12 JUNE 1869, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE FRENCH ELECTIONS. T HE Second Elections in France have not gone exactly as the public expected, but the total result is still most unsatisfactory to the Empire. The immense......

Some Considerations For Tory Peers.

W E cannot yet believe that the Peers will throw out the Irish Church Bill. Lord Derby is rash enough for anything, and there are Peers in whom the old spirit of ascendancy is......

How To Profit By The Infatuation Of The Peers.

I T seems to be still far from certain whether the party heat in Lord Derby, and the coarse Orangeman in Lord Cairns, and the ecclesiastical enthusiasm in the Duke of Rutland,......