L ORD PALMERSTON has made exactly a dozen speeches in Scotland this week; four in Glasgow, three in Greenock, three in Edinburgh, and two at Leith, all with his usual vivacity...

Cl THE SpEcneron " 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 ALABAMA AND PETERHOFF DEBATE. W E read the debate of yesterday week on the Alabama question with profound humiliation. It is not that we sympathize with the Federal...

A NOTHER of our old institutions is doomed. Another time-honoured privilege is to be torn from the reluctant grasp of the Common Councilmen of the City of London, and the Lord...

T HE Emperor hesitates still. That strange indecision which has attacked him in all great crises of his career, and which is the result of a conflict between his intellect and...

GOLDWIN SMITH always seems practical. The LVI Cobbett-like force of his language, and the Jacobin thoroughness of his ideas, combine to create an impression of conviction which...

will, it is said, occupy itself with Lancashire, and it is almost time. To the calamity which has fallen upon the county, and which seemed for a few months to hush the voice of...

O F all murder trials, poisoning cases are the most un- satisfactory. Prom the very nature of the crime, the evidence which connects the criminal directly with its com- mission...

T HE Lord Rector of Glasgow University has permitted himself one great moral heresy in his inaugural address. The primary object of education being to depress the spirits, the...

6 D EAU FY is but skin deep" say old maids ; but then who is .1.) going to tear off the skin? Beauty is harmony, after all, and perfect harmony is the highest effect even...

T HE treat which comes but once a year to bid oarsmen is past for 1863. To say that we had our usual yearly treat on Saturday last, the 28th of March, would not be true, for the...

(FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) That occupy mankind below," and which Cowper's jackdaw contemplated "secure and at ease" from his speculative height, have reached their climax...

Aurnorrea the past month has not been marked by any very im- portant musical events, there has been no deficiency of good music provided for those who can appreciate merit...

17, Hanover Square, April 2nd, 1863. To THE EDITOR OF' THE "SPECTATOR." SIR,-I have seen Mr. S—, who has just returned from the Continent, and is in ill health, which will...

GARDINER'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND.* BACON, in one of his "Essays," mentions a prophecy common in his childhood, whilst "Elizabeth was yet in the flower of her years," "When Hempe...

THE heroine of this tale is almost the only figure we remember to have met with in modern fiction whom we positively grudge to the world of imagination. A very young man reading...

three admirable essays on sub- jects which, at a first glance, might seem insufficiently related to each other. We may therefore premise our remarks by stating that the...

it in her power to render a service by giving a clear account of institu tions hidden from the public eye under a covering of most unwise and most unnecessary mystery. She has...

BLACKWOOD has two articles this month on the far East ; but though readable they are not of the strong political interest possessed by the first two upon China. "Sensation...

and Co.)—The author of this volume, who is Principal of, and Professor at Theology in, the University of Queen's College, Canada, has given us, under a slightly affected title,...

books respecting prophecy of which it is absolutely impossible to read much. We freely confess that we have gono no further than the first ten pages; and within that narrow...

A Cypress Wreath for Lancashire. By W. Dorring Evans, son., Newport, Monmouthshire. London : Detsmarn and Co.—Among the many tributes to the courage and patience of the...

II. (Manchester: Heywood.)—This second instalment of Mr. Brierley's Lancashire tales tends, on the whole, to justify the praise which we have already bestowed on the first....

(Chapman and Hall.)—This momentous question is answered very decidedly in the affirmative by Mr. Edwards, who declares, with all onfidence, that every landowner who is likely at...

Romans. By C. E. Prichard, M.A. (Longmans.)—This is the first instalment of a aeries of commentaries on the Epistles of the New Testament, designed especially for the use of...

Tale. (Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Both these recent additions to Messrs. Smith and Elder's well-selected series of standard authors are quite able to hold their own against any of...

Blackett).—That prolific writer, Mr. Walter Thombnry, after having tried his hand at several different branches of literary composition, has at length produced an historical...

Deep Waters, by Anna Drury (Chapman and Hall).—Lispings from Low Latitudes (Murray).—The Naturalist on the Amazons, by H. Walter Bates (Murray).—Jones's Handbook of Phonography...