in- auguration of Alderman Phillips, both Earl Russell and Mr. Gladstone referred to the future measures of the Government in terms carefully vague, and yet no doubt meant to...

Doncaster. He was thrown from his horse while hunting, and lighting on his head was taken up insensible. The latest account is very favourable, but an accident of that kind...

permitted to publish his conversation with the President upon the subject of negro suffrage. The gist of Mr. Johnson's argument is that lie is not opposed to negro suffrage, but...

in one way noteworthy. He confessed most cordially the value of the French alliance, which he hoped might last fifty years, and then, as if that alliance had suggested the...

with the United States by coming into Liverpool and surrendering to an English man-of-war, an event which happened last Monday. The statement of Captain Waddell is said to be...

Mr. Pierce's Attorney-General, and made himself parti- cularly unpleasant to Mr. Crampton in the discussion concern- ing English enlistments during the Crimean war, is coming to...

T HE Ministry is still in the crucible, and no one can yet affirm what the out-turn will be—most probably a mixed metal. In the beginning of the week it was announced with some...

their way into the journals. It would seem from the evidence supplied that the leading butchers, who are less exposed to competition than any body of tradesmen, the business...

authority of their Bishop, Dr. Donlan. They have not, it is true, invested him with the right of veto which he demanded, but they have agreed to break up their institution. That...

Edinburgh, Mr. Carlyle and Mr. Disraeli, and the friends of each are actively denouncing his opponent. The chief charge against Mr. Disraeli beyond his political character...

of the surplus funds of the City Charities has met with warm support. A meeting was held at the Mansion House on Tuesday, at which a committee, including Mr. Goschen, Mr....

into the causes t f cholera is about to be realized. All the Powers have agreed to it, and a commission is about to meet at Constantinople, which may possibly discover that...

force is to consist of two wings of British infantry, six regiments of native infantry, 1,000 drilled coolies, two batteries of artillery, and two companies of Sappers and...

says Uruguayana is not yet taken,that bitter dissensions exist among the allies, that numbers of persons belonging to Uruguay have joined Lopez, and that the Brazilian soldiers...

appointment, the Indian Governorships being seldom filled from the diplomatic service. His Lordship succeeded in St. Petersburg, but his administrative capacity is not known,...

speech on the value of gymnastics, which he praised as the best means of preserving health among those classes who earn their bread by sedentary pursuits. The new gymnasium is...

the endeavour to arrange a treaty of commerce with Great Britain, and the matter is now the subject of negotiation. It-will, how- ever, be settled by the Austrian Minister • and...

Nine Elms gasometers was concluded yesterday. It was proved that the meter-house contained two governors or cylinders, regulating the pressure of the gas passed from the...

carried out in Poland on the 5th inst., the classes liable being all young men between twenty and twenty-four years of age. Three are drawn for every one taken, and as the...

Cam- bridge School of Art on Tuesday evening, is of opinion that young men who do not need to learn art for a livelihood are more in need of something to keep them from...

pains to conceal his keen sympathy with the pro-slavery party, calculates that, in the Congress about to meet, the Senate will contain 34 supporters of the President to 38...

is scarcely so warlike as the Austrian papers are anxious to represent it. He says the Venetian question might be settled either by war or by negotiation,—that the former mode...

in 10,000 shares of 101. each, is announced. The Directors have secured, at a moderate rental and option of pur- chase, premises at South Shore, Gateshead, having the advantage...

has been appointed to the office, vacant by Monsignor Merode's dismissal, of Pro-Minister-at-Arms. H e served under Lamoriciere in the Castelfidardo campaign, and more recently...

yesterday and on Friday week :— Friday, November 3. Friday, November 10. Caledonian .. .. .. .. .. .. 126 ..g 127 ' Great Eastern .. .. .. .. .. 481 ... Great Northern.. .. .....

89. On Tuesday the price for delivery fell to 88g but the quotations have since advanced somewhat rapidly. Yesterday the market opened with considerable buoyancy at 89* to I for...

29 :— P ARTNER WANTED.—A practical distiller, having been experimenting for the last 17 years, can now produce a fair Port and Sherry by fermentation without a drop of the grape...

he declined so peremptorily to consecrate St. Michael's, till the Rev. C. Lyford and his dressy Puseyite brethren had taken off their showy robes and stripped the altar of its...

on Friday week were as follows :— Friday, November 3. Vriday, Ndmantrirr IA, Greek ,. .. ., 1e1 .. 19 Do. Coupons .. .. r kistiean .. .. — 251 14 Spanish Passive •• .. 281...

T HE mysterious changes which have been darkly shadowed forth and as darkly denied this week by the various political oracles, have hinged with a curious pertinacity on some...

