21st, is on the whole unfavourable to the Federals. General Burnside, attacked by Longstreet and a greatly superior army, has been driven in upon Knoxville, with the loss of...

Great Britain, but India will have compensation. The man of all men alive bait quali- fied to govern the empire has been set to do it. Stirred into promptitude at once by the...

Bank, which has gone up this week from 6 to 8 per cent., and is likely to rise to 10 almost immediately, has created a good deal of theoretic interest amongst political...

Oxford, on the question of paying Professor Jowett for his labours as Professor of Greek. The division was equal, but as there is no provision for a casting vote, the motion to...

November, announcing the imminent death of Lord Elgin, the Viceroy of India. His Lordship left England subject to a disease of the heart, and over-exertion in climbing a...

to the Rev. W. W. Shirley, son of the late Bishop of Sodor and Man. Mr. Shirley has been scholar, fellow, and tutor of Wadham Col- lege. He took a first class in mathematics in...

T HE Moniteur published on Thursday a document which is called in England M. Fould's budget. It is nothing of the kind, being only M. Fould's report upon the general financial...

be mainly the Mexican expedition, which has cost 8,000,000/. already, and the news from that country is by no means re-assuring. The Mexicans are disgusted by the amount of...

have produced a perfect panic in the " speculative " securities on the Stock Exchange, Mexican and Greek bonds sinking every day. So sensitive became the market that a letter...

prosecution has very nearly closed. The procedure is as absurd as ever, but the evidence of the week is decidedly in favour of the accused. It disposes, at all events, of the...

that the fire on the batteries did necessarily endanger the town. The following extracts, however, from letters from officers in the fleet, published in the Japan Commercial...

municipalities in England ! They have done it, however, having voted 20,0001. for the erection of buildings in Victoria Street for the labouring poor. The houses are to be built...

spite of all the efforts of Government. The Admiralty had ordered the Victor, a six-gun screw steamer of 859 tons, to be sold, and she was purchased for the China trade,...

the Prussian Government having explained its ground. In the debate on the resolution moved by Herr Virchow, Herr Bis- mark stated that his Government held themselves bound to...

Wed- nesday last in the hall of Lincoln's Inn to consider the present system of law reporting. The Attorney-General was in the chair, and two resolutions, respectively moved and...

made a speech which will set him right with many who disapproved the tone of his speeches in England. He speaks of this country and its people in terms not very consistent with...

a libel on her friend the Roman sculptor,—or sculptress, perhaps we should say,—Miss Homier, which has appeared in some English papers, to the effect that her statue of...

at Hungerford into the Charing Cross Station, and it is hoped that the line will be opened to the public by the end of the year. The branch from London Bridge to Cannon Street...

cent.

Bank of England have advanced their minimum quotation for money to S per cent., and declined making advances upon Govern- ment securities under 9. In the open market capital is...

on the various Presidencies, at former rates. The applications within the limits amounted to 1,700,0001.

of official tyranny we ever remember to have seen recorded. There is a place near the city known as Alderley Edge, which has grown into a kind of suburb for the wealthier...

get a live porpoise in the Zoological Gardens, but the creatures are apt to expire a few minutes after their arrival at their destination. Mr. Buckland recently received a...

Glasgow to get up a public enthusiasm for the South, but be had nothing original to say for his cause beyond the somewhat ingenious suggestion that, " there was not a word in...

for the prevailing winds, and that in each such cycle there are three periods (each four years in duration) of deficiency of east wind, and the same number of periods of excess...

the present Greek Government intend to disregard the debt of 1824-5, has created a panic in the market for Greek bonds, and a heavy fall has taken place in prices, business...

On Saturday last Consols officially closed at 921 cum div. for money, and 911 ex div. for account. On Thursday the price for money was as low as 90 ex div. Yesterday's closing...

value of the leading Foreign Securities :— Greek Do. Coupon. .. Mexican Spanish Passive • . Do. Certificates .. Turkish 8 per Cents., 1858.. " Cousolides.. 1862 .. •• • • •...

week ; but some large supplies of gold have been forwarded to Egypt and the Continent. The aggregate imports have amounted to about 600,0001.

THE NEW INDIAN VICEROY. I N selecting Sir John Lawrence as Lord Elgin's successor I the Government has broken, and wisely broken, the The rule was and is a wise one, but the...

somewhat late in life on the conduct of our foreign affairs. He has made a few great blunders in policy, and one enormous blunder as diplo- matic plenipotentiary at Vienna at...

