T HE long political lull has ended. Parliament was opened on the 5th instant with somewhat unusual ceremony, for although Her Majesty was absent, the Prince of Wales, as Duke of...

" THE SPEMATOE " 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 PROSPECTS OF THE SESSION. L ORD PALMERSTON has resolved once more to play a de- fensive g ame. The Queen's Speech read by Commission on Thursday proposes no pro g ramme,...

panoramic surveys of the British policy .1.11 at the openin g of a new session of Opposition are seldom, indeed, wise, but always intelli g ent, diversified with tellin g...

T lIE Mexican expedition will form one of the strangest pages in the history of the Napoleonic Empire. The more its true narrative becomes known, the more it is seen that the...

The elections take place in the summer, and the first object of the Emperor for months past has been to secure in the new Legislature an undisputed ascendancy. His majority is...

E NGLISHMEN are accustomed to many different types of eloquence, but there is but one orator in England, think of him as a politician as we may, whose best sen- tences vibrate...

T HERE is nothing, perhaps, in the whole range of American. polities which so painfully strikes the observer as the difficulty: of ascertaining the course of public opinion....

T HE contrast between French and English parliamentary life, between show and reality, has been singularly illustrated this year in the opening of the legislative assemblies of...

‘il ANY admirers of French literature can, no doubt, recall the beautiful piece of prose which is appended to the later editions of Lamartine's " Jocelyn." " In serious studies...

To the editor of the Spectator my thanks are due for the insertion cif my last letter, since it happened not to square exactly with his own views on the latest speech of the...

D. MAURICE. To, TEE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." SIR,—In a review of Dr. Stanley's lectures on the Jewish Church which appears in the last number of Macmillan's Magazine,...

SIGNS of returning animation in the musical world are now visible, and concerts have been rather frequent during the past fortnight. The Musical Society of London held the first...

BISHOP COLENSO ON EARLY HEBREW HISTORY.* THE clerical disputants whose life for the last three months has been tormented by the inexorable arithmetic, and made glad by the more...

THE very clever author of this book says of one of his characters that he was a man " who would have bet on the Resurrection ;" and his own book suggests the sort of mind which,...

• Maaoroneana Andra, overeat Nouveaux Maanges de Literature Macaronigue. Par Octave Delepierre, Membre honoraire de la Societe des Antiquaires de Londres, &e. London: Trubner...

IT is probable that Admiral Fitzroy knows more about the weather than any other man in England. As a scientific meteoro- ologist he may have his equals, or possibly his...

THE Magazines this month are by no means sirikingly good. "Salem Chapel," in Blackwood, has ended, and the story which replaces it, " Our New Doctor," strikes us as a very dull,...

Les Animaux Diplomates. Par W. de F. ler Cahier. (Williams and Norgate).—A comic, would-be satirical, dramatic sketch, founded on the leading events in the history of Europe...

(Smith, Elder, and Co.)—Horse Warranty. By Peter How- den. (Hardwicke.)—These are two books on matters connected with horses, each of which has merits of its own. The Colonel...

is the first number of a new monthly shilling periodical, which in outward appearance bears a strong resemblance to the Cornhill Magazine. It does not begin very powerfully; but...

not even a title-page, consists of a collection of twenty- Eve photographs, taken apparently from drawings by M. G. Brion, illustrative of various scenes and characters in...

Son, and Bourn.)-This is a pleasantly written and fairly interesting story, the scene of which is laid in Naples, in 1848. The unsuccessful attempt at an Italian revolution...

and Co. ; Bell and Dalq.)-Tliis - edition of Schiller's famous. trilogy appears to us to be worthy of all praise. To a carefully revised text, Dr. Buchheim has added a brief...

The Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua, by the Bishop of Natal (Longman:). - Verner's Pride, by Mrs. Henry Wood (Bradbury and Evans),-A Daughter of Eve by Hain Friswell...