I TTHE DISMISSAL OF BARON RICASOLI. THE Italian intrigue, whiich we discussed a fortnight ago, has ripened, under French influence, into an accoinplished fact, and the Italian...

THE PRINCE CONSORT'S MONUMENT, AND THE QUEEN. THERE is nothing more striking to Englislhmen. when abroad than the facility with whiich despotic princes mingle with their...

. OUR IRONSIDES. I WHILE Captain Cowper Coles is perfecting his cupola floating W battery, on which, in another ten years or so, the British navy will probably leave been...

ciue Ad. THE most important picture-sale of the season, and one of unusually interesting character, commenced yesterday and terminates to-day at the rooms of Messrs. Christie...

3915iv. Ma. RAKS-?ORD'S " Grand Annual Concert " took place at St. James's Hall on Thursday night, was numerously attended, and though it shared the fault of nearly all its...

GAIRDNER ON PUBLIC HEALTH.* IDR. GARDNER may fairly claim to have made a dull question interesting by his method of treatment. Thle short history of sanitary science With which...

ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF SCOTLAND.* A NEw history of the Scottish Church, the second that it has fallen to our lot to review within a period of about two years, would deserve...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. IUMOURS are very rife of Ministerial weakness, and some LU even venture to fix on the 25th March, the night when Mr. Walpole will move his resolutions on...

THE HITCH IN FRANCE. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] THz might of a free country lies in public opinion. Opinion in France, at different periods, has reigned supreme. But,...

CHATEAU FRISSAC.* 'TiERE is something corresponding to what the chemists call volatile oil in this lady's writing, which gives it a peculiar flavour of its owni apart from any...

THE COURT OF SPAIN UNDER CHARLES II.* THE name of Charles II. of Spain needs no introduction to any reader of Lord Macaulay's brilliant volumes. No one will easily forget the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE FIRST FEDERAL VICTORY. T HE prospects of the North are brightening daily, for the victory at Fort Donelson is but one of a series of suecesses, and the...

M. FECHTER'S IAGO. THE only attempt which Shak-speare ever made at the delineation of a Mephistopheles-a being evil for cvil's sake, and rejoicing in evil even when he gains...

B OOKS. A ROMAN CATHOLIC'S VIEW OF THE TURKISH QUESTION.* MR. MADDEN'S book carries back the reader's memory to a time which, though it is divided from the present day by less...

THE LION OF THE LITIN QUARTER. [Translatedfirom the French Sony strewn over Paris during the week kA has just elapsed.] No, brothers, we are not dead, We have risen and burst...

REALITIES OF TIE CONSERVATIVE REACTION. I M THEN Mr. P. A. Taylor informed the House of ComW w mons " that the question of Parliamentary Reform was as dear to the hearts of...

| ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, Monday, March 3.-Transfer of Land Bills (6) read a second I time, and referred to a Select Committee. Tuesday, March 4.-Revised Code:...

THE PRUSSIAN HOUSE OF COMMONS. HIGHLY interesting spectacle, not appreciated in all its A importance in this country, is presenting itself at the present momentatBerlin. The...

THE SIGNS OF THE HOUR IN FRANCE. 4 ;THEN France is satisfied, Europe is tranquil," and in every civilized capital men are watching with greedy eyes the shade of dissatisfaction...

CURRENT LITERATURE. Wrrinx the connecting memories of three generations of " clearly articulating men," a colonial dependency of the British Crown has risen to the importance...

THE FEELING OF AMERICA TOWARDS ENGLAND. [FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] ANew -York, February 18. THE beginning of the end has come. The mail which brings you this letter...