P ARLIAMENT was prorogued on Friday, in a speech of un- usual length, but exceedingly little meaning. Her Majesty greatly regrets that the Conference failed, but hopes that the...

MR. COBDEN ON CONTRACTS. M R. COBDEN, distrusting the British Government as at once extravagant and corrupt, proposes to remedy both those evils by entrusting to its unchecked...

though their victim lies prone with his carcase extended ready to their beaks. Each is afraid to begin his meal lest the others should take the opportunity of combining to peck...

observe been either the one or the other, or neither. that it is not the law of Scotland which is in doubt. We do The law of Scotland is, however, very liberal. It does not not...

THE House of Commons on Monday night rescinded, with- out a division, its vote of censure on Mr. Lowe. That gentleman was in reality turned out of office because he had not...

T HERE are unquestionably very many advantages in re- ferring all private bills to a Parliamentary Committee in preference to any other tribunal. Whether a given industrial...

I B there a Bourbon among the Treasury Clerks, or a Plantagenet hitherto unknown to genealogists, or a claimant for the extinct honours of Aubrey de Vere, "noblest subject in...

W E have seen one delusion after another as to the war in America clear away like lifting mists from the minds of the majority of Englishmen who form their own opinions, and...

lirOST of the London weekly papers published on Saturday articles commenting upon the charge of Sir James Wilde in "Hopley v. Hopley." By an accident curiously unusual, as all...

E DWARD SEYMOUR, the second son of the first Duke of Somerset by his first marriage, to whom his elder brother John left his property, had for his residence the manor and castle...

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, July 16, 1864. Tuz important military news of the week is that General Sher- man has compelled the rebel General Johnston to abandon...

TO THE EDITOR. OF THE "SPECTATOR." Strt,—Two of your correspondents on the subject of ecclesiastical unity, " A. Z." and " A Yorkshire Incumbent," have done me the honour of...

Sin,—The few remarks which you have appended to my last letter make me still more anxious to draw out clearly the meaning which we attach to certain terms. As I understand you...

THE CONQUEROR'S SONS.• [SECOND NOTICE.] SIR F. PALGRAVE'S fourth volume consists of two distinct narra- tives,—the inception of the Crusades, and the lifelong struggle among...

THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—I venture to think that there is a slight but important mistake in your comment upon the letter of " A Yorkshire Incum- bent" in last Saturday's...

Miss YONGE has finished the " Daisy Chain," a book which, though it has not, like the "Heir of Redclyffe," reached its fourteenth edition—square fat books never reach a...

third volume of Vacation Tourists has been delayed fora year, in order to obtain greater range and variety of matter, and though it contains amply sufficient mate- rials of...

a matter of practical importance. Hitherto, Sinologues, as the French call them, or what, if we were to coin a corresponding English word, we should call Chinologists, have been...

S. M. Saxby, R.N. Second Edition. (Longman and Co.)—The theory is this, that there is always atmospheric disturbance when tho moon crosses - the earth's equator, or is at her...

R.A., F.R.S. (Adam and Charles Black.)—An artist of eminence, who has retired from the practice of his profession, cannot possibly employ his time more usefully than by devoting...

The Mosaic Origin of the Pentateuch Considered. By a Layman of the Church of England. (William Skellington.)—If a proof were wanted of the great good which Bishop Colenso's...

a boon to lovers of autographs whose wealth does not equal their desire of collecting. The fee similes are excellent. In this number, in addition to letters of Robert Cecil,...

Lock.)—These cuts, which are designed by Mr. Pinwell and engraved by the Brothers Dalziel, almost equal those of the "Arabian Nights." Indeed the inferiority is, we believe,...

number, which opens with a careful resumed Mr. Forster's " Life of Sir John Eliot." and concludes with a very temperate criticism of the three pastorals which the world has...

Theory of Legislation, by Jeremy Bentham (Trubner Co.)—Dr. Kenny's Classics for Beginners; A therstone Priory, by L N. Comp). 2 vole; Year Books, 32 and 33, by Alfred J....