M. Darouf, The First Balloon-postman Of Paris, Gives A Very
-amusing account of his expedition. No sooner was his balloon, with its three sacks of letters, fairly outside the enceinte, than be was fired at by the Prussian cannon and then......
Dr. Russell, In A Letter To The Times, From The
Crown Prince's head-quarters, dated Coulommiers, September 1G, gives an illus- tration of the ex-Emperor's military ignorance and incompetence which is quite astounding. He......
It Was Curious Enough That The Breach In The Walls
of Rome was made through the Villa Buonaparte, so that the name of the Buonapartes was grotesquely connected with the fall, just as it had been with the propping-up, of the......
We Give In Another Column An Amusing Letter, Describing The
wrath of a vestry when asked to provide a rate for the purposes of education. The real danger, both in London and the country, is the danger that the Education Boards will fall......
The Latest Accounts Of The State Of Affairs At Tien-tsin
and the action of the Chinese Government subsequent to the massacre are not reassuring. The Times' correspondent at Shanghai, writing on August 4, gives horrible details of the......
General De Wimpffen Has Published A Letter Which Puts The
conduct of the (then) Emperor of the French before Sedan in a much less creditable light. It will be remembered that when asked about the surrender, Louis Napoleon replied that......
The Imprisonment Of Dr. Jacoby For Stating In A Temperate
speech at Konigsberg the reasons against the annexation of Alsace and Lorraine, is justified by General Vogel von Falken- stein, on the curt military plea that such meetings as......
It Does Not - Seem Certain That The Guarantee Of The
loan of a. million sterling, wrung with so much difficulty out of the Imperial Government for New Zealand, will after all be accepted, as the colony is profoundly nettled at the......
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