15 JUNE 1872, page 8

Civil Court-martials.

T HE curious disposition of the present day to change every profession and trade into a kind of Service, governed by rules higher than the will of any individual, has extended......

Thorbecke.

B Y the death of its Premier, Johann Rudolf Thorbecke, Holland has lost one of the Most distinguished states- men who have ever adorned, not only the Netherlands, not unfruitful......

The Lords On The Ballot.

T HE Lords as a body do not come very well out of the Ballot debate. The speeches, no doubt, were very good, very much better than those of the Commons on the same subject, many......