tliS4Jeg's Speech, published in very large type. Lord Palmer- dress to his electors at Tiverton reviews, not without - -dignity, the success which has attended the six years of...

a little unfortunate. The Premier, either unwilling to remove Sir- Roundel' Palmer from the House of Commons, or failing to per- suade him to accept the burden of a peerage, has...

WA ex- pected, or created so much interest. It was expected to prove one of those cases which have an intellectual :interest from the want of proportion between the crime and...

miu A HEN T was dissolved on Thursday, after a formal pro- rogation to the 12th inst. The message from the Throne was rather less ungrammatical than usual, and rather more...

on the Lord Chancellor, was withdrawn, and Mr. Bouverie's amend- ment, not very different in drift, substituted. Both the attack and defence were very weak, the Lord Advocate...

House of Lords conceived and spoken with admirable taste. He explained how anxious he had been to resign "several months ago," when the first accusation had been made against...

regret, that Baron Rothschild has taken the disloyal step of" ordering ", the Jew electors - to plump for himself, thus depriving" his colleagues of nearly three thousand votes. .

Kingsley have both come forward with great courage and manli- ness to support Mr. J. S. Mill, and to testify to the theological soundness of the passage against Mr. Mansel's...

close and severe, and any Liberal whe wishes to save the University from the disgrace of rejecting &great man and return- ing a small one in his place, must postpone, if...

Westminster. In the first speech he showed the extent and length of his services to the Liberal cause, which he has - defended for thirty years, and frequently in an apparently...

in Algeria into the form of a pamphlet, which he has distributed among the higher officers of the State. He is evidently deter- mined to make some considerable changes. He...

for transcription, of the circumstances attending the murder of a missionary, the Rev. C. S. Volkner, by Maori fanatics. His body was afterwards cut up by: these poor wretches,...

officials ; may there not be perchance a malaria which inclines Chancellors to grant pensions to unworthy persons, and then forget said about such grants ? In 1859 Mr. Winslow...

to a noble resolution,—to support Tories, and of Tories accordingly they have since been in search. Mr. Murray Glad- stone and the Mayor of Manchester have declined the request...

they spin," and the Peers obviously think their function in life is that of lilies in the field. Earl Cowper on Tuesday complained that all the labour of committees on private...

for Lynn. In his address he declares that he comes forward to establish the rights of the clergy of the Church of England—the only class of commoners now excluded from a House...

of the harvest, estimates that this year the crop of wheat will be less than the average, of barley average, of oats under average, and of swedes half the average,—not a good...

the hand and its various expressive lines and features, gave a lecture on the hand at the Hanover Square Rooms, which was attended by only about a dozen. people,—Englishmen...

the Whig Government crept into power by promising to pass a Reform Bill, but treacherously betrayed its allies and the country, —a treachery in which he himself had no part. Mr....

con- stituency in Edinburgh, which has given rise to a respectable joke. " What can have caused Adam's Fall ?" asked one constituent. "The Eve of an election," was the reply.

Co., Shipbuilders and Engineers, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, the Jarrow Iron Company, and the Mulgrave Ironstone Company, have been disposed of to a Joint-Stock Company, under limited...

off at the annexed quotations :— Yesterday and on Friday week the leading British Railways left off at the annexed quotations :— Caledonian .. . Great Eastern Great Northern...

on Friday week were as follows :— Friday, June 39. Friday, July 7. 201 Si. 24 a d. 221 14 73 721 x d. 431 Greek •• • Do. Coupons Mexican .. Spauish Passive Do....

the capital of the undertaking being 250,0001., in 20/. shares. The first issue is to consist of 6,250 shares. The leading object of the directors is to make purchases of land...

the White Nile spoken of by Captain Speke—but disbelieved and (so far as a fact can be refuted) refuted by Captain Burton— originating in the lake called by Captain Speke Luta...

neither to relinquish the credit of being a friend of the North now, nor the credit of having been its truest friend last year, when he reviled its statesmen in the bitterest...

by Mr. Tom Taylor, was produced with much success at the Olympic, on the occasion of Miss Kate Terry's benefit. The story turns on the love of a French countess for a Russian...

90k for money, and 90i I for account, closed yesterday at 90it for delivery and 90f t for time. The stock of bullion in the Bank of England is now 16,073,259/.

MR. MILL AND THE TEN-POUNDERS. S OME of the humbler electors of Westminster are under a curious impression, which is working injuriously for Mr. Mill. They think they are asked...

L ORD WESTBURY'S fall was absolutely necessary to vin- dicate the public morality of this country, but it is a necessity already regretted, though by no means repented. His very...

the new Par- liament will have been elected, and there will be better data than now exist upon which to base an estimate of the sort of Parliament it will be. We have, however,...

had a double character impressed upon it at birth, which it retained through manhood and old age. Called together by Lord Derby to support a Tory Administration, its first act...

P OLITICIANS who believe in Constitutional government should watch the transactions now in progress in Hungary, for they have never had such an argument in favour of their...

W E wish Lord Derby would remember that whatever he does, particularly when he does good deeds, is certain to be ex- tensively imitated by persons possessed of far less ability...

P ROFESSOR JOWEIT preached last Sunday at St. Andrew's, Holborn, a very remarkable and characteristic sermon, of which through the kindness of one of his hearers we have before...

from one of the A nelo- Norman families who entered Scotland in the period imme- diately succeeding the Conquest. We find a Simon de Ramsay set- tled in the Lothians in the...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, Tune 23, 1865. WE have had two little riots of short duration in the vicinity of New York this week. On Tuesday the firemen of some...

THERE is less than usual to strike the eye in a first sight of this Exhibition. The attractiveness of a picture-gallery depends in the first instance on colour, and in a...

MR. GROTE'S PLATO.* IT is not surprising that the historian of Greece should have selected the writings of Plato as a subject for special treatment. For, whether those writings...

IN this beautiful volume, got up as only his books ever seem to be got up, with a simple elegance in strict accord with his style, Mr. King endeavours to include all that is...

sounding word to apply to the doings and journeyings of Mr. Boyle in Borneo, but we are not disposed to quarrel with an interesting book of travels on account of a phrase, as...

THESE two volumes are good, but they would have been better for leas parade. The fictitious Mr. Holbeach and his imaginary editor are convenient myths for the author, as...

HERE is a volume containing sketches of seventeen general officers, all save one more or less distinguished for actual service in the field, the one exception being Samuel...

English Idyls and other Poems. By Jane Ellice. (Macmillan and Co.) — We cannot place the author of these very pretty verses above the class of good imitators. She has studied...

him useful, employed Lacen in Council. By J. F. Boyes. (Bell and Daldy.)—Mr. Boyes' him in his own trade, and thus he became a sculptor. At twenty- book is better worth reading...

There is The Star of Poland. With other Scenes and Sketches from History. a life of the conscience, as distinguished from the purely spiritual life ; By Maria E. Catlow. (W....

of that toil, and in every jects she selects, and tells her story in a pleasant, unaffeeted wily, ft

pleasure. highest principles of the society, for it leaves everything as it found it

Co.)—This gentleman has occupied his leisure in turning the legends. of the guide-books into doggrel,—but even doggrel should have metro and rhyme, and here is a specimen of M....

(Brad- bury and Evans.)—This volume Mr. Knight calls the third epoch. It commences in the summer of 1844, and comes down to the present time, a pleasant, gossiping narrative of...

did not the eater aptitude for literary composition. A careful topographical r _ description of an island like Crete would not in any circumstances be very attractive to the...