up, and all manner of rumours are afloat. Everybody is to go to the Board of Trade, except perhaps 113r. Gladstone, Mr. Merriman, and Sir George Jenkinson. To-day Lord...

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G ENERAL TROCHU is moving again, to what purpose is not yet certain. He made what appears to have been a feint against the Guard beyond St. Denis on the 21st, but in the artil-...

a few miles north-east of Amiens, while General Mnnteuffel had drawn together a force at Amiens to attack him. The Standard correspondent speaks badly of the discipline of...

been known that there was but little hope of any such re- covery as would enable him to resume Ministerial work before the beginning of the ensuing session, and, therefore, his...

a great fright, and seems likely to be taken. On the 20th (Tuesday), Voigts Rhetz (who, by the way, seems to be here, there, and everywhere in an incrediblyshort time), "drove...

news of a ,pitched battle between the army of General Chanzy and that of the Duke of Mecklenburg, for even if the Germans did not follow towards Le Mans, General Chanzy will,...

Bourges is that the latter has been fully reorganized since the retreat from Or- leans ; that it has not apparently been at all disturbed by the Ger- mans, and that the...

admirable letters of the Times' special correspondent with the Army of the Duke of Mecklenburg, of the nature of the four days' fighting on the Loire, at Beaugency, on the 7th,...

ordered to pass upon Alsatians tried before them :— " For enlisting or procuring enlistments in military service against the German Army, 20 years' hard labour and a fine of...

deputation from the North-German Parliament waited on him on the 18th inst. at Versailles, to urge him to accept the symbol of unity, but the work is still not complete. The...

ratify the new treaty under which Bavaria is to enter the German Confede- ration. The refusal, though remarkable, as showing the strength still belonging to the Separatists, is...

Herr'n Liebknecht and Bebel, have been arrested and imprikoned on a charge of high-treason, and the only German paper which has questioned the right to arrest them has been...

restless under conquest. The Allgenaeine Zeitung (published at Augsburg) says that the Alsatians will not accept office under the Germans, and that the newspapers daily give...

and writes, to Wednesday's Times to point out what powerful grudges appear to- be getting up against England on all sides. America bitterly inveighs against us for having done...

yet been published, but the account of it given in last Sunday's Observer, and the account of it given in yesterday's "Lombard" telegram from Berlin, appear to agree that it is...

dicted, many of the men executed for the Tientsin massacre turm out not to have been tire guilty persons at all. The Mandarins caught a few of the meaner rioters, hired a few...

at Nuits, on Sunday (18th), when Von Werder's troops, the first and second Baden brigades, attacked a very considerable body of French troops under General Kramer,—there were...

Grey as Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal. He is best known in Eng- land by an extremely able pamphlet on Trish Land Tenure ; but in India he has been a successful administrator and...

with the -new stipendiary, Mr. Keogh. After a good many years of delibe- mtion over the point, the magistrates of the brave old town came this year to the conclusion that law...

are made upon some principle not yet understood by the rest of the world. Thus it is stated that Prussia has lost during the war, in killed and wounded, 12 generals, 206 staff...

entertained for them, the modest ambition of proving their competency to pass the ordinary Cambridge University examinations, have been examined by the Cambridge examiners for...

and other learned bodies, to get up a monster protest against the destruction of the various scientific and artistic treasures in Paris by bombardment, Dr. Dove, the Rector of...

" impressed with the distress and difficulties resulting from the early and im- provident marriages of some of the junior clerks, who, without any other resources than their...

for the murder of Mr. Flueck, has ended in the acquittal which from the first appeared absolutely inevitable. There was, in fact, no , evidence against the prisoner, except that...

head of a petition recently presented on behalf of the Fenian prisoners, informing him that Her Majesty's Government have recommended the exercise of the royal clemency, "so far...

MR. BRIGHT'S RESIGNATION. I F Mr. Bright has, as we should fear to be probable, vanished out of public life, no less than out of the Cabinet, his is a loss which will be very...

() NE would quite expect M. Guizot to plead for the im- mediate convocation of a National Assembly in France.. The old intriguer who arranged the Spanish Marriages,—the...

