scarcely be a doubt of the case ; yet eyes may be mistaken, and one piece of print may look so like another that it would be diffi- cult to feel any certainty on the subject, if...

of going forward. Whatever may be her concession to German urgencies, Russia shows no signs of giving way. The boastful assurance promulgated by a St. Petersburg journal, quoted...

Victor Emmanuel's visit, nor all the studied flattery addressed to him personally, can swamp the remarkable character of the event. It has become a commonplace almost before we...

RUMOURS of renewed negotiations for peace, begun or to be begun, though perhaps traceable in their origin to the Bourse at Paris, have acquired an extension and a degree of...

indeed, appear to carry on their conflict rather as a riot than as a conspiracy against the Supreme Government. Perhaps they dream of a purely local independence; as the ad-...

Queen Victoria carried the King of Sardinia to see the wonders of Woolwich on Saturday. They were accompanied by Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge. The party proceeded by...

with the visit of the King of Sardinia to Queen Victoria. Her Majesty accompanied the King to Woolwich on Saturday, gave a banquet every day in his honour, and on Wednesday...

system and the Bank Charter Act of 1844 has proved a failure. Mr. Ben- noch consented to take the chair, and so far imparted a City cha- racter to the proceedings ; and Mr....

con- firms the belief, not only that there has been no intention of pro- voking hostilities with this country, but that the buccaneering expeditions which were said to have...

London is not fortunate in the season of its great shows. The Duke of 'Wellington was buried one cold Thursday in November ; the Em- peror of the French passed along our streets...

Lord and Lady Sohn Russell inspected the Cheltenham Grammar School, the Proprietary College, and Cheltenham hospital, last week. At the Grammar School, the boys read in address...

The Armagh election took place this week. There were two Conser- vative candidates—Mr. Miller and Mr. Bond. Mr. Miller found sup- port, it is said, among the Protestant...

FRANCE. —The Emperor left Paris on Thursday afternoon, for Com- piegne ' there to meet the King of Sardinia. The Empress accompanied her hu sband to the railway station in an...

Sir Hamilton Seymour arrived at Vienna on Wednesday night, and took up his quarters at the "Roman Emperor." Lord Bloomfield has returned to Berlin. Sir Robert Peel has found it...

of the Morning Post ; and its contents are held by the Post to indi- cate that Austria feels some confidence in the peace negotiations tow an foot. "Vienna, Dee. 7.—The...

SATURDAY. All doubts respecting the rumoured dissolution of Parliament are set at rest by the fiat of the Council held yesterday-afternoon at Windsor Castle. It was tiere...

Street Ward, for the election of an Alderman in the room of the late Mr. Alderman Lawrence, There were to eandidates,—Mr. Donald Nicoll, and Mr. Lawrence son of the late...

satisfaction that a Concordat has been concluded with the Papal Chair, has subscribed 254,000 francs as a contribution to the monument which is to be erected on the Piazza di...

yesterday. The ease for the prosecution was stated by the Attorney-General ; the evi- dence on that side was heard ; and Mr. O'Hagan, for the defence, concluded his speech....

about six o'clock last evening. A train proceeding from Woolwich split in two just at the' junction of the Bricklayer's Arms branch with the North Kent. The en- gine, tender,...

Dudley consti- tuents, addrested thorn at a public meeting on Wednesday. His main topic was the war. He was for concluding peace if Russia would own her- self in the wrong; and...

to receive the report of the Committee of Investigation was held yesterday ; Mr. David Waddington in the chair. Prom beginning to end all was storm, strife, and confusion. The...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY Arrinuroen. The confidence with which most of the advices from the Continent regard the progress' of riegotiations for peace, has again had a very...

TILE COMPENSATIONS. Is it peace ? Some say that the war cannot be carrried on, for want of money here and of will there, and that we must be con- tent with terms already...

Its concerts are among the fashionable entertainments of the 'season," and this is the first time they have been tried at this period of the year. The Society flourishes, and...

an ad- mirable selection from the master's works,—including two of his finest symphonies, the E flat and the "Jupiter" played entire ; the great con- certo in E flat, finely...

The peculiar talent of Mr. Robson in giving tragic expression to the dilemmas of mere farce is amply shown in a new piece produced at the Olympic with the title Tire .Pounds...

The well-known dramatists MM. Anicet Bourgeois and Idrien De- courcelle having united their talents to good purpose in the composition of La Tole de la liaison, (the Little...

Astley's; and comes in favourable contrast to the battle-pieces that preceded it, in- asmuch as it is really a dramatic work, with a dramatic purpose, and not a mere succession...

