the Eyre Defence Fund, Mr. Hamilton Hume, stating that he cannot give anything but his personal support and moral influence to the Committee, but that he gives that with all his...

has got into a new quarrel with the Prussian Assembly about his loan. He wants to issue 60,000,000 thalers (9,000,000/. sterling) in treasury notes, and the Committee of the...

no longer under military government. A correspondent in another column challenges any sort of proof that the freedmen and their friends are often murdered and ill-treated at the...

many virtues. The outcry against him raised by the friends of the Poles, they say, quoting from Mr. Carlyle, is chatter "mainly from the teeth outwards." The Committee of the...

THE week has been very damp and depressing. All the weather prophets are wrong, and even the Government which took up Admiral Fitzroy have declared that his and his successor's...

tion, probably to the great content of the Emperor,—if he is well enough at least to take any pleasure in the haute politique,—is once more forcing itself upon Europe. The...

winter in Rome. He will be there when the time comes for executing the convention between France and Italy for the withdrawal of the Roman garrison, and we only hope the Roman...

laughter " of the Commissioners,—we hope they don't laugh quite so much as the reporters give them credit for,—irritating. If they sang comic songs, which- no 'doubt are dismal...

partly in memory of Lord Herbert, upon whom he pronounced a very touching as well as polished eulogium, and partly also in defence of the late Ministry's conduct with relation...

articles on these foul little political pools, seems rather to admire the sort of candidates who pay their way so nobly, though he acquiesces demurely in the condemnation of the...

County, has seized lite proldtious-blankness of the speculate when - they will be tlible - 44 -to begin Pto gather their i depiefahitedmiration andavonder at the triumphant...

written as strongly as possible in the interest of the new Govern- ment policy, and by a vehement adherent of Mr. Johnson's, is obliged to admit the prevalence of violence...

exhibit portraits of objects near them at the time has again found expression with regard to a recent occurrence. 'A boy was struck by lightning near Manchester, and there was...

Mr. Eyre forl putting Mr. Gordon to death without evidence against him, but pleads' that it 'was 'done "on the stress of the :moment," that it was an action which was hurriedly...

the wet weather, or something else, and is not quite so jolly a farmer as usual in talking over the harvest. At Hughenden, on Wednesday, he • proposed the health of the farmers...

Whig' Chancellor of the Exchequer of the times before 1841, is -deed, and an intimate friend of his writes to the Daily Telegraph a verryltigh enlegium onitis political...

into the Prtissian . Chattibereby Count Bismark, in a speech in which he mentioned that -about 'fifty square miles were to be sliced off to add to the Duchy of Oldenbttrg,' in...

to the unfavourable weather for the harvest' in the North, was consider- ably depressed, and the quotation for the 'account fell to 89i The market yesterday, however, though...

Spanish Passive • • .. Do. Certificates .., Turkish 8 per Ceuta., 1858.. . 1882.. United States 5.20's .. tions yesterday and on Friday week :— Friday, Sept. 7. Friday,...

leading British Railways were as under : — Great Eastern .. •• •• •• 'Gieat Northern .. •• Great Western.. ••• Lancashire and Yorkshire .. London and Biighton .....

the Bank of England have made no change in their rates of discount this week, and the minimum quotation remains, therefore, at five per cent. The stock of bullion at the...

THE TRUTH IN WHAT FOREIGNERS ARE SAYING ABOUT ENGLAND. W E are just now the subject of much derision and much pity on the Continent, a fact which, on the whole, disturbs us but...

W E have never thought President Johnson a bad man,— only a man of violent and hasty passions, illiterate not only from neglected education, but from that imperious and uacandid...

I T was on this day two years that the Emperor Napoleon and Victor Emanuel concluded, in the deepest secrecy, that memorable instrument for regulating the future temporal estate...

AIR. J. POPE HENNESSY, ex-member for King's County, .111. has just published a rather weak-voiced hallelujah to the Emperor of the French. The occasion chosen for it is a little...

W E have been lately reminded that the public, in its anxiety for efficient army organi7.ation, has forgotten the more important and indeed preliminary question of army...

T HE history of Bombay during the American war supplies the moralist with perhaps the most signal exa.inple on record of the occasional prodigality with which fortune lavishes...

M R. CARLYLE, Mr. Kingsley, and Mr. Ruskin are, on some- what different grounds, all in favour of Mr. Eyre and the military revels which made so paradisaical a scene of Jamaica...

U NION COURT, Holborn, goes out of town as well as Bel- gravia; and at sundry doors in it one knocks to be answered, not from within, but by voices from the windows on the...

ROMANS. T HE expeditions of Julius Cmsar to Britain are a blank as far as the history of the West Country is concerned, for his marches did not extend further westward than...

Di magni, salaputium disertum LIB. LIM I. AT the Session of Poets held lately in London, The Bard of Freshwater was voted the chair : With his tresses unbrush'd, and his...

[To THE En]rou OF THE "SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The soft, gentle irony of Rev. Mr. Maurice in re Mr. Morley and the workhouse question in last week's Spectator puts me in mind of a...

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Mr. Maurice, by one of those inscrutable mental processes for which he is too famous, has contrived to make me mean the exact and diametric opposite of what...

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—In your Spectator of last week there is an article entitled "President Johnson and the Philadelphia Convention," with re- ferene3 to which I beg...

THE NATURALIST IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.* THBRE can be few pleasures in an ordinary life more vivid than those which come to the naturalist finding himself in- a new and almost...

IT is said that a lady who had passed through the sections of the British Association with true mental fortitude, threading the darkest intellectual paths of the scientific...

IT is not likely that this book will be popular, or that it will be read with pleasure except by those who are already devoted to the Cause of sanitary reform. But it ought to...

sincerity that this magazine ought to lie on every school-room table, and that no nursery library can be complete without it. It really does supply a place very well which there...

poetry, science, and general information. The subjects are agreeably varied, and are treated in a way that is likely to eaten the attention of the for which we presume the work...

out of a visit to Baden Baden in the antumn of '63.. (Ward, Look, and Tyler.)—We can only account for thie ,volniais.by supposing - that the author partook too freely of German...

Hodder.)—The Congregationalists must be the least, exacting of -mankind, if they are contented with the shillingsworth that is presented to them in this number. Thirty-four...

The North British, Review.. Septeinber,, 1866. (Edinburgh: Ednien, sten and Douglas.}—Did any single person ever read s quarterly review - - threttghl : We very much doubt it....

Regent de College, French Master at Christ's Hospital. (Trubner and Co.)—" I have endeavoured to make the study of French an attraction, as children require such an inducement...