THE Tories seem determined to consume Her Majesty's Govern- ]. ment as one eats crabs, a claw at a time. Having forced Mr. Stansfeld to resign, they on Tuesday night made an...

young men who can and will take office, has been strongly illus- trated this week. Lord Palmerston wanted, of course, to fill Mr. Stansfeld's post by some one from the same...

the two Governments cannot resolve upon some course of action with respect to Denmark. Lord Clarendon is personally acceptable at the Tuileries, and though he dislikes a free...

of Lords to annex a canonry to the Regius Professorship of Greek at Oxford, which his Lordship hopes with charming frankness will be received by the University " in the same...

House of Lords, on occasion of a motion of Lord Campbell's, " drawn " in part by Lord Grey, that a firmer policy in demanding mediation as the means of settling the...

on the Danish question. Sir H. Verney asked whether Schleswig and Holstein would be represented in the Conference, and Lord Palmerston answered, amidst general laughter, that...

comed by a concourse of people as large as that which witnessed the entrance of the Princess of Wales. The enthusiasm mani- fested was extreme, and as there were no soldiers...

! What a charm it must lend to life in that dull town to have at its head a man in whose presence gravity is impossible ! The Mayor, Mr. Caleb Hodgson, has been asked, it...

but the German Diet has agreed to send a representative, and selected the Saxon Minister Herr Von Baud. The circle of States is therefore complete, and it appears probable that...

of granting the papers for which Lord Robert Cecil is to move, concerning the dismissal of Mr. J. R. Morell from his inspectorship of Catholic schools under the Privy Council....

stricter preservation of game in Ireland, which will of course pass, as would a proposal making the killing of a fox high treason. The game preservers have, however, this week...

able circular on the proceedings of the Germans in Schleswig. The allies treat the Duchy, he said, as though there could never again be a question of restoring it to its...

Some ten millions of people, living on the banks of the Ganges, have from time immemorial been in the habit of throwing their dead into the sacred river. They cannot afford to...

sonal quarrel in the House of Commons, by moving for a select com- mittee to inquire into the character and number of monastic institu- tions in England and Scotland. He based...

in their generation. They are not going to resist the claims of the sufferers by the recent inundation, certainly not ; they are going to be liberal to the last degree, to pay...

the honour of a public dinner on occasion of the last of a series of 5,000 " leaders" which he has written for that journal on 5,000 successive days, a feat which appears to be...

Rome en route to his new dominions. Up to the last moment there was a hitch, and the bulletins recorded that he had a fever, but he is gone at last. He made a speech to the...

of the East India Financial Association, has appeared during the week. The capital is 1,000,0001., in 501. shares, of which it is not intended to call up more than 201. per...

widening. Under the French concordat, no Papal Bull has any validity in France without the consent of the State ; but Cardinal Bonald, Archbishop of Lyons, has not only...

and the Chancellor of the Exchequer was com- pelled therefore to send his Bill on Annuities to a committee. He is his own chairman, however, and evidence is not to be taken, and...

leading Foreign Securities with those of Friday week :— Friday, April 8. Friday, April 15. Greek •• .. 241 .. 25 Do. Coupons .. II Mexican.. .. 111 .. 45 47 Spanish...

Miss Mary C. Walker, M.D., has arrived at Chattanooga, on the medical staff of the Northern army, with orders to report. She is appointed to General McCook's brigade, and is...

in the matter of the claims of the Indian Army. Their grievance is this:— One-half of them have since the amalgamation been remarkably well provided for, but about 1,500 have...

of taxation were brought up by Colonel Barttelot in a motion demanding a suspension of the budget till the malt duty could be discussed. The motion was lost, of course, by a...

report favour- ably on a bill admitting the heath of various departments to seats in the Houses of Congress, and giving them a right to speak on any subject connected with their...

of 50,000t, in 10,000 shares of 51. each. It proposes to employ practical men to purchase stock in the leading grazing dis- tricts of Continental Europe, and by establishing a...

money ; and 914, 92 for account. Yesterday the closing quotations were :- For money, 914, 4 ; for account, 914, 4.

• WHAT ENGLAND COULD DO FOR DENMARK. T HE Danish Debate in the Lords on Monday night was an eminently unsatisfactory one. Earl Grey indeed made a fine speech, in which he...

various rash experiments for Parliamentary notoriety. He has tried the higii line of the divine right of kings, in his furious onslaught some years ago on the revolutionists in...

night by 184 to 176 (including pairs) that it had no confidence what- ever in Mr. Lowe's tact or sense of fairness. That was the meaning of the division, though the debate...

is force in all those arguments, but nevertheless a are men, of course, who will defy their department, and lose more dangerous motion was never put on paper. We say their...

