• P ARLIAMENT met on Tuesday, but the week has been very dull. The Queen's Speech, which was read by commission, was as uninteresting as usual, and more than usually...

the four Inns of Court have decided by a majority of one (12 to 11) that ordained clergymen shall not in future be excluded from the Bar. The great authority in favour of the...

House of Lords. The Earl of Charlemont moved the Address in a speech the exordium of which, a somewhat profuse apology for making it, would have furnished a more appropriate and...

dull, no speaker of any eminence uttering a word. The mover of the Address, Sir H. Williamson, made the Speech a little more watery by his paraphrase ; and his seconder, Mr....

eminent agricul- turist,—a part which, like most other parts, he plays well. He took the chair at a great Anti-Malt Tax meeting at the Free- masons' Tavern on Wednesday. He was...

left Turin on the 3rd inst. for Florence. We have explained the reasons and the results of this unexpected step in another place, and need only add here that there is no...

for the pro- vince of Moscow on an address to the Crown has reached Lon- don. The principal speaker was Count Orloff, Grand Master of the Ceremonies to the Emperor, and...

the resig- nation of Mr. Justice Williams in the Court of Common Pleas is to be filled up by the appointment of Mr. Montague Smith, M.P. for Truro, to succeed him. It is a good...

The King, it is said, is so irritated by the demeanour of Austria that he is half disposed to compromise with his Parliament, and has invited Herr Grabow to Court. Herr Grabow...

•has re- - pealed the law prohibiting the immigration of free negroes into that State. This is a very important sign of the anti-slavery spirit of the North. Illinois had always...

and Grant. It is believed that simultaneous advances will shortly be made from Savannah, Beaufort, Fort Fisher, and the James River, on Augusta, Charleston, Wilmington, and...

27th -of December, between the two attacks on Wilmington,—after the failure and before the success,—a letter in which he speaks of the loss of Wilmington as almost a " blessing...

Blair mission came to nothing but Blair's Rhetoric, and the - only news from Richmond is that Congress has decided, and Mr. Jefferson Davis es :smelted, to appoint a...

has been laid before Parliament. It is, on the whole, very tem- perate and conciliatory on both sides,—the only monstrous sugges- tion made by the North, and that not as a...

question which few study, but which drives a large proportion of those few mad,— currency. The Conseil Snperieur du Commerce have been directed to inquire into the present...

of Mexican territory to France. The provinces of Sonora and Chihuahua in particular are said to have been ceded in return for the great services rendered by France to Mexico....

tions praying the Corporation to take the gas supply into its •own hands, complaining of Dr. Letheby's analyses of the noisome vapour now sold, and demanding that the price...

motions. Sir G. Grey will bring on his bill for con- solidating prison discipline on Monday next ; Sir J. Pekington moves on the 28th for a committee to consider the appointment...

for delivery, and 891 >E for time, closed yesterday at 89 to 891 for money, and 891 for account. The stock of bullion in the Bank of England is now 14,511,6111. ; in the Bank of...

wants to form a limited-liability company to purchase from the Greek Government the right of excavating the Olympian plain, where - " hundreds of fine Greek statues are known to...

Timothy Daly, -who died recently of bed-sores, caused, as he said, by the neglect of Mr. Norton, medical officer of the Holborn Union. On the re- port of Mr. Farnall and Dr....

interested in the question of the Onde Talookdars to a most able and dispassion- ate letter giving an official history of the question. We are happy to infer from Sir Charles...

pensions to ex-governors of colonies. Mr. Cardwell announced on Thursday that the Government was prepared to bring in a bill on the subject, and we trust it will be a liberal...

against its hitherto much-loved municipal police force. On the night of this day week a very scientific burglary was committed in the shop of Mr. Walker, jeweller and...

a Dressmaking Company is likely to be successful. The object of this association, briefly stated, is to get good dresses well made by first-class hands without working them to...

for stabbing Michael Harrington in a squabble in the Golden Anchor, Saffron Hill. The evidence seemed clear, the victim recognized and pardoned his murderer, and the judge,...

that Mr. H. N. Burroughes, a county magistrate and ex-M.P. of Norfolk, was ordered by the justices to improve certain of his cot- tages which had been reported by the sanitary...

