the decent but moderate state rendered necessary by his last wishes. The Queen sent her carriage, in mourning, and a number of gentlemen of high rank honoured themselves by...

to the charge of taking coals to Newcastle. On the con- trary, it undermined the future hopes of Newcastle in coals as much as the coal-mines themselves undermine its soil. He...

interest now appears in the SPECTATOR, and will be cont:nued, either weekly or at short intervals, giving an Account 0111w Great Governing Families of England in Rehtion to...

done. The British Association met at Newcastle on Wednesday, and owing to the popularity of Sir William Armstrong, who is the President of the year, 2,000 new members were...

of Austria has written an answer to the King of Prussia on his final refusal to be present at Frankfort. In this answer he states that Germany demands a reform, and that...

also extenuated the defeat at Zyrzyn, July 31, which they admit. Their detachment was 900 strong, and they lost 200 in killed and wounded, 100 prisoners, and two cannon. On the...

MWO-THIRDS of the English harvest have been got in, and it 1 is by far the most splendid on record, both in quantity and quality. Instead of importing this year much more wheat...

soon attract close European attention. M. Lambert, a Frenchman, was at the head of a great French Financial and Industrial Company, to whom the late King had made large...

hitherto decently fair, draws a melancholy picture of the condition of Baltimore. As this city is hostile, and commands the best line of communication between Washington and the...

life caused by the American Civil War. It calculates Mr. Lincoln's calls at a million of men, deducts from them the number on the rolls, and gives the remainder as the total...

it would appear, exaggerated. The official report states that 46 public buildings have been damaged and 28 seriously injured, 570 houses thrown down, and 528 left in a tottering...

the danger of permitting the two powerful iron-clads with iron turrets and prows which Messrs. Laird are, it is said, now building for the Confederates, one of which is now...

of laws, constituting tribunals through the country, appointing public prosecutors, authorizing accused persons to defend themselves, and erecting three supreme courts ' with...

the author of it is a cultivated man, is quaintly sup- posed to imply insanity. Mr. George Victor Townly, of Manchester, had for some time been paying his addresses to Miss...

on Wednesday, and Mr. Heygate made a most sensible speech in favour of the collection of agricultural statistics. He said that only two returns were required—one of the acreage...

Section of the British Association, mentioned that Mootoo Coomaroo Swamy had communicated a paper on the "History and Migrations of the Tamil Nations of India." This gentleman...

Mexico, that the inhabitants "would prefer a French prince." Is this to accustom the public mind to a .refusal from Archduke Max.

Sun estimates that there are a million dogs in the Confederacy, and that the dogs eat many more of the crumbs which fall from their masters' table than their masters can at all...

Brussels International Association for the Promotion of Social Science will be held at Ghent, under the presidency of M. Le Prince de Ligne, Speaker in the Belgian Senate, M....

all to himself. He is chairman of the " Honourable Irish Society," and the Honourable Irish Society governs Londonderry. The O'Neits and O'Donnels, it would seem, early in the...

the lions to be erected at the base of the Nelson Column. He has spent a most exorbitant timo on the work, but he has succeeded, and the lion will add to his reputation that of...

Italian Parliament, and recaived the Royal assent. Under it the Government can by decree " proclaim " any district infested with brigands, atd thenceforward. any brigand may be...

controversy about the Federal application to his firm for aid in building war ships. Mr. Sedgwiek, the late chairman of the Naval -Committee of the House of Representatives in...

HOPE FOR LANCASHIRE. T HERE is land in sight at last. - The Imperial danger which was to have been created by the cotton famine, and which was to have included decay of trade...

W HILST the Ultramontane faction and its favourite organs, the Armenia in Italy, and Le Afonde in France, endeavour to stir Catholic faith by working on the super- stitious...

THE correspondence just published between the English United States Governments on the recent restric- tions of the trade between New York and the Bahamas, calls up a striking...

" ARDINAL ANTONELLI has tendered his resignation, 1../ and Cardinal Altieri is designated as his successor," is the startling announcement which the electric wires on the...

a minor stimulus to war. It has about the same effect on the practical What is the effect which the Peace Society's interference in this particular case tends to produce ? Of...

among City men, for which we have no intention of vouching, that the Federal Government intend to offer a loan in the London market of twenty millions sterling. The terms are...

I N the old sense of the word "heresy," America would be, far more even than France or England, the very land for it. We used to be often reminded twenty years ago by Dr. Newman...

HE recent case of murder in Derbyshire has excited, perhaps, more attention than it deserves. The motive of the assassin was avowedly and palpably that of Othello, and though it...

A TTENTION has lately been much directed to Brazil; but there is a great want of definite information in England about the Brazilian Empire. It is known that the slave trade,...

E NGLISH respectability culminates in the Grosvenors. As a family, they have in their long career done few striking acts, have furnished no great statesmen, yielded no orators,...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, ./luyust 15, 1863. " ARMA CEDUNT TOG/E" means here that on the Mississippi the gunboat is giving place to the passenger and...

M. MELLON'S concerts still continue to increase in attraction and deserved pepularity. The plan of allotting some speciality to every evening throughout the week has been...

To TIIE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—The last letter of your " Yankee " correspondent, if it can be taken as an indication of the views of the Republican party, is likely to...

MR. COWDEN CLARKE ON SHAKESPEARE.* Iv in these days any one were to imitate the literary amuse- ments of the past, and construct a Utopia, he would not, perhaps, adopt the...

a book of this sort, that deals with the every-day aspect of nature, and enters, as it were, into the private life of animals, regarding them less as species to be classified,...

THE naval supremacy of this country has hitherto been preserved by the superiority of our sailors, and whether the effect of " ironsides" will be to place other nations on a...

what it professes to be—a narrative of his private adventures and of the events in which he was himself an actor between December, 1857, the date of the occupation of Canton by...

Tam book is worth reading by literary men principally because it is so different from the productions of literary men. The author tells us in his preface that he is "an entirely...

The Smoker's Text-book. By John Hamer, F.R.S.L. Printed and published by the editor, 7 Briggate, Leeds.—This is a very minute volume on a very extensive subject It consists of a...

Bokum, Chaplain, N.S.A., Philadelphia. Printed for gratuitous distri- bution. 1863.—This pamphlet is a curious illustration of the state- ment we made a fortnight ago in our...

Clubs. By Captain Gronow. Second series. By Captain R. II. Gronow.— Captain Gronow's second series is not quite as good as his first, but it is still a very readable book. Ho...

Co.) —Of eettrose this book may be the genuine record of the actual landing of a livingr-nropean in New Zealand, and of his experience there thirty years ago. If re Li, it will...

Letters written from Bombay in the Spring of 1863. By Samuel Smith. (Effingham Wilson.) —This is really an exceedingly valuable little pamphlet, treating in detail and with...

un Papa. (Triibner.)—Anything more nearly perfect than this book it is difficult to imagine. It is a child's book, a history of a child's day illustrated by the great artist...

We have, after considerable study, abandoned the idea of reviewing this book at length, for we can form no conclusive opinion as to its authority. It is full of isolated...