4 DECEMBER 1858, page 19

Law Reform And Its Anomalies.

NOTHING betrays the want of altive and effective statesmanship in this country more than the condition into which, with all its un- doubted reforms, the law has fallen. To say......

" Fraser" And '" Blackwood " On Tat Present State

OF POLITICS. "Who is the prosecutor of M. de Montalembert ? None other than the Emperor, whom we are in the habit of calling our most faithful ally, whom Lord Derby (shame, for......

Railway Improvements, Timer Progress And Hindrance.

Tax railway world is heaving," as the penny-a-liner says, with ideas of _improvement, big and little ; but every improvement is first incubated in the hard-shelled form of......