THE Federal Government has taken the first step . on the road to emancipation. It is but a timid one in itself, the President only advising Congress to pass a joint resolu-...

"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 News-agents in...

FRANCE.—The week has been almost devoid- of political news, its only incident having been the sixth birthday of the Prince Imperial, and the consequent bestowal of the Legion of...

POLITICAL.—The political events of the week out of Parliament have been only two in number—the election for the North Riding, which took place on Thursday, and terminated, as we...

Hones or Lona!, Friday, March le—Discussion on the Revised Code. Monday, March 17---State of Southern Italy: Discussion on Lord Normanby's question. Tuesday, March 18.—Claims of...

BOTH Houses of Parliament sat last night. In the House of Lords a great number of petitions were presented against the Revised Code. In the House of Commons, Mr. BAXTER moved...

THE BEGINNING OF THE END. T HIS American civil war, then,—this awful expenditure of blood, and treasure, and energy—this mortgage placed on the wealth of the present, and on all...

T HE Session' is certainly dull. The Government intro- duces but one measure to the Lords, and that it sends to a Select Committee ; while the House of Commons has simply...

T HE debate in the House of Commons on Monday night was one of the ablest, as well as the most important, which that assembly has witnessed for many years. It marked a new phase...

A T the northern extremity of the Gulf of Argos, in the finest part of the Peloponnesus, lies the city of Nauplia, destined by nature to be the capital of the islands of Greece....

TN June, 1861, the Government of Washington appointed a Commission " to inquire and advise in respect of the sanitary interests of the United States forces." The Com- mission...

H OW few statesmen are there who, at the age of five-and. twenty, have settled down into the principles of policy that are to guide them in their maturer years, and through the...

TT is a notable fact, of considerable significance to all who I take an interest in the philosophy of clothes, that nearly every one of the sovereigns of Continental iurope...

A LL true admirers of Dr. Johnson will remember the admirable catechism in the Idler, adapted for the training of young vul- tures, being a dialogue carried on, in the " Tutor,...

F EW, perhaps, of the thousands who glanced at the limes' brief report of the speeches made by native members of council on the Indian law of entail, recognized the magnitude of...

Washington, March 2. IT is upon the banks of the Susquehanna river that the traveller P journeying southwards first comes upon the track of war. Between ennsylvania and...

[FILCH OUR SPECIAL COB.RESPONDENT.] AMONG the actual papers, three compose the officious press, pro- perly so called—that is to say, the Constitutionnel, the Pattie, and the...

MOMMSEN'S HISTORY OF ROME.* ALL who feel an interest in historical studies have for some months looked with anxiety for the long promised translation of Mommsen's work. Those...

Hex MAJESTY'S, it appears, is to be opened this season after all. Mr. Mapleson, whose short but successful season of last year at the Lyceum is said to have brought him into...

SIB,— As one who was for many years honoured with the friendship of Mr. Leigh Hunt, I request you to allow me to correct certain errors as to matters of fact into which you...

MR. ARNOLD is the most lucid and delightful of living English critics. No one can deny that he has that great qualification of every true critic which he himself so well defines...

hoped when his book was announced to receive a moderate sized and most picturesque history of Lord Dalhousie's administration, the brightest or darkest, but in either view the...

A farms less than a century ago a certain M. Fortia visited Sweden and published a book of travels. Under the head of " morals" he describes the natives of the country as having...

to the population of England tact and ambition of a churchman. No one better understood foreign then that 150,000 would have to it now. As late as 1500, a Venetian, courts, or...

Assvanita the correctness of Sir Charles Napier's dictum that "by reading you will be distinguished ; without it your abilities will be of little use," the best advice we can...