13 APRIL 1861, page 15

Short Time.

T HE passion for leisure seems to increase among us. For nearly two hundred years, ever since the Puritan uprising gave the death blow to public holidays„the tendency . of......

The New Viceroy Of India.

L ORD Canning, after a reign of six Years, unequalled in the history of India for incident awl anxiety, is at length about to retire. His successor, it is said, is the Duke of......

Roman Diplomacy. T He Papal Court, For So Many Centuries The

school of all diplomatists, appears to have lost its cunning. The "unchangeable policy" seems to-day devoid of one of its essential features. Formerly the Popes struck at the......