I T is not easy to frighten the House of Commons, but on Monday Sir Cornewall Lewis almost succeeded. He was asked by Sir F. Smith, in the form of a regular motion, why if the...

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been presented to the Legislative Body, and amounts to 5,554,800/., of which sum 3,210,220/. is placed at the disposal of the Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public...

Quarters ended - -- Jane 80, Sept. 30, Dec. 31, March 31, 1861. 1861. 1861. 1862. )ustoms .0,821,000 £5,982,000 £6,147,000 .0,724,000 3xcise 5,171,000 4,221,000 3,896,000...

Hones OF LORDS, Monday, March 31. — Australian Colonies Government Act Amendment Bill: second reading. Tuesday, April L—Bleachfields (Women and Children Employment) Bill:...

In the House of Lords last night, Lord Kimearen called attention to the state of - Poland, and asked Earl Russell if he had received any information as to the alleged torture...

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THE B1JDGET. T present Chancellor of the Exchequer can scarcely be called a democrat, and yet it is impossible to deny that the one distinction of his budgets has been that...

M UCH of the perplexity connected with the present looli- tical state of Southern Europe might be removed if the social influence of the French clergy could be correctly mea-...

on the value of Iron- sides in naval warfare was not altogether satisfagtory. The public wanted but one thing—an assurance that Govern- ment were fully alive to the lesson...

His mind is singularly cool and colourless, frigid in tone, and devoid of aU the ideal elements of statesmanship. But he has, what is rarer than we usually admit, a political...

r Roman Court believes with the rest of the world i ll That its death-struggle is nearly at hand, and, like all -other great powers, grows dangerous in its despair. There .are...

A STRANGE and painful tragedy has just been recorded, which should touch somewhat deeply all literary men. Mr. Alex- ander Birnie, the subject of this tragedy, appears to have...

T HE advocates of what are called Woman's Rights have hit upon an exceedingly clever and somewhat crafty scheme. They want to have the system of middle-class examinations...

ITHIN the last ten years the immensely increased facilities afforded by the suburban lines of rail have enabled many thousands of persons engaged in daily business in town to...

• [hum mut SPECILL CORRESPONDENT.] Washington, March 17. ACCESSIBILITY seems the especial and universal attribute of American statesmanship. There is never any difficulty...

[nom ODII SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] A PORTION of the programme of M. Fould has already been carried out, namely, the conversion of the Renter:. Although you have already devoted...

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. [SECOND NOTICE.] THE display of portraiture at Suffolk-street is not of very high quality. There is a very pink little boy by Mr. Baiter, called...

Apropos of all martyrs and saints, the most extraordinary of all ac- cessions to that noble army is to take place in a few years hence, as soon as time allows. An enormous...

Sra,—An article in the Times of to-day, referring to a petition of the mayor and some three thousand inhabitants of Kingston, Jamaica, that England may interpose her good...

comes a verbose et grandis episfola from the Haymarket, announcing, in stilted sentences and flowery language,that Her Majesty's—" that great and renowned Temple of the...

THE ROMAN BOOK TRADE UNDER THE EMPIRE.* How in the world does Sir Cornewall Lewis find time for his various avocations ? It was but the other day, while still Home Secretary,...

Piton Mr. Spedding's previous labours we had reason to expect that lie would bring to hear upon the perplexing questions connected with Bacon's personal and political history an...

A SLIGHT intimation that "Friends in Council" would never meet again, or would at any rate no longer communicate their reflections to the public, must have depressed those...

OVER the body of this work the publishers are still at war, though one would have thought that on the principle de mi- nimis non carat lex, it might have been allowed to slip...

of Redclyffe " comes before us in a new light, as editor of this agreeable volume of Biographies of Good. Women." Such a collection was very much wanted by young people, and...

TEE Magazines for this month are unusually good. Fraser contains one paper so excellent, and in a literary sense so valuable, that we have endeavoured to answer it in a separate...

As might have been expected, the American "difficulty" has spawned forth a whole mushroom brood of pamphlets of various degrees of merit. Seniores priores : in the foremost rank...