11 NOVEMBER 1865

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At the Lord Mayor's dinner on Thursday night, after the

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in- auguration of Alderman Phillips, both Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone referred to the future measures of the Government in terms carefully vague, and yet no doubt meant to...

Sir Charles Wood had a severe accident on Wednesday, near

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Doncaster. He was thrown from his horse while hunting, and lighting on his head was taken up insensible. The latest account is very favourable, but an accident of that kind...

Mr. Stearns, an old friend of Mr. Johnson, has been

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permitted to publish his conversation with the President upon the subject of negro suffrage. The gist of Mr. Johnson's argument is that lie is not opposed to negro suffrage, but...

The allusions to foreign politics in Earl Russell's speech were

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in one way noteworthy. He confessed most cordially the value of the French alliance, which he hoped might last fifty years, and then, as if that alliance had suggested the...

The Shenandoah has made a last effort to imbroil England

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with the United States by coming into Liverpool and surrendering to an English man-of-war, an event which happened last Monday. The statement of Captain Waddell is said to be...

The Hon. Caleb Cushing, who, if we remember rightly, was

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Mr. Pierce's Attorney-General, and made himself parti- cularly unpleasant to Mr. Crampton in the discussion concern- ing English enlistments during the Crimean war, is coming to...

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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T HE Ministry is still in the crucible, and no one can yet affirm what the out-turn will be—most probably a mixed metal. In the beginning of the week it was announced with some...

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Bitter complaints of the price of butchers' meat are finding

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their way into the journals. It would seem from the evidence supplied that the leading butchers, who are less exposed to competition than any body of tradesmen, the business...

The Catholics of Belfast have succumbed in part to the

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authority of their Bishop, Dr. Donlan. They have not, it is true, invested him with the right of veto which he demanded, but they have agreed to break up their institution. That...

Two candidates have been proposed for the Lord Rectorship of

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Edinburgh, Mr. Carlyle and Mr. Disraeli, and the friends of each are actively denouncing his opponent. The chief charge against Mr. Disraeli beyond his political character...

Mr. Roger' plan for establishing a City Lyceum by aid

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of the surplus funds of the City Charities has met with warm support. A meeting was held at the Mansion House on Tuesday, at which a committee, including Mr. Goschen, Mr....

The French project of appointing an International Commission of Inquiry

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into the causes t f cholera is about to be realized. All the Powers have agreed to it, and a commission is about to meet at Constantinople, which may possibly discover that...

The orders are out for the invasion of Bootan. The

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force is to consist of two wings of British infantry, six regiments of native infantry, 1,000 drilled coolies, two batteries of artillery, and two companies of Sappers and...

A correspondent of the Telegraph, who writes from the Parana,

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says Uruguayana is not yet taken,that bitter dissensions exist among the allies, that numbers of persons belonging to Uruguay have joined Lopez, and that the Brazilian soldiers...

Lori Napier will sacceed e-ir E. Denison at Madras—a curious

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appointment, the Indian Governorships being seldom filled from the diplomatic service. His Lordship succeeded in St. Petersburg, but his administrative capacity is not known,...

Lord Stanley opened the Liverpool Gymnasium on Monday with a

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speech on the value of gymnastics, which he praised as the best means of preserving health among those classes who earn their bread by sedentary pursuits. The new gymnasium is...

The Austrian Government appears to be quite in earnest in

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the endeavour to arrange a treaty of commerce with Great Britain, and the matter is now the subject of negotiation. It-will, how- ever, be settled by the Austrian Minister • and...

The inquest upon•the men killed by the explosion of the

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Nine Elms gasometers was concluded yesterday. It was proved that the meter-house contained two governors or cylinders, regulating the pressure of the gas passed from the...

A conscription of seven men per 1,000 was to be

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carried out in Poland on the 5th inst., the classes liable being all young men between twenty and twenty-four years of age. Three are drawn for every one taken, and as the...

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The Earl of Hardwicke, who distributed the prizes in the

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Cam- bridge School of Art on Tuesday evening, is of opinion that young men who do not need to learn art for a livelihood are more in need of something to keep them from...

The Philadelphia correspondent of the Times, who, however, takes no

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pains to conceal his keen sympathy with the pro-slavery party, calculates that, in the Congress about to meet, the Senate will contain 34 supporters of the President to 38...

