11 FEBRUARY 1865

Page 1

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Spectator

• P ARLIAMENT met on Tuesday, but the week has been very dull. The Queen's Speech, which was read by commission, was as uninteresting as usual, and more than usually...

A joint committee appointed by the benches of each of

The Spectator

the four Inns of Court have decided by a majority of one (12 to 11) that ordained clergymen shall not in future be excluded from the Bar. The great authority in favour of the...

The only pretence at a party debate was in the

The Spectator

House of Lords. The Earl of Charlemont moved the Address in a speech the exordium of which, a somewhat profuse apology for making it, would have furnished a more appropriate and...

The debate on the Address in the Commons was intolerably

The Spectator

dull, no speaker of any eminence uttering a word. The mover of the Address, Sir H. Williamson, made the Speech a little more watery by his paraphrase ; and his seconder, Mr....

Sir Fitzroy Kelly has come out in the part of

The Spectator

eminent agricul- turist,—a part which, like most other parts, he plays well. He took the chair at a great Anti-Malt Tax meeting at the Free- masons' Tavern on Wednesday. He was...

The King of Italy, by the advice of his Ministers,

The Spectator

left Turin on the 3rd inst. for Florence. We have explained the reasons and the results of this unexpected step in another place, and need only add here that there is no...

A report of the debate in the Diet of Nobles

The Spectator

for the pro- vince of Moscow on an address to the Crown has reached Lon- don. The principal speaker was Count Orloff, Grand Master of the Ceremonies to the Emperor, and...

Page 2

The place on the Bench which has become vacant by

The Spectator

the resig- nation of Mr. Justice Williams in the Court of Common Pleas is to be filled up by the appointment of Mr. Montague Smith, M.P. for Truro, to succeed him. It is a good...

The issue of the conflict in Prussia is still uncertain.

The Spectator

The King, it is said, is so irritated by the demeanour of Austria that he is half disposed to compromise with his Parliament, and has invited Herr Grabow to Court. Herr Grabow...

The Illinois State Senate, by a majority of five votes,

The Spectator

•has re- - pealed the law prohibiting the immigration of free negroes into that State. This is a very important sign of the anti-slavery spirit of the North. Illinois had always...

General Thomas has sent heavy reinforcements from Nashville to Sherman

The Spectator

and Grant. It is believed that simultaneous advances will shortly be made from Savannah, Beaufort, Fort Fisher, and the James River, on Augusta, Charleston, Wilmington, and...

The correspondent of the Times at Richmond writes on the

The Spectator

27th -of December, between the two attacks on Wilmington,—after the failure and before the success,—a letter in which he speaks of the loss of Wilmington as almost a " blessing...

The news from America is scarcely important. Of course the

The Spectator

Blair mission came to nothing but Blair's Rhetoric, and the - only news from Richmond is that Congress has decided, and Mr. Jefferson Davis es :smelted, to appoint a...

The Spectator

The correspondence on the St. Alban's and Lake Erie outrages

The Spectator

has been laid before Parliament. It is, on the whole, very tem- perate and conciliatory on both sides,—the only monstrous sugges- tion made by the North, and that not as a...

A perfect fend is raging in Paris on the one

The Spectator

question which few study, but which drives a large proportion of those few mad,— currency. The Conseil Snperieur du Commerce have been directed to inquire into the present...

Reports have been current all the week of a cession

The Spectator

of Mexican territory to France. The provinces of Sonora and Chihuahua in particular are said to have been ceded in return for the great services rendered by France to Mexico....

The Court of Aldermen on Thursday was inundated with peti-

The Spectator

tions praying the Corporation to take the gas supply into its •own hands, complaining of Dr. Letheby's analyses of the noisome vapour now sold, and demanding that the price...

Several members of Parliament have already given notices of important

The Spectator

motions. Sir G. Grey will bring on his bill for con- solidating prison discipline on Monday next ; Sir J. Pekington moves on the 28th for a committee to consider the appointment...

Page 3

Consols, which left off on Saturday last at 891 #

The Spectator

for delivery, and 891 >E for time, closed yesterday at 89 to 891 for money, and 891 for account. The stock of bullion in the Bank of England is now 14,511,6111. ; in the Bank of...

