15 JANUARY 1859, page 15

The Occasional. By Leigh Hunt.

No. I. INTRODUCTION.—Easy Chairs—Montaigne and Scaliger—Title of these papers—Alarms of Europe—Existing Vices and Miseries and the consolatory Thoughts to oppose to them—The......

The Great Dinner Question.

As a curious contrast to the famous problem—Ought a man to marry upon three hundred a year P—The Times has now elicited a controversy as to the best method of conducting rich......