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On Thursday three hundred of the clergymen who signed the
The SpectatorOxford Declaration of faith waited on the Archbishop of Canter- bury at Lambeth to deliver in the names of the signitaries, and to read an address to his Grace from the...
The Moniteur confirms the statement that a large Russian army
The Spectatoris assembled on the frontier of Bessarabia, and M. Rouher, speak- ing of Denmark, said on Thursday, "If by possibility France could embark her treasure in such an enterprise, it...
The Queen held a Court at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.
The SpectatorHer Majesty wore the blue riband and badge of the Garter, the badges of the Victoria and Albert Order, and, says the Court Circular, which does not make mistakes on such points,...
The first naval engagement of the war has terminated to
The Spectatorthe advantage of the Danes. On Saturday, the 7th inst., the Austrian Captain Teggetoff, in command of the frigates Schwartzenberg and Radetzky, and the Prussian gunboats Adler...
Lord Russell explainedon Monday that "a suspension of hostilities" for
The Spectatora month had been agreed upon, in which the Germans give up nothing and the Danes give up their bliccka.de. The Germans had offered to evacuate Jutland on condition that the...
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorO N Wednesday Mr. Gladstone exploded a mine in the Liberal or pseudo-Liberal camp. He made a speech at once masterly and beautiful in favour of giving to the working classes a...
Marshal Von Wrangel, in addition to the 96,000/. already exacted
The Spectatorfrom Jutland, has now placed a requisition of more than half a million upon all landed estates, a sum it is quite impossible to collect, except perhaps by threatening the few...
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Yesterday week Mr. Somes was refused leave to bring in
The Spectatorhis Bill for forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquids between eleven o'clock on Saturday night and six o'clock on Monday morning, though he kindly granted two hours on...
Mr. Lincoln has written to the editor of a Kentucky
The Spectatorpaper a letter explaining in his usual lucidly colloquial style the policy he has felt himself compelled to pursue on the subject of slavery. "I am naturally anti-slavery," he...
On Thursday night, in the absence of Lord Palmerston, who
The Spectatorhas been for weeks laid up with the gout, Sir George Grey moved for a select committee to examine into the charge levelled against the Privy Council of Education by that...
The capitalists have contrived to mutilate the partnership law. On
The SpectatorMonday Mr. T. Baring moved in committee that the word " registered " should be signed after the name of the firm in all dealings and transactions, and the amendment was c 'flied...
A layman profoundly grateful to the Archbishop of Canterbury for
The Spectatorhis policy in the matter of the Oxford Declaration, and anxious to support the Committee by promoting a like movement among the laity, has drawn up and circulated the following...
11. niers pronounced his annual oration upon the French budget
The Spectatoron Friday last. It was of course an attack on the Empire, which he said had increased the Budget from 60,000,000/. to 92,000,000/., by expenditure on wars, on expeditions, on...
The details of the Fort Pillow massacre are worse even
The Spectatorthan we supposed. Not only were wounded men shot where they lay while holding the hospital flag and bits of white handkerchief over them in token of surrender, not only were the...
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The House of Commons on Thursday came out in a
The Spectatornew light. Mr. Gregory brought forward the remuneration to Mr. Herbert, painter of the fresco in the Peers' Robing Room, for which he has received, or is to receive, 2,000/....
The American Congress seems to learn finance very slowly indeed.
The SpectatorLate in April it passed an Act increasing all import duties upon luxuries 33 per cent. for two months only, a measure which probably will not yield a sixpence. There is always...
We understand that the Directors of the Scottish and Universal
The SpectatorFinance Bank have purchased the business of Messrs. Hag- gard and Co., bullion and exchange dealers. Mr. Haggard is to be manager of the bullion department of the undertaking....
The Realm describes a singular scene. Some cotton has lately
The Spectatorbeen imported into Farringdon, where the mills have been closed for a considerable time'. The people, who were previously in the deepest distress, went out to meet the cotton,...
The National Gallery is, it appears, to be built in
The Spectatorthe gardens of Burlington House, the house not to be pulled down until the building wants wings. The wall space will be 3,000 feet lineal, and the cost 150,0001. That last item,...
The War Office has, we perceive, taken 5,000/. for soldiers'
The Spectatorread- ing-rooms and other means of recreation. The sum is not enough by four-fifths, and the Office, even if it neglects the just claims of 'Captain Jackson, is unwise in...
