8 JANUARY 1848, page 11

Topics Of The Day.

STATE OF THE CONTROVERSY ON OUR NATIONAL DEFENCES. THE controversy on our national defences has received powerful accession this week, in the person of Captain Edward Plunkett,......

The Ecclesiastical Courts Nuisance.

AT last something is to be done towards a revision of the so- called Ecclesiastical Law and its Courts. How they can have ex- isted so long is a puzzle, unless it has been by......