thrust upon him by certain Low Church Protestants of Edinburgh. Those persons, in public meeting assembled, had joined in sending an address of welcome to the King ; but in the...

what has taken place in this country, are satisfactory signs that the Americans never reciprocated the ideas of grave hostility which. were engendered here by caprice or...

and in confusion. The civil war in the Eastern Counties district is only a very glaring instance of this fault of management. Here we find the chairman and the shareholders...

THE itinerary of diplomatic agents furnishes the real news of the week, and those who desire to anticipate conclusions make the most they can out of the comings and goings. A...

The Queen has taken walking exercises, as usual ; Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Ernest of Leiningen, skated on Saturday in ihe Home Park ; on Monday Prince...

to the con- tributions for the Nightingale Fund. The City is to have its pub- lic meeting, and a special appeal is to be made to the working classes. There is an uneasy...

Nearly the -whole of the forty-four members of the Metropolitan Board of Works assembled at noon on:-Saturday, 'to elect a chairman. At the outset of the proceedings, Sir John...

The tide of emigration seems to be setting backward from the United States to Ireland, and slowly but steadily the Irish population appears to be returning to the old country....

On a report that the seat at Great Yarmouth was to be vacated by Mr. Rumbold, it was forthwith sought by two candidates—Mr. C. S. Vereker, and Mr. Torrens M'Cullagh ; the former...

FRANCE. —M. de Peraigny paid a flying visit to Paris this week. His arrival there gave rise to rumours, strongly requiring confirmation, to the effect that the most influential...

Last week a soiree in the Leith Assembly Rooms, at which the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Provost of Leith, Dr. Harper, and other per- sons locally eminent, were present, was...

General La Marmom has left the Crimea and is on his way to Turin. It is reported that a Council of War will shortly be held in Paris to de- liberate on the next campaign ; that...

been received from Trieste, dated this morning. The latest dates are Hongkong 15th November, Bombay 3d December. " On the 7th November, there was a collision between the...

that "the blockade of all ports, roads, havens, and creeks belonging to the enemy, was entirely raised on the 10th instant" ; and the other, that the Lords of the Council have...

SATURDAY. The journals of the morning are more prolific than usual in facts and reports relating to the war. The Dwalide .Russe states that, on the 20th November, General...

Although there is no doubt that a large portion of the London publie is thoroughly convinced that the editorial "we" is endowed with some preternatural power of ubiquity on...

Syn- dical Chamber of Brokers of Paris, to the effect that "the new Russian loan shall be incapable of being ever quoted on the Paris Bourse ; and that, consequently, brokers...

Mr. Bridges Adams has favoured us with a long reply to Sir Arthur El- ton's last letter on the Russian War; but we think the subject of con- troversy sufficiently exhausted for...

&rock EICKARGE, Amalie:tow. Owing to the festivities of Christmas and the limited attendance of mem- bers, there has been much less doing this week in the English Stock Mar-...

The Parisians have had a new sensation in the shape of a two-act opera, the personages in which are taken from the famous romance of Rabelais. That celebrated wit has not been...

A course of four lectures on the Genius and Comedies of Moller° has been commenced by Mr. C. Cowden Clarke at the London Institution,— this being, as a prospectus announces,...

"The cry is still 'they come!' "—and so much the better. The other week we spoke of a second series of Crimean photographs, to be seen at Mr. Hogarth's in the Haymarket : now it...

We have again, after no lengthy interval, to note an addition to the ever-growing diorama of the Events of the War at this gallery, in the guise of two new pictures,—an extended...

THE CONGRRSS, L'EMPIRE &est is Pain "—the aphorism, embodied in a pamph- let, was thrown upon Europe from some mysterious Imperial press of France, for the purpose of...

WE understand that among the comprehensive measures for the improvement of the Army is an abolition of military sine- cures. There will henceforth be no titular Field-Marshals...

How shall the war be carried on ? Russia has been beaten in the Crimea, but she is triumphant in Turkish Armenia. She has lost Sebastopol, but she has gained Kars and Bayazeed,...

IT is not because we do not see the justice and even the policy of giving to past service a full recompense, that we object to giving sinecures as rewards, and to distributing...

THE dispute of the Eastern Counties Railway is the story, re- hearsed for the ten thousandth time, of the gold and silver shield. The antagonists are describing the same object...

"EVERY American who spends any considerable time in England comes home with a glowing account of the English postal system, and extols its promptness, convenience, safety, and...

A CEERISTMAS CAROL. Sou= has a sin to expiate. It is now in the act of converting well-disposed boys into profligates, vagrants, and criminals. When we say "society," we do not...

LORD IRCAN. Castle Newe, 20th December 1855. Sin—I have read with surprise and deep regret your article upon Lord Lucan. If ever any man deserved the Colonelcy of a regiment,...

&ENMITY takes many shapes, but the spirit is the same in all. The English boast of being plain ; our aristocracy is super-plain; your English gentleman, it is said, is...

SIR — I know that in saying that I believe the Spectator to be the most truly religious paper in England, I am subjecting myself to the contemptu- ous wonder of very opposite...

HILMAR'S HISTORY OF LATIN CIIRIBTIANTTT. a THE concluding volumes of Dean Milman's Latin Christianity commence with the Popedom of Innocent the Third, and his tri- umph or...

for a variety of publications in fiction, what are called historical reminiscences, travelling sketches, and, we think, poetry. In all of them a fatal fluency somewhat 'mars the...

some of the ancient classical fables, in a very vivid style, with a Sort of Homeric ruggedness and sim- ple belief. In the Greek heroic myths, which Kingsley has narrated for...

Aar person who desires to obtain a rapid insight into the course of Italian poetry, or to lay a reliable foundation for the more ma- tared study of it, will find his purpose...

Boons. THE publishers, like the rest of the world, have been making holiday. The most considerable work on our list is Mr. Fergusson's Illustrated Handbook of Architecture ;...

Wan-omen, Dec. 25.-Infantry.-60th Regiment of Foot-Lieut. the Hon. A. C. J. Liddell to be Cape by purchase, vice Earle, appointed to the Rifle Brigade. Rifle Brigade-Capt, C....

Tuesday._ Dee. 26, Partnerships Dissolved.-Holcroft and Hoyle,. Manchester, consulting engineers- Alters! and Foil, Luton, tea-dealers - Schwabe. and Co. Liverpool- Williams and...

On the 16th December, at Maretimo, Black Rock, the Marchioness of Kildare, of a daughter. On the 18th, at Ringrone, Devonshire, Lady Kingaale, of a daughter. On the 22d, at...

SHARES. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.) 34i 38 281 130 ex d. 21 21 631 77 354 cad, BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and...