T . week has been singularly dull. There is only one revolution going on, and of that the only intelligible accounts published in England have appeared in our own columns....

"THE SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the rtrly Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through News-agents in...

Goyan. According to the latest accounts the Emperor has at last the Second and extinguish brigandage, but he will also protect the by whispers about the contest between M....

PoniTicaL.—Mr. Cobden has addressed a letter to Mr. Ashworth, president of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, expounding his ideas on maritime law. He considers that three...

"I HAVE sent a rough sketch of Hollins's celebrated gunboat — the Manassas or Turtle—taken from the descriptions of intelligent persons in Columbus who have Seen her. She is...

THE ITALIAN DEBATE. George Bowyer is an unconscious Christian. He doubtless thought last Friday night that he was exalt- ing priestly power, helping despots back to their...

Subscriptions to the " FRIEND or Junta," and " OVERLAND FRIEND or INDIA," will be received by Mr. A. E. Galloway, at No. 1, Wellington-street, Strand, London. Terms : Per...

The foltowing telegrams have been received at Mr. Reuter's office: THE MEXICAN INTERVENTION. Madrid, Wednesday. Ix is asserted that should the French troops enter the city of...

A N election for a metropolitan borough has become a word of fear unpleasing to the ears of those who wish well to the liberal cause. Even where the choice of the electors falls...

which is now being played in modern Hellas has drawn to a close. In the first a single city rose in open insurrection against the foreign Government imposed on the country. The...

U P to the last great outbreak of revolutions, fourteen years ago, the superfluous energies of the artisans and skilled labourers of this country were mostly spent in poli-...

A N Englishman's first feeling with regard to the complaints • of the Ionian Islanders is a sentiment of utter per- plexity. What can they want? They have freedom ; they have...

week of the growth of the chief civilized Powers in the last four centuries may serve, imperfect as it necessarily was, to indicate some main points in our present position. It...

the public with respect to the iron ship question is very much that of a man whose newly-built mansion, embracing every possible modern im- provement, has come tumbling about...

I T is a trite subject of complaint that systematic excavations have never been undertaken in Rome. After making all allowance for the many kinds of devastations that have...

T HE scientific result of the new discoveries in warfare is still extremely uncertain. No man probably yet knows whether the means of attack will ultimately beat the means of...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] THE uncertainties of which we spoke in our last letter in reference to M. de Lavalette's journey are still rife. The ministers have held...

[FROM ORR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Washington, March 25. ALMOST every other day you see amongst the petitions presented to Congress a request from somebody or other begging the...

MR. FRITH'S "RAILWAY STATION." This long talked of picture, the third of a series illustrative of con- temporary life and manners, is to-day submitted to public inspection at a...

rejoicing with a delusive joy; memorials, as ever, have "received most attentive consideration;" petitions have been presented, questions asked, statements made, and attention...

LIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM PITT.* FIRST NOTICE. THE new volumes of Lord Stanhope's Life of Pitt have exactly the merits and exactly the defects of the former ones....

of intolerance Lord Shaftesbury and the Pro- testant Alliance have made a great mistake. They should have crushed Mr. Turnbull's calendar, not Mr. Turnbull. They should have...

IT is now fourteen years since the premature death of Felix Men- delssohn Bartholdy left a void in the world of art which another century or two may fail to supply. To a musical...

THERE are few, if any, cities in the world which combine equally with Athens the varied attraction of striking scenery, historical interest, and glorious architecture; and we...

No father would now follow the example of Lord Chesterfield, and solemnly warn his son that no well-bred man ever quotes proverbs. Ms lordship's precept is, if we remember...

We are indebted to the Tower of Babel for three Grammars and a Pro- spectus. "Elaborate treatises have been written," says Mr. Kalisch,* "to prove that Hebrew is an easy...