8 APRIL 1871, page 1

Yesterday Week, Speaking In Reply To Mr. Baillie...

the terms of peace, the Prime Minister made what the Pall Mall has rightly called attention to as a very remarkable and frank confes- sion by England of her isolation and......

The Future Is Quite Dim, But Garibaldi Has Written From

Caprera advising the Commune to appoint a Dictator, and this advice will probably be accepted, after the great review in the Champ de Mars ordered for Sunday. It is not......

We Have Endeavoured Elsewhere To Account For The Extreme

weakness manifested by M. Thiers, but must here add that on Friday week he delivered a speech strongly protesting against proscriptions. " The territory of France is interdicted......

News Of The Week.

A BLOODY but indecisive war has been raging round Paris all through this week. On Saturday it was reported that M. Thiers was about to offer Paris full municipal liberty and the......

For Later In His Speech Mr. Gladstone Explained...

England had known all through the war that if Austria helped France, Russia would at once unite with Germany,—in other words, had been aware of a virtual understanding, if not......

The Oxford And Cambridge Boat-race Was Rowed On Saturday,...

winning. The crowd was not quite so large as last year, the wind being keen and the hour (10 a.m.) earlier than usual, and the day—to many the greatest in all the year—was......

The Census Was Taken On Monday Throughout The Kingdom,...

with the greatest ease, and certainly without the smallest complaint. An old difficulty, the reluctance of the Irish emigrants to be counted, was this time completely overcome,......

*,* The Editors Cannot Undertake To Return Manuscript In Any

case.......

Up To Thursday Night Neither Of These Three Corps Had

reached Versailles, but neither had been definitely beaten. Bergeret's corps, it is true, suffered severely from an unexpected fire opened by Mont Valerie; which caused half its......