31 DECEMBER 1870, page 7

Dictatorships And National Assemblies.

"A WHIG" accuses us in another column of having, in our last week's article on the cry for a National Assembly in France, "yielded to the besetting sin of politicians of the......

Promotion In The Army.

T HE most popular of all the professional arguments for the retention of purchase lies in the objections always ad- 'yawed to the system of promotion by seniority. You can, it......