8 JANUARY 1848, page 12

Free Trade And Fair Play.

THE Economist last week rushed to the rescue of Mr. Cobden ; seeking- to effect a diversion in his favour, by attacking us for supposing that he can be "astray." Our assailant......

A Christmas Visit To The New Palace At Westminster.

IMPATIENT and grumbling Peers and Members should be sent on a tour among the dusty recesses of the New Palace. Travers.. ing those endless courts and corridors, those galleries......

The Ecclesiastical Courts Nuisance.

AT last something is to be done towards a revision of the so- called Ecclesiastical Law and its Courts. How they can have ex- isted so long is a puzzle, unless it has been by......