27 JANUARY 1872, page 9

Mr Graves' Railway Proposal.

T O us by far the most gratifying speech of the Recess is that which Mr. Graves, the Tory Member for Liverpool, delivered on Wednesday before the local Chamber of Com- merce.......

Mr. Bruce's Ne1v Aristocracy.

T RERt has been a new and a most formidable stretch of the Prerogative. The weakest member of the Ministry, but the only one possessed of the power of life and death, has......