28 JANUARY 1899, page 21

The Empire And Free-trade.

T HE Duke of Devonshire's speech at Birmingham deserves the warmest eulogy from all thinking Unionists. With its general defence of the present Government both at borne and......

Topics Of The Day.

TEE CHANGE IN THE ATTITUDE OF FRANCE. W HO was it first said of the Irish, "Mine is EL very bad people to run away from "? It was a preg- nant epigram, and suggests a theory......