it of course, but we cannot say we antici- pated Mr. Gladstone's resistance. The Chancellor...

Bill. through Committee in the House of Lords. He gave a sickening account of the tortures to which the small boys are still exposed in "breaking them in" to go up the chimneys,...

very large emigration from Ireland last year to the United States was due in any appreciable degree to Federal enlistments. The number was not so large as in 1854 (thelast year...

commandment. Not content with ordering its soldiery to kill inoffensive Danes, it dismisses them for want of readiness to kill each other. Three brothers, the Counts of...

the James River whose performance has been so rapid as to astonish the army. Some Confederate prisoners inquired eagerly on coin- inginto camp whether they "loaded it all night...

started a new idea of descent. In a letter to the l imes he calls upon the public to subecribe for one George Shakespeare, who gets his living by daily labour, but who is a...

the collection of agricultural statistics from specimen districts.

in 10 4 000 shares of 2/. each, proposes to purchase, at a cost of 7,0001., a valuable mining property, in the parish of Bteage, Corn- wall, which the directors anticipate may...

Sub-Curator of the Imperial Library was really a dismissal. M. Renan therefore refused to accept it, but the Minister of Instruction intends to fill up his place. As M. Renan...

for our issue, upon Naval pay,..which brought out a strong remonstrance from M. Gladstone. Sir L. Palkyanted to pay Masters a little higher, whereupon all the Naval men in the...

South- Western Railway returning from Ascot. A very heavy train left Ascot about seven p.m.,.and ran safely to Egham. There it was delayed, some gentlemen- objeoting, to travel...

the papers all the week, the appeal against the Scotch decision having en= up before the Lords. As yet only the appellant has been heard, and Mr. Rolt, his counsel, rests his...

at the following quotations :— Fridity, June-3. Friday, June 10. Greek Do. Coupons '"• • • 211, 11, .. 241 101 Mexican .. 441 451 Spanish Passive 801 32i Do,...

interested in the question.of University Reform- witiplield on Friday afternoon at' the Freemasons' Tavern, Mr. Bouverie, M.P., in the chair. The House of Commons was well...

remains at 7 per cent., and the quotation in the open market for good short-dated paper is 64i per cent., showing no alteration from the close of- last week. The stock of...

discussion -on the Report on Public Schools, generally very unfavourable to -reform. Almost every proposal was resisted by somebody or other, Lord de Roe even objecting to any...

not unfrequently act like the separate condensing chambers in the low-pressure engine. There is some demand in the character of the believer for a particular species of moral...

MINISTERIAL DANGERS. I S the Ministry trying to trick the country? We feel it hard to believe that a Cabinet of which Earl Russell is a member is lending itself to any attempt...

The real objection to the Maine Liquor law, or any law based on its principle, is its excessive injustice. It declares an innocent act, the drinking of a glass of liquor, a...

T ORD PALMERSTON muet heartily wish that tact were a communicable quality. His subordinates seem deter- mined this session to get his Government into scrapes, and Always through...

MR. BABBAGE ought to be comforted, for if public- 111 opinion does indeed rule this free and happy country, the day is nigh at hand when stringent measures will be taken....

T HE death of Mr. Nassau Senior, which occurred last week, is a real loss to the political world. He belonged to a class which we believe scarcely exists out of England, the...

M R. Y. J. MURPHY'S temperate letter on the Irish National Education Question, in reference to our article on that subject in the Spectator of May 21, demands the courtesy of a...

BATHER N EWMAN has explained to us in the book which r we review elsewhere how a fire was kindled in his own and so many other Oxford breasts in 1832 by musing on the "anarchy...

T E Grand Prix de Paris of 1863 and Waterloo are avenged .1.J at one glorious blow. Vermout, the horse of destiny, had a defeat to avenge—he has beaten Blair Athol ; and a...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Ste,—In your notice of Dr. Newman's first pamphlet containing a correspondence in reference to Mr. Kingsley's charge that he, Dr. Newman,...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sta,—When, some time ago, I was summoned to serve as a Grand Juror at the Clerkenwell Sessions, and objected to take the oath because it...

