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The latest intelligence from America, which extends to Novem- ber
The Spectator21st, is on the whole unfavourable to the Federals. General Burnside, attacked by Longstreet and a greatly superior army, has been driven in upon Knoxville, with the loss of...
The death of Lord Elgin will be a loss to
The SpectatorGreat Britain, but India will have compensation. The man of all men alive bait quali- fied to govern the empire has been set to do it. Stirred into promptitude at once by the...
The sudden rise in the rate of discount at the
The SpectatorBank, which has gone up this week from 6 to 8 per cent., and is likely to rise to 10 almost immediately, has created a good deal of theoretic interest amongst political...
There has been another division in the Hebdomadal Board at
The SpectatorOxford, on the question of paying Professor Jowett for his labours as Professor of Greek. The division was equal, but as there is no provision for a casting vote, the motion to...
London was saddened on Saturday by a telegram, dated 16th
The SpectatorNovember, announcing the imminent death of Lord Elgin, the Viceroy of India. His Lordship left England subject to a disease of the heart, and over-exertion in climbing a...
The Chair of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford has been given
The Spectatorto the Rev. W. W. Shirley, son of the late Bishop of Sodor and Man. Mr. Shirley has been scholar, fellow, and tutor of Wadham Col- lege. He took a first class in mathematics in...
NEWS OF THE WEEK,
The SpectatorT HE Moniteur published on Thursday a document which is called in England M. Fould's budget. It is nothing of the kind, being only M. Fould's report upon the general financial...
The cause of the deficits for 1862-1863 is said to
The Spectatorbe mainly the Mexican expedition, which has cost 8,000,000/. already, and the news from that country is by no means re-assuring. The Mexicans are disgusted by the amount of...
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The rise in the rate of discount and other causes
The Spectatorhave produced a perfect panic in the " speculative " securities on the Stock Exchange, Mexican and Greek bonds sinking every day. So sensitive became the market that a letter...
The Crawley trial drags on, but the case for the
The Spectatorprosecution has very nearly closed. The procedure is as absurd as ever, but the evidence of the week is decidedly in favour of the accused. It disposes, at all events, of the...
Mr. Wyld is publishing a plan of Kagosima, which shows
The Spectatorthat the fire on the batteries did necessarily endanger the town. The following extracts, however, from letters from officers in the fleet, published in the Japan Commercial...
Imagine the Common Council setting an example to all the
The Spectatormunicipalities in England ! They have done it, however, having voted 20,0001. for the erection of buildings in Victoria Street for the labouring poor. The houses are to be built...
Another Confederate cruiser has escaped from a British port, in
The Spectatorspite of all the efforts of Government. The Admiralty had ordered the Victor, a six-gun screw steamer of 859 tons, to be sold, and she was purchased for the China trade,...
The Schleswig-Holstein affair has advanced a step during the week,
The Spectatorthe Prussian Government having explained its ground. In the debate on the resolution moved by Herr Virchow, Herr Bis- mark stated that his Government held themselves bound to...
A numerously attended meeting of the Bar was held on
The SpectatorWed- nesday last in the hall of Lincoln's Inn to consider the present system of law reporting. The Attorney-General was in the chair, and two resolutions, respectively moved and...
Mr. Ward Beecher has returned to New York, and has
The Spectatormade a speech which will set him right with many who disapproved the tone of his speeches in England. He speaks of this country and its people in terms not very consistent with...
Miss F. P. Cobbe sends us a complete refutation of
The Spectatora libel on her friend the Roman sculptor,—or sculptress, perhaps we should say,—Miss Homier, which has appeared in some English papers, to the effect that her statue of...
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On Thursday the first train passed over the new bridge
The Spectatorat Hungerford into the Charing Cross Station, and it is hoped that the line will be opened to the public by the end of the year. The branch from London Bridge to Cannon Street...
The 'drain of bullion having continued, the Directors of the
The SpectatorBank of England have advanced their minimum quotation for money to S per cent., and declined making advances upon Govern- ment securities under 9. In the open market capital is...
The Council for India have disposed of 500,0001. in bills
The Spectatoron the various Presidencies, at former rates. The applications within the limits amounted to 1,700,0001.
Manchester is greatly excited by one of the oddest acts
The Spectatorof official tyranny we ever remember to have seen recorded. There is a place near the city known as Alderley Edge, which has grown into a kind of suburb for the wealthier...
