12 OCTOBER 1861, page 15

The "man On Horseback."

O NE of the favourite theories of the Conservatives is that the American crisis must lead to a military despotism. Rampant democracy, they say, invariably does so lead, and......

The Church And Free Thought.

THE morning papers of Saturday last contained a letter from Mr. MeNaught to his late parishioners at Everton, explaining the rea- sons which have induced him to resign the......