wickshire, has let fall a hint which is not without importance. He anticipates the speedy downfall of Earl Russell, and believes that when it occurs the Liberal party will split...

address on " The Place of Ancient Greece in the Providential Order of the World." The idea of the address is that " among the auxiliaries required to complete the training...

a Reform Bill of some kind. Mr. Gladstone's speech points cautiously that way, Mr. Adderley assumes it as certain, and Lord Charles Russell, though careful not 'to commit his...

TRW. rumours about the Cabinet do not take a much more definite shape. The only office ostensibly vacant is the Duchyof Lancaster, and " the favourite" for that is Mr....

days. In the two on Wednesday he dilated on the less obvious results of the policy by which he has done so much for England, and of this we have spoken elsewhere. But he threw...

University, accepted the present of a bust of Prince Alfred, who had been for a time a student of that university, from the Lord Pro- vost. " The bust," said Mr. Gladstone, "...

the eastern part of Jamaica, that is, the part of the island on this side of Kingston. Nothing is said of its cause, for the news only came in the shape of a telegraphic...

its independent reply is another proof that it is under the in- fluence of those principles of disorganization which it protects. Further action will be taken, in spite of the...

The Prince and Princess of Wales have been visiting Knowsley, all Liverpool thronging out to visit them, and on the Stanley estate game is preserved with the utmost strictness....

society has been re-organized on the model of the United States, with president, senate, and popular assembly. The president is Colonel O'Mahony, who is - about to issue bonds...

Tuesday night at Oxford. "The Abbey," he said, "is not the boundary of his tomb," for, as the saying is, "of illustrious men the whole earth is the tomb," and Lord Palmerston...

Mechanics' Institution at Frome, differing very widely indeed from the kind of lecture the worthy mechanics usually get. It was on life in Bagdad, and Sir Henry told them, among...

A con- federacy of tribes called the Zegdon, who live in an oasis in the far south, have formed an alliance ` witha family named Hamza, and the head of the latter has appeared...

from Mexico seems to be universal in Paris. Napoleon, it is said, is annoyed at the independence of his nominee, is alarmed at the state of his finances, and dreads lest...

on the al- leged beneficent effects of the cattle plague. It was sent, said a Social Science doctor, like all other plagues, "to get rid of the weak ones." If we could only have...

friends and neighbours at Auburn upon the Monroe doctrine. His language was very guarded, but he believed that with respect to the pecu- niary claims of the country against...

which if correct are not very pleasant. The total number killed either by the disease, or by the axe to prevent disease, is indeed small, being only 17,673 up to 28th October,...

Westminster Abbey last Sunday. He spoke of his great goat- ties as being singularly attainable by other men, except perhaps his wonderful physique. This may be true if we do not...

on Mon- day full of political and personal optimism. " Great men died, but great men arose again." He " was the head of the largest business in the world." He believed in the...

money, and 89 to 891 for account. Yesterday the closing quotations were as fol- lows :—For transfer, 88/, 89 ; for account, 881, 89. There has been a great want of buoyancy in...

had a long discussion on discontinuing the University sermons of the long vacation. Those who had proposed this "grace," as the proposal to discontinue the sermons was...

Provi- sion Company, with a capital of 100,0001., in 101. shares. The object of the company is to purchase the patent of Mr. Richard Jones for preserving meat, which they...

yesterday and on Thursday week :- Thursday, October 26. Friday, November a. Caledonian •• .6 • • • . Great Eastern .. .• • • Great Northern .. .. .. Great Western.... .....

on Thursday week were as follows :— Greek Do. Coupons .. Mexican • . Spanish Passive Do. Certificates Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. ,. Consoadis . . 1882 .7 • • Thursday,...

the Catholic Institute, for the improvement of young men. The Bishop, Dr. Dorrian, claimed authority over it, and the members proving refractory he issued his ultimatum. Unless...

Lon- don Gaslight Company, each holding a million cubic feet of gas. Gas without oxygen will not explode, but it appears that it is the custom of some companies to increase...

admission of men to Orders ? At present the profession is absolutely at the mercy of the territorial bishops, who could if they chose to com- bine bring it to a close, or insist...

judge before the illness which had compelled him to abandon the thought of further work carried him off. He died last Monday. Like so many other of our great lawyers he was a...

has a sort of oratory communicating with the village church, in which he prays morning and evening with the people, but the window of which he shuts down directly the sermon...

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF THE CABINET. T HERE is, we are told, one sound reason for delay in re- constructing the Cabinet. The new strength, if imported at all, must be imported...

great career which may be before Mr. Gladstone, should he be permitted to grow old in the service of the Crown, may have expected, after the tribute which was of course due from...

THERE will be a Reform Bill. We do not profess to be in the secrets of Cabinets, but it needs no eavesdropping to tell politicians that a Government of which Earl Russell and...

I T was with real pleasure that we read the remarks recently made by the Archbishop of York upon the new Subscrip- tion Act and the general position of the clergy. When we find...

T HE Italian Elections have ended in a victory for the moderate Liberals, who outnumber all other parties put together, but the position is nevertheless very unsatisfactory. The...

N OTHING perhaps in politics is so hard to explain as the precise connection which exists in this country between "society"— using the word in its Club sense—and politicians....

T HERE is a very memorable and also very amusing event in French history popularly known as the Day of Dupes, when with the stealthy bound of a tiger Cardinal Richelieu,...

[FROM ODD SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Rome, October 18, 1865. I HAVE just returned from Naples, where I had purposed stay- ing over the elections, but whence I was forcibly obliged...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL 'CORRESPONDENT.) New York, October 12, 1865. THIS week one occasion of outcry against the Southern people,. and one very good reason for the demand that they...

THE " SPECTATOR.") must confess that I have been at times astonished at the civility with which you have, on the whole, treated our clergy when attacks have been made upon...

MR. RAYMOND'S LIFE OF LINCOLN.• THIS would be thought by many a heavy book,—which in a physical point of view undoubtedly it is, and on that account it is a pity that it has not...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR."] Sheffield, October 28, 1865. SIR,—I think your correspondent " M.A." scarcely conveys a true impression, when he says that the interpretation...

Maxwell Drewitt is not an improvement upon George Geith, but it is a very good novel. There is an idea in it which is a very good idea, which is worth working out, and which is...

Cami recalls the regrets which the premature decease of an amiable and accom- plished scholar excited through a very wide circle. Mr. Drury, if he cannot be placed in the very...

Tun old magazines are more nearly up to time than the new ones, Fraser and Blackwood having articles on Lord Palmerston, while the Cornhill and Macmillan have not. Blackwood's,...

Anthropologists, are ve ry angry with a number of people this quarter. They are displeased with the historians who do not take into consideration the race-influence in writing...

Rev. J. H. Ingraham. (Virtue Brothers.)—This is one of the many well-meant attempts to convey instruction through the medium of fiction that read more dreary than the drealiest...

the author, at his office, Stockton-on-Tees. (Allan and Co.)—We can- ', not look at Mr. Baker's pleasant photograph, which is prefixed to this volume, and say anything harsh of...

We have received from Messrs. L. Prang and Co, Boston, Massachu- setts, a very fine engraving of the late President Abraham Lincoln, "copied by permission from the original...

Kiddie-a- Prink. (Warne.)—This is a sensation novel of the old- fashioned school The scene is laid on the Cornish coast, the physical and moral aspects of things are in keeping...