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Lord Clanricarde has commenced a subscription on behalf of wounded
The SpectatorDanes, the soldiers of the little kingdom, who are des- cribed by the Times correspqndent in the highest terms, being ill- provided with medical comforts. The design is a...
Mr. Fitzgerald on Tuesday brought forward his motion for the
The Spectatorproduction of all papers on the steam rams. The Government refused them, and, after a spirited debate, the House supported their view by 178 to 153. We have commented on the...
Dr. Pusey has evidently got a profound conviction that true
The Spectatorunity of spirit is engendered by common repulsion rather than common attraction. " Any one," he confides to the Record, " who knows anything of human nature, knows in what...
On Thursday night Lord Palmerston said in reply to Lord
The SpectatorJohn Manners that the Prussian army did pass the frontier of Jutland, and took up a position at a place called Bolding. In answer to re- presentations addressed to Berlin, " we...
On Monday night the House of Commons became, not unnatur-
The Spectatorally, somewhat fractious about the non-production of the Danish papers, and Mr. Osborne, who delights in these rows, made,—in no very serious spirit, we imagine,—a violent war...
The agitation among the minor States of Germany seems to
The Spectatorincrease. The forces of the great Powers being in motion, it is thought that the little Powers may be eaten up, and a con- ference for combined action has been held at Wurzburg....
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The SpectatorT HE only new fact of the week is, that the British Government has twice proposed a conference on Danish affairs, to be attended by the Powers who signed the Treaty of 1852, and...
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Mr. Gladstone's Bill for granting deferred annuities to the poor
The Spectatoris, it appears, to be resisted. The working men conspicuous in the management of trades-unions appear to imagine that it will affect taking care of their Consols. Their real...
The Times, which has always shown a vindictive hatred of
The SpectatorSir Walter Crofton's great and successful experiment in Ireland, tries to raise a new prejudice against the surveillance of the prisoners liberated on licence, by narrating at...
Field-Marshal Wrangel has ordered that German shall be used for
The Spectatorworship and teaching in all parts of Schleswig except one pariah ; the people may, however, use Danish in services for the sick under certain circumstances. Eighty thousand...
The Police of Paris will have it that 1fs7-zini was
The Spectatorat the bottom of the recent attempt to assassinate the Emperor. In the acte d'accusation it is affirmed that Mazzini gave the actual conspira- tors a note ordering Greco to do...
A meeting of Americans in London was held last week
The Spectatorin Regent Street, to organize a committee to work in concert with one formed in Paris, for obtaining subscriptions or goods towards the great fair to be held in New York on the...
Judgment was passed yesterday on the four Italian conspirators. Greco
The Spectatorand Trgbucco were condemned to transportation for life, and Imperatore and Sciaglioni to twenty years' transportation.
Lord Clarence Paget tried to explain away the reduction of
The Spectatorthe number of sailors and boys iu the Navy on Thursday night. He said our force was really increasing, because every iron-plated ship, substituted for the old line-of-battle...
The Bill for allowing linseeded malt to escape duty passed
The Spectatorits second reading on Wednesday, after a debate in which everybody cavilled at the Bill, and everybody voted for it. Most of the arguments used simply amounted to pleas for the...
The Democratic Convention for the nomination of the next President
The Spectatorof the United States will meet at Chicago on the 4th July next. The Republicans will wait to see the result of their enemies' deliberations before they nominate their next...
There is a pleasant state of affairs existing in Ross-shire.
The SpectatorTheis' has hitherto been no police there, there is a good deal of poverty in winter, the sheriffs look upon sheep-stealing as London magis- trates do upon maiming, viz., as an...
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The stock of bullion in the Bank of England having
The Spectatorincreased to 13,819,412/., the Directors have lowered their minimum quotation for money to 6 per cent., and the Joint Stock Banks have reduced their allowance on deposits at...
We are asked to notice the claims of two societies
The Spectatornow striving unknown to each other for the same end. One, of which Mr. Gladstone is President, calls itself the Night Refuge Society, and has established a refuge for the...
The New York Tribune gives a very curious story of
The Spectatora man for whom the hospital surgeons provided an artificial face on the dis- appearance of his own. He had been so thoroughly salivated by mercury that a sort of cancerous...
The Liverpool and London Fire and Life Assurance Company have
The Spectatorissued their report for the year, and propose to declare a dividend of 40 per cent. after adding slightly to their capital, and considerably to their reserved fund. In the fire...
On Saturday last Consols left off at 902, k, for
The Spectatormoney, and 90k, 91 for account. Yesterday, the closing prices were :—For transfer, 91k, ; for time, 911, The highest quotation touched during the week was 912, for money.
The Manchester and Salford Co-operative Society presented - their fifth annual
The Spectatorand twentieth quarterly report last Tuesday, and a meeting was held in the evening in the Free Trade Hall, under the presidency of Mr. T. B. Potter, to celebrate and promote the...
An "East-end Incumbent" sends to the Times a list of
The Spectatorfive persons admitted by the Registrar-General to have died of starvation in London during one week. Four were children, but one was a woman of 39, and a sixth, not mentioned...
The following epitaph on Lord Westbury has been circulated through
The Spectatorthe Innis :— • " Richard Baron Westbury, Lord High Chancellor of England. He was an eminent Christian, An energetic and successful Statesman, And a still more eminent and...
The London Restaurant Company has been formed for the pur-
The Spectatorpose of establishing large dining-balls in London, similar to those which have proved so successful in Glasgow and other large cities.
