11 JUNE 1864, page 1

We Were Mistaken In Assuming That Dr. Stanley Had Declined

the honorary Cambridge degree of LL.D. It was conferred on yesterday week, the day after the Prince's degree and those of his suite, amidst cheering almost as warm as greeted......

America Has Lost Her Greatest And Most Original Author....

Hawthorne was found dead in his bed in a country house at Plymouth, New Hampshire, whither he had gone to recruit failing health, on the 19th May. General Franklin Pierce, the......

News Of The Week,

T HE diplomatic news of the week is important, but uninteresting. The Danes, it will be remembered, objected to extend the armis- tice to more than a fortnight, on the ground......

- • We Publish Elsewhere An Account Of The French

Ascot, the Grand Prix de ,Paris, but one incident remains ; to be recorded. When the jsaine of the French_ whiner ; was announced, the Duo de Mbrny, President °Utile eglehs:tive......

The Great American News Since Last Week Is That General

Lee has retreated again from Spotsylvania Court House to a point in the angle between the North and South Anna Rivers, where he is supposed to be defending the junction between......

Dr. Hook, The Dean Of Chichester, Has Written A Manly

and ex- cellent - letter_ to the limes on the attempt of Lord Robert Cecil and the Oxford _Conservatives to identify the Church with the Con- servative party. ; He thinks that......

On Monday Night, After Lord Palmerston's Refusal To...

proceedings of the Conference, the Conservatives complained; : justly enough, of the treatment of the Government, Wlicl tee- assuring the House that the Conference was to be......