the com- mentary of Mr. Disraeli's unlimitel concessions on the following day, seems to have had a singular affectation of firmness and resolve, taunted Mr. Gladstone with not...

was Mr. Roebuck's,—and that was of mark only for its Tory tone and rancid temper. Mr. Roebuck began by saying that, as a legis- lative assembly, the Howse of Commons is...

late in the evening to say that the Bill was a bad Bill, but he could wait for the redistribution of seats, declared his willingness to omit the residuum or lees of the house-...

ruffian in Joe Miller to a gentleman on the footpath. "I always do," retorts the gentleman, as he sidles into the gutter. That was Mr. Dis- raeli's attitude on Tuesday night,...

of the Reform Bill on Monday with a long and very elaborate criticism on the details of the Government measure, expressing incidentally a certain almost tender regret for the...

T "political kaleidoscope has shifted again. Last week it seemed certain that the Government would go out, this week everybody is talking of the ease with which, after their...

sent- in eth early in the week - as possible, in order to insure insertion, in future, the latest time will be 2 o'clock on Friday Afternoons.

of use. He is a soldier's son, and on Thursday he reminded the House of a fact everybody is always forgetting, that the power of the Queen over the Army is not derived from...

a curious experiment. A Parliament of workmen, consisting of 302 dele- gates, elected by all the Trades in France, is to assemble in Paris during the Exhibition, to discuss all...

Mr. Gladstone to represent their views on Reform. They were very strong for a lodger franchise, expressed great distrust of the Tories, and ample confidence in Mr. Gladstone,...

up: either Posen or North Schleswig. Of- the.former, he says-that Poland: has done Germany quite as much harm as Germany has dona her, and she shall not have the opportunity...

Grand Duchy of Luxemburg, with an area of 1,000 square miles, 200,000 people, and a fortress-capital of great strength, was a State of the Germanic Confederation, and the King...

the abolition of flogging in the Army by a majority of one. Sir John Pakington appears, from his speech on Thursday, to have been willing to accede, but the Duke of Cambridge...

first importance. Mr. Butler-Johnstone on Tuesday let off one of his sputtery fireworks, but the main points of his speech were only a fear that "the country gentlemen, with...

line struck on Tuesday. The Company had conceded the question of hours, reducing them to ten per diem, and the wages, giving 7s. 6d. a day to every competent driver, but the men...

to cede Candia to Greece. Lord Derby on Thursday stated, in answer to Lord Denbigh, that he did not think Turkey would yield, unless pressure were applied ; but the combined...

on 'Thursday night, on occasion of a motion by Lord Lyveden for the proceedings taken under the Ecclesiastical Titles' Bill, with a view to its repeal as an irritating dead...

pension 4i in recognition," as the official Gazette announcing his pension put it, "of his services as an historical and agricultural poet in Ireland," we drew attention on...

Standard of yesterday, in which he gives an account of his career, com- mencing with the following eccentric observation :—" From causes too tedious to narrate, I was born in...

France' having further increased, National Securities have been somewhat firm this week. Consols, for money, have marked 911, ; ditto, for account, 911, 1. Reduced and New 3 per...

per .cent. on 3,000,000/. for the IntercolonialRailway of 'Canada. The vote- was resisted by Mr. Lowe, who said the Americans would . seize the railway the moment war broke out,...

forward as a candidate for the vacant Chair of Poetry at Oxford. He is far the most formidable rival whom Sir Francis Doyle is likely to have. Mr. Alexander is a real...

Meriean Spanish Passtve Do. Certificates . Turkish 6 per Cents., igse „ 1862 Unit ' ea States 5.20's .. the leading Foreign Securities yesterday subjoined :— Friday,...

off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, Mardi 211: Friday, March 29. Great Eastern .. ... Groat Northam Great Western.. Lancashire and Yorkshire .. London and Brighton...

