of raids to be made into Canada by Fenians. They are to be aided by French Catholics, they have purchased steam transports, and the Government has called out 40,000 volunteers....

Domingo and distrained on the guano islands, has now turned its attention to Chili. It has claims on Chili which are probably just, but they were arranged with the republic by...

Head Centre—how deliciously Irish the very title is—of the Fenian movement. He was found in a large house about two miles from Dublin, living in good style, with quantities of...

says that as nothing could be proved against a lot of supposed rebels, except that they were " stragglers "—does he mean vagrants ?—thirty of them were only lashed to a gun, and...

gross breaches, not only of humanity, but of legal decorum, committed in this bloody business, is the trial by court-martial of Mr. G. W. Gordon, a coloured member of the...

W E have discussed elsewhere the terrible news from Jamaica, and touched on the mode in which the British authorities have suppressed the revolt. But the more the details are...

perpetrated by the English in Jamaica the Times would have held them up to the scorn of Europe. The victims being negroes, those acts are of course commendable, and the Times...

year an estate worth 50,0001. a year. This is the estate of which Bunhill Fields Cemetery forms part, which was leased to them for seventy-three at a nominal rent, and now...

Shenandoah, -to.Lonl Russell, was published e this day week, an 1 it is difficult to suppose that it was on the strength of that document that the Government acquitted him of...

the attention of Sir George Grey, and he has requested the Board of Works to report on the propriety of transferring the paving, lighting, and cleansing of the metropolis from...

the colonists. Not only were they succeeding in every engage- ment, not only had they carried a second pah, Kairomiromi, garrisoned by 200 Maories, which General Cameron would...

one of the poorest speeches we ever remember from his lips. The first part of it was a lecture to the Tories of Bristol for not pro- posing a citizen of Bristol as their...

unfair, as they do not raise the price of meat tidier pretencesof dearness ceased by the plague, but the middlemen (between them -end the .vrazierse That may be true in...

16th inst., announcing that on the 13th, only three days before, Colonel Bruce had signed a treaty of peace with Bootan in full durbar. That message, if authentic, implies that...

Monday on his American tour, the most striking point in it being his testimony to the abundance of capital and the large tlemend for labour still existing in the North, in spite...

Adams's assertion that the American Foreign Enlistment Act, strengthened in 1%8 to please Portugal, who suffered much from American Alabctmqs, is really at all more effectual...

been surrendered to the Brazilian army. We are informed that the Paraguayan general, who had promised to die in the breach, made a transaction with Flores, surrendered the city...

European impression that his regime prevents intellectual progress. Conse- quently M. Duruy, Minister of Instruction, has proposed that a number of eminent men already selected...

the Times of this day week, showing the very small chance of building a school in the City for.1,000 boys for 50,0001., and the still less chance of edu- cating them respectably...

at Highgate Cemetery on Wednesday, in the presence of a great crowd of animal admirers, a brown dog being the chief, and it is said the most dignified and respectable, mourner....

we are abolishing all that. Mr. Meade, employed in the engineer department of the Bank of England, was sitting quietly with his wife and child in the Crystal Palace, when he was...

have been found necessary to make the budget endurable. The Moniteur therefore of the 16th inst. contains a decree reducing the army by about 21,000 infantry and 19,000 men of...

reports that the three divisions of the Liberal party are unanimous in believing that nothing can be accomplished in Spain without the overthrow of the dynasty. They are not,...

officials by circular that they must teach the people to rely on themselves, and not interfere so much. If they will not attend to his advice, and restrict the sphere of their...

Theresa Lewis, the sister of Lord Clarendon, and 'Mrs. Gaskell. They were both novelists, Mrs. Gaskell the more re- markable of the two, while Lady Theresa Lewis had done other...

on Friday week were as follows: — Fritis,y, Nov.10. Friday, Nov. 17. Greek 19 18 .• Do. Coupons .. 61 Mexican .. 251 261 Spanish Passive • • 281 27 Do. Certificates 14 13...

yesterday and on Friday week :— Friday, Nov. 10. Friday, Nov.17. .. 1271 .. 127 .. 461 .. 46} 1291 .. 127 C2i .. 611 421 .. 411 1221 .. 122} 104} .. 104 1841 .. 1241 961 .....

for money, and 87* 88 for account. Yesterday the closing prices were 89* for delivery, and 873 88 for time. The stock of bullion in the Bank of England is 13,677,0981., and the...