The Builder of this week has a grand suggestion. It

The Spectator

wants to form a limited-liability company to purchase from the Greek Government the right of excavating the Olympian plain, where - " hundreds of fine Greek statues are known to...

The Poor Law Board has decided on the case of

The Spectator

Timothy Daly, -who died recently of bed-sores, caused, as he said, by the neglect of Mr. Norton, medical officer of the Holborn Union. On the re- port of Mr. Farnall and Dr....

We would call the attention of any of our readers

The Spectator

interested in the question of the Onde Talookdars to a most able and dispassion- ate letter giving an official history of the question. We are happy to infer from Sir Charles...

The Spectator

The Colonial Office has given way on the question of

The Spectator

pensions to ex-governors of colonies. Mr. Cardwell announced on Thursday that the Government was prepared to bring in a bill on the subject, and we trust it will be a liberal...

The City seems likely at last to rise in revolt

The Spectator

against its hitherto much-loved municipal police force. On the night of this day week a very scientific burglary was committed in the shop of Mr. Walker, jeweller and...

We are happy to perceive that the project of establishing

The Spectator

a Dressmaking Company is likely to be successful. The object of this association, briefly stated, is to get good dresses well made by first-class hands without working them to...

An Italian named Pelizzoni was last week condemned to death

The Spectator

for stabbing Michael Harrington in a squabble in the Golden Anchor, Saffron Hill. The evidence seemed clear, the victim recognized and pardoned his murderer, and the judge,...

Beating a squire is hard work. Our readers may remember

The Spectator

that Mr. H. N. Burroughes, a county magistrate and ex-M.P. of Norfolk, was ordered by the justices to improve certain of his cot- tages which had been reported by the sanitary...

The following table shows the clotting prices of the leading

The Spectator

Foreign rwieurities yesterday and on Friday week :- Friday, Feb. 8. Friday, Feb. 10. 231 Do. Coupons — 271 Spanish Passive •. Do. Certificates Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. 73...

Page 4

transfix Glaucus, of a series of almost amiable interrogatories, creditable

The Spectator

to the activity of his inquiring mind, to Lord Russell. Yet the only glimmer of interest attaching to the opening of Parliament belonged to that almost nominal examination of...

article, to contain any rhetorical flourishes, to display any of

The Spectator

intelligible paragraph for which Lord Granville apologized, that frank strength always apparent in the addresses of the and which Sir Charles Wood will doubtless not attempt to...

Page 6

TURIN AND VICTOR EMANUEL.

The Spectator

A LITTLE too much is being made of the quarrel between Victor Emanuel and Turin. It is of course an incident which the friends of Italy must regret, but it does not endanger...

Page 7

LEGES SINE MORIB US.

The Spectator

TIFIR law of England says that, if two foreign nations are I. at war, no one shall enlist men in this country to serve in the army or navy of either belligerent, and apparently...

Page 8

THE BOARD OF WOODS AND EARL SPENCER.

The Spectator

A LETTER from the Office of Woods and Forests to Lord Spencer's solicitor, dated 12th January, 1865 (which, with other papers relating to the proposed inclosure of Wim- bledon...

Page 9

RUSSIAN REFORMS.

The Spectator

T HE tardiness and inaccuracy with which almost all intelli- gence is reported from Russia is greatly to be regretted. Great things are transacting themselves in that Empire of...

MATHEMATICS AND THEOLOGY.

The Spectator

P ROFESSOR DE MORGAN, in an amusing paper recently published in the Athenaum, has casually drawn attention to the blunders which rash theologians make in attempting to apply...

Page 11

" WOODWARD v. CLARKE." g iT will certainly not tend

The Spectator

to my happiness to keep our engage- ment, and I do not think it will to yours, but still of course I will marry you. I have acted hastily in engaging myself, and now wish you to...

Page 12

A NUMBER of charters were granted to the first Earl

The Spectator

of Roxburghe, particularly of the Royal burgh of Canon- gate, united with the barony of Bronghtoun, August 15, 1630. He was sent down in 1637 to Scotland by the King to endea-...

Page 14

WILMINGTON.

The Spectator

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, Januarg 21, 1865. I HOPE that none of the readers of the Spectator have much at stake in blockade-running, for if they have they...

