BANVARD'S GEOGRAPHICAL PANORAMA OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND MISSOURI RIVERS. I This curious exhibition, at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, is a moving transparent picture, which...

JENNY LIND AGAIN. We have not heard Jennv Lind since the last night of the Opera season; but we have seen much of her in the newspapers. She returns to London on Friday next;...

Just at this period of the year there is usually a pause in the production | of theatrical novelty; the managers being absorbed in the preparation of that all-important affair...

CRIMINAL LAW REFORM. TO TIHE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR. SIn-In last week's Spectator I find an article entitled " The Weak Point of Criminal Law Reform"; and I could wish much to...

I Those who are not weary of the woes of "Lucy Neale," or the eccen- I tricities of " Old Dan Tucker," may find recreation in a new troop of "Ethiopians," (a word that in town...

Zbe -Metropolis. A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday. The Committee for General Purposes, to whom had been referred the consideration of the subject of betting lotteries,...

ate (Court. TnE Royal Family continue at the Queen's seat in the Isle of Wight, in | the full enjoyment of health. Lord and Lady John Russell left Osborne on Monday; and Earl...

PULZSKY, THE HUNGARIAN PATRIOT. BY ONE WHO KNEW 113. FRANCIS PULSZKY was born in the town of Eperies, the capital of the county of Skros, in Upper Hungary, somewhere about the...

ART IN AGRICULTURE. AN English Brahmin or "vegetarian " would be shocked in traversing the Baker Street Cattle-show. The eye wantons over a plethora of beef and mutton and...

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE FRO3M FRANCE. Paris, December 7. | What else could I speak of ? Is it not the all-engrossing thought, the Universal and only topic of men, of women,...

SPECTATOR'S LIBRARY. HISTORY, The History of England from the Accession of James II. By Thomas Babington Macaulay. Vols. I. Il ........................ . Longman and Co....

THE POPE. THE flight of " Pio Nono " from Rome proclaims that the vitality of the Papacy has departed. This catastrophe has come rather suddenly upon the world; but its causes...

TOPICS OF THE DAY. "FREEDOM ! "-WHERE? HOW? WEST YORKSHIRE is not strong enough for its duties: the " empire " county flinches from the performance of its service, and is...

Bv letters from Berlin. of the 6th instant. we learn that the King had I dissolved the Constituent Assembly and promulgated a new constitution. Some step had been'rendered...

Ancordinvr to recent intelligence. the Pone. instead of going to Naples, ^s-- - * v H A -''ty7~^ -r- ~ - n-L- -- --has proceeded to Benevento. From Gaeta it is as far to...

Tt t.e he- n 6 m, nred anrinof the nest week. that in consequence of the daring pitch to which the pirates on the coast of Morocco have carried their lawless avocations, as...

nkP Ir-;"n P-fs mp-t-fl thnt. th. pplltnrC nrmrld bv the will of I Lord Melbourne are Lord Brougham and Mr. Edward Ellice; into whose hands will come a mass of important...

I A pleasant little opera, called Robin Goodfeflow, has been successfully A pieasant lttie opera, cabaeu rXuwul "u-uJ-uw, produced at the Princess's. It is composed by Mr....

THREATRES AND MUSIC. I I A "1now srand Fnplish onera " was nroduced at Covent Garden on Wed I nesday, under the title of Quentin Durward; of which the libretto is by Mr....

POSTSCRIPT. SATURDAY. We have alreadv announced the Emperor Ferdinand's abdication of the Austrian throne. The ceremony of abdication was transacted in the Coronation Hall of...

Jforerin antb Qlolonial. 1 fNCE.-The impossibility of forecasting the event of the Presidential election, tomorrow, may be presumed, when the mere influence of the skies is...

IRELAND. ; 1'etrenclinment here is the orler of thie day," says the Dublin corresponleit of the DJ~b,/1 Newas. " You are already aware of the abolition of the ,flice of...

The Pope and his Cardinals are dispersed in flight. As the vete- I ran Lambruschini escaped in the Uniform of a dragoon, Pius evaded in the less appropriate guise of a servant...

| The election which is to occupy the French people tomorrow is preceded by a competition for -public patronage, among the candidates and their friends, not at all dignified or...

Lord Grey's proffered loan of half a million to the vest Indies is not received with blind gratitude. In Jamaica, the share is accepted with terms of thankfulness; but the...

Rough weather for electioneering ! _ l . . . . - What with the heat of the House and the cold of the hustins, Members have need of robust constitutions. To stand as candidate,...

NEWS OF THE WEEK. FERDINAND of Austria abdicated ! -the Pope fled! Monarchs I pass, states fall and rise, with a rapidity that mocks recording. If portents are to be...

THE FORGERY, BY MB. JAMES. IF the favourite dish of the French epicure, too frequently repeated, at last drew from him the agonized exclamation of "toujours perdrix! even the...

RICHARDS'S DREAM Or THE SOUL, AND OTHER POEMS. HAD this volume been a first attempt, it would have been hailed as a work of promise; for its pieces often exhibit a rough force,...

DEATH OF IBRAHIM PACHA. WITH the death of Ibrahim Pacha departs the last influence of the triad that mastered E-ypt-.Mehemet Ali, Boghos Bev, and Ibrahim-Arabice, "the head,...

abe Vrobinces. The Liskeard Liberals have invited as their candidate to replace Mr. Charles Buller in the representation, Mr. Crowder, Q.C., a leading barrister on the Western...

THE SCOTCH LAW OF SEDITION. IN our compendium of current news last week, we briefly noticed the opinions and decision of the Lords of Justiciary, the supreme criminal Judges of...

THE PIPE OF REPOSE Is, as the second and more appropriate title of the book properly expresses, "Recollections of Eastern Travel" during a journey from Cairo to Jerusalem, by...

fflisellaneous. I Cabinet Councils have been held, on Wednesday at the Foreign Office Iand on Thursday at Lansdowne House. The latter Council was attended Iby Lord Lansdowne...