I T has been a painful week for Sir George Bowyer. In the I first place, the King of Italy has been received in Naples with a welcome such as only a Southern and excitable race...

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Fasscz.—There is a political lull in France, and the public still occupies itself with the Roman Question. General de Goyon re- turned on Wednesday to Paris, and Marshal Niel...

POLITICAL.—The Lambeth election terminated in a kind of tri- umph for Mr. Doulton, which showed that his opponents had never had a shadow of a chance. The state of the poll at...

ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT Hones or Loans, Monday, May 5.—Declaration of Title Bill, Security of Pur- chasers' Bill, Real Property (Title of Purchasers') Bill, and Transfer of Land...

Is the House of Lords last night, The Earl of Danny moved for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the injury resulting from noxious vapours evolved in certain,...

T HIS is almost the first great occasion in the history of England on which we can truly say that a great working class is suffering severely without ignorantly inventing...

FINANCIAL GLADIATORSHIP. AIR. Gladstone, thanks to Mr. Disraeli and Lord Palmer- i!1 ston, has escaped a very serious . danger. It was not likely that a blunder like his speech...

of emotion with which Naples has welcomed her King will dissi- pate many delusions. There is an end of the theory so diligently spread by the Illtramontanes that Naples hates...

N OTWITHSTANDING the disrespect with which the House of Commons treats him, there is something monumental about Mr. Whalley. The less he is permitted the opportunity of rational...

T HE complete triumph of the liberal party in the Prussian elections this week forms an important epoch in the political history of Germany. The result was not quite unexpected,...

W HY is Mr. Doulton the member for Lambeth ? Against the gentleman himself we have nothing to say, be- Cause of his whole career we know absolutely nothing. Still less do we...

Wil not many months ago the Trent brought into the a N rbour of Southampton the news that she had been stopped on her voyage by an American ship-of-war, and two of her...

N O branch of human knowledge is supposed to advance more rapidly than social science, and yet it is wonderful how in- soluble the great social problems remain. Thought, and...

T HE aspect of the huge international bazaar at Kensington, one week after its opening, is something very curious. From the hands of artists and upholsterers, the exhibition has...

C OOKERY is a great art, but it gives us only new flavours, and people want a new meat. The poor have a sauce which makes all food pleasant; but the middle class would welcome a...

[FROM OIIR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Two of our ambassadors have had the privilege this week of engrossing the public attention. The journey of M. Mercier to Richmond, and M. de...

article of last Saturday on the prospects of Reform at Oxford, there was, I think, one misconception, which, per- haps, you will allow me to call attention to. You speak of the...

EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY. FIRST NOTICE. THE ninety-fourth annual exhibition of the Royal Academy opened to the public on Monday last. Despite the fineness of the...

Grato m' sit sonno * * Mentre che'l danno e la vergogna dun. IN immemorial aisles, whose mellow gloom Was crimsoned with the flush of setting day, Where angels prayed above a...

CARLYLE'S FREDERICK THE GREAT.* FIRST NOTICE. EXACTLY twenty-two years ago, in May, 1840, Thomas Carlyle de- livered before a crowded audience, comprising the galaxy of metro-...

.A. SECOND representation of Semiramide at Her Majesty's has led me to the conclusion that, whatever may be the special attractions of certain points in the performance, the...

THAT genius is elevated by unconsciousness is a dogma which it is not perhaps worth any man's while to disturb. It tends, at all events, to produce humility, and perhaps by...

poet must contain a reservoir of special power, a hoard of special experience and capacity for experience, for the interpretation of the life within or around him, which gives...

SECOND NOTICE. WE have said that Mr. Maurice appreciates philosophy considered as a kind of famine of the soul for some spring of infinite rest and life, and also as a social...

of Mr. Campbell's collection of Highland tales will probably a little disappoint the general reader. They have not the peculiar charm of the nursery tales which he first edited,...

By the Rev. J. T. White and the Rev. J. E. Riddle. "I nova the young men of the present day," said Dr. Johnson ; "bat the dogs are not such good scholars as we were." We wonder...

THOSE who can thoroughly enjoy the manifold charms of mountainous scenery without unnecessarily risking their necks, have reason to be grateful to Mrs. Freshfield* for acting as...