9 JULY 1864, page 10

Court Influence.

N OTHING in politics puzzles the average middle-class English- man so much as an allusion such as Mr. Herman made the other night to the influence of the Court. The notion that......

A London Fire.

W E are accustomed to think of moral contagion, of the in- fective power of human sympathy, as so common-place that it fails to excite even our speculative wonder,—but few have......