Ati DE PERSIGNY has lost the game. The French .1/1. elections terminated on Monday in the return of all the mine Opposition candidates for Paris by a majority of two to one....

4, Tax SpaersTon" 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 Booksellers in...

MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHIRSIN. P ARIS has given the Moniteur its first warning; that seems ' in brief, the result of the French elections. Throughout the provincial districts,...

I F Musurus Bey understands English politics as well as some of his diplomatic colleague., he will regard the great debate of the 29th May as ominous to the Ottoman power. There...

the factory inspector, in his recently printed report to the Home Secretary on the state of the cotton districts, has excited a great deal of attention, and given rise to many...

T HE interest excited in England by the arrest of Mr. Vallan- digham is not greater than it deserves. Were the conditions of life in America like the conditions of life in any...

like a division, and a majority of more than five to two in a full House against Mr. Somes's ridiculous Beer Bill might have been expected to bring the labours of its supporters...

unim- portant one in our England of 1863, be it said—has been stirred to its depths by the Bill introduced by the Government, and now in committee, to amend the old Act of 44...

T HE true fascination of acting to cultivated minds is probably the fascination and refreshment of what we may call a change of mental dress. All classes know the intellectual...

T HERE is nothing more illustrative of the growth of the social life of England than the system of weights and measures now in use. It is a huge tree, which has developed itself...

THE English Burial Service is the record of an age, or ages, so immeasureably deeper and richer in theological insight than the present, that the generation of to-day cannot...

June 3, 1863. THE following are the political results of the last electoral contest in France .— The defeat of the Government in Paris has been complete, over- whelming. The...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, May 19, 1863. SINCE my last letter another campaign in Virginia has begun and ended. You may not, but I do, remember, and with some...

EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." SIR, —Observing that you have been misled, in common, probably, with many others, by an imperfect and inaccurate report of the expressions I used...

SCANDINAVIAN PICTURES AND GERMAN BRONZES. A FRESH eye is the greatest possible extraneous help to the artist. It is in the nature of things that by long looking at his own...

NOTWITHSTANDING all predictions to the contrary, the supply of Italian opera this season seems to be no more than proportionate to the demand. Four nights every week at Covent...

AUSTIN ELLIOT.* Ma. HENRY KINGSLEY'S novels have so much fulness of life in them, such a strong bounding pulse, that there are few books of the kind pleasanter to read. They...

those books which ought to exist, but in manuscript only. To all who know the authoress and her friends it has, we doubt not, a faint interest, like that of an old letter, and...

language of the present day, is gene- rally understood to mean a remnant or a germ of a "nation," an aggregate which, for want of geographical demarcations, or endurable...

THERE is a fine bouncing boyhood about many parts of this diary, which is very characteristic of the English schoolboy and the Northern tar. "What awfully hot soup !" the...

THE" Chronicles of Carlingford" have recommenced in Blackwood, the hero this time being a High-Church curate, hampered by Low-Church relatives. It is scarcely probable that the...

volume of the new edition of De Quincey's works appears to call for something more than a mere record of its reception, inasmuch as it is entirely made up of materials which...

The Spirit of the Bible. By Edward Higginson. Two vols. Second Edition. (Whitfield.)—This is a second edition, little, if at all, altered, of a work which was...

By L. Fairfax. (W. Freeman.)—Mr. Fairfax—for, in our entire ignorance on the point, we give the author of this volume the credit of belonging to the worthier gender—appears to...

"Betty Westminster," &c. (Newby.)—Grace of Glenholme is a young lady who was found, when an infant, in a basket in the river Wye, and. whose parentage is supposed to be...

not worth much. " Akph" is a retailer of gossip concerning interesting parts of the City, and his papers were doubtless appropriate enough in the columns of the City journal...

(Long,mans.)— This very handsomely printed volume contains a warm defence against the attacks which, in the opinion of its author have recently been made upon the Christian...

D. S. Henry.. (Wilson.)—If, as there is but too much reason to suppose is the case, the author of "Joseph Anstoy "is labouring under the impression that he has written a novel,...

Second Series. By Gustav Freytag. Translated by Mrs. Malcolm. Two vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—Gustav Freytag, who is principally known in this country as the author of the popular...

of Human Nature. By Andrew Jukes. Second edition. (Longmans.)— Mr. Jukes appears to have arrived at the conclusion that the whole Bible has a mystic meaning, each portion of it...

compress into one volume a story which, in the hands of a less scrupulous writer, might very easily have been diluted into three. The tale, the scene of which is laid in Paris,...

(Davies.) —The object of this treatise appears to be the re-affirmation of the old opinion respecting the infectiousness of certain diseases, which has of late years been to a...

(Macmillan and Co.)— The principal interest of the four sermons which compose this volume lies in the fact that they contain an expression of Dr. Vaughan's opinion with regard...

Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary, by George Fleming (Hurst an& Blackett).—Laureate Wreath, by J. E. Read (Longman).—Guillo Malatesta, by T. A. Trollope (Chapman and...