G OLD has risen in New York to five per cent. premium, and still nothing whatever is done to increase the revenue. All kinds of schemes are discussed, the most probable being...

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

MONDAY, JANUARY 20TH. NUMEROUS meetings are being held in the provinces for the purpose of drawing up addresses of condolence with her Majesty on the la- mented death of the...

OSBORNE, Jaw. 19.—Divine service was performed at Osborne this morning before their Royal Highnesees the Prince of Wales, Prince Arthur, Princess He- lena, Princess Louise, and...

Subscriptions to the ' FRIEND OF INDIA," and " OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA," will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms : Per...

BRITISH S. (Closing Prices.) FUND Friday.' per Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cents Reduced 924 New 3 per Cents 924 Annuities 1880 Annuities 1885 'Friday 93...

The Valetta with the above mails left Malta for Marseilles on the 22nd inst., at four P.M.

BERLIN, THURSDAY. To-DAY the Minister of Justice laid on the table of the Upper House a bill on Ministerial responsibilities, according to which the right of impeachment can...

&woo. EXCHANGE, FurnAT EvErtmo. THE demand in the discount market this week has been moderate, and the general rate is 2* to 24 per cent, for the best bills. At the Bank, wh ere...

• THE SOUTHERN BID. I T is understood, in that indirect but accurate way in which great facts first get abroad, that the Confederacy have offered England and France a price...

A FRENCH budget is in some sense a financial poem, an effort of imagination rather than of laborious arith- metical understanding. Like the Indian budgets, the airy French...

G EOGRAPHY is a luxury which has only in very late years taken any real hold on the dwellers in these isles. The generation now in the prime of manhood grew up in profound...

M R. Increase Mather, in his Treatise on the Wonders of the Invisible World, observes that the most pious nations and men are the most liable to be tempted by the devil. This...

W ITH Englishmen, an argument addressed to the purse seldom fails ; and the announcement of Mr. Wind- ham's counsel, that the establishment of his client's sanity will add some...

A N explosion of gas always induces a few score of house- holders to make themselves miserable by taking to candles, and we do not therefore wonder at the reaction against...

T HE military defence of our colonies, so much discussed among politicians, and so little debated by the public, is certain to be the subject of angry controversy during the...

on a tragedy which, in its extent, and character, and dura- tion, its accumulation of all the circumstances which can deepen and intensify horror, is almost without a parallel....

TN another column will be found a temperate and able letter from a Positivist, who is dissatisfied with our remarks on the Secular- ism of the working classes a fortnight ago....

T HE halfpenny journals have developed a new and very unexpected. feature in English society. The old penny weeklies, with their highly-spiced romances and wretched woodcuts,...

Sfa,—The spirit of true toleration, widely distinct from indifference, which marks your criticism of an article contained in the Westminster Review upon Secularism," induces me...

DR. MORELL'S MENTAL PHILOSOPHY.* THIS is a very unequal book; and the space and care devoted to the various branches of the inquiry it takes up are so disproportionate as to...

THE COLOSSAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF DANTE. AN exhibition of rather novel character has been this week opened to the public at St. James's Hall : it is termed the Dante Gallery, and...

IT is no unmixed delight to read again the fresh and buoyant poem which thirteen years ago seethed to promise so vivid and great an in- tellectual career to the writer, now that...

Mn.. EARLE has produced an exhaustive antiquarian edition of two interesting Anglo-Saxon fragments. We rather grudge him the digression to minor matters while his edition of the...

THE gentleman who has written this very singular work has endea- voured to explain to us in his preface the reasons which induced him to undertake it. Unfortunately, we cannot...

" Coxona," says Mr. Patterson, in a series of pleasant Essays,* marked rather by an educated fancifalness than very acute thought, "like its parent light, dies away towards the...

Sermons on the Death qf the Prince Consort.—We have received eight sermons on the death of the Prince Consort, in most of which is more or- less mingled the consideration -of...