Oaths Bill gave rise to a spirited debate on Tuesday night, in which Mr. Horsman made another most successful hit. Taking up of course the aide of the Roman Catholics very...

THE idea so prevalent in Paris as well as England that Prince Jerome talked democracy under a secret understanding with his cousin, has been somewhat roughly dispelled. The...

attempted to escape in his wife's dress to the swamp, and was betrayed by his boots, which were not the boots of ladies. Of course this incident has given rise to numerous...

folded in a French stable, with an English dam but a French sire. He was ridden by an English jockey, but the French are naturally delighted with their victory, as is also the...

Exchequer, made a speech at Chester which promises well for his political thoughtfulness. The meeting was by no means disposed to be easily satisfied ; it interrupted Mr....

of the electors of Chester in a spirited speech, a little too electioneering in tone. He chaffed his son's opponent, Mr. Raikes, pretty severely, telling him that if at...

untrue, that fresh and peremptory demands had been made on the British Government by that of President Johnson for the losses sustained through the Alabama, &c., which escaped...

Akroyd, a local notability, wished to stand, and as he was sure of election, and Sir C. Wood did' not wish to turn out Mr. Stansfeld, he retired. The rumour that he will be...

a horsedealer, has, it appears, a house at Notting hill, which one Var- ley, a butcher there, supplies with meat. He had not been paid for a week or two till the account reached...

of Dewangiri as " disgraceful." He was in an unusually frank mood, for he allowed that he really did. not know what was doing there, though of course he asserted that every...

speech which was chiefly a summary of the good deeds of the Liberal Government. He stated,. however,. his views on refoim, which are those now beginning to be held by nearly all...

likes being persecuted, and he is being persecuted most disgracefully. On Friday week Mr. Whalley charged him with " deliberate falsehood," declaring' that his own story of a...

thereat! of 34,0001. for secret-service money. Several members- asked a number of questions, all of which really meant that they would' cheerfully vote the money if only the...

Assembly in Scotland, have succeeded in electing Dr. Begg to the Moderator's chair, a post hitherto always fi lled by - men of mode- ration and culture. His new position has...

satisfied with Algeria, which he declares , has a future, and he is- encouraging a company with a capital of 4,000,0001., partly guaranteed by the State; which is to be expended...

than people at first believed. It is stated that the notion of a.: revolt to commence with a massacre is really entertained by certain classes in Irelandrthat bands of men in...

gave a dinner to Mr. Gavan Duffy, late Minister of Public Works! in Victoria. His speech was an able one, full of facts, and of that excessive sensitiveness which distinguishes...

course of seven lectures on the representation of the people, and how it is con- nected with the education of the people, at the Working Men's College, Great Ormond. Street, on...

General Welfare of the Blind is to be held at Argyll Lodge, Campden Hilly Kensington, by the permission of the Duchess of Argyll, on Wednesday and Thursday . , the 21st and 22nd...

candidate for • the next Presidency, four years hence, in 1869. His plan is said to be to unite the Radical Republicans and the Liberal Democra- tic party into one, which is to...

on in earnest in the North. It is said that on the 18th of May no less than 50,000 employis were discharged from the quartermaster's department.

improved in value, the quotation for the present account at the close of business yesterday being 89i 90, or an advance of one- quarter per cent. as compared with Saturday last.

each—proposes the purchase of the valuable freehold pro- perty and works at Burslem known as the Hill Pottery. A con- ditional agreement has been entered into for securing them...

yesterday week, too late for our last impression. We wrote on it then so fully that we need only state here that the whole tone of the discussion supported the view of the case...

Company (Limited) will close on the 6th of June, for London applications, and 7th for the country. The arrangements already made by the Directors will enable operations to be...

reduced their minimum rate of discount to 3} per cent. At Paris the rate is now 3, being a reduction of one-half per cent. from last week. The stock of bullion here is...

- rebellion still lingering there. He will find troops enough for his purpose at New Orleans and along the Mississippi. Probably Kirby Smith will not give any great trouble...

Mr. William Rodwell, of Suffolk, in recognition of his long services on their behalf. He has for nearly forty years acted as the mouth- piece of the country banks of the kingdom...

correspond- ents- to an obvious error of the pen in the short paragraph con- cerning the discussion in the Assembly of the Established Presby- terian Church of Scotland on...

in 10/. shares—has been formed for working an extensive mineral property situated immediately west of the Devon Great Consols mine. It is estimated that in order to bring the...

with the President of the Poor-Law Board (Mr. Villiers) this week, to represent the importance of thorough inspection of workhouse hospitals by competent medical men. They were...

leading British Railways yesterday and on Friday week:— Friday, lig 29. Friday, June 9. Caledonian .. .. I311 . . DUI Great Eastern .. .. Great Northern .. .. 191 .....

