21 NOVEMBER 1863, page 2

The Conquest Of China Advances. According To The Mail Re-

ceived this week (Shanghai, September 20), General Brown, com- manding the British land forces, Captain Sherard Osborne, com- manding the Anglo-Chinese fleet, and Mr. Lay,......

The Intelligence From America Has For The Past Fortnight...

all of one description. The confidence of the Republican Adminis- tration is every day increasing. General Thomas is safe at Chatta- nooga, and General Meade has been ordered to......

A Letter From The Emperor Of Russia, Dated The 13th

October, relieving his brother Constantine of the viceroyalty of Poland, has been published this week. It is, like all Russian documents, excessively verbose ; but the meaning......

Nothing Whatever Has Been Done During The Week Towards...

or refusing a Congress. The Danish catastrophe tea& to make it more probable, and the refusal of the Emperor to lay down bases to make it more unlikely. Meanwhile, the proposal......

King George Of Athens Is Trying To Play The Role

of Citizen King. He goes about almost unattended, has had his throne in the Cathedral taken down, rebukes courtiers who wear gold lace, and has mounted his establishment on the......

The Court-martial On Colonel Crawley Commenced Its...

17th inst., at Aldershot, and the proceedings promise to drag their dreary way over weeks of time and hundreds of pages of type. The President of the Court is Lieutenant-General......

The Bishop Of St. David's Has Published A Very Liberal

and scholarly charge, to which we hope to draw attention next week. It is the only episcopal production we have seen of late years which really takes careful note of the......

There Is A General Report In Oxford That The Professorship

of Ecclesiastical History is to add another to the long list of jobs which have lately disgraced the higher University appointments. The story is, that it is to be given,......

At The Last Meeting Of The Royal Dublin Society, Dr.

Mapother read a very good paper on the food of the Irish, 'after which Cap- tain Henry gave an account of a "mess" he had established to secure his labourers better food, and......

Mr. Adderley Writes To The Time. To Support The View

that you should not attempt to reform the criminal, but only to nauseate him with crime, and for that purpose attacks Lord Grey for asking longer sentences for men who are "so......