Ministerial change. One day it was announced that Earl Russell had resigned and would be succeeded by Lord Clarendon, another that Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr....

a generous sense of the obligation to meet the first armed vessel which challenged him, or by a miscalculation of his own strength, on Sunday steamed out of Cherbourg to meet...

T HE week has had but one excitement, but that has been an in- tense one, the speculations on the coming war absorbing every topic. The Conference assembled on Wednesday at a...

Bangor on Saturday, the 18th inst. A Protestantand a gentleman, with a good education and a better fortune, Mr. O'Brien was one of those men with whom conviction always implies...

what passed at the last meeting of the Conference last Wednesday. Austria, it says, first decidedly rejected the English proposition for arbitration. Wily Prussia, while...

we had from Mr. Reuter a telegram, in large letters, " Great Defeat of the Federals," which when examined turned out to be only a repetition of the old telegram of the previous...

the Baltimore Conservatives, and has indicated his willingness to take the nomination if he could heartily accept their platform. As far as the anti-slavery principles are...

Bill, and promises to introduce another next Session, which shall not be liable to any of the objections raised against this.

ment. On Friday night, too late for our last issue, Sir JollEkn4; moved a resolution amounting to a vote of censure on the Goveite- ! meat for its management of the Ashantee...

legislation. The Great Eastern lately proposed a line to the north which, in consequence of its easy gradients, would have cheapened coal enormously in the four counties where...

from Ireland, which he said amounted in 1861 to 64,292, in 1862 to 70,117, in 1863 to 117,820, and would in this year be 156,000. Between 1851 and 1861 no less than 400,000...

pose the endowment of the Regius Professorship of Greek next term, and there is little doubt that the proposal will be carried.

natured duel about the ballot on Monday night, Lord Palmerston as usual coming off victorious both in argument and in votes. Mr. Berkeley took his place at the table on the...

the Times, to have made a most valuable discovery in artillery. This is the use of "chilled shot," i. e., shot cast in cold send moulds instead of hot iron ones. These pleasant...

have ended in the election of a considerable number of members of the Opposition. At Bordeaux and Marseilles the Democratic party won a complete victory, and at Lyons they car-...

fortune of Dundee. The manufacture of jute, the staple of the place, has increased in five years from 300,000 to 600,000 bales, the price of the material has scarcely increased,...

tions was resumed in the House of Commons, and Sir Robert Peel got a very amusing intellectual dressing at the hands of Sir Hugh • Cairns, who was fortunate in having one...

who objected to read the Apocrypha in the daily ser- vice to substitute at pleasure a lesson from the Old Testament, The discussion which induced him to withdraw his Bill...

possession of the Guano Islands belonging to Peru until its original claim, justice on certain assassins, is satisfied, and the Government of Lima has cleared itself of...

amendment on the Penal Servitude Bill, which in fact strikes out the clause added by Mr. Hunt in the House of Commons enjoining systematic supervision for the ticket-of-leave...

took place at Heidelberg. A Suabian student was found lying on the ground bathed in blood. He had, it appears, insulted very grossly a foreign student of the University, and,...

the Borokai, •with a capital of 100,0001., of which 50,0001. will be issued in 101. shares. The company propose to buy the Borokai estate, already partly planted, in Cachar,...

and on Friday week, were at the following prices:— • Caledonian .. .. .. Great Eastern .. .. Great Northern .. .. Great Western.. .. .. Lancashire and Yorkshire London...

shows an increase of about one million sterling in the amount of securities held by the Bank. The minimum rate of discount at that establishment remains, however, at 6 per cent....

Mr. Bewicke " is not entitled to any compensation out of the public purse " because he has not proved that there was any mis- carriage of justice in his case " through the...

and foreign securities have declined in value. On Saturday last Con- sols left off at 89k 90 for money, and 901 + for account. Yester- day the closing quotations were :—For...

at 5 per cent. for five years, at the expiration of which term they will be paid off. The debentures, principal and interest, are guaranteed by the Credit Foncier and Credit...

been a great success. This splendid vessel is an armour-bearing iron ship, - built by Captain Coles on the turret - principle, of 4,000 tons' measurement, 250 feet long, and 63...

