T EIE British Government has given Denmark up to its invaders The expected explanat:on was made on Monday evening by Earl Russell in the Lords and Lord Palmerston in the...

THE MINISTERIAL EXPLANATION. "C OUNCILS of War never fight," and the Council of Friday, though it called itself a Cabinet meeting, proved no exception to the maxim. The bolder...

made up our minds to the desertion of Denmark, and that the Liberals appear to be intending to compete with the Tories in the emphasis of their congratulations on that resolve,...

which is to test the opinions of the House of Commons on the comparative merits of a Government which is bankrupt in national honour, and an Opposition which desires to succeed...

T HE refusal to defend Denmark, bad as it is, will produce, we trust, one good result,—the revision of our military system. The true defence for the policy adopted, a policy...

Tories intend to make him the first object of attack, while the Whigs admit that he is a political Jonah, and would throw him over- board if they saw any fair chance of his...

works throughout the country as well as most laws, breaks down in the great cities, and the very conspicuous break-down in London during the win- ter 1860-1861 impelled the...

O P all popular complaints the outcry against the long list of aged officers who stand at the head of the" Navy List" seems - to be about the most shortsighted. What should we...

T HE earnest little discussion which arises in a new nursery as to "dear baby's name seems a little absurd to outsiders, but the instinct of mothers is right. The baby will not...

r E Berkeleys are, perhaps, the very best representatives of the popular idea of the "barons bold." They are, according to the most probable account, the descendants of a Danish...

WE have received from a clerical correspondent of ability and weight the following interesting letter :- To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Sin,—In the article on "The English...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDEMA New York, June 18, 1804. NEW YORK has just been shocked by a great scandal. Great on account of the nature of the body in which it has been...

To THE EDITOR OF TuE "SPECTATOR." 30 Marina, St. Leonard's-on-Sea, Tuesday, 28th. SIR,—I have received a letter from America this morning from which I make the following...

A BARRISTER ON THE DOCTRINE OF ELECTEON.* Tins, though written by no professional theologian, but the work of a Chancery barrister, is one of the most closely reasoned...

pleasant book, a little too reticent perhaps, and too much swelled out with allusions to operas and ballets which the public remember as well as he does, but readable, full of...

Tuts is the sort of book that we should like to see the Committees of Convocation, if they must revive the censorship of the press, beginning their labours upon. It is written...

MR. ELsost has recently travelled in Norway, and has written an amusing book on things in general in that country, frost specula- tions on mythology and the Sagas down to...

Macmillan has the best paper this month, or at least the one which has interested us the most,—an exquisite little sketch of " Nathaniel Hawthorne," by Mr. Edward Dicey. The...

Co., of Boston.)—The author has sent this volume from America, because "the blare of the bugle and the jar of the cannon have well-nigh drowned in that unhappy land the...

Things New and 01t1 Meditations in Verse on Solemn Subjects (F. Algar.)—The old things we see, but not the new. Even the groat dogma announced in the note, that "it is clear...

writer gives us the narrative of what he himself saw and heard in these two capitals last year, and while he admits that the Russians carried out military law with groat...

edition. (F. Pitman.)—This gentleman tells us that soon after the death of one of his sons his wife and he wore endowed with a strange power. If they sat down to a table with a...

In the Silver Age, by 'Dolma Lee, 2 vole (Smith, Elder, ar Cod—The Junior Clerk, by Edwin Hodder (Jackson, Watford, II; Co.)—Ilecollections and Wanderings of Paul Bedford...