495,6411., being 14,348,447/. as against 14,844,088/. voted last year. Moreover, the amount of extra receipts is estimated at 378,998/., so that the total reduction in charge is...

O N Monday night Lord Lyveden stirred up a debate in the Peers about Canada. He professed to be asking a number of questions, but the drift of his speech was that Canada ought...

which substitutes Union for parochial rating, and transfers the power of removal from the overseers to the guardians. The Bill is fully explained in aiother place, but we may...

important, except indeed an "unofficial "statement received through the Rich- mond papers at the very hour of the mail's leaving that General Sherman had taken the great railway...

introduced a clause into his Bill for amending the law of evidence now before Parliament, by which the parties to a petition for a declaration of legitimacy under the 21 and 22...

the scope of the Monroe doctrine, which, as we have often shown, does not mean America for the United States, but America for its inhabitants, uncontrolled by forcible...

of the recent fruitless negotiations. Mr. Lincoln's tone is very calm and assured, and to Mr. Seward it is, as it is right that it should be, that of a master. The Richmond...

will now never be fought out, as a third party has stepped in and done the neglected duty of the University. The Dean and Chapter of Christchurch, first of course carefully...

by persons who had no shares, in order to secure an object desired by think M. Pereire. The Court in passing judgment commented in some- what severe terms on the conduct of the...

exhibited his profound contempt for costly philanthropy and mis- sionary sacrifice. On Mr. Adderley's motion for a committee of inquiry into the present state of British...

made this year. The first changes ought to be the legal aboli- Mr. Gladstone's tables for granting annuities to the poor have tion of flogging, except in presence of the enemy,...

evidence The Pall Mall Gazette of Tuesday contained a strange story. of natives and of missionaries would be given before the committee, A gentleman, annoyed at what he...

committee (which was granted) to look out the best means of preserving open spaces and forests round the metropolis, and the discussion turned chiefly on the Wimbledon-Common...

tery at Kensal Green, with all the pomp required by his rank as an ecclesiastioal prince. The cortege was followed by carriages from most of the Catholic embassies, the...

Bootan may be valuable, as they yield cotton, silk, and tea. We daresay they do, but as we have some millions of unoccupied acres possible defence indeed is that they did not...

sen- tences within the wells of gaols in the presence of "the sheriff, the gaoler, the chaplain, the surgeon, any justices of the peace who may wish to be present," and anybody...

30,000 shares of the Varna Railway Company, the price of issue being 121., the deposit on application V., on allotment 21 per share. The object of this company is the formation...

Napoleon's Life of Casar in the index, as a retort courteous for the suppres- sion of the Encyclical.

but rumours are flying thick. It is stated that England has recommended the nomination of the Duke of Augnstenburg, that Prussia has offered to restore Danish Schleswig to...

whole of the week. Yesterday Consols left off at the prices of Saturday last, viz., 89/ 1 for money, and 891 j for account.

Liverpool and London Insurance Companies has presented a flourishing report for the year. The fire premiums have attained the amount of 742,674/., and show within two years an...

of 20/. each—has been formed, acquiring two concessions from the Imperial Government of Brazil which grant the mono- poly of supplying the city of Rio with gas till 1879. The...

called the attention of the Upper House to the concession to clergymen by the Courts of Law of the right to practise at the Bar. Of this concession he approved, but was in a...

ideas -about theft. It is wrong to steal handkerchiefs, but right to steal dripping, particularly if you are trusted with the latter and not - with the former. The cook of Mr....

by nature to be "improved," and if they are to be improved at all it must be a pleasure to be improved by the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose noble presence and kindly face must...

off at the following prices :— • Friday, Feb. 17. Friday, reli. 2 l• Greek .. .. .. 221 .. 2 tt Do. Coupons .. — .. n Mexican .. .. .. 271 .• 2 1 Spanish Passive...

1864 show a vast increase in the value of our exports. The total declared value is 160,436,302/., as against only 123,992,264/. in 1862, and 146,602,3422. in 1863. The increase...

yesterday and on Friday week : — Friday, Feb. 17. Friday, Feb. 24. Caledonian . .. .. •• •• 1311 .. la Great Easter; .. .. •• .. 411r Great Northern .. • •...

the purpose of supplying wharf and warehouse accommodation to the south-western district of the metropolis. The site selected comprises about twenty-six acres of land at...

THE DANGER IN CANADA. I S Canada to be defended by Great Britain or not ? That is the question which, in his suggestive and thoughtful, but vague and inconsequent way, was...

M R. CHARLES VILLIERS is a very " safe " man, perhaps there is no safer man in Lord Palmerston's 'Government. When he has anything considerable to do he does it quietly,...

I T is not unfrequently desirable in studying the history of a great civil war like that in America to put aside as far as possible all preconceived ideas, and interrogate...