THE MINISTRY AT WAR. Fr 1FIE rumour of the Dake of Somerset's resignation, which we are half-inclined to suspect was put out as a feeler, has not been well received by the...

'UTE are still without precise intelligence from Jamaica, but Y V enough is known of the condition of the island to justify us in a blank denial of the assertions that the...

T HE Emperor of the French has apparently compromised his views on the government of Algeria. His original plan, so far as it could be deduced from expressions purposely...

Bo OTH the Lyceum and the Olympic have started afresh this week. Mr. Fechter has re-opened his theatre after an un- usually long recess, and Mr. Horace Wigan has changed the...

S EDENTARY men owe Lord Stanley a piece of plate, some thing bigger than the silver toothpick which Elliston is said to have described by that meaningless phrase. He has struck...

" W E should ourselves," thinksthe Tines, " substitute ancient civilization, or some , sueh term, for Greece in the thesis of the address " which Mr. Gladstone recently...

J OHN MURRAY, eldest son of the fi rst Mar q uis of Athole, who succeeded him as second Mar q uis, was born at Knowsley, the seat of his maternal uncle, the Earl of Derby, on...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, October 20, 1865. THE new law for the registration of voters in the State of New York went into operation on Tuesday of this week....

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—There is one view of prayer which would make it not un- philosophical to conceive that God may suspend or over-rule even physical...

No book published since the life of Dr. Arnold has produced so strong an impression on the moral imagination and spiritual theology of England as we may expect from these...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTATOR."] Sin,—In estimating the probable working of such a reduced fran- chise as is likely to form one of the features in a new Reform Bill, I...

OF course the novelty about this edition is chiefly its illustrations, which are admirable. The elementary difficultyof illustrating Gulli- ver's Travels is, that as drawing can...

we can commend without reserve. We do not mean that there is no fault to be found with it critically, or that it is a first-rate novel, or that it will suit readers of all...

ROBERT BuirroN seems, if we may hazard a comparison, to have stood to the age of Shakespeare very much in the same intellectual and literary ratio as Charles Lamb to the age of...

M.A. (J. H. and J. Parker.)—The reverend author has been exercised in mind by the spiritual arrogance of the teetotallers. It is certainly trying when a young man committed to...

to pick holes in a book of this kind, which professes to give an account of everybody who has ddue anything. It is produced with great labour, it is very cheap, and it contains...

by C. Steggall, M.D., Cantab. (Longman ; Lamborn Cock.)—The hymns in this collection, though not numerous, are well chosen, and we believe it is found by experience that when...

Poems. By William Hay Leith Tester (La Tests). (Elgin : Jeans and Grant.)—Elgin seems to possess a hammerman with a very copious flow of rhyme, sometimes, but not always,...

two parts. The first contains the name of every place in Great Britain (not a railway station, and having a population of more than 500), with the population, acreage, nearest...

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge have issued a number of neat and useful ahnanacks, pocket-books, diaries, and remembrancers for 1866, called the Churchman's...

number of these handsomely illustrated books that are intended for the delectation of British youth. The present volume occupies a very fair position on the list, but we think...

suppose that, as one of the subscribers to this periodical writes to inquire where Nice is, and - another is informed that there is no impropriety in stopping out on the lawn...

useful little work. The author has been constantly consulted by friends and acquaintances on the points in it, and having given them satisfaction, thinks he may bestow on the...

By an Artist. (Nimmo.)—This is a very weak production. The author pro- fesses to give an account of the different schools of painting and the principal painters, which shall be...

is amusing in either of these volumes. Bad spelling is principally relied on for fun in the former Volume, and exaggeration in the latter. Both are well-known elements of...

By H. F. A. Pratt, M.D. (Churchill„)—Dr. Pratt's first step in the re- interpretation of Scripture is to remove the Masoretic points from the Hebrew writing. His objection to...

volume for young folks. The subjects are well chosen and various, and treated by a staff of able contributors. We have Mrs. Beecher Stowe telling a pleasant story about a...

had by him some well-written papers on various French subjects—amusing descriptions of life in Paris and at Biarritz, one or two translations of French tale; interesting...

Townsend, M.A. (Warne.)—This is an excellent edition of the famous tales. The paper is good and pleasant to the eye, the type clear, and the illustrations first-rate. The...

work contains liturgical services, slightly varied, for four Sundays. They are composed of chants, texts, and prayers, extracted from the service of the Church of England, with...

edition. (Longman.)—Most people will be looking just now with Increased interest into the concluding chapter of this volume, which contains Lord Russell's latest ideas. In...