SARATOGA, [VA.], May 8th, 1852. DEAR HUNTER: I received your very able and valuable report on “a change in the coinage,” and was highly de...

PHILADELPHIA, June 14, 1850. GENTLEMEN—As patriots and politicians, you have every reason to approve the legislative conduct of your repre...

MY DEAR SIR—The Union of yesterday, which I received this morning, contains a letter addressed to yourself and me, dated as of the 15th ult....

First at the Botanic Garden, second at Northumberland House, and third at the Prime Minister's. Got myself presented to Pélissier, who i...

Dined with Lampson, for the time being a resident in a capital house at the farthest end of Eaton Square. Went at eleven to Lord Chelmsford...

Letters and newspapers, both in abundance, from home are gloomier than ever. We may yet pass through a convulsion only less frightful than t...

The Duchess of Kent, the Queen's mother, died this morning, in her seventy-fifth year. Away go all further drawing-rooms, levées, and ot...

A long and interesting telegram by the America. The Inauguration on the 4th had gone off without disturbance of any kind, in the presence of...

Dr. Hitchcock, of California, the surgeon of General Taylor at the battle of Buena Vista, who saved the life of Jeff. Davis by extracting fr...

I have repeatedly observed on the utter impossibility of keeping a diary without long chasms. More than a month has gone by, and an eventful...

The America brought me a note from. Mr. Adams. He quits Boston to-day. I may, therefore, look for him at farthest on the 15th inst. The Pr...

A slight solace to one's anxieties about home is found in the circumstances brought by successive steamers during the week. 1. The propo...

Parliament was opened yesterday by the Queen in person. The military parade, turnout of royal equipages, and assemblage of Peers, Peeresses,...

Yesterday's news from home a shade more promising. The President's message to Congress on the mediatorial propositions from Virginia...

At about ten o'clock P.M., of the 13th instant, Gaeta, in which the young Neapolitan King Francis II. has long and bravely stood a siege...

Another pamphlet in Paris by La Guéronnière-i.e., by, or with the approval of, the Emperor has appeared. It narrows the temporal power and e...

Mr. Reuter sends me a telegram from Queenstown of the American news. 1. The conference invited by Virginia met on the 4th, and re-assembled ...

The day before yesterday the "Parliament of Italy" opened its first session at Turin. A great consummation! giving the noblest imm...

Dined with Mr. Thomas Baring. Mr. Holland, son of Sir Henry, and his wife, daughter of Sir Charles Trevelyan, Mr. Coolidge, Count Straleski,...

Just finished the Duke of Buckingham's two volumes on the “ Courts and Cabinets of William IV and Victoria .” There is a curious note by...