very imperfect way. It appears, however, that the King issued on the 6th February an address to the army, in which he confesses that the retreat from the Dannewerke has "thrown...

yesterday week about the "miming despatch" to St. Peters- burg. He affirmed that Lord Russell had sent to St. Petersburg a despatch embodying his declaration at Blairgowrie that...

THERE has been throughout the week a lull in the Schleswig- - 1 - Holstein war, and the present position of affairs would appear to be as follows ;—The Danes occupy the Island...

if, supposing the Germans to enter Jutland, Her Majesty's Govern- ment would adopt a more decisive line of action. Lord Palmer- ston characterized that entrance as "an...

our only vocation is now to wash our hands of others' guilt while acquiescing in its results. There is something in the taunt. Pontius Pilate was well-meaning, but weak, and had...

of letters and explanations, most of them very ill-tempered. Everybody asserts that everybody else pledged himself to resign on certain conditions, which the offender urges were...

most im- becile way. They actually allowed four candidates to start, not one of whom had any particular business there—Mr. Fawcett, a man who, being respectable, could never be...

treaty by which England guaranteed Schleswig to Denmark in 1720 did not bind us to resist any violent separation of that Duchy as a consequence of the present war. The words of...

scripts, a number which, however, includes the 300,000 men of the last draft. This order has been dictated, first, by a desire to accelerate volunteering, those who intend to...

to amend the laws relating to penal servitude, chiefly in the direction advised by the Royal Commission. The new powers proposed to be taken by the Government are ample for the...

point of view—that of shorter, sharper, purely deterrent sentences, with no remissions or reformatory machinery of any kind. We are not prepared to abandon the hope that this...

only two of them are worth notice. One is that Prussia and Austria agree to make a "personal union" between the Duchies and Denmark the basis of final arrangements, thus...

France, Russia, and Sweden," and "with the concurrence;' he believed, of Austria, had proposed an armistice on the basis of the evacuation of Schleswig, except the Island of...

technical in form, professing only to do away with certain restric- tions, but its real objects; are twofold. It enables the Chancellor of the Exchequer to turn the Post-office...

some 200,0001., produced by knocking about 1,500 men from different corps. This is an unimportant reduction, and the military force of the country still costs 14,884,186/.,...

of 303,422/. on last year, namely, 10,432,6101. against 10,736,032/. for 1863. The chief decrease is on Vote 10 for naval stores, machinery, and ships built by contract, which...

on Monday night. Our objection to the measure, that it provides no security to the public for the criminal's insanity, leaving it, as before, to the certificates of the visiting...

The two sons of Baron Lionel Rothschild, though proposed by Earl Russell and Lord Granville, were within the month both black- balled at Brookes's.

, differences with the Viceroy of Egypt. It seems that the Pasha requested them to diminish the number of forced labourers to 6,000, to pay them Is. 8d. a day, to sell him the...

the Council of India at previous rates.

that is at once educated and moderate, pronounces, we perceive, in favour of renewing the alliance between England and France in -order to preserve Denmark.

37 have been sold, 53 are under negotiation, and 85 have been inquired about. The purchase-money of the 37 livings has been 65,3001., -the majority of the prices offered being...

increase in the stock of bullion of 111,364/. The amount now held is 13,583,635/. The supply in the Bank of France has declined to about 7,000,000/. The New York Banks hold a...

fair average scale, and nearly the whole of them have been disposed of to the Bank of England.

have ceased, the State of Guanaruato having submitted, and it is reported that the voting for the Emperor Maximilian is going on very favourably. Meanwhile the Church party, who...

(26th Dec.) by order of the British Government. She was formerly a Federal vessel named the Conrad, and was seized and -condemned by Captain Semmes, of the Alabama, who made of...

railway companies was tried last week in the Queen's Beuch, Mr. Parsons, chairman of the Hammersmith Railway Company, and another director, purchased the Talbot estate, in the...

of February, in a speech of which the following is the only note- worthy paragraph :—" In conformity with the vote of the Federal Diet, I have, as a German prince, taken part in...

for money, and 01* f for account. Yesterday they left off at 91* I for transfer, and 91* for time.

Representatives have proposed that taxes should be imposed upon articles of luxury calculated to produce 70,000,0001. a year. That amount is more than the sum which will be...

is also a better feeling on the Confederate loan, and the quotation is now 55 to 57. Railway shares have, in many instances, realized enhanced prices.

the manufacture without excise duty of malt for cattle on Mon- day night without a division. The most serious objection raised was that of Mr. Bass, who maintained that the use...

the best short bills are now done at 61 per cent. On the Continent money is becoming easier in price.

leading Foreign Securities were :- Friday, FA. 12. Friday, Feb. 19. 214 231 - . • — • 96 32 .. 93 • 13 13 • 70 71 071 .. 69 • • 47 .. 60 Subjoined is a comparison of...

