26 DECEMBER 1863, page 2

The Personal Controversy Between Mr. Cobden And Mr....

terminated at last without any acknowledgment by the Times of having misrepresented Mr. Cobden's and Mr. Bright's meaning in accusing them of wishing for "spoliation." This is a......

Rumours Of Negotiations For Peace, Said To Have Been...

at Washington, have been flying about Liverpool all the week. They appear to rest upon a motion of Mr. Fernando Wood in the United States Senate, defeated by 98 to 59.......

Hungary Is Said To Be Suffering Under One Of The

most severe of national visitations. The facts leak out very slowly, but it is stated that no rain has fallen there for two years, the crops arc gone, the stock is perishing,......

The Prussian Deputies Voted Yesterday Week By A Majority Of

207 to 107 the address prepared by Herr von Sybel advising the King not to enforce, but to break through, the arrangements of 1852, and set up once more a united......

Mr. Chase's Figures, So Far As They Have At Present

reached us, do not seem . very promising. 219,758,636/. was said to be the national debt on 30th June, 1863 (counting 5 dols. to the pound), -and he estimates it for 3rd June,......

The Cloud Has All The Week Been Settling Down Upon

Poland. In the French Senate speech after speech has been delivered in favour of non-intervention, and M. Dupin in particular has an- nounced that while he " sympathiz% " with......

The General News Of The Week From America Has Been

of the smallest kind. General Meade has gone into winter quarters, and announced his determination not to attack till he can do so with some prospect of success, and General......

But Those Gentlemen Who So Hastily Infer From This...

that anonymousness is the root of all misrepresentation should look at the very similar.correspondene,e between Mr. Bright and Lord Hartington. That nobleman made a careless......

The Times Has Published A Curious Document. It Is An

official account of the Polish revolt, prepared by the Russians, for the benefit of the Ruthenian peasants, and read in all the churches. It is of excessive length, but its......

The Epigram May Be About As True In His Mouth

as in his uncle's, but M. Drouyn de Lhuys has been instructed to make a second attempt at a Congress. In a despatch dated the 8th December, that Minister ascribes the failure of......

The French Loan Bill Has Been Adopted By 242 To

14, M. Thiers and a section of the Opposition voting against it. M. Thiers pro- posed to reduce it to four millions.......