. The Italians are menaced with a difficulty of a kind new to their recent history. A party around the King is urging him strongly to suspend Parliamentary Government and assume...

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

Paescs.—The Emperor has been compelled to read the episcopate a severe lesson. The Pope had invited the bishops of the Catholic world to Rome : nominally, to assist in the...

THE week has been even more flat than its predecessors, both out of and in Parliament, and little note-worthy, except in the striking fea- ture of another fatal accident, in...

Housa or LOEDS, Monday, February 17.—Revised Code : Lord Derby's Question: Answer by Lord Granville.—Count Cavours Letters : Personal Explanation by Lord Clarendon.—Transfer of...

"FRIEND OF INDIA" £2 10s. "OVERLAND FRIEND OF INDIA" £2 Os.

Barn Houses of Parliament sat last night. In the House of Lords, Lord TRURO asked whether the Government had received any applica- tion in relation to the proposed volunteer...

WHAT CAN A STRONG TORY GOVERNMENT DO? T HE Tories are winning the game. Everything during the recess has conspired against the Liberal party. They have achieved, it is true, a...

T HOSE.who have no intimate acquaintance with Italian affairs, will scarcely be able to credit the fact which is, nevertheless, notorious in Turin, that a Court party exists at...

F EMALE politicians, they say, can never endure Mr. Bright, and it is easy to understand why. Nature has denied him no power required for success in politics, save the one which...

M R. Lowe's speech on the Revised Code is pronounced, and justly, a wonderful effort. Had it been an impos- sible one, so much the better would have been the chances of the new...

the whole, decidedly soporific. They resemble nothing so much as a good Chancery suit, carried through half a century, support- ing generations of lawyers, and ending in an...

F single measure promised by the Queen's Speech is r i lw on its way to a Select Committee of the House of Lords. Whether the Chancellor's spirits were damped by the emptiness...

are far to seek. We thought we had done with astrology, but an opponent far more redoubtable than Zadkiel has now taken up the cudgels, and challenges us by our reputation for...

T HE publication of two new and delightful Biglow papers from the pen of Mr. James Russell Lowell—delightful, though one of them does drive hard, and without reason, at recent...

Ta great cities of England all want money. They cannot be taxed much more heavily, and the rise in the value of property which has for years passed helped them along has limits...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, February 4. IT was on the brightest of bright winter days that I entered New York. The sky was blue, with a more than Italian depth...

SIR,—The defenders of the Revised Code are endeavouring to per, suade the publie that the contest is between interested eppidity on the one side, and sound statesmanship on the...

BRITISH INSTITUTION. SECOND NOTICE. POVERTY in choice of subject, and a tendency to follow in the foot- steps of others, are the chief characteristics of most of the figure...

EITHER the intrinsic vitality of Mr. Boucicault's drama, or the at- traction of Mr. Benedict's music, has certainly placed the success of the Lily of Killarney beyond doubt,...

THE ROMANCE OF FRENCH CALVINISM.* GOITER has remarked that few people start in life with such high advantages of training as cultivated French Calvinists. Taking his remark to...

TEis is a good professional contribution towards a life of the great engineer of the Thames Tunnel, but it is not such a life. It is a pro- fessional book which needs to be...

Miss ROGERS has achieved an original and exceedingly difficult task. She has written a book on life in Palestine, which is not also an ela- borate essay on Jewish antiquities,...

THEB.E is a principle well known to the natural philosopher, called the "principle of the want of sufficient reason," which asserts, that where you know all the causes in...

Or all the sources of expression, music is the least exhausted, and perhaps the least exhaustible. So far from showing any signs of becoming dried up, fresh fountains are being...

A. right of the two volumes just named. We never came across a work which more conscientiously and accurately does exactly what it professes to do. That strange congeries of...