THE 'NEW MISSION IN PARIS. IF the son and heir of Dogberry had had a superior education and had acquired some capacity for writing, he would have given us admirable works on...

THE DANUBE AND THE BLACK SEA. FORTY-TIIREE years have made a great many holes in the treaty of Vienna: Poland is Russian, Cracow is Austrian, France is governed by a Napoleon,...

ROYAL EXNGLAN.ND. A SCOTTISH correspondent who writes under the pseudonymn. of "aing at Arms " has made a grave complaint because we have spoken of " the Queen of England " as...

.1 rttr r 5 tu tljr C-bitur. CUXRRENCY A-ND CREI)IT. Lnd ae, 4thl Joacsry 1858. Sitt-The object of the communication to which you did me the favour to give insertion in your...

PRINTER'S AUTHORSHIP. How often is the author indebted to the printer! A lax expression is sometimes rendered accurate, a feeble expression acquires force, an aimless figure...

WILKINSON'S SPIRIT DRAWIN,-.GS.* Tmis volume possesses the literary merit of an easy and pleasant style, with much amiability aud even warmth of feeling. It is not, however, as...

-A .civ Uniccrsal 3fetthod of Singing, ucitheout the use of Soyfeggi. 1Bif. 11' Baldf. There are some new features in this book. Mr. Balfe observes, not only that the present...

The Verdi Albunm: Tiventy-/Uiefavourite Songs from i-erdi's Ope-as. Verdi is not a Mozart, a Rossini, or a Weber; but to deny him merit -and in some points a high degree of...

Dine arts. THE ARCHITECTURAL EXHIBITION. Thc Picture-Gallery in Suffolk Street is once again, in the annual rotion, occupied by perspective views, plans, elevations, sections,...

Mushir. Thie Six Books of &Sngs without Words (" ILieder o0/e JMorte") for the Pianoforte, bqy Mendelssohln. Edited by J. V. -Davison. This is the firrt volume of a serial...

rROPER LIABILITIES OF BANKS. Lieripool, 29t1 December 1857. SIR-I have read in your paper, and in some others, very sound opinions on the subject of the currency, &c.; but in...

BO OK S. LUDLOW' S LECTURES ON BRITISH I.NDIA.4 CA.MUED on as is the whole government of British India in writing, which writing, after a certain time, is available to the...

o0ue E-PO -:ND sNOTES. 29ith Dec ticr 1857. SIR-I wish to offer a few remarks upon your correspondent J. A.'s letter on Scotch Banking, in Your publication of the 19th. I am...

.wit ?j t C o n rt. ALTHOUoGH the weather has been severe, it has not prevented her MNajesty from walking abroad, or the Prince Consort from shooting in the Windsor preserves....

T,4t 311rtrflpuli5. The first of thc Sun.i dweveing, ser-ices at Westminstcr Abber was attended bv a i rzss sf ` the better classcs," in fact by " regular churchgoers." Tb ie s...

t, 4t t4fatus. The plan. of the four " festival performances " by which the marriage of the Princess Royal is to be honoured at Her Majesty's Theatre is now officially...

THE I-NDIA BILL. Ta-E bill to be introduced by Ministers for the better government of her Majesty's possessions in India will no doubt effect a very great alteration. The...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. Tuii news from India is disastrous in its most prominent incidents-the death of Iaveloek, the defeat of Windham. At present we have no explanation, nor can...

D' E-WES'S SPORTING IN ]BOTH HEMISPHERES.* H VS1vr-G given the world an account of his Australasiant adventures in search of fortune, Mr. D'Ewes has now presented it with his...

SCOTLAND. The annual necting of the subseribers to the United 1 7 ~t.;:,1 oolS was held in E:dinbuirgh on New Year's day. Lord Murrav occulded the ehair. Among the speakers...

1%, rudutiat Lord Althorp having become Earl Spencer, the Southern .Division of Northaamptonshire is deprived of ore of its Members. Two candidates are in the field-Lord Henley...

IRELAND. ',%r. J. D. Fitzgerald, Attorney-General for Ireland, has declined to accept either of the vacant Judgeships. It is understood that Mr. Christian. the...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE BUSINESS OF TIHE OPEN'I-NG YEAR. LORD PALMERSTON-, it is said, has been decidedly bitten with the idea of recording his name among the Reform Mini-Aers...

DYUCE S SH AKESPEARE.' TIHE original design of M1r. Moxon in this edition was a correct text in a handsome library garb. Mr. D ec, however, soon found that if antiquarian and...

DECIMAL COINAGE. BOKrhS and pamnphlets on the subject of decimal coinage are fly ing about. Thole objeet is one that is attractive, but the details are exquisitely d vy . and...

DEATIES. On the 9th July, in the Residency at Lucknow, of cholera, brought onl by fitigue, Lieutenant Alexander John Dashm-ood, 48th B.N.l., eld.,;t soon of Lieutenalnt-Colonel...