4 DECEMBER 1869, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH. T HERE is some dignity and much literary ability in the speech of the Emperor of the French, but very little evidence of power to control, or even to......

The Vacant Leadership In The Lords.

S INCE Lord Derby's retirement, there has been a chronic weakness in the brain of the Conservative party,—not amounting to softening, but unquestionably to congestion of the......