17 FEBRUARY 1872, page 2

Lord Granville's Reply That A Vice-president Of The Board...

Education, who must be a member of the Privy Council, is often• made a Privy Councillor only to qualify him to be Vice-President -4 is irrelevant, because there the Privy......

The Lord Chancellor Himself Spoke With Very Great Effect,...

dicating himself, however, for not answering the Lord Chief Justice's letter on grounds which would hardly apply if the cor- respondence had been kept private, as it might have......

The Rumours From France Are Very Bad. It Is Impossible

to- ascertain clearly to what degree of credit they are entitled, but the story is that the Bonapartists and the Orleanists are contending for the control of the Army, and that......

The Government Laid Before The House Of Lords Early In

the week copies of the correspondence of the Lord Chancellor with the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, with the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas (Sir W. Bovill), and with Mr.......

Of The Duke Of Argyll's Violent, Vigorous, And Very...

speech we have said enough elsewhere ; he certainly took upon the Government all the responsibility which previous speeches had attempted to fix on the Lord Chancellor, but......

But The Real Attack Began With Lord Salisbury, Who Was,

as usual, very telling and rather bitter, reflecting on the Lord Chan- cellor for decoying "a cautious old man into his private room," instead of defending himself openly in the......

Three Very Important Elections Took Place In France On...

In the first, for Corsica, M. Rouher obtained the seat by a majority of more than five to one, the Corsican soldiers throughout France- voting for him in nearly equal......

Lord Cairns' Rejoinder Was The Most Convincing And...

of the debate. Of the part of it in which he maintained that the selection was to be made from amongst the class of exist- ing Judges, we have spoken elsewhere. But his argument......

American 4,170 German 3,520 Spanish 3,157 Norwegian 1,316.

Portuguese 919 Danish 660 Burmanian 408 771,409 Some of our readers may remember the shower of prophecies with which Continental journals received the news of the success of the......