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....

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 health.

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...

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...

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...

Hun- garian one—a wonderful bit of unconscious irony.

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."

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...

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...

pro- posal for a general Congress have been published this week. They are all, in fact, refusals. The Czar is extremely polite, and talks of his lively desire to return to the...

foreign policy, on Wednesday last, in which he took high ground on the principle of non-intervention, but by no means too high ground if he could only guarantee first, Europe's...

Poland. He was compelled to leave at an hour's notice, refused permission to visit Wilna, but allowed most graciously to proceed to St. Petersburg. A soldier accompanied him to...

an exceed- ingly foolish thing. The Times, with great unfairness, recently asserted that Mr. Bright had proposed to enrich the poor by divid- lug the lands of the rich, a...

horrible case—a man, supposed to be a dangerous lunatic, whom he saw chained to an iron bar in a shed at Tregony. Ike " man betrayed an unextinguished love for little children,...

which we have not room, defending the decree of the Postmaster-General about the directions of letters to Alderley Edge. He says the colony of villas springing A L ., Ain the...

those who have it not find it difficult to understand. Dr. Byrne, a visitor to Flush- ing, Cornwall, heard rumours of cruelty in the place, and obtained authority from the Home...

maledictions of newspaper readers. As a whole, the charges have, to unprofessional eyes, broken down, and that so completely, that the accused has abstained from calling...

has the good fortune to find alike in the victory or defeat of the Southern Commanders presages of speedy and ultimate success. He writes to yesterday's Times to point out that...

most remarkable statement. There are no less than seventy-five officers of the Guards who aid in the work of visiting and relieving the poor of London. They belong to a regular...

excessive corpulence, has contrived to bring 'himself down to a reasonable size. He had tried everything from excessive exercise to starvation, and everything failed ; till at...

shows a further decline in the stock of bullion of 39,8581.—is, on the whole, favourable. The circulation has decreased by 884,5251., and there is an increase in the " rest " of...

England and in Lombard Street, has fallen off considerably, very little accommodation can be obtained under 8 per cent., even on the best paper. The supply of capital:on offer,...

favour- able character than those arrived in several previous weeks. Heavy remittances in gold are still expected from America. Bar silver has rather advanced in price.

Society of Antiquaries upon some Hieratic papyri which he has lately deciphered. It appears that M. Chaba,s, a French Egyptalegist, has been engaxed upon the same papyri (which...

wandering speech, which was palpably intended to have been an attack on Messrs. Cobden and Bright; but constituents not liking that line, he had to avoid it, and make a new...

91 for account. Yesterday's latest official prices were :—For money, 90i, 91; for time,91i, I.

• Prussian Chamber on the 2nd December, in the course of the debate on Schlessvjg-Holstein. He said, on ,he authority of his father, the Chevalier, who was at the time of the...

he compelled a tenant to refuse hospitality to Lord Carlisle ; to-day he is defending an action for libel brought by a sub inspector of police. Somebody, it seems, wrote him a...

securities, compared with the latest quotations of Friday week :— Friday, Dec. 4. Friday, Dee. 11. Mexican .. .. .. .• a• 26 551 33 28 Do. Coupons .. .. .. 11 12 Greek .. .....

improved, and an advance of about one-half per cent. has taken place in the quotations. The Confederate Loan has been very dull, and its present value is 35 to 40.

to his father on his accession to the throne of Denmark, and must have felt great gratification in commencing it, "Monsieur mon Frere." Fora lad, only yesterday released from...

East Lancashire Union of Mechanics' and Literary Institution, and told his audience that he had heard the Confederate leaders gravely attribute the vices and faults of the...

THE LESSON OF THE TENNESSEE CAMPAIGN. T HE three months' battle has ended, and unless General Longstreet can perform a military miracle, retreat before an equal force, and crush...

those moral secretions which a threat or a thrust provokes. His fine intelligence (which in a certain limited field, and working under tranquil and unimpassioned conditions, is...

It has been suddenly and powerfully revived. At the last as great powers, though their position is ignored by social meeting of the Calcutta and South-Eastern Railway Company...

I F there is any Liberal who fails to see the political use of an aristocracy—we do not speak of its merits—let him glance at the events now occurring in Germany. A surge of...

ought to be called on to do. The world has a right to demand those services of us for which nature or education have fitted us, but its right stops there. That the chariot of...

T HE next of this series will appear next week. It is scarcely necessary to say that none of these family histories are compilations which one lit irateur could make just as...

