It appears that the Reichsrath demanded a reduction of 2,600,000/. on the estimates, chiefly in the War Department, that Herr von Plener opposed it, and that the Emperor after...

favour of " muzzling " the Catholics of Ireland on all subjects con- nected with the Protestant Church. As he carried the material for the muzzle in his own pocket,—in the...

sympathy and admiration to the Bishop of Capetown, for his recent conduct in the affairs connected with the Bishop of Natal. In the Upper House the address passed, we regret to...

in a House which at one time contained only seven members, and at no time a quorum. In a speech, for him very clear, he showed that the estimated surplus for the year ending...

sensation of the week has been the publication of the report and the evidence of the Leeds Bankruptcy Committee. The evidence is as dramatic as if it were fictitious, which a...

question of the Lord Chancellor's conduct, in a speech so violent as materially to damage his case, which, moreover, was imperfect, being based on the report, and not on the...

Naturally the very first evidence he gave of his skill was a plaster model of a "man on horseback," which he placed in his father's study—a beautiful touch of the unconscious...

London about the religions duty of celibacy, his monks at Norwich have all rebelled. Like all celibates, he has a strong contempt for human feelings, and recently sent down an...

Akroyd, or are filled with remorse at their shabby treatment of Sir Charles Wood. At a large and enthusiastic meeting of electors, it was resolved to request the Indian...

position in that constituency, of which all the members are Tories. They have made up their minds to put forth all thetit strengt4 fa4.a. go el■ :fights and tr..-e bringink...

the district of the Puy de DOme, vacant by the death of M. de Morny. The opposition candidate, M. Girot-Pouzol, who is the grandson of a member of the Constituent Assembly, and...

Mr. Jacob Bright, brother of Mr. John Bright, has been invited • by the ramp of the League party to represent them, and has, we believe, accepted the invitation. Mr. Abel...

favoured them among some sensible remarks with his idea of the meaning of the word " democracy." "That word' democracy' was held up as a bug-bear to terrify the House of...

defeats. Dr. Jacoby, Radical member of the Chamber, and personally obnoxious to the King, has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment, for having advised his constituents not...

the 11th and to be finished about the 15th inst, to the great relief of political mankind, which is compelled to read the most colourless, meaning- less, milk-and-water string...

that while the Presbyterians nearly equal the Episcopalians in number, they have no representative in the House of Commons. They are, it seems, awkwardly situated. They are...

of Oxford had determined on separating his fortunes from those of Sir W. Heathcote, is as erroneous as it is injurious to his chances of success. What did happen was, that the...

of preserving for the public use the public spaces round the metropolis have issued a very excellent report, in which they recommend the appointment of a Board of Trustees, for...

of the premises occupied by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, which threatened at one time to burn down the offices of this journal, of the Globe, of the Examiner, and of the...

New York. In that city there is an institution called a dog-pound, whither all stray dogs are taken for the day. If reclaimed before 4 p.m. no harm happens to them, and if not...

from the American Government, which is said to be very strongly pressed. German emigrants usually choose as their date of de- parture the year before their turn comes to submit...

the Vegezzi mission to Rome has failed. It has been broken off chiefly by the difficulties connected with the oath of allegiance, and the Papal demand of independence in the...

delivery, and 89i 90 for account, closed yesterday at 90 to 90i both for money and time. The Bank return indicates an extensive demand for money, yet the supply of bullion shows...

London, Windsor, and Greenwich Hotels Company, for the purchase of certain old-established hotels in London, Windsor, and Green- wich, with the object of carrying on their...

St. Thomaig Charterhouse School, which is very satisfactory and very insuffi- cient. The school, which is in Goswell Street, is said to be a model middle-class school, teaches...

off at the following prices :— Caledonian .. Great Eastern Great Northern .. Great Western.. •• .. .. .. •• Friday, June 23. Friday, June 30. 96 133 481 481...

so, but at Annaghmore, in Ulster, the Catholics have a custom of lighting great bonfires and dancing round them, while their children leap through the flame. The people think...

discovering the "imaginary roots" of any expression—a process hitherto given without proof by all mathematicians, from Newton downwards. The Professor explained it on...

on Friday week were as follows :— Friday, June 23. Friday, June 33. Greek 211 201 Do. Coupons .. Mexican 251 231 Spanish PUISiVe • • .. 30,1 30,1 Do....