Page 15

THE STATE OF THE FEDERAL PRISONS AND HOSPITALS.

The Spectator

[The following is an extract , of a letter from an officer in the Federal Army, for whose honour and accuracy we can ourselves vouch, and whose statement is so interesting in...

Page 16

SIR JOHN LAWRENCE IN OUDE.

The Spectator

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—In your paper of the 5th there is an article on the new controversy connected with the tenure of land which has com- menced in India. As...

Page 17

BOOKS.

The Spectator

BALLADS.* BALLans bear to the higher lyrical or epic poetry into which they sometimes rise, the same kind of relation which the short uncertain trot of infancy bears to the...

Page 19

THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN'S HOUSE.* Mn. KERR has pitched his key-note

The Spectator

just a trifle too high. The book especially wanted was a guide to the principles of domestic architecture intended for men with 1,0001. a year and 2,500/. to expend upon a...

Page 20

DALZIEL'S ILLUSTRATED ARABIAN NIGHTS.* TEE Arabian Nights is one of

The Spectator

the few books which supply a boundless field of collateral yet wholly independent study by the side of the mere amusement they afford. Read as a string of idle fictions, they...

Page 21

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF AN EASTERN QUEEN.* The Private Life

The Spectator

of an Eastern King did much to accelerate the annexation of Oude. That book was a collection of all the scandals current in Lucknow about the Royal family, many of them true,...

Page 22

The Quarterly Review. January, 1865. (John Murray.)—The editor seems to

The Spectator

have been afraid of being thought to puff Lord Derby'a translation of the Iliad, for after a page or two of general praise, which really cannot be denied to it, the notice...

The Edinburgh Review. January, 1865. (Longman and Co.)—The Edinburgh this

The Spectator

quarter has its sting in its tail. To the last paper but one, entitled "Seven per Cent.," which is very generally attributed to Mr.. Giischen, M.P. for the City, we called...

The Westminster Review. January, 1865. (Triibner and Co.)—The Westminster does

The Spectator

good service this quarter by a thoroughly well-rea- soned paper in favour of the purchase of the railways by the State, which ought to remove much of the prejudice by which the...

A Catalogue of Adversaria and Printed Books, containing MS. notes

The Spectator

preserved in the Library of the Fitzvtilliam Museum. (Cambridge University Press.)—The Fitzwilliam Museum seems to be rich in this class of work, as the catalogue extends over...

The Joint - Stock Companies' Directory for 1865. (Charles Barker and Sons,

The Spectator

Birchin lane, printed by King.)--This useful, and for mercantile men almost indispensable, directory is divided so as to give the greatest. possible facilities for obtaining...

CURRENT LITERATURE.

The Spectator

ModernWwfare and Modern Artillery. By Colonel MacDougall. (John Murray.)—This is a compendium of the principles of warfare as illus- trated by modern practice,—a sort of...

Page 23

Notes upon the Errors of Geology. By John Kelly, Vice - President

The Spectator

of the R.G.S.L (Longman and Co.)—This gentleman writes like a man of science, and therefore the fact that he desires to reconcile the Mosaic cosmogony with geology ought not to...

Poems. By John Greet. (F. Pitman.)—This "little volume" con- tains

The Spectator

a poem on the burning of the Amazon, and we learn that when the mate gave the alarm of fire,— " The moon for fear has shrank within her interlunar cave, Nor sea-gulls dip their...

Percy Talbot. By George Graham. 3 vols. (Saunders, Otley, and

The Spectator

Co.)—The character of the hero, brilliant, fascinating, and worldly, who appreciates not only polished manners, but real excellence of mind and heart, yet is determined to marry...

Aids to Devotion. By Goodwyn Barmby. (Whitfield, Green, and Son.)—A

The Spectator

volume of religious readings in two parts—one relating to the order of the natural, the other to that of the Christian year. They are marked by the same characteristics as the...

Barefooted Birdie. Edited by Charles Felix. (Saunders, Otley, and Co.)

The Spectator

Gertrude Waynflete. By "M. J. H." (Ward and Lock.)—These books have little in common, except that both are " stories for Christmas," and both are of the smallest class of tales...