21 AUGUST 1869, page 11

Tribunes Of The People.

" D EMAGOGUES," we should have written, if the word had not come to bear a sinister meaning which we have no wish to convey. At Rome, where political life was better understood......

Heat From The Moon.

A LONG-VEXED question—one which astronomers and phy- sicists have laboured and puzzled and even quarrelled over for two centuries at least—has at length been set at rest.......