14 JANUARY 1871, page 13

Dictatorships And National Assemblies.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE"SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The letter from " A Whig," in your last number, ought not to pass unanswered by those who think that their hatred of tyranny is as strong......

Poetry.

SONNET TOTHOMAS CARLYLE. (SUGGESTED BY AN ARTICLE IN THE LAST "SPECTATOR. ") OH graphic writer of the rugged pen, Who scornest the true bard's enraptur'd rhyme, By which into......

English Foreign Policy.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—As a faithful subscriber for many years to the Spectator, its weekly advent is to me the expected visit of a welcome and congenial......

Rugby School.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR:' Sin,—Those who,' like myself, though not Rugleseians, regard the prosperity or adversity of the greatest school in the land with eyes and......

Mr. Gladstone And The Recognition Of The Late French Empire.

(TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR. "] Sin,—The Pall Mall Gazette commented as you do, in your last number, upon a letter of mine to the Daily News, to the effect that Mr.......