News Of The Week.
MHE fears of Lord Elgin's friends have, we regret to say, been realized, a telegram, from Bombay announcing his death at Dhurmsala, the Punjaub Hill Station, on 20th November.......
We Regret To Notice The Sudden Death Of Mr. Justice
Wightman, at the age of eighty. He expired on circuit at York on the 10th inst., apparently from disease of the heart, having retired to bed on the previous evening in full......
The Event Of The Week In Many Circles Has Been
the interna - tional prize-fight which came off at Wadhurst on Thursday. King, an English pugilist, fought Heenan, the American, for 2,0001. Both are heavy weights, but Heenan......
Canon Wordsworth Has Published A Kind Of Protest Against The
admission of Dr. Stanley to the Deanery of Westminster, to which he has been nominated by the Crown, accompanied by a comfortable enumeration of the pledges and subscriptions by......
A Compromise Is To Be Effected At Oxford About The
salary of Mr. Jowett's chair. The salary, it is said, will be proposed by Dr. Pusey himself ; but the University statute, in which it is given, will recite carefully that the......
The First Regiment Of Austrians Ordered For Holstein Is A
Hun- garian one—a wonderful bit of unconscious irony.......
Royal Family Alliances.—special Supplement To The...
interest will be issued gratis with the SPECTATOR on Saturday, January 2nd, containing a new branch of the subject disclosed in January last, "The Crowned Heads of Europe."......
On The 23rd Of November A Reconnaissance In Force Was
made by General Thomas's army in Tennessee, under Grant's orders, which discovered General Bragg to be falling back from a position which was no longer tenable after the......
The German Diet Has This Week Voted, By A Small
majority, that unless Denmark conceded its demands within three days, federal execution should issue in Holstein. The troops have received their orders, and the Austrian corps......