M O further progress has been made in the American quarrel. The anger at first displayed in England has settled down into a calm decision that the law, whatever it be—and there...

financial decree of the 12th of November has had for one of its results to abolish the admission fee to the Bourse. Their gratitude is boundless, and they wish for a statue of...

are ex facto cut off from the Church, and called on all Irishmen to remember that such societies are rampant in Italy, and that Ireland, with all its misfortunes, is not mis-...

Roch- dale meeting, on international law—very foolish, we mean, for the purpose he had in view. The Congress of Paris had laid down the rule that neutral ships should cover...

and signed circulars have been flying about the University. Mr. Brumley, of Magdalen College, who had statelin congregation that his faith had been undermined by Professor...

Ame- rican war, and of these the most important was Mr. Bright's. The Member for Rochdale, in a burst of most eloquent argument, defended the right of the Union to refuse to...

the Senatus Consultum, modifying the system' of discussing the budget, was immediately laid before it. The budget is to be voted by sections, which means, we believe, that the...

" THE SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same .efilernomt through News-agents in...

has joined the Opposition. Ratazzi, the chief of the French party, has acknowledged that the failure of negotia- tions for Rome is not the fault of the Ministry, and that no...

of action. He considers himself, it would seem, badly treated by Ricasoli, and his junction with the Left has created agreat sen- sation. No clear statement of his wishes has...

of course, concentrated on the reception in New York of the intelli- gence of the capture of the Southern Commissioners. The leading legal authorities are said to have expressed...

the Governor-General. She was a daughter of Lord Stuart de Rothesay. The news from India is of no political importance, but the report that the Governor-General intends to...

, to England in the San Jacinto case. ThePatrie in particular, which professes tolhave special news from Washington, and gives sketches of the British despatch to Lord Lyons,...

was supposed certain, has been threatened by Mr. Brassey, son of the celebrated contractor. Mr. Brassey is a really cultivated Liberal, and a formidable antagonist even to Mr....

rod, to celebrate the thousandth year of their existence as a nation. An industrial exhibition has just been closed in St. Petersburg, which exhibited remarkable advance. The...

is a man of energy, something is hoped from his administration. What is wanted, however, is a finawier. The paper money, called mimes, has been issued too fast, and is falling...

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2ND. lie a leading' eading article on the improvement in the sanitary condition of the British army effected by the late Lord Herbert, the Times quotes some...

of Nemours arrived yesterday afternoon on a visit to Her Majesty. In the evening the Royal dinner party included the Princess Alice, the Prince and Princess of Leiningen, the...

DEATH OF SIR PETER LAURIE.— Yesterday intelligence was received by the Lord Mayor, at the Mansion-house, of the death, on the previous evening, of Sir Peter Laurie, the oldest...

(By Telegram through M. Reuter's Office.) THE CIVIL WAR IN AMERICA. • (PER THE EDINBURGH, Oki QUEENSTOWN.) NEW YORK, Nov. 22 (Evening). EDWARD EVERET, George Sumner, and other...

Latest Intelligence" : " It is stated (ors assure) that the despatch addressed by the British Cabinet to Lord Lyons, to be communicated to President Lincoln, is based...

Subscriptions to the " FRIEND OF INDIA," and " OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA," will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms: Per...

Ttritur, DEC. 5 (Evening). The debate on the Roman question continued to-day in the Chamber of Deputies. Signor Buoncompagni said: "The path followed by the GOvernment in...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. THE Money Market during the week has been exceedingly quiet, and the rate for the best short bills has not exceeded 24 per cent. Long- dated...

WAR OR PEACE. T HE chances of peace, though they still exist, cannot be said to improve. So many and so various are the in- fluences which directly affect the settlement of...

BANK OF ENGLAND. An Account, pursuant to the 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Wednesday, the 4th day of December, 1861. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued —.....

On the 29th ult., the Marchioness of Hantly, of twin daughters. On the 80th ult., at Castle Forbes, Aberdeenshire, the wife of Major-General Sir John Inglis, K.C.B., of a...

. Bright has made another of those magnificent ora- be a blunder, every belligerent having, by international law, tions which puzzle England whether to wonder most ducting...

COMMERCE. T HE advantage of counting the cost of war before we run into it is apparently more obvious to British intellects than to American, if we may judge by the comments of...

the French press were free, its tone on the San 1 Jacinto affair might be accepted as eminently satis- factory, for its arguments, compliments, and invectives, all lead to the...

B Y long practice the French press has attained to great perfection in the art of admiration. Even the Chorus which watches in loquacious inactivity the movements of the central...

I is a little important that the disgust which every right- minded minded man feels at the late vote of the Oxford congre- gation should not blind us as to the excuses that may...

THE last five years, with their troubled politics, grand disasters, .I.. and large expenditure, have produced one inestimable result. Constitutional governmeut has stood its...

T HE great interest which Mr. Darwin's speculations have excited among all classes is a curious proof how much science suffers from the tendency of its professors to ignore the...

SIR,—The late stoppage of the Trent, and the seizure of the Con- federate Commissioners, have given a sudden interest amongst us to the respective rights of neutrals and...

THE BAD PICTURES AT THE WINTER EXHIBITION. REFERENCE was made last week to the inordinate amount of ques- tionable art to be found at the Winter Exhibition—of pictures pos-...

TEE popularity of Mr. Balfe, as the first of our English composers, great and increasing as it has been for the last quarter of a century, never, perhaps, received so signal a...

CELEBRATED FRIENDSHIPS.* Tim press has been rather more than righteously severe on Mrs. Thomson,—a little Pharisaic in its over-righteous severity. The book is, indeed, full of...

Is the two volumes of Mr. Smiles's new work now before us, we see a kind of rudimentary contribution to Mr. Carlyle's desiderated epic of " Tools and the Man " Here at least is...

HOLM LEE'S notion of the uses of warp and woof is obviously de- rived from Gray : " Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race; and a most gloomy...

add so much to our knowledge of the City of the Saints as was expected. Indeed, the larger portion of the work is not devoted to the city at all, bat consists of a diary...

sult of a neuralgia which has long tormented him. . . . The nose, which THE Magazines are full this month of vitality and freshness, many is fine and somewhat sharp-pointed, is...