M. Reuters telegrams. If they do disturb their judgments and spoil their information by committing that folly, they have, at least, one reward—the enjoyment of a full and...

opposition candidate, M. Claparede, having been successful in Strasburg, M. Bravay at Nimes, by a majority of more than 12,000, and M. Buffet at Epinal. These incessant defeats...

of Trade, addressed his constituents at Ashton on the 20th inst. He made a speech, on which it has been our . duty to animadvert in another column, but we must here add that he...

Edin- burgh on the Hebrew monarchy in the time of Solomon. He treated him as the "true typa of an Asiatic monarch," quoting Hegel's just observation, that " Europa could have...

T HE haze is clearing off from the Schleswig-Holstein affair. The Austrian and Prussian Governments, alarmed at the growth of a "third Power " in Germany formed out of the petty...

many quarters, and particularly by Her Majesty's Government, as pacific in tendency. It has undoubtedly removed the danger, at one time very imminent, that England might be...

it is not in mortal brain to decide what the minor German Powers are about. The popular statements are that Saxony, Hanover, Bavaria, Wur- temburg, and their colleagues, are...

has been published, and is certainly not less offended and offensive in its mention of England than we anticipated. The Emperor intimates that, had the Congress been general,...

Athole, who died on the 16th inst., of cancer of the throat. He seems to have been a man of a type unusual in Europe—a real Highlander, who lived always in his kilt, made...

Derbyshire magistrates about the Townley case. The visiting justices and magistrates intimate their conviction that any inquiry into Townley's lunacy after the trial should have...

be broken for another month. The weather keeps the armies from moving, and both sides are very diligently completing their levies. The few items of news which have arrived this...

came on for a hearing before the Court of Queen's Bench, when all the judges indulged themselves in making fun of the Sunday Act, showing how badly the law was defined, and how...

of the biggestbattalions," and Herr von Bismark is of the same opinion. In a speech on the position of his Government, made when demand- ing a loan, he declared that the...

the\ local Chamber of Commerce a speech very different from the last he uttered in Leeds. Instead of eulogizing all Peers, he talked for an hour most sensibly about the advance...

State, materially facilitates opinions on any German question :— Austria ... ... 12,802,944 Baden ... ... 1,369,291 Prussia ... 14,188,804 Hesse Cassel ... ... 738,454 Bavaria...

of the Bethnal Green of that city, two long rows of houses stretching along an open space which was once a cemetery, but is now covered with human ordure. The inhabitants are so...

News, appealing for funds on behalf of the Working Men's Club and Institute Union, in which we have more than once expressed our own deep interest. Lord Lyttelton points out how...

people carried off by the recent cold. Twelve nonagenarians died last week, and in this at least two persons said to be over a hundred. The oldest re- corded is a lady of 107,...

on the opening of Parliament, and there are two Liberal candidates already in the field—Mr. Dumas, a Whig, who has sent down an agent to lecture on his behalf, and has not, we...

Bourse at premium. .

them, for they had invented a new kind of wit, and the Times of Monday publishes an excellent illustration of the saying. A Yankee had just cured a chimney, and was telling a...

been exported this week. A shipment of about 500,0001. has been made from Marseilles.

opened in the Union Hall, Artillery Street, Bishopsgate Street, Mr. G. J. Goschen, the member for the City, in the chair. The chair- man made a speech of much ability, in which...

bonds show a fall equal to about 8 per cent., and nearly all other securities, both home and foreign, have declined in price. Consols were at their lowest point for the week on...

for money, and 91*, I, for account, closed yesterday at 90*, I, for transfer, and 90, for time.

leading Foreign Securities, with the latest quotations of Friday week :— Friday, Jan. 15. Friday, Jan. 22. 24 .. 24 .. .. 111 .. 10 35 .. 851 .. .. .. .. 34 .. 33 .. . 13 .....

declined to 12,974,1091., being a deficiency compared with last week of 734,4881., the directors have advanced their minimum quotation for money to 8 per cent. In the open...

'many members of the House of Commons, have addressed a rather inopportune memorial to Sir George Grey, the Governor of New Zealand, approving emphatically of his conciliatory...

• THE GERMAN DANGER. T HE question which underlies all Dano- German difficulties has risen this week to the top, and the result of its emer- gence is, on the whole, pacific....

A CURIOUS compliment has been paid by the English press to the poignant wit and irritant ability of M. Thiers' speech. The great English organs,—the greatest of them, at least,...

