21 SEPTEMBER 1872, page 2

None Know Better Than Prince Bismarck How To Make The

weak things of the world not confound,' but confirm the mighty_ Mr. Arthur Kinnaird, M.P., speaking for the (Protestant) Arch- bishop of Armagh and a handful of other......

The Municipal Ballot At Birmingham Was For The Election Of

a . Town Councillor, and the issue taken was on the Education ques- tion,—for religious or secular education. The number of votes polled was less than a third of the total......

The Preston Election Ended In The Return Of The Conservative

candidate, Mr. Holker, by a majority of 718 votes (Holker, 4,542 ; German, 3,824). The Conservative card system,—the system by which each reputed Conservative elector received a......

M. Thiera' Visit To Havre Last Saturday Was Turned Into

a sort of modest counter-demonstration to the festivities at Berlin,—an offi- cial attestation that France still believes in herself, and is not without external friends.......

Nevertheless, We Think That No Candidate's Agent Should...

at least in the vicinity of any polling-booth, to ask any man, directly or indirectly, how be had voted. No doubt these voting-cards are not real evidence of the vote, and might......

A Case Has Occurred In The Gironde Which Shows That

a French , jury understands the conditions of religious liberty. A Protestant pastor, named Steeg, the editor of a paper called the Progres des- Communes, was libelled last week......