9 MAY 1885, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE ARBITRATION. W E cannot assent to the policy of this settlement by arbitration without certain reserves. The Government has so strained—as we begin to think, so unwisely......

Conservative Statesmanship.

W HAT surprises us most in the most effective form given to the Conservative statesmanship of the day is not merely the great deficiency, but we must even say the total absence,......

A Great Change In India.

S IR RICHARD TEMPLE publishes in this week's Contemporary a paper on the soldiery of India, which should be attentively studied by all who care to understand the difficulty and......