THE REPORT ON THE CATTLE PLAG17E. I T is not difficult to trace in the Report on the Cattle Plague the finger and brain of Mr. Robert Lowe. The work is most artistically done,...

T HE rebellion in Jamaica, and its bloody suppression, at the cost of 200, or as some reports say, near 400 lives, some of them women's, taken with no further security for...

A S the meeting of the Hungarian Diet draws near, the posi- tion of the three Powers which exist within the Austrian Empire becomes daily better defined. There are but three,...

T HE series of Cabinet Councils usual at this season has commenced, and the Ministry, as we anticipated, have decided upon a Reform Bill. We trust they have also decided in some...

T HE establishment during the present term, for the first time in our legal history, of a consolidated system of law reporting at Lincoln's Inn and Westminster, under the...

doomed. The THE CHRIST CHURCH GRAND REMONSTRANCE. '11HE public know by this time distinctly enough what are the publications. It has been based upon two grievances of the...

1011 - AS grade any real connection whatever with occupation ? The Mohammedan world says no, holding that Sultan and street sweeper being, if Mussulmans, alike creatures of the...

their highest honour what honour their votes could confer,' as Mr. Carlyle might say,—on Mr. Carlyle, and elected him their new Rector by a majority of more than two to one over...

'FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, October 27, 1865. MR. SEWARD has just returned to Washington, after a brief excur- sion for the benefit of his health, and that of...

go THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] November 15, 1865. Sin,—Will you allow me to set right one or two trifling slips in your last week's article on "The Ministry at War." The...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sat, —Your observations on the number of sermons, and the conse- quent evils, may be well productive of good. None will be more ready to...

MR. ROBERTSON'S THEOLOGY.* [SEcoND NOTICE.] M.B. ROBERTSON'S theology had its earliest origin in the most fer- vent and personal form of the so-called ' evangelical' thought, •...

SPECTATOR."] 9 Portugal Street, 13th November, 1865. SIR,—As one whose interests, and therefore it may be whose prejudices, are those of the planters, so severely dealt with in...

SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The writer of a paper on " Town Life in the South of France," which appears in the current number of Fraser's Maga- zine, states that the infant mortality in...

Tins is a most unequal book. Mr. Sedley appears to have sat down to his task with three leading ideas,--to give his impressions of life in California, to impress a special view...

THE two books before us may be taken to represent the theory and practice of language, and the respective value of the two books is not a little significant when they are...

EVERYBODY knows the lines in which Horace bewails the fate of the brave men before Agamemnon who, for want of a bard to rehearse their exploits, went down to endless night,...

Green.) —With some assistance from Tennyson and Longfellow the author of this very modest little volume has written some graceful lines on life and its incidents, looked upon as...

deluge. He means by this the great catastrophe which he considers to be de- scribed in the seventh chapter of Genesis, when in his opinion, by the upheaval of part of the...

oat? Again, Christians are shown "how they may have their affections set on things above, and yet give diligent attention to the affairs of their earthly call- ing." How ? By...

even such a earthly things soothed only by Christian faith. precious possession as the standard of justice and courtesy that is sot up The World Before the Deluge. By Louis...

empire. He was one of the two non-commissioned officers who were library " is kindly, but it must wander less from its theme if it is to do elected in 1849 at Paris members of...

Man to Solve It (Trubner.)—The author of this pamphlet may certainly claim the merit of clearness of conception and conciseness of expression. The problem of the day is to get...

Finsbury circus.)—In the present oyster famine we really wish every success to the enterprising company which proposes to introduce the French system into this country, and...

By William Parton, M.A. (Shrimpton, Oxford ; Whittaker, London.)—Mr. Parton is very learned, very diffuse, and very vague. He passes under review a great many writers, ancient...

Oxford. By H. P. Liddon, M.A. (Rivingtons.)—Under a rather affected title Mr. Liddon has published some able sermons. They dis- play considerable thought, extensive reading, and...

may be considered as the antiphony to the great Protestant chant that Mr. Kingsley made so popular in Westward Ho ! There we had the song of triumph, here we have the wail of...

poems must have been agreeably surprised, we think, when he saw the handsome volume that his publishers turned out, and how well his verses looked in print, Did the Approach to...

covers, containing a mixture of children's stories with what seems meant for satire. We do not think it will commend itself to the boys, who will vote it dull, and we - are sure...

is a pleasant story for children, very pleasantly illustrated. In fact one illustration, "Dolly and Her Sick Mistress," is too good, and quite pain- ful ; the contrast between...