many. Its origin is of a local kind, but it belongs to a wider movement. After a series of struggles which date back as far as the peace of Westphalia a compromise was agreed...

SERVIA, one of the most important provinces of Turkey, has just advanced the claim to a degree of independence which threatens seriously to cheek the authority of the Porte at a...

action with our own public, this week, do not contribute much towards their professed objects. The meeting of the Protestant Alliance, to promote resistance to Papal oppression,...

Tam Court is now transferred to Osborne. The Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal children, accompanied by the Duke and Duchess of Bra- bant, left Windsor on Saturday morning at...

the strike, the effect of diminished means and hard neeessity is evi- dent. The working classes are returning to their work in other towns ; and even in Preston, advantage will...

The prorogation of Parliament—nominally till the 3d of January next —was performed on Tuesday. The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Newcastle, and Lord...

The death of the Earl of Dartmouth, and the succession of his son, Viscount Lewisham, to the Peerage, has caused a vacancy in the repre- sentation of South Staffordshire. The...

FRANCE. —Whenever the Emperor quits Paris for any length of time, numberless rumours float about in "society," of accidents that have be- fallen and attempts at assassination...

Sir James Anderson rendered an account of his Parliamentary steward- ship to his constituency at Stirling, on Thursday sennight. Like other speeches of the kind, it was in the...

Sir John Young was entertained at dinner last week by the Harbour Commissioners of Belfast. It was his first visit to the town ; and he gratified his hearers by praising the...

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Right Honourable Sir John Romilly, Ent., Master of the Rolls of her Majesty's High Court of Chancery, the Right Honourable Sir John...

The number of deaths from cholera registered last week was 46; a considerable decrease on the two previous weeks. But with this decline of cholera deaths, it is remarkable that...

SATURDAY. The latest accounts from the Danube are unimportant in point of inci- dent. It is stated that the Turks have thrown forward a force from Ka- lafat towards Krajova,...

that the Go- vernment has come to the determination of withholding the usual "Queen's letters" from the Society for Propagating the Gospel in Fo- reign Parts, and from the...

from Man- chester, early yesterday mornin g , an axle broke ; the shock snapt the couplin g , and more than half the wa gg ons were left behind. Unconscious of the accident, the...

Madame George Sand has been turning her celebrated novel of Mau- prat into a five-act play ; and it has been produced with great success at the Odeon,—a theatre which, like the...

STOCK ExCHANOR, FRIDAY APIRRNOON. The upward tendency in the English Funds, so conspicuous durin g the past month, has been at length arrested. A disposition to sell Stock was...

yesterday, but not concluded. The master, sur g eon, and purser, put in evi- dence directly counter to that of the prosecutin g passengers. There are eleven actions pendin g a...

The commencement of the "real Adelphi piece," which was to have been produced this week, affords an instance of real Adelphi practice. Originally announced for Monday last, the...

St. Martin's Hall is a most remarkable—almost a solitary—instance of a great public edifice, entitled from its magnitude and importance to the epithet of national, erected by...

Mr. Mathew Arnold's Poems remained uncorrected till after the Supplement, in which the paper is in- serted, was partly printed off. The most material of the errata was the...

THE TRUE INTERNATIONAL TAW QUESTION. SELDOM perhaps has a controversy been carried on with so ranch ability, and at the same time with so little chance on one side o r so little...

A paper was read on Wednesday by Mr. A. Fraser, the engineer to Messrs. Truman, Hanbury, Buxton, and Co.'s establishment, on the vexed and vexatious question of smoky...

An official circular has been issued to all masters of schools in con- nexion with this department, calling for their opinion—" 1. As to the ex- tent to which they consider...

THE letter of " Anglicanus ' " published in last week's Spectator, urges a view of the quarrel between Mr. Maurice and the Council of King's College so plausible in itself, and...

Lean SHAFTESBURY " snaps his fingers at all the powers of Europe in combination." He asks, why, in the cause of Protestantism, Englishmen should be less bold than Queen...

TrE two great powers of Europe that are just now threatening a trial of strength, for the purpose of dictating to the globe are ob- liged to confess that their power is not so...

THE flatter the season, the more piquante the newspaper stories. The press, indeed, reflects the ideas of the day ; and when the ob- jects of attention, however important, are...

F/1031 the files of New Zealand journals which have recently reached us in unusual abundance, we arc enabled to clear off some arrears in our occasional notices of the...

Ir is but recently that the genuine character of life-insurance, and of the other kinds of insurance which might be called branches of that, has become rightly appreciated ; and...

CLASSICAL EDUCATION. CLASSICAL EDUCATION. November 28. Sin—The Spectator is quite competent to defend its own views and criti- cisms, and the reviewer of Mr. Cookeeley's...

Sm—I was glad to find from an article in your paper of the 19th instant, that even Durham is within the range of the Spectator's scrutinizing eye, and that the chilly atmosphere...

Capt. H. Lem- priere to be Capt. vice Warburton, retired on full-pay ; First Lieut. H. Heyman to be Second Capt. vice Lempriere; Second Lieut, W. Carey to be First Lieut. vice...

On the 8th October, at Muree, Punjab, the Wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Wellesley, H.M.'s Tenth Regiment, of a daughter. On the 21st November, at East Hall, Middleton Tyas,...

BRITISH II UNDS. (Cloaing Sat urd. i Monday. Prices.) Tuesday. Weans*. Thurs. hap, Spar Gent Consols 911 911 95/ 941 ea Ditto for Account 94 5 95 09 ::1 3 per Cents...

Tuesday, November 29. PARTNERSHIPS Dissor.YEn.-W. and A. Snow, Kingsteignton Devonshire, farmers -Ingram and Holmes, Stafford, ironmongers-Charlton and iaston, Charing Cross,...

the County of Middlesex, Printer, at the office of JOSEPH CLArrox, No. 10, Crane Court; in the Parish of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of Lon don; and Pub li shed by...

POR THE WEEK ENDING No. 13273 SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1853. [GRATIS WITTE THE WEEK'S SPECTATOR,

ALISON'S HISTORY OF EITROPE.. Tars second volume of the History of Europe from the fall of Na- poleon the First to the accession of Napoleon the Third is superior to its...

the description of his resi- dence in Ceylon by forgettino. b "the rule of not too much." His style is not exactly verbose, but there is an effect of verbosity from the...

CENTURIES. * AMONG the many and various qualities of Frederick Denison Maurice, the most rare and remarkable is a power of seeing the actual life as it once existed in long...

originally appeared in the Quar- terly Review. The article on Drainage was soon after its appear- ance published in a separate form, and quickly ran through two editions ;...

in 1849 and 18.52 those poems of which his maturer judgment approves, and, with some others not before published, has formed them into the single volume now given to the public...

A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro; with an Ac- count of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geolo g y, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley....

roundelay Faint off, and daylight dies away; Dies away, and leaves me lone With dim ghosts of years agone, Summers parted, glories flown ; Till day beneath the West is rolVd,...

A rumour of its being the intention of the Emperor and Empress of the French to visit London is current in Paris. The French correspondent of the Globe says that the Emperor...