the Southern Congress, again passed the House of Represen tatives, but again been rejected in the Senate, this time by only a majority of 1, instead of by the great majority of...

ENGLAND which originally appeared in this journal, have been republished in two large Octavo Volumes by Messrs. W. BLACKWOOD and SONS, and will be ready on Monday.

near Wilmington, the only considerable military event has been the loss of Wilmington itself by the Confederates, which took place on the 22nd February. General Schofield...

calamity. There has existed for some time a kind of agreement between the ironmastere and the puddlers that the men shall have as daily wages ls. in the 1/. of the price,—if...

M. de Morey expired at eight a.m. on Friday. The deceased gentleman was remarkable for a moderation of temper rare among Bonapartist's, and a personal popularity still more...

ing in the Sahara of its recent gritty dogmatism, on the Dean of Westminster's recent paper published in Fraser's Magazine on "The Theology of the Nineteenth Century." The...

O N Monday night, in the House of Commons, Lord Stanley commenced the exposure of what looks as if it might turn out to be one of those jobs which so often affect the fate of...

He moved "That in any future remission of indirect taxation the House should take into consideration the duty on malt, with a view to its early reduction and ultimate repeal."...

Commons on Monday between Mr. Vansittart and Sir C. Wood, that there are now 274,713 native troops, armed police, and irregulars in India, including 2,052 native artillerymen,....

of the Empress Helena. She has addressed a circular to the Queens of Europe asking their aid to rebuild, apparently by subscription, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The letter...

has issued an order in the Post Office allowing its officers to pass through the Bankruptcy Court for debts contracted before January without dismissal. Mr. W. Jackson availed...

stitutional amendment abolishing slavery. But there is no hurry. It will do as well years hence. It need not be re-introduced, and whenever the refractory legislatures do agree...

issue of a full pardon to Pelizzioni. After the verdict of the jury declaring that Gregorio Mogui struck the blow which caused the death of Michael Harrington there was no other...

im- pression, for a select committee " to inquire into the existence, character, and increase of monastic or conventual societies or establishments in Great Britain." His only...

sented a report to the Emperor advocating compulsory primary in- struction. The Council condemned it, and wished to substitute a plan for more liberal instruction without...

entirely changed their tone. He- writes from Charleston on the 14th and 23rd of January, anticipates its evacuation, and speaks of South Carolina as quite disposed to make terms...

project of Federation by 45 to 15. This is satisfactory, but it is believed that the vote in the Lower House will be much less deci- sive, the French members voting as:four to...

Thurs- day, after debates which lasted through Monday and Thursday nights. We have explained the general drift of the discussion in another plate, but must add here that the...

the Pope to raise an army. The Pope has, as for- mally, refused, declaring that the Italian Convention is a nullity, and that he trusts in Providence. He has also issued an...

Robert .Cecil, that the American Government had submitted no fresh claim for the losses sustained through the Alabama, and in answer to Mr. Bright, that we had submitted a...

week, and prices have steady declined. On Saturday last Consols left off at 88i 89 for money, and 89i f for account. Yesterday the closing prices were :—For delivery, 88i ; for...

Temple Church to prove that the English of the nineteenth century are one of the most brutal races that ever existed. Allowing always for the million or two of Englishmen whom...

tended to conciliate the Brazilian Government by repealing the - Aberdeen Act, which gives us the power to condemn Brazilian slavers. The Premier, we are happy to perceive, was...

well known for his notes of foreign dialogue and poor-law com- missions in Dublin, has followed his brother speedily to the grave. His end was a terrible one, being killed while...

year, and which is now, as far as the production of crude oil is concerned, in efficient working order, has announced a further issue of 4,000 preference shares of 101. each,...

yesterday and on Friday week : — 3. Friday, Marsh 10. 20a. Spanish Passive • • .. Do. Certificates 'Turkish 6 per Cents., 1858.. Consofidds.. 53 , 1862.. The following...

and Finance Company, with a capital of 500,0001., first issue being to the extent of 250,000/., in 10,000 shares of 251. each. The company has been established to assist in...

was withdrawn on Wednesday, after an instructive debate. It was admitted on all hands that the 'state of the English rivers is becoming frightful, pollutions of every...

French Senate again. His last utterance, on Thursday, was a hope that the North and South would fight on till they destroyed each ether, for if they made peace the French army...

LORD WESTBURY'S CONFESSIONS. T HE Lord Chancellor's candour approaches nearer to that white and sparkling lustre which we attribute to the saints than any other result of the...