TORY WHIGS. T HE immediate prospects of the Whigs are considerably brighter than they were ' but their future prospects we fear are not quite so bright. Election agents...

has to pass through one more trial. It has come victorious out of a war which would have crushed any European monarch) except the British, and has overcome a rebellion before...

mistake of keeping an official intellect in advance of his official conscience. Of the latter, though he is supposed to keep the Queen's, he has made small profession, and if he...

I T is of course very proper that the Duke of Marlborough should be held up to public rebuke for his treatment of Woodstock. Ile is breaking the law which forbids a peer to...

as that sustain y the French Government in the election for the Puy e Dame may be exaggerated, but it is very great. Those who con- sider it trilling make the mistake, which is...

W E gave a curious account last week from Mr. Palgrave's masterly book on Arabia of the Wahabee form of Mahometanism, and in doing so we intimated that it closely resembled in...

J OEDT, second Earl of Tweeddale, in the tenth year of his age, went with his great-uncle, the Earl of Rothes, and the Earl of Dunfermline, to London, and stayed till King...

T HE Cricket Match on Monday was not a very interesting one in itself, though half the Upper Ten Thousand went to see it. Oxford was expected to win, and did win, and the result...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, June 17, 1865. 'DEE dull placidity of the past week was hardly ruffled by the arrest on Wednesday of John Mitchell—your...

ALEC FORBES OF HOWGLEN.* Tins is Mr. Macdonald's best book,—equal in many parts to the first volume of David Elginbrod, and sustained, which David Elginbrod was not, nearly...

IT is impossible to read Miss Cobbe's essays and not to feel that they are written by a woman of singularly strong, fresh, and powerful impressions, brimming over with...

A VERY pretty edition of very pleasant rhymes. Mr. Locker's verses have the same sort of playfulness, punfulness, and point, as Praed's, though we do not regard the second...

THE present double volume of Mr. Brewer's collections carries us onward-in the reign of Henry VIII. through the years 1515-18, which introduce us to Francis I. as a contemporary...

"Puerperal Mania," and it fully maintains the standard of merit of the previous volumes. There is an admirable paper on the word "Parliament, in which, however, we notice one...

—This little book possesses a great advantage over the general ran of collections of anecdotes or witticisms. In general, nothing can be more dreary or dispiriting than the...

Science. York meeting. 1846. Edited by George W. Hastings, LL.B., General Secretary of the Association. (Longman and Co.)—This volume is certainly not inferior in interest to...

Vancouver Island and British Columbia. By Matthew INfacfle, F.R.G.S. (Longman and Co.)—The author is qualified for the task he has under- taken by a residence in the colony of...

Benjamin Brierley. 2 vols. (Tinsley Brothers.)—The less said about the plot of this novel the better. It is not only improbable, but so badly constructed that it comes to an...

Esq., M.P., by Joseph Brown, M.D. (Longman and Co.)—Dr. Brown's experience as a physician at Sunderland has induced him to write a letter to the member for the borough,...

This is a very remarkable "little volume," being mainly composed of doggrel, which the author seems to consider equally applicable to serious and humorous composition. Here is...

M.A. With numerourf illustrations. 2 vols. (Day and Son, Limited.)—The anther, who at present fills the post of Keeper of Greek and Roman antiquities in the British Museum,...

book is an instance of the power of habit. During the last six months the author has had "a few odd intervals of leisure," an evening or two weekly, and the only way he could...

Moxon and Co.)—The humorous division of this gentleman's verses is certainly not worthy of his more serious efforts, which give proofs of considerable sensibility and even...

Hodder.)—This is a book of the jam-and-powder class. The author seems to have been reading about Japan, and to have wished to write an account of Japanese society. But then it...

Marshall, and Co.)—The author thinks that he has squared the circle, and all the eminent mathematicians of the United Kingdom seem to think he has not. On the merits of the...

Sons.)--This is the seventh edition of a little book that well deserves its popularity. Its entire freedom from technical phraseology and admir- able arrangement make it...