18 SEPTEMBER 1858, page 14

Impersonal Politics.

p oy cs are hardly used. The direct government of men is under the influence of lower motives than most other great branches of human action at present. We have been accustomed......

Moral Fashions.

ONE of the difficulties in bringing up society to be virtuous is the great diversity of objects which are pointed out as the finger- posts to virtue. Not only do different......

War And Its Weapons.

TRH Emperor Napoleon is building at Cherbourg a new engine of destruction, which the newspapers name vaisseau Mier. Sir Charles Shaw has invented a new battery constructed of......