deto- nations, sometimes noisy, rarely very significant. Mr. G. S. Lefevre, indeed, who fills up the place of Mr. Serjeant Pigott at Reading, and has been returned without...

the execution of four Polish gentlemen—Massalski, Zelmic, Jocz, and Wroblewski. On Tuesday, M. de Berg, the Russian Con- sul, and brother, we believe, to the General, wrote to...

Liberals have, as usual, made a considerable mess in their arrange- ments. Mr. Cartwright, who had been announced as the Liberal candidate, and than whom, as we formerly...

being marked by very offensive language, and, in all probability, by a good deal of bribery on both sides. The Liberal candidate, Mr. Lloyd, was elected by a majority of...

THE week has been finer, its telegrams more destitute of mean- -1- ing, and its speeches more successful in the endeavour to say nothing, than any week for some time back. Two...

Laird's plots, and ignore, apparently, the like French conspiracies, it is not easy to make out. But at Bordeaux and at Nantes there are a pair of Confederate rams building, and...

when the services of an orator were a good deal needed, in consequence of the large reinforcement of the Liberal party in France, has given the Emperor a good deal of trouble....

the Royal Entertainment Committee of the'Common Council, against the charges launched against them by 'Deputy Elliott, of embez- zling the valuable "articles" provided for the...

in the Town Hall in Manchester, was, on the whole, a cheering one. The report showed that at the end of Sep- tember there were 267,962 cotton operatives in full work, 104,198 on...

the week,—Mr. Bensford Hope, who is Engliah, we believe, but speaks like a Mississippian cotton planter, and Colonel Lamar, of the Confederate army, on the one side,—and the...

is now believed, with more show of probability, that a force is threat- ening %Stevenson to cut off linsecranz's communications with Nashville. The great political interest of...

Kettle, will probably " shake in her royal shoes, and be taken with a cold chill," when she hears the 3rd of next November named. For on that day the Fenian Brotherhood will...

of success. At Liverpool, there were rioters in the audience, who would not even permit him to be heard. In London, at'Eveter Hall, on Tuesday night, he :made much the best...

a cessation of the drain of bullion from the Bank vaults, and with that an easier Money Market. On the 3rd of September last the metallic reserve of the Bank was 15,491,219/.,...

at the Marylebone Institute, how dangerous the milk is taken from cows suffering from disease of the lungs (pneumonia), and how important it is to take every security to keep...

Philadel- phia, Sept. 29, 1863 :--" As to the blacks :—Of late the condition of the freedmen is much improved. Labour is now so well remu- nerated that these people come in for...

have been :— Greek Do. Coupons Spanish Passive Do. Certificates .. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. ,1662.. „ Consolides.. • • • • • • • • Friday, Oct. 16. — 30, } .... .....

The closing prices of the shares in the leading companies of recent creation are :—International Financial, 41 to 5} prem. ; General Credit, 21 to 3 prem. ; Egyptian Trading, 2...

a gentleman of much acuteness now in the English service in China, will at once support the conclusions we have steadily pressed on our readers as to the issue of our present...

novel character, under the title of " The Bois de Boulogne Hotel and Land Company." Its objects are the purchase of 120 acres of land between the Bois de Boulogne and St. Cloud,...

de France et in Banque de Savoie devant l'Interet Public," has just been published in Paris. The author not only asserts the absolute legality of the existence of the Bank of...

THE SOUTHERN APOSTOLATE IN ENGLAND. . BERESFORD HOPE is, perhaps, the most intelligent and docile of all the disciples whom the Slave States and their able politicians have...

L ORD RUSSELL'S willingness to discard the Polish part of the Treaty of Vienna as mere waste-paper has been wel- comed and outstripped by the zeal of the Russian Government. The...

the Board of Guardians, and their action has not that paltry outside uniformity which is the delight of common-place minds. In some sort, indeed, their proceedings are...

I T is worth noting how powerfully, and, in most directions, how usefully, our greatly increased study of foreign politics is reacting on English parties and political creeds....

I the rumour be true that Dr. Stanley is to succeed Dr. 1 Whately in the See of Dublin, we should, indeed, think the Anglo-Irish Church fortunate in getting so high-minded and...

W E have begun the civilization of Japan by bombarding, and apparently destroying, one of its cities, known to be populous, and said to contain' no less than 180,000 inhabi-...

A T the time of Chief Baron Pollock's decision in the Alex- 11 andra case, the advocates of the South very triumphantly pointed to the fact that, while the Americans demanded...

A N enthusiastic admirer of British institutions, Dr. Pauli, once A said that he would rather be the mayor of an English parish than the sovereign of a German principality. The...

W ITH Henry VIII. the Clintons commenced their second career. They had been influential before, they were now to become great nobles. Edward, the ninth Lord Clinton by writ of...

death of M. Billault will make it difficult for the Imperial Government to face the increased forces of the opposition in the Legislative Body, the Mexican question stands...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, October 10th, 1863. UNLESS news arrives by telegraph within three hours from this time, thesteamer which carries this letter will...

Miss Louisa DYNE and Mr. Harrison opened their eighth season of English opera at Covent Garden on Monday week, and it appears from their advertisement that it is likely to be...

COMPANY. • To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Cairo, October 8, 1863. Sur,—Passengers who left England in the latter part of September have had the opportunity of seeing...

MR. TROLLOPE'S CARICATURE :—RACHEL RAY." WE have heard it maintained,—we think quite erroneously,—that Mr. Trollope's great power as a novelist lies in his cynicism. Now,...

Ma. MACKAY has been somewhat unfortunate in the time he has selected for bringing out his reports from Tubingen. For every- body has been reading M. Renan's " Life of Jesus ;"...

AT a time when the public is nearly sickened with abstract discussions as to the nature and effects of federal government, persons who have a taste for exploring the bypaths of...

Ma. Hosxiss writes with a sort of reticent and angry simplicity, with the concentration of a veteran traveller, and a quiet poignancy which suggests in almost equal parts the...

Tins is a book which every gentleman who loves his garden should place in the hands of his gardener. The amount of useful and curious information which it contains in a very...

Hall.)—We never take up this review without feeling that the paper and type are, after all, too splendid and costly, for the pub- lication of what are, after all, ephemeral...

Dun- can Craig. (John Russell Smith.)—The author has done good service to the students of language in compiling an excellent grammar and vocabulary of a dialect which once...

solid six shillings' worth. The paper on M. Renan's " Life of Jesus," otherwise able, fails in this, that it does not do bare justice to his conception. The Jesus of M. Renan,...

be pronounced uninteresting. There are four articles of that able common-place character to which readers of reviews are so well used. If any one wants a short, clear summary of...

The Anti-Slavery Cause in America and its Martyrs. By Eliza Wigham. (A. W. Bennett.)—An interesting summary of the origin and growth of the Abolition party in the United States....