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...

We are in a state of great suspense as to peace or war. The English newspapers are filled with extracts from the American journals, breathin...

This morning I was startled by a very alarming bulletin of Prince Albert's state, dated yesterday, viz. that H.R.H. had passed a restles...

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

The two articles on Prince Albert's death in this day's 'Times' are admirable. The second contains a true and faithful accou...

I called on Lady Palmerston and found her and Lady Jocelyn greatly dejected. Palmerston is very unwell with a bad fit of gout and is unable ...

Hatchford. I have been at Frognal and Hillingdon and came here yesterday. When at the former place I received a letter from Fanny Kemble, wh...

Yesterday the Emperor Napoleon opened his Parliament with one of those fine harangues we are now become accustomed to, and which may mean an...

Intelligence has reached London this morning from New York dated 14th, by which it appears that Fort Sumter had been attacked by the Secessi...

SPEECH IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AUGUST 8, 1850, ON PRESIDENT FILLMORE'S MESSAGE CONCERNING THE TEXAN BOUNDARY. MR. BROWN said:...

DEPARTMENT OF STATE, WASHINGTON, October 22, 1851. The undersigned, acting Secretary of State of the United States, has the honor to remin...

WASHINGTON, March 13, 1850. MY DEAR JAMES,—I have just received your favor of the 8th ultimo. I suppose that the bad state of things here ...

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...

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

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

Mr. Seward sends me a letter from the British Chargé, stating her Majesty's desire to confer the Order of the Bath on Lieutenant Pearson...

BRITISH CONSULATE,                   New Orleans, May 8 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, U. S..Army, Commanding Department of th...

HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE GULF,                   New Orleans, May 11 , 1862 . GEORGE COPPELL, Acting as Her Majesty's Consu...

BRITISH CONSULATE,                   New Orleans, May 16 , 1862 . Maj. Gen. B. F. BUTLER, Commanding Department of the Gulf: SIR: ...

The diplomatic circle is so totus teres atque rotundus, that few particles of dirt stick on its periphery from the road over which it trave...