24 JANUARY 1852, page 11

The National Defences.

"BEWARE of shams," would be no inappropriate standing motto for a public instructor of honest John Bull ; but there are certain seasons when it becomes especially necessary to......

Topics Of The Day.

MAKLNG THE BEST OF IT. AN' elaborate paper in the January number of the Edinburgh Re- view, the accredited organ of the literary and aristocratic 'Whigs, supplies the crowning......