full activity, and Armstrong guns have already been shipped for Canada. A corps d'armee, numbering twelve thousand men, with batteries,commissariat, and military train complete,...

great triumph for the Government, 232 against 79. Baron Ricasoli and his colleagues have gained greatly by being put on their defence. Their three dangerous enemies are Austrian...

Tuesday last, on the subject of the Revised Education Code, which, however, that nobleman adroitly avoided by two Aatements—that it would not be advisable for many to deliver...

"THE SPECTATOR" is published every ! Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through News-agents in...

will be held iu London soon after the Exhibition, and a meeting has been called at the Mansion House for 20th December, to decide on the necessary arrangements.

held a mass meeting in Dublin, and talked treason with im- punity, in order to prove beyond question that they are en- slaved. The meeting exulted in the American outrage,...

be gastric.

}E NGLAND is waiting still, the Government providing against the worst contingency, and the people coldly resolved, whatever the cost, to maintain the national honour and...

Northern naval expedition has accomplished nothing, and a fleet loaded with stones to be sunk in the harbours of Savannah and Charleston has not yet arrived at its destina-...

war, but we must not omit to record a most manly speech by Mr. Horsman to the non-electors of Stroud. He refuses to be coerced into pledges in which he does not be- lieve. He...

shall meet as a Cabinet Council, and consider 1. The pro- positions and plans of organization and of amelioration of the various branches of the service entrusted to each of the...

of the slightest interest. The system of levying the taxes by billeting soldiers upon refractory officials seems still pursued, and is partially successful; and Hungary is...

majority for the advanced Liberals, only a few of the aristo- cratic party being returned. The Government, it is said, is some- what afraid of the new Chamber, and will...

and the remainder of the Ministry has - terminated in the victory of the financier. He-claimed the power of a Premier, and insisted that -any_ exipeaditure ordered by a Minister...

December 10th. M. Ratazzi spoke on the 5th, and admitted that the fault—the failure at Rome—did not lie with the King's Govern- ment. Any other Administration must have equally...

Cabinet. The Ministers have been hitherto secretaries, with- out power even to advise. They are now, however, to con- sider all importantlnestions conjointly and report on them...

ceived. It is a well-written document, and is written in temperate tone. Mr. Davis, after describing the Southern -victories, depre- cating the anarchy in Missouri, and denying...

MONDAY, DECENBEIL 8TH. THE Master of the Rolls gave judgment in the case of "Marsh v. the Secretary of State in Council for India," which was tried last month. The plaintiff...

of paper money in Constantinople. This event is said, officially, to have been caused by certain speculators whose machinations have been defeatedby the Government. The...

Yesterday morning some stock-jobbers combined with a few in- triguers of Galata, and pushed speculation for a rise to such an ex- tent as to cause a general panic. The...

(By Telegram through M. Reuter's Office.) FRANCE. Pews, Dec. 13. THE Afoniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. THE demand for Money this week has not exceeded the previous average, although at the Bank the inquiry has been latterly more ex- tensive than...

Subscriptions to the "Fares]) on INDIA," and " OVERLAND Farsire or Isma,"will, be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms : Per...

WINDSOR CASTLE, DEC. 7.—The Queen, accompanied by Princess Alice, drove out this morning in an open carriage. His Royal Highness the Prince Consort has been confined to his...

THE POSITION OF CANADA IN THE EVENT OF WAR. E NGLISHMEN are a. little too apt to speak of an American war as if it would be confined to the sea, as if the fleet could...

On the 4th inst., at Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, the seat of Sir John Stuart- Forbes, Bart., the Hon. Mrs. Trellis's, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., at West Park, Elgin,...

.-f. -c.. 26; 971 414 211 BRITISH FUND S. (Closing Prices.) Friday. 3 per Cent Consols 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 Friday -- 234 -Pm Pm...

W HILE England is waiting with as much misgiving as hope for the decision to know from the United States, whether she is or is not to become the involuntary ally of Slavery, the...

I F any one wishes to measure the extent of British bewilder- me n t nt on American affairs, to gauge, as it were, the exact quantity of perplexity in this great ocean of...

T HE .revolution marches, even in Russia. The Imperial decree issued this week, which transforms the Ministry into a Cabinet, with joint responsibility, has been ex- pected for...

after eleven days' debate has ended in the triumph of Baron Ricasoli. He was accused of neglecting internal administration, and he proved that Italy, north of Rome, was as...

N O one who has visited Rome can fail to retain a lively recollec- tion of the site of St. Vincenzo di Paolo, with its picturesque palm-tree close by the church within which...

T HE Peace Society has of course solicited Lord Palmerston to use all his influence to prevent a collision with the American Government ; and in favour of moderation it has put...

ENGLISH COMPLAINTS JUDGED BY ENGLISH POLICY AND JURISPRUDENCE. SIR, —I endeavoured to show in my previous letter that, on the prin- ciples laid down by their own jurists and...

A. CORRESPONDENT of the Times, on Wednesday, described an outrage which is, we imagine,• almost without precedent in England. A respectable woman, walking with her husband iu...

THE MEDAL DISTRIBUTION AT THE ROYAL • ACADEMY. THE 10th of December, the anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Academy, is a great day for the students, as, on that...

THE LOVES OF JOHN WESLEY.* THOSE who have read "John Wesley's Journal" are aware that his missionary work in Georgia was cut short by a series of petty annoy- ances in which a...

Ma.. Cox has wasted some scholarship, very considerable power of writing, and a great deal of acumen upon a very profitless task. He has detached all that Herodotus has told us...

THIS new edition of Tom Cringle's Log is a welcome reminiscence of other days. Long after the prudent intellect of Scotland had learned to appreciate classical learning and...

THE primary purpose of this magnificent work was not entirely literary. It was conceived, in the first instance, as a tour de force • The Victoria Regia. A Volume of original...

always a thoughtful and intelligent writer, and though he belongs to a school which has a strong tendency to turn mind into a kind of galvanic battery, and feeling into...

Tax influence of women in France during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is one of the great facts of modern European civilization. What we now call "society," was the...