Another Important Constituency Has Deserted The Liberal...
gave the Liberals a majority of over 100 in the last election before Mr. Disraeli's Reform Act, and which has never since that Reform Act,—which fully doubled its consti-......
There Are One Or Two Curious Rumours From France This
week,- that-the Government have given up all hope of a fusion, and intend to prolong Marshal MacMahon's reign for five years, if the Assembly can legally do it, which is very......
Verdun—the Last Occupied Bit Of French Soil—ought To Be...
to-day, and in all probability will be ; but there was a hitch at the last moment, owing to a demand of the Germans for a million francs (£40,000) for the cost of the......
News Of The Week.
O UR Scipio has gone to Africa, and it is to be hoped, may make a good war, a good peace, and a good book out of it. If Sir Garnet Wolseley pays any attention to the papers,......
Mr. Gladstone Has Been Gazetted Chancellor Of The...
week, and it is stated, we suppose on some kind of authority, that he will draw a salary of £7,500, i.e., the whole of his salary as First Lord of the Treasury and the half of......
As If To Give Us An Historical Annotation On The
announcement that Victor Emanuel is to reach Berlin on the 22nd inst., General La Marmora has just published a curious volume, of which all we know at present is derived from......
