29 AUGUST 1863, Page 1

THE GREAT GOVERNING FAMILIES OF ENGLAND.—ligm FEATURE.—A. feature of some

interest now appears in the SPECTATOR, and will be cont:nued, either weekly or at short intervals, giving an Account 0111w Great Governing Families of England in Rehtion to their Influence on Political Aticirs. • The introductory one of the Series was issued on July1lth, accompeinied by a Map of Great Britain showing, County by County, tit, great Landed Proprietors therein residing, or owning large blocks of territory, forming an Index, as it were, to the modern Ii dory of properly and politics in the Mand. The History of the Grosvenors appears To-day—Office, 1 Wellington street, Strand; and by order of all Booksellers and News-agents in town and country.