I F anybody wants full proof that Radicalism, as it was understood twenty years ago, is a dead creed, he may find it in the speech of Mr. Milner Gibson. That gentleman, though a...

is working itself clear. Since our last paper upon the subject we have received a mass of letters, speeches, pamphlets, and projects for reform, which, if they settle nothing,...

T HE Maori war has given rise to a scheme magnificent in conception, and which, if executed, may be en- titled also to be called beneficent. The leading men of New Zealand...

P ERHAPS a great city or a great nation has never so much I. reason to feel humiliated by the consciousness of its corporate unity, as when an unexpected shock has melted down,...

T v. STANLEY, Dean of iVestminster, has a habit of saying .1../ remarkable things. People who know the East as well as the West, who are aware that humanity includes races not...

ripHE Fitzroys are the heirs of a bastard of Charles II. The 1 illegitimate children of that King were popularly believed to be legion, but he acknowledged only James Stuart,...

New York, January 8th, 1864. THE New York correspondent of the London Times, in a letter which most of the readers of the Spectator will have read four weeks before they see...

THE REAL STORY OF THE GUNS.* Sin EMERSON TENNENT has here called public attention to the very important question of great guns and iron plates. In his book, written with an...

hands in its pockets, and a cigar in its mouth, would be the most compen- dious account we could give of Mr. Winwood Reade's ambitious but amusing book. Unless the present tide...

book consists of three essays, all of them scholarlike, thoughtful, and acute, though on subjects of very unequal im- portance. The first essay, on the Gospel of Mark, is by far...

THE example set not long ago by Mr., Shaw has already been followed by another wine merchant, and if the public do not soon become acquainted with the mysteries of the wine...

THE sufferings of the poor Waldenses have long been a fruitful theme for the writings of historical essayists. The spectacle of a small community of less than twenty thousand...

From Dan to Beersheba, in spite of its foolish and inappropriate tide, is a thoroughly good novel and a most amusing picture of American society. It makes no pretensions to such...

Parochial Assessment. By Thomas Morris. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—It is rare indeed for a critic to have to find fault with a book for being too short, but this manual might...

of this serial, which shows no falling off in the character or variety of its articles. In it Mr. Edgar finishes his tale of Cressy and Poitiers, in which the earlier part of...

THIS translation of Keats' " Hyperion " is dedicated by Mr. Merivalo to his friend Lord Lyttelton, whose translation of Milton's "Comas" into Greek iambics we reviewed a few...

volumes. (Sampson Low and Co.)--This is an attempt to unite a study of cha- racter with sensation ineidents, and not a very successful one. Stephen Thorpe, seeing his father...

Religion in Life. Discourses and Meditations. By Edwin Smith, M.A. (E. T. Whitfield.)—These discourses were delivered to the Upper Brook Street Congregation at Manchester, and...

Character. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The writer seems to have given this name to his little volume of essays because their object is to teach people " to be humble-minded, meek in...

description of the British Isles and of all its various pos- sessions in Asia, Africa, America, and Australia. Intending, as we imagine, to supply the older pupils in schools...

M.A., Assistant Conservator of Forests, Central India. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—The writer contends that the rifles ordinarily con- structed are nearly useless for sporting...

Blackett.)—It is not easy to convoy to our readers why this is really a very good noveL There is not a spark of novelty about a single incident in the story ; indeed, the...

F.G.S. (W. P. Nimmo.)—The object of the compiler was, as he tells us, "to inculcate through the medium of poetry that deep and reverential love towards God and nature which lies...

their illustrated almanack, which gives us, first, pictures of the Queen, the late Prince Consort, and the Prince and Princess of Wales, then of its own branch establishments...

Qain, F.C.S., John C. Brough, Thomas Archer, W. B. Tegetmeier, and W. J. Prowse. (Groombridge and Sons.)—A collection of papers describing some of the great manufactories of...

of treating them through the agency of the nervous system, by means of cold and heat, with an appendix containing cases illustrative of a new method of treating epilepsy,...

Arthur Locker. Three volumes. (Chapman and Hall.)—This is a tale of a kind not very common in the present day. Regarded as a historical novel, it is a failure, for it gives no...

By William M'Combie. (Blackwood and Sons.)—The editor of the Aberdeen Free Press is so much enamoured of the articles which he has contributed to his paper during the last two...