"SOMETHING more is wanted," said Mr. Dent at the meeting of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company-, "than a mere certificate that the accounts correspond with...

OUR supremacy in manufactures and in the industrial arts is boldly challenged. "Amicus" assures us that the Exhibition of Paris re- futes our fondly cherished assumption that we...

WHEN Cardinal Wiseman tells us that the language of the Papal Concordat is a Latin "peculiar to Catholic ecclesiastical diplomacy, the words of which have a meaning different...

A HIINDEED years ago it was thought "probable that, as formerly, we should look upon Russia as the officina gentinm." Nearer our own time, we have heard that civilization was...

NOTRING seems to be more unsettled than the true function of medical examiners for the Army. Sometimes they admit all kinds of doubtful subjects; at other times they will take a...

THE WAR PEON AN IINPOPULAB POINT OF VIEW. NO. IL SIR — In my first letter, it was sought to prove that the "flourish" abott upholding the independence and civilization of...

Clevedon Court, Somerset, December 3. Abuse the plaintiff's attorney" was the recommendation given to the disheartened barrister, who complained he had a "weak case." Thus it is...

Belfast, 16th November 1855. Sin—In my last letter I gave the outline of a plan for transferring the greater part of the private business of Parliament to a Department of...

23d Iforember 1865. Sin--Nearly half a century ago our iminortal Turner caused a large ari- l/ass to be'carried to a lofty eminence Southward . of the city of 'Oxford, and...

British Museum, 16th November 1855. San—Frequent reference has been made by writers on the subject of Deci- mal Coinage to the supposed facility with which a decimal system has...

On the 30th October, at Calcutta. the Wife of C. H. Lushington, Esq., 0.8., Secre- tary to the Goeernment of India, of a daughter. On the 224 November, at Hallyburton House,...

WAII-OFPICE, Dec. 4.—Caralry.-8th Light Dragoons—Major-Gen. George C. Earl of Lucan, E.C.B. to be Col. vice Gen. Sir John Brown, deceased. Memorandum.—Major-Gen. George C. Earl...

Anutnenrr, Nov. 23.—Corps of .Royal Marines—To be Second Lieutenants— H. C. Bowker, Gent.- ' H. I. de Kantzow, Gent. ; S. T. Bridgford, Gent. ; J. W. W. O'Grady, Gent. ; G....

Zymotic Diseases 253,3 ••• Dropsy, Cancer, and other diseases of uncertain or variable se.at • 49.7 •.. , 2' TubereMar Diseases 181.7..... : 197 . . Diseases of the Brain,...

Tuesday, Dee. 4. Partnerships Dissolved. —D. and T. Hum, St. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, boot- makers—The Llwydcoed Brick Company, Aberdare—Lewer and Buck, Baker Street Portman...

BRITISH FUNDS. (amine Prices.) S00iu'd1Mond.5. 3 per Cent Consols IHtto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Long Annuities Annuities 1885 Bank Stock , 6 per Cent...

County of Middlesex, Printer, it the office of Jossea Cievrox, No. 10, Crane Court, in the Paris' b of St. Dunstan's in the West, in the City of London ; and l'ublished by the...

LIDDELL'S HISTORY OF ROHR.. THE necessity of new books for a new generation is not merely founded on change of fashions and manners, but on the progress of opinion, and in...

DECEMBER 8, 1855.

narratives that have appeared upon the sub- ject of Arctic navigation, the attraction of its adventures and the dreary sublimity of its scenery have lost by repetition something...

a lawyer in California, and travelled a good deal in - Mexico. His volume is not a regular narrative of his travels, but an olla podrida, in which descriptions of the scenery,...

to wealth and Corporation eminence in the city of London is too common an occurrence to justify a volume of biography, there are features in the career of the late Mr. Kelly...

a book only to be handled by men who can constantly check an author's conclusions by their own reasoning powers, and his facts by their own pre- vious knowledge. It is sketchy,...

Dn. MARX, who is the Professor of Music at the University of Berlin, has no superior among the didactic musical writers of the day. Of living writers, his only equal, in...

BOOKS. ALTHOUGH the close of the week witnessed the arrival of several books with mote kind of promise in them for their subjects or their author, it is pro- bable that Dr....

Oy the three poetico-pictorial volumes noted below, • the first is a dainty gift-book edition of Keats's transcendent poem. Could one stop here, all were well enough ; but, in...

THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY.° IT is some time since we have received so interesting an antiquarian hook as this. Every square inch of the invaluable tapestry is brought before the eye ;...