THE Prussian Committee have brought up to the House an ad- dress refusing the special supplies asked for the King to support his contingent to the Federal Execution in...

made sacrifice of his feelings in vain. Our contemporary the Record, which generally manages to glean early information on the denouement of theological negotiations, tells us...

mean- while, become clear. It has not admitted, and will not admit, that the Governments which signed the Treaty of May 8th, 1852, are entitled to talk of - conditions which...

worst in the decision of the Privy Council on the appeal in the case of the two essayists and reviewers, Dr. Williams and Mr. Wilson. The judgment cannot now be given till after...

all natural pride by passing over to the majority against Pro- fessor Jowett's salary on the ground that it would facilitate a com- promise, has been made Dean of Lincoln,...

dale and the Editor of the Times has assumed this week the form of apersonal, and, on one side unfortunately, an angry, correspond- ence between Mr. J. T. Delane and Mr. Cobden....

a disaster in the Punjab. It is from Sir Hugh Rose, and announces that on 20th November Sir Neville Chamberlain, in command of the Eusofzye Field Force, attacked by the Boneir...

the prose- cution has closed, and the accused on Thursday read his defence, an eloquent but terribly over-bitter affair. His true reply is contained in the evidence for the...

of the French is trying to summon a Congress of the Powers which have not rejected his summons. It is added that Prussia has recently inclined towards the idea of a meeting, and...

joining in public meetings to protest against the revival of transportation to any part of the continent. Even as it is, bushrangers in New South Wales plunder small towns with...

pox and unable to deliver his message on that account. There is good reason to hope that his illness is not serious ; but the mind naturally glances at the possible calamity...

President, to report upon the principles which govern the distribu- tion of military prize. It is wanted. The Blue-book oaths Kirwee prize-money shows that the departments are...

Wolds within a very few days. The last was exceedingly serious, the sheds, granaries, corn stacks, and waggons of Mx. Jordan, near Melton, being all burnt down, with a loss of...

Burgevine, and all other Europeans, have quitted the Taeping service, the Chinese authorities agreeing to pardon them, and Major Gordon assisting them to escape. This desertion...

on the 14th November, makes some very remarkable adraist sins. "There is," he says, " something sublime in this shadowik earnestness and misty magnificence of Northern faith and...

a woman named Maria Green, in the Waterloo Road. They quarrelled, apparently out of jealousy, and on Sunday morning Wright cut his paramour's throat. On the arrival of the...

caused by the decease of Mr. Justice Wightman by the appointment of Serjeant Shee, an act of justice the more acceptable because it carries the principle of religious toleration...

in Greece, and the National Assembly has again adjourned the annexation of the Ionian Islands. We record both statements, the first as probably false, the second as probably...

elections. A district of Paris has, in spite of unprecedented efforts on the part of the Minister of the Interior, returned M. Eugene Pelletan by 15,115 votes, against 9,778...

there can be no question that Mr. Cobden has been utterly worsted, which is the less creditable to his composure, as he had a case which would have rejoiced the heart and nerved...

largest prizes ever made by the criminal fraternity. Shaw, English groom to the Duke of Brunswick, who resides in Paris, had learnt from his master the secret of opening his...

much needed increase in the supply of silver. The yield in California is increasing ; a new silver region of a hundred miles by forty has been discovered in the Argentine...

in gold has been sent into the Bank of England. A few parcels have been withdrawn for export purposes, but the total stock is now 13,675,474/.

constituents at Coventry for which he deserves congratulation. It was the speech of a man who has the pluck to face a popular outcry. He made no effort to apologize for the...

for the murder of Miss Goodwin, at Wigwell Hall, terminated in his conviction. The most striking element in the case for the defence was Dr. Forbes Winslow's cross-examination...

the Bank of France has declined by 560,000/. The return of the Bank of England, however, shows an increase in the supply of 668,8571., and an improvement in the reserve of...

on Friday week, were as follows :— Friday, Dec. 11. 28 12 35 33 13 71) 70 40 Friday, Dee.18. 201 341 33 131 69 70 46 Greek • • .• Do. Coupons .. Mexican Spanish Passive...

an active demand for India, and about 400,000/. will be shipped from Marseilles to the East within the next few days.

its destruction by the Confederate troops, has been permitted to resume existence, claims eight out of the ten deputies just elected for North Carolina as "in favour of peace."...

* for time. On Saturday last, the latest official prices were : For delivery, 90i 91; and for January 7, 911

attempt to force the position taken up by General Lee at Mine Run. The Northerners are, of course, angry, and crying out for a new General. In Tennessee, General Grant has...

their supporters to be ready for action in March. The exiles appear to believe that this warning is bond fide, and report that Garibaldi is collecting muskets, which is true,...

large. The demand for accommodation has continued moderately active, yet, in some instances, first-class short bills have been done at 7* per cent.

week have been somewhat restricted, the markets, generally speaking, having presented a quiet appearance. Mexican stock has sold as low as 33k; otherwise, the changes in the...

discovery. Martin's Bay, on the west coast of the southern island, had long been known to receive a river flowing from the interior ; but the river has now been explored by a...

LE SOUR DE L'AN. T LIE salons of Paris are feverish, for the jour de l'an is approaching. Ever since 1860, when the Emperor with a dozen words sent down the funds in every...

A S there are questions too high for human reason, on which it becomes man to exercise simply the humble faculty of trust under penalty of losing his reason in attempt- ing to...