THE COMPROMISE. having been the author of the Savings' Bank qualification, and Mr. Gladstone himself of the franchise based upon direct taxation—but he gives them up, leaves...

W E may assume that Mr. Disraeli has been driven out of every one of his special positions, from every stand he has taken up on the Government Reform Bill except one, on which...

competent, to bear arms is to become a drilled soldier. The King of Prussia is ex officio Commander-in-Chief of all such soldiers. That is the substance of the Treaties between...

IR. lit'CULLAGH TORRENS, in the very able speech in which he moved the second reading of his Bill for improv- ing the dwellings of artisans and labourers in boroughs, pointed...

some future time Patlia. ment will further limit the punishment of death. Consequently, until it does, I shall suspend the law of the land." That seems to us an accurate...

attention has been called by the Pall Mall Gazette and other journals to the fact of the remarkable emigration from the sea-board of Italy, and par- ticularly from the...

S C°31WHERE or other among the Directors, and Managers, and Saperintendents.of the Brighton and South Coast Rail- way, there must be a man whom Mr. Disraeli should find out and...

T HE reperusal of Sir J. Emerson Tennent's delightful chapters on the Wild Elephant reprinted in a separate form from his great work on Ceylon, suggests one of the most curious...

XXIII.-SUSSEX AND SOUTH SURREY.---KELTIC AND ROMAN PERIODS. T HE population by which this Province was inhabited when the Romans first became acquainted with it, appears to...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:] SIR,—The remarks of "L. E. B." are chiefly variations of one inquiry, viz. : —Why should we not apply precisely the same teats to female...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sra,—The obliging way in which you notice my services in your paper of March 23, induces me to offer you some explanation with reference...

SIR,—There seems to be a general feeling that in the probable event of a large extension of the franchise taking place, it is desirable that some plan should be adopted which...

I. ON THE REV. R. H., WHO DIED OF TYPIILTS FEVER. IN DERRY CATHEDRAL. DOWN through our crowded lanes and closer air, 0 Friend ! how beautiful thy footsteps were. When...

rrO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPEcrAr0n.1 Sm,—As it is very important to female physicians that the cre- dentials of every woman assuming their office shall be clearly known and...

SWEDENBORG.* IT would be possible with very little trouble to make a very good life of Swedenborg out of the materials which Mr. White has so assiduously collated, and such a...

• Spindrift. By Sir Noel Paton. tendon: Blackwood. Sin Nom PATON'S verses arc generally pleasant to read, con- taining often true lyrical feeling and now and then a real...

Tins novel contains two volumes of lively rattle, about im- possible, or rather entirely absurd and imaginary mesmeric facts, and one volume of very dull prosing about possible,...

MRS. WOOD has been, we think, the victim of a somewhat unfair persecution about this book, and some others. She published it originally, as we understand, in America, and, as we...

.Day Cookery. (F. Warne and Co.)—Two shilling manuals of an art that. is always necessary and constantly neglected. Mrs. Watts writes for those who have a little plot of...

: W. P. Nimmo.)—According to an advertisement of this book, the first poem in it was written when the author was too much imbued with the spirit implied by the title to pay...

mans.)—Dr. Beke's volume should be read by all who would make up their minds on the character of the Negus, or Emperor, Theodore, of whom we hare heard so mach, and on the...

the Pillory without Hope of Escape. By James Smith. (Simpkin and Marshall).—Mr. James Smith modestly requests the reader not to stop when half-way through his pamphlet, but to...

it is bad enough to expect us to read all the books which come to us. It is far worse if we have to guess their contents, and we must respectfully decline to do so.

John H.. Kennaway. (Seeley.)—Mr. Kennaway's tour coat him 160i. to 1801.„ and took him through a part of America which has not been rendered fit for comfortable travel since...

Half-Hours with the Best Letter-Writers and Autobiographers. By Charles Knight. (Routledge.)—The contents of this book are almost more miscellaneous than is warranted by the...

and Co) —Dr. James calls on every one that is diseased to come to these waters, though he does not extend the invitation to those who have no money.. His account of Vichy is...