Mr. Grant Duff dre.v attention in a very elaborate speech
The SpectatorYesterday week to the Report of the Commission on Public Schools Mr. Grant Duff dre.v attention in a very elaborate speech Yesterday week to the Report of the Commission on...
The following were the closing prima of the leading Foreign
The SpectatorSecurities yesterday and on Friday week :- Friday. My G. Friday, May 13. 22 221 Mexican .. .. Do. Certificates 11 .. 111 Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. .. .. — tti 70 • • —...
On Saturday last Consols left off at 90a, j , for
The Spectatormoney, and 894, 90, ex. div. for account. Yesterday the closing prices were :— For transfer, 914, ; for time, 90, 4.
A strange tragedy has been transacted at Tottenham. A civil
The Spectatorengineer, named G. Tregear, residing there, discovered that his wife had formed a connection with a Mr. Cowen, a bandmaster, and compelled her to take laudanum with him, but his...
Mr. Morritt on Friday introduced his motion on the malt-tax,
The Spectatorand in his first sentence counted himself out. He made some remark on the state of the House, and the Speaker was obliged to count. Mr. Morritt had just sent for a glass of...
Mr. Brown, the editor of a Manx paper, imprisoned for
The Spectatorcom- menting on the House of Keys, has been released, the Court of Queen's Bench holding that the Habeas Corpus writ runs there, as the island, though not in the " realm" of...
The King of Dahome3r has made his long-threatened attack on
The Spectatorthe city, or rather settlement, of Abbeokuta. The inhabitants of that Cave of Adullam, said to be 200,000 in number, turned out with considerable courage, and defeated the...
Music, it seems, has still the charms the poet ascribed
The Spectatorto it. Mr. Cox, son of an English physician of Valparaiso, had been explor- ing an almost unknown inland sea in Chili and the river Limay, when the party fell into the hands of...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorMR. GLA.DSTONE'S THUNDERBOLT. H AS Mr. Gladstone upset the coach by his speech on Mr. Baines's Franchise Bill? We are not sure, for it is doubtful whether the old Conservatives...
THE ENGLISH PARTY LEADERS AND THEIR DANISH POLICY.
The SpectatorT O thoughtful Englishmen the conduct of England to Den- mark during the last six months is a subject for profound humiliation which the useless cheers of the House of Com- mons...
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THE REIGN OF FORCE.
The SpectatorA REACTION is passing over Europe much worse than the bad one denominated "Conservative." For years past, ever since the generation which had shared in the Revolutionary war...
M. TRIERS AS LEADER OF THE FRENCH OPPOSITION.
The SpectatorI T is doubtful if after all the election of M. Thiers has been a gain to the French Opposition. His prestige and his- eloquence alike render it impossible to refuse him the...
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THE ATMOSPHERE OF SUSPICION.
The SpectatorW E certainly do novelists great injustice when we condemn the carefully elaborated misunderstandings which form the basis of their plots as unnatural. All that wonderful...
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MR. SPURGEON'S BOTTLED APPLE.
The SpectatorNI R. SPURGEON made a speech at the recent meeting of the Bible Society which contains, as is usual with the speaker, a vigorous, effective, and frank illustration of the mode...
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ORIENTALISAI IN IRELAND.
The SpectatorI RELAND is the land of odd stories, but we do not remember one quite so odd as that reported in Monday's Times. Mr. Pen- rose, a " gentleman of means" residing in Waterford,...
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THE PETTY-FITZ MAURICES.—(OF LATE DAYS.)
The SpectatorP OSSESSED of the vast Petty estate, the younger Fitzmaurice, though lineal male descendant of a man who was noble before the Conquest, and probably descended from a house which...
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New York, April 30, 1864. WE have lost Plymouth in
The SpectatorNorth Carolina, and a rebel ram, slow moving and light armed, but itself absolutely invulnerable to 32-pounders, has command of the Roanoke, as far as serious operations are...
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Jin arts.
The SpectatorTHE ROYAL ACADEMY. ON what principle are pictures selected by the managers of exhibitions for the so-called place of honour ? To judge from the practice of the Royal Academy,...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorMR. LLEWELYN DAVIES'S SERMONS.* Tam volume, both in its substance, prefix, and suffix, represents the noblest type of theology now preached in the English Church. Its...
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MR. JAMES'S WORKS.*
The SpectatorBernard Marsh is a posthumous novel, and as it will be the last of that apparently interminable series the works of Mr. G. P. R. James, it may be worth while to inquire for a...
