28 AUGUST 1858, page 14

An Imperial Pitchfork.

THE Emperor of the French is endeavouring to create that kind of organization which would constitute perfect national unity. Napoleon is the motive brain the French nation the......

A Floating Hotel.

Is a merchant ship which conveys passengers "a floating hotel " ? May it be converted into a floating prison—not only in the sense of Sam Johnson, who said that "a ship is a......