A TERRIBLE rumour is floating about London that the steamer Parana, with a battalion of Guards on board, has gone down in the Bay of St. Lawrence. Its origin is a tele- gram...

" THE SPECTATOR" 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 News-agents in...

MONDAY, JA141JdRY 13TH. PROFESSOR HEitzvani writes to the Times on the best means of as- certaining whether oil sold as paraffin or petroline is explosive, and recommends the...

Ossonwz, JAN. 10.-The Queen and Royal Family remain at Osborne in complete retirement. Jaw. 13.-His Royal Highness the Duke of Nemours arrived at . Osborne yesterday, and left...

No news has arrived since ten o'clock, 4.X.

Subscriptirms to the " FitIZIPD OF INDIA," and " OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA,"Will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms : Per...

BRITISH (Closing Prices.) 3 per Cent Consols 984 Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 931 92 New 3 per Cents 93 Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 Rider Bank Stock, 5...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAT EVENING. THE demand for money has been very slack throughout the week, and the rate of discount for the best short payment has occasionally been as low...

THE CONSEQUENCES OF SPASMODIC FINANCE. THERE can he no doubt whatever as to the meaning of 1 the latest incidents in the American civil war. The cause of the North is lost...

P ENDING the decision of the Court of Arches on the suit of the Bishop of Salisbury and Dr. Williams, which has now been fully argued—and which it would, of course, be most...

T " public are gratified with Mr. Gladstone's speech at Leith chiefly because he spoke. We have had a great deal too little of the Ministry during this recess. Lord Russell has...

r E despatches of Earl Russell on the Trent affair have taken even his friends by surprise. They always expect to find him ranged, in any great controversy, on the side of human...

very sincere desire among all classes of Englishmen to raise a monument to the late Prince Consort, worthy at once of his career and their regrets, and a very decided perplexity...

I N our last two numbers we have had to vindicate the American, whose name is given above, from an attack of the Saturday Review, as useless as it was unfounded. The argument of...

feeling of utter weariness that Englishmen turn for a moment from more exciting scenes to study any fresh turn in German affairs. The distance between thought and action in that...

W E have it in our power to state that the Spaniard Tristany, the well-known Carlist partisan, after having visited Naples in disguise to concert a great Royalist rising, went...

p ROFESSOR Max Midler, who has done so much to analyze into its scientific elements the mythology of the ancients, and the language of both the ancient and modern world, and who...

T HE great task of geographical discovery, which may be said to have commenced with the voyage of Vasco de Gama in 1497, draws rapidly to a close, and one entire range of facts...

THE TURNERS AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY. To enter the room in the National Gallery now occupied by the Turner pictures, after looking at the old Italian, Flemish, and Spanish...

Sut,—As a reader of your journal for the last twenty-five years, I beg to tender you thanks for the nervous and correct language which has marked its columns, and for the...

MR. Howean GLOVER'S sixteenth annual concert took place in St. James's Hall on Saturday, and was most decidedly of the genus "monster," now unfortunately so much in vogue. It is...

ROSSETTI'S EARLY ITALIAN POETS.* Tme rare excellence of Mr. Rossetti's translations would be sufficient of itself to invest his book with a high interest for scholars. He has...

CONNECTED by birth with some of the best families of Ireland, a man about town, a conversationist, an author of some note and success, a traveller and a diplomatist, Mr. Grattan...

THERE happens, more or less, to Homer's translators—as we think Goethe or Schiller long ago remarked in the "Xenien"—what Homer himself represents as certain to happen to all...

THE valuable portion of this little book is the first,—on what we may call the Intellectual Instincts. The second, on Reason, could not be discussed to much purpose, even...

Taz high moorlands of Exmoor and the open country stretching away along the shores of the Bristol Channel as far as the Quantock Hills is the last haunt of the wild red deer in...

Prints for Cottage Walls : a Paper read by Request at the Book-Hawkers' Union in Oxford. Oxford and London: J. H. and J. Parker.—Professor Acland has produced a useful little...

MR. TROLLOPE throws off slight tales of a certain tenuity of fibre with so much evident special capacity for the task, that we are some- times astonished how he can manage to...

On the 9th Sept-, 1860, supposed to be lost in the Japan Waters, in a typhoon, Philip C. M. de Vismes, midshipman of H.M.S. Camilla, fourth son of Count Henry de Vismes, of...

On the 9th inst, at Argrennan, Castle Douglas, N.B., Lady Bertha, Clifton, of ft SOD.

On the 7th lust, at St John's, Paddington, by the Rev. Christopher Bowen. rector of St. Thomas's, Winchester, and father of the bridegroom, Charles Synge Christo- pher Bowen,...