we publish to-day, that this success has greatly elated even the soberest and most thoughtful of the Northern people, among whom we reckon our correspondent. But, with the...

of Charleston karbour—the fort which was the first bone of 2493 contention between the North and South—was battered into ruins by General Gilmore's guns on the 23rd August, and...

feast at Sheffield, when Sir Charles Wood, Sir J. W. Ramsden, and Mr. Roebuck, each in their turn, gave expression to a mild or violent species of English optimism. Sir C. Wood,...

W E publish to-day a full account of the present position of the Polish insurrection by an English traveller, whose name,—if we could give it without endangering the safety of...

"protest most solemnly" against the position,taken in his book and against his determination to retain the office of bishop. • They have not, apparently, read the book, as they...

and only one item of any interest has left them,—we mean the announcement, which is evidently Official, that the Govern- ment will not permit Mr. Laird's rams to leave the...

SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT, a Review of the Present Position in Poland by a traveller who has just visited the seat of war under a passport from the National Government. The article on...

by the Italian Government, and afterwards surren- dered to France in accordance, it is said, with the Italian law, are to be formally surrendered as criminals to Italy; but it...

to prove that we cannot retain our impartiality if we object to furnishing the Confederates with their special want, —ships of war,—while we furnish the Federals with their...

recommendation of his great Minister, Ton Bismark, who appeals to the people to support him in resisting the Austrian scheme of supplanting Prussia in the German Union. The...

Quantrell, who has just headed a Confederate cavalry raid from Missouri into Kansas, and burnt the little town of Lawrence, near, the Missouri border. Quantrell crossed the...

Brest at the suit of a shipowner named Menier, who claims an indemnity of 100,000 francs for one of his vessels seized by that cruiser. While she is detained under this claim,...

important. The Grand Duke Constantine has left Warsaw for Berlin, and perhaps for England. He has always had a most difficult position, a party at Court accusing him of designs...

the Confederates in the case of a British subject, Mr. Belshaw, whose statement of his case to Earl Russell is to the following effect. He was living in Montgomery, Alabama,...

when it was threatened by a storm, were lately fined at the Atherton Petty Sessions twenty shillings each and costs, for violating the law of Charles's reign, that "no -carrier...

this day fortnight that the price of all our linens has kept so far above the price of our cottons that the latter are still invariably the cheaper material. The Belfast...

to his constituents at Elgin in review of the Parliamentary session and situation. He praised emphatically the American policy of the Government, praised the Greek policy,...

just been held in Wales, and another blow has been dealt to English tyranny and English cruelty. The Lord Bishop of St. David's, who took the chair at one of the meetings,...

last Tuesday night, at Liverpool, on the termination of the session of the Liverpool School of Science. He held that cold scientific training rectifies the tendency to partial...

THE SECESSION POLICY IN COLLAPSE. W E have as yet no confirmation of the startling rumour that President Davis, who proposed to rest his Govern- ment on the corner-stone of...

C RITICS of the recent Congress of Princes at Frankfort have approached the august subject from very different points of view, but they have shown a most remarkable unanimity in...

who, for their sins or 1' from their softness of heart, are meditating a charitable bequest, a short consideration of the Minute passed at the Council Chamber Whitehall, on the...

11111E occupation of Charleston, which now seems rather a J_ question of time than of possibility, would certainly strike a greater blow at the Confederacy than could be...

S OME years ago the public was startled by the announce- ment that the British Army, which consists of picked men and of men in the prime of life, was the most unhealthy part of...

I N the physics of the universe, as in the customs of human societies, there are many serious qualifications to the advan- tages of a central situation. Sir William Armstrong...

Foreign Office of the prices of slaves. The last re- turns laid before Parliament are for the half-year ending June 30, 1862. In Rio de Janeiro the price for males employed in...

TRE popularity of M. Renan's Vie de Jesus in France is very great M and very sudden. Already four large editions have been exhausted, and everywhere the fifth is on sale. In the...

Author's Object.—Character of the Russian Government in Crimes against Life The National Government 2 " 18 8 3 4 Poland 2485 Is Control over Taxation, its Questions of...

[Room OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, August 29, 1863. IN the middle of Charleston harbour lies a shapeless heap of smouldering ruins, the history of which during the...

SIR,—How is it that after a week or two of holidays I al- ways begin to feel an incompleteness in my very enjoyment, unless I can babble of green fields now and then to the...

[SECOND NOTICE.] THE play of "Hamlet," omitting the part of the Dane, is not a greater absurdity than a school where the scholars have no master. Yet this virtually exists at...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." St. Mary's Church, September 7, 1863. SIR,—Permit me to direct the attention of the reviewer of Mr. St. John's "Sport in Morayshire" to...

CHILDE LIVINGSTONE'S PILGRIMAGE.* THIS is an amusing book, of a Byronic cast, manufactured out of the meagrest possible materials, and rendered readable partly by some little...

Year-Books for 1302-3 (the earliest consecutive law reports hitherto published) we find the judges zealously repre- senting their master—our English Justinian, more vulgarly...

Mn. PENNELL'S aim has been to write a work which shall be equally acceptable to the novice and the veteran in the good old art of angling. The difficulty of such a design lies...

A CLEVER and amusing novel, not without some great defects. The writer has evidently had plenty of experience of life, especially in the wilder districts of the Bombay...

Sermons on Ecclesiastical Subjects. By Henry Edward Manning, D.D. (Duffy.)—About eleven years ago, as everybody knows, the author of these sermons abandoned a high position in...

and Co.)—This is the somewhat fanciful title of a compendium of universal history, written by a lady. Miss Oldckop appears to have embarked on a rather difficult undertaking. It...

this volume the first instalment of a historical and critical survey of the literature of Germany, from the earliest period to the present time. Its title is connected (we speak...

Income. By a Banker's Daughter. (Macmillan and Co.)—The title of this bandy little volume is a quite sufficient indication of the nature of its contents. Its authoress is well...

Joseph Mosely, B.C.L. (Butterworths.)—Mr. Mosely has undertaken, in this small volume, to give us, in a clear and intelligible form, a summary of the existing state of that...

M'ICinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia.—J. 11I'Donall Stuart's Explorations across the Continent of Australia. — (Melbourne: F. F. Bailliere,)—These...

Elder, and CO—This is, if our memory serves us aright, a new edition of a small volume on which we had occasion to pronounce a favourable opinion not very long ago. Such being...