T HE Polish rebellion extends. Langiewicz, the new Dic- tator, has, during the week, twice defeated the Rus- sians, who are, moreover, said to have been repulsed at three other...

" THE SrEurkros " is published every Saturday Morning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through Booksellers in...

THE CLOUD IN LANCASHIRE. T HE Times of Saturday last contained a letter from Mr. Bridges, a physician residing in Bradford, which has, with good reason, attracted an unusual...

T HE Emperor of the French is making up his mind. That is the only deduction possible from the strange series of despatches, notes, reports, foreign letters, and semi-official...

Commons on Tuesday night during Sir George Grey's Ministerial statement of the views of the Government concerning Mr. Forster's motion on the Game Laws, was more picturesque...

It was always a puzzle to all men who comprehended the East why the Chinese Government, with its traditions of isolation, its timidity, and its pride, should have so suddenly...

T HE whole of the correspondence respecting the gunboat Alabama has now been laid before Parliament, and it is not possible to deny that, at all events so far as the Board of...

M R. RD3TON is, no doubt, in his way an able advocate ; but we think a little of that metaphysical insight which, in ordinary cases, is the last qualification an able barrister...

S IB, RICHARD MAYNE'S "Letter to the gentlemen connected with the Times," which was read in the House of Commons on Friday, by Lord Hotham, is a curious document. It begins by...

T HE Press of all Europe is ringing with condemnation of the brutalities practised by Russian troops. The murders of unarmed men in lliechow, the outrages offered to local...

1 F all classes of philanthropists and social reformers do not agree in according to the improvement of the dwellings of the labouring classes absolutely the foremost place...

T HERE is a curious episode in the early life of the present Emperor of the French, little known in this country, which throws a flood of light upon his character, and strangely...

(FROM Ot'R SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) March 19th, 1863. "Heaven knows that even to excess, The sacred freedom of the press . . . My only aim's to crush—the writers," says Moore's...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, March 3rd, 1863. WERE our armies under the commanders of six months ago, this long inaction would be a reason for disquietude and...

MR. FALCONER'S judgment was strangely at fault when he ex- pended his money so lavishly in devising such magnificent spectacle for a piece like Bonnie Dundee. The dialogue, the...

MONTALEMBERT ON THE POLISH INSURRECTION.* THERE are few things more remarkable than the extraordinary difference in the warmth of French and English feeling with re- ference to...

Ix has been well said that the old school of American authors are not American, but English, in their art. Until a recent period the only strictly American authors were the...

THE question of Petronius's age is closely connected with the further question of his name. It is probable that the original ground for assigning the Satirae to the age of Nero...

"TRUTH," says Calvin, "is the child of Time ; " a memorable generalization of which, in these last days, it would, perhaps, be difficult to find a more satisfactory illustration...

can afford for first cousins or intimate friends. Even babas of literary inventiveness are no help in the matter. The most fertile mind sinks into a fatal stupor when that...

A B C of Life. By A. B. Child, M.D., author of "Whatever is is Right." (Boston : White and Co.).—Dr. Child is a gentleman who, apparently desirous of aspiring to the proud...

"Ragged Homes and how to Mend Them." (Nisbet and Co.)--In this little volume Mrs. Bayly gives a very interesting account of a brief visit which she paid at the close of last...

to the Gulf of Cmpentaria. Edited by William Wills. (Bentley.)—It is so short a time since we had occasion, while reviewing a small volume on the subject by Mr. Andrew Jackson,...

(Parker, Son, and Bourn.)—This is a kind of supplement to a work bearing the same title which appeared about seven years ago, and was designed to give an account of the various...

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—It is, we fear, somewhat doubtful how far the authoress of "Mr. Arle" can fairly be congratulated on the appearance of her latest noveL The story is...

By Rev. John Selby Watson, M.A., M.R.S.L., author of "Life of Richard Person," &c. (Longmans.)—The Rev. J. S. Watson, -whose "Life of Person" gave rise to a good deal of...

A Welcome (Emily Faithfoll).—Nine Months in the United States, by Rev. G. Fisch (Nisbet and Co. ■.—Leavoi front our Cypress and our Oak (Macmillan and Co.).— Clippin g s from...