T HE Parliamentary week has passed without excitement and almost without debate. Only two Government :measures have been brought forward—one to extend the Lancashire Union...

the week, a Double Number.—The Princes of Wales. —On Saturday, March 7, on the occasion of the Marriage of the Prince of Wales, a Double Number of the Spectator, containing in a...

THE BEGINNING OF THE SESSION. T HE Session has opened tamely, too tamely by far for those who love strong debate and the bracing air of political strife ; but some work is...

I T is difficult to exaggerate, not easy even to estimate, the importance of the Mexican expedition. "It is," said the Emperor a few days since, "the great event of my reign,"...

THE Bishop of Oxford, in a just published sermon, has 1 traced out a new spiritual. "law,"—which is, that every era at which one sacred institution or person comes to an end and...

I T is the duty of the journalist to call public attention from time to time to such of the decisions of our courts as work a great change in the law of the land. That which has...

next the Conservative party, flushed with the victorious Wednesday traditions of last session, are hoping, it is said, to inaugurate a new series of triumphs on behalf of Church...

TIIHERE can be now no more doubt that the precipitated revolt of Warsaw has been developed into an organized revolution of Poland. The fact is proved by all the news received...

A LL through the American war the true diffiulty has been to discover the drift alike of opinion and incidents. The enormous extent of the country covered by military...

seems disposed to occupy its compulsory leisure by opening a Parliamentary campaign on India. The Manchester Chamber of Commerce has already condemned Sir Charles Wood. Mr....

M R. CRAMPTON, in the just published edition of his clever little work on the Lunar World,* tells us an amusing story of an enthusiastic friend of his own who holds that the...

I T would be taking a very superficial view of the revolution just inaugurated in Poland to attribute the sudden outbreak which has astonished Europe to the brutal violence of...

[Fnolf OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] February 11, 1863. M. BILLAULT has again entered the list, and again run a tilt at his unconquerable opponent, M. Jules Fevre. How now ? Had...

The Armourer of Nantes, by Mr. Balfe, was produced at Covent Garden on Thursday evening. One representation of an opera which takes over four hours in performance is, of course,...

CHRONICLES OF CABLINGFORD.* Tuts book will take a permanent place in English literature. There is scarcely any other tale of the present day which, for truth and humour and...

Mr. HARDY has performed a great task, for which, except from a very small class of students, he will receive little gratitude. Most readers of history are not satisfied, unless...

MR. Boom has adopted a somewhat narrow and technical idea of the epigram. "In our own day an d our own language," he says, "an epigram is understood to mean a poem distinguished...

of which our information has hitherto been very incomplete and unsatisfactory. Hundreds of disappointed miners who are now performing a " skedaddle " from the diggings have...

Mas. WOOD should write a play. In the present day, when men go to the theatre to see spectacle, and not the passions, to speculate on situations, and not on the development of...

1863.)—The author of this little book was head master of an im- portant elementary school in Paisley, and it was originally written in the form of lectures delivered by him in...

The Nest Hunters. By William Dalton, author of "Will Adams," dre. (Hall and Co.) — A Chat with Boys on New Year's Eve. By Old Merry. (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder.)—These three...

MA., Author of "Last Hours of Eminent Christians," Ake. (Riving - tons.)— Mr. Clissold is no friend to railway novels. He is pained at the eight of "those countless works of...

—The object of this work is to "supply a history of persons and places, and an explanation of principles, copious enough to convey all essential information, but so concise as...

Beatrice Sforza ; or, the Progress of Truth. By William Brewer, M.D. Three vols. (Hurst and Blackett.)—This is a historical novel, in which the history considerably predominates...

This volume is a kind of cross between the sensation story and the novel of high life. The two elements are combined in the person of Richard Langdon, the hero, who is an...

of Zschokke's Stunden der Andacht, under the direct patronage of Her Majesty the Queen, has, we presume, suggested the idea that the public might possibly receive with favour a...

in toto to German scholarship, and propcses to replace it by an article of his on manufacture. The principal objects of his attack are For- biger, Grotefend, and Zumpt ; and...

(Simp- kin, Marshall, and Co.)—This work, which its writer modestly describes as "a treatise of the Bridgewater class," is, like those once celebrated publications, designed to...

sufficient indication of the nature of its contents. It consists of a collection of short biographical notices, intended mainly for juvenile reading, of a bakers' dozen of...

(Macmillan and Co.)—The position taken by the author of this volume with reference to the question of clerical subscription may be stated in very few words. It is, he thinks, a...

Dublin. They are decidedly above the average standard of such compositions; and the members of this association are very fortunate in finding such men as Archbishop Whately,...

John Radford Young, late Professor of Mathematics at Belfast College (Lockwood).—Mr. Young has boldly undertaken to show that there is no discrepancy between Scripture and...

Barnes. First and third collections. (J. Russell Smith.)—Mr. Barnes's position as a public favourite is so firmly established that there is no necessity for us to do more than...

Purcell, Esq., of the Inner Temple. (Pickering.)—Can anybody tell us whereabouts in the - world is "the region where Nature's smiles are hollowest, and man's finest feelings...

Low.)—This pretty little volume tells the story of an enor- mously rich City man, who marries the lovely daughter of- a rained nobleman. The match is not destined to be a happy...

Er.mor--Gunvcan—On the 10th inst., at St James's, Piccadilly, by the Hon. and Rev. Frederick de Grey, John Lettsom Elliot, Esq., to Harriet, Countess of Guil- ford.

which has, at least, the merit of being not inaptly named. Here is a taste of Minimus's quality :— " Yon Rose, that, conscious of her grace, With bashful beauty flushes, I'll...

Nationalities of Europe, by B. G. Latham, M.D. (Allen and Co.).—A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion, by Theodore Parker (Trabner and Co.).—The Ionian Islands, by...