29 JULY 1865, page 5

Topics Of The Day.

THE POLICY OF CONFISCATION. T HE establishment of a Confiscation Department at Wash- ington, and the seizure of the Tredegar Iron Works in Virginia, are very serious incidents.......

Scotch Liberals..

S COTLAND sends up fifty-three members to the House of Commons, thirty for counties, and twenty-three for cities and what are called in Scotland "burghs," that is, for the most......