went off exceedingly well. There were 21,743 rank and file on the ground, and it is remarked that they assembled in and quitted the park in less than an hour. The...

Oxford University, consisting chiefly of under- graduates, but partly also of Mr. Memel, in a speech explainin, how unworthy Mr. Gladstone was of the honour of representing the...

Ewell made an attempt to turn the Federal right on the 19th May, which was repulsed. The Times correspondent's telegrams, which are apparently freely constructed out of his own...

N OTHING new has occurred this week in the Danish affair, and there is only one fresh rumour. It is said that Denmark refuses to consent to the division of Schleswig recommended...

his house, was on Monday married at Kingston to his cousin, Isabelle d'Orleans, daughter of the Due de Montpensier, and of the sister of the Queen of Spain. The bridegroom is a...

It appears that on 30th of March an envoy calling himself Special Commissioner demanded an audience of the President, who de- clined to receive him in that capacity—intended to...

mencement" at Cambridge amidst strong demonstrations of pleasure. When the honorary degrees were granted in the Senate the undergraduates as usual availed themselves of the...

House, a motion for observing the policy of non-intervention in our intercourse with China. We have commented on his speech in another place, but may remark here that all...

travel- lers are subjected in Prussia. Officials snap their fingers in their faces, hotel-keepers refuse them beds, and the mob groans and spits as only a German mob can. During...

Oxford tests for graduates, and admitting to the MA degree without the present condition of subscription to the Articles and Prayer-book, Mr. Neste took Lord R. Cecil to task...

to the Times in which he declares that he and his class do not want reform,—do not, in fact, care about the suffrage. They prefer to improve their minds. The letter is that of a...

He was then at Mozambique, and about to proceed to Bombay, having just completed a journey on foot through a range of mountains north-west of the Shiro, an account of which will...

English proverb, or rather Irish proverb, which wanted an expla- nation. It appears that the story of the "Kilkenny cats" had its foundation in an atrocious act of cruelty. A...

Mr. Payne, Deputy Assistant-Judge for Middlesex, for stealing a roll of linsey. The police proved a previous conviction, and though White declared that he had been persecuted by...

January, 1864, there were in the Irish county and borough gaols 364 Established Church prisoners, with 39 Established Church chaplains receiving 1,607/. a year amongst them ;...

in Par- liament, a plan for collecting agricultural statistics. The gist of it is to collect them not by individual farms, but by Ordnance plots selected for the purpose of...

the diocese of Durham the proportion of ordinations to population was 1 to 15,000, last year only one to 30,000, while in Oxford it is 1 to 6,400. He asks for an explanation,...

of Hebrew, and appointed Assistant-Curator of the Imperial Library, an office for which his remarkable knowledge of Oriental languages and literatures perfectly fits him. The...

duties on spirits in Great Britain and the prohibition of spirits in Rome. Mr. Whiteside raised the former discussion, maintaining of course that the duties led to large illicit...

at least to his own satisfaction, that if the colonists had never had representative institutions in New Zealand the Maories would never have got frightened about the...

Torrens, who died yesterday week (the 27th of May), in the eighty-fourth year of his age. Colonel Torrens will be re- membered chiefly by his economical writings and his...

Securities yesterday and on Friday week :- Friday, May 27. Greek .. 24 Friday, June 3. Do. Coupons 101 11 Mexican .. 441 441 Spanish Passive 84 331 Do. Certificates 104...

British Railways, as well as those of Friday week :- Caledonian .. Great Eastern Great Northern Great Western.. Friday, May 27. .. 119 47 1301 •• 641 Friday, June 3....

pro- posed to confer the honorary degree of LL.D. on the Dean of Westminster, on occasion of the Prince of Wales's visit to the University, but for his literary, not for his...

Tennent has been taken to task for his "Story of the Guns" in many quarters. He has replied in the current number of Fraser to the most serious attack, and writes :—" In...

and 90f for account. Yesterday the closing price was 90/, 1, both for money and time. English Mexican scrip—owing to considerable quantities of French scrip having been sold...

says the Daily News, a lottery, in which the prizes were masses for the souls of the winners after death, and the tribunal acquitted them of any breach of the law, though it ap-...

Monday week under the presidency of Lord Brougham, the old subject of the necessity for a reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts was once more handled in a very able paper by Mr....

