of the Atlantic cable. She had steamed out from Valentia 1,063 miles, and arrived in lat. 51 deg. 25 sec. and long. 39 deg. 6 sec., when on 2nd inst. a partial loss of...

for helping themselves seems to be the sensible one of forming insurance clubs. The most popular plan seems to be to limit the club to the area of one or more unions, so that...

Mid- land Counties, and the Government on Saturday issued Orders in Council empowering any infected district to appoint inspectors, with power to order the isolation or...

T HE week has been full of plagues, rumours of plagues, and renie- dies for plagues. The cattle pest is spreading into all parts of England, and the cholera has already reached...

who some years ago set up the independent colonies of Transvaal and Free State, have quarrelled with Moshesh, chief of the Basutos. They say he has cheated them in the matter of...

pany have issued a reply to Captain Jervis's charges. It is too lengthy to condense, but the main allegations are that Captain Jervis is chiefly moved by the resistance of the...

the Social Science Association, to consider the best means of impeding the spread of cholera. A long paper was read by Dr. Headlam Greenhow, showing that the disease always fell...

this year been very great, and 206 have passed in English, 138 in languages, 166 in mathematics, 26 in physics, 29 in draw- ing, and 8 in music, the immense preference given to...

in the Thnes, that the governors of the Charterhouse intend to remove their school to Hallingbury, near Danmow. They own estates there, and are convinced that London is...

Egypt. In the latter place it is travelling towards the upper provinces, leaving both Alexandria and Cairo full of dead. In Turkey it is in Cairo kil ling upwards of three...

Lord Mayor committed him for trial.

friendly society before the Lord Mayor on Wednesday. He stated that within a few yards of the Mansion House were the offices of the "Garibaldi Mutual Life Assurance and Sick...

Rote sent round to them before the election, "expecting" them to vote for the Liberal candidates. He says, in a circular ad- dressed to them, that he urged action but not...

first duty was to curse hard. The Liverpool Ma, trying to express the universal annoyance of the community at these outrages, abused Mr. Kelly in language certainly violent,...

imminent. The rebels of Shantung, the north-eastern county, just south of Pekin, have defeated and slain the Tartar Prince San-ko-lin-sin, and seized a point within 100 miles of...

time is so entirely occupied with managing societies, presiding at public meetings, reforming sinners, and devising schemes of practical usefulness, that he neglects his own...

men. Major F. IL de Vere, instructor in field fortifications in the Royal Engineer establishment, had 0C11114011 to send a private named Currie for six days to the cells. He had...

whose invention of a post-office to the Virgin caused 2,500 ladies in the Cathedral of Santiago to be burnt to death, and who exulted in his victims as saints whom Mary had...

of a great official scandal. The facts, on which wu have else- where commented, appear to be these. General Cameron, weary of a war in which he has not succeeded—Maories very...

chil- , dren in Holborn and a woman and child at Ramsgate was Stephen Forwood, alias Ernest Southey, baker, billiard-sharper, and writer of begging letters. Before the...

Prussian Governments have made up their differences, and that Kaiser and King are to meet at Salzburg. The basis of accom- modation is saki to be a joint occupation of the...

accumu- late a treasure against "eventualities." Among other devices it has cancelled a contract with the Cologne-Minden Railway for a sum of 4,500,000/. This contract bound...

came off at Cherbourg on the Emperor's fête-day, the 15th inst.., the Channel ironclad squadron, attended by four wooden ships, all under the command of Admiral Dacres, entering...

yesterday and on Friday week :— Friday, August 11. Friday, August /3. Caledonian Great Eastern .. Great Northern .. Great Western.. Do. West Midland, Oeforl Lancashire and...

and 891 for account. Yesterday the closing prices were 89}j for delivery, and 89fl for time.

on Friday week were as follows :— Friday, August 1 I. Friday, August, 18. Greek 21 2 Do. Coupons Uaxican 231 231 Spanish Passive •• Tee Do. Certificates 28...

THE FLEETS AT CHERBOURG. T HE alliance with France is not perhaps the one which, were the world before them, English statesmen would deliberately choose. Liberals at least...

T HE proprietors of Scotch papers are in a rage with the Tele- graph Companies, and though moved more immediately by their own interests, they are in this matter the spokesmen...

A fortnight since we said a few words in favour of the little country of South America which is now engaged in an unequal warfare with powers whose dominions extend over more...

L ORD LEICESTER'S circular to his tenantry brings the of the right of a peer to interfere in elections once more before the public. We showed a fortnight since that such...

T HERE is official anarchy in the Britain of the South. What- ever may be the good fortune of other Ministers, Mr. Cardwell must be singularly constituted if he can "rest and be...

II1HE latent malignity which always co-exists with vanity was never more clearly illustrated than in these Holborn and Ramsgate murders. The key to those crimes, and to the...

A VERY curious chapter of early English history lies written 11 in stone at the eastern corner of Kent, along the flat shore - facing the so-called Small Downs. Though now a...

• W HAT the Middle Ages really were, writers the most learned, the most ingenious, the most profound, will perhaps always puzzle themselves in vain to discover. All is chaos,...

DWARD, eldest son of the deceased Lord, succeeded as second ri Lord Bruce of Kinloes. He was invested with the Order of the Bath at the coronation of Prince Henry, June, 1610,...

