A TELEGRAM was received in London on Wednesday, announcing, on the authority of the Dagbladet, that the Danish Government declined to give Prince William to Greece except upon...

"THE Srnoteron " is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Ear& Trains, and copies of that Journal may be/tad the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

may be doubted whether England yet realizes the full extent of this Lancashire difficulty. The general trade of the country is so prosperous, the revenue comes in so easily,...

AFTER EASTER. T HE vague expectation that after Easter home politics may be more lively, is, we conceive, unfounded. Apart from accident, the rise of some wholly unexpected...

P ERHAPS the most striking chapter in Mr. Kinglake's book is that which contains his account of the position occupied at Constantinople by Sir Stratford Canning. The "Great...

I T is difficult to imagine a spectacle more curious or more instructive than that now presented in France. The elections have been fixed for the first week in June, and the...

I T is not, perhaps, strange—however much at first sight it may seem so—that the sympathies of an aristocracy should be with the Confederate States in the struggle which now...

TT is the fashion to decry Mr. Gladstone as an over specu- lative intellect, but his tendency to perceive many courses- is not more remarkable than his genuine administrative...

desertion or disobedience will be attended with is not locked up in London or the great towns, whatever bill- much greater danger than simply doing their duty. In the brokers...

Ma CORBETT, clerk to the Worcestershire and Stafford- shire Canal Company, sued and won Miss Chandler, daughter of a farmer in another county. The lady's family did not, for...

THE citizen soldiers of the Metropolis and the South-Western .1 counties have again put themselves before the country in this early spring time of 1863, and have again come off...

the road from Vevey to Fribourg, in Switzerland, in a most k.1 romantic situation—" beautiful as a dream," says Byron—lies the noble Castle of Attalens, overhanging, on the brow...

(FROM OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) April 9a, 1863. OF the various topics which have of late supplied matter for dis- cussion, no one has so much engaged the attention of the...

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Vienna, April 4. As I did not come here to speculate on the probable result of the Polish insurrection, but simply to give a faithful report...

Ma. Gm commenced his seventeenth season on Tuesday with a splendid performance of his last and all but greatest revival, Diasaniello. With the capabilities of his theatre, and...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sin,—As a fellow country man of Mr. Greeley, Editor of the Yew York Tribune, I wish to say a word in reply to the remarks made upon him in...

MR. J. S. MILL ON UTILITARIANISM.* WHEN the substance of this thoughtful essay was first published a year ago in Fraser's Magazine, we had occasion to make some comments on the...

IT is not easy to make the East comic—almost as difficult as to travesty nature. Nobody ever got a laugh out of Niagara, or made the aspect of the Great Desert humorous, and it...

or easy nature, in endeavouring to foster a taste for learning in a community wholly intent upon money-making. In the course of his labours it must have happened to him now and...

THE letters which Mr. Shirley has published supply a great gap in the history of the middle ages. A series of invaluable publi- cations under the Old Record Commission gave us...

IT is curious to observe how distance, which diminishes the power of discrimination, adds to the dogmatism of human nature. Things which, if said to have happened in our own...

Consul in Fie, arrived in England with a document purporting to be the cession of Figi—or rather Viti—to the Queen of Great Britain. The Legislative Assembly of New South Wales,...

Danes, Saxons, and Normans. By J. G. Edgar, Author of "The Boyhood of Great Men," &c. (Beeton.)—The author of this profusely illustrated volume tells us that its main object is...

in Queen's College, Galway. Second Edition, enlarged. (Mac- millan and Co.)—We have so recently expressed at length our entirely favourable opinion of Professor Cairnes' work,...

the Rev. Hope Mastert,on Waddell. (Nelson and Sons.)—The author of this work, which professes to be "a review of missionary work and adven- ture," is a gentleman belonging to...

Freer, Author of "The Life of Marguerite d'Angouleme," &c. Two Vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This work constitutes the third and concluding portion of Miss Freer's "History of the...

An Exposition on the Epistle to the Romans, by J. H. Atrium (Houlston and Wright).—De Quincey's Works, Vol. 15 (A. and C. Black, Editiburgh).—The Story of Elizabeth (Smith,...