us, was illustrated by the telegram from Bavaria which followed the great news of the tremendous battles in Bohemia and their de- cisive 'result. " Yesterday," says a telegram...

Kneb worth—and the last of the Barons.

" the Emperor of Austria, after having maintained the 4 4, honour of his arms in Italy, and concurring in the ideas ex- pressed in the Emperor Napoleon's letter of 11th June to...

P EACE has exploded in Europe like a shell. It was not nineteen days since the vote of the Diet against Prussia gave the signal for the strife, not fifteen since Dresden was...

have discussed elsewhere, shows on the whole a strong personnel- The most authentic list, as far as is yet known, appears to be the following ;- First Lord of the Treasury The...

have been this. The Kaiser had requested the mediation of the Emperor of the French, and had despatched Field-Marshal von Gablenz with a flag of truce to the King's camp,...

Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, who has been created a Royal Highness and a Major-General in the Army, but not a Bishop. The only noteworthy incident in the ceremony was...

the Emperor Napoleon wishes it to believe, published on Friday a statement purporting to be almost official of the French Emperor's views. His Majesty will use his opportunity...

defeat at Koniggratz has been published. In it he tells us that his position was "partly entrenched," a precaution no doubt abso- lutely essential to any success against the...

sign of that vehement temper for which it suits the Tory party just now to give him credit, in. declining an invitation of the working men of London to be present at a great...

on the production of cotton, instead of an export duty, which would require an amendment of the Constitution. The Senate reported in favour of a tax of two cents a pound (1d. a...

Exchequer on Thursday evening. He was moving for an ad- journment to Monday, and took the opportunity of expressing to those who had supported his Reform Bill the thanks of the...

Klinig- gratz, the immense Primien victory which led to the armistice, and need only remark here that it appears to have been one of the greatest on record, that the rout is...

victory at Custozza is exceedingly candid and courteous in tone to the Italian army. " It is impossible not to admit," he says, at the conclusion of his report, " that the enemy...

nearly Sometody who (Vier canti not ride, or whose horse hydrae wen' erith him, rode on Monday against the Prince in . 110.1‘4:...R 7 At,.. - Khhck;ug his horse down. The...

also to the negligence of inferior officers, as we are told that the Vienna papers announce the trial by court-martial of General Clam- Gallas, commander of the 1st corps of the...

University of Oxford has been taken into serious consideration by the Liberals in London and Oxford. It has finally been decided to do nothing on this occasion, as the...

money, and 86k, for account. During the last two days, owing to the political news from Germany, prices have considerably improved, the quo- tations at the close yesterday being...

in the constitutional conflict. The Berliners cheered their King most heartily on his departure for the war, and gave Count Bismark a regular " ovation," while the elections...

and by him to Congress, in which Mr. Bigelow, the American Minister in Paris, states that the French Government really intended to withdraw from Mexico within the time...

stances. Mr. Campbell (Liberal) received the same number of votes as Mr. Brett (Conservative), whereupon the Mayor, consider- ing that he had a right to a casting vote, declared...

join the Tory Ministry, died on Thursday of a paralytic stroke. He was not a man of any eminence, but he selected Mr. Lowe to represent him in Caine, and so indirectly defeated...

of last Saturday why he could not approve of a prosecution of Mr. Eyre for the murder of Mr. Gordon. It would make a hero and a martyr of a man who deserved serious blame, and...

helpless -state of mind about the diocese of Natal. The Bishop of Oxford proposed yesterday week a resolution to the effect that " in the judgment of this House, the acceptance...

of the Kirwee prize, and the judgment is so important that we analyze it elsewhere. Substantially it amounts to a declaration that constructive capture can only be affirmed of a...

that he is anxious the troops should have a breech-loader, and he has now before him a very great opportunity. If he can supply the army with a really effective...

on Friday week were as follows :— Mexican .. .. .. Spanish Passive .. .. Do. Certificates .. Turkish 6 per Cents., 1853.. 1862.. United States .20's •• .. .. .. .....

off at the annexed quotations :— Great Eastern Great Northern .. Great W astern . . Do. West Midland, Oxford Friday, Jane 29. 33 121 521 sa Friday, ‘1011 G. 31t 124...

