16 NOVEMBER 1872, page 2

Lord Granville At The Mansion House This Day Week, And

M. Thiers in his Message to the French Assembly on Wednesday, both seem to assume that when once the Anglo-French Com- mercial Treaty is ratified, its provisions must take......

Mr. Gladstone Having Absented Himself, Probably For The...

have suggested above, from the Mansion House dinner, made a little speech to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple on Thursday, in which he descanted on the formidable......

The Provincial Corres; Ondence Is Quite Mystical About...

House of the Prussian Parliament, talking about the necessity of constituting an Upper Chamber, which shall be a real part of the Monarchy, and not "like the English House of......

The Stupid Theory That A Labourer Ought To Be "

grate- ful " to his employer, who is nothing but his customer for labour, is expounded at two columns' length in the Times- by Mr. Jefferies, who dates from Coate Farm, Swindon,......

A Reporter On The Times Has Beaten The Law Student

who talked of mandami,' and the cad who said " busses " ought to be called omnibi,' by christening the female hippopotamus " Madame Elippopotama." We hope the Grampa is also......

Of Mr. Goschen's Masterly Speech At The Colston...

Bristol, on Wednesday, we have spoken at some length else- where. Here we may state the nature of his special reply to the Admiralty panic-mongers. During the four years of the......

We Should Not Wonder If Mr. Beresford Hope Had Added

a new word to the language. There is no Saxon word in it at present meaning liberal or generous—a curious fact, for there is a capital word, "churlish," to express the opposite......

The City Has Been Very Much Agitated This Week. The

rate of discount is 7 per cent., and many cool observers, including, we see, the Economist, believe that it may rise, and remain for some- time at a higher figure. The theory......