S AID PASHA, Viceroy of Egypt, died gn Sunday, Jan. 18. He was the fourth son of Mehemet Ali, by a Circassian girl, but retained few of his father's qualities. „Heavy, slothful,...

" THE SPECTATOR " is published every Saturday Morning, in time A, despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal Mity,be-had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

MR. STANSFELD ON THE INDEPENDENT LIBERAL POLICY. TN the very imperfect report of Mr. Stansfeld's recent speech at Halifax, to which alone London had access last week, by far...

T HE battle of Murfreesboro', inconclusive in result and uninteresting in details, may yet prove, in some respects, the most important fought during the civil war. It did not,...

America, and be the sole dispenser of the products of the New World." He has determined, therefore, to "restore to the Latin race on the other side of the ocean its strength and...

little too speedily to bewail the misfortune of having nothing left to do. All the pressing abuses, they say, have been one by one swept away. Reform is laid aside by consent...

conditions of politics in the East. They travel in Turkey, write about Turkey, and have once at least fought heartily for Turkey; yet they seem unable to define even to their...

M R. BERESFORD HOPE seems eminently competent to his self-imposed duty of representing the Confederate States in England, nay, perhaps too much so for success. His literary...

T HE discussion of the numerous questions raised by the proceedings of this too famous vessel has always appeared to us somewhat premature. Our own Government, which is in the...

"rpm religious question is at the bottom of all contemporaneous .1 problems." We sincerely rejoice at seeing, at last, this important truth authoritatively acknowledged in...

IF an English gentleman of cultivated mind and rural tastes, pos - sessed of ample pecuniary resources, and who also appreciated the economical and social value of agricultural...

[Fuom OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] January 21, 1863. ON the 11th inst. the following letter from a poor inhabitant of Mulhouse, whose name was not mentioned, appeared in the...

T HE town of Reggio, in Modena, desires to send Father Passaglia to Parliament, and the able theologian who, orthodox to the backbone, may yet end by founding an Italian, and...

1VRATEVER opinion may be entertained OR the much vexed question of art progression—whether we are inclined to assert that the meridian of high art is past and the glory of its...

works by amateurs is always full of interest and attraction, and the Suffolk-street Exhibition for the benefit of the distress in the cotton districts is by no means an...

SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. THE announcement of Mendelssohn's At/wile and Mozart's Requiem drew a crowded audience to Exeter Hall on the 16th inst. ; so crowded, indeed, that the...

MR. KINGLAKE'S CRIMEA.* [Fitter Norms.] AT length we enjoy the luxury of praising without reserve. Mr. Kinglake has fulfilled and surpassed the expectations excited by six...

" I WAS sitting," writes "A. K. H. B.," "by my- study fire this evening in a rocking-chair, in the restful interval between dinner and tea, and thinking how I should conclude...

explaining the latest change in his convictions to the Liverpool congregation, which he left more than a year ago to retire from the ministry of the Church of England, is a...

be con- sidered the only history of the Channel Islands worth referring to. It is too bulky and too learned to be of very great service to the mere tourist, but it may be safely...

power shown by the author .of this book distinguish him very broadly from the general host of novelists. The fertility, indeed, is on the whole greater than the power,—which,...

Co., London.)—This is an age for "manic," and from tho potichomanie of a few years ago down to the somewhat similar art now absorbing Parisian fashion, any kind of ladies' work...

Golden Leaves from the Works of the Poets and Painters. Edited by Robert Bell. (Griffin, Bohn, and Co.)—This elegantly bound volume consists of an anthology of English poetry,...

work appears to have been written with the laudable object of conveying to the public certain scraps of information res- pecting the personal history of its author. We learn, in...

of France, England, and Scotland. By Lord Mackenzie. (William Blackwood and Son.)—The appearance of Lord biackenzie's book is a curious sign of the times, for it is avowedly...

to have been written fourteen years ago, by a Highland gentleman residing in Normandy, who is now dead. The principal subjects handled in it are French cooking, fishing, natural...

(Philip S. King.) — A thoughtful and well reasoned pamphlet on the redemption of the Indian land-tax and the sale of Indian waste lands. Mr. Wood, like most non - official...

his Dwell- ing-place." (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Those of our readers who remem- ber Mr. Hinton's former work will be quite prepared to believe our assertion that this is a very...

This is a book of which it is quite unnecessary to say much. Every reader of the Cornhill Magazine is perfectly well acquainted with its contents, and has, no doubt, formed his...

By Abner William Brown, M.A. (Hamilton, Adams, and Co.)—The Rev. Abner Brown, being of opinion tint Mr. Carus's "Memoirs of Simeon" do not give a sufficiently lively portrait of...

printed volume of hymns, for congregational use, arranged to suit the various seasons of the Christian year. The compiler appears to have been merely guided by the principle of...

Lieutenant," &c.—Speaking to the Heart. By Thomas Guthrie, D.D., author of "The Gospel in Ezekiel," &c. (Strahan and, Co.)—Both these works are of a devotional character. The...

Prin- cipal of the Normal College, Cheltenham. (A. and C. Black.)—This small volume is, in fact, a third edition, remodelled chiefly by the omis- sion of two chapters of...

Lays from the Ingle Nook By John Young, author of "Lays front the Poor-house." (Glasgow: Gallie.)—These are two small volumes of soi - disant poetry, the first of which is...

North and South, by the Author of the White Republican (Chapman and flail).— Proceedings of the International Temperance and Prohibition Convention (Job Cand- well).—The Life of...

This book is the work of a lady, who has thought it necessary to prefix to it an earnest protest against the prejudice which she believes to exist against unprotected female...

FLOOD —January 14th, at Frankfort-on-the-Maiue, of scarlet fever, aged four years, Ella, the dearly loved child of the Rev. J. C. Flood, British Chaplain at Frankfort.