5 MAY 1855, page 14

Are We To Have An Army

WE English, being a practical people, constitute practice our only school, and resolutely decline to prepare beforehand that of which we might foresee the necessity. There is,......

New Plan For Government Factories.

PEACE, say those who are particularly acquainted with that con- dition of public affairs, is a period of corruption. Old men who are familiar with the last war assure us that......

The House Of Commons.

THE House of Commons appears to be realizing in part at least that division of labour which was anticipated some time ago, in supposing that it might relegate its debates to a......