; London, Triibner.)—Snffiaient judgment has not been shown in weeding these poems, as a good many are insignificant, and the repetitions of others are tedious. But some...

William Boerhaave. (Murray and Co.)—Mr. Boerhaave has not plagiarized from Schiller, indeed we question if he has read Schiller's Wallenstein before emulat- ing it. We also...

Polish Insurrection of 1863. By W. A. Day. (Longmans.)—" The Russian Theory of Government in Poland" would have been a better title for this pro-Russian narrative. We cannot...

(Jack- son, Walford, and Hodder.)—The title of this book gives but a slight. idea of its contents, which are miscellaneously religions. Sermons,. sketches of sermons,...

work intended to serve as an inn-eduction to the larger treatise en - the same subject by the same author. A short extract will perhaps show - the nature of the volume:— "...

and DaMy.) —This is a book for use, but it is also a book for show. The many en- gravings of engravings on gems which adorn its pages justify the latter description, while the...

By Washington Irving. (Sampson Low.)—Mr. Pierre Irving, Washington Irving's nephew, and biographer of "the Goldsmith of our time," tells us in his preface to these two volumes...

and 0o.)—The author dedicates his book to the working men of Bowling and Bradford, with a statement that front his sixth year he was com- pelled to toil for his bread in a...

By John Benson Rose. (Derrell and Son.)—Mr. Rose has translated The Fasti and The Eclogues and Georgics into English verse, with a laudable wish to be faithfuL But he never...

outlines are intended for schools and junior students, and are perfectly clear and simple ; at the same time they convey great and astonishing novelties to young minds, and if...

Fields ; London, Trilbner.)—Mr. Whipple writes or lectureS pleasantly, and has always an anecdote at hand to keep his audience in a good humour. But he shows a tad want of...

by Edward Peacock. (J. C. Hotten.)—Mr. Peacock has published here a collection of returns from various parishes in Lincolnshire of the ecclesiastical ornaments destroyed by...

Miss Cobbe's uninterrupted industry rather contradicts her present title-page. She seems a disciple of all work and no play, although the effect produced on her is not the same...

and diary before us are exceedingly convenient, as the Bos- tanks material is of a kind on which it is as easy to rub out com- pletely what you have written without rendering...

By Rev. Joshua Jones, M.A. (Longmans.)—There is nothing very novel in Mr. Jones's essay, but there is still less in it than is antiquated. Be would retain Classical studios,...

Frank Foster. (Elliot Stock.)—It is but the other day that we noticed a similar story by the same author. Had he fused the two stories into one, and taken snore pains with the...

Nelson and Sons.)—A strange idea of interweaving sermons with a story. It is true that the sermons bear on the story, and that the lessons of the one are com- pleted by those...

Two vols. (Sampson Low.)—Although this biography mast needs be most interesting to an American public, Professor Silliman had many friends and admirers in England, and indeed...

(Routledge.)—Fast, spun out, rollicking, and tedious, this story seems meant to warn people against going to Australia, if they are not fit to live there. The warning would be...

Sons.)—" The present work contains :—Firstly, the portions of the County Courts' Equitable Jurisdiction Act which appeared to merit particular attention, with notes....

contents of this volume are Shakespeare emenda- tions without the plays, so that any of the former editions may be elucidated. But Mr. Keightley has also discoursed learnedly...

A young lady's tale in young-lady letters. We will not profane its mysteries by exposing them to the public gaze in these columns.

Gardener Office.) — We are always happy to eat peaches, and we are therefore grateful to all who attempt to improve or propagate the species.

Co.)— We cannot see the object of this life, which merely relates a few facts about Jefferson Davis, and which might have been written by an incon- stant reader of newspapers....

