the end of the pantomime. It would appear that the carpenter's shop, which is over the great chandelier, took fire, the " flies " followed, and in less than half an hour the...

was unwittingly betrayed by them soon after Butler's failure, when the Richmond Despatch stated triumphantly that 8,362,000 lbs. of meat, 1,507,000 lbs. of lead, 1,933,000 lbs....

T HE air has been full all the week of rumours of coming peace. Most of them, however, are but rumours, which may have something in them, but also may not. Mr. Blair, for...

speech to the constituency which he hopes to represent at the Leeds Reform meeting on Tuesday last. The general drift of the meeting we have discussed elsewhere. Lord Amberley's...

to reverence priests, he is not inclined to take orders from them, has a notion that the divine right of Emperors is equal to the divine right of Popes—a theory dangerous...

article on the re-appearance of the Northern fleet off Fort Fisher with the words, " The Yankees will not take Fort Fisher." These prophecies are dangerous. On Friday, the 13th,...

Monck, in a speech of some weight and merit. His Lord- ship informed the Legislature that a detective police had been. organized and a volunteer force called out, in order to...

New Caledonia as to his treatment of missionaries in Lifu. It is not, says M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the object of the Emperor to impede Protestant missionaries, but rather to...

on Monday, January 30 (Colonel North, M.P., in the chair), has passed unanimous resolutions against Earl Spencer's Wimbledon Park Bill. It is rumoured that the Office of Woods...

have affected the imagination, not to say the conscience, of some who suffer by it. In a most comical case tried on Wednesday in the Common Pleas, Matilda Collier, a...

man to live in. The wife of- a painter living there, named Jenkins, became insane after her confinement, bruised her baby, and became dangerous to the other children. The Union...

of Finance, and Sir Charles Wood has selected Mr. Massey, mem- ber for Salford and Chairman of Committees, to All the vacancy. The appointment is an odd one, as Mr. Massey is...

says it is a question whether the Aire, on which the town stands, cannot be so improved and deepened that vessels of -300 tons could come up to the bridge, -which would give the...

votes to petition the Czar for a free deliberative parliament, to consist of two chambers, one composed of nobles, and the other of popular representatives. They do not venture...

about a will made by a pauper in the St. Pancras Union for the benefit of the master and the lawyer who drew the will. A letter has been re- ceived from a solicitor at Clifton...

January. As the communication between Bagdad and Constantinople is complete, all India is _now in communica- tion with all Europe.

Peer's heir has become-Senior Wrangler. The fortunate gentleman, who it is said owes his success entirely to severe work, is the Honourable J. W. Strutt, son of Lord Rayleigh,...

patient submission to plunder, are at last beginning to complain loudly of the gas companies. The directors of those establishments know perfectly , well that gas is supplied in...

occupied Pocotaligo Bridge, so long contested between the Con- federates and General Foster. This gives Sherman the command of the Charleston and -Savannah railway as far as...

increasing the capital of the bank to one million sterling by the issue of 25,000 new shares of 201. each, 12,500 of which will be offered at par to the proprietors registered...

remains at 5 per cent., whilst in the open market the price for the best short-dated commercial paper is 41, and in some instances 4, per cent. The stock of bullion in the Bank...

first issue being to the extent of 500,0001. in 25,000 shares of 201. each, is announced. It is proposed to ifacilitate the registm- tion of titles to landed estates under the...

ported that Kiihl (executed on Thursdarweek) did not confess his guilt, but curiously enough he seems to have 'made preparations to do so, and been a moment too late. He had...

the purpose of cultivating tea in India on an extensive scale. Provisionally the directors have purchased an estate of 4,000 acres in Assam for 52,0001., payable over a period...