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THE DIARIES OF A LADY OF QUALITY.
The SpectatorTHOUGH nominally "diaries," the ten manuscript volumes from the contents of which Mr. Hayward has compiled the book before us can scarcely be said to correspond with the...
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LIFE OF GENERAL SIR WITJJA M NAPIER.*
The SpectatorONE of the most delightful of children's books which our memory recalls to us was the history of a family of young redbreasts, exhibiting the development of their respective...
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"JOHN GRESWOLD," BY THE AUTHOR OF "PAUL FE RROLL."* IT
The Spectatoris impossible that so polished an imagination as that of the authoress of "Paul Ferroll " can have undertaken a novel that is wholly without intellectual unity and connecting...
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1111 the exception of Pope Joan, the fables treated by
The SpectatorDr. Dollinger, if not always wilfully concocted, were yet all of them distinctly accredited by Church authorities with a perfect con- sciousness of their untruth. They all come...
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The Nature and Extent of .Divine Inspiration, as Stated by
The Spectatorthe Writers and Deduced from the Facts of the New Testament. By the Rev. C. A. Row, M.A. (Longman and Co.)—To any one who has been compelled to read much of the orthodox...
The Common Prayer in Latin. A Letter to the Rev.
The SpectatorSir W. H. Cope Bart, by William John Blew. (C. J. Stewart.)—The author advocates a translation of the Prayer Book into Latin, carefully preserving the language of the Latin...
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The SpectatorCURRENT LITERATURE Apologia pro Fitti Sad ; being a reply to a pamphlet entitled "What, then, Does Dr. Newman Mean ?" by John Henry Newman, D.D. Parts I., II., III., IV.—We...
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The Sugar Duties. By Edmund Potter, M.P. (Dawson and Sons.)—
The SpectatorThe Sugar Duties. By J. Russell, Secretary to the Mercantile Law Amendment Society. (Dawson and Sons.)—The Sugar Duties DiscussetL By Henry Nelson. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The...
Curiosities of Phrenology. By Hugh Barclay, LL.D. (W. R. M'Phun
The Spectatorand Son.) Curiosities of Legislation. By Hugh Barclay, LL.D. (W. R. M'Phun and Son).—This gentleman, the sheriff substitute for Perthshire, seems irresistibly attracted to the...
Compensation to Landowners; being a practical Digest of the Law
The Spectatorof Compensation. By Geo. V. Yool, M.A., barrister-at-law. (W. Max- well.)—The author, who is favourably known to the legal profession by a former work on the law of "Waste,...
Use of the Burial Service as Required by Law. By
The Spectatorthe Rev. T. S. L. Vegan, M.A. (Bell and Daldy.)—This gentleman, a vicar, a prebendary, and a rural dean, writes in the spirit of Archdeacon Grautley. The clergy have nothing to...
A Voice from the Church in Australia. Eight Sermons. By
The SpectatorRobert Potter, B A. (Macmillan and Co.)—These compositions are rather elegant essays than specimens of pulpit oratory. They are finished, intellectual, and cold, like the once...
forces, "the elements of which all things are composed," inventions,
The Spectatorand "every art and process to which the genius of man has given birth." In truth it is a very useful, well designed book, but many of the articles have been rather carelessly...
down many of these platitudes. In one fragment the quondam
The Spectatorauthor tells us that when.he considers the character of the young people who will form the next generation he has misgivings as to the character of the next generation, p. 12....
England's Danger. The Admiralty Policy of _Naval Construction. By James
The SpectatorChalmers. (E. and F. N. Spon).—If all the statements in this pamphlet are true, Mr. Chalmers has not been well used. There does not seem to be much doubt that his target stood...
What England should Do with her Convicts. By W. M.
The SpectatorWilkinson (T. J. Allman). — Prison Discipline. By the Earl of Carnarvon. (John Murray.)—Mr. Wilkinson's theory is that the "Probation system," which he describes as identical in...
A Manual of Religious Instruction. By Albert Revile, D.D. (Simp-
The Spectatorkin, Marshall, and Co.)— Dr. R6ville is a pastor of the Dutch Church at Rotterdam, and a former work by him on the Gospel of St. Matthew was " crowned " by the Hague Society for...
