14 SEPTEMBER 1878, page 9

M. De Freycinet's Plans.

A MONG the chief virtues of a great statesman, the keen perception of power and administrative genius among those from whom he has to select his Ministers stands in the foremost......

The Depression In Trade.

• if a campaign, or Lord Beaconsfield's two or three cam- paigns, were the one thing needed to set British trade in motion. Peace was promised, and peace was pronounced better......