T HE Schleswig-Holstein affair seems likely to repay Europe in part for the infinite weariness of hearing it chatted about as if it were understood. It seems likely to sink,...

view from which medical men appear an injured and unappreciated class. The public really does not do the profession justice. We deliberately shut our eyes to the romantic...

agricultural labourer may yet become, and speedily, the cardinal point of English internal politics. The idea that it must be improved, and that it can be improved from without,...

Magazine a curious J paper, at once very able and very feeble, very bold and very cautious, on " Women's Scepticism; " or rather hints to women how to take up an attitude of...

T HE tendency of the human mind at once to sameness and to diversity is seldom more clearly shown than in the matter of currency. el priori, it would seem probable that whenever...

HE history of the " Pagets," a family of successful men-of-the- world,, with no very great man and no blunderers among them , is a composite one. Strictly speaking they are not...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,-I have so much reason to be gratified by the notice which you have taken of my charge, that it may seem ungracious and almost ungrateful...

WILLIAMS'S RISE AND FALL OF THE MODEL REPUBLIC.• WHEN Mr. Gladstone let loose his celebrated phrase about Mr Jefferson Davis baying made of the South a nation, he perhaps did...

MARTIAL. To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—In the current number of the Cornhill Magazine I am invited by " J. 0." to cite a single sentence in his paper on the Mhow...

Ii is so pleatant to meet M r. Doyle in a new field, and his illustrated Chronicle is so graceful and attractive, that criticism is almost die- armed before it comes to deal...

the great number ot really good navels and able novelists in the present generation. In no other department of literature can it be said that the present ago is truly great. In...

of the mother country so numerous and scattered, that it is scarcely to be wondered at that Englishmen often exhibit the most profound ignorance of all that concerns some of its...

is a very beautifully illustrated edition of the "Ingoldaby Legends" which attained so sudden and wide a popularity some twenty years since. Whether their comedy, which mainly...

pamphlet commences with a most comical perversion of history. Negro slavery is compared with the Roman and Norman invasions of England, and the English invasion of India, and it...

John Fitzhugh. (Liverpool : Webb and Hunt.)—This is an admirable little tract on Life Assurance, not advocating the claims of any special company, nor intended to advocate them,...

Co.)—It is not easy to see the object of this work. It consists of a description of the vice and poverty of London, and incidentally of the institutions for their relief which...

(Longman and Co.)—The plan adopted by Dr. Hewitt in treating his subject is remarkable on account of the great prominence which he gives to diagnosis. " The difficulties...

really think we are not speaking too harshly when wo call this pamphlet a mass of rhetorical rubbish from which no human being can derive a single useful hint. Take an extract...

of Messrs. Allen and Co.'s Map of India, by very far the best which exists of that great peninsula. In the present edition the whole of Upper India has been redrawn upon...

J. Talboys Wheeler. (Virtue, Brothers, and Co.)—Tho Indian Govern- ment was desirous of having an analysis prepared of the public records relating to cotton cultivation in...

a thoughtful and accomplished mind. In the first, entitled, "Learning and Science," the author maintains the theory that the distinction between learning and science is not a...

(Pickering.) A translation into good French, which may have been worth making, though we cannot see it.

edition. (Houlston and Wright.)—There is a frank conceit in the writer of this book which is very charming. It seems he owns an estate in Scotland, and had a lawsuit about the...

and Co.)— The propositions of the First Book as they should be written in an ex- amination. Premises and conclusion are always in different lines, and the principal conclusions...

C. Holme. (Longman and Co.)—This is an attempt to supply a short commentary especially adapted for candidates for the University middle-class exa- minations, or other persons...

Co.)— A preparation for Christmas. Little children will be pleased with the humorous and yet artistic coloured prints which form the staple of the work. Edward the Esquire is...

By John Scholefield. (David Nutt.)—We should surmise that Mr. Scholefield has not succeeded in inducing a manager to produce his piece. He, therefore, appeals to the reading...

Le Page. (Virtue, Brothers, and Co.)—A work for beginners, remarkable for the pains which the author has taken to insure correct pronunciation. Imme- diately under each word in...

point of style Miss Thomas has the advantage'over many of those who compete with her for the favour of the novel-reading public, and she has besides considerable power of...

Miller. (Mac- millan and Co.)—A posthumous publication, certainly the work of a scholar and a man of poetical feeling, but still lost labour. It is not a literal translation,...