5 SEPTEMBER 1863, page 6

The Democratic Empire And Educated France.

IVI DE PERSIGNY'S orations on his master, regarded as • panegyrics, have only one defect,—that they read so much like rehearsals of a funeral eloge. The discourse whicif he......

Messrs. Lairds' Iron Rams And The Foreign Enlistment Act.

I T must be a pleasant sensation to the loyal hearts of Messrs. Laird, of Birkenhead, to know that they hold in their hands the means of plunging England into war ; that by......