M TIE vacancy created by the death of Sir Cornewall Lewis The state of our relations with the - United States came again under the consideration of Parliament last night. Mr....

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. scune Afternoon through Booksellers...

DRIFTING TO WAR. Government of St. Petersburg is seriously annoyed, and reported suspension of intercourse between the two Cou though so sharply denied, is probably only...

D R. STANLEY'S letter to the Bishop of London on sub- scription may well date a great crisis in the history of our Church. It is not a religious manifesto on behalf of the " or...

Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and the First Lord of the Admiralty, are now all Peers. The three most important departments of the State, possessing the largest patronage,...

'T HE discussion on the introduction of the Bill for the Amalgamation of the City and Metropolitan Police -affords an almost laughable instance of the tendency of human nature...

C OUNT VON BISMARK SCHONHAUSEN is the political riddle of the day. What can be his object in keeping together an assembly which he does his very best to irritate and insult,...

E NGLISH history has sustained a severe loss by the death of Mr. Turnbull, the late Calendarer at the Rolls. Originally an advocate at the Scotch bar, and, unfortunately for...

talent somewhere among these Poles. The secret Government in Warsaw, which faces death every hour, and meets an efficient despotism with decrees better obeyed than its own, is...

ce NV HAT," we remember hearing Wendell Phillips say, "are we to do with the emancipated negroes ? This is the question I am always being asked. My answer is—do nothing Treat...

rr HE French army is slowly undergoing a strange and ominous I. mutation, for the second empire is bent on organizing a body of pretorians. The soldiery have played a sad and...

(FROM oust SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) April 21, 1863. IT has been asserted over and over again that the French are utterly unfit for the task of colonization ; that there is...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, April 10, 1863. THE English Blue-book reveals a secret which everybody knew, namely, that the Democratic leaders in this country are...

THE BICKNELL COLLECTION OF PICTURES. MOST people have heard of the late Mr. Bicknell's collection of pictures, but probably not many, besides his personal friends, and such few...

MR. CONINGTON'S HORACE.* A Pam:mon of Latin at any of the great Universities needs no apology for undertaking the translation of one of the great classics. But if any apology...

THE week has been crowded with musical events of the greatest interest ; in fact, for this early period of the season, the supply • af good music has been somewhat too much for...

by some very strong differences. They labour in the same field, but each succeeds where the other fails. The authoress of "The Heir of Redclyffe" has a keen appreciation of gay,...

a man whose cha- racter, very uninteresting in youth, and never, perhaps, pecu- liarly fascinating, yet developed into one of unusual practical force, and became powerful almost...

years Germany has furnished her full con- tingent of novels and romances. But the most celebrated of these are not the best, and, on the other band, the best are by no means the...

Tux comparative oblivion which has overtaken the name and actions of Ulrich von Hutten points, like his own unhappy and troubled life, the old truth that the race is not always...

Jurisprudence, by Charles Spencer AL Phillipps (John Murray).—Two Months in the Confederate States, by an English Merchant (Bentley).—The Horses of the Sahara, by E. Dumas...