1 JANUARY 1859, page 20

India And British Finance.

Mx first and paramount subject connected with India is the great deficit. Whatever else is uncertain or doubtful in regard to the future of our strangely won and anomalous......

Ionian Discontent.

GLIDSTOICE has made a pronconsular progress through the islands of the Ionian republic. Everywhere he has been received with enthusiasm ; his carriage has been drawn by the......

Laputa On The British Navy.

EVER since the war in the Crimea we have had the pleasure of reading a great deal about the decay of England as a military power. Even Spain, with memorials of our prowess in......