9 APRIL 1870, page 7

Lord Penzance On Criminal Appeals.

L ORD PENZANCE, in asking for information no small part of which was already before Parliament,—we mean the returns of all the capital sentences commuted by the authority of the......

The New Plebiscititm.

T HE French Ministry have resolved to submit the new Constitution of France to a plebiscitum, and in so doing have, we think, given a new proof of their wisdom and mode- ration.......