Gardens, South Kensington, in support of the School of Female Art. All kinds •of amusements were provided, mostly of the burlesque character, the managers even descending to...

officially at the annexed quotations :- G reek • • • • • • Do. Coupons .. Mexican Spanish Passive Do. Certificates Turkish 6 per Ceuta., 1858.. • 1802.. Consol...

TE armed spoliation disperse to countries more deeply embittered ll reasoning, and aggressive ; Austria courteous in seeming, but the respect which all following steadily Herr...

great manufacturing class an annoyance especially natural to producers on so large a scale, that the sensitive nerves, so to say, which relate our nation with the nations of the...

I is difficult to imagine an occurrence more dramatic in 1 itself and in all its surrounding incidents than the de- struction of the Alabama. It might to imaginative minds seem...

I T is the glory of the British people to be humane. We- sympathize with every form of suffering, and throw our - protecting shield over the humblest of mankind as well as •...

I T ispleasant to find that the House of Commons in the midst of its present mania for snubbing Government by rejecting official bills can still recognize an improvement when it...

E CONOMISTS are always complaining that members do not fight the estimates, but among the many obstacles to so doing they always forget this one, that no member can ever tell...

M R. DISRAELI has found his double, his intellectual double, and strange to say has found him among the wearers of corduroy. It is difficult to conceive of intellectual...

D R. NEWMAN has told ua in the appendix to his " Apologia " that though it is simply impossible for him to respect the dog- matic position of the English Church, he can still...

A FTER the full and explicit statement which has been given on the authority of the Earl of Glamorgan himself it is un- necessary to pursue the subjectof his proceedings in...

has taken place before Rich- mond since the date of my last letter, but the steamer which carried it was not out of sight of land when news reached us of a battle almost serious...

THE ROYAL ACADEMY. [FOURTH NOTICE.] PORTRAIT painters labour under one serious disadvantage more than their brethren. They do not choose their own subjects. The only choice...

MATTIE : A STRAY.* THE author of these books is really great in matter of fact. He chooses a new field, and does all that wide and acute observation and real fidelity to the...

Cortorawz MATILDA, daughter of Frederick Prince of Wales, and sister of George III., Queen Consort of Denmark, and for years virtual Sovereign of her adopted country, died an...

Ma. Lewes's writings are too well known to the majority of Eng- lish readers to require mention on our part, but we must notice by the way how gradually, how naturally, and how...

ALTHOUGH " edited " is the word used on the title-page, it is ap- parently to Lord Kirkwall that their authorship must also be ascribed. That nobleman resided for four years in...

of M. Renan's " Life of Jesus " must have been struck by the large space which he allots amongst his authorities to contemporary French Protestant writers. A great struggle is...

little volume, full of delicate sentiment, but the pity for the sufferings of the poor is apt to degenerate into injustice towards the rich. Ths war songs at the end are the...

. Manual of Phonography. By John Thompson. (Phonographic Dep6t.)—We suppose shorthand is meant. But the author prides himself on the complexity of his system, and compares it...

of the Public Schools and the Remedy. By the Rev. J. A. Emerton, D.D. (Longman and Co.)—The writer's proposal is to test the result of the education given at schools by a...

Edited by Dr. W. Smith. (Murray.)--We cannot agree to the editor's remark that the author has succeeded in making his work as little dry as is consistent with accuracy and...

Ellerton. (Longman and Co.)—The quaint old tales which the author has con- verted into ballads, form an agreeable change from " Lines" and " Phantom Voices," and poems on...

The taste for parochial work, which is the prevailing feature of the present day, at all events among unmarried ladies in the country, is very apt to be regarded as a substitute...

Science. 1863. Edited by George W. Hastings, LL.B., General Secre- tary. (Longman and Co.)—No one who has not consulted one of these annual volumes can have an adequate idea...

pedes- trians. By a Cambridge man. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—For once we have a guide-book written with a definite object from which the author never departs. It is a...

is a success, commonly profits the publisher. The author takes his revenge with a second. This, however, is a really amusing book, because it does not fall into the common fault...

other hand, such men will often on practical questions, which they have been com - pelled to investigate in a different manner, be singularly tolerant of diversity of opinion....

and Co.)—These verses are of a more intellectual cast than Mr. Askham's, and are fairly entitled to the same sort of praise in respect of their general tone, but there is...