Rather over 80,000/. in gold has been withdrawn from the
The SpectatorBank of England for Egypt, but most of the fresh arrivals of bullion continue to be retained here.
The National Marine Insurance Company (limited) has been announced, with
The Spectatora capital of 500,0001. in shares of 25/. each.
The following were the closing prices of the leading Foreign
The SpectatorSecurities yesterday, and on Friday week:— Friday, Feb. 19. Friday reb.016 Greek Do. Coupons .. .• Mexican . Spanish Passive • • .. Do. Certificates Turkish 6 per Ceuta.,...
The returns of the Board of Trade for the past
The Spectatoryear are very favourable. The value of our shipments is returned at 146,489,7681., against 123,992,264/. in 1862, and 125,102,814 in 1861.
Mr. Rawlinson, C.E., has reported to the Poor Law Board
The Spectatoron the working of the Public Works Act passed for the relief of Lancashire. It seems that the cotton towns have either taken, or are taking, the whole sum of 1,500,0001., the...
The Imperial Financial Company has been formed with a capital
The Spectatorof 2,000,000/., with an intention of executing the regular business of these Companies, now becoming numerous in England, but with a special attention to India and the Colonies.
The leading changes in the value of home and foreign
The Spectatorsecurities this week are an advance of k per cent. in Consols, and a fall of about 5 per cent. in the Confederate loan. Mexican stock has fluctuated considerably in price, and...
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE PROPOSED CONFERENCE. T HE British Government has taken another step in the Dano-German affair, and encountered another humilia- tion. It is a fixed idea with Earl Russell...
COUNTY FRANCHISES.
The SpectatorMR. LOCKE KING, the member for East Surrey, is a very 111 inconvenient person. He has individual convictions as well as party leanings, and an idea that action and opinion...
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THE POLITICAL MARE'S-NESTERS.
The SpectatorT HERE are many humiliating incidents in political exist- ence, as in human existence generally. As physical life consists chiefly of making tissue and simultaneously using it...
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TAE, FENIAN BROTHERHOOD. T HE row in the Dublin Rotunda on
The SpectatorMonday evening was ludicrous enough in all incidents, but the account is melancholy reading for all English friends of Ireland. There is food enough for laughter in a meeting of...
THE DEBATE ON THE RAMS.
The SpectatorI T is clear that the momentous question, Is the pear ripe ? is already agitating the minds of the members of Oppo- sition—that Queen Mph has been with them, and that their...
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MR. SOTHERN AS A CAEICATURLST.
The SpectatorT HE new piece in which Mr. Sothern has appeared this week will only serve to show that his powers as an actor are by no means limited to the very unique character in which he...
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TUE FIVE EXECUTIONS.
The SpectatorT HE executions of Monday added a tone of reality to Mr. Hib- bert's motion of Tuesday for limiting the publicity of executions. It is, of course, most unphilosophical to assert...
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THE RUSSELLS.—(THE FOUNDER.)
The SpectatorT HE Russells belong to the second list . of Eng li sh nobles—the houses founded on the great Sequestration, but they may pos- sibly have an old pedigree. Immense labour has...
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THE POSITION OF THE NEGRO DT THE UNITED STATES.
The Spectator[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. j New York, February 13, 1864. THE military event of the past week is an attempt on the part of General Butler to make a dash into Richmond and...
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Ime arts.
The SpectatorMR. CARL WERNER AND MR. E. LEAR. IT is not very long since such a series of drawings as that which Mr. Carl Werner has made from his sketches at Jerusalem and its neighbourhood...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorMR. FORSYTH'S LIFE OF CICERO.* PERHAPS Cicero might be described as a second-rate character in a first-rate state of moral and intellectual effervescence. The beautiful medal...
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THE NEW LYllAS.* IT is instructive to note bow eager
The Spectatorjust now is or cry section of Christians, from the distinctly dogmatic even to the most latitu- • Lyra Anglicana. Hymns and Sacred Songs collected and arranged by tier. E. H....
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THE BOOK OF DAYS.*
The SpectatorTHIS volume is the second and concluding instalment of Mr. Chambers' gigantic Almanack, for such is, perhaps, the most appropriate title for his comprehensive undertaking,...
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PECULIAR!'
The SpectatorMa. Howrrr tells us in the preface that this book has run through eight editions in a few days in the United States, and that the proceeds of the sale of this (the authorized...
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EXPULSION OF THE ENGLISH FROM NORMAND Y, 1450.* MORE than
The Spectatorone Parliamentary leader has made the House smile sympathetically, by confessing that his acquaintance with the * Narratives of the Expulsion of the English from Normandy,...
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More Fun for our Little Friends. Illustrated by E. H.
The SpectatorWehnert (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—Simple little stories for very young children, but the fun must be looked for in Mr. Wehnert's pictures. The dream story is, however,...
The Grade Lesson - Book. Sixth standard. By E. T. Stevens and
The SpectatorCharles Hole. (Longman and Co.)—This completes the primary course of instruction required under the Revised Code, and the whole course appears to ns admirably adapted not only...
Ne Coil?' or, B0771 to Good Luck. By C. Dagobert.
The Spectator(London : Dula% Paris : Truchy.)—The writer boasts that he has comprised the whole French language in this one tale, and for the purposes of conversation we think he has....
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The SpectatorAutobiography of Lyman Beecher, D.D. Edited by his son, Charles Beecher. Vol. I. (Sampson Low, Son, and Co.)—A rather remarkable book. It is the life of a famous revivalist...