16 MARCH 1861, page 15

Secret Diplomacy. D Iplomatists Are Almost As Unpopular...

for nearly the same reason. They are never prominent except when something disagreeable has occurred. The hundred misunder- standings which diplomacy prevents or soothes are......

The Return On Divorce And Matrimonial Causes.

THE one honest doubt expressed at the time the Di- vorce Act was passed—and the experience of three years has not, we think, tended to lessen it—was, whether the measure, while......

Railway Accidents.

The practice of moving resolutions, unless for the avowed or understood purpose of turning out - Ministries, is highly objectionable. It belongs to that large category indicated......