THE Conference has been abandoned. In reply to an invitation signed by the three Powers, Count Mensdorff, in a very plainly worded despatch, informed the Governments of France,...

Diet that all efforts to arrange with Prussia a final settle- ment of the Duchies had proved fruitless, and she consequently rendered" their destiny into the hands of the Diet....

Mr. Bernal Osborne's, who, elected partly by Tories, partly by Radicals, dis- pensed alternately a gratification to each. He found out that he had done very wrong indeed in not...

Battle of the Spurs,"—was one of the most curious and picturesque scenes of the Session. It was apparent from the first that there was something rotten in the state of the...

storm. The waves were too high, however. Some loans, probably sound, but for long periods, embarrassed its resources, the Bombay Branch, threatened by the fall in cotton,...

Devizes, also made a remarkable speech. lie rang in the mem- bers from dinner—probably having dined himself—and shook the House with inextinguishable laughter. His voice in...

House to grant to the Princess Mary an annuity on her marriage of 2,000/. a year, in addition to the 3,000/. she already . enjoys. He remarked incidentally that there was the...

one. A single idea ran through it, that county representation ought to be the representation of agriculture and "property," without anY admixture of either trade or wealth. Mr....

made a vary good speech, which was chiefly remarkable as being the only speech of a county member which has satisfactorily pointed out the danger of Mr. Disraeli's plan for...

that Fenianifsm and Roman Catholicism were "coincident," during the delivery of which address the House kept up a perpetual roar of interruption, little heeded by the intrepid...

for assimilating the distribution of real property in case of intestacy with the distribution of personalty, and was of course defeated on the second reading by 281 to 84. He...

taking the point that though the representation of minorities is not avowedly adopted in our Constitution, it is practically provided for by a great number and variety of...

for Government. After Mr. Gladstone had explained that he gave up the leasehold-voting clause, Lord Stanley—at the instigation, it may be presumed, of Mr. Disraeli—descended...

too powerful at Bridgwater, have apparently prevailed to give a triumph—we hope only temporary—to the Conservative candidate, Mr. Patton. Mr. Bagehot kept his opponent at a...

attacks " upon banks in order to depreciate their shares, which will pro- bably be followed in London. The Exchange there has prohibited the sale of shares unless the numbers of...

clever little instrument which will prove of great value to all who wear spectacles. All good spectacles are now made of pebbles, which do not scratch like glass, and are more...

abandoned, the Consol market opened on Monday with considerable heaviness, business being done as low as 85k. Since then, however, owing to the improving position of financial...

may hereafter comment, have incidentally disposed of a story our grandmothers cordially believed—the marriage of George III, to the Quaker Hannah Lightfoot. The certificates...

a building fund for adding a new wing to the school, has just been made by Mr. Samuel Sharpe. This gift is to be invested in the Funds, and the interest accumulated till other...

of the sick in the Strand Union Infirmary, and some terrible facts are revealed. The wards are too small for the sick, and are attended, 22 of them, by one paid nurse and a...

off at the annexed quotations :— Friday, June 1. Friday, Jane 8. Mexican 114 174 17 Spanish Passive •• 194 Do. Certificates 131 131 Turkish 6 per...

and possibly thinking it in part a confidence strengthened by the rumour that Mr. Disraeli himself would have the Foreign Office in case of a change of Ministry, devoted part...

increase in the reserve of notes and coin is nearly 2,000,000/., and in the stock of bullion 1,400,000/. The former stands at 2,826,041/., and the latter at 13,278,961/. The...

bottom of the volcano of Hawaii, the Alaimo Loa, which has recently been in eruption. A new crater recently opened near the summit, but the flood of lava found some subterranean...

on Friday week were :- Great Eastern .. Great Northern .. •• Friday, June 1. 371 121 Friday, Jane 8. 32 ,4 122 Great Western.. . • L41 •• 541 Do. West...

TliE three brilliant and decisive Liberal successes of this week illustrate curiously the extraordinary value of Par- liamentary earnestness and honesty, even to a party that...

