are moderate in the extreme, too moderate, we fear, for permanent peace. Austria is to retire from the Germanic Confederation, but to remain at liberty to form a new league...

(AN Sunday the Kaiser accepted an armistice, or rather a truce k./ during which an armistice may be arranged, forfive days. It was to expire at noon on Friday, but up to Friday...

from which everybody has emerged with greatly diminished credit. An association called the Reform League called a meeting in sup- port of Reform, to be held in Hyde Park on...

be commenced in the SPECTATOR, containing the history of each province in England so far as it is separate from that of the nation, its geography, its ethnology, and the special...

had, we fear, no little influence in promoting the foolish and mischievous proceedings of Monday in Hyde Park. "It appears," he said, "that the people may meet in the Parks for...

managers of the League, to see if he could not come to some arrangement with them, and after a scene, described in another column—with Mr. Walpole overpowered by emotion, Mr....

so much investigated many of the cases, as taken the part of the police in their controversy with the outer world. One man, George Williams, who admitted that he laid hold of...

to be irreligious. A Mr. Coffey, who addressed them, and abused Lord Shaftesbury for what he had said in the House of Lords about the meeting, went on to treat it as an...

correspondence. to /awl there on the 20th of July, eithealkneAurstrian fleet came in "It had been the anxious wish," hesaid, on Tuesday night, "oe- sight, and a great engagement...

of Germany with great forbearance, only making requisitions for the food of the soldiery. They have, however, made one great exception, the city of Frankfort. That city, for...

earnest. The Registrar-General calls the visitation an " explosion " of the disease, and the deaths in the week ending the 20th inst. amounted to 346. The Privy Council have...

decided on, though not after its formal commencement. The Prussian second army corps, under Prince Charles, has been ad- vancing towards Freeburg, and on the 23rd attacked Count...

the conduct of the police themselves, especially after they had secured their prisoners in the Marble Arch, was very strong to show that the police had taken the whole affair as...

cost us half a million already. On Monday the Chancelkm of the Exchequer moved that the Bill for creating terminable- annuities should be relinquished, and 495,000/. of the...

Atlantic Cable has been successfully laid. When the last official telegram was despatched, at 6.40 on Thursday, the Great Eastern was within 80 miles of her destination, Trinity...

very explicit as to the fixed wish and intention of the Government not to intervene or even to offer advice unsolicited on any of the „points at issue on the Continent. He...

off at the annexed quotations :- Friday, July 20. Friday, July V. Mexican .. .. .• Spanish Passive •• .• Do. Certificates .. Turkish 6 per Coats., 1858.. . 1862.. UniZil...

at Paris the quotation has been reduced to 3, and at Berlin to 6 per cent. At Hamburg the rates of discount have also given.way. The stock of bullion here is 13,716,8291., and...

and Garter, Richmond, this day week, Mr. Gladstone taking the chair. This club numbers, it is said, 150 gentlemen, of whom 80 are members of one or other of the Houses of...

yesterday week to pour out his genial bitterness,—the -worthy baronet tells yon you are a villain with a jovial laugh in his eyes,—upon Prussia and Italy. Prussia not being...

where some of his family have or had an estate. He wanted to be Baron Betwa, but as the populace are not familiar with Central India, and would infallibly have-called him-Lord...

of 3 cents. (1fd) per pound on the producer, has been passed by both Houses of Congress, and received the assent of the Pre- sident. It takes effect in September. The second...

access to schools of their own faith, Protestant prejudices to the contrary notwithstanding. In debating the Poor Law Amendment Bill on Thursday night Lord Bingham -moved a...

Council" of a singular kind. It was a conclave of political spectres. There was the Kaiser himself, who had just resolved to resign all hopes of the true Creaarship, the...

nume- rous fluctuations, the quotation for money having been as low as 87/, and as high as 88f. On Saturday last the quotations were 88i, f for money, and 88f, for account....

• • •• • o 64 .0 • • go • • Oe 0- •• • .. • .. 1211 59 .. 99 .. 12i .. 1%1 I.. as • • 21i mil 126 1081 1061. Gel Great Eastern .. Great Northern .. Great...

PEACE AND ITS PROBABLE FRUIT. T HERE are new players coming into this German game whose action deserves to be attentively studied. A truce has been proclaimed for the moment,...