Wednesday at 61 per cent., the Directors of the Bank of England, at their weekly meeting held on Thursday refrained from making any alteration in their minimum rate. The Bank...

with the Ministry than party feeling, or they would not be so well pleased with the success of the Volunteer movement. A scene like that witnessed on Saturday in Hyde Park...

MR. GLADSTONE'S PAMPHLET. GLADSTONE'S affix to his speech on the suffrage which he calls a preface, will not do him any good It is badly written, dubious in meaning, and...

old matters in a fresh light. He and his Oxford suppor- ters have invented quite a new order of thought for the dis- cussion of Church principles. They probably see the danger...

the report of the Medical Committee to whom Sir George Mr. Gladstone and his infinitesimal reform of giving an M.A. Grey referred the subject throws much light upon it, and...

" RE French Government will not interfere with that of Great Britain ; still less will it go to war with it. All it intends to do is to declare Liverpool and Bristol, Glas- gow...

T HE diplomatic "situation" seems, according to the very impertect accounts which have yet oozed out, to have remained during the week unchanged. The neutral Powers ale still...

T HE annual Dog-shows at Islington and Brompton are great opportunities, as yet we fear almost wasted, for pro- moting the highest intellectual and moral culture of dogs. In...

" VOU'RE entirely wrong, Sir," said a very experienced editor 1. to a subordinate who objected to state some fact as being universally known, "you're entirely wrong. As a rule...

S OMEWHERE about the year 1780 the celebrated French traveller, naturalist, and philosopher, Sonnerat, in the course of a voyage to the East Indies and China, visited the island...

T HE new Lord Herbert of Cherbury marrying Barbara, niece and heiress of William Herbert, third Earl and Marquiifif Powis (whose lineage we shall have presently to notice), was...

MR. HOLMA.N HUNT AND MR. R. B. MARTINEAU. THE picture which Mr. Holman Hunt has rather curiously called "The After-glow in Egypt ,, is in almost every respect the finest be has...

Belfast, 31st May, 1864. Ste,—I did. not see your article of the 21st on the Irish national education question until a week after publieation. I trust you will give insertion...

* Apologia pro V&5 Nth, being a reply to a pamphlet entitled "What then Does London : Longman. and candour of his own nature, and yet provides more colour of ex- cuse for Mr....

NOVELISTS, weary of love and bigamy, are making a run just now upon personation. Two novels, each of them very good in its way, Miss Braddon's Henry Dunbar and Mr. Jeaffreson's...

more accessible dis- tricts of the Tyrol, the southern portion of that interesting pro- vince, though even More attractive, is still comparatively un- touched by the...

PROTESTANT CHURCH.* FENT events have created a deeper sensation in the minor world of French Protestantism, and even in that larger French world from which it becomes every...

the decay of ruined buildings in such a climate as ours, and as to the best means of guarding against the effects of damp and time, the author proceeds to consider the ravages...

" Tax greater part," said Sir Thomas Browne of mankind, "must be content to be as though they had never been," and cer- tainly picture galleries are no exception to this...

Applied to the American White Man and Negro. Reprinted from the New York edition. (Triibner and Co.)—So far as the anther contends for the right of the black man to perfect...

sensation novel. Perhaps the fact that the first scene is the death-bed of Barbara's peasant lover, whom she jilted for a captain of horse, might have warned one ; but it is...

and Play" because the first essay is on that subject. The author had much better have named his book, after the very happy description he gives of his second essay, "Secular...

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Colonel Graham has produced a book which is extremely well worth reading, yet not a good book. His subject is not very well defined by the title, which...

" This noble pastime" has sprung into sueh sudden popularity that we regret to say that people are inventing rules of their own, and its unity is in serious danger. Mr. Jaques...

Edited by Cholmondeley PennelL (Chapman and HalL)—Fishermen are no longer to be "the only opulent and powerful body in the kingdom dependent on charity for their literature."...

Paul Broca. Edited by G. Carter Blake, F.G.S. (Longman and Co.)—The word " edited " includes, as we learn from the preface, translation, but we do not wonder that the secretary...

a proof of what may be effected in spite of permanent ill-health this

By the Rev. G. IL Gleig. (Longman and Co.)—We think this edition of Mr. Gleig's life of the Duke much better than the original two volumes. They were rather a history of the...

(Richard Bentley.)—We have not had any opportunity of comparing this translation with the Danish original, but Mrs. Bushby has produced a volume of very easy idiomatic English....