strong at Oxford. Dr. Pusey, and, we believe, Mr. Keble, have declared their concurrence in the compromise, or irenicon, as Dr. Pusey calls it, which, after reciting that the...

has passed over a sentence which will give rise to some discussion. On the 7th of January our Ambassador at St. Peters- burg writes to Earl Russell, reporting a conversation...

Srucrieros" for 1863, price 2s, 9d. each. By order of any bookseller, or at the office,1 Wellington street, Strand

nearly defeated the Government. The War Office had proposed to save 46,0001. on the cost of the 14,000 yeomanry by not calling them out for six days' drill this year. The...

contained in the statement that General Sherman has marched right across the whole State of Mississippi and seized a point on the Mobile and Ohio railroad which enables him to...

I T cannot be said that there are any explicit promises of help to Denmark in the despatches now presented to Parliament, but there aremany statements which would certainly...

frightened into neutrality, we believe the despatches will abundantly prom Lord Napier, in a despatch dated 6th January, says he told Prince Gortschakoff " that an attack upon...

Parliamentary duel. The House was in Committee of Supply, when the leader of the Opposition rose to ask for a little more information about British action in Denmark. He was...

Monday night to explain the extraordinary statement cff the Procureur Imperial, in the recent trial of the four conspirators said to have conspired against the Emperor's life,...

firm and entirely Danish in character. " I will admit," he said, "of no abolition of the existing political connection between the king- dom and Schleswig. I wish to be a free...

of war. The accumulation of combustible materials all over Europe has so encouraged the Poles, that the Secret Government has extended its operations to Galicia. Already,...

of an anti-malt tax league, because, he says, the tax, if it is touched, must be abolished, the vexation of an excise duty consisting in its existence not its weight, and if...

meeting called by himself to relieve the spiritual destitution of London. He considers, and proves his opinion by statistics, that there are 211 parishes deficient either in...

There is no armistice, but negotiations are supposed to be actively proceeding, for the attack on Dilppel has not occurred, and Prussian officers think that the reason assigned,...

Hospo- dar of Moldavia and Wallachia, complaining of the armaments in progress in the joint Principalities. The tone of the despatch suggests that if these preparations continue...

address to their King. In this document, after recount- ing the violent proceedings of the two German Powers, the Danish Parliament proceeds thus :—" In this solemn hour we must...

Early English Texts, which the Philological Society lately commenced, but has now for a time discontinued. " Notwithstanding," say the promoters, " the efforts of the Percy,...

ways has presented its report—a very modest, sensible document, which amounts to this. The outer circle round London ought to be completed, and the inner circle proceeded with,...

Times on the German policy, and the Last letter of that man is worse than the first. Its chief point was a demonstration that Mr. Hall, the Danish Minister who carried the...

health, - really, it is said, because his Chief thinks that being responsible he ought to direct his department. His retirement is, perhaps, well timed, for there is no mind...

the Emperor. It is said that riding one day in the streets, he nearly rode over a little boy, and pulling up suddenly, an :.l ascertaining that ho was not hurt, asked him...

; and 911, 1, for account. Yesterday they left off at 91 to 91i for transfer ; and 911, 1, for time.

creased, the formation of a Credit Whitler Company, under the same directorship, has become necessary, in order to undertake the financial operations which have hitherto been...

the consequent increase in the shipping, call for greater facilities for effecting marine insurances. The National Provincial Marine Insurance Company has been established with...

in the representation of the order. There are 150 such peers, of whom 90 are Tories and 60 Liberals, and they elect 28 represen- tatives. The majority having it all their own...

hearing evidence. It is said that its labours close this week, but the work seems a little too arduous for so premature a decision. The endless series of heartburnings on the...

closed at the following quotations:— Greek 221 2111 Do. Coupons .. .• • • 10 .. — Mexican . Spanish Passive Do. Certhicates Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. .. . 1862 7,...

THE RECONSTRUCTION OF SOCIETY IN LOUISIANA. T HIS war, if it lasts much longer, will have one compen- sation. It will give to North America a generation of statesmen. Nothing...

It will be remembered that the first grave complication which arose on the late King of Denmark's death was caused by the wish of Austria and Prussia to back out of the Treaty...

T HE scheme of a Conference called in London to tinker the shattered Treaty of 1852 seems to have fallen through. The Danes have, indeed, only demanded a fortnight for con-...

T HE strong point of trial by jury has been signally illustrated by the will case with which the Queen's Bench has been occupied during the last eight days. The suit was...

