6 JANUARY 1872, Page 32

A British Republic. (Truelove.)—The author of this little treatise, which

is written, we may say at once, in a very moderate and gentle- manly tone, expresses himself thus :—" There is a real interest in the Crown among people of a certain age, but in the minds of younger people such a feeling is all but non-existent. Of course there will be plenty of exceptions ; no such rule can be drawn very strictly, but I imagine that an affection for the Crown is at present nearly as constant an attribute of age as grey hairs are." He is speaking, it should be stated, of the "educated classes." We should imagine that our author, like a good many other people, will have to begin to make his observations afresh after the somewhat disturbing incidents of the last four weeks.