There Have Been Two Great Party Debates This Week On
the Budget, on Monday and Thursday,—the former professedly on the question whether the income-tax should bear the whole burden of the deficiency, the latter, substantially at......
Mr. Stansfeld, After Intimating That The Success Of The...
would throw out the Government, made a somewhat general speech on the expenditure of the country, showing that the great increase of the Civil-Service Estimates was partly......
The Commune Has Once More Changed Its Minister At War.
General Cluseret was accused of tardiness in succouring Fort Issy, —which is probably false ; of aspiring to a Dictatorship,—which is probably true ; and of arranging to receive......
Mr. Lowe Has Had A Thousand Pounds' Worth Of His
halfpenny stamps for match-boxes struck in anticipation of sanction, and now he does not know what to do with them. The Daily News suggests that he should sell them by auction......
Monday's Debate Languished A Good Deal In Its Early Stages.
Mr. W. H. Smith was sensible, but not exciting, and his only original point was a clever hint thrown out to excite a grudge against both income-tax and the Government in the......
News Of The Week.
T HIS French civil war is like nothing so much as a transpontine tragedy, abounding in incidents, chokeful of horrors, and in- -expressibly tedious nevertheless. M. Thiers has......
