Dr. Manning, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, preached two sermons on Tuesday last, at the " pro-Cathedral" -Church, as it is called, at Belmont, near Hereford, on...

Mr. Roebuck's speech on Thursday at Sheffield was very Con- I .servative indeed. It was a fierce attack upon Lord Russell, and acrimonious enough against Mr. Gladstone. Mr....

I The Election Commissions drag on, revealing the extent atiIj premeditation of the bribing on the part of both Liberal and Conservative candidates, and alsoothe excessive...

I The mvsterv about Mr. Jones. the Liberal fountain of money at Yarmouth, was cleared up on Monday. He is a M11r. Cornelius Satterthwaitc, who, having a gift for 'these...

I The anticipated reduction in the minimum rate of discount to 5 per cent. has taken place, but the Bank return is not so favourable as had been expected. The stock of bullion...

The Archbishop also maintained, which was courageous of him, I -that the temporal power of the Pope had never been "more clearly understood, more truly recognized," had never...

The 3lo rn ing Post of Thursday discovered the secret of the demand I for extension of the suffrage,-it is the wish to share the profits of bribery. The working men who seem...

An affecting( drama, which a Greek tragedian would have called I The Stioppliants, was recently enacted at Berlin. Three grave and reverend Germans, Ilanoverian officials,...

Nor will the publication of General Sheridan's despatch from New Orleans with respect to the " massacre," so he calls it, of the| Free-Soil Convention, which the President has...

Last Sunday a terrible calamity,-terrible, that is, on the village scale, -happened at Ottery St. Mary, in Devonshire. A Plymouth sister, Eliza Hawker, of Treble's paper mills,...

The Philadelphia Convention of Democrats, Copperheads, ex- I Secessionists, and ex-Republicans, after its separation, sent a deputation to wait on the President, and...

IMr. Br (ghit is g*(lln t( enter on an Irislh canipaign. MIr.| Dillon and the Irish Liberals have asked hill, to atten(d a meeting in I)u1.iii. to (Iraw cl ser the political...

A most extraordinary statement is believed in official circles to I be authentic, to the effect that the whole of the French Episcopate bave signed, at the order of the Pope, a...

Sir S. 24. Peto failed the other day with so much social eclat that we read with surprise that in the London, Chatham, and Dover line, for which he was the contractor and the...

Next week we hope to furnish our readers with special statistics relative to several of the families who are shortly to be evicted from Union Court, Holborn Hill. In the...

The Emperor's letter of August 11 to Victor Emanuel on the I *subject of the cession of Venetia has been much criticized in Italy, where the tone of patronage which...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. NOBODY has done anything this week in England, and nothing of any account has happened except rain. The members of Parliament have not even done much in the...

The Emperor, in accepting the resignation of his unsuccess- I ful Foreign Secretary, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, writes him a letter, in which he gives no reason except the obligation...

I The danger to Canada from the Fenian conspiracy seems to us greater now than it has ever yet been, simply because both parties in the States are now competing fiercely with...

The Roman National Committee has just done one of the boldest feats on record. It was known that the Neapolitan Bourbonists had their central agency in the apartments occupied...

The Hidden Life. A Memoir of Mrs. Shirroff, of St. N inians. (Elliott, Edinburgh.)-Why this record of unremitting spiritual introspection of a Scotch pastor's wife should not...

Passages in the LU'e of the Faire Gospeller, Mistress Anne Askew. By the Author of lIary Powell. (Bentley.)-Produced with great care and .with a studied and cumbersome air of...

MIISS PARKES' "AVIGN-ETTES."* THIS is not a recent work. Miss Parkes prepared most, we believe nearly all, what she now calls her Vignettes, for the English2voman's Jowrnal,...

I V qoaqes and Discoveries of the Companions of Christopher Columbus- I By Washington Irving. (Tcgg.)-IWo welcome the appearance of an old friend in an inexpensive though...

CURRENT LITE RATURE. -- - --O. Parables from N'atire. Fourth Series. By MIrs. Alfred Gatty. (Bell and Daldy.)-From the title-page it appears that this further instalment of...

THE ISSUE OF THE ELECTION COMMISSIONS. IT is mortifying to think that the candidates who confess so I freely that they have, been perfectly aware how theirmoney was going, and...

B OOK S. BJORNSON.* THAT Scandinavian literature has received a portion of the fresh life of which it was so much in need we are ever and again reminded by proofs of poetic...

THE TUNLNEL. OUT of the tunnel at last, I think ! Not unlike that of my life, which has run Through the ribs of this mountain I might have climibed, But chose the black heart...

MACMILLAN'S M1AGAZIN'E ON WORKHOUSE REFORM. [TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,-An article " On Social Responsibilities " has appeared in the last number of lMacmillait's...

INDIAN FAMINES. N OT much information can be gathered from the Indian papers 15 regarding the effects of the famine in Orissa. The most *explicit as well as the latest news we...

THE PROVINCIAL HSTORY OF ENGLAND. II.-THE AW EST COt'STRY:-BEFORE THE ROMANs. WHO were the earliest inhabitants of the West Country, and when was it first peopled? To these...

Tie Conltenporary Reviewv. September. (Strahan.)-Our contempo- rary this month gives full play to its hatred of the mob of secular triflers, and repels them from its pages....

The Bible and its Inteprseeter s. By W. J. Irons, B.D. (Hayes; Parker; I Macmillan.)-That delightful confidenco which was supposed to distiinguisl the Englishman in the last...

Tle Milestones of Life. By tho Rev. A. F. Thoinson, B.A. (Warne.) I -It is a reflection apt to cross the mind of a man engaged in active life, how instructive his experiences...

THLE DISMISSAL OF Al. DROUYN DE LHUYS. I T would be folly to consider the fact of M. Drouyn de Lhuys' retirement from the Foreign Office an incident of no extraordinary...

MATTHEW BROWNE'S ESSAYS.* Tiirs is a very pleasant book to read, full of humour, sometimes original in thought, often displaying wide and acute observation, always just in...

LORD CARLISLEA* As a man, Lord Carlisle deserved some better memorial than his -own works could rear. IIis literary attainments were considerable, but his literary efforts...

THE FUTURE OF AUSTRIA. A NY cosmogonist in search of an illustration for conveying' A to the mind an image of the Universe before the waters vere divided might find it in the...

THE LAW OF SYMPATHY AND COURTS OF JUSTICE. NOTHING can be more natural than that a British jury should take the part of an unprotected female, and that the public should feel...

A LONG VACATION RIIAMBLE. III.-BLANKENBERGHE (Cwniitued). BLANIKENBELRGIiE has one branch of native industry, and one only. From time immemorial it has been a fishing station....

THE AWAKENING OF TIlE CABLE. THERE can be but few who have read without a certain thrili of fanciful wonder or almost awe, of the strange inarticulate messages which have come...

ZULU NURSERY STORIES.* Tnis first part of the translation of the Zulu nursery tales sustains the reputation for sharpness gained by the celebrated Zulu criticism on Noah's Ark...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. I PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THE PHILADELPHIA CONVENTION, T HE admiration with which the policy of President Johnson is contemplated in the greater part of this...