20 AUGUST 1881, page 5

M. Gambetta And The French Elections.

T HE success which M. Clemenceau's party has obtained in rendering Belleville hostile to M. Gambetta, makes the result of to-morrow's general elections a matter for a certain......

The Administration Of The Coercion Acts.

W E approve heartily of the declaration made by Mr. Forster and Mr. Gladstone on Thursday night, deeply as we regret the conclusion to which they have, as we believe, rightly......

Topics Of The Day.

THE LAST ACT OF THE DRAMA. W E had hardly revised the words in which we predicted the ultimate surrender of the Peers, when that scornful speech of Lord Salisbury in which he......