14 APRIL 1855, page 14

Promotion Upside Down.

THE appointment of officers for hereditary reasons or for personal favour is not peculiar to this country. We find an admirable spe- cimen of it in the practice of an ally for......

Convict Auxiliary Corps In The Crimea.

THE notice given by Mr. Adderley for Monday . next is one that re- quires grave consideration both of the reasons in furtherance of his proposal and of the objections that may......

What Is A Gentleman ?

THERE is no word used in so many senses as " gentleman," or in so many non-senses. Lord Palmerston fell into a lax use of it, while professing to use it very accurately, in that......

The Reform That Makes No Noise.

TEE sound of the cannon in the East, and the dilatory pleas of diplomatists at Vienna, have not been able entirely to arrest the progress of improvement amongst ourselves; and......