20 JANUARY 1872, page 8

M. Thiers' Last Speech.

'. IT is very difficult to decide whether M. Tillers is a Pro- tectionist, or only a politician who thinks it expedient for party purposes to advocate Protection. He has, it is......

The "quarterly's" Big Suggestion.

P EOPLE—and there are a good many of them—who think that domestic politics are, as the Americans say, "welly played out," that there will speedily be nothing left for the......