Times that he is against the repeal of the malt duty, because it would admit foreign malt—Bohemian malt, which can be made cheaper than English malt, because the Bohemian barley...

on Thursday last, when the directors presented their half- yearly report to the shareholders. The bank was represented as in a most flourishing condition, the net profits for...

week at the following prices :— Friday, 'Jan. 27. Friday, Feb. 3. .. 21 .. .2 Do. Coupons .. .. .. .. .. 1D - Mexican .. .. .. .. .. Spanish Passive • . .. .. .. .. _82 .....

who asked him some question relative to " reconstruction." The General intimates that he has no authority to speak on such matters, but that to his mind there is no need or room...

letter in reply to the report of the Northern Sanitary Commission on the treatment of Northern prisoners by the Confederate States, which is conceived in the spirit of the...

vote in Convention abolishing it and refusing compensation to slaveowners, but this vote had not yet been ratified by the people. We regret to say - that the Convention elected...

for money, and 891 1 for the present account. Yesterday the closing prices were : —For delivery, 891 1 ; for the March account, 891 The lowest prices were touched on Wednesday,...

T HOSE who give us credit for being half-hearted Liberals because we are anxious to see all classes of interests and opinions fairly represented in the House of Commons, will...

THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. P ARLIAMENT meets on Tuesday in a time of utter political lassitude. So far as appears on the surface the country is careless whether it meets or not,...

curious change was noted in the Liverpool cotton market. For nearly four years a Southern success always sent down the price of the staple, because it was sup- posed to involve...

time been indignant at the treat- ment which inventors experience at the hands of the Government. Perhaps he has met the patentee of some magnificent scheme for destroying the...

I T will be worth the while of some member of Parliament to inquire what Sir John Lawrence is doing or attempt- ing to do in Oude. He is acting, we fear, somewhat un-...

A MONG the most popular " ideas " of the age must now be reckoned that of holding industrial shows. Carried out in the first instance on a large scale by the shopkeeping...

L ORD AMBERLEY is to be member for Leeds. We do not object. He is a very good Lord Amberley, with ideas about universal suffrage which will moderate with time into philanthropy,...

HE pedigree of the Kers or Kern, though not stretching back-farther than the fourteenth century, •is a singularly com- plicated one. •They are divided into two great clans, the...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, January 14,1865. THE event foreshadowed in my letter of December 31 has taken place. General Butler has been relieved of command,...

" SPECTATOR." Abbey Lodge, January 2i, 1865. SIR,—In reply to the question raised by " A. Z." in the last number of the Spectator, allow me briefly to state that the principal...

SHAKESPEARE IN GERMANY.* THERE is a fascination in tracing the history of those greatest of all works of human thought which have survived in spite of the apparent indifference...

Mn. WRIGHT has made a very readable but not a very exhaustive book. He avoids, as he admits, the philosophy of his subject, touches only on Egyptian, Roman, Grecian, French,...

THE publishers of this book have, we think rightly, judged that the quaint literature administered to children thirty years ago would not fail to please the children of the...

Tuts novel is clever, with the sort of cleverness which one some- times encounters in conversation which does not bore you, but which you instinctively dislike, talk which...

THE Magazines are interesting this month. Each of the four older magazines to which we usually confine our review, simply because they are representatives of the whole, and...

Money, a Popular Exposition. By T. Binney. (Jackson, Watford, and Hodder.)—Let the public beware of what little boys call "a sell." Any one who takes up this book under the...

(T. Bosworth.)—It is recorded of Warren Hastings that after his return from India he wrote verses, and that his guests at Daylesford were very much disappointed when one of his...

Meeker. (T. C. Newby.)—One would have been disposed to speak favourably of this historical novel, at least in comparison with other historical novels, if it had not been...

volume, which for every day in the year, even leap year, gives a page on which is for the morning a text of Scripture, which is interrogative, with another by way of answer,—for...

(Charles Griffin and Co.)—This fine volume is a New Year's gift-book come a little late, but none the less welcome on that account. The binding is magnificent, paper and type...

H. Bally and Co.)—This exceedingly useful little volume, which has now reached the seventeenth year of its age, and made itself of great value to the public for the compendious...

(Murray and Co.)— A pretty story, which seems to be derived from a German source, or at least prompted by considerable familiarity with German literature. The immense wickedness...

Co.)—An importation from America, as is proved by the presence of that horrible word "dubiety." The author has sent us a sort of novel which was formerly more common than it is...

Co.)—" Modern Life," the longest of these poems, was written by the author in boyhood, and having been some years out of print is now re- written and republished. It is...