T HE election of M. niers for the second division of Paris, which is believed to be certain, has put M. de Persigny beside himself. He has actually placarded an address to the...

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

AT DE PERSIGNY has committed an anachronism, and 111. • the map may yet be redistributed in consequence of his mistake. Exile and Secretary of State, familiar with all countries...

THE CHANCES OF PEACE IN AMERICA. T HE civil war in America is revealing to all men a fact which one or two observers had suspected before. The special circumstances of the...

T HE quaint person who is now Rector of Claydon is uncon- sciously doing his Church a service by pointing out a weak place in her armour. Incumbent of an agricultural living in...

an open- air meeting at Sheffield, numbering about ten thousand persons, to vote for a resolution calling upon our Government to enter into negotiations with the other Great...

of the kingdom of Italy has given place to a not unnatural reaction in public sentiment. All the latent dislike to revolution which characterizes the Conservative party of...

I T has been narrated of the good and able general whom t evil cause of Slavery has just lost, and it seems in itself pro- bable in a high degree, that at the first outbreak of...

T HE ebb tide of despotism, now so visible throughout Europe, seems to be leaving the nobles stranded. The curious account published in the Times of Tuesday of the position of...

A GES before the existence of the New World was suspected, there grew up in the minds of the ancients a passionate desire to know a geographical secret which seemed far from...

SIR,—You ask me to give you the "impressions" of a late visit to Paris. Owing to the peculiar circumstawes of my journey, I found myself inhabiting a quarter of Paris which I...

May 22. I smut, probably not be far wrong in taking it for granted that most of your readers are unacquainted with the precise locality of the place whence this letter is...

THE COSMOPOLITAN CLUB. THE members of the Cosmopolitan club have lent their large room, at 30 Charles street, Berkeley square, for "the private exhibition of a selection of...

THE IJ KET-OF-LEAVE MAN AT THE OLYMPIC. HONESTY and virtue emerging triumphant from a chaos of difficulties and temptations have long formed a certain means of eliciting the...

THE " VILLARS" MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF SPAIN.* THE question as to the authorship and sources of the " Memoirs of the Court of Spain," published by Mr. Stirling last year, to...

Tile Prussian Government has lately done, or, at least, attempted to do, a good deal towards extending German trade and com- merce through Europe and beyond the seas. Some years...

Heywood's observations on Australian life arises from the fact of their 'being absolutely superficial. They are valuable precisely because they lay no claim to height, or depth,...

the most difficult subject with which the believer in Revelation can have to deal,—the true relation be- tween the physical or (in one rather special and narrow sense) "natural"...

THERE is but one argument for slavery which is openly produced in England, and that is something like this ; slavery is, after all, but a name ; in every country the labourer...

the whole, a rather dull number of the North British. The most able article which it contains is probably the first, entitled " The Disin- tegration of Empires," which consists...

March, 1863.—There is not much ability or interest in either of these representatives of American periodical literature. They both preserve a. profound silence as to the...

Messrs. Bacon and Co. have published some interesting engrav- ings of the Northern and Southern American statesmen and generals. Of course, the series contains General...