THE WAR. T HE notion of redistributing Europe by a conversation among Foreign Secretaries—a notion about as practical as that of putting out a fire by a discussion among...

It. STRUGGLE against primogeniture in England seems at first sight a very hopeless affair, one in which the chances are fairly expressed by Wednesday's division in favour of the...

T O lay down a new scheme of international policy applicable. to the entire world would be a bold idea even for a con- quering statesman on a throne, but this is what a knot of...

THE late law of the French Parliament for the punishment of crimes and offences committed abroad, is certainly an audacious attempt to stretch over the whole world the long arm...

A PETITION is about to be presented to Parliament,—one LI rumour says, we know not with what truth, by Mr. Russell Gurney, the Recorder of London, who is a Conservative as...

W HENEVER ancient Rome was in peril, and the patricians wished to arouse the masses to the full sense of the impend- ing danger, a miracle was wont to occur. An ox spoke, or...

rpuE Stewarts of Mount-Stewart, now represented by the Marquis of Londonderry, and his half-brother, Earl Vane, lay claim to a descent from that great House, one branch of which...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, May 25, 1866. THE news to be brought by the Cuba, which arrived at Halifax on the 21st, had been looked for with more than usual...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Whilst I sincerely thank you for your important article on "The Bishop of Natal's New Heresy," and believe that it brings to an issue...

to make a few remarks on the article in your last number on Bishop Colenso's last step. In doing so one feels deeply how much one must throw oneself on the fellow feeling of...

the regret expressed in your able and friendly observations upon the Bishop of Natal's letter published in the Pall Mall Gazette of May 30, that he should have compro- mised the...

"SPECTATOR."] Grove House, Highgate, May 31, 1866. SIR,-I now propose to pass in rapid review some of the leading principles on which the prospects of the metric system are...

MR. BAKER'S TRAVELS.* [SECOND NOTICE.] THE second volume of this delightful book will interest the geo- grapher even more than the first, for it contains the discovery which...

Jr Mr. Wilkie Collins is contented with the praise of not having hastily meditated or idly wrought out his new story, he may be sure that his claims to such praise will not be...

agony of 1846, Ireland and Irish prospects have been periodically the subject of discussion in Par- liament, it would be difficult to point to any single session in which more...

deep interest for readers who know little of music or its history. He was no Mendelssohn, with a genius which gave brightness to the most casual remark in the most familiar...

the Author of the Heir of Redclyffe. (Macmillan.)—A pretty story nicely told, with an interesting plot and a pleasant moral. We would give it higher praise if we justly could,...

say we are greatly interested in Mr. Morley's reminiscences, which are not indeed reminiscences, but only a collection of criti- cisms written at the moment, sometimes good,...

Kennedy could get rid of some affectations and the temptation to sensational incidents, e. g., a murder and a theft committed by a strong- minded young lady who had not the...

of A Night in a Workhouse. (Beeton.)—Mr. Greenwood having succeeded once completely, his unnoticed works are gradually reappearing. We see in them only one power, that of...

that moral and social debasement will produee a prognathous Chandos. By Oujda. (Chapman and Hall.)--Guy Livingstone in type in Europeans, and quotes with approbation the opinion...

It is ono, too, which.

scheme of the contents of the prophecy, in which he sets to work to The Life of Father Ignatius. By the Rev. Father Pius, Passionist disprove all that is dear to the orthodox...

pathos once, " That Homer should a bankrupt be, but any vestige of capacity is wanting in this wretched puff of Brighton Is not so very Odd - dye - see: and Brighton shops. It...

it might be a The Wild Garland. Selected by L J. Reeve. (Pitman.)—A collec- true idea, if he had Gait's humour, or shrewdness, or insight into human tion of epigrams, not made...

German (with the English Text). By Gustav Selling. (Trubner.) — This little volume, which the publisher has turned out hi green and gold with great taste, primarily intended...