B ELFAST has been in insurrection all the week, Orange and Catholic mobs traversing the streets armed with bludgeons, stones, and muskets, firing regular volleys at each other,...

mined, and most prosperous of the population, to declare war Nowhere has it been so striking as in Belgium, and we against their wills on her, to strike at the very roots of her...

which Irishmen never seem to regard these Belfast riots, and that is the -civilized one. The Catholics abuse the Orangemen, and the Orangeman slanders the Catholic, but neither...

the Northern Army one of more bitter disaster and disappointment than any mere defeat could have caused. For six weeks the sappers and miners had been engaged in a work which it...

S OMEBODY once earned an immense deal of temporary unpopularity by talking in the House of Commons of the people's "ignorant impatience of taxation." The accusa- tion was...

I T is a pity that the speeches of colonial notables are so seldom reported at home. They are frequently as much superior to colonial articles as the Parliamentary debates are...

T HE Bishop of Oxford has plunged into a sea of difficulties. He and his party had declared in the Oxford Declaration that the Bible not only contains but is the Word of God,...

MHE power of genius to see with the imagination things 1 actually existing but not present to the bodily sight has received this week a curious illustration. The able...

I T seems very probable, we should say it is almost certain, that for some years to come the offence of suicide will increase in Great Britain. The mania for killing oneself...

O N the 2nd of August, 1514, the Duke of Norfolk was appointed one of the Commissioners to conclude treaties of peace, free trade, and alliance with Louis XII. of France, and...

THE " SPECTATOR." Munich, August 15, 1864. THERE are two individuals in Germany who taken together are truly men representative of the political elements now at play in this...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Belfast, July 13, 1864. Sin,—" A. Z." in the Spectator of a few weeks ago has raised the most interesting , of all possible questions with...

ENOCH ARDEN.* WE cannot help hoping that Enoch Arden may draw from Mr. Matthew Arnold an elaborate criticism on the genius of Tennyson, —not because we should be content to...

an old Spanish drama done into the English of the nineteenth century, a story which assumes love-making to be the principal business of the human race, the only occupation...

preface that the greater part of the volume he now publishes has already appeared in Blackwood, but without the connecting links which now render it a full account of all his...

difficult for the kindliest temper to give a friendly welcome to the medical philosophy of Saxon days," says the Rev. Mr. Cockayne, in his preface of the new volume issued by...

The Central A?ps. Being the seoond part of the "Alpine Guide." By John Ball, M.R.I.A., F.L.S., &c. (Longman and Co.)—In this volume Mr. Ball describes the whole of the Swiss...

Bail's "Alpine Guide" is the beau ideal of a mountaineer's handbook, this is certainly that of the ordinary tourist—the traveller with no particular tastes, scientific or...

(W. H. Smith and Son.) — Light, handy, and sensible. We think, how- ever, that if there had been less attempt at making a book it would have been more useful. A continuous...

(Chap- man and Hall.)--Some forty years ago the " Tales by the O'Hara Family " were among the popular novels of the period. Tho tales were Irish stories written by John and...

seasonable additions to Mr. Murray's admirable series of handbooks. About the Irish volume there is nothing very remark- able either in plan or execution except the capital...

Newby.)—To call this book a novel is simply an imposition. There is a alight framework of story on which is extended a long diatribe against Roman Catholicism and the Jesuits,...

wicke.)—Those who like a laborious joke on a well-worn theme will be pleased with this production. There are original compositions and parodies, and mock commentaries on the...

F.R.S.E. (W. and R. Chambers.)—Mr. Chambers has done the public good service in producing this very handsome volume. A good county history, where no such work was previously in...

Co.)—Of this series throe volumes have been forwarded to us, " Shak- speare's Poems," " Ben Jonson's Poems," and the first volume of " Cow- per's." Type and paper are excellent,...

pleasant to be critical on the work of so fastidious a critic as Mr. Arnold Therefore we can by no means pass by the fact that his title is a mere clap-trap magazine title for...

Gospel of St. Matthew. By David Thomas, D.D. Edited by the Rev. W. Webster, M.A. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—A portly volume of rather common-place exposition, vastly...

the Sixteenth Century to the Year 1864. Fourth edition. (T. Jones.)— A very well compiled manual, intended for Roman Catholics, in which the history of the different nations is...

Select Anecdotes, by J. S. Lawrie (Thomas Murby)—Epitome of the Life of Our Blessed Saviour, by the Rev. J. G. Smith (Rivington)—Le Sport at Baden, by P. Fitz- gerald (Chapman &...