8 JANUARY 1848, page 13

Misleading Statistics.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. Cle#, 4th January 1848. Sne—Few questions seem to deserve more serious attention at the present junc- ture than those connected with the West......

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......

Warlike Preparations In France.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. 6th January 1848. Snt—The moderate and judicious tone adopted by the Spectator on the subject of the defence of the country, is worthy of the......

Ecclesiastical Courts. Lerma L

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. London, 5th January 1848. Six—In the whole range of subjects which vitally affect the entire community, there is not one of more serious and......

Fictions Legal And Illegal

CRILYTHING has its opposite, or, as a herald might say, its counter-charge ; and by this rule, legal fictions present an in- Term which may be called illegal fictions—the legal......

Modern Chivalry.

Tun modern is to the olden spirit of chivalry what the com- mercial and civic Knights of the day are to the Knights of the Round Table or the Paladins of Charlemagne. Sacrifice......