T HE Elections have been raging all through the week, and the alternations of party hope and fear have produced as much excitement as if some great question had been placed...

and lose something, in intellectual character and influence by the changes which have been made. Mr. John Stuart Mill, the new member for Westminster, is of course the principal...

their escutcheon. Men of all Protestant sects, Jews, and Free- thinkers, have been of late freely admitted to Parliament, but an invincible prejudice has hitherto in England...

Much credit in his address to Tiverton was christened at Windsor yesterday week. He was named George Frederick Ernest Albert, His Royal Highness being " conducted" by the...

Bucking- hamshire on Thursday, which was chiefly directed against Mr. Gladstone, and intended to prove that his finance was neither original nor peculiarly successful. He...

no Tory has been returned is little, for we had no Tory before, but the electors have shown a discrimination and a preference for intellectual and moral eminence which is quite...

and unfortunately the town has a mayor who sympathizes, Orangemen. The Presbyterians and Catholics, who are Libel are tired of electing a Tory because he hates them both, and ha...

have complete control of the borough, but have nevertheless contrived to lose the second seat. They split on the rival claims of Mr. Abel Heywood, an extreme man of a vulgar...

a speech scarcely up to the level of his Tiverton speeches. The absence or silence of his ancient antagonist Rowcliffe, the Chartist butcher, seems to have deprived him of his...

contest which has been most amusing to everybody except him- self and his opponent, Mr. Foster. At first Mr. Roebuck treated his rival with "supreme contempt ;" then finding...

in the place of Mr. J. Ewart. Knaresborough has demonstrated the use of small boroughs by neutralizing that great defeat.

a very imprudent boast to his constituents of his cavalier treatment of Austria in the matter of the commercial treaty, which he was sent to negotiate. Finding, he says, that...

Morning Advertiser and the Record. The former paper, in an article almost inarticulate with the intellectual stammering of excessive rage, reiterates and reduplicates, in...

up, however, to the end of the second day, and there are five days' poll) showed for Mr. Gathorne Hardy 641 votes, for Mr. Gladstone, 601. The polling has begun badly, for...

for delivery, and 90f for account. Yesterday the closing prices were as follows:— For money, 90 to 90* ; for time, 90* I. The stock of bullion in the Bank of England is now...

excel- lent authority that Baron Rothschild had instructed electors of his own faith to secure his return by plumping. The report threw Mr. Sidney Smith, a gentleman allowed by...

the northern side of the metropolis, the concession of which has been granted to Messrs. Napier and Hope. It has been introduced by the International Financial Society, and is...

held on Thursday. The sum at the disposal of the Directors was 103,975/., which allowed of a dividend of 10s. per share free of income-tax.

on Wednesday, which was mainly an amplification of his last speech in the House, the main point being that as you must stop some- where in reducing the franchise, you had much...

British Railways yesterdayand on Friday week:— Friday, July 7. Friday. July 14. 133 .. 132 49 1 . 401 131 .. 101 48. G7 ful ** Ota ••• 47 1211 .• 1221 1.24A 41 .. 10i 1341 as...

yesterday and on Friday week: Friday, July 7. Friday, July 14. Greek .. .. .. •• 21 .. - D o. Coupons .. — • • — .. — M exican .. .. .. • • 24xd. .. 241 Spanish Passive • •...

and made a speech on the precisely opposite side. He says that the inquiry, " What will they do with it ?" has nothing to do with the matter, and asks, " Is it not enough for...

of North Lancashire which, if correct, is important. He said, " When the new Parliament met, a bill on the subject would in all probability be introduced, and he thought a...

On ednesday Mr. R. Debenham, the surgeon who shot a ship's penter for stumbling when blind drunk into his premises, was before the Chief Baron on a charge of manslaughter. It...

of his daughter, has made what is called a confession. It is a most unintelligible affair. He states that he had become intimate with Mary M'Leod, and in May last year produced...