IT will be matter for regret if the suicide committed by the Lisburn Election Committee when they were on the point of pronouncing their decision should withdraw the sub- ject...

all feel a little overdone with Garibaldi, but when all has been said that cavillers can find to say his reception on Monday was a great and in some respects an unique event. It...

W E have always objected to the term " Broad Church" as characterizing the essence of the deepest theology now preached in our national communion. You may get a great breadth of...

ander the weight of that harshly sus- picious rule, which characterized the Empire in its earlier stage—a condition which made it next to impossible for workmen in Paris to do...

W E are among a new race at last, a family who though aristocrats pur sang have that originality which it is the curse of aristocracies to lack. Pedigree does not destroy...

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, March 26, 1864. WE have all had a quiet laugh at the only military event of which I can send you news, the capture of Fort de Russey...

LE MAI:MIT.* [FIRST NOTICE.] THE analogies between this book and our English " Essays and Reviews " have struck many readers already. Both fell at first from the press as if...

; Ma. THE "experiment," long so called, of the co-existence of two Italian opera establishments in London seems now pretty well decided, and the alternatives of Patti or...

PIQUANT conversation, amongst those who frequent the society of the great capitals, is a special intellectual secretion, that appears to flow from an independent little organic...

literature which is becoming vast, which is defeating Lord Palmerston, and which is slowly but certainly sapping the last remaining supports of our Eastern policy— the...

MB. RIETHMULLB11 has written an excellent book, not altogether impartial, but at least as impartial as he was able to make it, on the greatest and far the most constructive of...

By Sarah Austin. (Virtue Brothers and Co.)—Mrs. Austin's English is as good as usual, and is here employed in rendering a very pretty and fanciful child's tale, to which Mr....

Virgil, with English Notes. By Robert Campbell, Esq., Head Master of the High School, Waterford ; and Roscoe Mongan, A.B. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—There are, we think,...

an admirable paper on the diseases of over worked men—of men, that is, who suffer not from work under unhealthy conditions, but from too much physical labour. Another paper, on...

THERE werd many defects in Mr. Macdonald's " David Elgin- brod" as a work of art; yet only a real artist could have conceived such a book, and only a man with a distinct moral...

seems to get heavier with every successive number. The lightest of the seven articles which make up the number is a summary of the Histoire de la Littdrature Anglaise, by M....

B. Kelly.)—This little book is founded on the works of Stirling and Holmes, once popular class-books. Mr. Barry has made out of them a capital treatise, rich in examples, the...

A cold - blooded attempt to bring burlesques into disrepute by showing how very dull and meaningless they may be, but it is over-done. The puns are really too few.

F .L.S. (Longman and Co.)—There are few branches of natural history more curious than that which treats of the artificial habitations of animals, and no one is more competent...

and James Parker.)—To "Parker's Church Calendar," an almanack of which the merits are notorious, is added a second part containing a complete clerical and charitable directory...

and Norgate.) —This quarterly keeps up its character. Strictly orthodox in tone, its articles are moderate and solid, and the reader is posted carefully in the latest news...

Russia, Greece, and Syria, in 1861-2-3. By Henry Arthur Tilley. (Longman and Co.)—The author seems to have travelled under the auspices of the Russian Government, sailing about...

Duthie. (Robert Hardwicke.)—Mr. Duthie was, we think, scarcely wise to correct and re-write these poems, originally youthful productions. Not that they are even in a literary...

M.D. (Robert Hardwicke.)—This quarterly maintains its character for solid excellence. Professor Gamgee gives an alarming paper on the microscopic worms which pass from measly...

the public, for it is distinguished both by the discrimination which has governed the selections and by the taste with which they are arranged. The " Old English Gardens" are...

are still possible, like Ross Ingestre and his sister; but he has used his power to frame a wild story of frauds, and personation, and the machi- nations of secret societies,...

of the quarter is a very brilliant but perhaps rather para- doxical paper on Sterne and Thackeray. There was, the writer thinks, this fundamental resemblance between the two...

American struggle. It is a thoughtful little book rather overfull of epigrams. The writer's main idea is that the man of the South surrounded by the riches of nature is tempted...

contains two elaborate articles:-1. On the human hair as a race-character, by Dr. Pruner-Bey ; and 2. A review of Dr. von Pott's recent work on myths of the origin of man and...

R. Muckles- ton, M.A. (Bell and Daldy.)—The subject of this poem is a rather common-place romance about a young lady who followed her Swedish lover to the war in man's clothes,...

ITurros—On the 13th inst, at Fairfield, Glasnervin, near Dublin, Mary, widow of the late Rev. Joseph Hutton, in the 07th year of her age.