cases of legal importance. The affairs of the Deposit Bank have come before the Bankruptcy Court, and two of the directors, Lord Keane and Lord George Paget, were sum- moned as...

as IselPitgOlighted many hopes. He had been one of the befriends Of the Social Science Association, and there were well-grounded hopes that he would have presided at the next...

"TEE SrEcrAroa" i8 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...

and is far from satisfactory. The debt, which in 1846 was only 100,000,000/., is now 240,000,000Z., or eight years' revenue; the deficit of 1861 is 6,100,000/., and that of...

directed by the British Government to communicate un- officially to Mr.. Seward the substance of Lord Russell's despatch demanding the surrender of Messrs. Slidell and Mason, a...

endea- vouring for a week to ascertain what extent of cubbishness can be taken to indicate insanity. Mr. Windham, heir to Felbrigg Hall, and a great property of 15,000/. a year,...

convoke the Diet of Finland, and to abolish the censorship. The effect of the latter change will depend entirely on the press law which follows it. An intelligent censorship,...

T KE death of the Prince Consort on Saturday night has cast a gloom over the week. The mournful event was known on the following morning in most towns of Great Britain, and...

prospect of war with England, and naturalizing themselves as citizens of the Rause Towns, intending to carry on their trade for the future under the neutral flag of Hamburg or...

has just expired, and the Moulvie again figures in our courts of law. Burke's Beguins were happy at least in the romance of their sufferings, while the heroine of the New-road,...

with France. The Southern privateer Sumter anchored about 20th November in the roads of St. Pierre, Martinique, and was there blockaded by the Iroquois, a North American...

resolved to remove the seat of government from Calcutta to the Hills. The Ganges will, of course, accompany the capital.

Italy this week, but Borges, the Spaniard who headed the brigands in the Basilicata, has been seized and shot, and the gentry in Southern Italy are forming armed associations in...

Ministerialists 160 Advanced Liberals 80 Ministers 4 Friends of Cabinet 18 Ultmmontane,s 42 Poles 20 Officials 12 lunkers • 7 Total . 343 Of these 290 support the movement for...

the inhabitants of Helsingfors illuminated their town at the news. He is about, it is said, to abolish the censorship of the press. A Russian correspondent of the Telegraph has...

Paris on any mission'whatever. His motive in returning to the Stales tau a genie of honour. He is still Commander-in-Chief, and thought it indispensable to return 'to his...

from Renter's office. We give it as it stands, without pee_ suming to comprehend it. :Another account will be found in our first page : The revenue for 1861 was estimated at...

MONDAY, DECEMBER 16rE. Wrrung four days from the issue of the first bulletin of the health of the Prince Consort, the news of his death has struck grief and dismay into every...

December. It contains no allusion to the case of the San Jacinto, but affirms that the South has asked for foreign aid, and though confident in the attitude of foreign States,...

of September, and his plan has already oozed out. It is to break down the distinction between natives and Europeans, and "create an ad- ministration for native affairs, worked...

to transfer the seat of government from Calcutta to the Hills. Such a measure would be most mischievous, first, because Calcutta contains the only population whose observation...

expected that Prince Kung, who is friendly to foreigners, and better aware of their power than most Tartars, will be the first Councillor to the Re- gent, the Queen Mother.

(By Telegram through M. Reukr's Office.) FRANCE. Tun Pap defends the right of any State in a Federation to draw therefrom at its own good pleasure. with-

In to - day's sitting of the Chamber of Deputies a letter from Signor Ratazzi was read, announcing that the state of his health compelled him to resign the Presidency of the...

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.. Belgian 41 — Ditto 21 — Brazilian 5 — B uenos Ayres.--- 6 — Chilian a — Danish s — Ditto 3 —...

subscriptions to the *FRIEND OF INDIA," and OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA," Will be received by Mr. £5. Galloway, at No. 1, Well Strand, London. Terms : Per Annum, payable in...

(From the "Court Circular.") WINDSOR CASTLE, Dac. 14.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales arrived at the Castle at three o'clock this morning, from Madingly Hall, attended by...

the Hon. Mrs. De Molerier of a son. On the 14th inst., at 63, Eocleston-square, the Hon. Mrs. Russell, of a daughter. On the 15th inst., at Worsboro' Hall, Barnsley, the Hon....

STOCK EXCELANG3, FRIDAY EVENDIG. As the termination of the year approaches, the demand for money steadily augments, and this week an increased discount business has been done...

THE DEATH OF THE PRINCE CONSORT. TT is not for political reasons that the nation mourns the I Prince Consort, though there are political reasons enough to justify its grief. As...

T HE President's Message has by no means settled the moot question on which so many lives, and probably so many liberties, depend. The issue between the United States and Great...

TF anything could increase the profound annoyance with which genuine Liberals regard the prospect of a trucu- lent answer from America, it would be the news of the last two...

MHE event which has deprived England of the Prince 1 Consort, has naturally turned all eyes upon the Prime of Wales. On him will now devolve many of the duties which his father...

true love after all sometimes does run smooth. In these days of Belgravian match-making, how pleasant it seems to be able to turn to a tale of true affection. It is with...

my boy," says Papa; "I am 1 always glad to part with anything for your benefit." "But mind, John," adds Mamma, "you are not to spend it." They are playing that comedietta of...

T HERE are two theories as to the policy of the Papacy.. Ac- cording to the popular Protestant view, the distinguishing characteristics of Papal policy are extreme astuteness, a...

FriliERE is nothing like a rumour of active service to diminish military crime. For weeks past we had. heard of nothing but assassinations, and men were beginning to speculate...

W HILE the nation at large bewails the loss which has befallen itself as well as its Queen, it may not be uninteresting to trace at some length the past history and fortunes of...

mintier simply as one of strict inter - national law—were it not one on - which the lives of thousands depend, —when one hasiset,,aa,Ihave endearoured toido, the En g lish...

A VISIT TO MADAME TUSSAUD'S WAX.WORK. As there are many persons who think that photography is infallible in its results, still there are many to be found who look upon wax-...

large houses every night, and appears to have settled down into a steady "run," which, it is to be hoped, will compensate the management for the discouraging commencement of...

MADAME RECAMIER.* :Mn ht*** seems in this charming little work to have pro- posed a twofold object to herself; to define the position of French as opposed to that of English...

TrIn accomplished translator of this musical and often very poetical version has prefixed to it a very modest motto—in inagnis voltam sot est—to which, however, his own effort...

deal fairly with Dr. Simonides, we will examine his present publication without regard to his literary antecedents. The • Fac-similes of certain Portions of the Gospel of St....

Tnis is a book of broad and unquestionable genius, and there our contentment with it ends. The genius is employed in stifling us with evil flavours ; and the evil is never...

Tars is not a book of travels, but a geographical and statistical memoir, compiled from various sources, and forming a kind of one- volume encyclopredia on the subject of which...

Ix the matter of books, most of us are ready to exclaim with the poet, "Oh, once again who would not be a boy !" To be free from that faculty, most undivine, of carping...

IT is not very easy to discover why Mr. Aytoun's tales are so read- able. They show very little imagination, almost as little as his poetry, while they are wanting in that...