12 APRIL 1856, page 14

The National Gallery.

STAMESMEN who employ the public money in giving salaries by favour are just as much guilty of misappropriation as clerks who embezzle;' and when public property is intrusted to......

Agriculture In France And England.

GREAT exhibitions like those of 1851 and 1855 comprise an agri- cultural show upon an international plan ; and the advantages are on a scale proportionate to the difference......

Fire-insurance Duty.

THE new bill extending the duty of fire-insurance to foreign policies is a bungling attempt to get over a difficulty and to avoid the only feasible course. The demand to lower......