position of this country as between Spain and Por- tugal. The publication has been very useful in correcting pre- vious misconceptions,—by which indeed our own readers have not...

THE Reform Bill is announced. by the Home Secretary as one of the earliest measures of the session. We have not yet any hints as to the provisions of the Bill. There is one...

Em- peror Napoleon, and has done so, we have no doubt, in terms worthy of his own position and of his illustrious correspondent. Many versions of the reply have been published,...

to order. We do not refer to the continued agitation of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops, but to the movements in England and in our own Establishment. The endeavour made by the...

The deputation to Lord John Russell touching the abduction of the boy Mortara, had an interview with the Foreign Secretary on Monday. The leader of the deputation was Sir...

Unable to attend the monthly meeting of the Birmingham Landlords Association, Mr. John Bright set forth his views in a letter. The Association is opposed to the income-tax, and...

experiences of this winter will bear fruit in future safety. Ad- miral Fitzroy has announced, for the satisfaction of the public; that special information on the character of...

From one end to the other the country rings with the proceedings of volunteer corps. The movement makes decided and steady progress. In London large subscriptions have been...

The Earl of Ellenborongh has forwarded to the Times the following letter which he has addressed to Lord Brougham. " Southern, Delabere, Nov. 5. " My dear Brougham—I propose to...

The Gazette of Tuesday contained copies of a correspondence on the intentions of Spain in mating war on Morocco between Lord John Russell and Mr. Buchanan, our Minister at...

Wednesday was Lord Mayor's Day, and it was kept with a due ob- servance of ceremony. The "procession" to the Court of Exchequer had few of the characteristics of the old...

THE chief incidents recorded by the Court Newsman are the arrival of the Prince and Princess Frederick William at Windsor Castle, and the celebration of the birthday of the...

The gales have continued to be very destructive although no other wreck of the magnitude of that in Moelfra bay has been recorded. " The loss of North country vessels is likely...

A meeting was held in the Peel Institute at Accrington on Saturday to distribute the prizes awarded by the Council of the East Lancashire Union to successful competitors for...

The Roman Catholic clergy of the diocese of Dublin met on the 3d, Dr. Paul Cullen in the chair, to make a demonstration on behalf of the Pope. The speech-making on the occasion...

STRUM—The Imperial Court is at CompiOgne, where visitors go in relays. The Emperor was not 'present at the first stag hunt, but the Empress was there attired in " a charming...

Party politics run high in the Town Council of Edinburgh. There is a dominant party, which naturally domineers ; and as it is mysteriously mixed up with the support of the...

The Government has issued an order forming "a Coast Brigade of Artillery" to be distributed in the forts, batteries, and towers of the United Kingdom. The appointments to this...

" PARIS, Thursday Evening. "The public yearns for a Congress, but, if my information is correct, the Congress is not so near at hand as is generally imagined ; the Cabinet has...

The merchants of the place had held a meeting and had established a Cham- ber of Commerce. The first synod of the diocese was opened on the 11th of August. It is also stated...

on the 20th of September. Its editor and proprietor, Mr. Tarrant, had been sentenced to one year's imprisonment fora gross libel on Acting-Governor Caine. The effect of the...

en- gaged in constructing a Senate out of the old Council of the Empire. The new invention is to control the administration of the finances. It is further stated that the Jews...

Emmanuel, in consequence of a very urgent representation received from the French Government, has refused to grant permission to the ' Prince de Carignan to accept the Regency...

contem- porary, that the case of Smethurst has been disposed of, and that he will receive a free pardon, is not correct. No free pardon has been granted, and the case has not...

new trial in the case of Swynfen versus Chelmsford. The Lord Chief Baron said the Court were of opinion that there ought to be a rule to show cause on the question, as to what...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FR/DAY AFTERNOON. The Discount Market has been active all the week at higher rates ; it was expected in some quarters that an advance in the present Bank...