Signor Sella's speech on Italian affairs, and especially on Venetia,

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is scarcely so warlike as the Austrian papers are anxious to represent it. He says the Venetian question might be settled either by war or by negotiation,—that the former mode...

The Tyne General' Engineering Company, with a capital of 100,0001,

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in 10,000 shares of 101. each, is announced. The Directors have secured, at a moderate rental and option of pur- chase, premises at South Shore, Gateshead, having the advantage...

The Pope is, however, still affecting military self-reliance. General Krantzler

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has been appointed to the office, vacant by Monsignor Merode's dismissal, of Pro-Minister-at-Arms. H e served under Lamoriciere in the Castelfidardo campaign, and more recently...

The leading British Railways left off at the annexed quotations

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yesterday and on Friday week :— Friday, November 3. Friday, November 10. Caledonian .. .. .. .. .. .. 126 ..g 127 ' Great Eastern .. .. .. .. .. 481 ... Great Northern.. .. .....

On Saturday last Consols for money closed at 88,1 to

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89. On Tuesday the price for delivery fell to 88g but the quotations have since advanced somewhat rapidly. Yesterday the market opened with considerable buoyancy at 89* to I for...

The following advertisement appeared in the Times of Sep- tember

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29 :— P ARTNER WANTED.—A practical distiller, having been experimenting for the last 17 years, can now produce a fair Port and Sherry by fermentation without a drop of the grape...

The Bishop of London did great mischief: we fear, when

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he declined so peremptorily to consecrate St. Michael's, till the Rev. C. Lyford and his dressy Puseyite brethren had taken off their showy robes and stripped the altar of its...

The closing prices of the leading Foreign Securities yesterday and

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on Friday week were as follows :— Friday, November 3. Vriday, Ndmantrirr IA, Greek ,. .. ., 1e1 .. 19 Do. Coupons .. .. r kistiean .. .. — 251 14 Spanish Passive •• .. 281...

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MR. BRIGHT AND THE CABINET.

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T HE mysterious changes which have been darkly shadowed forth and as darkly denied this week by the various political oracles, have hinged with a curious pertinacity on some...

TOPICS OF THE DAY.

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THE MINISTRY AT WAR. Fr 1FIE rumour of the Dake of Somerset's resignation, which we are half-inclined to suspect was put out as a feeler, has not been well received by the...

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THE INSURRECTION IN JAMAICA.

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'UTE are still without precise intelligence from Jamaica, but Y V enough is known of the condition of the island to justify us in a blank denial of the assertions that the...

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NAPOLEON ON ALGERIA.

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T HE Emperor of the French has apparently compromised his views on the government of Algeria. His original plan, so far as it could be deduced from expressions purposely...

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THEATRICAL TASTE AND MANAGEMENT.—THE LYCEUM AND OLYMPIC.

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Bo OTH the Lyceum and the Olympic have started afresh this week. Mr. Fechter has re-opened his theatre after an un- usually long recess, and Mr. Horace Wigan has changed the...

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LORD STANLEY ON EXERCISE.

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S EDENTARY men owe Lord Stanley a piece of plate, some thing bigger than the silver toothpick which Elliston is said to have described by that meaningless phrase. He has struck...

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MR. GLADSTONE ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY.

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" W E should ourselves," thinksthe Tines, " substitute ancient civilization, or some , sueh term, for Greece in the thesis of the address " which Mr. Gladstone recently...

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THE MURRAYS OF ATHOLE.--(CONOLUDED.)

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J OHN MURRAY, eldest son of the fi rst Mar q uis of Athole, who succeeded him as second Mar q uis, was born at Knowsley, the seat of his maternal uncle, the Earl of Derby, on...

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POLITICAL APATHY IN THE NORTH.

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[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, October 20, 1865. THE new law for the registration of voters in the State of New York went into operation on Tuesday of this week....

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THE FUNCTION OF PRAYER.

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[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is one view of prayer which would make it not un- philosophical to conceive that God may suspend or over-rule even physical...

BOOKS.

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No book published since the life of Dr. Arnold has produced so strong an impression on the moral imagination and spiritual theology of England as we may expect from these...

WORKING MEN'S FRANCHISE.

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[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."] Sin,—In estimating the probable working of such a reduced fran- chise as is likely to form one of the features in a new Reform Bill, I...

