5 NOVEMBER 1870, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE ENGLISH MEDIATION. TT is fresh proof how idle external criticism on the opportu- nities and conduct of diplomacy generally is, that Lord Granville's offer to mediate at a......

The Defence Of Metz.

I T is unhappily too clear that M. Leon Gambetta, Dictator of France outside Paris, is neither judge nor statesman, at least as Englishmen understand statesmen and judges.......