THE CONTINENTAL SITUATION. FROM the altered aspect of affairs on the Continent, it might be imagined that the position of several Governments has changed from what it was ; and...

CAPTAIN Sin ADOLPIIIII3 SLADE, in a spirited pamphlet,* just published, calls attention to the causes of the decay of navies in maritime states, and finds abundant reason to...

asked whether he will vote against the re- imposition of " the hateful and intolerable Income-tax," he answers that the House of Commons is a very bad House of Com- mons ; that...

THE working classes must rely on themselves for their rescue from present embarrassments, and for their ultimate elevation. We do not say it in cold reproof to them,—the very...

Two remarkable facts go hand-in-hand in the sister country. Dr. Paul Cullen, the leader of the ultramontane party, supported by those bishops and priests who consent to wear the...

IF " the recording Angel" is moved by the feelings which are sometimes supposed to influence him at his task, he must view with a sad amusement the various aspects in which...

Mn. MECHI bravely performs a public duty , in forcing attention to a subject which is allowed to drop into neglect, not only because it is held to be " indelicate " by the...

Tu statement of facts which we made last week in the paper entitled " The Mistress of the Storm" has attracted a practical attention among some of our readers, and we have had...

A new drama, from the pen of Mr. Watts Phillips, which was produced on Thursday last, brings the New Adelphi Theatre into a prominence which has not belonged to it since the...

Miss Louisa Fyne, whose performance of Dinorah six times a week, ever since the opening of the Covent Garden English Opera, would have broken down a singer of less robust health...

On the 2d of November, at Milliken, Renfrewshire, Lady Milliken Napier, of a daughter. On the 3d, at St. Michael's Mount, Cornwall, the Lady Elizabeth St. Aubyn, of a son. On...

Road, grocer—Rosa= Mm- Bean, an -JAMES Izawsixrs Warm, CheapsIde, and MARTIN Jzusa and Co., Paris, merchants. Scotch Sequestrations.—Linro, Glasgow, watchmaker—Waimixesr,...

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BLAISE PASCAL. * BLAISE PASCAL was one of those rare men to whom no one will re- fuse the often-misapplied title of genius ; for an inborn original faculty, a constitutional...

NOVEMBER 12, 1859.

Mr. Anthony Trollope on the title-page of a book of travels is a pretty sure token of good entertainment within for all sorts of readers whose appetites are healthy. Those who...

by a celebrated theologian of the last century, maintain the original cause of all things to be wind, from which principle this whole universe was at first pro- duced. and into...

volumes, with some addi- tions as he intimates in his preface, the reminiscences of Thomas Campbell, which he published in the New Monthly Magazine not long after the poet's...

opportunity of making the acquaintance of Mr. and Mrs. Asheton. The work which relates the history of their first ten years of wedded life cannot fail to be popular, but quickly...

On Thursday, the centenary anniversary of Schiller's birthday, Messrs. Longman and Co. paid their appropriate tribute towards the celebration of the poet's memory, by issuing...

THE MenrroemAreas.n.—None can gainsay the wondrous beauty of the Mediterranean, nor, though hues equally lovely of their kind dye the bil- lows of more northern latitudes, the...

Besides the long lists of forthcoming books enumerated in preceding numbers of the Spectator, there are still promises of more publications. Thus Mr. Bentley announce; in...

Without good tents, an army is soon decimated, or worse. The pe- rusal of the disastrous intelligence from the seat of war in the East, show- ing the state of the army during...

We have been requested by Mr. Hobbs, whose new piece of ordnance we mentioned in the Spectator of September the 10th, to examine some further improvements which he has made in...

PRIZE EXHIBITION OF THE GLASGOW ART UNION. The Art Union of Scotland's commercial centre is unquestionably doing good work : it is providing the means for disseminating the...

Among the exhibitions of the off season is a new competitor, in an as- pect of undisguised picture-dealing—Mr. Wallis's "West End Exhibi- tion of High-Class Modern Paintings,"...