18 JULY 1863, Page 2

We publish to-day the first of a series of articles

on the great governing families which requires one word of expla- nation. It is intended that each article should, if possible, contain the history of some one family. This arrangement, however, was, in the case of the Percies, impracticable. They- have lived too long and done too much for any conceivable- skill in compression.