Holstein, but as they contradict one another, they are scarcely worth discussion. The new facts embodied among them appear to be something like these. The King of Denmark...

Thursday M. Rouher having pointed to universal suffrage as the test of Mexican feeling, Jules Favre remarked that it was odd policy to kill a nation in order to obtain its vote....

for ,the repeal of the malt tax. They have an idea that it falls primarily upon the fanner, rather than the beer con- sumer, and are disposed even to make it a test question on...

evening to his constituents, which, though occupying six columns of the Times, was telegraphed in full, and appeared next morning in all the London papers. The important points...

on all the nine charges of heresy preferred against him, with the full con- currence of his two brother bishops on every charge. None of them expressed any real doubt either on...

at issue with their Governments, not for going to war, but for being so very moderate. The Prussian Chamber, on January 22nd, voted by 275 to 51 that, "As the direction of...

MHE South American mails bring intelligence of a catastrophe almost without a parallel in modern history. Two thousand ladies have been burnt alive in the capital of Chili. On...

Government has, for the present, plenty of money, the revenue exceeding the expenditure, and there being an available reserve of some 6,750,0001., a very large sum for Prussia....

has been appointed Bishop of Ely. The appointment is a creditable one, the Church rather wanting a bishop with some acquaintance with theology, but Mr. Browne, we suspect, might...

begun to increase again somewhat rapidly. In the first week of January there were 3,100 more paupers than in the previous week, in the second week 5,620 more than in the first...

The Republicans, it would seem, have called their " caucus " to nominate a president for the 4th July, and the body will assemble at Chicago, perhaps to elect some utterly...

engaged in examining another alleged breach of the Foreign Enlistment Act, the Government accusing one of their own officials, Mr. Rumble, the engineering inspector of machinery...

received replies from the magistrates who signed the certificate. They all admit that they were "put in motion" by Townley's own solicitor. Three of them at least had prejudged...

Emerson Tennent's puff of the Whitworth gun are confirmed by a curious announcement in the military intelligence in Thursday's Times "The Whitworth and Armstrong Committee...

to defend his party for their adhesion to the Conservatives and to maintain that the true Catholics would all, sooner or later, throw their influence on to that side. It is not,...

and its non-existent funds Tho' nothing comes of all their schemes and strife, Surely they render Shakespeare homage true, Acting his wittiest drama to the life, Who about...

idea on the Schleswig-Holstein case. He wishes avowedly to upset the diplomatic arrangements of 1852 (not the treaty) which con- ceded the separation of Schleswig and Holstein,...

Munster by Mr. Maguire, the Mayor of Cork, and others, to get up linen manufactories, to alleviate the distress of the labouring population, and it has received generous...

of building vessels plated with 41-inch iron, but of a small tonnage. The Research, of 1,250 tons, coated from end to end with Warrior plates, has proved a great success, draws...

fifteen times the amount required.

and 901, 91, for February. Yesterday, they left off at 901 for money, and 901, 1, for the present account.

Tinter of Thursday, a frightful story of the misery of a little fishing village, called Beer, in the neighbourhood of Axminster. The place is actually plague-stricken with...

Prince Couza, Hospodar of the Moldo-Wallachian Principalities, is becoming a tool of France. Vast quantities of arms are, it is said, introduced into the country and forwarded...

from New York and the West Indies, The steamer for the East took out 567,940/.

expose a very common and very successful fraud. Pianos are advertised as for sale by distressed ladies, and described so as to create the impression that they are by some...

in Greek bonds a further decline, equal to 12 per cent., has taken place. Mexican and Turkish as well as most railway securities have ruled firm.

over 100,000/. in gold has been withdrawn for Egypt, has increased 48,111/. The total supply is 13,022,220/.

from active this week. In the open market, however, which is well supplied with capital, the lowest quotation for bills is 71 per cent.

leading Foreign Securities, with the latest quotations of Friday week :— Greek Do. Coupons .. .. Mexican . Spaniel Passive • • .. Do. Certificates Turkish 6 per Cents.,...

lias been arrested upon a charge of having poisoned his brother, -Jacob Millett. Deceased, who was in easy circumstances, was living with his brother on 30th December, and ate a...

ima- ginative confidentialness between the actor and his audience which is always expressed in prologues and epilogues, and a shadow of which has passed into literature in the...

the Bank of France amounts to 7,200,0001., being an increase of 440,000/. compared with the last return. The quotation for money is still 7 per cent.

