20 JUNE 1874, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

SECRET DEBATING. TF any new statesmen are coming forward—and we could I only name two with any certainty—they will have a new and a grave difficulty in making themselves known......

The French Assembly.

I T is easy to exaggerate the importance of the two votes passed on Monday by the French Assembly, but it is easier still to depreciate it, and the English public appears to be......