14 DECEMBER 1861, page 1

Military Preparations Continue Uninterrupted. Thedock-...

full activity, and Armstrong guns have already been shipped for Canada. A corps d'armee, numbering twelve thousand men, with batteries,commissariat, and military train complete,......

The,week's Debate In The Italian Parliament Has Ended In A

great triumph for the Government, 232 against 79. Baron Ricasoli and his colleagues have gained greatly by being put on their defence. Their three dangerous enemies are Austrian......

The Clergy Had Prepared A Bull-baiting For Lord Granville...

Tuesday last, on the subject of the Revised Education Code, which, however, that nobleman adroitly avoided by two Aatements—that it would not be advisable for many to deliver......

Notice.

"THE SPECTATOR" 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 News-agents in......

The Annual Session Of The Social Science Association For...

will be held iu London soon after the Exhibition, and a meeting has been called at the Mansion House for 20th December, to decide on the necessary arrangements.......

The Irish " Nationalists," I.e. Readers Of The Nation, Have

held a mass meeting in Dublin, and talked treason with im- punity, in order to prove beyond question that they are en- slaved. The meeting exulted in the American outrage,......

The Prince Consort Is Ill Of A Fever, Said To

be gastric.......

News Of The Week.

}E NGLAND is waiting still, the Government providing against the worst contingency, and the people coldly resolved, whatever the cost, to maintain the national honour and......

We Have Little From America On The Internal Straggle. The

Northern naval expedition has accomplished nothing, and a fleet loaded with stones to be sunk in the harbours of Savannah and Charleston has not yet arrived at its destina-......

Domestic Politics Are Overshadowed By The Chance Of An...

war, but we must not omit to record a most manly speech by Mr. Horsman to the non-electors of Stroud. He refuses to be coerced into pledges in which he does not be- lieve. He......