T HURSDAY was a white day for the French Empire. On that day a despatch was received from M. de liontholon, Consul-General at New York, announcing the fall of Puebla on the 17th...

" THE SpEcrAroa " is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON CLERICAL SUB- SCRIPTION. I T is a spectacle of some interest to watch the House of Commons gradually accepting the necessity of an impend- ing...

T HE House of Commons on Monday night will miss Mr. Joseph Hume. Had he been alive and in his place, the Treasury, we venture to say, would have shrunk in alarm from the...

I T is wearisome work to watch a tree grow, and that is t process most like the development of Prussian constitu- tional freedom. The movements of Germans are always lack- ing...

L ORD CARDIGAN may be considered a very fortunate man. If at Christmas, 1856, some kind fairy had offered to grant him anything he might wish for, he should have replied with...

T HERE is one defence to be made, and but one, for the policy which the Foreign Office is pursuing in Poland. It is not more confused, or feeble, or contradictory, than the...

'THERE is one side of Sir Charles Trevelyan's budget which Englishmen scarcely as yet understand. They comprehend perfectly the effect of a surplus upon Indian credit, and,...

T HE uncovering of the memorial of the late Prince Consort at the Horticultural Gardens was one of the most striking festivals which London has seen in this great year of fetes....

711HE German element has of late played a rather conspicuous 1 part in North American politics, and its influence greatly contributed to the success of the Republican party in...

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] The triumph of liberty—for the result of the elections is not lees than that—has been hailed with exultation throughout the whole of France. I...

FROM OUR SPECIAL. CORRESPONDENT.] New York, May 26, 1863. TILE Northern enemies of the cause of the Union have gained a great victory, and, like all the victories on that side,...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sto,—I must beg you to do me the favour, if it be not the justice, of allowing me, in your own columns, to correct a mistake into which you...

BRITISH INSTITUTION-WORKS OF OLD MASTERS. THE call annually made on the private galleries of this country for a supply of works by "ancient masters" appears to make but little...

MASSEY'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.* TUE period from 1793 to 1802—from the declaration of war with France to the peace of Amiens—over which the events recorded in this volume extend,...

M. GOUNODS FAUST. Mn. MAPLESON has lost no time in recovering the ground lost by the failure of his first novelty. M. Gounod's Faust, produced at Her Majesty's on Thursday...

Liberals of the Continent. believe the Church of Rome to be incurably hostile to liberty let him ponder this essay, read it, that is, not only with the admiration it is sure to...

E marked and desarvel success of " &item Chapel" has en- couraged its author to republish from the same series a story of a different and somewhat inferior kind. The Doctor's...

an experienced author. During the last forty years various subjects have from time to time attracted his eager and inquiring mind. He lies flitted from grave to gay, from lively...

of M. Merle d'Aubign6 is sure, deserv- edly or undeservedly, to find a translator and readers in Eng- land. The school to which he belongs, however influential and respectable,...

is the most recent of the scientific associations of London, its first meeting having been held little more than three months ago. The object of its studies is, we are informed...

(A. and C. Black.)—The treatise contained in this volume was originally published so long ago as 1822; but, previous to its re-appearance on the present occasion, it has been...

: Hachette.)—Mr. Bigelow, who holds the responsible position of United States' Consul at Paris, has been induced to put together this volume by the consideration that there is...

Dispensa- tions. By Andrew Norton. Edited by J. J. Taylor, B.A. (Longman.) —The object of this small volume, which is written by the late Pro- fessor of Sacred History at...

R.N. (Maclaren.) — The author of this small volume is one of those earnest men who, being deliberately of opinion that science ought to be interpreted by the aid of Scripture,...

Clarke. Three vols. (Chapman and Hall.) —In spite of a distinct denial of the imputation on the part of the author of this work, we are inclined to think that its publishers...

of this small volume appears to be to impress upon the scien- tific student the importance of the services which may be rendered to science, by the diligent investigation of the...

feature of this manual is that the information which it contains is conveyed throughout in the. form of tables, an arrangement which Mr. Adams' experience has led him to regard...

of Thought and Feeling," &c. (Pitman.)—This is one of those works the publication of which affords, it is to be hoped, more pleasure to the anther than it is at all likely to do...

the Northerners expressed by Mr. Russell in his recent work, has taken occasion to reason with him on the subject. The mode of defence which he adopts consists partly in flatly...

By Sir R. G. Macdonnell, C.B. (Dublin.)—Fortunate as the Committee of the Dublin Young Men's Christian Association always is in its choice of lecturers, it has seldom shown more...

volume, which is evidently a record of actual minis- terial experience, is the work of a pastor of the Lutheran Church. It contains, besides a number of interesting details...

published his long-promised introduction to physical geography. Like all the previous works of its author, it is remarkably accurate, clear, and concise. We can safely recommend...

(Pickering.)—The Guardian Angel, and other Poems. By Joseph Verey. (Clarke.)—There is a sufficient general resemblance between these two volumes to warrant us in coupling them...

Young Life; its Chances and Changes, by the Author of "Hidden Links" (C. J- Skeet.).—The Lord's Prayer, Illustrated by a Series of Etchings, by Lorenz Friaicb (Trabner and...

and Bourn.)--If, as we have reason to believe is the case, this novel is a first attempt, its author may fairly be congratulated on having achieved something more than a merely...

Answered. By the Rev. G. S. Ingram. (Freeman.)—A Few Words of Exhortation with Reference to Bishop Colenso's Work. By a Layman. (A. W. Bennett.)—It is not any want of respect to...

Hall.)— The author of this volume is a gentleman who, being fortunate enough to possess a friend who resides in Russia, paid him a visit during the autumn of last year, and took...