point, "more important than Schleswig-Holstein," on which, according to Prince Gortschakoff, Russia, England, Austria, and Prussia are in strict accord. The Premier's reply was...

important conversation concerning the rumoured despatch of the Austrian fleet to the scene of war. He spoke of the dismay with which he and the whole English people were viewing...

the Statute endowing Professor Jowett's chair by a majority of 467 against 395. In the Convocation held to consider the subject on Tuesday, Archdeacon Denison began a Latin...

attack on Denmark, died on Thursday, the 10th inst., of the same disease as Frederick VII. His successor, Ludwig II., is a young man of eighteen, of whose character, of course,...

in Parliament were delivered casually, and by way of conversation, more than of debate, in the House of Lords on Tuesday night. Lord Derby asked for further papers, and...

THE Baby has been christened. The ceremony was performed on .1. Thursday, in the Chapel of Buckingham Palace, amidst a blaze of royalty and jewels. The infant received the names...

to Sir Rowland Hill, to consist of a penny stamp contributed by every man and woman in England. That would be about 70,000/ ; but the difficulty would be collection. Let the...

notion of a defence. They have been stealing articles from the Family Herald upon etiquette, complexion, pimples, and kindred subjects, whereupon the Family Herald, aggrieved at...

and we regret to say that Mr. Chase has been announced as a candidate for the next Presidency, Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, bringing him forward in a laboured address. Mr. Chase...

in the Times about the new subscription which the Record and the Oxford bigots are pressing upon the clergy of the Church of England. Mr. Maurice says that the declaration is...

a dozen Fenian protests. He says that in England the drainage societies lend a proprietor money to drain his land, and obtain under the Act of Parliament a first charge on the...

of his Annuity Bill on Monday night to a singularly attentive House. We have noticed it in another place, but we may mention here that we do not believe the opposition really...

iron-clads in the Mersey has been published, and, of course, some of Mr. Adams's letters seem to us to be written in a tone of unreasonable menace. It is, in all probability,...

the English fleet against Denmark, and his reasons for that suggestion contain rather more blunders than they do lines. He begins with saying, "(1) the European Treaty of 1851...

Adderley's speech against the " revolutionary" education minute which proposed to diminish the grant to all schools " by the amount of any endowment." Mr. Adderley pointed out...

new Emperor of Mexico has decided to pay current interest on the 3 per cent. Mexican debt in full, and the only question now is as to the arrears. The amount of the original...

con- taining the first official admission of weakness from the South. The Confederate Congress has risen, having first passed an address in which they affirm that continued "...

army in Alsen there is not a man who cannot read and write, and that the mails are broken down by the mass of letters sent and received by the army. Most of the men, it must be...

on Thursday by a majority of only one, Mr. Bright making a good speech against it too late for the division. The stock arguments were, of course, all repeated, but no one...

accurate, announces that Austria and Prussia are now pledged to each other to stand together in the event of a general war, and that Austria and Russia have come to an...

the require- ments of farmers, graziers, and cattle-dealers, who have hitherto to a great extent banked with private firms. The Company pro- pose to establish banks in the...

written to the Times to expose a flagrant case of literary piracy. M. Emelte Pierotti, who, whatever his other merits, draws very badly, has published a large and costly volume...

M Noble a bust of Cromwell, of which we have seen a photograph. It is a most beautiful work, with a power in the face and in the pose of the head seldom realized in sculpture....

Suez Canal to the arbitration of the Emperor of the French, a proceed- ing as odd as it is complimentary. Has the Sultan whose rights are in question submitted it also P Smith...

T HE imagination of the Lords, indeed of English country gentlemen generally, is profoundly affected by detail. It takes them a considerable time to master the meaning of public...

THE POSITION OF ENGLAND TOWARDS DENMARK. We are a little curious to see the next excuse to be in- vented by the men among us who think that fear of one ally is sufficient...

the Ministry with so little tact as Mr. Lowe. Whether it be as Lord R. Cecil hinted, that he is a secret adherent of Mr. Baines, who steadily uses his great information on the...

I T is no exaggeration to say that all England reads novels, and scarcely an exaggeration to say that half England writes them, yet how little has that hot succession of works...

as face of such a bonus on private enterprise is simply impossible, equations to London cab-drivers, and which, though it might and and the only advantage on the side of the...

I N the very temperate letter which we publish in another column, Mr. Lyttelton accuses us of habitual depreciation of the clergy. We do not believe, he intimates, in their...

