riliE tidings of the week are naturally bloody, preter- naturally blood-thirsty. In two great victories in Vir- ginia, and in the bombardment of New Orleans, of which we have...

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AMERICA.—The surrender of Yorktown and its occupation by the army of General McClellan, on the 4th May, the march on Williams- burg, and the great defeat of the Confederates...

POLITICAL—The death of Mr. Slauey, M.P. for Shrewsbury, in his 71st year, leaves the borough of Shrewsbury vacant. Mr. Sauey was a liberal in politics, better known for his...

Hoesz or Loans, Monday, May 19. —Divisions : the Marquis of Bath's motion.— Registry of Voters Bill: third reading. Tuesday, May 2015.—The Slave Trade : Earl Russell's...

THE FINANCIAL IMPULSES OF PARLIAMENT. I T is a childish ceremonial in Mr. Disraeli to raise a formal party-question, as he strove to do on Monday night, upon the policy of...

FRIEND OF INDIA," will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms : Per Annum, payable in advance, postage free, "FRIEND OP INDIA" £2...

• Tux House of Lords sat only a short time last night, and no business of importance was done. In the House of Commons, Mr. Hoasmax gave notice, that when Mr. Stansfeld...

T HERE are certain chains of political events which are too gigantic in every way to teach much to the generation which witnesses them. We touch and handle them, as we might...

is being introduced in a rather curious manner in Prussia. At the opening of the new Parliament, on Monday, the first words of the minister president informed the...

111 - Assolant is among us taking notes, and the aw- ing rier du Dimanche prints them. The English people now enjoy that greatest of blessings — a candid friend. We know what an...

T O thinking men who feel, like ourselves, a hearty sympa- thy with the political claims of the working classes, no- thing can seem much more dreary than the Reform Conference...

T HE religious societies of England are said to dispose of somewhat above a million a year. They are perfectly organized, and have their agents and supporters throughout the...

TI AD a philosophic spirit, instead of mere chance, presided over the arrangement of goods in the International Exhibition, the department of machinery would have had another...

AIR. Ruskin has a great deal to answer for. He has done an undoubted service in clearing the stagnant art atmosphere with a series of electric criticisms, and in forcing an...

T HE expedition of Bois was the first practical action taken by the cosmopolitan Legitimist coalition which in the summer of 1861 voluntarily came forward to carry on the cause...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] WE have referred more than once to the Mexican expedition, and pointed to that distant campaign undertaken in the midst of the complications...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRE5rONDENT.) Louisville, May 6. Iv was in Kentucky that the insurrection received its first ()heck. Had Kentucky - voted for secession the whole of the...

ROYAL ACADEMY. THIRD NOTICE. Ma. "Ransom" (198) scarcely realises the expectations formed of that long-talked-of work. Beautiful as it is in many passages of colour, lovely as...

THE four boards of the coffin lid Heard all the dead man did, The first curse was in his mouth, Made of grave's mould and deadly drouth ; The next curse was in his head, Made...

Tan Saturday afternoons at the Crystal Palaceincrease steadily in deserved popularity. On Saturday last, Herr 3Ianns had the honour of introducing to an English audience...

IS SECESSION A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT ?* MOST English readers are inclined to treat with impatience arguments to show that secession is a violation of the American constitution....

CLEVER bold men with any literary capacity are always tempted to write verse, as they can say so much under its artistic cover which in common prose they could not say at all....

THE rapid and varied progress of the Natural History Sciences during the present century, and the consequent necessity entailed on all those who study them of "keeping on a...

SECOND NOTICE. No one, not excepting even its author, ever thought of claiming for the Leben Jew any great merit on the score of its originality. The importance of the book lay...

THE consumption of the genuine rattling novel has diminished of late years—even Mr. Lever, who was in some sense the recognized patentee of the article having betaken himself in...

Tun indifference of laymen as to ecclesiastical and even as to religious questions is very properly rebuked by the Rev. H. Bristow Wilson.* There are many views based upon sound...