Plans and Estilwites Jur La'Aoutres' Cutlt7es. By LAdy C.aolile K Kerrison. (Ilatchard aned Co.)-These plans are very neat; whlether thev can be executed for the estimated...

A Dictionary of the English Languaye. Part I. By Robert Gordon I Lathamn M.A., M.D., F.R.S. (Lonazman and Co.)-The first instahnlnti of this long promised work is now given...

History of the Church of Enyglan2d. By the Rev. George G. Perry. I Vol. IIL. (Saunders, Otley, and Co.)-This completes a verv useful sketch, but our readers will be rather...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Bible Truths with Shakespearian Parallels. By James Brown. (Whit- taker and Co.)-A pleasant volume for those who love to compare parallel passages from...

Seven 3lfonths' Residence in Russian Poland in 1863. By the Rev. I Fortescuo L. M1. Anderson, B.A. (Macmillan and Co.) -Tlle author. I the son of the British Chaplain at...

Tihomson's lWinter, with lotes and an ail.nly-is of sell'uoncs. By Walter MI'Locl. (Longinan and Co).)-Tllis p3oe p is one of the stib- jects for junior candidates at the...

Sk~etc1hcs of the Enylish CoJnstitution. Skectclhes of P rtolt) |Eom. By J. S. Lauric, one of I-Icr Majesty's Inspectors of Schools. (Thlomas M~urhv.)-Thcse tvwo manuals...

Emanuel Swedenborg, and Other Poems. By " 31. A. C." (Fred. I Pitman.)"Where Skaraborg its frontier riches pours From the cold region of barbaric shores, And towers episcopal...

Tie Culkcted llritinqs of Edward l(r1iuq. In five volumes. Edited I by his nephcw, the Rev. (G. Caliyle, M.A. I ol. I. (Alexander Strahan and Co.) Edward Irvbzy. A Review....

Arithametic for tMe Use of Schools. By George IIoppl, M. A., Cam- bridge. (Relfo Brothers.)-Sollmething nmore than an ordillmiy :vitil- inetic. The cxplanations of the rules...

PROFESSIONAL MEM>N AND THEIR SONS. IF Mr. M1atthecw; Arnold iieeded any justification for his proposal to establissh County Lyceums, he might find it in the Report of the...

THE CECILS (YOUNGER BRANCH). ON the death of the founder the Cecils split into two branches, of which the elder, sprung by direct descent from Thomas second Lord Burghley, was...

The Sco/s ouan states distinctly that Lord Posslyn, Peer of Par- I liament, this week nominiated Captain Tholllson as Conservative candidate for Fifeshire before a neetilg of...

There is a story afloat in the Inns of Court which seems to re- quire a refutation. It is said that Mr. Pope Hienncssy has joined the II nme Circuit, but on applying for...

Tile Lords are gettings tired of the impudence of the railway companies, and on Tuesday night Earl Dei by brought forward a proposal to compel theni to do what they ought to...

Tin Ear, of P)ulley- lias 4ben dcfleidaut il a rather curious trial. One Mr. Soutbev. a billjard-'.narker, won solmie 1,2001. of thle E'arls brothsel, the Ilonourable 1)DlelvC...

I A few other petty changes are to be made; the duty on corn is to be changed from a 7Rn.asore duty of 1s. the quarter, to a weiyhl duty of 3d. per cwt. Again, by an oversight...

' I The new sugar duties Alill 1)C Reduced from to s. d. s. d. Refilned Stugar ... ... ... 1S 4 ... 12 10 per cwt. C ayed to White Clayed ... 16 0 ... 11 8 ,, Clayed to Brown...

| Garibaldi landed at Southampton on Sunday, and was the guest of the Mayor, by whom he was introduced to the people on Monday. 'there seems to be something singularly simple...

The Tiwcs seems to think that a substitute has been found for I \coal as a steam-producing agency. This is petroleum oil, which is I believed by an American oficial commission...

There is a new hitch in the Mexican arrangements. The House I of Hapsburg, it appears, think that if Archduke Maximilian accepts a throne in Mexico he ouglht to give up his...

I On Monday next, in committee on the Penal Servitude Bill, Mr. \Yhitbread has given notice of his intention to move an amendment virtually abolishing tickets-of-leave-at least...

The Dean of Westminster delivered a remarkable sermion in I Westminster Abbey on Sunday last, on the text, " I am the way, the truth, and the life." So far as we can judge of...