Kiel has been disbanded under menace, and the Austrian half of the army is pouring in at the rate of four non-German Governments to leave the Germans no legal foot was intended...

intended in his letters to establish to public satisfaction. bidden e there should be no intestate heirship at all, the property lapsing into the revenue, as that of intestate...

T HE Conservatives are said to be considering in that rather vague way which generally precedes a session of Parlia- ment whether or not it is worth while to make a rush for...

W E know of few things more striking in politics than the contrast between the position of the French and the Prussian Oppositions. The French is small in number, feeble in...

Q INC E success has visited the Federal arms, the old sneers L) which we used to hear about two years ago have died away. The North is no longer depicted as a people carrying on...

O UR English Church has now an admirable and very instructive illustration of the calibre and value of clerical judges sitting to determine questions of heresy. Nine charges,...

WILLT A M BURNS, citizen of 4 41asgow, author of itt letters to Lord Palmerston signed a "North Briton," and leading member, apparently, of the Glasgow Society of St. Andrew, an...

fp HE SPENCERS, who have now a dukedom, an earldom, and a barony, and who have possessed several peerages, are the descendants of one John Spencer, who was believed, by those...

[FROM OUR SPECLAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, January 15th, 1864. THAT the hare should be caught before much time or attention is given to the manner of cooking him is an...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—I am rather surprised to find you saying in your last im- pression, "We do not think M. Thiers' witty and moderate speeches in the least...

THE CHARACTER 01? ST. PAUL.* DR. flowsoa has studied long and honestly the fascinating subject on which he writes, and in the earlier lectures especially there are several...

TEIRE is no need of a critic to explain why Miss Cobbe's writings attract. Her style is simply that of an accom- plished, high-minded gentleman, softened, and as it were...

IT is scarcely three months since Mr. Dutton Cook's last novel was reviewed in these columns, and lie now appears before the public with another, three-volumed and closely...

should be in- terested in George Calixtus, for he was, though living in the sixteenth century, and in a remote corner of Germany, the typical English Churchman of to-day. A...

ONE would fain hope that the name and works of the good Joseph Joubert are better known to English readers than is sup- posed by the writer of a charming article in the last...

feature of this work is that it gives the names of a thousand of the chief streets in London, and the receiving-house, pillar box, money-order office, commissionaire, telegraph...

We have received a photograph of Mr. Laurence's admirable drawing of Mr. Thackeray. The power with which this picture seizes the characteristic expression both of Mr....

Right Rev. John William Colenso, D.D., Bishop of Natal. Part IV. (Longman and Co.)—In this instalment of his work the Bishop examines critically the first eleven chapters of the...

Cook. (Murray.)—A volume of carefully written and sensible essays, very well adapted to the sleepy legality of mind which is the attribute of the Benchers of an Inn of Court. We...

Kemp. (Bemrose and Sons.) — This almanack is the perfection of an almanack for a Derbyshire man, and we do not doubt that in the county it will meet with the support it deserves.

As journalists, we shall not be deterred by the severity of the censures of the Dean of Canterbury on the style of newspaper writers from frankly admitting that this is one of...

(A. H. Baily and Co.)—This useful old friend, now in its sixteenth year, shows no fall- ing off either in accuracy or in the care with which the information is is brought down...

Hardwicke.)--The author calls these "first fruits," and certainly they have not much flavour. In preference, however, to criticism we shall give our readers one of Mr. Hill's...

would be better if there was a little less classical enthusiasm about them. When we are told of the Lake of Como that "Pliny called thee his delight In those accents whose...

MAILTORIBANKS—On the 22nd inst., at Brighton, of scarlatina, after forty-eight hours' il'ness, Stewart, second son of Dudley Coutta Marjoribauks, aged eleven years.

Love." (Bentley.)—This work seems to have been composed in the hope that certain dramatic and poetic compositions might be fortunate enough, when imbedded as plums in the middle...

Henry Wood. (Griffith and Farran.)—It is a matter of curious conjecture with us what can have raised in the mind of Mrs Wood such a terror of the sea. If ten of her own children...

Kilmahoe, a Highland Pastoral, by John Campbell Sbairp (Macmillan and Co.)— The Writers before Chaucer, by Henry Morley (Chapman and Hall).—The Smuggler Chief, by Gustave...