The event of the week has been the duel between the Mer- rimac and the Monitor at the mouth of the James River, the Merrimac, a 40-gun frigate, dismantled and covered by the...

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

AMERICA.—The American news received this week, which comes down to the 12th March, is of unusual importance. On the morning of the 10th March, it was announced that the...

Powricat.--There is no political news out of Parliament this week, except that a vacancy has occurred at Preston, in cousequenoe of the resignation of Mr. Richard Assheton...

Houss or Loans, Friday, March 21.—Writ of Habeas Corpus into her Majesty's Possessions Abroad BM: third reading.—.Officers' Commissions Bill: third reading— Consolidated Fund...

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Both Houses of Parliament sat last night. In the House of Lords, Lord DUNGANNON called the attention of the House to the recent trial of James Watson, Isaac Watson, and Joseph...

THE DUEL OF THE IRONSIDES. Wllt TEVER the result of the existing contest, whether he South achieve independence only to perish from. the obstinate retention of slavery, or the...

m R. Goldwin Smith's trenchant letters to the Deity News are the symptoms of a very new phase of Oxford thought. Oxford has not usually been remarkable for making up its mind,...

M R. Walpole was probably right when he reduced the discussion on the Revised Code to the form of a de- bate on a bill, and on Tuesday only moved that the House go into...

T EE cause of Italy does not advance, and the momentary pause seems to suggest, even to Liberals, the notion of retrogression. We hear it said on every side, that since the...

T HE Nestor of European diplomatists is gone to his final rest. With Count Nesselrode ends the last of that galaxy of statesmen who waged war with the Corsican conqueror, and,...

T HREE men have been condemned at Sheffield, in the teeth of all evidence, to fourteen years' penal servi- tude. Most persons will be inclined to look with incredulity on this...

of drunkenness, the abolition of duelling would probably be regarded by moralists as the most marked improvement in the habits of modern society. And doubtless in Great Britain;...

T HE new generation is becoming self-conscious in dress as in all other matters, and instead of admitting changes as of old, without reference to any laws higher than caprice or...

T RAVELLERS who have wandered half over the world, who have inspected with care French theatres and German pleasure- gardens, would find it difficult to say how the inhabitants...

[Fisom OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] Washington, Mareh 10. TEE long-expebted more has come at last. From break of day, the camps round Washington have been, deserted. The roads...

[FROM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.] THE Legislative Body, no less than the Senate, has voted by an immense majority the official draught of the Address, which gives to the...

Sin,—As the writer of the review of the Letters of Mr. Leigh Hunt, I wish to say a few words in reply to Mr. Other's complaint. In the first place, my article was not an essay...

SOCIETY OF BRITISH ARTISTS. THE present exhibition of this Society, if not worse, is certainly no better than its predecessors formany years past. A want of originality and...

observe, referring to your very interesting review of Mr. Arnold's reply to Mr. Newman, that when Mr. Arnold says that Homer was not "quaint" to the great Attic poets, because...

MR. LUDLOW AND MR. HUGHES ON TIM HISTORY OF THE UNION.* Tam History of the United States from Independence to Secession is like the history of that measure of meal in which the...

Pon the first time since the recommencement of the series of Crystal Palace Concerts, I paid a visit on Saturday to Herr Manna in his eccentrically devised Concert-room . and...

IT is with a kind of pain that to some extent evades analysis that we take up Mrs. Browning's Last Poems. To lose the impulse of her eager and rich imagination in an age of pale...

Mn. BOURNE'S Memoir of Sir Philip Sirkey goes far to show that it is more difficult than is commonly esteemed to produce a good bio- graphy. The subject was happily chosen. No...

IT is never wise to judge creeds by the result they produce on indi- viduals; for the disciples of the sneering Voltaire died in numbers for the sake of humanity, and the...

Jr the authoress of "Queechy" were deliberately to imitate Mr. Kingsley, she would probably produce just such a novel as The White Bose V Chayleigh, as full of good paragraphs...

Tax author and editor of this little volume is a brother of the Dean of Westminster. He was educated at Harrow and at Oxford, and afterwards began to keep his terms at Lincoln's...

IN these days, when everybody wants to know everything with the least possible trouble to oneself, a "Dictionary of Universal Information" 5 can hardly fail to be widely...