The first object was fairly attained ; Lord Frederick was intro- duced by tried men like Sir F. Crossley and Mr. Forster as the fu- ture Liberal candidate, and made a speech...

India are not pleasant to read, but they are not in themselves alarming. Their political import is only this, that in the chronic warfare which since the annexation of the...

the Select Committee 1 on the EcelesiastioalCommission seems to establish two con- flicting propositions—that the complaints brought against the Commission are, in general, not...

T HE defence set up for Mr. Townley in the painful trial which terminated last Saturday at Derby in his conviction for the murder of Miss Goodwin, has scarcely been discussed in...

D R. JOHN BROWN, of Edinburgh, has one of the keenest eyes now open on our social world for a quality for which it is a great discredit to the English language that we have no...

riniE MANNERS have been gentlemen in character, in blood, I and in English position for more than six hundred years. The founder of the House as a territorial power, was one of...

[FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.] WHAT a lovely day was Monday, the 16th, in Paris ! At 4 p.m., the sun was so hot that one really moved away from its rays ; overcoats were...

A GUARDSMAN IN SECESSIA.* HAVING three or four months' of "leave"—a commodity with which the officers of the Guards are abundantly supplied—Colo- nel Fremantle determined to...

[We take the following from an interesting letter dated Auckland, New Zealand, 5th October, 1863, which gives a striking picture of the great exertions the colonists are making,...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. " SIR,--Will you permit me to add one fact to the very signifi- cant postscript of Professor Beealy's letter ? It is not only true that...

THERE is a certain splendour of fancy, we think too much of splendour, both in the imaginative diction and the imaginative thought of Miss Prescott's tales, which gives them a...

MAJOR-G - ENERAL JOHN CAMPBELL has been induced, apparently by attacks arising out of a controversy which has been raging in India any time these ten years, to publish the story...

THE novel of crime is in itself only a variety of the sensation novel—the value of crime as an incident, like that of miracle, being that it runs athwart and not with the...

this beautiful volume to the public. The cartoon in Punch has long been remarkable for a union of characteristic genius in idea and skill in execution, which places it on a par...

Taw work on the fauna of Lapland, compiled from notes kept during a season's collecting at Quickiock in 1862, and reprinted for the greater part from the Field newspaper,...

more likely to be popular with girls than boys. The authoress is strongly opposed to Puseyism, and depicts with much fooling the sufferings of milliners' apprentices. So for as...

Thom. (Whitfield.)—No common sermon, and containing one passage of very great power and insight.

of a book which will be read so long as there are children. It is in octavo, gilt-edged, and bound in ornamented cloth covers. The typo and paper leave the reader nothing to...

of the Great and Good By Joseph Johnson. (T. Nelson and Sons.)--The author calls this 'A Book for Young Men," but we do not think that any one who is presented with it will be...

— A tale of the persecutions consequent on the Revocation of the Edictof Nantes by Louis XIV. The early part of the story, which treats of the here's boyhood, is not equal to...

emblems under which the Scripture writers have described Christ, with explanations and expansions by some one who belongs apparently to the "sweet" theological school. The gems...

—4— A History of the World from the Earliest Records to the Present Time. By Philip Smith. (Walton and Maberly.)—Mr. Smith, one of the principal contributors to "The Dictionary...

Wordsworth, photographically illustrated. (A. W. Bennett, Bishopagate street.)— To lovers of Wordsworth and of Wordsworth's country no more delightful present could be made than...

Hardwicke.)—An air of ridicule is thrown over this work by its pretentious title, and by the author's having been so ill advised as to prefix to it his portrait and autograph, a...

Gerrard Lewis, B.A. (R. Hardwicke.)—It is probable that Mr. Lewis is a very young man, and if so, these verses are decidedly creditable to him. They are sensible, smooth in...

Present Time. By J. H. Kurtz, D.D., Professor of Theology at Dorpat. (T. and T. Clark, Edinburgh.)—.A manual of Church history, written in a strongly Lutheran spirit. When Dr....

these great men's lives is told clearly, and the life of Shakespeare con- tains besides a great deal of useful information as to the early editions of the poet and other points...

very pretty story, with a picture of the little heroine and her dog Trot on the cover. It affords a terrible warning to little girls how they let their dogs lead them up...

Bey, C.E. (For private circulation.)—This gentleman, who was formerly in the Egyptian service, has convinced himself by researches "into the physical constitution of the Nile...

of an apparently endless series. Stories of crime, and particularly of crime punished, have always an interest, the latter rousing that hunting instinct which is latent, more or...

(Tinsley Brothers.)—The author of "My Good-for-Nothing Brother" ebtained so considerable a reputation by that work that this second -effort of the same pen was naturally...

Hours. Poems. By Henry J. Smith. (Ludwig Denicke, Leipzig.)-31r. Smith, who has been "denied the advantages of a liberal education and opportunities for study," sat himself down...

Charles Swain. (Virtue, Brothers.) Winter Weavings — Poems. By Isabella Law. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Two of those volumes which are the despair of criticism, they are so...

series. By William Hewitt. Photographically Illustrated. (London: Alfred W. Bennett. 1863.)—Tho application of photography to the illustration of works like that of Mr. Hewitt...

collected works of Professor Wilson, containing a portion of The Noctes Ambrosiance (Blackwood and Sons), with portraits of the Professor and Mr. Lock- hart; Burns's Poems and...

on the Present State of the Church Question. By the Rev. Christopher Nevile. (Arthur Miall.)—Mr. Nevile, by resigning valuable Church preferment, has given proof of his...