W OMEN are rightly excluded from the House of Commons, but there are times when we heartily wish they were there. They might not be able to understand the question of Schleswig-...

fr HAT eminently British institution, the Cattle Show, has apparently entered upon another long lease of even increased popularity since its removal from the incommodious...

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] moved out and attacked Bragg in his entrenchments on Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, carried them by storm, broke his centre, divided...

through Canada. What I shall tell you will relate chiefly to myself; but as my egotism must either be its own justification or be beyond excuse, I shall leave it without...

[The following letter is by a gentleman of whose anxious study of the facts we have personal knowledge. Without committing ourselves to its conclusions, we think they ought to...

Aitts. SKETCHES AND STUDIES BY THE WATER-COLOUR SOCIETY. Is is frequently assumed that the mind and poetry displayed in a picture are in inverse proportion to its finish ;...

REVOLUTIONS IN ENGLISH HISTORY.* DR. 'VAUGHAN has just completed the great literary labour of his life, his account of Revolutions in English History. As a man of much reading,...

Icelander lost his way ; he wandered about till ha came to a strange dwelling, and knocked at the door; it was opened by an elderly woman, and she bade him come in'; there were...

we fully concur :— "It would be a reproach to the country which he served, no less than to the age which he adorned, were there no record of the life of Theobald Mathew." This...

IT has seemed good to the author of Wanderings in West Africa to veil himself under the incognito of" a F.R.G.S," but he has at the same time taken so little care to disguise...

"MODERN FRANCE" is a wide subject for a volume of four hundred pages, and Mr Kirwan's explanatory preface is certainly not unnecessary. From it we learn that a large portion of...

and Co.) Mary Seaham. By Mrs. Grey. (Chapman and Hall.) The Country Gentleman. By Scrutator." (Chapman and Hall.)—We believe that all these novels —certainly the first two—have...

and Wright.)—An excellent and simple work, which cannot but be useful to persons living at some distance from a medical man, more especially emigrants to the colonies. It treats...

Doklenhorn and Weisse Frau. By Abraham Roth. (Carl Baedeker, of Coblentz : Williams and Norgate). —A spirited account of an ascent of two mountains in the western part of the...

H. T. K. Kempton, F.L.S. (Robert Hardwicke.)—A very complete and well- written treatise on the structure, growth, and diseases of these important bodily organs, illustrated by...

Genesis fowls are represented to have been made from water, and in the second from the ground, "Johannes Lanus" replies that the fowls in the first chapter are only water -...

L Part L The Three First Gospels. (Rivingtons.)—The position of the Dean of Canterbury among interpreters of Scripture was determined by his edition of the Greek Testament, and...

and Co.) —Some of the prettiest stories for little children that we have read, keeping always strictly within the bounds of the possible, and yet idealizing the childish...

HalL)—Mr. Oates has endeavoured to supply a book which shall classify the dates, which an ordinary reader is likely to want, so that he- may be able to find them without...

reprint of the oldest printed list of the merchants and bankers of London, and the ancestor of the well-known "Post-Office Directory." It has to the mercantile world the same...

likely to produce the disease, and we can, therefore, readily believe that patients in the early stages of the disease generally recover there. We are not equally satisfied that...

of noticing a publication so widely known as this. Its specialty at present seems to be history, but there is the usual melange of stories for children, and older people—some of...

success of "Tom Brown's Schooldays" produced a crop of imitators, most of whom, probably, described their own school experiences, though none of them showed either Mr. Hughes's...

booksellers' windows at Christmas, there are two which aptly illustrate the old and the new fashion of Illustrations. The "Bible Album ; or, Sacred Truth, as Illustrated by the...

(Smith, Elder, and Co )—Holme Lee has for once written a pleasant child's book, and, of course, being pleasant, it is about twice as readable as the majority of such books are....

Murray.)—A more delicately illustrated edition of an old favourite with all thoughtful children has never been put forth. Mrs. Barbauld's prose hymns is the one " serious "...

of carefully written and carefully thought-out essays, by a man, we should say, of much reflection and little or no originality. His views, usually just and always tolerant, are...

Medical Officer, St. Martin-in-the-Fields. (Efarrison.)—A very sensible, but rather verbose series of lectures on the best modes of maintaining the health of the stomach, and...

these sketches have already appeared in the Cornhill Magazine, but they are well worthy of collection in a permanent form. The letter- press is slight enough, but a second study...

Mademoiselle Lili" has gone to the seaside, and has there a series of baby adventures, sketched as Frolich only can sketch them. The illustrations are not quite so good as those...