pretensions of the nun Patrocinio, who through the Queen, governs Spain. A minister quoted her as the saviour of Spain, and was told by M. Olozaga that she was a convict, having...

The New Yorkers heard of the reception o the news in England on the 13th instant, but they wer unfortunately unable to comprehend English self-restraint, and fancied from the...

which it delights to expose in its dealings with the facts of the Northern cause. Last week, in an article on "Mr, Lincoln and the Slavery Difficulty," it libelled grossly,...

"THE SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had Ike same Afternoon through News-agents in...

saints, martyrs slain in Japan.

ready at Havannah for operations, the commander-in- chief, Karshal Serrano, embarked a corps d'armie, and set sail for Vera Cruz. He will arrive about 12th December, and...

been turned up by the lawyers. Five Americans, with military commissions signed by Franklin, were seized in this ship while on her way from Holland to the Dutch colony of St....

No speeches have been made, and the only polltical event has been the contest for Nottingham, where the eldest son of the Duke of Newcastle has by this time probably been beaten...

T HE funeral of the late Prince Consort took place at Windsor, on Monday, the 23rd instant. The cere- monial, though sufficiently stately, was almost private, only the Princes,...

inst. to the Minister of Washington on the San jacinto affair. In it M. Thouvenel argues that the American Government, if it approves Captain Wilkes's conduct, must hold Messrs....

Parliament, which meets, it is believed, on the 14th of January. The Govern- ment, moreover, has resolved to lay before the Diet a proposal for c allin g to g ether a German...

of the University of Cambridge without oppo- sition. His Grace is a man of high attainments and im- mense wealth, but he has scarcely done sufficient to ju stify the election....

Mr. Chase, in America, shows that he needs 122,000,0001., of which only 12000,000Z. can be supplied by taxation. The Austrian Finance Minister acknowledges that the deficit is...

been alleged as to the dan g er of the existin g crisis in Russia. 'The peasantry, it is affirmed, are absolutely persuaded that the decree which comes into operation in March,...

consistin g of sailin g vessels, left the Havannah on the 27th of November. The second division, composed of steam transports, left on the 30th of the same month, and the fi g...

the paper currency on a better footin g , and waitin g for Fund Pasha, the new Vizier.

efforts made to detach the lower races of Hun g ary from the Ma g yar cause. The effort has not been successful, thou g h Croatia is divided and Transylvania partially hostile,...

be found amon g the "Topics of the Day." Nothin g of any moment has occurred in Italy, but it seems certain that the French Government has re q uested Francis II. to retire from...

more steamers, both of which arrived on Thursday, consists almost exclusively of further details of the effect produced in New York by the news of the feelin g roused in En g...

MONDAY, DECEMBER 23B.D. Tun nomination for Nottin g ham is fixed for Thursday. The sup- porters of Lord Lincoln and-Sir Robert Clifton appear e q ually con- fident of success....

(Front the "Court Circular.") Ornioarrz, Drc. 21.—The Queen passed a quiet night, and continues to bear her grief with calmness. DEC. 22.—The Queen had several hours' sleep...

(By Telegram through M. Reuter': ()lee.) Lissoil, Dec. 26, 10 5 P.M. KING Luiz I. has taken up his residence at the palace of Caxias. The body of the late King is to be...

Subscriptions to the " FRIEND OF INDIA," and " OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA,"1,13 be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington - street, Strand, London. Terms : Per...

Broca EXCFIANGE, FRIDAY EVENUTGL THE demand for money continues to increase as the end of the year draws nigh, and little business is done anywhere at lower rates than the Bank...

WARLIKE PREPARATIONS.—We told our readers so much last week of the con- stitution of the expedition to North America, that we have now little left to say. To the Staff the...

SPASMODIC FINANCE IN THE NORTHERN STATES. E UROPE is not unaccustomed to gigantic national debts ; indeed, accumulating deficits, huge expenditure, and small revenues are the...

FOREIGN FUNDS. (Last Official Quotation during the Week ending Friday Evening.. Austrian. lip. Ct. Belgian 41 — Ditto 21 — Brazilian. 5 — BUMPS Ayres ......... -. 6 — Chilian...

the wife' of E. II. Knatch- bull-Hugessen, Esq., 31.P., of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at 79, Eaton-place, Lady Cairns, of a son. DEATHS. On the 19th inst., at...

will not altogether please those who remember that under the modern system of 'Europe, every pnblic act constitutes a precedent. It is, of course, primir facie plea- sant to...

be, a more in- teresting subject of political study than the present condition of America. Every problem of the past, and every political difficulty of the present, is there...

THIS Windham case, which has recently excited so keen an interest, partly, we fear, from its dirtiness and partly from the magnitude of the stake, illustrates a serious...

MITE present winter is going to be a hard one with the _IL poor, unless we are greatly mistaken. The American war has kept trade slack during the autumn. This miserable Trent...

T O Italian politicians one of the most, if not the most, disquieting feature in the condition of their country has been the rapid and continued depression of the Italian funds....

T THERE was a curious rumour running through London last Taa- 1 day that Zadkiel Tao-Sze, the astrologer—otherwise apparently the Mr. Samuel Smith, post-office, Brompton-row,...

quality which more than another develops itself with the progress of the English people it is self-restraint. The dis- like of exaggeration, always marked with a section of the...

December 26, 1861. SIR,—The Ralwrday Review has returned to the subject of Trades Unions, and has repeated, in a slightly modified form, the charges which I commented on before....

CHRISTMAS WOODCUTS. TuE advent of Christmas is hailed by the illustrated papers with a number of thoughtless and coarsely-executed engravings, devoted chiefly to the...

the Prince Consort has pervaded the musical world during the past week, and though the juvenile saturnalia of pantomimes commenced as usual, on the evening after Christmas-day,...

wide empire—goodness, sweetness, truth, Unselfish clinging to the friends of youth, And that celestial patience rarely seen In worshipp'd idols. . These, and that serene And...

MEMOIRS OF QUEEN HORTENSE.* AN accurate and outspoken life of Queen Hortense might have some interest for the world. The fate of all these Bonapartes was so re- markable, their...

No one can read the " Morte d'Arthur," or Tennyson's " Sir Galahad," without feeling some wish to know how the marvellous romance of the Holy Graal grew up. The strange mixture...

ACCURA.TE, laborious, and thoughtful, Mr. Finlay wants only imagi- nation to become the historian of the modern Greeks, of the race that is, which, with all its defects and...

Tim two portions of this tract bring out very strikingly the great contrast between the relation of theology to politics in the ancient and modern world. Sir Edward Strachey...

Wc are threatened with a new variety of the sensation novel, a host of cleverly complicated storiei, the whole interest of whia consists in the gradual unravelling 'of some...

on Coloniza- tion," makes the suggestion whether, while the religious sentiment is plainly the one strong impulse held in common by the Christian and the savage, and is...