WE. W E have already had some curious proof of the conflict be- tween the views which will possess the new Parliament on the subject of Reform. Mr. Bright, the member for...

THE ELECTIONS. M E new House of Commons will be the old one a little reinvigorated. The elections are not yet over, but this much may be said to be known from the results...

T HERE may be some truth in the rumours afloat as to another proposal for a European Congress. They look very much like feelers. The Emperor of the French is not likely to run...

I T will be in the recollection of our readers that when Lord Westbury was appointed Lord Chancellor, Lord Palmer- ston's Government was placed in a position of great embarrass-...

I T is a pity, for the Emperor's own sake, that he has confined his memoir on Algeria to a circle of distinguished officials. The few extracts which have been published go...

rilHERE is cherished somewhere amidst the secret romance of 1 most Englishmen's minds a purely romantic conception of a political election as a great expression of popular...

D R. PRITCHARD has, we believe, added one more crime to the three of which he has been proved guilty, and the fourth of which he is reasonably suspected. Actuated apparently by...

Star, one in the Times—which express an opinion that is certainly at work among the Liberal electors for Oxford, and which may lead some of them to withhold their votes from Mr....

WAS THE ANCESTOR OF THE DUKE OF HAMILTON ILLEGITIMATE ? [WE have received the following additional remarks from our former correspondent on this subject SIR,—In answer to your...

announced as having been entered into between the British Government and the Canadian Delegation have elicited no little comment here this week—more in private than in public...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sin,—In your remarks on the affiliation of the Catholic College in Dublin to the Queen's University, you assume that the consti- tution of...

BOTTA ON DANTE.* IT is hard to say why any mortal in the present generation should read an analysis of Dante's Comedy, unless a very short and cheap one, by which he might...

A STORY curiously combining ability, ingenuity, and want of interest. It resembles somehow a very good " dissected " map, mechanically put together by the writer's knowledge and...

Ma. Drxaat has written a singularly able book, and far more than redeemed his modest promise merely " to sketch some facts and sceneries which may assist in framing the sacred...

Tms work contains the record of a controversy carried on throughout a space of many years by men of ability. Dr. Todd and his friends, who seem to have been drawn together...

drawn from the Record Office of the Vatican, ranging over the whole period between 1216 and 1547, and referring exclusively to matters connected with the history of the British...

of M. Puaux's History of the French Reformation surpasses in novelty and interest all its predecessors. It has for its subject what may be called the underground life of French...

original book. The key to his view of moderifgeology is to be found at the end of tho The main interest of the story is over by this time, though third chapter, where he defines...

bound in purple and gold, rich with wide margins, and cream-laid paper, and good vignettes, and wretched plates, he has The story of Calas has been told in full and clear...

never failing sentence which this periodical extorts. We have a lengthy paper on "Auguste Comte's Later Speculations," on "Political Eco- nomy," and "Mr. Herbert Spencer's...

else we need from abroad, it certainly is not printed sermons, as the Anglican practice of preaching written essays have made our literature richer in this kind of production...

this arithmetic is founded on the dislike which the author has found boys to have to proving their sums. They suspect the first opera- tion to be incorrect and know the proof...

a dramatic poem on " Jephthah," a subject not well chosen, because the motives of the actors are quite foreign to modern ideas, and can in no way be made such as we can fully...

—This lady is the wife of an artillery officer, who accompanied her hus- band to India in 1857, and spent two years in that country. She has produced a pleasant volume of...

—There is a curious parallelism in the subjects of the papers which make up our two principal Quarterlies, which shows very plainly how fixed and uniform a groove they have...

Hunter's excellent little editions for students. The notes are short, simple, and to the purpose, and the play is prefaced by a selection of criticisms by Coleridge, Schlegel,...

Alexander Vinet. (Alexander Strahan.)—Both these handsome volumes are composed of extracts from the author's various works, pieced together with considerable skill so as to make...