On Easter Sunday the poor old Pope was just able to give his I benediction " Urbi et orbi " in St. Peter's. le appeared, it is said, greatly changed since his last great "...

The Comte de Paris, heir of the Bourbons and the House of: Orleans, has been betrothed to his cousin, daughter of the Duke i and D)uchess de Montpensicr. Shall we yet, after so...

I A prospectus has appeared during the week of an ILiternational Land Credit Company, with a capital of eiglht 1millions, of Which the first issue is 6,000.0001. The idea of...

I The Agra Bank has held its thirtieth annual ineeting. nnl I declared a dividend equal to 10 lper cent. for the past year, and a b bonus of 41. per share for the second...

The entry of Garibaldi into London has been fixed for AMon- I day-it was Saturday, but the Court selected accidentally the .same hour for a grand reception-and the Committee...

I The latest Indian despatches announce that SirJohn Lawrence has started for Simla with his Council, that the Imperial Governmnult is not again to return to Calcutta, and that...

A prospectir, hams beeni issull by t ile Inlternation1al Financial Society and the Anglo-Austrian flank of a company to construct a railway froin Lemnberg to Czernowitz. 'Fhe c...

THE QUEEN'S RETIREMENT. tHE high character of the present Sovereign, maintained 1 through a reign already covering more than a quarter of a century, hlas produced one...

THE RESULTS OF THE ALEXANDRA. CASE. FORTU'XT.\'rELY at the present moment England possesses neither a labelais nor a Swift, and if it (lid a decorous age would certainly...

THE SMIALL HOUSE AT ALLINGTON.* MtR. TROLLOPE has written nothing more true or entertaining than this admirable representation of our modern social world, with its special...

The Budget of 1864-5 shows the following balance of expendi- I ture and revenue:Charges for funded and unfunded debt ...... Consolidated Fund charges ............... Army...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. THE revelation of the Budget in the House of Commons is alTways more or less a dramatic spectacle, and never more so than when the present Chancellor of the...

I Lord Shaftesbury is mott unreasonably angry at the incident. Ile seems, indeed, to think that shooting down women and clildren, and burning houses without reason or pretext,...

Four clianLes in the Ministry have been announced this week. The Duke of Newcastle is too seriously ill to retain ollice, aild the Cabiuet loses the advice of an experienced...

I The only news from the seat of war is the bomibardment of Sonderborg. The little town is entirely defenceless, and out of the way of the true object of attack, the J)iippel...

I The Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church in the North have informed the Fenians that their object, being the overthrow of the British dominion in Ireland, that is, of a...

I The Lisburn Election Committee has come to an accidental death. It appears that under the seventy- third section of the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act, an elcction...

TILE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES OF FRANCE. TiE completion of the account of these remarkable associations is unavoidably postponed to next week.

PERSONAL ATTRACTIONS. A WRITER in the Victoria Magazine for this month, on "the Sensation of being a Beauty," has explained with judicious conformity to a perhaps plain public...

BOOKS. THE HISTORY OF TACITUS.* THIs is a scholarly, anxious, and faithful translation of the History of Tacitus, with notes and a map. The authors give us a careful summary...

THUE NEW TORTURE. TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sir,-We have all heard of and felt the ordinary infliction of street bands and barrel-organs; but, Sir, they are a joke to...

AIR. SENIOR'S ESSAYS ON FICTION.* THE greater part of periodical literature is meant to be, and ought to remain, fugitive. It is the daily bread of the reading world-to be...

THE BAR SINISTER.* A FEw years ago, in the height of the polka mania which then swept over England with the suddenness and gyrating force of a terpsichorean whirlwind, the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE BUDGET. f R. GLXIDSTONE'S finance has been somewhat unjustly AIVI accused of crotchets. It is true that in 1853 he made a bold but unsuccessful venture...

DR. NEWMAN A-ND M11. KINGSLEY. TO TILE EDITOR OF TILE ` E9f'1(sZt. SIR,-I arn aware how many p)roverbs ConVict me of ill,)ertinence and absurdity when I intrude into a...

MR. STAINSFELDIS VICTORY. jR STANSFELD has greatly improved his political AF position. He has shown the political nerve which all his friends knew he possessed, and the...

PO EM S 13 Y IL I]'. 1-1i. 11'. '* POEmS Composed in sickness even more than poems composed in grief are usually liable to the chiarge of a certain monotony of plaintivLeness,...

FRENCH AND ENGLISH POLICY TOWARDS DENMARK. THE chances of an acceptable peace as the result of the Danish conference grow less as the meeting draws near. The great Powers are...