Oxford Declaration of faith waited on the Archbishop of Canter- bury at Lambeth to deliver in the names of the signitaries, and to read an address to his Grace from the...

is assembled on the frontier of Bessarabia, and M. Rouher, speak- ing of Denmark, said on Thursday, "If by possibility France could embark her treasure in such an enterprise, it...

Her Majesty wore the blue riband and badge of the Garter, the badges of the Victoria and Albert Order, and, says the Court Circular, which does not make mistakes on such points,...

the advantage of the Danes. On Saturday, the 7th inst., the Austrian Captain Teggetoff, in command of the frigates Schwartzenberg and Radetzky, and the Prussian gunboats Adler...

a month had been agreed upon, in which the Germans give up nothing and the Danes give up their bliccka.de. The Germans had offered to evacuate Jutland on condition that the...

O N Wednesday Mr. Gladstone exploded a mine in the Liberal or pseudo-Liberal camp. He made a speech at once masterly and beautiful in favour of giving to the working classes a...

from Jutland, has now placed a requisition of more than half a million upon all landed estates, a sum it is quite impossible to collect, except perhaps by threatening the few...

his Bill for forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquids between eleven o'clock on Saturday night and six o'clock on Monday morning, though he kindly granted two hours on...

paper a letter explaining in his usual lucidly colloquial style the policy he has felt himself compelled to pursue on the subject of slavery. "I am naturally anti-slavery," he...

has been for weeks laid up with the gout, Sir George Grey moved for a select committee to examine into the charge levelled against the Privy Council of Education by that...

Monday Mr. T. Baring moved in committee that the word " registered " should be signed after the name of the firm in all dealings and transactions, and the amendment was c 'flied...

his policy in the matter of the Oxford Declaration, and anxious to support the Committee by promoting a like movement among the laity, has drawn up and circulated the following...

on Friday last. It was of course an attack on the Empire, which he said had increased the Budget from 60,000,000/. to 92,000,000/., by expenditure on wars, on expeditions, on...

than we supposed. Not only were wounded men shot where they lay while holding the hospital flag and bits of white handkerchief over them in token of surrender, not only were the...

new light. Mr. Gregory brought forward the remuneration to Mr. Herbert, painter of the fresco in the Peers' Robing Room, for which he has received, or is to receive, 2,000/....

Late in April it passed an Act increasing all import duties upon luxuries 33 per cent. for two months only, a measure which probably will not yield a sixpence. There is always...

Finance Bank have purchased the business of Messrs. Hag- gard and Co., bullion and exchange dealers. Mr. Haggard is to be manager of the bullion department of the undertaking....

been imported into Farringdon, where the mills have been closed for a considerable time'. The people, who were previously in the deepest distress, went out to meet the cotton,...

the gardens of Burlington House, the house not to be pulled down until the building wants wings. The wall space will be 3,000 feet lineal, and the cost 150,0001. That last item,...

read- ing-rooms and other means of recreation. The sum is not enough by four-fifths, and the Office, even if it neglects the just claims of 'Captain Jackson, is unwise in...

Yesterday week to the Report of the Commission on Public Schools Mr. Grant Duff dre.v attention in a very elaborate speech Yesterday week to the Report of the Commission on...

Securities yesterday and on Friday week :- Friday. My G. Friday, May 13. 22 221 Mexican .. .. Do. Certificates 11 .. 111 Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. .. .. — tti 70 • • —...

money, and 894, 90, ex. div. for account. Yesterday the closing prices were :— For transfer, 914, ; for time, 90, 4.

engineer, named G. Tregear, residing there, discovered that his wife had formed a connection with a Mr. Cowen, a bandmaster, and compelled her to take laudanum with him, but his...

and in his first sentence counted himself out. He made some remark on the state of the House, and the Speaker was obliged to count. Mr. Morritt had just sent for a glass of...

com- menting on the House of Keys, has been released, the Court of Queen's Bench holding that the Habeas Corpus writ runs there, as the island, though not in the " realm" of...

the city, or rather settlement, of Abbeokuta. The inhabitants of that Cave of Adullam, said to be 200,000 in number, turned out with considerable courage, and defeated the...

to it. Mr. Cox, son of an English physician of Valparaiso, had been explor- ing an almost unknown inland sea in Chili and the river Limay, when the party fell into the hands of...