TOPICS OF THE DAY THE ULTIMATE RESULT. G OD, then, governs, as well as reigns. The two worst men in Europe, in the political sense, frame a plot by which, after killing many...

T HE most audacious man in Europe is in possession of its most effective weapon. That it is in brief the political result of the ten days' campaigning in Bohemia. It is diffi-...

T HE new Tory Cabinet is su ffi ciently strong, and looks the stronger that it rises as a whole so high above the level of the party which is to support it. As hills which stand...

IN the months of January and February of the present year 1 the High Court of Admiralty at Westminster was occupied in the hearing of a remarkable suit. If a stranger had gone...

W E can but trust that Mr. Gladstone's letter to the London Working Men's Association is intended to give the cue to the Opposition it is now his duty to organize for action....

A BOUT six weeks ago we had occasion to criticize certain legal proceedings under the " Master and Servant Act " which were at that time in progress. The inequality of a law...

T HE campaign in Bohemia will take a high place in military annals, not only because it has been so swiftly fought out, but because it has convinced all the nations of Europe of...

M R. LOWE is the great reputation of the Session in the House of Commons. No stranger now goes there without first looking for the white gleam, or rather flash, of his striking...

I T is becoming very important to Europe to understand what manner of man Count Bismark is. He has not been five years before the world, and he has already changed the face of...

FRIENDS. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-I am not seeking a quarrel if I ask leave to argue a little with you on the subject of "Shakespeare's Sonnets and his Private...

[To THE EDITOR_OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Will you pardon me for thinking that your article on the Ritualists in last Saturday's Spectator was hardly a good example of the...

OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Gerard Street, Derby, July 3, 1866. SIR,—In the Spectator of last Saturday, June 30, there occurs the following sentence :—" Mr. Griffith appears to...

THE BISHOP OF ARGYLL ON THE PRESENT STATE OF RELIGION.* WE do not know a single bishop in the English Episcopate who could have produced so bold, catholic, and thoroughly...

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I am as unwilling as unfitted to enter into anything resembling controversy with your gifted correspondent Miss Cobbe, yet reply...

Wno says that our ranks are riven? Who boasts that our legions fled ? We accuse not whose blood was given, We lie where we stood—the dead. The eagle may scream above, The...

MR. FORSTER'S book on South Australia supplies a gap in Colonial literature. The last works on the province with any pretension to fullness are those written by Mr. Dutton and...

THERE is a story of a small Scotch boy, asked whether be wished to be regenerated, replying, " Na, na !" " What for not, Robin ?" 46 Because regeneration means being born again,...

the smallest memoranda of great men, and of expecting general readers to be interested in those very facts the recurrence of which is fatal to the hero- worship of valets, is...

THERE is scarcely another country in the world to which so much intrinsic interest attaches as to those little spots of earth, in the midst of the vast Pacific sea, known as the...

of the Present Day. By Paul Janet. Translated by G. Masson, B.A. (Bail- liere.)—These two volumes belong to a useful series which is publishing under the title of the "...

Thoughts on the Athanasian Creed. By a Layman. (Trubner.)--s This little book contains a temperate and reverent expression of opinion on the part of a writer who has found that...

Mr. Greenwood's, which we believe has appeared before some-

raannaL Law, they were never subject to it. This idea is developed with great-

the of work, the exactions of the capitalist, the insufficiency of the earning* adventures of a couple of street professionals, who gat transported to the of 'abeam "Capital now...

the Loch was Ilotch - Pot. By Umbra. (Edmonstone and Douglas.)—Really this admired by fine ladies and gentlemen, the Scotch fishermen's wives almost verges on the confines of...