16 FEBRUARY 1856, page 12

Minister Of Education.

TEE Government appoints a Minister of Education, though it refuses a Minister of Justice. At last, then, long refusal melts into compliance. As justice is more urgently wanted......

Topics Of The Day.

THE HOUSE OF PEERS. THE Executive and the Peers are equally in a mess, and neither side in the dispute seems as yet to have struck out a path of ex- trication. The Executive has......

Fighting Trains Again.

Puaxic interests and railway interests are sacrificed by railway managers, who know the mischief they do, but continue to do it, because, ihey affirm, they cannot help......

Woman's Wrongs In The Civil Service.

No objection can be made to the manner in which a fair corre- spondent challenges us to look at the graver aspect of employ- ment for women, after having glanced at the......