T HE American news, received late in the week, is of some importance. Nashville has been occupied ; the army of the Potomac is believed to be on its march, and Mr. Davis has...

"Tim SPECTATOR" is published every Saturday Aforning, in time for despatch by the Early Trains, and copies of that Journal may be had the same ilfrernoon through News-agents in...

Faawcx.—The new bill, investin g the Emperor with the power of creatin g niajorats up to the limit of a certain sum to be inscribed in the National Debt, has not yet reached the...

POLITICAL —The week at home has been nearly destitute of extra parliamentary political news. Not a single meeting or speech of the most trivial importance, out of the Houses of...

Hones or LORDS, Friday, March 7.—Discussion on the Revised Code. Monday, March 10.—Postponement of Lord Normimby's question on Italian Affairs.—Lord Campbell's motion on the...

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FRENCH DEBATERS. !THYME are others besides the Bourbons in Prance who learn nothing and forget nothing. Once monehas free speech in France enjoyed its annual opportunity, and...

war, even when she herself is a belligerent. for measures which he now regards as nothing short of an an American war. In such a war great battles on land act of " political...

it FOULD has had the supreme satisfaction of being _MA able to congratulate himself and the Emperor on the success of his first financial feat. The Four and a Half per Cent....

"JERE lyeth ye body of Theodore Paleologus, descended from ye Imperyal lyne of 3 4 ' last Christian Emperors of Greece, who departed this life at Clyfton, ye 21st of Jan, 106."...

M R. Evelyn Denison is not usually , considered the most successful of speakers. With some personal dignity, he has little of the . personal weight of Mr. Manners Sutton, or the...

13. one the many generals in the service of France, one there is who believes himself to be the particular object of anxious gaze to Christendom, and his name is General Goyon....

T HE continental Powers, in 1815, considering, doubtless, that every office was to be esteemed honourable in pro- portion to its difficulty and invidiousness, whilst they...

I F we are to estimate with any justice the character of the war in the United States, we must examine with the most anxious attention every symptom of the practical spirit...

D R. Colenso, Bishop of Natal, is riding a hobby to death. For the last six years he has been arguing, teaching, and even preach- ing, that the putting away of extra wives,...

annals of New York state, and, I believe, almost for the first time in the annals of the United States, a slave-trader underwent the penalty of death for having been en- gaged...

Tux termination of the English Opera season is fixed for Saturday week. Easter Monday is close at hand, and though Mr. Gye has as yet made no sign, he may be safely relied on to...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] SINCE my last letter the arrests have continued. At this mo- ment the number of persons who have been taken up amounts to no less than 100 or...

• THE BLOSSOM OF GERMAN SENTIMENT.* Aix who know anything of the literature connected with Goethe's life, are ac q uainted., by name at least, with his "Correspondence with a...

adamant, with domes that seem Hun g star-like out of heaven, with fret and ge m, It is—what iron-masters, if they dream, Picture the New Jerusalem ; Not like the pale cloud...

SALE OF MR. FLINT'S PICTURES—M. BONIIEUR'S "GOING TO THE FAIR." Ttrz sale of Mr. Flint's pictures has still been the absorbing topic of conversation in the studios, and much...

SECOND NOTICE. WE referred last week briefly to the curious literary question raised by the publication of these Memoirs of the Marquis of Tillers, as to their exact relation...

THESE two volumes are easier to read than to review; for though they are full of interesting matter, it is not of a kind which either requires criticism, or will bear being...

of this delightful book, dear to children and men alike. We say to men, because there is no more curious test of the imaginative genius of a race than the kind of legendary...

Hammon - Ami's stories are all of one kind, eminently clever and eminently. disagreeable. She thoroughly understands her scene, which is always the same—that border-land of the...

IT is curious to note how much more dogmatic and pedantic is the tone of popular science—how much further removed from the impres- sions of practical men—than the calm insight...

"And then he tried to sing All's Well,' But could not though he tried; His head was turned, and so he chew'd His pigtail till he died. "His death which happen'd in his berth,...