24 FEBRUARY 1872, page 5

Mr. Gladstone's Defect.

W E are not amongst those who are accustomed to ignore Mr. Gladstone's greatness and the greatness of what his Government has done, because we can see plainly the great defects......

Topics Of The Day.

THE NEW VICEROY. and taxes and service regulations. Feats before which Girondins would have shrunk were accomplished at such a speed that this country scarcely even noticed......