Buda on the 8th inst., with sacred unction, thirty hours' fasting, defiance on horseback to the four ends of the earth, and all the rest of a ceremonial which must have been at...

shot or not, but quite certain that he surrendered to the Juarists at Queretaro on 15th May. An official despatch from General Escobedo announcing the fact has been received at...

(A N Thursday, Mr. Disraeli brought on his new Redistribution (AN scheme, which appears to be the old one extended so as to give a greater relative power to the counties, and...

the University of London with that of Durham. Why does not Mr. Disraeli group the Royal Military College at Sand- hurst with the Peace Society ?

Merchant Taylors' entertainment last Tuesday. He said he had been taunted with having bitterly opposed last year a much more moderate Reform measure than that which he is carry-...

interest to naval men,—a thorough analysis of the defence put forward by Admiral Persian° for his conduct at Lissa. Its accuracy may bo relied on, iu so far as it is his...

is to give addi- tional representation to already represented counties, but to give seats to boroughs only when quite unrepresented at present,—the new metropolitan seats,...

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the son of a pianist, who strictly warned him not to engage in revolutionary projects. He had worked in Paris as a gunsmith, received an allowance of 1/. 12s. a month from the...

England, and it seems probable that none of the greater Princes who have been visiting Paris will extend their travels to London. They do not like lodging at hotels, while their...

clerks of several metropolitan parishes mourn him griev- ously, and have been telling the Earl of Devon and Mr. Gladstone that the parochial revenue will suffer heavily by his...

Militia regiment whose march through London recently gave the " roughs" such an opportunity should have interfered to protect the persons plundered, and would have been...

mis- ehfevous order. It has always been understood that Volunteers were not to be called upon to act against their countrymen, and that if a Home Secretary ordered them out he...

ought to include at least 90 seats, and accord- ingly publishes his scheme. He would disfranchise 40 boroughs having less than 7,000 people, thus obtaining 63 seats, and deprive...

who shrink from Liberalism, and think Ambiguity the right line for a University member, evidently have very hazy I selves to death in agony. This extremity of pain certainly...

is in F, prose, and addressed to the "peoples of Europe," calling on them to refuse to join in " the wicked game played by Emperors and Kings with the lives and wealth of the...

the Ordnance Department. According to him, the 3,000,0001. spent upon Armstrong guns has all been thrown away, all Sir W. Armstrong's guns being for one reason or another bad....

.. London and Brighton .. Loudon cud North-Western London and South-Western London, Chatham, and Dover Metropolitan .. • e .. North.Eanere, Berwick • • • • • • • • • • • • •...

Miss lliostyn, living at Milan, married, or thought she married, Baron von Kiirber, an Austrian officer. She quitted him under a judicial separation, and in 1823 she was married...

our issue of the 25th ult., for a cartoon of Mr. Disraeli as Mr. Poynter's Sphinx, dragged into his place of worship by all the country gentlemen, Conservative and Liberal,...

was very firm, and on Tuesday a rise of as much as 1 per cent. took place in the quotations. Consols were then 954. to 95f, but on heavy sales for the realization of profits...

Friday, Juno 7. FAIay, June 14. Mexican 17 171 Spanish Passives 24j 24 Do. Certificates 151 It Turkish 6 per Cents., 1353 • • 601 L3 1862 .. • ir 601...

Association waited on Lord Derby and Mr. Disraeli - this day week, and were introduced by Mr. W. H. Smith, who -contested Westminster unsuccessfully at the Last election. The...

'which has broken out in Ireland, and is known as the " black death." The patient seems feverish, gets incoherent, and exhibits purple spots, which spread rapidly over the whole...

letter to the Times of Tuesday on the Luxem- burg guarantee. " Unquestionably," he says, " the guarantee is collective in the sense that each of the six Powers (excluding...

THE COST OF A SEAT IN PARLIAMENT. T HERE is one consequence of the Reform Bill which has been scarcely considered, but which will yet be pro- ductive of very warm debate. Unless...

M R. DISRAELI'S proposal to group the University of London with the University of Durham, is a group- ing rather of the kind which Coleridge adopted in his Ancient Mariner:—...

14R. DISRAELI'S great case for the enlarged representation ill of the counties always is their great population. And there would be a great deal in this case, if there were any...

T HE debate held a fortnight since in the Norfolk Chamber of Agriculture on popular education was a very useful one. It will serve to warn politicians that all Englishmen are...

_A DMIRAL PERSANO'S defence of his conduct at Lissa, carefully suppressed for months, has at length reached England, and we propose to lay before our readers a brief analysis of...

A WELL KNOWN lay correspondent, from whom we often differ widely, but whose letters never fail to indicate the fife of thought and study which he has devoted to theology and...

TS the funnel-shaped hat, the Hat of Europe, the distinctive I mark of the West, which no Asiatic mentions without scorn, and no man who wears it ever dreams of defending by any...

ruined Roman city of Durnovernum to have been reoccupied, and the foundations laid of the new Saxon town Cantmarabyrig, it is certain that a municipal government was...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] Sin,—The best way to be considered wise and thoroughly knowing upon any subject one has no idea about, is of course to look pro- found and...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 44 SPECTATOR.1 Sin,—Before we argue about miracles, it is very important to settle what we mean by a miracle, for a great want of clearness of thought...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY.—[THIRD Nonca.] IN JOHN PHILLIP the English School has lost its ablest master of that true dexterity which expresses the greatest amount of truth with a...

