2 FEBRUARY 1861, page 9

Mr. Bright On Retrenchment.

Mx. BRIGHT has every qualification for an English demagogue, except one. He can never understand the English people. Brave, brawny, and a born orator, he has just that contempt......

Topics Of The Day.

THE PROBABILITIES OF WAR. TEE conviction that a general war is approaching gains ground in the European mind. Kings with exhausted treasuries may continue to hope against hope ;......