13 JANUARY 1872, page 9

The Management Of The French Assembly.

O NE of the gravest obstacles to the success of Republican- ism in France is the difficulty of managing a French Representative Assembly,—of keeping it in what an English......

A Duke In The Pulpit.

T HE Duke of Somerset has published hi a thin volume* a series of short Opposition speeches against the Christian theology, which are conceived too much in the same caustic Whig......