23 FEBRUARY 1856, page 14

A Brazil Nut To Crack.

Bairn is one of the countries whom the caprices of our Foreign Office, under the impulse of bigotry, have excluded from friendly alliance with this country. It is a remarkable......

The New Commtssion Of Crimean Inquiry.

ANOTHER exposure in our military systempromises to bring after it—if we may put faith in precedent—a further administrative reform. After some preliminary notice, Mr. Layard......

The Further Question Of Life Peerages.

By the manner of opposing the creation of a Life Peerage, the dis- sident Law Lords have opened the question 'yet wider. They might, in all probability, so have conducted their......