[Faust OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, August 4, 1865. Two subjects of commanding interest have been brought pro- minently to public attention here within the past few...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—I was not a little surprised to see the borough of Shore- ham classed in your paper of the 5th as a nomination borough of the Wyndhams....

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—Your able and temperate article on the policy of Patents deserves the attention of all who wish to consider that subject in all its...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—In common no doubt with many others, I read with con- siderable interest a letter in your paper of the 12th, from a correspondent giving...

CHRONICLES AND MEMORIALS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND DURING THE MIDDLE AGES.* Ir is not easy for the critic to keep pace with the diligent editors who work for the Master of...

NEXT to Dean Stanley's eloquent narrative of travels in Palestine, we do not know of a more interesting book on the same subject than the one before us, by the Rev. H. B....

in the preface of a work of fiction, of its being "founded upon facts" nearly always heralds something grossly improbable. While an author who deals in pure invention ordinarily...

THESE two novels, though widely unlike in plot, composition, and style, are based upon substantially the same motives of human action. In each of them the heroine voluntarily...

—This is an interesting little work. Somebody has said that any one may write a readable book who will only tell the truth about himself, his feel- ings, and his doings. This...

Homer's Iliad Translated into English hexameters by Edwin W. Simeox. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—We sincerely trust the ensuing legal and parliamentary vacation is not...

George Haly. (Newby.)—This purports to be a tale of the Wars of the Roses. Certainly the characters in it bear the names of noblemen and gentlemen who flourished ii, thosa...

Augustus Hessey, D.C.L., Head Master of Merchant Taylors' School. (Rivington.)—The writer says of these lectures, that some of them, printed for private perusal only, were...

that- they belong to the Hermetic class of writings, and explaining their gene- ral meaning and purpose. (New York : James Miller.)—The character of this work is sufficiently...

of the present day, or rather story it is none. It is simply an account of a number of women that Our Charlie falls in love with, or who fall in love with Our Charlie. They are...

Douglas.)—This is an amusing attack upon Sir Bernard Burke, whose reputation certainly will suer severely if it remains un- answered. The errors in the Peerage are first pointed...

Street. By Rev. Harry Jones, M.A., Incumbent. (Rivington.)—This is by no means an ordinary volume of sermons. Homely and perhaps a little abrupt in style, they are, we should...

an excellent little work, written by an enthusiast in the sport, especially intended for those who have the good fortune to explore the trout and. salmon streams in the north of...

W. Bennett.)— This is a loosecollectionof stories, without order or method, put together for the benefit of the Royal Commissioners by a gentleman who occu- pied the position of...

(Paris : C. Fourant.)—This dictionary, in two volumes, is the result of the combined labour of English and French linguists. Vol. I., by S. Smith and H. Hamilton, for the use of...

of the Apostles. By C. T. Vaughan, D.D. (Macmillan.)—This is Volume IIL of the series of Dr. Vaughan's sermons on the early Church, and is dis- tinguished by the title of the...

Jackson is the son of a Scotch blacksmith, who having shown his powers, and it is to be supposed his tastes, by spelling " Jerusalem " and " Nicodemas " at the age of five, is...

1 vol. By "E. S. T."—This is a lady's first attempt, we are inclined to think. In spite of the Canadian addition to the title, the story is all about the "squire and parsons of...

Indian Army. (Smith and Elder.)—This is a poem in two cantos in the Spen- serian metre. The scene is laid in India. When one finds in two suc- cessive stanzas such lines as...

(Saun- ders.)—Suppressed as a politician, Mr. Haig re-appears as a philosopher. Nothing can be simpler than the science of existence, as explained by him. Grant the postulate...

wicke.)—Professor Ansted has some difficulty in descending to the level of the unlearned, otherwise this would be a very useful volume. Some knowledge of geology and chemical...

(Longman.)—This is a learned essay by a writer who is thoroughly ac- quainted with the works of all the great metaphysicians, ancient and modern. It would be quite useless for...

or on scenes in which they are mixed up. The versification is unobjectionable, and the ideas varied. There is one poem, headed "A Life Poem, by a Vaurien," that deserves higher...

the Efforts to establish Lacernalzi g in Ireland. By Mrs. Meredith. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—Mrs. Meredith has written about lacomakers because they will soon exist only...

Lake. After the German of Wilhelm Hertz, with other Poems. By Charles Brace. (Longman.)—The "other poems" are described by the author as "Splinters from the Lever of Love, with...

Present State of Religion. By the Bishop of Argyll. (Longman.)—We heartily com- mend this short review of the questions lately brought before the Judicial Committee of the Privy...

Life and Character. By Janet Hamilton. (Murray, Glasgow; Ritchie, Edin- burgh; Nisbet, London.)—" An old woman of threescore and ten, whose only schoolroom was a shoemaker's...

(Whit- field and Green.)—This is a volume of sermons addressed to a congre- gation at Manchester, "assembling for the worship of the Father," by their first minister. Dr. Beard...

T. Yorke, Rector of Shenfield. (Hatchard.)—This is an interpretation of the Book of Revela- tions, based on what is called by the author the general, as distinguished from the...

is out of the question under the painful cir- cumstances which attended the production and publication of this frag- ment. The late Cardinal, at the request of the Royal...