fresh evidence against the lad charged with it, William Henry Clarke, and we almost wonder that the Clerkenwell magistrate, Mr. Barker, granted the remand. The only evidence...

behalf of Poland, was published on Saturday. It is dated June 17th, and written with unusual conciseness and force. The Foreign Secretary lays down the principle that no...

VORTH and South are once more face to face at Gettysburg. 11 General Meade, immediately on his appointment to the command-in-chief, led his army across the Potomac, and started...

the Duty on Fire Insurances, the House carrying by a majority of 36 (103 to 67) Mr. II. B. Sheridan's resolution that the duty now chargeable on fire insurances is excessive in...

on the 28th June General Grant was still con- tinuing the siege of Vicksburg, and prepared apparently to resist any attack on his rear. Louisiana was said to be flooded with...

moment at open war with Japan, the second term granted by the Chargé d'Affaires to the Government having expired on the 21st May. On Friday night Lord Carnarvon asked for the...

the discussion as to the precise nature of the message transmitted by the Emperor of the French to the House of Commons. He was careful to any that he had been influenced by no...

interest will appear in the SrEcTxxon, and be continued, either weekly or at short intervals, giving an Account of the Great Governing Families of England in Relation to their...

on the great governing families which requires one word of expla- nation. It is intended that each article should, if possible, contain the history of some one family. This...

the President of Mexico quitted his capital, and retired to San Luis do Potosi, in the hills, with all the members of his Government and the national treasure. The troops were...

Denison, the Speaker of the House of Commons,. has written an enthusiastic letter about the steam cultivation of strong clay lands to General Peel, who had implored him to -...

strength of its battalions, to complete the fortifi- cations of Cronstadt, to fortify Helsingfors, to concentrate an army on the North-Eastern frontier of Poland, and, it is...

out in a court of justice, was re-opened on Thursday,. some of the holders of the Essex property resisting its sur- render to the heir-at-law. It will be remembered that they...

row at Cremorne on the night of the Oaks were found guilty on Saturday last. The Assistant-Judge sentenced four of them to fines of 50/. each, one to 201., and one to 12/., and...

a victory for the Lower House. The Lords made the score of last year, but the Commons have so much improved, that, even had there been no change in the original selections, the...

waited last week on Sir George Grey, to represent the brutality occasionally displayed by the police. It is asserted that the police regularly levy "black .mail" from the...

annual meeting on Saturday last in Burlington House, Lord Brougham in the chair. Lord Lyttleton remarked on the reform of manners caused by the institution of clul a for the...

"improving the Royal Academy has presented its. report. It recommends that the forty Academicians should be raised to sixty, ammo- b whom should be eight architects, and ten...

King of Prussia and his son, in which English- men may fairly assume to trace the hand of their own Princess Royal. The Prince of Prussia, it appears, promised his father, on...

the Account ; India Stock is at 226 228; and the 5 per Cent. Loan at 108, 1081; the 5 per Cent. Enlaced Paper at 1074; and the 54 per Cent, ditto at 1164. Turkish 6 per Cents,...

a peace without re-establishing even the semblance Of authority at Taranaki has at length issued in its natural result—a new outbreak of war. The smouldering fire broke out...

some of the highest mercantile firms in Liverpool, pointing out the danger that will arise to England from the interpreta- tion now given to the Foreign Enlistment Act in case...

at Bow Street, by a Mr. Bishop, of New Bond Street, for a summons against a lady named Hicks for causing his dog to be cruelly destroyed. About a week previously Mr. Bishop left...

meters at Greenwich and elsewhere give no idea of the real velocity of the upper currents of wind. Last year he said that Mr. &swell made a journey of seventy miles in sixty-...

Wednesday, Mr. Hubbard and others, of course, raising a very needless panic about the extension of the prin- ciple of limited liability. To these alarmists Mr. Goschen, the...

LEE versus MEADE.—A NONSUIT. T HE hunger for dramatic effect which the telegraph fosters in modern society disturbs political judgment. It makes men expect as well as long for...

A HOHENZOLLERN has had the courage to do an "undig- nified" thing, and has thereby, in all probability, saved the Prussian throne. The Crown Prince, whose wife is English, who...

Lord Robert Cecil has recently gained much in influence both with the Tory party and the House of Commons. A fortnight ago, when Mr. Disraeli, favouring the unpopular purchase...

I T would be a curious subject of inquiry if some gentleman of a statistical turn of mind would endeavour to discover how many members of Parliament are directors of public com-...

ITHER Earl Russell's despatch, presented on Monday te, Parliament, nor his speech in defence, will, we fear, reconcile Liberals to the policy he is pursuing in Poland. The...

of bore not unfrequently met in society who has a mania for "broad topics." He gives you while waiting for dinner his judgment on the New Settle- ment Act, wants to discuss the...

strikes laymen more, in turning from the original fountains of the Christian faith to the more au- thoritative expositions it receives from the clerical mind of the present...

DETWEEN Richmond Park and the quiet Surrey village of II Wimbledon, quaint combination of haystacks and stuccoed villas, there stretches a rather notable bit of sandy soil...

]INGLISH family history dates from the Conquest,* two hun- • Pedigree is one of the permanent delusions of mankind, though the founder of a great race is always its greatest...

[Faolt OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] July 14, 1863. THE way in which the news has been received in France that Mexico was in the hands of the French army, is strikingly illustra-...

New York, June 29, 1863. WHAT news the next mail may take you I do not, at this present writing—a day or two beforehand—pretend to divine. It may be that some overwhelming...

Mid mountain shapes most grand and rare, Standing alone the maid we found ; The yellow kerchief closely bound Round her low forehead bid her hair. The distaff in her hand at...

The close of the season at Covent Garden is positively announced for the 1st of next month, the production of the long-deferred Elisir d'Amore being apparently the event of...

RO MOLA.* IT was easy to be mistaken in the first chapters of this book, and it is pleasant to acknowledge that we were mistaken, and had not the insight to see the first faint...

better apology than his book for his intrusion on the field of authorship. It is a very good in- stance how much a sensible man may do in a department not peculiarly his own by...

THE present publication carries the biography of the great con- temporary French poet to the period of his admission to the French Academy in 1841, thus completing, the writer...

TOWARDS the close of the last century a small expedition, con- sisting of a staff of artificers, labourers, and a handful of sepoys, sailed from Calcutta under Captain Blair,...

THE titular editor of this work may be regarded as the author of the volume at present completed, of which he claims the entire composition, and the collection of...

A Nevet written in the autobiographical form should be done exceedingly well, or it is a mistake. This is an autobiographical novel, and it is done very badly. It has this prime...

Styles." (London : Chapman and Hall.)—This sketch or "study" as the writer- calls it, of ghostly phenomena, is, as far as the stories themselves go, singularly readable. It has...

swarms with useful hints, which are manifestly derived from actual ex- perience, and the knowledge of which will save the photographic student. endless trouble and...

Parts. I. and II. (Lovell Reeve, and Co.).—The title of this work is a sufficient indication of the nature of its contents. It is a monthly publication, each part of which...

intended to illustrate the doctrine that morality without religion is of no avail. It is tolerably interesting and not badly written ; and we are glad to be able to find in it...