Cambridge, June 6, 1864. SIR,—You will hardly require me to point out to you a mis- take in your summary of news for last week. Not only did the non-placet of Dr. Stanley's...

DR. NEWMAN'S APOLOGY.* [Sscorrn NOTICE.] ONE of the principal reasons why Dr. Newman has been so much misinterpreted and misunderstood is probably the unique form which the...

a chorus of critical gratula- tion in which we find it somewhat hard to think ourselves forced to join. No doubt it is a genuine book enough, and of its kind a valuable...

Ma. ROBERT Doug Maas was a very, remarkable man, although he did not live a very eventful life. The Dean of Ely, who writes of him with quiet but concentrated love, says, "His...

WL opened Mr. Phillips's book with the anticipation that we should find something different from the ordinary run of the scrappy and disjointed series of more or less pointless...

THE dislike of English novelists for Dissenters is a curious and not very intelligible fact. That they should dislike " Methodists" of all kinds as being persons instinctively...

Woman in 'France during the :Eighteenth Century. By Julia Kavanagh:- A new edition. (Smith, Elder, - and Co.)--This edition, clearly printed on excellent paper in a convenient...

OR Easter Monday morning, the 28th of March, there was hurry and confusion at Sonderborg. The moment seemed to have come for the 'final attack. About three in the morning every...

a Code. By A. Waddilove, D.C.L. (Longman and Co.)—Marriage is a very interesting subject to a great number of people, and they may learn all about it in this little volume. The...

M.D., F.L.S. (John Van Voorst.)—One of the numerous works called forth by the taste for microscopic investigation which has become popular of late. It is mainly devoted to the...

Dahly.)—All sciences have their votaries, those which are obsolete are honoured by devotees. Mr. Elwin is one of the devotees of heraldry. It is a study which in his judgment...

and Co.)—Dr. Vaughan has reprinted the memoir, which he prefixed to the two volumes of his son's essays published in 1858, shortly after his death, with additions. Certainly the...

Reid. (John Machuan.)—The preface to those poems is so modest and sensible that we heartily wish we could speak more favourably of them. They are the composition of a thoughtful...

Co.).—A small cheap atlas, intended for candidates for the Oxford Local Examinations, and therefore marking very clearly the coast linos, the mountain chains, the river courses,...

By "Germanicns Vindex." (Daily Post Steam Printing Works, Liver- pooL)—The author first points out that Ring Christian has no claim to the Crown of Denmark, except as the...

the Present Time. By Philip Smith, BA. Vol. I Ancient History. (Walton and Ma- berly.)—The first of the eight volumes of which this work is to consist is now before the 'world....

ledge.)—This novel is rightly named, for it is second to none of the author's previous efforts. There is the same easy narrative of dashing adventure, and the same life-like...

butes to this handsome volume a collection of the games played and a se- lection of the problems sent in for competition, with careful critical notes. Mr. Medley, the secretary...

may be made a true poem by its form, but Mr. Ross has not succeeded in making " Morna " anything. His versification is harsh and obscure, and tempts one into thinking that he...

(Mac- millan and Co.) — Man's Excellency a Cause of Praise and Thankfulness to God. By the Bishop of St. Andrew's. (Smith, Elder and Co.)—The two sermons preached, at...

By Rev. . S. Hadden Parkes, M.A., Curate of St. George's, Bloomsbury. (S. W. Partridge.)—The author very unnecessarily deprecates criticism of this little book, which both in...

of the Military Academy. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—An exceedingly handsome volume embellished by plans and views which are really beautifully executed. It is also written...

great importance which dissenting congregations attribute to preaching gives them in that particular a great advantage over the Church of England. Their average preaching is...