London and the North are apparently about to commit one of the greatest blunders in their political history. They threaten an agitation against Mr. Glad- stone's Deferred...

and almost tragic in the craving of those among the English Clergy who call themselves ortho- dox—whether they claim that title by virtue of their sacerdotal lineage or by...

P EOPLE would look rather oddly at the man who exclaimed loudly that in his judgment murder was a crime and arson a very serious offence, yet the statement is made every day...

[ERRATUM.—There is an error in the last sentence of this series issued last week. The second Earl was succeeded by his second son's son, not his fourth son.] S IR WILLIAM...

THEATRES still continue to prosper to an extent unexampled for years, indeed the public avidity for play-going is almost too great to be conducive to managerial activity, and a...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—Your general criticism of my little book, conducted in so fair and liberal a spirit, I have no desire to discuss. There is one point,...

BISHOP MACKENZIE.* IN a country with a free press and a large reading public the comparative popularity of biographies is a fair test of what kind of man the nation desires to...

Mn. LE FANU is certainly one of the cleverest contrivers of lurid plots whose novels we ever read and enjoyed. There is not in Wylder's Hand quite the wealth of conception which...

PERHAPS the most expressive prefatory statement to be made in treating of Mr. Taylor's book is that it is the result of twelve years' study of something like four hundred works...

THE Cornhill contains the first part of Mr. Thackeray's story, which, oddly enough, is written as if he had contemplated its posthumous publication, the hero telling his story...

M.A. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—To read a sermon of Mr. Robertson's, after those of the thousand other clergymen who publish their annual volume, is like entering into a new...

R. M'Nab. (F. Pitman.)--A sonorous title for a little volume of extracts—prose and verse—moderately well selected. They are, however, by hypothesis, of a very didactic sort.

and Sons.)—Another child-trap, in which, under the pretence of a story, the unhappy infants are to be made to take large doses of Low-Church theology. It is not, however, a bad...

the principles that rest is the most important therapeutic agent in the cure of accidents and surgical diseases, and that every pain has its distinct and pregnant signification....

and Hall.)—A beautifully printed pocket volume of outlines of the principal sculptures of the Vatican. The author took photographs of the statues, then made a tracing from them,...

Dockyard Economy and Naval Power. By P. Barry. (Sampson Low, Son, and Co.)—The author has for some time, as he informs us, written on naval subjects for the Morning Herald, and...

Pitman.)—This is the first volume of a now series, the former series having reached seven volumes. It consists of a collection of lectures by various authors, and is intended...

W. Aldis Wright. (Macmillan and Co.)—This volume finishes the comedies, or rather those plays usually printed before the histories. We see no falling off from the accuracy of...

would be offensive if it were not so very absurd. Its author was during the Presidency of Mr. Buchanan one of tho leaders of Washington fashion, and though violently Southern in...

Nelson and Sons.)—Lives of men, mostly self-taught, who have been remark- able for their literary or scientific eminence. Among others we notice Sir William Jones, Cervantes,...

Mortgage Companies. By A. G. Henriques, Esq., barrister-at-law. (Effingham Wilson.)—A very timely pamphlet pointing out the prin- ciple on which these societies are managed and...

Arkley, the son of a man worth millions, into a marriage with his sister, Lady Bertha. Soon after old Arkley dies, and the only property found is 200,000/. and a landed estate....

Edition. (Adam and Charles Black.)—There had been no new edition of this valuable edition of Adam Smith's great work since 1838, and it ' cannot, therefore,, be said that this...

old friend the Wandering Jew, after the Crucifixion, is carried off to Hell, where he hears the report to Satan by his emissary of that event, Satan's triumphant speech...

(Adam and Charles Black.)—The leading idea of these sermons—that the thirty-sixth chapter of Ezekiel, verses 16 to 37, present an epitome or outline of the Gospel—is certainly a...

is unfortunate in appearing just after Miss Yonge's "History of Christian Names ;" but the very interesting and curious subject with which it deals is very inadequately handled....

Wants. W. E. Hearn, LL.D., Professor of History and Political Economy in the University of Melbourne. 1864. (Macmillan and Co.)—It is interesting to notice the contributions...

philology. The Romance tongues are all mainly derived from the popular Latin, which existed side by side with the classical language. The other principal elements are German and...

of India. By W. Nassau Lees, LL.D. (W. H. Allen and Co.)—The theory of the writer is that the immense amount of silver which yearly flows to the East is absorbed in currency....