PARLIPARLI AMENT has done some little work in the week, the AMENT having discussed the Polish revolt with an unani- mous liberalism pleasinn. b to see, listened to some further...

of the week, a DOUBLE NUKBER. TITS 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...

THE TWO AMERIC AN DANGERS. T HERE are two good reasons, and but two, for the despair which seems creeping over the North, and they are Mr. Seward and the conduct of the great...

M R. COBDEN made, on Monday, one of those lucid, and with him characteristic speeches, which do not merely illuminate a difficult subject, but lay bare for the reader the...

own news, and while every capital on the Continent is ringing with talk of Poland, we obtain but little trustworthy news from the scene of insurrection. This week, so far as can...

Considered as a mere party move, the debate was cleverly e nded; but that is not quite the whole question. Nobody can read Sir J. Hay's speech, or Lord Clarence Paget's reply,...

T HERE are some men who serve as sensitive touch-stones of a principle by the very alien character of their own natures ; like vegetable blues, which are turned to bright red by...

to become local nuisances,. but they may secure a national good. There are thirty- four of these projects now before Parliament, all more or less. real, and all cleaving London...

THE Americans, however unsuccessful they may be as poli- ticians, certainly do contribute not a few cheering little stimulants to our social vivacity. The "telluric...

T HERE is something almost comic in the despairing energy with which England resolves that it will for one day be amused. The Royal wedding must be a fete, and the people insist...

I T is singular to note how the dream of a conquest of Mexico has held possession of the French mind for centuries. Expeditions similar to the one now undertaken by Napoleon...

[PROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] February 26th, 1863. PARIS is in a state of feverish excitement, and the Bourse in a state of breathless trepidation. On the 20th inst. there...

W E publish to-day a letter from Mr. H. Ricketts controvert- ing our recently published views on Indian tenure. Mr. Ricketts is, perhaps, the first living authority on the...

FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] New York, February 11, 1863. The accidental interruption of my letters has made too wide a hiatus to attempt now to bridge it over by recounting...

To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR." Snt,—In the article in your paper of the 14th, headed, " The Case of the English in India," you state in some detail the difficul- tiea...

TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR." Sir,—With all due respect for Mr. Maurice, Mr. Godfrey Lush- ington, and the other writers who write against Dr. Pusey in the Times, I cannot...

MR. HOWITT'S HISTORY OF THE SUPERNATURAL.* THIS book is a sort of " whiff of grape-shot" fired by Mr. Howitt against the theological or religious sansculottes of the present...

FEDERAL government is on its trial. Most Englishmen would add that its condemnation has been pronounced by the voice of Europe. There is at any rate something to be said in...

MRS. GASKELL has, we fear, mislaid the pen which wrote " Cran- ford." It is difficult to imagine that charming tale, with its wealth of quiet power and restrained and therefore...

Sin G. C. LEWIS is always publishing something. He seems to hold the French theory that the cultivation of literature can- not be derogatory to any position, and that a Minister...

and it would be difficult, we think, without reading it, to form any idea of the truly im- mense variety of fascinatinginformation which can be compressed * The Tropical World....

THE work before us was originally intended by the author to form the third and concluding volume of his admirable Hand- book of Architecture," published some eight years ago....

By Samuel Bailey, author of "Essays on the Formation of Opinions," &c. (Longman and Co.)—The author of this book acknowledges in his preface that " it would be unreasonable to...

"Rose of Woodlee," &c. (Freeman.)—This is a kind of historical novelette, on the smallest possible scale, the subject of which is the story of Lambert Simnel. The title of "A...

The North British Review. February, 1863. (Edinburgh : Clark.)— The current number of what is, in fact, the real " Edinburgh Review," can scarcely be regarded as of more than...

the leading literary review of America gives no sign what- ever of the convulsions which are agitating the country of its birth. It discusses glacier theories, Count Cavour, the...

Vice- Admiral Bethune, C.B. (Hakluyt Socicty.)—This is precisely one of those works the publication of which comes directly within the scope of a society whose object is the...

Mayor, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. (Bell and Daldy.)— We have to thank Mr. Mayor for a remarkably well executed edition of Roger Ascham's quaint and...

Old Red Sand- stone," &c. Edited by Mrs. Miller. (A. and C. Black.)—This volume consists of a collection of minor contributions to various magazines, written, for the most part,...

—The author of this volume proposes to provide a remedy for the evils by which the present condition of society is disfigured, by establishing community of property, and...

Agnes Tremorno." Three Vols. (Chapman and Hall.)—This story is decidedly superior to the average three-volume novel of the period. It is, from beginning to end, very evenly...

B. Owen, M.A. (Nisbet and Co.)—In this small volume the incumbent of St. Jude's, Chelsea, has given to the public a collection of reminiscences of one of his old schoolmasters...

(Bell an& Daldy.)—Mr. Barter, who, as some of our readers may perhaps remem- ber, published in 1854 a literal translation of the Iliad in the Spenserian damn, has now given us a...

The Post-of f ice Loudon Suburban Directory (Kelly and Co.).—The Constitutional History of England, by Thus. E. May, C.B. (Lougmans).—Lectures Delivered in Australia, by John...