I F Members of Parliament had no Committees to sit on what a happy life they would lead ! They have nothing to do about which anybody is likely to worry them. The Ministry have...

"Tan 'SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in Vimfor despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the -same Atflernoon through News-agents in...

TELNez.—The 17th of May is the second centenary of the massacre of Toulouse, which arose in this wise. Early in May, 1662, a quarrel arose between the Catholics and Protestants...

• MILITARY AND NAVAL.—The most important event of the week has undoubtedly been the new gun experiment at Shoeburyness. It has long been suspected that the apparent...

House or LORDS, Friday, April 4.—Italian Affairs : Lord Westbury and Earl Russell—The Revised Code: The Bishop of Oxford's Motion for Papers.—Alleged Torture of Alexander...

IN the House of Lords, Earl GRANVILLE stated' the alterations in the Revised Code : 48. a year was to be given on the average yearly attendance of each pupil ; 8e. to be given...

PARIS, APRIL 11. The Moniteur of this morning publishes the usual monthly return of the Bank of France, which shows the following results as compared with the March account:...

SubscripMons to the "Fantsn OF INDIA," and " OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA," will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms Per Annum,...

THE RESTLESSNESS IN FRANCE. I li . QUIVER in a corpse startles us more than the wildest motion made by a living man ; and we must beware of exaggerating the agitation now...

speech on Wednesday, on the Clergy 1,..3 Relief Bill, was singularly instructive. It shows more perhaps than any recent incident—much more than the prose- cutions of Dr....

A CHARACTERISTIC little anecdote of the King of Prussia and his late Minister of the Interior was told at the recent coronation show at Konigsberg. William I. having made his...

M R. Kennedy has so far challenged an expression of public opinion, and his actions have excited so much public interest, and have raised so many questions with which the public...

T HE Irish enjoy a reputation for being a warm-hearted, trusting people, whose fault, perhaps, is, that they are just a little over-quick to give their confidence, and a little...

T HE rapid succession of Northern victories, while they have once more excited in England the old esteem for American energy, have produced little effect on the English view of...

F OR some centuries past the theory that it is important to maintain an equilibrium of power between the principal states of the world has exercised an incalculable influence on...

T HERE is a curious analogy between the vulgarity of physical manners and the vulgarity of moral sentiments. Every one knows Mr. Dickens's many marvellous and truthful...

EN a few years back the attention of all England was fixed on what sporting newspapers call the Battle of Farnborough, some weak-minded people were seized with a not...

FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.] • Rome, March 20. I SIT down here in Rome to tell you, if I can, what the Papal Govern- ment really means to its people, besides mere...

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] 'FOREIGN affairs, rather than domestic, have engaged public curiosity throughout the past week. Shall we remain in Mexico, and if IV@ ;wain,...

THE PREPARATIONS FOR THE ROYAL ACADEMY. THE ensuing exhibition at the Royal Academy, so far as can be ascertained from general rumour and a personal inspection of a few of the...

VICTOR HUGO'S NEW NOVEL.* THE new novel, with which Victor Hugo is now occupying the world of letters in Paris, is a remarkable attempt to examine social pro- blems from the...

Thee a dozen sentries passing rip and down underneath the portico of Covent Garden Theatre, and a " block" of carriages radiating in every direction from Bow-street, announced...

THE Life of Arthur, first Duke of Wellington, has yet to be written. It has been the cherished ambition of Mr. Gleig to write that life ; a laudable ambition, for the subject is...

THE voluminous diary of Humboldt's friend—the clever ex-colonel, ex-diplomatist, Prussian privy councillor, poet, and novelist—Varn- hagen von Ense, is the best comment and...

AMONGST those—and they are not a few—of Coleridge's critical maxims which are at once so deep and so subtly expressed that they are apt almost to tyrannize over the reason of...

Isl. DE PaBssmisi's work may, perhaps, be best described as an answer to Gibbon's celebrated chapters on the rise and progress of Christianity. Engaged on a magnum opus, a...

Navrrox's long promised and long expected work on the recent excavation at Budrum, the ancient Halicarnassus, has at length sp- e ared eared : or rather, we should say, we are...

PourirsEss and candour equally forbid us to contradict " Clarisse" 6 when she states that her plot is loose and somewhat unconnected. We also coin- cide in her opinion that "it...