13 OCTOBER 1860, page 14

The French In Syria.

THE Syrian question is now in the third stage. The wholesale massacres in the villages of the Lebanon have been followed by wholesale executions of criminals at Damascus under......

The Spirit Of Persecution.

NEaaoisrax and Sicilian dungeons inspire us with horror, and as the successive descriptions have only tended to confirm what first we were told by Mr. Gladstone. our feelings......

Speculation And Accommodation.

SLOWLY, very slowly, it is creeping into the light that recent un- fortunate speculations in trade have been supported by accommo- dation. Hitherto such cases have been......