18 APRIL 1874, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE BUDGET. T HE Budget is respectable and sensible, but a little timid. Sir Stafford Northcote has not only not made the dramatic use of his enormous surplus which Mr.......

The Currency Battle In The United States.

W E do not like the recent intelligence from the United States at all. As far as we can gather, the Western and South-Western men, who now, from their numbers, rule the Union,......