An ugly year ended in backing before England, having, at least, relative right on our side. Further, the ending year has revealed a certain ...

To-day there are rumors of a possible war with England, on account of the affair of Mason and Slidell, now prisoners in Boston harbor. It wi...

THE season is excellent for military operations, such as any Napoleon could wish it. And we, lying not on our oars or arms, but in our beds,...

Panshanger. — The American news is more pacific, and since our warlike preparations have been known, the tone has changed, and it is now con...

Last night, John Bidwell, who dined with me, brought the news of the surrender of Mason and Slidell, which had reached the Foreign Office at...

Great indignation is expressed by the whole French press at the destruction of the harbour of Charleston. Yesterday, on calling at Queen...

As in the mediæval epoch, and some time thereafter, anatomists and physiologists experimented on the living villeins, that is, on peasantry,...

I came here yesterday, and found the John Leslies, Dufferin, Frederick Leveson, and Algy Egerton. Telegrams from America up to the 18th stat...

It is blustering weather, and my cat is beside me, lying on her  head , by the fire in my little tent. Everybody says that is "a sign...

The Frederick Cadogans and Pahlen dined with me, and we went to Léotard in the evening-his performance is as wonderful as it is beautiful in...

Nothing can equal the consternation produced by this event. This morning Brookfield, who had preached a very fine sermon without any referen...

We have the authority of the New Orleans Delta for saying that the Douglas movement lately attempted in that city, for its influence upon t...

Wrest . I came here on Monday. The party is composed of Dowager Lady Spencer and Lady Sarah, Lord and Lady Proby, Dufferin, A. Egerton, E. L...

London . I came back yesterday, and this morning heard that the Cabinet had decided, on the advice of the law officers, that the act of the ...

London . The 'Persia' arrived at Queenstown yesterday, having left New York on the 20th. The American newspapers are full of quotati...

Hatchford . It was asserted some days ago, and it was generally believed, that old General Scott, who has lately come to France from America...

ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 4, 1884. Dear Brother: . . . We have several posts of the Grand Army here, one of which, Frank Blair Post No 1, invit...

Commenced to build a stable for horses, three hundred feet long. Captain Bess, our chief of artillery. Our battery remained at Muddy Branch ...

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 ...

AT HOME, near Thibodeaux, La., October 25, 1860. MY DEAR SHERMAN: It is long since we last communed, but both of us have been travelers, a...