" laTE soon had specimen of the marvellous contrast V' V - between Corrientes and the whole Argentine States that I have seen anything of and Paraguay . . . . No sooner was our...

N O legislation without a blue-book seems to be one of the few rules which are without exception, so that' the appointment of a Royal Commission to inquire into the state of the...

"VV E are happy to reckem Earl Russell among the advocates of wise and just Reform, grieved to perceive that he still adheres to schemes which will give us a Reform without...

T HE Cambridge Committee appointed to report on the examination of girls has, we see, recommended the Senate to admit girls for the next three years to the same local...

T HE Duke of Sutherland is obviously a little amused by the fuss the circular to his tradesmen has created, and has stepped -forward again, this time openly in the character of...

a charter of the third part of the lands of Dirleton, and another of the lands of Woodhead in Overancrum, in feu-farm from the Abbot of Jedburgh, July 7, 1542, and also a...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDEXT. New York, February 4, 1865. NEITHER Mr. Seward nor General Grant commanding my atten- tion this week, I am at liberty to bring to that of my...

ARTISTIC CONSIDERATIONS ON THE NEW COURTS OF JUSTICE. [THESE observations we have received from one of our oldest cor- respondents—one whose duty for near half a century has...

MATTHEW ARNOLD'S ESSAYS.* MR. ARNOLD has few equals amongst the living writers of English prose ;—perhaps but one, whose style he has himself taken occasion to appreciate...

by the daughter of Captain Marryatt. We have not read the first or seen it, but this • Loves Conflict, By k 1 neace Ilercyat. LuidOn: one is by no means a failure. It is far...

A PLEASANT and timely book by a pleasant, keen-eyed traveller. Mr. Russell has, perhaps beyond any writer alive, the power of wing his knowledge like gold-leaf, spreading it out...

MILTON was in temper a schoolmaster, in practice a Puritan poli- tician, in learning a divine, in imagination a poet. Tasso, in imagi- nation a poet, was in temper a courtier...

E. A. Oppen, Professor of Modern Languages at Haileybury College. (Macmillan and Co.)—The extracts are selected almost entirely from modern writers and the distinctive feature...

Sons.)—These papers are reprinted from Good Words, All the Year Round Once a Week, The Daily News, and "many other Lon- don magazines and - journals," and "the only pride" the...

By Robert Moffat, jun. (Trubner and Co.)—The attempt to construct a universal alphabet, not, as heretofore, deductively from an examination of the physiology of the human...

A Treatise on the Construction of Maps. By William Hughes, F.R.G.S. Third edition. (Longman and Co.)—This excellent treatise has now been before the public twenty years, and...

Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Dublin. (Longman and Co.) —The author, holding the doctrine of future punishment, contends that it must always be reformative, and that...

—Upwards of 600 closely printed octavo pages, almost entirely devoted to the question of the lawfulness of sprinkling as distinguished from immersion. Allowing that Mr. Ingham...

of Natal's "Penta- teuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined." By the Rev. Franke Parker, MA. (Bell and Daldy.)—These replies to Dr. Coleus() are be- come so thoroughly...

very pleasant about a lady's poetical sedition. It is so very ram- pant Of course Lady Wilde is a firm believer in the theory that Ireland would have been benefited by a...

Duffy.)—This volume should be read by rabid Protestants. The greater number of the discourses it contains might pass muster in a village church very well, except of course one...

(Alexander Strahan.)—Whether these letters, which appeared in Good Words, were quite worth reprinting may be doubtful, but is hardly worth settling in days when so very much...

theory of the modern game by Professor P. (Longman and Co.)—The principal clubs have recently agreed to a code of laws of whist, and accordingly "Major A.'s " well-known book...

gives abundant proofs of M. Michelet's wonted warmth of feeling, brilliancy of style, and power of illustration. But we do not think it will carry along'his readers with him, as...

Co.)—These essays are with three exceptions reprinted from the Dublin University Magazine, and are all reviews of books which have been published within the last six years....

Wood- ward, Rector of Fetharcl, Ireland. With a memoir by his son, the Peen of Down. (Macmillan and Co.)—We are not surprised to see that the essays of a clergyman of the...

Son.)—This is an "amusing comic fairy tale" with a suspicious mixture of morality in it. However, it is very oreditably disguised in such a fog of unmeaningness that we are...

and 'Co.)—.A very well-written work, whit% makes no pretensions to be more than a useful handbook, giving full information to ladies proceeding to India as to their outfit,...

lit. Allen and Co.)—Sir Lascelles offers this rather miscellaneous volume 'of revised contributions to "various periodicals" as a supplement to a former work on The Armies of...

IlOWARD.-At Corby Castle, on Saturday, the 11th nod.. Eliza Minto, the beloved wife of Philip Henry Howard, Esq., eldest daughter and coheir of the late Major John Canning, of...