28 APRIL 1849, page 12

Topics Of The Day.

REACTION A DREAM. Sift JAMES GlSAHAM declares that be takes his stand on the Re- peal of the Navigation-laws as the field whereon to fight the bat- tle of Progress and Reaction;......

Military Expenditure.

THE controversy on our naval and military expenditure illus- trates the fable of the gold and silver shield : a onesided objec- tion is met by a onesided reply, neither......

The Friends Of The Negro.

BUT for repeated experience of the fact, one might be surprised at the readiness with which, on favourite occasions, the most rational and practical men choose to set aside......

Sympathy With Criminals.

SET morality keeps up a kind of dodging chace after sym- pathy with criminals, in the manifest hope of seizing it and quite exterminating the "morbid sentimentality "; yet......