A NATION - UNDER AMPUTATION. T HOSE Englishmen are oddly made who can read the daily tidings from Denmark without a stifled feeling of shame. The bravest of little kingdoms,...

llE German cause in Schleswig appears to be par excellence the cause of the professors. It was hatched by a pro- fessor in the University of Kiel, the eminent historian Dahl-...

class, and is becoming the torture of the poor, will be abo- or that of a provincial audience. It was the expression of a lished. The first clause of the little bill on a...

throne he is pretty sure to be , and the interest excited by Prince Napoleon's recent t i on British policy in Egypt is therefore easily understood. • After all the allowances...

busi- ness which has to be disposed of in the present Session, Mr. Milner Gibson is bestirring himself after the accustomed English fashion. He is carrying out all the...

AIR. KINGSLEY has just afforded, at his own expense, a 1t1 genuine literary pleasure to all who can find intellectual pleasure in the play of great powers of sarcasm, by...

HE authority of M. Reuter has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished." The entity described under that name, supposed sometimes to be a company, sometimes a Jew...

I N November, 1756, Lord Temple took office under Pitt, as First Lord of the Admiralty ; but not being (through illness) con- sulted as to an alteration in the Address in answer...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] SINCE the battle of Chattanooga the events which have most interested "the Federais " have been the great fairs held for the benefit of the...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,--Though I have already trespassed on your space far beyond the ordinary limits of a correspondent, I trust you will not deny the the...

MISS COBBE'S THEOLOGY.* Miss COWIE is a fair, graphic, and vigorous critic, and writes, though this is by no means peculiar to her, very touch better when she is criticizing...

is, with a feeling of sincere pleasure, for it seems to us a proof that the reaction against the sensation novel, the return to a perception of the true ends alike of fiction...

THE principal charm of the writings of H. C. Andersen, the fervent love and admiration of all that is great, and good, and beautiful in the world, reaches its climax in the...

THIS is the second work on the Fiji Islands resulting from the special mission of inquiry despatched by the Duke of Newcastle in 1860. Dr. Berthold Seemann, attached to the...

THE commencement of a second volume marks a step in the course of the Fine Arts Quarterly Review, and furnishes a con- venient opportunity for making some remarks on its...

Douglas.)—Those who take up this volume under the idea that they are about to reed an ordinary book of travels will be disappointed. The author and his companions are but little...

Pictures of the Past, and Other Poems. By William Bradfield. (Longman and Co.)—Judging from what the author says of himself, we imagine that he might have produced a very...

Scripture. By the Rev. J. Hannah, D.C.L. (John Murray.)—This volume contains the eight Bampton Lectures for 1863, and, we think, forms no exception to the general character of...

original photographs. The National Magazine. Vol. XIV. (W. Tweedie.)—The staple of this magazine is of course "tales," and tales of a rather sensational character ; but they...

Helen. (S. W. Partridge.)—At Upland Hall the nurse breaks her leg just before an intended children's party, which is in consequence postponed, and Cousin Helen tells them...

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The first of these odes is on Wellington, and. Revolution is apostrophized as follows :— "Blind, self-tormenting, raging, fiend of Dante, In force of...

Saved. By the Hon. Mrs. Norton. (Hurst and Blackett.)—We have so recently criticized these novels at length (see Spectator for 1863, pages 1699 and 20391 that it will now be...

the Queen's English." (Hatehard and Co.) Poems. By B. H. Farquhar. (F. Pitman.)—One is unwilling to speak unkindly of little books of this sort, which have a directly religious...

from the writings of English divines of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, by a lay member of the Church of England. We shall, perhaps, give the best idea of the book...

Kimber, M.A., London. Part I. (Longman and Co.)-7-A new edition of this work having been called for, Mr. Kimber has published that portion of it which was needed by students who...

(C. J. Skeet.)—If this novel is the work of a novice, it is of some pro- mise—the story is fragmentary to a degree, and the conclusion marries off only the insignificant...

a Virginian. (Bacon and Co.)—General Jackson is greatly to be pitied. A short modest narrative of the exploits of so heroic a character could not but be acceptable, but this...

C. Bateman. (Hatchard and Co.)—There are certain families in this tale who never open their lips except to speak in Biblical language, and they are models of virtue, and attain...

by publishing Mr. Noel Paton's Illustrations of Coleridge's Ancient Mariner. Much of the weird and unearthly spirit of the original has been infused into those pictures ;...

would be unjust to deny that the author has both taste and feeling, but the principal poem, a monody on the death of the Prince Consort, is, we think, an unfortunate subject. It...