M R. WALPOLE had better resume his seat at the Ecclesi- astical Commission. He can deal with curates capitally, and we dare say could even manage at a pinch to silence a...

rr the delivery of the remarkable speech of yesterday j . week in the House of Commons, it has been a matter of common observation concerning Mr. Gladstone that he would have...

T HE sudden fall of the Austrian Empire, a fall which appears for the moment to be alike complete and irre- mediable, has gravely alarmed those who perceive in how many points...

1 T is five or six years since the edict went forth that the Public Schools should be reformed. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that up to that time they had remained...

T 'Port of the Committee appointed to inquire into our communications with India has been published, and as it has been signed by men of all parties, was agreed to by Lord...

O NE of the oddest peculiarities in the mind of British re- spectability, which is as full of quaint twists and gnarls as an old oak root, is its excessive dislike of a mob,...

W TITLE the outer mind of London has been fermenting all the week with the turmoil of the Hyde-Park Riot, the inner mind of London has been travailing still more painfully with...

T HE march of the Prussian armies from the Elbe to the Danube is not the least remarkable of their exploits in this campaign ; for it has been conducted with that steadiness,...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Those who most regret the policy of our Ministers in raising the question where public meetings should or should not be tole-...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SI11,—.You will pardon me for writing to say that your remarks as to the non-infectiousness of cholera are not quite on a level with the...

ADVICE TO FUTURE R.A.'s.* THE teaching conveyed in these lectures is generally sound and sensible. It is not always novel, it is sometimes unconsciously paradoxical, and...

MR. BUCIL1NAN'S LONDON POEMS.* Mn. BUCHANAN is far more than a minor poet. The volume before us would seem to prove that there is scarcely any eminence, short of the very...

Mother, when the light is dead, And night-throngs round us thicken, Are there other joys instead, Which the holy dark must quicken ? Is there any gift of thine, That may help...

IT is not often that a strictly medical book is reviewed in our pages. Such work is better done as a rule in professional columns, and is, moreover, if well done, of all...

Tars book is an exceedingly good and useful one in conception, and on the whole, we think, well executed in detail. A collection of the great speeches of the year really forms a...

THE author of this poem has taste, talent, and culture, and pro- bably wants nothing so much as a little experience of life, which might have led him to build, even in a work of...

W.S.W., a Voyage in that Direction to the West Indies. By Robert Elwee, Esq., author of A Sketcher's Tour Round the Workl With illustrations. (Kerby and Son.)—The illustrations...

vol. (Pitman.) —We sustained our first shock in reading this story when we were in- formed that a poacher had received a pardon from the Crown before he was convicted of any...

and Dalcly.)—Kings andliCaisers, princes and princesses having been used up, the purple gives place to the lawn, and to the contemplation of that fabric Miss Strickland carries...

talis auxiliis," to me one of Signor Gavazri's quo- tations, is the cause of Protestantism to be vindicated when in danger' from a man of Dr. Pusey's piety and learning. The...

Nona Bellaire. (Smith andElder.)—Our authoress, when she travels on the Continent, is in the habit of bolting out of the carriage and laying hands on any stray flowers she sees....

Young, LL.D. (Strahan.)—Dr. Young is one of the many theologians of the present day who hold the doctrine of vicarious, as opposed to expiatory, sacrifice in connection with the...

Halliday.)—The authoress has modelled her tale on a careful study of the earlier triumphs of Miss Yong°, and the result is an Evangelical Heartsease, marred by .a pernicious...

R. Jesse. With engravings. 2 vols. (Hardwicke.)—These handsome volumes may be commended with confidence to the attention of those whose affection for the canine race rather...

(Mac- millan.)—The Astronomer Royal in this little pocket volume undertakes - to instruct all persons who will really give their minds to the subject in the principles on which...

Sanscrit students willbe glad to hear that Professor Muller has added a grammar to his list of handbooks for the study of that language. It is chiefly intended for beginners,...

in this volume, first delivered as lectures, then published in the Atlantic Monthly, are to be considered, in the words of the author, rather as familiar talks on scientific...

with Dr. Pusey's "Eirenicon." By Rev. T. Harper, S. J., Professor of Theology in the College of -St. Benno, North Wales. First Series. (Longmans.)— Dr._.Ensey must by this time...

This is an able defence of Sir W. Hamilton against Mr. Mill's Exami- nation, by a writer who considers that the latter, in grappling with a. metaphysical problem, misses the...

D. (Murray).. —This edition, as distinguished from the Large Dictionary and the- Concise Dictionary, is intended for the use of schools and young persons.. It is meant to serve...