Statement of a Leasehold Title as actually investigated under the
The Spectatorpresent System of Conveyancing, and as it would be proved by Registration. By Henry Dix Hutton. (Dublin : A. Marlow.)—In Ireland the Encum- bered Estates Court has long given...
The Elements of Mechanical Physics. By J. C. Buckmaster. (Chap-
The Spectatorman and Hall.)—A most excellent little book, intended for thoughtful and intelligent mechanics. The great ingenuity of many of our work- men goes to waste for want of the...
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Events of the Month. (John and Charles Mozley.)—This new com-
The Spectatorpetitor for public favour commenced its career last January. To the ordinary contents of a magazine it adds a condensed summary of the chief events of the month, so as to be a...
Private Law among the Romans from the Pandects. By J.
The SpectatorG. Phil- more, Q.C. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Phillimore has written a very clear and concise account of that part of the civil law which regulates the intercourse of private...
The Eclectic and Congregational Review. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—A monthly
The Spectatorwhich deserves to be better known. The papers on general subjects are quite equal to those of any other monthly, while religions subjects are treated of course from a...
America. By J. W. Massie, D.D., LL.D. (John Snow.)—At the
The SpectatorBicen- tenary of St. Bartholomew, 1862, a letter of sympathy was received from the Rev. J. P. Thompson, Minister of Broadway Tabernacle, New York, on behalf of an assembly of...
The Baptist Reporter. New Series. January to March, 1864. (J.
The SpectatorHeaton and Son.)—The claim of the new series to be regarded as "a first-class monthly" is scarcely supported. With general literature it does not meddle, and the particular...
Poems. Original and translated. By "S. H. F." With illustrations.
The Spectator(London : Longmans, 1863.) —This is a very interesting little volume. The original poems it contains—" Autumn Leaves," as the writer names them—are chiefly of the quiet,...
The Principles of Agriculture. By William Bland, M.R.A.S. (Long- man
The Spectatorand Co.)—A concise exposition of the reasons for the various pro- cesses of the oldest of arts. Mr. Bland insists much on the necessity of paying due attention to the fallow,...
A Reading Book for Evening Schools. By the Rev. C.
The SpectatorK. Paul. (Long- man and Co.)—A little volume of extracts, each of which will take one of the more advanced classes of an evening school about twenty minutes to read. The...
English Biblical Criticism and the Pentateuch from a German Point
The Spectatorof View. By John Muehleisen-Arnold, B.D. Vol. L (Longman and Co.) —If any one had cherished a hope that the violence of theological hatred was now exhausted, that the disputants...
Dalsiets Illustrated Arabian Nights. (Ward and Lock.) Beeton's Illuminated Family
The SpectatorBible. (S. 0. Beeton.) Casselts Illustrated Bible. Casselts Illustrated History of England. Cassell's Popular Natural History. Casselts Popular Educator. Casselts Illustrated...
The Life and Lessons of Our Lord. By the Rev.
The SpectatorJohn Cumming, D.D. (John F. Shaw and Co.)—This publication is certainly a remark- able instance of what may be done now to combine excellence with cheapness. The type and paper...
The Englishwoman's Journal. March, 1861. (Jerrold and Sons.)— The Englishwoman's
The SpectatorDomestic Magazine. (S. 0. Beeton.) — We have been very much struck by the common sense and absence of prudery which distinguish the first of these periodicals. In the March...
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Thanksgiving. By Frances Power Cobbe. (Triibner and Co.)—A. reprint of
The Spectatora chapter extracted from a longer work on "Religious Duty," which is now out of print. The world has need to be reminded how much readier it is to ask favours of God than to...
Character of the Southern States of America. By F. W.
The SpectatorNewman. (Union and Emancipation Society's Depot.)—As this paper takes the form of a letter to a friend who had joined the Southern Independence Society, we suppose it is...
_Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker. By John Weiss. (Long
The Spectatorman and Co.)—Two enormous octavo volumes which might well have been compressed into one-fourth of the space. Parker's life was un- eventful, and the beat biography of a literary...
British Rtinfall. Compiled by G. F. Symons. (Edward Stanford.)— The
The Spectatorauthor has been at the trouble of collecting, arranging, and printing the observations of about 700 different private observers of the amount of the rainfall in the United...
The Upward Path. By the Rev. A. L. Simpson, of
The SpectatorEdinburgh. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—"The momentousness of life" is insisted on here by setting forth the more striking of those representations of it which are to be found in...