1XTHENEVER Parliament meets, whether it be in February V I' —as we fear—or on 17th January, the day to which it now stands prorogued,—as we would fain hope,—the...

DI °PULAR ideas have done much for England ; but for one of our departments of State they have produced nothing but disorganization of the ancient traditions,—which might be...

THE condition which the Government have affixed to their liberation of the Fenian prisoners seems to us to be a miser- able mistake, unwise, ungenerous, and unjust. To claim...

T HE order just issued by the Directors of the Union Bank forbidding their clerks to marry until they receive a salary of 2.150 a year is a very curious one from several points...

R. TENNIEL'S pictorial satire is extraordinarily unique. Ill He is in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred in hearty sympathy with the ordinary British bourgeoisie, taking the...

XVIII.—HENRY VII. W ITH Henry Tudor, or as he is generally called, from his title before his accession to the Crown, Henry of Rich- mond, we commence a new era in English...

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Sin,—I am commissioned to thank you, in the name of Mrs. Vicars, and other supporters of the "Albion Hill Home for Female Penitents,...

"THE BIBLE WITHOUT NOTE OR COMMENT." (TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.") SIR,—The argument of your correspondent "0." in favour of read- ing the Bible in schools "without...

(SUGGESTED BY A QUARTET OF BEETHOVEN, DECEMBER 19, 1570) Forth on a new-born world with eager mien She gazed and marvelled, of herself aware The sovereign over realms exceeding...

THE SYRENS. Off Capri, .April. 1868. LOOK down,—far downward! Are not those the Syrens? Do not their white arms gleam, Where wavering sunbeams light the depths of ocean,...

PROFESSOR SHAIRP ON CULTURE AND RELIGION.* 'Tins is a wise book, and, unlike a great many other wise books, 'has that carefully shaded thought and expression which fits...

WE deplore the fact that Mr. Edmund Yates has written an ex- tremely stupid novel, but it is impossible for us not to admit it. Mr. Yates has written a good many novels in his...

THERE is always something fascinating in the historical aspects of language. The complex processes of its life, the persistence of its. groundwork amidst ever-changing variety...

To say anything new about Horace would not be easy, perhaps, considering the indefatigable, it may be said, the affectionate industry with which his works have been studied,...

AMONG head masters of English public schools, Mr. Abbott is honourably known for his efforts to teach his boys to think, and not to cram, and for his determination not to...

against a well-meant book, especially when it is clear that there is a sincere and earnest pur- pose in it. But literature has its claims as well as good intention, and such a...

noticed among the "Christmas Books," in whose ranks it holds no mean place. This volume includes the issue of the Magazine for the whole year. It might almost be said that the...

a very carefully written little hand-book, which every aspirant after success in roach-fishing, and not a few who consider themselves more than aspirants, should read. And...

CHRISTMAS AND CHILDREN'S BOOKS. I yarn told by one Richard Pengelley, who runs away from borne, ships I himself as cabin-boy upon a South-Sea whaler, and meets with a thousand...

volumes tell the Bible story from the beginning of Genesis to the death of Ahab in such style as suits the tastes and understandings of children. To grown-up people these long...

the Pope and the priests, always pleasantly end sometimes very well. The Siren is, we are inclined to say, too long. It would have been bettor if shortened by a third. We shonld...

Heysham practised as a physician in Carlisle for between fifty and sixty years (177d-1834); and made during that time in the famous "Carlisle Tables of Mortality" one of the...

Stoughton). —This is a useful little baok, in which Mr. Gray puts together in a short compass the more striking facts which we find in a variety of works which treat of the...

its style. Mr. • Peacock, indeed, writes with great vigour, uses a satire that is keen, though somewhat indiscriminate, and draws life and manners with a vivid distinctness....

has selected some seventy names of statesmen, soldiers, writers, &c., two- thirds of them being English men or women, has given some notable paragraph or sentence out of their...

is an account, reaching from the days of the Long Parliament to the present time, of the Baptist congregation which, after various changes, now meets in the enormous building...

Shrimpton.)—Mr. Weatherly is a young, we may say a very young, poet.. So we judge from the fact that one of what he calls his "early poems belongs to the year of the...