10 JANUARY 1874, page 8

The French Assembly: The First Check.

T HE resistance offered on Thursday in the French Assembly to the Bill for the nomination of Mayors by the Home Department may prove to be a mere flash in the pan,' or the......

Universal Suffrage.

V ERY few Englishmen, we imagine, care to argue out even in their own minds the question of Universal Suffrage. Mr. Chamberlain preaches the doctrine at Sheffield, Sir Charles......