Mr. Frank Buckland is making the most desperate efforts to
The Spectatorget a live porpoise in the Zoological Gardens, but the creatures are apt to expire a few minutes after their arrival at their destination. Mr. Buckland recently received a...
Mr. Spence, of Liverpool, made an effort last week in
The SpectatorGlasgow to get up a public enthusiasm for the South, but be had nothing original to say for his cause beyond the somewhat ingenious suggestion that, " there was not a word in...
It is said that fifty-four years constitute a complete cycle
The Spectatorfor the prevailing winds, and that in each such cycle there are three periods (each four years in duration) of deficiency of east wind, and the same number of periods of excess...
The statement of M. Stephanos Xenos, to the effect that
The Spectatorthe present Greek Government intend to disregard the debt of 1824-5, has created a panic in the market for Greek bonds, and a heavy fall has taken place in prices, business...
Home securities have been depreciated in value during the week.
The SpectatorOn Saturday last Consols officially closed at 921 cum div. for money, and 911 ex div. for account. On Thursday the price for money was as low as 90 ex div. Yesterday's closing...
Subjoined is a table showing the week's fall in the
The Spectatorvalue of the leading Foreign Securities :— Greek Do. Coupon. .. Mexican Spanish Passive • . Do. Certificates .. Turkish 8 per Cents., 1858.. " Cousolides.. 1862 .. •• • • •...
Very little silver has been shipped to the East this
The Spectatorweek ; but some large supplies of gold have been forwarded to Egypt and the Continent. The aggregate imports have amounted to about 600,0001.
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TOPICS OF THE DAY.
The SpectatorTHE NEW INDIAN VICEROY. I N selecting Sir John Lawrence as Lord Elgin's successor I the Government has broken, and wisely broken, the The rule was and is a wise one, but the...
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LORD RUSSELL AS A DESPATCH-WRITER. L ORD RUSSELL tried his band
The Spectatorsomewhat late in life on the conduct of our foreign affairs. He has made a few great blunders in policy, and one enormous blunder as diplo- matic plenipotentiary at Vienna at...
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THE PROSPECTS OF WAR IN GERMANY.
The SpectatorT HE Schleswig-Holstein affair seems likely to repay Europe in part for the infinite weariness of hearing it chatted about as if it were understood. It seems likely to sink,...
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THE GRATITITDE OF A PATIENT. T HERE is a point of
The Spectatorview from which medical men appear an injured and unappreciated class. The public really does not do the profession justice. We deliberately shut our eyes to the romantic...
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THE FUTURE OF THE FARM LABOURERS. T HE condition of the
The Spectatoragricultural labourer may yet become, and speedily, the cardinal point of English internal politics. The idea that it must be improved, and that it can be improved from without,...
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WOMEN'S SCEPTICISM. THERE is in the new number of Fraser's
The SpectatorMagazine a curious J paper, at once very able and very feeble, very bold and very cautious, on " Women's Scepticism; " or rather hints to women how to take up an attitude of...
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GOLD AND SILVER COINS.
The SpectatorT HE tendency of the human mind at once to sameness and to diversity is seldom more clearly shown than in the matter of currency. el priori, it would seem probable that whenever...
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THE PAGETS.
The SpectatorHE history of the " Pagets," a family of successful men-of-the- world,, with no very great man and no blunderers among them , is a composite one. Strictly speaking they are not...
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THE BISHOP OF ST. DAVID'S ON HIS RECENT CHARGE.
The SpectatorTo THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,-I have so much reason to be gratified by the notice which you have taken of my charge, that it may seem ungracious and almost ungrateful...
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BOOKS.
The SpectatorWILLIAMS'S RISE AND FALL OF THE MODEL REPUBLIC.• WHEN Mr. Gladstone let loose his celebrated phrase about Mr Jefferson Davis baying made of the South a nation, he perhaps did...
MR. HUGHES AND " J. 0." ON THE MHOW COURT-
The SpectatorMARTIAL. To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—In the current number of the Cornhill Magazine I am invited by " J. 0." to cite a single sentence in his paper on the Mhow...
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A CHRONICLE OF ENGLAND.*
The SpectatorIi is so pleatant to meet M r. Doyle in a new field, and his illustrated Chronicle is so graceful and attractive, that criticism is almost die- armed before it comes to deal...
MRS. HENRY WOOD'S NEW NOVEL* NOTHING is more striking than
The Spectatorthe great number ot really good navels and able novelists in the present generation. In no other department of literature can it be said that the present ago is truly great. In...
