22 JANUARY 1881, page 8

The Pope's Position.

'T HERE is something pathetic in the present position of the Pope. Like Pius IX., he has fallen on evil days, but unlike Pius IX,, he has had no compensating consolations......

France And The Greek Question.

I T is so difficult to understand the attitude of France with I relation to the Greek question, that it is impossible not to speculate on whether the apparently ultra-pacific......