15 MAY 1869, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

WHAT WAR WOULD MEAN. I F all Americans were as reasonable as the two gentlemen whose letters appear in the Times of Wednesday, letters which in their temperate force are worthy......

" General " Gladstone.

I T is very seldom that contemporaries do full justice to an achievement which happens under their own eyes. And we are in some danger, we think, of forgetting in the enormous......