'member of the Administration in Spain is disposed to let Cuba go on condition of receiving 100,000,000 dollars "guaranteed by the United States,"—to which there is a pendant in...

A s the struggles of the animalcules in a drop of water are mag- nified by the solar microscope on the sheet which serves as the registering surface, into a scene of perfectly...

ment of Spain has occurred in Madrid. The Government had ordered the suppression of a post of the National Guard, and the National Guard thereupon suspecting the Government of a...

end, has written a letter expressing the warmest sympathy with that memorial by the Treves Catholics against the supposed objects of the great (Ecumenical Council, the drift of...

Monday by 134 votes against 3,—all the amendments, however, tending in the direction of greater liberty and a more unrestricted power for the Legislative Assembly having been...

case.

tuents that the last session of Parliament was " the very dullest" he ever had the misery to sit through,—a session wherein first it was ascertained that the most indispen-...

on the whole, very important. The Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield yesterday week gave Mr. Roebuck occasion to bark very furiously at some party (unnamed) which he imagines to be...

colliery, disused for some time in consequence of a strike, was entered again by the miners-202 in number—last Monday. A shaft more than 300 feet deep caught fire at the bottom,...

week of October, at Liverpool, ought to produce two or three discussions of the highest possible interest. One, which should certainly, if adequately discussed, go far towards...

both military and political. The last telegram, dated Adelaide, August 12, says that the rebellion is spreading, and great alarm prevails. The more detailed news received from...

of the most shameful, because one of the most wanton, of our cruelties. A passenger in a Rotterdam and London steamboat gives a most horrible account of the cruelty inflicted on...

defend free trade, twenty years and more after it had been successfully tried. But the fact is so. A few weak-kneed people in Lan- cashire have fallen into Protectionist...

which. are likely to result in new political affinities— is at present Ireland. There, as we indicated last week, and have shown at length this week, the Roman Catholic Bishops...

Tesign. Not only is it understood that the Bishop of Winchester resigns early next month, but he will not even accept, it is said, the full retiring pension to which he is...

telling his clergy that they need not fear lest Parliament should make any changes in the Prayer-Book without the consent of Convocation, since the only difficulty will be to...

of Congress," evidently a savage Southerner, to vilify Mrs. Beecher Stowe, "and all the Beechera," in last Monday's Times. His letter, coming, too, from a man who dared not put...

mainly, or common to the vulgarer feelings of all mankind ? Certainly, no people can be more vacantly amused and vulgarly curious about disproportions in the shape of dwarfs and...

has been to see the Welsh fasting girl, Sarah Jacob, at some village with an unpronounceable name in Carmarthenshire, and he gives it as his opinion that she is in a condition...

Dr. Cumming's about the coming (Ecumenical Council? They are not very funny, they are even very dull, and they do not seem to us adapted to impress a very great number of even...

/holders, to continue the business and make a present of a fifth of the profits to the shareholders who had ruined them, has now been knocked on the head for good. The...

LORD HARTINGTON'S WARNING. L ORD HARTINGTON'S speech at the Cutlers' Feast at Sheffield was not, we suppose, meant exactly to rally together the proprietary interests of the...

F RINGE NAPOLEON need hardly have avowed his profound attachment to the Emperor and his son ;—his speech 'would have scarcely any practical meaning without the help of that key...

I F there is one kind of popular literature which more than another has a tendency to make considerate men sick, it is the big, pompous bow-wow with which the leading journal...

L ORD HOBART'S prescription of a sovereign cure for Bribery is not to be wondered at. It is the nature of inveterate maladies from time to time to provoke such pre- scriptions,...

T HE Pall Mall Gazette is seized every now and then with a homicidal mania which cloaks itself in the garb of justice. A short time ago, our contemporary argued that all the...

T HE project of fusing the two branches of the Legal Profes- sion, which has often been started, and which has been lately brought into more active discussion by the Liverpool...

AiI RS. BEECHER STOWE will probably repent her impul- sive and unjustified confession, when she sees the incredulity with which her story has been received in both England and...

EW of the statements made by Professor Stokes in the address with which he opened the recent meeting of the British Association attracted more attention than the assertion that...

A S mentioned in my last paper, although I was unable to visit California, as the railroad was not completed, I had much correspondence with gentlemen residing there and...

IT AVING seen Lerwick and explored its surroundings, I prepared for a visit to the northern islands, without which a tour to the Shetlands is no more complete than the...

Cxv.—THE WELal MARCH :—CHESHIRE.—EARLY HISTORY. C HESHIRE certainly formed part of the territories of the Celtic tribe called by the Romans Connum or CORNAVII- and some...

THE ORIGIN OF CIVILIZATION. [To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:] SIR,—In your issue of August 28th you do me the honour to notice some iemarks which I offered on Sir John...

ITo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In reference to the charge made by Mrs. Stowe against the character of Lord Byron, would it not be well to remember the following words...

ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH.* MRS. CLOUGH has done wisely in giving her husband's remains so frankly to the world, and all understanding readers will thank her sincerely for the true...

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Stu„—In your short notice about compulsory education in last week's number, you say that all that is necessary is" to make all pay- ment of...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—In your number of the 4th you say of Cardinal Cullen's demand that Government should surrender the whole of the education of...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTA.TOIL") Stn,—In your article of the 28th ult., on railway investments, you say that the London and North-Western pays only 54- on its £100 stock....

MR. CAPES has already been some time before the public as a novelist, and has acquired a reputation which is not contemp- tible. We cannot claim acquaintance with his previous...

Bergenroth's collections will be found more readable than most of the Rolls publications from its com- prising State papers which have mostly a direct bearing on two selected...

THE reviewer, whose business, if not pleasure, is to criticize novels, may feel some modicum of gratitude towards Mr. Mortimer Collins. His story, being confined within two...

(Nimmo.)— At the close of her tale Mrs. Cupples gives a piece of advice to "would- be-heroes," to the effect that they had better take the advice of parents and guardians before...

best describe this work by its secondary title, as "Au Introduction to Boole's Laws of Thought." It seeks, in fact, to popularize Professor Boole's system, and, if we may use...

Plato's Apology of Socrates and Crib, by Dr. Wilhelm Wagner. (Deighton and Bell, Bell -and Daldy.)—The annotations are compressed within a small compass, but deal with all the...

Kirkbeck. (Rivington.)—This is an adaptation and condensation of a longer French life, and makes a book sufficiently interesting and readable ; sometimes ex- citing a smile that...

—We feel irritated by this novel, when we ought not to have felt any- thing beyond weariness. For this we have to blame the title, which, though not attractive, is effective in...

Historical Gleanings. By James E. Thorold Rogers. (Macmillan.)— Mr. Rogers sketches Montague, Walpole, Adam Smith, and Cobbett, the first and second somewhat indistinctly, the...

to , the Emperor Charles V. Translated by Don Pascual de Gayangoa. This is an interesting and valuable document, which has never before appeared in an English form. It gives an...

a full account of the theory of shooting, that is, of the laws of motion, with particulars of the action of gravity, resistance, &e., of the various systems of manufacturing...

Staunton (Strahan), appears in a new edition. It is revised up to the latest date, and bears every sign of being carefully done. The body of the work supplies abundant...

readers of Murray's Handbooks for England. One, which seems as complete as these works usually are, for the counties of Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, and...