3 JANUARY 1880, page 19

Thoughts On The Tay-bridge Disaster. /the Writer Of These...

had been thinking of the frequency- .' with which recent Christmases or New Years had been associated with sudden and tragic disasters like that of last Sunday, and of the......

The Rule Of The Old.

is very great, and statesmen, like judges and generals, are usually picked lives. The man who under our system can force his way to the top as a politician must have worked hard......