T HE Royal reception on Saturday passed off well. True, the arrangements made by the City Police broke down, and the crush east of Temple Bar was terrific, while west of that...

4 , THE SPECTATOR " is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Book.sellers...

THE ORLEINIST DECISION. T HE Orleanists have decided to enter the lists against the Napoleonic rergime ; consequently Orleanism is dead in France. That is the judgment of many...

S IR J. TRELA.WNY'S Bill for permitting sceptics to give evidence in a court of justice who do not believe that the penalties of a future state of existence attach to the...

T HERE is a change in the tone of the North. The Demo- cratic party which, in December, seemed master of the situation, and about to demand a disgraceful peace, hesitated in...

is apparently much farther removed from our observation than that of Northern, but its currents are nevertheless in many respects more intel- ligible, due to larger and simpler...

H ERR VON BISMARK has one claim, and but one, to the esteem of Prussia and Western Europe. He is honestly anti-Austrian, really desirous, in his shallow, loud-talking way, to...

A FTER more than two months of hard fighting, the Polish revolt has entered its second stage. During the first, as sketched in a former article,* it was clearly the plan of the...

assaulted Mr. Pilkington was a public benefactor. But for his indiscretion in garotting a member of Parliament, the increase of crime would have received no legislative...

MHE past week has been one of singular trial for the newspapers, and there is scarcely one of our able daily contemporaries which does not seem to have emerged from the...

I MMEDIATELY after the leading articles in the Times, there follows a small space devoted to a special class of announce- ments, which always appear in Large typo, and have a...

C APTAIN JERVIS, the member for Harwich, will, on the 17th inst., bring forward the "case," i.e., the one great standing grievance of the Indian Army. He will speak in the name,...

(Fnom OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) March 11th, 1863. IN alluding to Lord Palmerston's despatch relative to the insurrec- tion of Poland in 1831, and quoted in my last letter,...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, Feb. 24th, 1863. IN one of my earlier letters, if my memory does not mislead me, I endeavoured to show how far the people of this...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." rmit me to say a few words hpropos of your remarks on preaching in last week's Spectator. With those remarks, though not written in a very...

To reduce a good novel into a good play is, as Mr. Boucicault's success with _Effie Deans shows, a perfectly practicable task ; but to attain a similar result with a novel which...

MR. HOME, THE MEDIUM.* Tuts is a very embarrassing book to review. "Of those," says Mr. Home, "who will openly condemn this narrative in their journals, hardly one does not...

All winter long I tarried in a strange, monotonous land, Among pine forests,—an eternal throng Of green plumes, changeless o'er the changeless sand, Whereto the ocean singeth...

Toe dumb brutes have fared ill in the combat of the giant school- men about the immortality of the soul. " Quidquid delirant reges, plectuntur Achivi " upplies with singular...

IT is curious to consider what would be Shakespeare's probable impressions could he be made acquainted with the industrious investigations of commentators who have spent perhaps...

barbarians are generally distinguished from those of private savages only by the relation of more conspicuous vices, and a greater contrast between the possibilities of their...

Bishop Colenso's Examination of the Pentateuch Examined. By G. S. Drew, M.A , author of "Scripture Lands," &c. (Bell and Daddy.) — The Bible in the Workshop. By Two Working Men....

in 1841, formed one of a - series of reports issued by the Commissioners oti the zoological and botanical survey of Massachusetts at the State expense, and its objects were...

Revised by H. G. Bohn. Part viii. (Bohn.)—This part of Mr. Bohn's reissue of Lowndes's useful manual extends from " Reid " to "Simon." Its most important article is, of course,...

R. Fox. Part IL (Bell and Daldy.)—This is the second part of Col. Fox's catalogue of the unpublished coins in his collection, and is con- fined to Asian and African specimens....

of "A Manual of Geography," &c. (Longman and Co.)—This volume, the work of a gentleman who is admirably qualified for the task which he has undertaken, is designed to afford a...

readers may possibly not be aware that the advocates of Temperance and Total Abstinence had a grand gathering in London on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th of last September. During those...

volume consists of two distinct parts. The first aims at giving a straight- forward account of the design and mode of operation of the Isle of Man Diocesan Association—a society...

the sentimental school, in feeble imitation of Mr. Anthony Trollope% Cathedral Close novels.

of Mayfair," &c. _ Two vols. (Hurst and Blackett).—This novel is, we think, likely to increase the reputation which its author has already acquired. The story is exceedingly...

the Whaler," &c. (Griffith and Farran.) — British Enterprise beyond the Seas. By J. H. Fyfe, author of "Triumphs of Invention." (Nelson and Sons.)— These two books, both of...

Shrewsbury School. (Longmans.)—Moved, perhaps, by a desire to emulate the fame of the Solicitor-General, Dr. Kennedy has given us swell-filled volume, containing 1,500 hymns and...