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JASON.* Tens is better than translating Homer. As far as we can see, Homer will not be translated. He may be rendered in some more or less • The Life and...

Mn. GAGE has done a very noteworthy thing. In a biography occupying less than 250 pages, a little book which can be read in an afternoon, he has let us into the inner life of a...

'1'ms is, we think, the best a rel Miss Thomas has yet produced, full of those feminine sketches in which she delights, and which she executes • so well, with an insight which...

Tnose who are not content to repoae in the belief that the four- teenth century was a period only redeemed from uninteresting obscurity by two victories over the French, and by...

—In the second volume of his elaborate and masterly work, Mr. Fer- gusson traces the course of Christian architecture in England, Spain, and Italy, and describes the Pagan...

millan.)—We can hardly say that Mr. Macmillan has expanded a text of Scripture in each of his chapters. Rather has he made the texts ho has chosen the groundwork of a minute...

Inquisitio Philosophica : an Examination of Me Principles of Kant and Hamilton. By M. P. W. Bolton. (Chapman and Hall.)—Although Mr. Bolton's work was suggested by Mr. Mill's...

William Francis Collier, LL.D. Two volumes. (Edinburgh, W. P. Nimmo.)—As a careful and curious picture of Scotland before the Reformation, this story has decided merits. But it...

under the editorship of members of both Universities. The first that has come before us is the Electra of Sophocles, with notes by R. C. Jebb, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge,...

Fallacies of T. S. Mill's Essay " On Liberty" are pointed out. By Index. (Vasey.)—We were rather carious to know how the fallacies of an "Essay on Liberty " could be pointed out...

first of a new Tauchnitz series of German works for English readers. Albert Smith called Galignani the amiable pirate of the Rue Vivienne, and at one time Baron Tauchnitz might...

can sympathize with Mr. Sargent in his distress at find- ing his friends neglected and himself severely criticized by the Economist, and we are ready to allow that he has...

M.A. Simple Sermons. By William Henry Ranken, M.A. Stanchns and Stumbling. By James Erasmus Philipps, M.A. (Rivingtons.)- These three small volumes of plain and short sermons...

work of the Austrian poet, Baron Munch-Bellinghausen, whose nom de plume is Friedrich Hahn. The translation before us is flowing; easy, and not wanting in poetry, in spite of...

LL.D. (Williams and Norgate.)—This work is devoted to a consideration of the best means for encouraging agriculture in India, for bringing the waste lands into cultivation, for...

on the various branches of business and their relation to each- other, taking in commerce, credit, money, imports and exports, exchanges,. banking, discount, cheques, deposits,...

—This huge volume has grown up from being a popular introduc- tion to the works of other antiquaries, and it so far retains traces of its origin that it is perfectly...

Famine. By Edwin Waugh. (Simpkins, Marshall, and Co.)—We might reasonably expect that this book would be painful, and though time enough has gone by since the cotton famine to...

Stephens. (Blackwood.)—Wo should like to have this book read aloud to the Northern Farmer. It would show him, if he was not too beat to see even that, that the old world of...

would gladly recommend this story to all young people, but though the tone is generally good, the authoress shows herself unable to appreciate the opinions of others. We should...

(C. W. Wood.)—The most curious feature of this novel, which we may say at once has considerable merit, is that it has been "adapted to English readers" in much the same way as,...

(Longmans.)—The charity which is put forward rather obtrusively in Dr. Manning's introduction to this volume is conspicu- ous for its absence on the title-page. What he means by...

Nor mourned for the wreck that was doing ; For my calm cold light Is my own delight, And I smile o'er the ashes of min." It is rather remarkable that some of the Sydney papers...

Ffoulkes. (Lougnians.)—The second part of Mr. Ffoulkes's work promises to be a full and connected history of the dissensions of the Greeks and Latins, and their overteres for...

and Daldy.)--An amusing collection of arithmetical puzzles, as well as an instructive manual on the subject of chance and selection. In how many ways can a set of chess-men be...

: William Henry Hughan.)—Our kindest course in dealing with- this volume will be to thank Mrs. or Miss Hughan for the receipt of it, and to recommend her in future to submit her...

(Blackwood.)—Mr. Buchan regrets that while in the United States and some European countries meteorology is generally taught in schools, it forms no part of an English education....

guide-book which is intended to be the companion of a fortnight's stay in Paris, this production is compact and useful. Of course it does not pretend to do more than sketch what...

(J. R. Smith.)—Some of the papers in this collection are amusing; others merely strive to gain that object, and are tedious in their pursuit of it. The frontispiece is an...

Company. (Offices of the Company.)—We have here a set of tables contain- ing three years' experience of the Prudential Assurance Company in its industrial branch, that is, with...

Second Edition. (Longmans.)—It is with much pleasure that we notice the- second edition of Mr. Grove's "Nottingham Address." The theory ad- vanced in it has been so fully...