T HE idea that the United States will, the moment peace is proclaimed, declare war on Great Britain is rapidly becoming fixed. The Times proclaims or refutes it in every...

T HE Malt-tax debate of Tuesday will, we think, be- accepted as satisfactory both by economists and by farmers. Sir Fitzroy Kellystated the case for his clients with true...

M R. NEWDEGATE has gained an unexpected victory. His delightful speech did not indeed induce the House of Commons to give him a committee to inquire into the state of English...

N O man ever quite attains his own ideal. That seems to be the root of the chorus of criticism which always breaks out when the Naval Estiniates are produced, and which almost...

W E have quoted at length in another column a singular pas- sage from The Life of Caesar. Under the guise of a phi- losophic reflection the paragraph contains an acknowledgment,...

HERE is no more truly dramatic, and no more truly modern, T subject for the stage than the uneasy relations between the commercial spirit of modern society and the higher...

HE Stewarts or Stettarts of Bete, whose family name is now T spelt "Stuart," spring from Sir Joins7 SrewAer, a natural son of King Robert IL, the first monarch of the Stewart...

NAPOLEON'S LIFE OF CESAR.* THE Caner of to-day will not be lowered by his commentaries. There is scarcely a hostile criticism to which Napoleon's Lift of Cissar is not fairly...

THERE are two departments of humour in which America excels all the rest of the world,—the humour of familiarity and the humour of exaggeration. Both are in some degree...

Pole have worked well together. Mr. Jeaffreson did well in calling in the assistance of Professor Pole to popularize many of Stephenson's most important achieve- ments. No one...

—If Mr. Austin would leave out his rather tedious philosophical and artistic disquisitions, he would be able, we think, to produce a really good novel. The hero is a really...

author of Whitefriars. 3 vols. (Richard Bentley.)—The author has given us here a very bustling, readable novel, in which the historical characters are very wisely not made to...

Porte; Belfast. (T. Nelson and Sons.)—One more addition to the list of refutations of Colenso. It has at all events one merit —brevity.

"How many pass through life, who have not learned to feel the• all- important interest in what is right or wrong, nor care to know in what consists the certain fatal mark—the...

(Macmillan and Co.)—Without pronouncing any opinion on the critical questions raised by this volume, we welcome a second edition. Dr. Roberta puts the arguments well in favour...

are thoroughly well done, but Mr. Stebbing's is really more than an analysis. It is a readable and yet a very accurate epitome, not merely a help to the reader of the longer...

—0— Moron's Miniature Poets. A selection from the works of Alfred Tennyson. (Edward Moron and Co., Dover Street, 1865.)--This is a well-selected and beautifully got up little...

to bo the work of a lady of considerable literary reputation, and we suppose therefore that the title is a sort of warning that these tales are to ba regarded as parts of an...

(Long- man and Co.)—Dr. Beke has long had a theory that Haran, the resi- dence of Laban, and place whence Abraham was called, was in the Ager Damascenus, and not Mesopotamia....

London, 1864 (Longman), and Edinburgh.—The Scottish nation has for a long time past been prolific in metaphysical speculation, and it is remarkable how diverse are the lines of...

By the Rev. Alexander Grosart. (Printed for private circulation.)Mr. Grosart has made a discovery in the dark places of literature which is of very -considerable interest, for...

(T. Nelson and Sons.)—A bulky volume of well-meant commentary, which seems, how- ever, to throw very little new light on the parables. Apparently it consists of a series of...

York. (Hatohard and Co.)—Another apology for Christian- ity, or vindication of the certainty of the Christian faith, dedicated to Lord Westbury, in admiration of his great...

Nelson and Sons.)—Pleasantly written, these five stories of suffering endured at the hands of the Catholic Church by Protestants will doubtless have many readers. It is just the...

vols. (John Maxwell and Co.)—Mr. Collins has here presented us with a picture of a vulgar City magnate, his family and acquaintances, to which the chief objection is that it is...

and Ethnology. By Dominiok M'Causland, Q.C., LL.D. (Richard Bentley.)—It is per- haps inevitable that when a man has thought out for himself a chain of reasoning which SWAM to...

the Latin Language. By Gavin Hamilton. (Simpkin, Marshall; and Co.)—Mr. Hamilton boldly declares war on all the German scholars, Zumpt and Kruger no less than Grotefend and...

the library edition. (Saunders, Otley, and Co.)—The only point in this abridg- ment which seems to require any notice from us is that it seems to be admitted that the builders...

Bishop Colenso. By James Boully. (Frederick Farrah.)—The object of this gentleman is "to allow every one to entertain the creed which the circumstances amid which he has been...