HE Trent affair has culminated in a despatch in which Earl Russell explains to Mr. Seward the first principles of international law. As the arguments of the Foreign Secretary...

"TotE SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies V that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through News-agents in...

MONDAY, JANUARY 27TH. A MEETING was held at Sheffield on Thursday for the purpose of considering the expediency of establishing a school for the study of metallurgy and...

On the 27th inst., at his house in Bloomsbury-s q uare, in the 82d year of his a g e, the Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne, &D., prebendary of St Paul's, and rector of the united...

OSBORNE, JAN. 26.—The Rev. G. Prothero performed the service this morning at Osborne, before their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, Princess Helena, and...

(By Electric Telegraph.) STATE os. PoLL-12 Noon. — Dashwood, 1172; Pane, 1122— Majority for Dashwood, 50. Pour o'Clock. — 'rbe following is an approximate return from our...

2 per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 8 per Cents Reduced New 3 per Cents Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 Friday 921 Bank Stoek, 5 per Cent 921 India Stock, 101 per Cent 02...

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY EVENING. THE demand for discount this week has again been moderate, and there was some idea that yesterday the Bank would again reduce their minimum rate...

On the 28th hat, at St. Geor g e's Hanover-square, by the Rev. John Fielder'. brother-in-law to the bride g room, the Hon. Somerset J. Gou g h Calthorpe, ua Lieutenant-Colonel...

On the 25th Just, at Lubenham Hall, near Market Harbro', the Countess of Hopetows, of a son, who survived his birth only a few hours.

subscriptions to the " FRIEND OF INDIA," and "OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA," Will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellin g ton-street, Strand, London. Terms: Per...

A LETTER from Earl Russell to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, giving directions for the strict observance of neutrality during the war with America, was published in...

THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH. I F the Emperor of the French would only tell us the truth, what a frank man he would be. He has all the insight, all the courage, and all the seductive...

T Trent affair, which has produced so much good, which has armed Canada, developea the strength of England, and destroyed the American illusion that Great Britain will endure...

I T is now a matter of notoriety that M. de Lavalette has been instructed to request the removal of Francis II. from Rome, and has met with a flat refusal. "The Holy See," says...

"E VERY mail received from America tends but to deepen the depression of the friends of the North. There are but two alternatives before the Federal States ; an energetic...

O NE of the many unspoken beliefs of the philosophic Radicals has at length found open utterance. In a letter to the Daily _Yews, written with characteristic force and...

T HERE is much ill-humour in the Vatican, and the sweetness of the Holy Father's temper has been ruffled at the indiscreet and self-willed zeal of his champions. The holiest of...

M R. Lovejoy, of Illinois, thinks the Trent case so full of disaster and infamy to his country, that it might almost form the starting-point of an American 2Eneid. He himself,...

the foundations of ethics, and to argue that the utilitarian system to which he adheres does not adequately explain the character of our moral convictions, or the solemnity we...

W E want a new system of book-binding. The art has never kept pace with that of printing, and seems at present to have come to a hopeless stand. Invention is exhausted in...

STR, — Perhaps the best return I could make for the indulgence and courtesy with which you have treated the letter I lately ventured to address you would be to trouble you no...

WHATEVER wonders the approaching season may be about to do for Italian opera in London, the prospects of our less favoured national opera are certainly not very brilliant. While...

SCULPTORS AT ROME AND THE GREAT EXHIBITION. ROME, JANUARY 25. Tam contributions of English and American artists in Rome to the London Exhibition of this year will, we believe,...

LIVES OF THE ARCHBISHOPS OF CANTERBURY.* Tin second volume of Dr. Hook's Lives of the Primates is likely to prove one of the most interesting. Lanfranc, Anselm, Becket, and...

TFCE Art season is rapidly approaching, and gives notice of its advent by the usual and unmistakable signs. With the turn of the year torpidity is replaced by movement and...

Ix would seem at first sight a much simpler task to translate from the German into English than from any other language ancient or modern. There is so much ground of common...

THAT a Cabinet Minister should write more than one work of research while the official harness is actually on his back, is an event of mark and novelty : such as was not in time...

WE would recommend this book most earnestly to any English layman proud of his culture and knowledge of men, and confident in the toleration which an extended experience must...

COMPETMON 1.5 an excellent thing, but we confess we regret p,o see it extend to shilliig ' ,u rs in e & There cannot be an unlimited demand for that form of literary olio, and...

ONE of the most curious phenomena of the times is the passion for ghost stories. Although no department of fiction is more monotonous or devoid of originality than the...