even in high quarters. The Raleigh Standard of the 31st July printed an article from the pen of the Hon. It. S. Donnell, Speaker Of the Lower House, and approved, it is said, by...

Princes have separated, and most of them accepted en bloc the scheme of Federation we sketched last week, but with six dissentients —the Grand Dukes of Baden and Saxe-Weimar,...

and conscripts are now joining the army at the rate of 1,000 a day. They are needed ; as typhoid fever of a very malig- nant character has broken out at Vicksburg, which carries...

gratuitous SPECIAL SUPPLEMENT, a review of the present position in Poland, by a recent traveller in that country, who has just visited the seat of war under a pass- port from...

vein in his visitation addresses. In an address at Exeter on Friday, 22nd May, which amongst others has just been published by his admiring clergy, as " words that they would...

damp decidedly favouring the chances of science at Newcastle, though makiiig it a little dismal. The geologists have been quite mild in their controversy about the age of the...

T HE great rumour of the week has been the approximation of France towards Russia and Prussia, and her conse- quent detachment from Austria and the cause of Poland. It is said...

Mr. Langston, the present excellent member, is so exceedingly ill that he can scarcely hope ever to resume parliamentary duties, and people are beginning to talk about his...

not murder, should recover no damages in addition to his legal claims. But the public may learn from the trial the great folly of indulging in spontaneous literature concerning...

of Balisch, Lublin, and Radom. In Kalisch Taczanowski's corps is said to have sustained a severe repulse, but to have effected its retreat. If the latter part is true, the...

the number relieved by the g uardians being less by 1,251. It is said th at three-quarters o f a million have-been borrowed from the Government under Mr. Villiers's recent Act,...

for the honour of the English press, we rejoice to say, unprecedented letter on the Polish question. Its correspondent, "Quintus Icilius," says naively, "I am enabled to supply...

to the Times advocating the enforcement of our Foreign Enlistment Act in the case of the Birkenhead Rams, and Lord Russell has replied to the similar memorial of the Emanci-...

principle of toleration, which the former claims ie. its utmost extent for the Roman Catholicism of the future, and the latter repudiates in its very narrowest extent for the...

civil law- suit before the tribunal of Paris. A certain Countess de Silly, as English lady by birth, inserted the following legacy in her will :—" I bequeath to her Majesty the...

on the depreciation of gold, in which he agrees generally with the conclusions of Mr. W. S. Jevons, which we recently noticed in these columns, that some depreciation of gold...

Wiltshire. The police interrupted the first round at Wootton Bassett, and the discomfited combatants and their backers returned to London and went down to Purfieet, where they...

as the dreadful newspaper slang very inappropriately calls it,—for it certainly needs art to transmute mere crime and suffering into tragedy. It is said that the murderer, Mr....

was quietly elected for Ludlow. He explained his views to the electors, which were eminently safe. He was not for in- tervention in America ; but if the Government decided at...

on Monday night, before the departure of the train which was to take Mace and Goss, the prize-fighters, into Wiltshire, —a scene which the City police will, no doubt, retort on...

Mechanics' Regiment, now with General Rosecranz in Ten- nessee, has given a curious report as to the result of his physical examination of the slaves whom he has passed for the...

speech a month ago, at an "Abington celebration," on the question recently raised by our corre- spondent in New York—the resistance that would be made to carrying out the...

THE CZAR'S MERCY TO POLAND. T HE report, for it is only a report, that the Czar is wil- ling to reconstitute the Grand Duchy ofWarsaw under an Imperial Lieutenant, is in itself...

I T must be a pleasant sensation to the loyal hearts of Messrs. Laird, of Birkenhead, to know that they hold in their hands the means of plunging England into war ; that by...

IVI DE PERSIGNY'S orations on his master, regarded as • panegyrics, have only one defect,—that they read so much like rehearsals of a funeral eloge. The discourse whicif he...

T HE recess must be a very trying time for members of Parliament. They may very possibly never open their lips in the House, but they are, nevertheless, by virtue of their...

that Fire-Insurance offices are not very popular with the business classes of Eng- land. The verdict in the Campden-House case was received with we may say a vindictive...

T HEpresent season has not hitherto been a good one for those gentlemen who write thrilling narratives for the morning newspapers. They have consequently been lying by idle, and...

C AMILLE DESMOULINS being in the year 1792 reminded of an event which took place before the States-General were convoked in 1789, pointedly remarked, " Oh, that was before the...

T HERE is an atmosphere of health about the Fitzwilliams such as does not often surround these great families. Strong, sfficient, but thoughtful men, with an eye to their own...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] September 3, 1863. " Prends toute cause en main, sans pudeur ni degodt, La bonne s'il le faut, la mauvaise surtout." THIS piece of worldly...

taken, but New York is ; and, as I said in my last letter, that is the more important victory. The quiet which has prevailed here during the draft, there not having been the...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." think you have scarcely done justice to the arguments adduced by Mr. Seward in vindication of the restrictions imposed upon trade between New...

Mn. MELLox's concerts are approaching their close, and we may shortly expect some intimation of the intentions of the Royal English Opera. At present, rumour attributes to Mr....

MR. BROWNING'S POETRY.* Tam is a good and welcome edition of works that deserve to live. Mr. Browning is by far the most difficult to appreciate truly of our modern poets. In...

some respects, to have been the Buckle of his day, and though the parallelism should seem fanciful in some particulars, it may, perhaps, throw some light upon his position to...

not often that we are able to speak of the work of an American author in terms of such high commendation, as we are glad to employ in the case of Mr. Marsh's lectures on the "...

enthusiastic sportsman and naturalist. Living in one of the wildest parts of the Highlands, he had abundant opportunities of studying the habits of many birds and animals, some...

Blackwood is chiefly remarkable this month for a striking lack of individuality. Political articles there are none ; and the only one of any special contemporary interest...

The Life and Letters of Washington Irving. Edited by Pierre M. Irving. Vol. III. (Bentley).—This volume of Washington Irving's biography carries us over a period of nearly...

vols. (Tinsley Brothera.)—The author of this work must at least have the credit of possessing no inconsiderable share of a qualifi- cation which is sometimes considered as...

"Hidden Links." Two volumes. (Skeet.)—This is a very fairly readable novel, as novels go. It is not one of those works which, when once taken up, cannot be laid down unfinished,...