Mr. John Peel by a majority of fifty-seven. This is a severe defeat for Mr. H. Cowper 'and his patron, Sir Robert Peel, whose unpopu- larity has lost the seat to the Liberal...

much enthusiasm. Her speech, in answer to the address of the inhabitants who had just set up the Prince Consort's statue, was both gracious and graceful, though it contained an...

A TELEGRAM reached London on Thursday, which rests as yet only on the authority of the Breslau Gazette, but which, should it be confirmed, is the most important received this...

Tues- day, and it seems pretty evident that the seizure of Mr. Laird's steam-rams has been approved. The Custom-house officers have been directed to take charge of the one most...

at Richmond on Wednesday last, when presenting himself for re- election as Attorney-General,— a speech which leaves nothing to be desired in the broad, statesmanlike temper with...

of Auckland, New Zealand ; the most , friendly of the native chiefs, W. Thompson, has formally warned the English that neither armed nor unarmed men will be spared, and the...

it a rule to conduct political warfare under the forms of social courtesy, and never to visit the acts of an Administration upon the head of the State. The Earl of Leitrim has...

uncertain. It seems clear that Rosecranz is perfectly safe in Chattanooga, and that a reinforcement of 20,000 men, detached from Washington, has passed Cincinnati on its march...

from his eyrie," to find that under a fortunate repute of being the correspondent of that journal-a repute which he was too wise to dispel,-he was a power to be conciliated and...

out on the North-West frontier, and it is stated in the city that a more detailed telegram has been received in Ceylon, and arrived with the regular mail. According to this...

the Social Science Association, equally wordy, equally diffuse, and equally without limit or direction in its purposes, has been held this year at Manchester, the first sitting...

moving a step forward, and has, of course, tumbled down. No sooner had the Diet passed the order for federal execution in Holstein, than the Powers to whom the order was issued...

to maintain a genuine neutrality, and as he must then have known of the steps taken in the Mersey, this seems to determine the point whether the Liberal section of the Tory...

if saved, saved only in consequence of not genuinely holding it, then you have a right to tax them, in order to establish amongst them a faith by which they may be saved ; if...

before the Chambers, died on Tuesday of rheumatism .uf the heart. He is a loss to the Emperor, as his personal character was respectable, and he had begun to display very...

some lads in Devonshire a motto which has the archiepiscopal -sanction. It is " Prayer, prudence, and perseverance." There is something curiously English in this alliterative...

Bank of England return again shows a further decline in the bullion of nearly a quarter of a million. The view that the money is still in this country seems contradicted by the...

has published two or three little facts illustrative of the condition of Bethnal Green which deserve a passing remark :- 4- In 1855, out of an infant class of 160, 60 children...

of New York, and its officers have been received by the population with an enthusiasm which, considering the scenes now being enacted in Poland, grates harshly on those who...

to the new companies, among which we note the " Discount Corpora- tion" shares, the application for which only terminated yesterday, have already reached the extraordinary price...

and shed a valuable light on some. On the principles of the system pursued in the Convict Prisons of Ireland and England respectively the general voice has gone for the Irish...

speech on missions at Manchester, in which he discussed the relation of miracles to missionary power in the ancient Church. He said the miracles were necessary to a people of...

large ? " Parson Brownlow,"-a so-called clergyman,-is said to have invented the motto, "Greek fire for the masses and Hell fire for the leaders," a clerical motto, which, if he...

a free poetical treatment of his materials,-reports that five men were brought before the Provost-Marshal for drinking " Damna- tion to the goose that grew the quill, that made...

gress, shaking hands with Prince Alfred, whom he called "as -worthy a prince as ever lived," weeping over Lord Lyndhurst, and complimenting all the speakers. At the closing...

for account, closed yesterday evening at 931, 1. In Foreign Stocks the changes in the closing prices were :- Friday, Oct. 9. Friday, Oct. 16- Greek 344-, 35 30, f Do....

THE SEIZURE OF THE STEAM RAMS. I F the present impulses of the middle class were obeyed, Eng- land would, by one and the same act, offer the United States a cams belli,...

M R. COBDEN has none of the art of a popular agitator. He does not wish English politicians to " rest and be thankful," but he indirectly contributes a great deal more to the...

T HE Peels, unlike the Peelites, are politically failures, and that in the face of circumstances more favourable than have ever surrounded any similar clan. The strong national...

IT would be an instructive subject of speculation, if some 1 one were to take ten or twelve great men, who have reached a very advanced age, and were to compute how much of...

in New Zealand has suddenly assumed the dimensions which mark it out as likely to be the last great struggle between the English and the Maori race in those islands, and this...

T HE late Archbishop of Dublin was, if we compare him with his equals in position and his fellow-labourers in the Church, not only a very conspicuous, but a very remarkable man,...

L ORD HEAVES, at the Saturday seance of the Social Science Association, stated a popular theory in a very agreeable way. He tried to make the love of amusement a philosophical...

A LWAYS in front but never in command,—is the sen- tence which best describes the fortunes of the House of Clinton. They have always been important, have furnished Admirals, anl...

York, October 3, 1863. Two weeks have passed since the battle of the Chickamauga, and Rosecranz still holds Chattanooga, and Burnside Knoxville. The encounter seems to have been...

Fast falls the October rain, and dull and leaden Stretch the low skies without one line of blue ; And up the desolate streets, with sobs that deaden The rolling wheels, the...

the original intentions of authors as trustees of charities generally are in carrying out those of testators. Sometimes, indeed, they confine themselves to distorting characters...

M. ABOUT'S MADELON.* MADELON is M. About's most ambitious venture in the field of high art, if, indeed, the author would not prefer to consider it his only serious effort....

THE fashion of writing memoirs has become so general in France, that there is scarcely an eminent man at this moment who has not given his contribution to the history of his...

Tuts is a very remarkable book. It is a determined aktempt to bring the interior Hindoo and Mussulman life of a great Mali- ratta, province during the most exciting times home...

THE National Review has given us recently an ingenious article on the distortions of the English stage. Its criticisms are not, however (by any means), confined to theatrical...

for dogs, in which Mr. Williams has faithfully and successfully discharged the function of Dr. Smiles in his parallel work for Man. We notice that it has not been thought worth...

commences this work by introducing us to two families, whose sole connection is that they chance to live opposite to each other. The one consists of Mr. Waylie, his wife, and...

Council in the Cause of " Wilson v. Fendall." By Henry Bristow Wilson, B.D., Appellant. (Longman and Co.)—Of the eight articles originally pre- ferred against Mr. Wilson, the...

The Victoria Magazine. Vol. L, May to October. (Emily FaithfalL)— The Victoria has now arrived at the first great critical epoch in the life of a magazine—its republication in...

Esq., C.E. (Longman and Co.)—This valuable work is now completed, and we doubt not that it will receive from engineers the reception to which its merits fully entitle it. This...

(Chapman and Hall.)—This pamphlet seems to have been published about two years ago, as a criticism on the Bampton Lectures of Mr. Mansel and the philosophical doctrine of Sir...

Press, Oxford.)—An able and scholarly edition of this important dialogue. Mr. Campbell, in addition to copious notes and a marginal abstract of the argument, has prefixed an...

wicke.)—This is a most interesting and well-executed little book. It is throughout clear, simple, and intelligible ; and the author is free from the weakness which is a...

Schiller (Whittaker and Co.), carefully edited, with an introduction to each ballad, copious notes, and biographical notices, by Charles Bielefeld, assistant-master at the...

the Army in India. By Florence Nightingale. (Stanford.)—A Royal Commission, successively presided over by Lords Herbert and Stanley, procured an elaborate series of reports from...