T HERE is likely to be after all one exciting debate this session. Mr. Stansfeld, backed by a strong and growing feeling in the House, has given notice of a motion for the...

"THE SPECTATOR" is published evety Saturday Horning, in time for . despatch by the Early Trains, and copies if that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

ITALY.—Italy is still occupied with the visit of the King to Naples, where the enthusiasm continues as deep as ever. On the 6th May the King gave a grand ball, at which the...

POLITICAL.—On Monday last Earl Russell, supported by Lord Lyveden, Sir J. Shuttleworth, Sir Walter Stirling, and other nota- bilities, delivered his first presidential speech at...

HOUSE or LORDS, Monday, May 12.—Distress in Lancashire : Lord Shaftesbury's question.—Shannon.Navigation Marquis of Clanricarde's motion. Tuesday, May 13th.—Qualification for...

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No business of importance was transacted in the House of Lords last night. . In the House of Commons, the alleged challenge to a rifle match from the Speaker to the Lord...

THE FALL OF NEW ORLEANS. T HE fall of New Orleans is the heaviest blow - which the South has yet sustained, as injurious from the manner of capture as from the value of the...

S IR Cornewel Lewis, with that happy humour• which. ecclesiasticalquestions generally seem to evoke from his mind, playfully devoted his speech against Church Rates on Wednesday...

reception of Victor Emanuel by the people of Southern Italy, for we do not know an event in modern politics more striking or more hopeful. It is almost sufficient to prove, what...

T HOUGH not visible to the superficial observer it is yet a sober and undoubted fact that Germany is in open revolution. As is natural to the genius of the Teutonic race, always...

C APTAIN Crofton has, we exceedingly regret to say e been compelled at length to resign that position at the head of the Irish Convict Prisons, which has gained so much...

T HIS Mexican fiasco, the worst England has made for many a long day, may possibly yield good fruit, for it may cure the Government of its fancy for joint-stock expe- ditions....

INT OTHING is more remarkable in the character of the English people than the -dislike and suspicion with which they regard a general principle. It is not merely that they are...

T HE flow of visitors, during the past week; has been chiefly towards the collections of jewels and manufactures of precious metals, ex- hibited in the southern part of the...

T HE workmen of Paris have hissed some girls of the demi- monde, and the police are displaying all the alertness of fear. The incident does not seem at first sight one of great...

No. I. T HERE could not be a more timely publication than the little book,* in which M. Marc Monnier has put together with telling clearness a mass of most interesting facts...

PRINCE Ne.roenon . has left for Naples. In spite of the denials of the Monileur no one doubts the political tendency of his journey. It appears certain that lie is empowered to...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Nashville, April 25. IT is a clear sign of how very little centralization there is in America that there is no metropolitan press. New York is...

ROYAL ACADEMY. SECOND NOTICE. Ix the brief descriptive summary of the exhibition given last week I find I have made some important omissions which it may be as well to...

MADAME Lusu-GoLDsmixtor seems even yet to assert a sway over the English public more potent than any of her successors in its favour. The Messiah, the first of the three...

'CARLYLE'S FREDERICK THE GREAT.* SECO/ID NOTICE. Tree events of Frederick's reign described in this volume lie 'in a very small compass, comprising as chief subject the...

A MONTH or twain to live on honeycomb Is pleasant; but one tires of scented time, Colt' sweet recurrence of accepted rhyme, And that strong purple underpties and foam Where the...

IT is curious to mark the nervous qualifications with which cultivated men express, nay even indulge, their belief that they have found a new poet. They seem to know at there is...

Dixon.. Murray. DIXON'S PERSONAL HISTORY OF LORD BACON.* MB. DIXON'S Story of Lord Bacon's Life is a great improvement on his previous effort. He has pruned down the...

Tire Channings will not increase the reputation which Mrs. Wood acquired by ` East Lynne." The latter story, though morbid ins tone, showed power in the delineation of...

section, which is accused by both the others of holding a au " that phrase have any definite idea as to its meaning ? Are they the of the most studious and most subtle minds in...

IT would be curious to compare the grounds on which Grostete's repu- tation rests, with the better estimate of his life and character which Mr. Brewer's " Monumenta...

Tax last man of the English army who died in the Crimea was a young officer of the Royal Engineers, who had given promise of a useful and dis- tinguished career, while his...