T HE week at home has b een almost devoid of political interest. The Ministry are quietly mustering their forces to resist or shelve Mr. Stansfeld's motion, and there is an un-...

" THE SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies (f that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

PoLrricia..— Colonel White, the Government candidate, who was rejected for Longford, has been returned for Kidderminster by a majority of ten votes over the Conservative Mr....

FRANCE.—The Emperor, it is said, will be unable to carry his 'budget through the Corps Legislatif, and the new duty on salt has already been withdrawn. The members are afraid...

Moues or Loans, Monday, May 26. —Slave Trade : Convention with the United Slates: Lord Brougham's question.— National Education in Ireland : Lord Clan- carty's motion....

Is the House of Lords, Earl GRANVILLE moved the third reading of the Customs and Inland Revenue Bill. The Earl of CARNARVON strongly condemned the policy of the Chancellor of...

THE TRUE DIFFICULTY OF THE NORTH. T HE most thoughtful friends of the North are shaking their heads over the recent news. The Republican vessel seems to them to be crossing the...

by their votes simply to endorse extrava g ance. Were the q uestion left to the votes of the Whi g s and Liberals alone, the result would be sufficiently simple, the House...

expe- dition. They hold it to be in principle immoral, in object absurd, in result excessively burdensome, and conse- quently they are delighted that it should have been under-...

industrious Whig mouse, at the net that confines the English clergy, yet he does not get any great gratitude, and does get some very rough pats from the noble prey within the...

without consequence on the political state of Europe. When Peter I. of Russia was in want of a wife for his son Alexis, he had a score of the prettiest marriageable princesses...

A MID the profound discouragement with which the recent terrible series of agrarian crimes has affected men's minds the well-wishers of Ireland were disposed to turn readily to...

M ADAME White Mario admirably represents the party to which she belongs. She has the energy, the clear- ness, the fervour, the simplicity, and the one-sidedness which mark the...

T HERE is a growing feeling amongst thinking men that the ser- mon-institution, as at present enforced, is altogether intole- rable, that it is an intellectual burden which more...

T HE true significance of the Manchester tragedy, the specialty which distinguishes it among murders, and so to speak raises it above the routine of crime, is scarcely as yet...

lative Body seems yet unappeased. The commission persistsin rejecting the tax on salt, accepts with marked repugnance, and under certain modifications, the increase of the...

St. Louis, 10th Hay. " Ti the visitor at St. Louis," writes the local handbook, " should chance to be benevolent, or literary, or educational, he will, perhaps, like to look...

ROYAL ACADEMY. CONCLUDING NOTICE. MRS. B. HAT takes the first place among the female painters of the year. Her " Prodigal Son" (251) is distinguished by a largeness of style...

LEIN back, and get some minutes' peace ; Let your head lean Back to the shoulder with its fleece Of locks, Faustine. The shapely silver shoulder stoops, Weighed over clean With...

SIGNOR VERDI'S " Cantles," rejected by the Commissioners of the Exhibition, has found an asylum at Her kajesty's, where Mr. Mapleson produced it on Saturday last, and in...

DR. CUMMING'S MILLENNIAL REST.* • The Millennial Rat; or, the World as it will be. By the Rev. John commix*, D.D., F.R.S.E., Minister of the Scottish National Church, fix....

THE author of this book has curiously assorted powers. It suggests to us the sort of double-flavoured fruit which a cutting from the mis- cellaneous observing genius of Mr....

This is one of a class of books which are read with difficulty, and closed with the conviction that the time spent over them has been frittered away. It consists of a number of...

A WHITER who should propose to give a sketch of English history by describing a battle in the Wars of the Roses, the escape of Mary Stuart from Loehleven, the spiritual history...

Toe general subject of Workhouse Management has been brought before our minds very often during the last two or three years,. and our means of forming a practical judgment much...

Sclater notes down a naturalist's impressions of Spain, and Mr. Geikie an • Obituary Notice of the late Richard Hussey Walsh, LL.D., &v. tee. t Sunsets and Sunshine ; or,...