3 JANUARY 1857, page 16

Topics Of The Day.

THE NEW YEAR. nu familiar salutation with which we greet our friends and acquaintances on New Year's Day will to a reflecting person suggest the cheering thought that our lives......

Surrender Of Gibraltar.

"IN the multitude of councils there is safety." Our Government has been favoured with many proposals for its guidance, abroad and at home; but the last piece of advice given to......

Why We Pay The Income-tax.

SELDOM has any public movement been at once more reasonable and more unreasoning than the present agitation against the Income-tax. It appears to be gradually acquiring......