15 MAY 1852, page 13

I Generous Revenge.

IF Sir Harry Smith had been a cunning master of rhetoric, which he is not, he could not have devised a more bitter rejoinder to the despatch of Earl Grey notifying his recall,......

Safety Of Iron Ships. "

THE decision of the Court-martial on the loss of the Birkenhead can hardly be said to have left the question where it was : for the very silence of the Court on important points......

Topics Of The Day.

DECLINE OF TILE DERBY CABINET. IT is not "the defeat of Ministers" that has lowered them in pub- lic respect, but the character of their own acts, which are irrecon- eileable......