T HE International Exhibition was opened on Thursday, With as much of pomp as a nation unused to spectacles could contrive to display. It did not, however, even as a pageant,...

"THE SPECTATOR" s published every Saturday Horning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in any...

Potrricar,.—The political life of the nation is for a time smothered by the Great Show. The only event of any interest is the retire- ment of Mr. W. J. Fox, the last of the...

rits.xcz.—The contest between M. de Lavalette and General Goyon, 'who have for some weeks represented Intramontanism and the Revo- lution at the Imperial Court, seems to have...

Houtz or Conn.:ma, Monday, April 28.—Reserved Fund : General Peel's gins- tion.—Local Indian Armies : Colonel Sykes's Question.—Committee of Supply : Civil Service...

Mr. SLANEY asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he would introduce a clause in the Highway bill to enforce the repairs of footpaths, being highways, across...

subscriptions to the "Fares, or INDIA," and OVERLAND FRIEND 6. rarci,"will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms : Per Annum,...

By telegram through Mr. Reuter's office. Paris, May 2. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a letter from Mexico com- menting upon the intolerable conduct of the Mexican...

THE EXHIBITION. T HE age is an age of physical progress, and there is little gained by criticising the men who only display a truth a little too ostentatiously, or the temples...

T HE civil war in America has tested both the political creed and the political principles of our manufacturers by a test of no common severity. We believe it is destinedl to...

that Turkey is looking up. The report on her financial condition, signed by Lord Hobart and Mr. Foster, is exceedingly favourable.— more favourable;.iiadeed, than any similar...

T HE many friends of liberal education in England, whose hopes had been excited by a University Commission, were thoroughly disheartened as they watched the steps taken and the...

TT has lately become the fashion to say that the present 1 ruler of France has no guiding line of conduct in his foreign policy, but gives himself entirely up to the chance of...

occurring in India. Now, it is a regiment which had mutinied, and then a conspiracy which has been discovered in a dependent state, now the peasantry combine to refuse their...

?TIRE chaotic state of public opinion on questions of retrench- I merit was curiously illustrated on Tuesday by two motions made in the House of Commons. Mr. Horsfall, in a very...

Captain Robertson, of the 4th Dragoon Guards, has at length been published, and the result has at once signally disap- pointed and signally fulfilled public expectation. He has...

I F a proof were wanted of the need of some better standard of education for women than is usually set before the sex, the curiously suicidal logic of Miss Matilda /d. Hays,...

A RECENT essayist, Mr. F. Marshall, in a book not otherwise of mach value, gives a very clear explanation of the special fea- tures of French society. It is, he says, "a people...

T HE following careful calculation of the practical difference be- tween the Revised Code, the Re-revised Code, and the pre- sent system to the managers of schools, which has...

[FROM OITR SPECIAL CORP.ESPONDENT1 Washington, 12th April, 1862. THE outlook for the future of America occupies, I think, far more attention amongst foreign observers than it...

[FROM OUR SPECLAL CORRESPONDENT.] THE acquittal of M. Mires is the capital event of the week. It has created an immense sensation on all sides; nor is the public sense of the...

Verdi's last, and best, opera, (In Balk in Mosel:era. Notwithstand- ing the rival attractions of Le Prophete at Covent Garden, the house was very fairly attended, though the...

THE OLD AND NEW WATER-COLOUR SOCIETIES. So rapidly does the opening of one picture exhibition follow another at this season, that it becomes a somewhat difficult task for the...

who express them. And these wants Maurice's meditative genius, and is of a kind to exercise a deep if region of thought. not directly a very wide influence on the history of...

clever man, but yet it is not a very excellent novel. All the best novelists of the day, from George Eliot and Mr. Thackeray downwards, seem to have wholly lost the art of...

THE anonymous writer of this handsome volume belongs to a class which, as publishing becomes more and more a habit to all who believe they can think, will, we suspect, increase....

striking chapters in the modern annals of the world. The political and social experiments made in that portion of the South American continent surpass, in originality of...

HORNE TOOKE, in the "Diversions of Parley," impresses upon his readers the importance of carefully searching out the true significa- tion of words, for, as he says, " the...

WE are requested to state that the "Chronicles of Carlingford" are not by George Eliot, but by Mrs. Oliphant, a very different writer, who has displayed in "Salem Chapel" a kind...

PROFESSOR Tyndall* belongs to the Excelsior school, though we trust he will never be found by faithful hound half-buried in the snow, lying "in the twilight cold and gray,...