England for a " lengthened stay," or, in less diplomatic lan- guage, are temporarily banished. The King appears deter- mined to pursue his policy of disregarding the...

T HE event of the week has been a harmless -but widely-felt earthquake, which shot across the island from west to east at 3.20 a.m. on Tuesday morning, wakening a considerable...

sen- sations and those of their wives and children to the Times, which--opened wide its columns to receive them, printing on Wednesday and Thursday fifty-three personal letters,...

are rumours that the Three Powers intend to announce that the Treaty of Vienna is at an end, but they are onlyrumours, greatly despised by General Berg, whose last act has been...

interest now appears in the SPECTATOR, and will be continued, either weekly or at short intereals,gicing an Account of the Great Governing Families of England in Bel dion to...

of a school of theology now certainly not in the ascendant, which we may call the Hard Church. His mind was strong, genuinely liberal, masculine, shrewd, didac- tic—not very...

been beaten at Coventry by Mr. Treherue, the Conservative candidate, by a vote of 2,263 to 2,129. The election is very discreditable to the borough, Mr. Treherne being in the...

cruelty to animals habitual amono. Southern races, translated a little tract on the subject into Italian. She submitted it to the censor, who returned this reply The little work...

our knowledge of facts. The extent of General Rosecranz's defeat is explained, as appears in another column ; but the moot points whether General Burnside can reach Chattanooga,...

of Wales and the King of' the Greeks visited the Adelphi on Wednesday, to see the American actress, Miss Bateman, who is playing the part of Leah. They were regu- larly mobbed,...

underwriters, only 1,827 wrecks having occurred, with a loss of 690 lives. Of these wrecks no less- than 700 were colliers employed between Newcastle and the Thames, the ships...

Frances Trollope, the novelist, at the age of 84. ThougIt'she began writing nearly forty years since, her works still sell, and, with some exceptions, deserve their popularity....

Nader thinks he has discovered a plan for an ceromotive, and in order to raise the funds for his experiment he intends to give two ascents in a giant balloon. The first came off...

Maximilian on the 3rd inst., with some graceful words abort the memories attaching to the ancient rule of his House. The Archduke replied in a singularly guarded speech. He was...

like those of Messrs. Rayner, near Lynn, where they have built six-roomed cottages at 1251. a piece, will not do much to advance it. A Count de Madre, in Paris, has, however,...

somewhat novel character, viz., to lend money to Bengalee holders of land. It is called the Indian Land Bank, with Mr. Laing for managing director, and its idea is to borrow...

Republic to Greece. As the members lose in allowances, officials in salaries, merchants in trade, the peo- ple in wages, and all classes in protection abroad, the vote is a...

of October that the Government of Denmark had not fulfilled its federal obligations in Holstein-Lauenburg, that federal execution must be enforced, and that Austria, Prussia,...

Officials who have taken the oath to be submissive I of the acreage under cultivation in Ireland "during the pre- sent year." The account was taken in June after planting, but...

the uncovering of Prince Albert's statue in Aberdeen. The ceremonial has been postponed to Tuesday next. This is the first appearance of her Majesty in public since her hus-...

1,500 a week ; but the men employed on public works com- plain that they do not earn enough. They cannot, of course, expect the wages of prosperous times ' • but when set to...

by our Long Vacation Correspondent, "Vacuus Viator," three weeks ago, writes us a very courteous letter to offer three explanations. The first is as to the spelling of his name,...

New York, and Mr. James Spence, its Con- federate correspondent in Liverpool, were never employed on that able journal, which usually recognizes the wish of the public to know...

the American question,—Mr. Lindsay at an agricultural meeting in Middlesex yesterday week,—Lord Brougham in his inaugural discourse at the Social Science meeting at Edin- burgh...

to yesterday's Times he enumerates n11 the great battles of the war to show that the Confederates have won seven decisively, drawn an eighth, and only once been defeated. His...

