C1JRIOl7S political lull has been apparent throughout the week in Parliament, and out of it. Nobody seems to want anything very particularly, unless it be Mr. Milnes, who has...

Tie first Letter of our Special Correspondent in America may bee:peeled sent week. His letters will, we believe, be found of a somewhat novel character, containing week by week,...

FneascE.—The law on the conversion of Four and a Half per Cent. Rentes has been published, and the difference to be paid fixed at Sf. 40c. for Four and a Half per Cent. Rentes,...

THE political thought of the nation has been simmering feebly under the stimulus of a new parliamentary session, but. without as yet giving much sign of immediate activity. The...

House OF LORD8, Monday, February 11.—Imprisonment of British Subjects in the United States: Earl Russell's Reply to the Earl of Camarvon's Question.—American Blockade: Lord...

On the 13th inst., at the parish church of Blackley, by the Rev. W. T. Blatirweyt, Rector of Langridge, Somereetakire, assisted by the Rev. W. R. Keeling, the Rector, Herbert,...

An Account, pursuant to the 7th and 8th Victoria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Wednesday, the 12th day of February, 1862. ISSUE DEPARTRENT. Notes issued £29,868,780...

"TEE SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Morning, in time Ar despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same Afternoon through News-agents in any...

BOTH Houses of Parliament sat last night. In the House of Lords, Earl STANHOPE wished to know if the Government had received informa- tion of the despatch by the Federal...

THE AUSTRIAN TERTIUM QUID. B AITED by Italy and menaced by France, with one kingdoni barely held by an army which consumes twice its revenue, and another only restrained from...

M R. White's motion on Tuesday has scarcely received all the justice which it deserved. It was not, as the public seem to imagine, a mere device for the expediting of business,...

T HE Mexican Blue-book is not by any means pleasant reading, for the pith of it seems to be this : the British Government have adhered to their principles, but have been forced...

W HEN Mr. Milner Gibson first joined the present Go- vernment as President of the Board of Trade, it was said, and with some apparent truth, that the coalition was a purely...

T HE few letters of Count Cavour, just published by the friends of Ratazzi, throw little new light on the cha- racter of the deceased statesman. We all knew that he was an...

Russia, and the ice is bending and cracking in all directions. The stream runs swiftly underneath, solid as the surface appears, and since the first great breach the whole mass...

I T any misanthrope wishes for a mournful spectacle "of human hopes defeated and o'erthrown," let him read Mr. Seward's correspondence on foreign affairs, laid before Congress...

his bill for the abolition of church rates, and that exhausted discussion must commence once more. One party will de- clare, for the hundredth time, that a law which, after all,...

T HE most careless observer of modern science is probably aware " of the great advance that has been made of late years in what we may call the science of conjectural philology....

V ALENTINE'S Day, like many other old days, is going out of fashion. Valentines no longer possess a charm for society. Custom, in this respect, has long since undergone a...

TIRE industry of modern scholarship has so thoroughly ransacked the stores of ancient learning, and has poured so full a light, not merely on the public, but even the domestic,...

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION. WORsE and worse appears to be the motto of the British Institution. A sure and steady decrease of merit is apparent each year the exhi- bition opens....

NEvER, perhaps, even during the height of the furore at the Adelphi a year ago, has the Colleen Baum been so inevitable a topic of con- versation as at present. The Lily of...

DR. MILMAN ON LORD MACAULA.Y.* WE regret to say that our readers will be much disappointed with this biography - . Every competent person expected much from it. Dean 'Allman is...

present day have not a very human style,— and in this respect we fear that Aids to Faith may be found even • A Series of Theological Essays by Several Writers. Edited by William...

Ma. Funtuvarz has just brought out a most interesting specimen of our early literature. Robert of Brunne's treatise on Handlyng Spine is a mediteval "whole duty of man," and has...

their hearts to the public in feeble aspirations for the " haven in the grave" and that sort. of thing, the kindest thing newspapers can do for them is to resent it. If they...

have a book like this. That curious antipathy to the clerical order which throughout our history * Records of the Ministry of the Rev. E. T. M. Phalippa. Longmans. seems to...

As there is nothing like beginning at the beginning, M. Kohl commences his history of the discovery of America* with a brief notice of the early explora- tory expeditions of the...