MR. GLA.DSTONE'S THUNDERBOLT. H AS Mr. Gladstone upset the coach by his speech on Mr. Baines's Franchise Bill? We are not sure, for it is doubtful whether the old Conservatives...

T O thoughtful Englishmen the conduct of England to Den- mark during the last six months is a subject for profound humiliation which the useless cheers of the House of Com- mons...

A REACTION is passing over Europe much worse than the bad one denominated "Conservative." For years past, ever since the generation which had shared in the Revolutionary war...

I T is doubtful if after all the election of M. Thiers has been a gain to the French Opposition. His prestige and his- eloquence alike render it impossible to refuse him the...

W E certainly do novelists great injustice when we condemn the carefully elaborated misunderstandings which form the basis of their plots as unnatural. All that wonderful...

NI R. SPURGEON made a speech at the recent meeting of the Bible Society which contains, as is usual with the speaker, a vigorous, effective, and frank illustration of the mode...

I RELAND is the land of odd stories, but we do not remember one quite so odd as that reported in Monday's Times. Mr. Pen- rose, a " gentleman of means" residing in Waterford,...

P OSSESSED of the vast Petty estate, the younger Fitzmaurice, though lineal male descendant of a man who was noble before the Conquest, and probably descended from a house which...

North Carolina, and a rebel ram, slow moving and light armed, but itself absolutely invulnerable to 32-pounders, has command of the Roanoke, as far as serious operations are...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. ON what principle are pictures selected by the managers of exhibitions for the so-called place of honour ? To judge from the practice of the Royal Academy,...

MR. LLEWELYN DAVIES'S SERMONS.* Tam volume, both in its substance, prefix, and suffix, represents the noblest type of theology now preached in the English Church. Its...

Bernard Marsh is a posthumous novel, and as it will be the last of that apparently interminable series the works of Mr. G. P. R. James, it may be worth while to inquire for a...

THOUGH nominally "diaries," the ten manuscript volumes from the contents of which Mr. Hayward has compiled the book before us can scarcely be said to correspond with the...

ONE of the most delightful of children's books which our memory recalls to us was the history of a family of young redbreasts, exhibiting the development of their respective...

is impossible that so polished an imagination as that of the authoress of "Paul Ferroll " can have undertaken a novel that is wholly without intellectual unity and connecting...

Dr. Dollinger, if not always wilfully concocted, were yet all of them distinctly accredited by Church authorities with a perfect con- sciousness of their untruth. They all come...

the Writers and Deduced from the Facts of the New Testament. By the Rev. C. A. Row, M.A. (Longman and Co.)—To any one who has been compelled to read much of the orthodox...

Sir W. H. Cope Bart, by William John Blew. (C. J. Stewart.)—The author advocates a translation of the Prayer Book into Latin, carefully preserving the language of the Latin...

CURRENT LITERATURE Apologia pro Fitti Sad ; being a reply to a pamphlet entitled "What, then, Does Dr. Newman Mean ?" by John Henry Newman, D.D. Parts I., II., III., IV.—We...

The Sugar Duties. By J. Russell, Secretary to the Mercantile Law Amendment Society. (Dawson and Sons.)—The Sugar Duties DiscussetL By Henry Nelson. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The...

and Son.) Curiosities of Legislation. By Hugh Barclay, LL.D. (W. R. M'Phun and Son).—This gentleman, the sheriff substitute for Perthshire, seems irresistibly attracted to the...

of Compensation. By Geo. V. Yool, M.A., barrister-at-law. (W. Max- well.)—The author, who is favourably known to the legal profession by a former work on the law of "Waste,...

the Rev. T. S. L. Vegan, M.A. (Bell and Daldy.)—This gentleman, a vicar, a prebendary, and a rural dean, writes in the spirit of Archdeacon Grautley. The clergy have nothing to...

