acceptance of office by Mr. Gladstone is the event of the week. He is appointed Lord High Commissioner Extraordinary in the Ionian Islands, for the purpose, it is intimated, ,...

Tan QuErN is still at Windsor Castle. The cold weather has not pre- vented her Majesty from walking and driving abroad, nor the Prince Consort from shooting with the Prince of...

CARDINAL WISEMAN IN HANOVER SQUARE. Cardinal Wiseman lectured at the Hanover Square Rooms on Wed- nesday on behalf of some Roman Catholic schools. His subject was Ireland, what...

At present there is only one candidate in the field for the scat vacated by the death of Sir John Potter. Lord Stanley invited to conic forward, declined after due deliberation...

Sir Peter Fairbairn entered the lists against Mr. Bright in a speech he made last week at the anniversary dinner of the West Riding Trade Protection Society held at Barnsley....

Mr. Smith O'Brien has at last appeared on the platform, and has made a big speech to the young Irelanders at Clonmel. It was a deliberate defence of his rebel conduct in 1848; a...

Mr. Edward Miall has been wooing the electors of Banbury as the head of a deputation from the London Parliamentary Reform Associa- tion. The local society convened a meeting for...

Public meetings touching the confessiOtal begin to be held in the pro- vinces. At Southampton, on Wednesday, Lord IL Cholmondeley pre- sided over a large assembly called to...

The clergy of the archdeaconry of Ely have held a meeting to take into consideration the question of church-rates. It seemed generally to be regarded that the ultimate aim of...

The Members for the city of Edinburgh met their constituents in the Queen Street Hall on Wednesday. The room was closely packed and the audience was evidently excited. The...

I 1' 11111.—The French Court went to Compiegne on Monday to enjoy the pleasures of the chase. A report was published in England that the Emperor intended to put a stop to the...

The North Shields Shipowners' Society have put forth a formidable document, detailing the grievances they suffer under the present Navi- gation laws. They complain that the...

The Commander - in - Chief has issued a general order respecting 'a court - martial held at Portsmouth in July last, which terminates with some remarkable passages. The offender...

A proposal, for the revival of protection, broached in Canada, Las brought out again the Free-trade veteran, General Thompson, who has contributed to the Bradford Advertiser a...

The first Cabinet Council since the recess was held on Wednesday, at the official residence of Mr. Disraeli. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Derby, the Right Honourable...

Full details of the burning of the Eastern City, an Australian steamer, have arrived. She left the Mersey for Melbourne in July with a heavy cargo, 180 passengers, and 47...

On the 5th July, at Wanganui, New Zealand, Frederick Wemyss, Lieutenant E 31 .'s 66th Regiment, son of Lieutenant-General Wemyss, C.D.; in his 26th year On the 15th September,...

On the 11th September, at Byculla Church, Bombay, Lieutenant Frederick Scri- vener, Superintendent of Army Schools under the Bombay Presidency, to Emma, third daughter of George...

An Account, pursuant to the 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday the 3t1 day of Nov. 1868. 19905 DIPASTRILIGT. Notes Issued 432,403,940 Government...

The London Parliamentary Reform Association, wakened into activity by the approach of the session and the speeches of Mr. Bright, called a Conference, which was held yesterday...

On the 26th October, at Norwich, the Wife of Major Brandling, C.B., Royal Horse Artillery, of a daughter. On the 27th, at Glenarm Castle, N. Ireland, the Countess of Antrim, of...

The work of revival proceeds rapidly at the Princess's Theatre. Less than three weeks ago King john was'the . gretit reproduction of.the time ; now Macbeth is brought out, aid...

STOCK EXCRANOK, FETDAT AFTFICiOON. Monday 1st November, being the day usually fixed for the half-yearly closing of the Transfer books at the Bank of England, was observed as a...

the Lyceum on Monday evening, differ from those of previqus years only is the comparative smallness of the locality and the corresponding re- duction in the magnitude of his...

MR. BRIGHT'S SPEECH ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS. THE Member for Birmingham is undoubtedly the most para- doxical person at present on the stage of politics. There has rarely been a...

called attention to the peculiar importance to Europe . of the great American election of next year, we had no conception of the progress even then made towards a decision of...

ME prosecution of Count Montalembert is another link in the chain of events, of which the French Government is availing it- self to take up a position towards this country, that...

THE Paris Conference has left its work unfinished. The proto- cols of the last sittings tell a story deeply interesting, if, besides the text of the official record, we read the...

WHEN a man speaks so heartily as Mr. Sidney Herbert did a Warminster, on the instructive influences of fiction and the intel - lectual function of newspapers, it seems...

the position taken by France is quite irrespective of the merits of the question, or of the technicalities of law. The statement made by the Lisbon official journal in reply to...

EVERY one must sympathize with a father who sees his daughters entering the world, and observes behaviour which implies that they may, at least in his estimation, go astray ;...

RECENTLY, a Huddersfield paper told a simple story which ought to have a peculiar force at the present moment. The hero of it was an old man named Abraham Bold, who died at...

A large and noticeable building, the progress of which has not as t at as we know, excited much attention, was provisionally opened on Satur- day last. It stands in John Street,...

The opening of the National Gallery on' the 25th ultimo, after its an- nual recess, reveals only two new acquisitions. This is not much, yet it leaves nothing to complain of as...

In a neat and convenient manual of 152 pages, Mr. Walcott supplies a desideratum. As he truly observes, the diffuse provincialism of local handbooks, however gratifying to...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, OCTOBER 29. WAIL OFFICE, Fall Mall, ,Oct. 29.—Cacohy-3d Regt. of Drag. Guards—Lieu t. W. Berkeley to be Capt. by purchase, vice Turton, who retires. w...

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 2. h enkrupts.-Komar Gummi. SAUNDERS, Bush Lane, Cannon Street, merchant- Lbw's GULKT, Blackfriars Road, ironmonger-Witzram SLADE, Ba,guor,...

BRITISH FUNDS. (Closing Prices.) &turd. Monday. Tuesday. Wednes. Thurs. 3 per Cent Consols 981 Ditto for Account 921 3 per Cents Reduced 912 New 3 per Cents 971 Long Annuities...

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NOVEMBER 6, 1858. BOOKS. cic0wI ' S HISTORY OF FRANCE.. gauss readers will be disappointed who expected from Mr. Crowe a hi s tory after the modern aspiration ; that is to...

object of the Bampton Lectures for the present year by the "Reader in Moral and Metaphysical Philosophy at Areghalen College," is to refute the philosophical attacks of the...

of Omar Pasha during his Danubian campaign of 1853-1854, and passed his time very com- fortably, so far as cover went, in " one of Edgington's improved military tents of a dark...

book the workmanship predominates over the materials. Every page exhibits the quick observer, the practised novelist, and the something more than clever litterateur. Every scene...

Rural Sports, Mr. Blaine exhibits the cha- racteristics of an Encyclopwdist, for he begins with the origin of everything—how primitive man took to field sports, (though with him...

Mn. CHARLES BONER has rather a vivid and fertile fancy than a poetical spirit. In his prose account of Bavarian Chamois Hunting this faculty gave a natural freedom and freshness...

late President the any held Setioti t e ; of Ha'niphrey,Oary, „liart„ Sockity, ith SS Sketch of hislife and *- Fragmentary Re lections from en40.' Etliteda y id, brother,...