T HE week has been a busy one, though the recess is not yet over. Mr. Gladstone has made two speeches, one on cenVetition and one on finance, and Lord Palmerston one on...

"TICE 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...

AMERICA.—The news from America this week has been more exciting than at any time since the affair of the Trent. The cam- paign for the Union has at length attained results which...

POLITICAL.—Mr. Gladstone has been travelling in the North, and on Wednesday he delivered an address to the Association of Mechanics' Institutes of Lancashire and Cheshire. The...

ACCORDING to the latest despatches it seems more than probable that King Otho and the Court will quit Greece. — Second Edition qf the Post.

"THE THREE PANICS." I T is with a weary sigh of disappointment that we lay down Mr. Cobden's latest pamphlet. England does so want an economist statesman, and he is in many...

an effective soldier in Great Britain out of the ranks of the regular army, the militia, yeomanry, and pensioners. On Monday last 20,000 men, thoroughly equipped for war, and...

AI ILTON," says a German critic, "must after all have rather admired Satan," and Milton's unconscious feeling is, we suspect, the one with which most English liberals watch the...

and condemned to five years' imprisonment. He appealed, a PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT IN RUSSIA.. new trial was granted, and he was again condemned. An rp HE Czar, we are told this...

of serf emancipation reduces itself entirely to a question of finance. To change dependent serfs into inde- pendent peasants a certain quantity of land mast be given to them,...

JHEN Coninesby was dilating upon the causes which produced the Reform Bill, his grandfather cut short his philosophical speculations by the curt assertion, that Lord Grey's...

IT there should have been in Naples a fortnight ago any wandering Briton whom "the sundry contemplation of his travels" has brought to that "most humorous sad- ness" which was...

IT is, perhaps, no unhealthy symptom that American politicians have begun to discuss the negro future. It indicates that the previous question, the speedy extinction of slavery,...

M EDICINE, in all ages rather an art than a science, and still in most branches wholly empirical, has of late taken one singular stride. Under the name of hygiene she has began...

I T is a pleasant duty to say we have at last obtained in the current number of the Edinburgh Review a paper on "Modern Domestic Service" which does not outrage common sense by...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Washington, 7th April, 1862. IT is unfortunate that the Americium should combine such an almost morbid desire for English appreciation with...

Lavalette's journey, and the designs of the Government relatively to the Roman question, have lately received the strongest confirmation from an article which appeared in the...

IT is now nine years since Mr. Gambart opened for the first time an exhibition of the works of French and Flemish painters in the Gallery at Pall Mall, and it is somewhat...

"tan hard across the sand, For the salt wind gathers breath : Shoulder and wrist and hand, Push hard as the push of death. The wind is as iron that rings, The foam-beads loosen...

This only noticeable feature in Mr. Gye's proceedings during the past week has been the first performance this season of Le Prophae, with, all the lavish magnificence and...

LORD STANHOPE'S LIFE OF PITT.* SECOND NOTICE- GEORGE M. was not very sorry to be relieved from the service of Mr. Pitt. He did not see hint when he left, but he wrote to him a...

TErz Chinese began to represent upon the stage, at a very early period, the sorrows and the eccentricities of humanity. From facts related by their historians it may be inferred...

produced on his mind by entering England after a tour on the continent. His chief feeling was a sensation of astonishment at hearing the language to which he had been used from...

Ma. Mscarrtaoar's beautiful and scholarly reprint of The Pilgrim's _Progress may be taken as curious evidence of the position which the Baptist minister has won for himself...

in Mr. Saunders's stories which it is not very easy to define. It does not lie in the writing, for it is simply clear, easy English, such as many men write who make most...

this brief memoir of a leading partizan of a once unsuccessful cause, is a strong testimony to the influence of personal amiability of character, since almost every page, thanks...

How much additional information has been contributed by Mr. Rhind to the history of Egyptian sepulture it is not easy to de- termine without a more extensive study of the...

THE exact spot on the British coast where Julius Ciesar landed his in- vading legions is a point as important to discover and as difficult to decide as it is to ascertain what...