25 JANUARY 1862, page 9

M. Foul]ys Hopes For 1863.

A FRENCH budget is in some sense a financial poem, an effort of imagination rather than of laborious arith- metical understanding. Like the Indian budgets, the airy French......

England's Latest Possession.

G EOGRAPHY is a luxury which has only in very late years taken any real hold on the dwellers in these isles. The generation now in the prime of manhood grew up in profound......