Securities yesterday and on Friday week :- Greek Do. Coupons .. • Mexican Spanish Passive • • .. Do. Certificates Turkish e per Cents., 1858.. .. 1882.. Consolidds.. .....

T HE Emperor of the French, then, has not been playing a comedy before the world. He did not arrange with his cousin that speech at Ajaccio which excited such consternation...

THE NEW WHIGS ON THE HUSTINGS. T HE "educated Liberals," as it is becoming the fashion to call them, will, it is evident, muster very strong on the hustings, if not at the...

T HE Parliament which is just expiring has in some sense always been aged. It was grey-haired in its very in- fancy. Summoned in a time of great anxiety with regard to foreign...

filHERE was something quite pathetic in Sir John Peking- ton's strong protest on Tuesday night against the intro- duction of the Boman Catholic Oaths Bill just on the eve of a...

A GREAT man, condemned by his countrymen, " left his name and memory to foreign nations and to the next age ;" for it is in nations, free at least from the passions and...

" INTERNATIONAL " is becoming a favourite expression of _IL the day. We have exhibitions and yachting matches, telegraphic lines and prize-fights, to all of which this...

[FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] V HUN the late President Buchanan was serenely permitting the Union of the American States to go to pieces, on the ground that though the States had no...

A FTER a banishment of more than a year Francis, Earl of Erroll, obtained leave to return, and landed at Stonehaven, Septem- ber 20, 1596. In May, 1597, he consented to conform...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, May 19, 1865. Exit the so-called Confederate Government, running, in Mistress . Davis's petticoats. A most preposterous stage...

To THE DITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,—The Pall Mall Gazette says, in commenting on a proposal of mine to try a wide suffrage in a certain number of boroughs, that "direct...

FREYTAG'S NEW NOVEL* The Lost Manuscript will not increase the popularity of the author of Debit and Credit. Perhaps it will add to his fame. The artistic merits of some parts...

Mr. Mill as a critic has over Mr. Mill as a constructive philosopher that of two por- tions of this masterly disquisition, with both of which we absolutely and equally differ,...

" YOUNG kings, though they be children, yet are they kings not- withstanding ; and though it be written in Scripture ' Van tibi, o terra I ubi peer est rex'—' Woe to thee, 0...

A PEaron of simply destructive criticism may be more fertile in great regenerative ideas than a period of creative criticism. Destructive criticism was the chief characteristic...

Royal Hussars. (Adam and Charles Black.)—Some few chapters of this book have appeared previously in All the Year Round and the United Service Magazine. The bulk of it is new. It...

Hutch- ings. (Chapman and Hall.)—The best part of this entertaining book is the engravings, upwards of 100 in number, and executed in San Fran- cisco from photographs under the...

Hall.)—Ladies seem to have a particular pleasure in reading and writing books which are in some way addre ssed to them as a sex, and therefore this book will probably be...

There is no sound in this world so beautiful as the laughter of women. In the hope of hearing it this book was written." It is not therefore a novel, our readers will observe,...

of Jesus College, Oxon. (Longman and Co.)—The author denominates his work a philosophical sketch, and intends it as the pre- cursor of a history of the different reunions of the...

Macrae Moir, Barrister - at - Law. (Smith, Elder, and Co.) Capital Punishment — Is it Defensible? By Philander. (J. Nisbet and Op.)—Both these books are dedicated to Lord...

by J. A. Hews, R. Hooper, and others. (Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—An importation from New York, where the ballads were published, it seems, twenty five-years ago. They are...

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about Christianity is living a Christian life. Otherwise the tale calls for no especial criticism. The Glory of God in Man. Four sermons preached before tho University of...

Auguste Comte by J. H. Bridges. (Trubner and Co.)—This is an excellent translation of what, with all the admiration and respect which M. Comte commands, can only be called a...

a deal of useful information and advice of which persons ignorant of money matters would do well to avail themselves. Mr. Nathaniel White, of the Civil Service, has compiled a...

(John Murray.)—The learned author of Biblical Researches in Palestine intended his travels to be preparatory to a systematic work on the geo- graphy of Syria. Fearing, however,...

Hall.)— The writer is master of his subject, and has a pleasant gossipping style, but he is a hunting man, and no friend to battues and crowded pheasant preserves. His lessons...

(John Max- well and Co.)—t . novel written apparently in imitation of Mrs. Rad- cliffe is not often met with in these days, and if such a work appears the author seldom ventures...

very far above the average of "little volumes." It is the work of an admire; and even direct imitator of Tennyson, but one who does not dishonour his modeL

of a practical joke, or rather of two or three practical jokes, played by Lancashire operatives on each other. The main object of course is to illustrate the Lancashire dialect,...