Foreign rwieurities yesterday and on Friday week :- Friday, Feb. 8. Friday, Feb. 10. 231 Do. Coupons — 271 Spanish Passive •. Do. Certificates Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. 73...

to the activity of his inquiring mind, to Lord Russell. Yet the only glimmer of interest attaching to the opening of Parliament belonged to that almost nominal examination of...

intelligible paragraph for which Lord Granville apologized, that frank strength always apparent in the addresses of the and which Sir Charles Wood will doubtless not attempt to...

A LITTLE too much is being made of the quarrel between Victor Emanuel and Turin. It is of course an incident which the friends of Italy must regret, but it does not endanger...

TIFIR law of England says that, if two foreign nations are I. at war, no one shall enlist men in this country to serve in the army or navy of either belligerent, and apparently...

A LETTER from the Office of Woods and Forests to Lord Spencer's solicitor, dated 12th January, 1865 (which, with other papers relating to the proposed inclosure of Wim- bledon...

T HE tardiness and inaccuracy with which almost all intelli- gence is reported from Russia is greatly to be regretted. Great things are transacting themselves in that Empire of...

P ROFESSOR DE MORGAN, in an amusing paper recently published in the Athenaum, has casually drawn attention to the blunders which rash theologians make in attempting to apply...

to my happiness to keep our engage- ment, and I do not think it will to yours, but still of course I will marry you. I have acted hastily in engaging myself, and now wish you to...

of Roxburghe, particularly of the Royal burgh of Canon- gate, united with the barony of Bronghtoun, August 15, 1630. He was sent down in 1637 to Scotland by the King to endea-...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, Januarg 21, 1865. I HOPE that none of the readers of the Spectator have much at stake in blockade-running, for if they have they...

[The following is an extract , of a letter from an officer in the Federal Army, for whose honour and accuracy we can ourselves vouch, and whose statement is so interesting in...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—In your paper of the 5th there is an article on the new controversy connected with the tenure of land which has com- menced in India. As...

BALLADS.* BALLans bear to the higher lyrical or epic poetry into which they sometimes rise, the same kind of relation which the short uncertain trot of infancy bears to the...

just a trifle too high. The book especially wanted was a guide to the principles of domestic architecture intended for men with 1,0001. a year and 2,500/. to expend upon a...

the few books which supply a boundless field of collateral yet wholly independent study by the side of the mere amusement they afford. Read as a string of idle fictions, they...

of an Eastern King did much to accelerate the annexation of Oude. That book was a collection of all the scandals current in Lucknow about the Royal family, many of them true,...

have been afraid of being thought to puff Lord Derby'a translation of the Iliad, for after a page or two of general praise, which really cannot be denied to it, the notice...

quarter has its sting in its tail. To the last paper but one, entitled "Seven per Cent.," which is very generally attributed to Mr.. Giischen, M.P. for the City, we called...

good service this quarter by a thoroughly well-rea- soned paper in favour of the purchase of the railways by the State, which ought to remove much of the prejudice by which the...

preserved in the Library of the Fitzvtilliam Museum. (Cambridge University Press.)—The Fitzwilliam Museum seems to be rich in this class of work, as the catalogue extends over...

Birchin lane, printed by King.)--This useful, and for mercantile men almost indispensable, directory is divided so as to give the greatest. possible facilities for obtaining...

ModernWwfare and Modern Artillery. By Colonel MacDougall. (John Murray.)—This is a compendium of the principles of warfare as illus- trated by modern practice,—a sort of...

of the R.G.S.L (Longman and Co.)—This gentleman writes like a man of science, and therefore the fact that he desires to reconcile the Mosaic cosmogony with geology ought not to...

a poem on the burning of the Amazon, and we learn that when the mate gave the alarm of fire,— " The moon for fear has shrank within her interlunar cave, Nor sea-gulls dip their...

Co.)—The character of the hero, brilliant, fascinating, and worldly, who appreciates not only polished manners, but real excellence of mind and heart, yet is determined to marry...

volume of religious readings in two parts—one relating to the order of the natural, the other to that of the Christian year. They are marked by the same characteristics as the...

Gertrude Waynflete. By "M. J. H." (Ward and Lock.)—These books have little in common, except that both are " stories for Christmas," and both are of the smallest class of tales...