The postma ster of South Cave, after leaving the office unguarded for—as he says—only a few moments, on his return, found the mail-bag gone. It was afterwards found, minus a...

93+ for the Account. India Stock is 224. Enfaced 5 per Cents, 108. Mexi- cans are at 42 42g. Greeks are at 33} 34i. Spanish Passives are at 34 34i. A new bank has been started,...

at Glasgow which might match iu taste the effusion of Mr. Lindsay, though it was, of course, on the other side. lie stated that wine was early regarded as a nuisance by himself...

is, perhaps, scarcely worth while to expose. Ile says, " There is no evidence, nor is there any probability, that troops had been sent to General Bragg from any" of the other...

THE DANISH DANGER. T HAT the end cannot justify the means is sound morality ; but, then, can the means ever be held to justify the end? We may not do evil that good may come ;...

quite appre- ciates the sacrifices which his soldiers make for him. When he declares that he must have that bridge or that bat- tery, he knows that, however great the sacrifice...

A NOTHER swing of the pendulum. Even now, after two years of expectations always deceived, the public scarcely perceives that the American struggle is not a more ordinary war,...

not then a party chief 111 but a political novelist, busily engaged in outlining rather- warm love scenes and pillaging the Political Register for original thoughts, offered a...

k NGLO.INDIANS have for some time been expecting bad news from India. Five consecutive years is, if we may judge by the history of the century, a great deal too long a cycle of...

" L ORD BROUGHAM," once said an acute reviewer, " has enough of misanthropy to be a philanthropist ;" and if we supplement this ingenious observation by the remark that he has...

E seem to have narrowly escaped, if we have even yet completely escaped, a direct trial of our national courage, fortitude, and faith, not unlike that of which we wrote last...

A RE there no magistrates in the Tower Hamlets ?—because, if there are, they are very grievously neglecting their duty. Their business at this moment is to earn the "position"...

different person from jj his father. A man of so sweet a disposition that it is said all were at ease around him, he had neither his father's bad manners nor his unerring...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, September 26, 1863. GENERAL ROSECRANZ has received a severe check on his south- ward progress. He has been compelled to retreat from...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Tar my run this year I have, as usual, made such inquiries as I could about the most important of all questions—the condition of the people....

MR. CLOUGH'S POEMS. NEW EDITION.* IT is creditable to English taste and culture that these fine poems, in spite of much ignorant, and some unexpectedly ignorant, criticism, have...

THE only two noteworthy theatrical events of the past fortnight followed in most rapid succession. Mr. Webster, after closing the Adelphi with a speech in which he assured the...

volumes of the " Annals " of this century's. wars Sir Edward Cost had tracked Napoleon to the summit of his power and glory, and had sketched the faint, but signideent...

is apt, in general, to misrepresent life in one almost invariable direction. Whether it deal with the play of character, or the force of passion, or the pathos of sentiment, it...

Iv is not, perhaps, difficult to understand why these Essays have passed through thirty editions, or why the thirtieth has been included in a series which contains nothing that...

THERE is a story that one of the brothers Grimm once received a visit from a little girl who inquired if his name was Grimm, and if he had written the German Fairy 'rules, and,...

contemporary has now reached its fifth number. Tho political article is a careful review of the session of 1863, but written in a temper which we cannot but think little...

M.A., Fellow of New College, Oxon. (Longman and Co,)—The third number of this magazine contains five average papers, four devoted to the Alps and one to the Pyrenees. We confess...

Thoughts on Population and the Means of Comfortable Subsistence. By Agrestis. (Longman and Co.)—We have little hope that writers of the calibre of this gentleman will ever be...

Hon. Lord Stanley, M.P. By Franklin Lushington, late member of the Supreme Council of Justice in the Ionian Islands. (Macmillan and Co.)—A kindly defence of two old colleagues,...

Discourses by the Bishop of London. (Murray.)—The Bishop has endeavoured to make, and completely succeeded in making, these sermons " as little as possible controversial." But...