O XFORD during the last week has been the scene of two con- tests. That which we suppose we must call the greater of these has ended more disgracefully for the University than...

R. JOWETT has been defeated at Oxford because his views are legal. No one seems to doubt,—indeed, his opponents, in their published reasons for opposing a University salary,...

hardly say the good fame, of the family was sustained in the reign of William by Edward Russell, grand- son of the fourth Earl, the admiral, who gained a peerage, but left no...

[FRO]I OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, February 20, 1864. THE game of strategy at the South and West becomes interesting ; but it is not yet sufficiently clear to warrant...

To THE EDITOR. OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—As a reader of the Spectator, I beg to protest against the tone in which you sometimes think fit to speak of those who hold the common...

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. THE two pictures of greatest promise exhibited at the British institution are Mr. Yeames', "The Buttery Hatch" (499), and Mr. G. D. Leslie's "Dry Dock"...

CARLYLE'S FREDERICK THE GREAT.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THE new instalment of Mr. Carlyle's magnum opus embraces a period of thirteen years, including the second Silesian War, the...

IT is a rare thing to find an author or authoress's second novel decidedly superior to the first. We thought John and 1 good—except its title, which is very embarrassing, for...

THE fact that Mr. Henry Taylor is avowedly one of those con- scious artists who intend their writings to illustrate a theory ought alone to entitle him to some attention, even...

Mn. EASTWICK has not produced the work which was expected at his hands, or anything half so good, but the Diplomate's Resi- dence in Persia is a fair enough book of travels. Its...

THIS little book is original and ingenious. But we are inclined to think, though it is a reaction in the right direction from the attempt to turn logic into a quantitative and...

A Catalogue of the Antiquities and Works of Art Exhibited at Iron- mongers' Hall, London, in May, 1861. Part L Compiled by a Com- mittee of the London and Middlesex...

works, which has been before the public thirty years, is very well known, but it has a formidable competitor in the manual of Professor Jukes. Dealing much more curtly than his...

Neale. (Williams and Norgate.)—This gentleman, taking the logic of Hegel as his guide, has first examined the process of thought in our own minds, then followed it through the...

Routh. (W. Free- man).—In this well-written and temperate, though rather dull pamphlet, the utilitarian theory of morals is advocated. The only foundation of natural morality,...

Son.)—Based on Dr. Goodrich's abridgment of Webster, it The Comprehensive English Dictionwy. By John Ogilvie, LL.D. (Blackie and Son.)—Based on Dr. Goodrich's abridgment of...

Kendal Mercury." By a London Congregational Minister. (Reprinted for private circula- tion.)—No praise can be too high for the spirit in which these letters are written. Their...

and Co.)—The publishers have issued in the form of a pamphlet a series of letters on these important topics. That by Mr. Rogers, the Oxford Professor of Political Economy, is...

of these poems are reprinted from Household Words and All the Year Round ; others from a volume published by the author in 1860. Fire or vigour must not be looked for in them ;...

and Mission. By James Henthorne Todd, D.D., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. (Hodges, Smith, and Co.)—This elaborate volume is every- thing except a history of St....

though, of course, a work of this kind makes no pretence of reconsider- ing the original authorities, the standard histories and biographies have been carefully collated. The...

the Author of " Recreations of a Country Parson." (Strahan and Co.)—These ser- mons are very like the author's essays. Sours rather striking little incident or expression is...

By James Russell Woodford, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.)— These are very far above the average of sermons. Perhaps that on "The Christian Teacher " is, however well suited to the...

we think, made a mistake in taking classical subjects and treating thorn in modem fashion—in putting, as he says, "certain tentative in- terpretations on ambiguous myths." No...

novel, but a book thoroughly well worth reading. The story is used by Mrs. Murray merely as a means for stating in the plainest manner the bad side of Melbourne life, and she...

Co.)—Captain Aide has not come up to his own mark in " Rita," but the plot of Mr. and Mrs. Faulconbridge is original, and would make a capital drama. It is the story of a young...

are papers, we presume, reprinted from the Atlantic 3fonthly, whence the jesting title. They might as well have remained in their original form. They contain little of the...

(Chapman and Hall.)—A story written apparently to illustrate Russian life, and as feeble as such stories generally aro. It does illustrate it, however, and people who can bear...

only polished. His estimate is exaggerated, under any view, and if the story be merely a worked-up biography it is a somewhat dull one. If, however, it is in any material degree...

of those boys' stories of which the best existing in literature, perhaps, is Marryat's " Masterman Ready." This one is full of adven- ture, very simply written, and with a very...