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AN ILLUSTRATED GULLIVER.*

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OF course the novelty about this edition is chiefly its illustrations, which are admirable. The elementary difficultyof illustrating Gulli- ver's Travels is, that as drawing can...

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DOCTOR HAROLD.* Tars is a really good book, and one

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we can commend without reserve. We do not mean that there is no fault to be found with it critically, or that it is a first-rate novel, or that it will suit readers of all...

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BURTON'S ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY.*

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ROBERT BuirroN seems, if we may hazard a comparison, to have stood to the age of Shakespeare very much in the same intellectual and literary ratio as Charles Lamb to the age of...

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Total Abstinence not Christian Te»perance. By Rev. E. S. Lowndea,

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M.A. (J. H. and J. Parker.)—The reverend author has been exercised in mind by the spiritual arrogance of the teetotallers. It is certainly trying when a young man committed to...

Men of the Time. New edition. (Routledge.)—One has no right

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to pick holes in a book of this kind, which professes to give an account of everybody who has ddue anything. It is produced with great labour, it is very cheap, and it contains...

Hymns for the Church of England, with Proper Tunes. Edited

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by C. Steggall, M.D., Cantab. (Longman ; Lamborn Cock.)—The hymns in this collection, though not numerous, are well chosen, and we believe it is found by experience that when...

CURRENTT LITERATURE.

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Poems. By William Hay Leith Tester (La Tests). (Elgin : Jeans and Grant.)—Elgin seems to possess a hammerman with a very copious flow of rhyme, sometimes, but not always,...

Bradshaes Itinerary. 1863. (Adams.)—This useful little work is divided into

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two parts. The first contains the name of every place in Great Britain (not a railway station, and having a population of more than 500), with the population, acreage, nearest...

The Committee of General Literature and Education appointed by the

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Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have issued a number of neat and useful ahnanacks, pocket-books, diaries, and remembrancers for 1866, called the Churchman's...

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Routledge's Every Boys Annual. (Routledge.)—There is no end to the

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number of these handsomely illustrated books that are intended for the delectation of British youth. The present volume occupies a very fair position on the list, but we think...

The Young Englishwoman. Vol. I. December, 1864, June, 1865. (Beaton.)—We

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suppose that, as one of the subscribers to this periodical writes to inquire where Nice is, and - another is informed that there is no impropriety in stopping out on the lawn...

The Handy Horse - Book. By a Cavalry Officer. (Blackwood.)—This seems a

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useful little work. The author has been constantly consulted by friends and acquaintances on the points in it, and having given them satisfaction, thinks he may bestow on the...

Lights in Art. A review of ancient and modern pictures.

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By an Artist. (Nimmo.)—This is a very weak production. The author pro- fesses to give an account of the different schools of painting and the principal painters, which shall be...

Major Jack Downing. (Warne.) Phosniriana. (Beeton.)--There is very little that

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is amusing in either of these volumes. Bad spelling is principally relied on for fun in the former Volume, and exaggeration in the latter. Both are well-known elements of...

17te Oracles of God An attempt at Re-interpretation. Part L

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By H. F. A. Pratt, M.D. (Churchill„)—Dr. Pratt's first step in the re- interpretation of Scripture is to remove the Masoretic points from the Hebrew writing. His objection to...

Beeton's Annual (Warne.)—This is a nicely printed and pleasantly illustrated

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volume for young folks. The subjects are well chosen and various, and treated by a staff of able contributors. We have Mrs. Beecher Stowe telling a pleasant story about a...

have seen for some time. The author seems to have

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had by him some well-written papers on various French subjects—amusing descriptions of life in Paris and at Biarritz, one or two translations of French tale; interesting...

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. New edition. By Rev. G. F.

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Townsend, M.A. (Warne.)—This is an excellent edition of the famous tales. The paper is good and pleasant to the eye, the type clear, and the illustrations first-rate. The...

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A Book of Common Prayer. (Jackson, Watford, and Hodder.)—This little

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work contains liturgical services, slightly varied, for four Sundays. They are composed of chants, texts, and prayers, extracted from the service of the Church of England, with...

The English Government and Constitution. By John, Earl Russell. New

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edition. (Longman.)—Most people will be looking just now with Increased interest into the concluding chapter of this volume, which contains Lord Russell's latest ideas. In...