T HE result of General Hooker's advance has been a retreat. By manceuvres pronounced by competent judges bold and -skilful, he in five days crossed the Rappahannock - , and on...

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May on our pcsition in China is, perhaps, better worth studying than any which has omurred this year. Nobody, it is true, said anything which it is not more or less a waste of...

MR. WHITESIDE'S DEFENCE OF THE IRISH ESTABLISHMENT. T HAT a subject like the Irish Church should have fallen to Mr. Dillwyn is, perhaps, proof sufficient that nothing of moment...

London and the Bishop of St. David's, who have both done much during the last week to vin- dicate the reputation of our English episcopacy for width of charity and clear...

D OING good is said to be a luxury. It may be so • but if it is, it is assuredly one of the most puzzling and la- borious of all enjoyments to conscientious and sagacious...

IF there be anything unsavoury, if there be anything of ill 1 report, it is the cropping up of a half-forgotten scandal. At its first appearance we are too much occupied by the...

evils of war, but they were prepared to encounter those evils, to bear suffering and increased taxation, if by so doing Poland would be made free." "However strong the measures...

VITEN in these days of telegraphs great events are seldom LI/ dramatic in their continuity or their speed. Loudon has for a week been filled with rumours of the destruction of...

THE scene on Epsom Downs last Wednesday varied in one or two features from that which is found so -amusing when the weather is fine. There were very few ladies present, and the...

fruit. Three considerable clubs have been started this year in London, in Soho, Farringdon, and Wandsworth, six within a few months in Brighton, others in Manchester, Leeds,...

external agitation for a deep movement, the colour of phthisis for the colour of health, and the restlessness of fever for the steady animation of life, may be led to imagine...

[Ftrom OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Lemberg, May 16th, 1863. II will enable you to take a more comprehensive view of the present insurrection, if I give you a brief sketch of...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [THIRD NOTICE.] CONTINUING to crawl along the floor, the spectator will be re- warded by several landscapes which, if not of the highest order, yet imply...

"FINESSE." A NEW play—not a newly translated play—has of late become so great a rarity in London, that the production of the new and original Finesse ; or, Spy and Counter-Spy,...

MR. KINGSLEY'S WATER-BABIES.* Ma. KINGSLEY'S genius is so remarkable for its sympathy with the irrational forms of animal life, and the rational element in it is so often...

IT is a very vain task to criticize Dr. Milmau's History of the Jews. The book has evidently supplied a keenly felt want, for it has lived for a generation, and this edition,...

Is there a class in England, highly born and well educated, whose- pursuit is seduction, whose excitement is intrigue, whose pleasure is successfully concealed adultery, and...

recent and matured opinions of that distinguished chemist to whom agriculture is mainly indebted for whatever claims she may be able to put forward to be regarded as a science....

THE subject of this biography was in his day a man of con- siderable reputation. Among the Dissenters he was for many years a popular preacher, and there were, perhaps,...

Principles of Scripture Parallelism. By John Howard Hinton, M.A. (Houlstou and Wright)—The clue by means of which Mr. Hinton proposes to unravel the intricacies of the Epistle...

Lice It Down. A story of the Light Lands. By J. C. Jeaffreson, Author of "Olive Blake's Good Work," &c., &c. Three vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—We are inclined to think that this...

years ago, the author of this poem, while residing in a great Continental capital, became acquainted with a nobleman who traced his Eastern and princely lineage beyond the...

History of Wines," &c. Two vols. (Skeet).—With all our wide ex- perience of trumpery books to fall back upon, we cannot at this moment recollect ever having met with a less...

fields of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. (Messrs. Bacon and Co.)-Messrs. Bacon and Co. are very prompt in supplying these American maps to the English public. These maps...

Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages (Longrnatte).-The Causes and Treatment of Imperfect Digestion, by Arthur Seared, M.D....