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...

Alice Enfield came to pass a few days with me. Nothing is now thought of but the 'Trent' affair, and whether there will be a war or ...

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...

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...

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

Speech of Hon. Martin F. Conway, of Kansas, delivered in the House of Representatives, Thursday, December 12, 1861. Revised by the Author. ...

Alas! that this news should find us still embarrassed, and still diddling with the negro question!   Alas! That we should still have one wa...