Robert Potter, B A. (Macmillan and Co.)—These compositions are rather elegant essays than specimens of pulpit oratory. They are finished, intellectual, and cold, like the once...

and "every art and process to which the genius of man has given birth." In truth it is a very useful, well designed book, but many of the articles have been rather carelessly...

author tells us that when.he considers the character of the young people who will form the next generation he has misgivings as to the character of the next generation, p. 12....

Chalmers. (E. and F. N. Spon).—If all the statements in this pamphlet are true, Mr. Chalmers has not been well used. There does not seem to be much doubt that his target stood...

Wilkinson (T. J. Allman). — Prison Discipline. By the Earl of Carnarvon. (John Murray.)—Mr. Wilkinson's theory is that the "Probation system," which he describes as identical in...

kin, Marshall, and Co.)— Dr. R6ville is a pastor of the Dutch Church at Rotterdam, and a former work by him on the Gospel of St. Matthew was " crowned " by the Hague Society for...

present System of Conveyancing, and as it would be proved by Registration. By Henry Dix Hutton. (Dublin : A. Marlow.)—In Ireland the Encum- bered Estates Court has long given...

man and Hall.)—A most excellent little book, intended for thoughtful and intelligent mechanics. The great ingenuity of many of our work- men goes to waste for want of the...

petitor for public favour commenced its career last January. To the ordinary contents of a magazine it adds a condensed summary of the chief events of the month, so as to be a...

G. Phil- more, Q.C. (Macmillan and Co.)—Mr. Phillimore has written a very clear and concise account of that part of the civil law which regulates the intercourse of private...

which deserves to be better known. The papers on general subjects are quite equal to those of any other monthly, while religions subjects are treated of course from a...

Bicen- tenary of St. Bartholomew, 1862, a letter of sympathy was received from the Rev. J. P. Thompson, Minister of Broadway Tabernacle, New York, on behalf of an assembly of...

Heaton and Son.)—The claim of the new series to be regarded as "a first-class monthly" is scarcely supported. With general literature it does not meddle, and the particular...

(London : Longmans, 1863.) —This is a very interesting little volume. The original poems it contains—" Autumn Leaves," as the writer names them—are chiefly of the quiet,...

and Co.)—A concise exposition of the reasons for the various pro- cesses of the oldest of arts. Mr. Bland insists much on the necessity of paying due attention to the fallow,...

K. Paul. (Long- man and Co.)—A little volume of extracts, each of which will take one of the more advanced classes of an evening school about twenty minutes to read. The...

of View. By John Muehleisen-Arnold, B.D. Vol. L (Longman and Co.) —If any one had cherished a hope that the violence of theological hatred was now exhausted, that the disputants...

Bible. (S. 0. Beeton.) Casselts Illustrated Bible. Casselts Illustrated History of England. Cassell's Popular Natural History. Casselts Popular Educator. Casselts Illustrated...

John Cumming, D.D. (John F. Shaw and Co.)—This publication is certainly a remark- able instance of what may be done now to combine excellence with cheapness. The type and paper...

Domestic Magazine. (S. 0. Beeton.) — We have been very much struck by the common sense and absence of prudery which distinguish the first of these periodicals. In the March...

a chapter extracted from a longer work on "Religious Duty," which is now out of print. The world has need to be reminded how much readier it is to ask favours of God than to...

Newman. (Union and Emancipation Society's Depot.)—As this paper takes the form of a letter to a friend who had joined the Southern Independence Society, we suppose it is...

man and Co.)—Two enormous octavo volumes which might well have been compressed into one-fourth of the space. Parker's life was un- eventful, and the beat biography of a literary...

author has been at the trouble of collecting, arranging, and printing the observations of about 700 different private observers of the amount of the rainfall in the United...

Edinburgh. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—"The momentousness of life" is insisted on here by setting forth the more striking of those representations of it which are to be found in...