W E may, we believe, announce with some confidence the main features of Sir Charles Trevelyan's forthcoming Indian Budget. He has a surplus of two millions, which he will use to...

THE SPECTATOR " 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 ENGLISH TEMPER TOWARDS AMERICA. T HE state of feeling between England and America is one to excite grave, and we fear it may be lasting, anxiety in the minds of all...

T HE first impression produced by the Polish correspondence just presented to Parliament will be one of surprise at the accuracy of newspaper information. The insurrection has...

M R. FERRAND has one claim which may be admitted to represent the operatives of Lancashire. Like all other classes in the country they have their faults, and everything that is...

T HE repulse before Charleston is one of the heaviest blows the Federal Government has yet sustained. The actual loss, it is true, is comparatively insignificant, as it usually...

Council on Educa- tion has shown himself a man of action. He is clearly not inclined to let the grass grow under his feet ; and being full of energy, and very little possessed...

THE Italian Cromwell—we mean Cromwell the priest, not Cromwell the Protector—begins his labours well. In the Italy of to-day, as in the England of 1529, the first object of...

HE managers of the Surrey Theatre have re-introduced the Devil T in person to the stage. And, no doubt, there is something in- trinsically theatrical about him, though his...

IT is quite time that a handbook for advertisers was issued for the guidance of persons who have something they wish to bring before the public, and who generally go the wrong...

April 30th, 1863. " NOTHING is changed in France ; there is only one servant more"—these are the words by which one of the most distinguished journalists of Paris lately...

New York, April 14, 1863. THE debate in the British Parliament on the case of the Ala- bama, on the 27th March, is read here with eager and anxious interest. It excites,...

To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sia,—A writer who has maintained an opposite doctrine on the subject of subscription to that which Dr. Stanley and you have maintained,...

FRENCH EXHIBITION. Tuts, the tenth annual exhibition of pictures by French and Flemish painters, is scarcely up to the average of former years. The really good pictures do not...

Tax music of the week commenced with the second of Herr Ernest Pauer's recitals on Monday afternoon. Though not of so general or varied interest as that of last week,.the...

SIR JAMES GRAHAM.* THERE is only one objection to this life of Sir James Graham— it is not a life at all. It is a history, an account of his parentage and property, speeches...

story, " The Snow Queen," there is a quaint passage of which we have been sometimes reminded while reading good Bishop Colenso's latest arithmetical essays. * Lectures on the...

past away school of novelists, which she has refreshed and revived for us by variations derived from her large experience of Continental society,—we mean the school which...

folly in us to affect impartiality in reviewing a book a large portion of which is a reprint of some of the best recent contributions to our own columns. We knew the charac-...

Tins book is by far the most valuable addition recently made to our knowledge of Peter the " Great." Ordinary readers had an idea that despite his ability and the strides which...

7, we expressed a strong opinion that Professor Tillewi's life of the g. Italian prophet Savonarola was the only book yet published that was at adequate to the subject. We were,...

and the Plan Y — This volume, which bears the name neither of publisher nor printer, is stated to be printed for private circulation ; and it is, we presume, in conse- quence of...

The Victoria Magazine. — The first number of this new shilling magazine, issued by Miss Faithfull, has appeared in good time. It is not, as might be expected from the...

Rev. Alexander Ross. Music by C. G. Hamilton. (Oetzmann and Co.)—With a laudable desire to adapt some of the beautiful Latin Hymns of the middle ages to the exigencies of our...

Jervis, M.P. (Chapman and Hall.)--This timely little volume contains a concise but complete history of the Ionian Islands, from their cession to France by the treaty of Campo...

Michelet's sympathetic nature is so bent on wielding the pen, which becomes a powerful weapon in his hand in favour of the weak, that he can hardly bring himself to acknowledge...

American question is to be settled, in the opinion of the author of this volume, by mediation and territorial adjustment. He agrees with the opinion arrived at by such different...

" Agges- den Vicarage," &c. (Bell and Daldy.)—A very pleasant, well-written, High-Church novelette, the object of which is, we imagine, to inculcate the necessity of " showing...

(W. and R. Chambers.)—This work appears to be constructed on much the same plan as the well-known Year - Book of Mr. Hone. It is divided into sec- tions, corresponding to the...

&c. (Hodson and Son.)—Mr. Chandos Hoskyns Abrahall, who has already written one or two poems on or about Sir John Franklin, has at length taken a more ambitious flight, and has...

1808. By Rev. James Robertson. (Longman.)—This is rather a remarkable little book. Its author is a Scotch gentleman, who in the early part of the present cen- tury was an inmate...

My Ministerial Experiences,, by the Rev. Dr. Buchsel (Alex. Straban and Co.).—The Negeb, or South Country of Scripture, by Edward Wilton, M.A. (Macmillan and Co.). —Village...