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LABRADOR. * THE British Empire is so vast, and the dependencies
The Spectatorof the mother country so numerous and scattered, that it is scarcely to be wondered at that Englishmen often exhibit the most profound ignorance of all that concerns some of its...
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CURRENT LITERATURE • The Ingoldsby Legends. With Sixty Illustrations. (Bentley.)—This
The Spectatoris a very beautifully illustrated edition of the "Ingoldaby Legends" which attained so sudden and wide a popularity some twenty years since. Whether their comedy, which mainly...
The Slavery QuaneL By a Poor Peacemaker. (Robert Hardwicke.) —This
The Spectatorpamphlet commences with a most comical perversion of history. Negro slavery is compared with the Roman and Norman invasions of England, and the English invasion of India, and it...
Hints on Life Assurance, with Selected Examples and Illustrations. By
The SpectatorJohn Fitzhugh. (Liverpool : Webb and Hunt.)—This is an admirable little tract on Life Assurance, not advocating the claims of any special company, nor intended to advocate them,...
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Signals of Distress. By Blanchard Jerrold. (Sampson Low, Son, and
The SpectatorCo.)—It is not easy to see the object of this work. It consists of a description of the vice and poverty of London, and incidentally of the institutions for their relief which...
The Diseases of Women. By Graily Hewitt, M.D., London, M.R.O.P.
The Spectator(Longman and Co.)—The plan adopted by Dr. Hewitt in treating his subject is remarkable on account of the great prominence which he gives to diagnosis. " The difficulties...
Culture and Self - Culture. By Samuel Neil (Houlston and Wright.)— We
The Spectatorreally think we are not speaking too harshly when wo call this pamphlet a mass of rhetorical rubbish from which no human being can derive a single useful hint. Take an extract...
Maps --Wo have received a copy of a new edition
The Spectatorof Messrs. Allen and Co.'s Map of India, by very far the best which exists of that great peninsula. In the present edition the whole of Upper India has been redrawn upon...
Handbook to the Cotton Cultivation in the Madras Presidency. By
The SpectatorJ. Talboys Wheeler. (Virtue, Brothers, and Co.)—Tho Indian Govern- ment was desirous of having an analysis prepared of the public records relating to cotton cultivation in...
Three Essays. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—These are the production of
The Spectatora thoughtful and accomplished mind. In the first, entitled, "Learning and Science," the author maintains the theory that the distinction between learning and science is not a...
Les Noces de la Lune. Par lo Chevalier de Chatelain.
The Spectator(Pickering.) A translation into good French, which may have been worth making, though we cannot see it.
The Necessary Existence of God. By William Honyman Gillespie. Fourth
The Spectatoredition. (Houlston and Wright.)—There is a frank conceit in the writer of this book which is very charming. It seems he owns an estate in Scotland, and had a lawsuit about the...
First Steps to Euclid. By A. K. Isbister, M.A. (Longman
The Spectatorand Co.)— The propositions of the First Book as they should be written in an ex- amination. Premises and conclusion are always in different lines, and the principal conclusions...
Annotations on the Gospel of St. Mark. By the Rev.
The SpectatorC. Holme. (Longman and Co.)—This is an attempt to supply a short commentary especially adapted for candidates for the University middle-class exa- minations, or other persons...
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The Book of Blockheads. By Charles Bennett (Low, Son, and
The SpectatorCo.)— A preparation for Christmas. Little children will be pleased with the humorous and yet artistic coloured prints which form the staple of the work. Edward the Esquire is...
Twenty - four Hours under the Commonwealth. A Drama in five acts.
The SpectatorBy John Scholefield. (David Nutt.)—We should surmise that Mr. Scholefield has not succeeded in inducing a manager to produce his piece. He, therefore, appeals to the reading...
Petit Lecteur des Corteges; or, the French Reader. By M.
The SpectatorLe Page. (Virtue, Brothers, and Co.)—A work for beginners, remarkable for the pains which the author has taken to insure correct pronunciation. Imme- diately under each word in...
The Cross of . Honour. By Annie Thomas. (Maxwell and Co.)—In
The Spectatorpoint of style Miss Thomas has the advantage'over many of those who compete with her for the favour of the novel-reading public, and she has besides considerable power of...
The tEneid of Virgil. In English blank verse. By John
The SpectatorMiller. (Mac- millan and Co.)—A posthumous publication, certainly the work of a scholar and a man of poetical feeling, but still lost labour. It is not a literal translation,...