By Mrs. SewelL (Jerrold and Sons); The Edda of Spentund the Learned, from the Old Norse or Icelandic. (Triihner.)—Three small volumes, which in one sense or another profess...

written so charmingly on the subject of a clay farm, of all other subjects the least attractive, that we are rather disappointed in these essays. The papers on "Landlord" and...

: Clarendon Press.)—Dr. Cotton's object is to pre- serve the date at which printing was first introduced in each of the places mentioned in this gazetteer. The number of...

the Colours of the Rainbow. By Mrs. Kelly. (Darton and Co.)—The less said of this strange patchwork the better. Mrs. Kelly does not seem to reflect that the colours of the...

By Charles J. Homans. (Williams and Norgate.)—Mr. tremens, we believe, is or was what some call a convert, and others a pervert. We had no right to read this valuable...

Arthur Crump. (Longmans.)—Mr. Crump has given us a book of much interest, some amusement, and considerable information, but ho is not very originaL He appears to have borrowed...

S3phistici Elenchi, with translation and notes by a Fellow of OrieL Mr. Poste alludes in his preface to this very scholarly book to the objection that the whole subject of...

to an old adage, and proceeds to exemplify it. We never knew how plain a pikestaff was till we read these papers.

for boys who are too young to take interest in Marryatt and Basil Hall. We are free to confess that we have passed that age.

: Edmonston and Douglas.)—These lectures take us from Palm Sunday to Holy Thursday, combining in one the narratives of the Four Evangelists. Dr. Hanna may also lay claim to...

F. Slater. (Sunderland : Hills.)—Mr. Slater is a Wesleyan minister, and of the five chapters in this book four have appeared in the Wesleyan Methodist Magazine. They are not...

A.D. 1250—A.D. 1400. By R. Morris Esq. (Oxford : Clarendon Press.) —Wordsworth censured the Johnsonian collection of the English Poets for not beginning with Chaucer. This...

Southwood Smith, M.D. Edited by T. Baker, Esq. (Triibner.)—Dr. Southwood Smith's name is well known as that of a benefactor to humanity. But the cattle plague and the cholera...

of the essays in this, volume will be read with interest, and deserves the praise of ingenuity. It is the essay on "Space," which occupies four pages, though it cannot be said...

People. By M. l'Abb6 Isidore Mullois. Translated by George Percy Badger. (Smith and Elder.)—Suggestions, criticism, experience abound in this book, and we can recommend it...

preface that this book was written in a time of affliction, and we refrain from criticizing it.

(Bentley.)—The verse is the verse of Ingoldsby, but the hand is the hand of Mr. Nugent. Perhaps the cleverest part of the volume is the "alliterative apology" with which it...

the Middle Ages. By Henry Shaw, F.S.A. (Bell and Daldy.)—Mr. Henry Shaw has produced a volume which, though sumptuous in its way and beautiful in every way, is comparatively...

of the Coale- ckrates. By Edward A. Pollard. (Triibner and 0o.)—An enormous book, calling itself "the Standard Southern History of the Late War," and breathing extreme...

German. (Routledgo.)—The subject of this story was important enough for the world, as but for it Goethe could hardly have been born. But the book was scavely worth writing,...

Waif on the Stream. By S. M. Butchers. (Trabner.)—We sit with sad civility over the books of verse which pour in upon us, feeling with Pope that to laugh were want of goodness...

Roses. (Bentley.)— A long and level tract of rhyme. The incident fieW1111 tO have been omitted.

Tillotson. (S. 0. 13eeton.)—One of those unpleasant books in which all the good people are always being heretics, and being tortured or burnt. We are not advocates of...

and Son.)—" Made perfect through suffering" is the moral and the motto of Mr. Burritt's volume. With this end in view he goes through the history of martyrdom and heroism from...

H. Ward. (Boston, Ticknor and Fields ; London, Trubner.)—It is as rare for a life to be well written as to be well spent. Such, or something similar, is Carlyle's dictum. If...