T HE death of Sir Cornewall Lewis, which occurred on Monday, has saddened the week. He belonged to a class of statesmen little known out of England—judicious, reflective men,...

" Tux SPECTATOR " is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Tains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

THE BUDGET. M R. GLADSTONE'S Budget is always a work of art, and not least so when he has a very sombre background. This year, however, he has no terrific chasm to paint like...

MILE untimely death of Sir Cornewall Lewis may probably 1 cast a less defined gloom over the country than would the loss of any of his three most distinguished colleagues,...

TT is Sir G. C. Lewis's place in the Cabinet which has to be 1 filled, and not merely his post at the War Office. The latter it might be comparatively easy to supply. Lord Dal-...

O NE by one, the ancient supports of Russian prestige are slowly crumbling away. The belief in her boundless 'resources for war disappeared in the Crimean campaign; the idea...

T HE public is beginning to comprehend the purport of the Bill brought in by Mr. Somes and Mr. Pease for the closing of publichouses on Sunday. If the object of these gentlemen...

W HO that has ever read it—and we trust there are few of the Spectator's weekly circle who have not read it— does not remember Mr. Carlyle's wonderful chapter on " Manchester...

T HERE is something very touching in the diversity of gifts and unity of spirit which (on all subjects but Sunday beer) draw together the heartstrings of our bigoted...

T HE persons who recommended the exhibition of the presents made to the Princess of '„Wales understood the public taste. On the first day of view thousands paid their shilling...

M R. HARRISON characteristically grounds his claim to a hear- ing, not on his attentive examination into the annals of past ages, but on his careful study of the various...

prize-money in a British court of law. This discrepancy causes great dissatisfaction to the soldiers, and the anomaly ought no longer to exist. The soldiers now ask for the same...

(FROJI OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) April 16, 1863. LovELY spring has come early, and already the gardens and the dames du demi-monde are in full bloom. The beneficial influence...

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) Cracow, April 13. THIRTEEN weary hours of railway travelling have to be endured in accomplishing the 230 miles which separate Cracow from...

uric ai t t groat. HER Majesty's Theatre opened for the season on Saturday, with an extremely successful performance of the inevitable Trovatore, Titiens, Alboni, Giuglini, and...

MR. WORSLEY'S POEMS.* OR Mr. Worsley it is evident that the masculine simplicity of the Greek epic poetry acts as a kind of tonic, bracing the nerve, and fanning with chill...

Tuts volume is a translation of the " Etudes sur l'Irlande Con-- temporaine," published in' Paris in the spring. of 1862. Its English title is, therefore, somewhat of a...

Demosthenes are a very peculiar fruit of the very peculiar classical training which the racalern system of competition has gradually unfolded at the University of Cambridge, and...

the brilliant remarks on life and character with which the writings of Madame Emile Do Girardin abound, may be regarded as quite an exception to the general rule which teaches...

THESE vigorous pamphlets come from the best school of "American thinkers and politicians, the ethical idealists of New England. Mr. Conway, however, belongs to this school by...

millan and Co )-Most of our readers will, doubtless, remember the series of letters on international law which, under the signature of " Historicus," have occasionally appeared...

Squier. (Madden.)-Mr. Squier is an American gentleman who, having resided for some time in tropical America, has formed the opinion that the fibres of many plants which grow in...

.'s Last Labour not Lost. By George Daniel, Author of " Merrie .nd in the Olden Time." (Pickering.)-The volume bearing this ,er enigmatic title appears to consist of some of the...

gentleman, whose name is Norval, has put together in this nice-looking little volume a number of ballads on various events in Scottish history, ranging from the advent of St....

Analeeta Graeca 3Iinora, by the Rev. P. Frost, 31.A. (Bell and Dahly).-The Life of Hugh Miller (S. W. Partridge).-A Manual for Communion Classes, by C. P. Clark, M.A. (Bell and...